Comment Re:Hypocritical much? (Score 1) 236
But since all that money would pay for NZ Government for the next 1000yrs, LETS DO IT!
But since all that money would pay for NZ Government for the next 1000yrs, LETS DO IT!
Let me get this right:
Because they had lots of outside contractors working on the control systems they have lots of disparate control systems, and they are going to solve this by getting an outside contractor to write a new control system?
Does anyone else see the inherent flaw in this plan?
Please Google, please please please, label it the Persian Gulf.
Everything that is Persia pre-dates Islam and shows that Persia was great without the help of Allah.
Long before the mullahs Persia ruled most of the civilised world in the west, with the mullahs its a bit player in a sideshow.
Everything Persian undermines the regime in Tehran, so...
Please Google, please please please, label it the Persian Gulf. And call the middle east "greater Persia", and Afghanistan Inland Persia, and Tehran the Persian Capital, and Iran the Persian Empire.
Also, can we sell Greece back to Persia? They wanted it a while back and its really no use to us anymore?
Most everyone is happy about 20 year patents.
Hardly anyone thinks no copyright is a good idea. And the exceptions are mostly hippy crazies that we can ignore.
The problem is that copyright is excessive for the purposes for which it was created.
Tell me why trademarks need continual work to maintain, and patents worth BILLIONS last only 20 years but copyright lasts over a hundred years for NO MORE EFFORT THAN INITIAL CREATION.
What is so special about Walt Disney and Stephanie Meyers that they trump Steve Jobs and Arthur C Clarke?
Why are Arthur C Clarke's awesome books SOOO much more awesome than inventing geosynchronous satellites?
How come modern telephones are dependent on Hettie Lamar's expired and now worthless patent but her forgotten films are still "valuable"?
if they interpret that as a threat that is their problem.
If you're proud of the application, and you think it might help some people you know, by all means tell people about it.
Until it's an order and you disagree with the text of that order, you don't have a problem.
If it is an order and you disagree with the statement, then you have to consider whether that damage to your reputation is excessive given the consequences of not complying.
Seriously? The North Sea, split between famously cooperative countries like Britain, Holland, Germany, Norway, is better regulated than the interior of the USA?
You guys are in serious trouble.
The poisoning of drinking water is only of interest to lifeforms that depend on water to live.
"spent eight years slaving over a bottle opener that quickly and neatly extracts all the cork along with the wire restraint and foil wrapping from a champagne bottle."
Hardly sounds like an easy job, or much like a buggy whip.
By the way, NZ law specifically excludes inventions that have been patented elsewhere, so patenting 'extrapolate one obscure datapoint to generalise millions' is probably blocked by the yankee precedent.
With your bare hands?!?