I had heard of it, but never used it until earlier this year. I wanted some custom bottle caps made and the company only accepted files made with very expensive programs... or Inkscape.

Automation/Robots will displace human labor; then taxes based on public labor/consumption a/o private enterprise will fail US, EU, RU, CN ..., IMO.

I'll try to finish the sordid piece of crap, but the first 2/3 of the CM are just a twisted pseudo-Gospel, AFAICT.
Marx has identified Satan, the bourgeoisie in his telling, and promised heaven if people just purge Satan from their midst in an apocalyptic class-warfare meltdown. Amiright?
This is a comely tale for the crowd that has rejected Christianity, yet still needs at least an ersatz existential model.
Yet nothing I've seen thus far models the real existential model of the fallen individual who needs to be purged of sin and directed correctly, i.e., toward Christ.
Marxism is a nihilistic joke played by Satan himself, and you're a fool if you don't recognize it straight up.

Progress==MOAR State.
Conservative==individual liberty.
Sure, there are more details than that, but I reject your notion that we've had any conservative Presidents, with a qualified exception for Reagan, who certainly didn't take these godforsaken entitlements out back and shoot them.

Sigh...that was, naturally, a typo. It was intended to read that the Queen is not a patent troll.

That said, you can take your nomination and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

Yaz

Alternatively, it supports the assertion that the country enjoys one party rule--The Progressive Party. Those understanding that this route only leads to European-style collapse, and opposing it, will be crushed.

For you, 'comprehend' == 'agree', it seems.

Oh, so I don't agree with you, and thus I'm being disingenuous?

Sounds great for upper class people who worry about taxes.

In theory, schools can act as a crap filter for workers.
"The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory."--some C++ Users Journal article

Something I left out of my previous post; generally, the Government of Canada doesn't own the patent; instead it's owned by Queen Elizabeth II, in Right of Canada, and represented by the minister of the relevant government agency.

Here's an example I picked purely because of it's humorous title, particular when you relate it to the Queen as owner: APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SCROTAL CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENT ON BULLS.

Yaz

As a generalization you're correct, however, in the case of patents, they technically aren't held by the Government of Canada, but are instead held by the Queen. This is usually written as "HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF..." in Canadian patents.

Of course, in a practical sense, the Queen is going around acting as a patent troll. She may own the patents, but control tends to lie with the minister of the responsible government agency.

Yaz

I noticed that myself. However, as someone who has a few patents to his credit, it's not unusual for companies (and I suppose governments) in North America to file patents in both countries to improve their overall protection. The patent systems in the two countries are subtly different, and patents are still a national jurisdiction (meaning that US patents are unenforceable in Canada, and vice-versa). Things patented in the US but not here in Canada are fair game in Canada, as things currently stand. Canada also doesn't permit quite as wide a range of things that can be patented as the US does, so you can run into a situation where a Canadian company holds a US patent for an invention or process, but which doesn't have an equivalent Canadian patent.

A patent lawyer can probably provide a lot more detail, but if the US Government wants to assert its right to protect its patents in Canada, it has to file them with CIPO.

Yaz

Uh...I'll just leave this here...

Yaz

>PulseAudio was great when ALSA didn't exist,

ALSA not only existed, but was the standard in Linux for years before PA (then PolypAudio) was created.

ALSA - 1998
ALSA as default - 2003 (2.6.0)
PA 0.9 - 2006
PA default in Ubuntu - 2008

I reject your logical operator, the premise of your first statement, and mostly buy the second one.
I did too read ~2/3 of the Communist Manifesto, and thought it pure propaganda.

For some purely subjective definition of 'conservative', which actual conservatives would reject, sure. It's your 1st Amendment right to be daft, and you do exercise it with flair.