The patent office gets paid more for every patent they approve (even wrongly approved ones), than for every patent they reject.
Hence the culture.
Yes, we are paying these fishermen for the fish they *didn't* catch.
The great thing about science is it's still correct even if you don't want to believe it.
Well, I wouldn't be too surprised if there is some yet to be discovered law in quantum mechanics that disproves exactly this.
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CSS: not a programming language.
HTML: not a programming language.
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CSS and HTML are such devious piles of junk, they should be turing complete by now.
Hence I said "advanced forms of Dyson spheres".
Dark matter is probably just civilizations that have built (advanced forms of) Dyson spheres around their stars.
This also explains the Fermi paradox.
If you need an xbox to watch TV, you're doing it wrong.
Should all patents now belong to the worms?
The solution is of course to go back to the straightforward pricing model of paying per byte used.
That way, the provider has an incentive to make the communications as fast as possible (more bytes per second = more money per second)
And also, the market becomes transparent (consumers can easily compare between different offers from different providers, without complicated pricing schemes), and thus improving competition.
Why not postulate an infinite number of dimensions?
Actually, because of the expansion of space-time, the dinosaurs stayed the same size.
Why is it that OSS projects always seem to pick names that are, at best, obscure, and at worst, completely nondescriptive, yet have cutesy sounding names?
Because OSS projects are led by unpaid software engineers, and they don't have a communications/marketing department?
!#noindex
There should be a right not to be indexed in the first place.
This is much like robots.txt, but should apply to any social media website, including forums.
Putting a special token somewhere in (e.g. the top) of a post, for example, could mean that the post should not be indexed, like I have done in this post.
Of course, in the future, I will change my user-name to Striped !#noindex Cow.
How do we shift business culture to reward effective work more than the appearance of work?
In the academic world, stop the "publish or perish" mentality.
The first post I made in Google+ is this:
# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
You go to a theme-park with your children.
If the kids want to have an ice-cream, they just go to the ice-cream stand, order and say the name of their parents (you), so they get the bill when you leave.
Who thinks this is not a brilliant idea?
(Sorry for not posting a car-analogy)
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
