I grow heirloom tomatoes on my balcony. when I buy a house, I plan to grow a lot more and try to cross different heirloom to get more amazing flavors.

While I will respect what you are saying. I believe you are speaking outside the scope of the thread.
the metric in question is : if I spend money doing R&D, and make a discovery, can I protect it and have a return on my investment.

In reference to what you are speaking : patent judgement is to secure the idea, nothing about the revenue model is discusses. While I can not cite the old source, I believe many ideas in the early 1820's to 1860's that were patented, expired to public domain, only to become useable in the 1880 onwards when manufacturing was capable of producing the item's. I wish I had an example of this but I don't recall it right now

I love to study history, and I think we are in for some historic changes in the next 40 years.
the biggest change to happen is Efficiency happening to the normal people whom are not rich.

UBER is a great example, taxis are needed, but the business model that had worked is no longer
really valid for the future, so a new and efficient mode is happening. over time UBER like structures
have to/should happen and when they do, the new model will be well regulated.

Happened when ships went from sail to steam, but the longest routes were still sail, into the late
1800 early 1900, last of the sails designs were called windjammers.

again it's happening now in the shipping business... huge vessels, stuff I could never dream of
are now on the water, all in the name of efficiency.

I would not be surprised if ubers next business model would be to sell taxi fleet management
to cities.

While I will respect the idea the you think this is the dumbest question in a while, It's does show what people are feeling and being frustrated by. And what I have found great about Slashdot is some of the more creative reply's. I am looking forward to this.

Personally, I think, clean code with check's and filters makes for better programs, but today's behavior seems to indicate that product needs to be out the door ASAP or you are out the door ASAP. so sloppy code consistently comes forth.

Good summary. with that said, both booze and pot should not be consumed if you are going to drive. just a flat restriction. easier solution.
with the future advent of driver-less cars, I expect the bars to be packed, and happy high people to make it home safe.

Hi maybe a solution to your "private street":
A) confirm that it's yours, does the association have title to the land ???
B) upon confirmation, file for permits that you can place gates. ( you know that if an accident happens, your association get's a lawsuit )
C) place the gates up

Problem almost solved :

D) get ready for lawsuits because of gates
E) settle with the town for service under contract, non performance of contract, gates back up again

Almost done :

F) Audit the services under the contract
E) wait till they fail
G) then upon failure apply to be a toll road.

it's stuff like this that makes science interesting and fun.

see something odd ball happening,
test, test, and test again to make sure it's happening,
tell everyone that you are seeing this,
let them test it to...

someone's bound to figure out why, and they
get the co-explanation.

someone else get's to figure out how to use it,
everyone wins.

besides the thank you ... ( which I did as a separate item )
here is an observation that might help ...
odd but interesting ...

rainy days people pick up the phone more, over 1000 calls made to location where it was raining and way over 3000 phone calls where it was sunny, of those 4000 calls 100 picked up in the rain, and only 60 picked up in sunny.

I've now been testing this out for positive or negative experience ( I'm a realtor by trade, so cold calling is important when I place a new property on the market and want to tell everyone ) . the goal is to figure out if more people will show up on an open house if I call while it's type raining day or sunny day. not enough data yet to confirm if it matters

I have no clue how to test this with text messages, but the results should be interesting when focused on the under 40 age group.

so if you want to get a hold of someone for an important conversation, call while it's raining at the destination.

another weird and wonderful idea: I am trying to learn how to create a small ( tiny as in cigarette pack size ) weather station, that can give me Barometric Pressure, Luminous intensity, wind direction+speed, temp, humidity and ( most important ) transmit it twitter every 10 seconds. trying make this all into a kit costing $50 to $60 ( I got it down to $293 and 10" x 10" x 18") to give away to high schools, What I think is the fun part, when there is 200 data location transmitting ( all locally ), and the data posted publicly in twitter with a known location, we could discover how a tornado forms or what to look out for. with 25000 high schools in the USA, I bet a lot of data could be produced that someone could use and find out cool stuff.

ok and this is so weird that it could be considered crazy:
say no to wind energy, because the velocity of the wind entering the blades does not equal the same when it exits. so over the long term, wind is not reaching the normal destination at the same speed or coolness. just thinking so way out that it could be right.

and I don't kneed someone to slob my knob, just share an idea, weird and fun, we all get a chance to make a positive change to the world

Thank You.

thank you

No, your wrong. You need to ask the question carefully to Chuck Norris and observe ( from a safe distance ) the leg-kick-sweep

I try every few years to "Feel" things differently :

Last year was Ultra-Violet light, it was amazing that with a UV-flashlight a neighbors garden was weird and wonderful

a few year back I hooked up headphones and tried listening to 30HZ sounds and below, could feel them but not hear them
and it seemed to make me feel sick.

I walk around with a blindfold a lot, makes me listen better

I try writing with my left hand and use tools ... their is almost no tools make for left handed people

this years test, I read somewhere that learning to discriminate time accurately is very hard to do.
So I bought an egg timer, and I am going to learn what 5 minutes really is. kinda like that ST-TNG where data try's to boil water.

I rather like what you said, so with that said.
I would like to know ( I don't know so I like to ask )
will gravity end at the " expected end of the universes life " ?

I mean tons of dead stars ( based on what I'm reading )
just push them together at the last 30 billion years or so
and restart the universe,

I'm guessing that if we lived that long, we should have
figured out how to push stars. but if gravity ends, then
i guess it won't work.

What a great Response, had to read it 3 times before I could get a basic grasp...
What a cool idea all this is, play a game and somehow ( I know you explained it, but still don't grasp it all )
it helps out solving something.

Keep up the great Ideas and work

This is way over my head. I read the link, and got a grasp of the concept.
but I want to learn more.
Does anyone have something more detailed I could read and learn with ??
thanks in advance.