Comment Re:56 Mentions of God (Score 1) 48
If only I could get a hold of 1000 of those, do you people realise how expensive firewood is these days?
If only I could get a hold of 1000 of those, do you people realise how expensive firewood is these days?
That doesn't make sense.
Sorry you're infringing on my patent, unless your patent is for non-profit purposes in which case I'm ok with it.
And what if the big corporations go on patenting sprees and start patenting anything imaginable?
Well, first they have to invent it, which means it has to be new and nonobvious - so no patenting "filing a patent" or "earning money". And if they do invent something, they have to disclose it to the world and teach us all how to do it. And if they've really done something new and nonobvious and it's actually valuable and innovative, why shouldn't they have a limited period to exploit that invention? Particularly when, by it's very definition, it's limited, and 20 years later, everyone gets to do this new, nonobvious, and valuable method?
I think most of the people who complain about the patent system, whether they realize it or not, are primarily concerned about the "new and nonobvious" part, rather than subject matter eligibility. We don't like it when someone gets a patent on a method of swinging on a swing, or investing in a hedge fund, or tickling a cat. But that's because those have either been done before, or are so freaking obvious that it's removing something from the public domain if you grant a patent on them... and that's a question of novelty and obviousness, not subject matter.
Quit your trolling. You can patent general easy-to-think-of ideas which would then cover any real innovations. This is constantly being done today.
And what if the big corporations go on patenting sprees and start patenting anything imaginable? Just like all patenting has come down to.
Wow, you didn't even read further than my first sentence. There has to be some award for this.
Wow, I'm old. I never really stopped and thought about just how horrid modern class rooms have become, I certainly never pictured some twit droning on from a canned Power Point.
On the upside you'll be properly prepared for any number of meetings.
Wow, you are old. You didn't have books when you went to school? I can tell you that a teacher reading from a book is even worse. The problem is not books nor powerpoint, the problem is teachers or professors that couldn't care less.
I'm not joking guys. We really planned on making our money on patenting our business model. We figured the big corporate bastards have made it impossible for tiny businesses like ours to make money and stay in business any other way so we'd patent our business model to protect ourselves from the giant behemoths. What will happen if you can't patent a business model is the behemoths who were in the same niche but slightly less profitable will look over and see you making money hand over fist and decide to copy your homework. What can you do? You're tiny. You're toast! But wait! I have a business model patent! You have to *buy* me! That means I get one last pay-check before you cut me loose!
They take that away and now we're defenseless in front of gigantic corporations who have the resources to just wholesale copy our model.
And what if the big corporations go on patenting sprees and start patenting anything imaginable? Just like all patenting has come down to. Any idiot realises that patenting was never created to benefit "the small players." Really, conspiracy aside, but how much influence does small businesses contra large businesses have on politics and politicians? Do you think there is one single top politician who doesn't own stock in one or many large corporations? And it doesn't have to be a plot or a cartel, you can be a very honest politician but when that opportunity comes along the temptation to make a few extra hundred thousand can become too much. Also it does help if you can pretend you're doing it for "the small players."
I patent patenting for profit!
This research seems kinda shaky.
That's not funny.
I'm all for making fun of people who get injured by their own stupidity. I'm talking about the guys who decide to skateboard off of the roof of a 3 storey house, and end up breaking their penises or permanently damaging their scrotums.
But please, show some respect for those who are cursed with a disease or disability that they had no control over.
I find your code of ethics fascinating.
I find ethics fascinating.
so I'll give greater weight to my prejudices.
You say that as if scientists don't have prejudices/presuppositions/premises. I've never met a human that didn't.
All people make assumptions. Smart people are willing to give those up.
The part about free will is ignoring the fact that neurons are "fine" enough to be affected by such things as the Uncertainty Principle. This introduces some fundamental randomness in the system, which in turn means human actions are not necessarily purely deterministic.
Don't mix random and undeterminable. The observer is not the centre of the universe, so don't put yourself in that position. Even if you're able or unable to observe certain actions and reactions they are not bound to your observing. The fact that you are even able to observe is the product of a reaction, so the action has already taken place. Thus fate may very well still exist.
how is this anything new? A completely unprotected system can be infected and then do whatever any other computer can.
The subject in TFS is bad. It should have read "Malware downloads child..." instead. The possibility has always been there, it just hadn't happened yet, as far as I know. This gives new angles to tackle from the prosecutors side.
You are a lovely man.
Please, don't flatter yourself. Don't for one second think that anything you do by your "ethics" is justified more than what I do by mine. We have something called law, and these are the rules which we've woven together based on the common interests of all. You're just trying to push your (rather childish idealist) view onto others without any argument, so you use the ridiculous "ethics" card. That's another word for "duuh I don't know what to say but it doesn't like 'feel' right", if you're dumb, and if you're smart then it's merely a method of rhetorics. But guess what, unless you can show me how I can benefit from something I will never buy it. And if you're so shortsighted to not understand what I mean with benefit or profit, that if it also benefits those I care about it then benefits me, or that if it holds any future potential benefit (e.g. public healthcare), then I have no interest in further wasting my time. You can go preach somewhere else.
Oh and yes I am egoistic, all biological creatures are, but some are also more hipocritical than others -- and the latter I try my best not to be. Not for you or anybody else, but for myself as basing anything on a lie will produce an unwanted outcome.
I can see it's time for bed, because I'm spelling like an eight-year-old.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
