Not true. Variations of the first scenario are quite common. Your argument is circular. If you define "NPE" as an entity that engages exclusively in trolling abuses, then the only conclusion is that NPEs are abusers. It is certainly possible for a small inventor to create something new and valuable, but not have the resources to manufacture it. Here, the patent system allows the inventor to attempt to license the idea to a larger entity who is able to develop, market, manufacture, and distribute the resulting product. The fellow working in the office next to mine, e.g., is presently doing just that with a clever consumer product he recently patented. How is such a partnership an abuse of anything? And doesn't such a system promote innovation by encouraging an inventor to create a new technology despite the fact that she's just an average person with a dollar & a dream?
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Everybody has the right to masturbate, but if you can't answer that question with some crediblility, this discussion is a waste of time.
- the President of the United States is not an American citizen
- the President of the United States is secretly a Muslim (and simultaneously a member of a Caucasian-hating "black Christian church" that is conspiring with Kenyan citizens to overthrow the United States)
- there has been a global conspiracy over the last 25 years among every government, national science foundation, peer-reviewed journal, and credible scientist in three broad fields of science to perpetrate a hoax that human-produced greenhouse-gas emissions are warming the planet
- second-hand cigarette smoke has no harmful effect on humans
- the Affordable Care Act will strip $700 million (or whatever the number is up to now) of benefits from Social Security recipients and will establish "death panels" who decide whether gravely ill citizens will be given life-saving treatment
- and the classic "seat belts kill more people than they save because they trap victims inside a car during a crash, rather than letting them be safely ejected."
If you have a free hour, check out the beautiful documentary "Chasing Ice," in which shows the results of photographer James Balog's technically challenging "Extreme Ice" project, which took multi-year time-lapse videos of receding glaciers in remote areas of Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, & Montana. The big finale, a five-minute real-time clip of a Lower-Manhattan-sized chunk of ice plunging into the sea, is something you'll never forget.
Consequently, using biometric security mechanisms on a mobile device is not something I personally think is a good idea.
A more nuanced analysis would reveal that, if climate change is real, it will be a disaster for most of these national governments, many of whicfh are already a bit tentative in their finances. See, e.g., Australia. The cost to protect coastal urban areas will be astronomical, there will likely be large numbers of refugees (even in industrialized nations, but the problem will be far worse in the less-developed areas of Africa & South America), and the political issues alone will likely destabilize governments. Especially scary is that some of the countries likely to be hardest hit are nuclear powers, like Pakistan & India. So why in the world would nearly every national government -- including many that would resist agreeing with each other at gunpoint -- secretly conspire to perpetuate such a hoax.
Then again, some of the wackier denier types are the same people who believed with all their hearts that the President of the United States is not an American citizen. Or that he's both a secret Muslim and a believer in Reverend Wright's "radical black" sect of Christianity. Don't expect rational.
And, of course, maybe the membership deserves what it gets. Take a look, e.g., at all the self-important, clueless responses from Slashdotter Wikipedia Wile E. Coyotes. An idiotic statement like "A 24bit CD has a 144dB dynamic range and 1/33,554,432th of the signal will be noise" is wrong in so many ways. How many of them do you think even know how to pronounce 'Nyquist'"
As for the issue at hand, here's what I think is a reasonable analysis: Analog tape v. high-res digital files is a controversial topic on which reasonable minds may differ. Most truly knowledgeable people -- e.g., long-time contributors to "The Absolute Sound" -- listening through highest-quality gear (think Focal or Wilson) generally report that 15ips master tape played back on excellent-quality gear matches or exceeds the quality of any of their reference 24/192 digital recordings. Some of the newer tape decks and multi-hundred-buck tape reissues of classic rock albums (e.g., the limited rerelease of "Sgt. Pepper's" on tape) have apparently become sonic standards among the hardcore audiophile mags. Sweeping generalizations are, of course, by their nature conclusory, and there's no indication that Albini is anything other than a stopped clock, but I think that dismissing the possibility that analog tape may produce stunning sound quality is more often than not rooted in the arrogance of ignorance.
Or maybe I am? Read the piece and let me know what you think. The language does appear to be deliberately vague.P?
2. A cursory look at the complaint reveals that the cause of action isn't, as implied, a general act of teaching individuals how to fool polygraphs. The allegation is that the teaching was performed in specific cases related to conspiring to suborn perjury or to fraudulently obtain security clearance. These are more specific charges and have less to do with the involvement of a polygraph than the the act of assisting an individual in committing a crime.
3. This case appears to be little more than a filed complaint. Anybody can file charges for anything, but there's no analysis here re:whether the charges are frivolous, likely to be dismissed, or have a good chance of reaching trial. That's the context one needs to understand what is really going on here. Instead, we get an advertisement that fluffs up the facts.
Slashdot: Clear Channel talk radio for geeks!! Now complete with its own version of Glenn Beck "ageless male" & "You don't have to run from the IRS!" advertisers.
I am a lawyer and have found Slashdot to be a hellhole for those looking for legal advice. Quantity, yes, but quality cringeworthy. Gaia help anybody who relies on legal advice from Rush Limbaugh, William Shatner, or Slashdot.
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards