I think one of the takeaways from the survey may be that formal intellectual property protection isn't always valuable to most businesses, even though intangible things like reputation may be very valuable.

You do realise that trademark protection exists with or without registration, right? Registration confers additional rights to your trademark, but even without registration, other businesses are not permitted to imitate you.

Therefore, even without taking the step of registration, there is still formal intellectual property protection, which the GP is correct in saying that businesses that trade on their reputation rely on. If a business wasn't able to have exclusivity over the name tied to their reputation, such a reputation would be very difficult to foster in the first place. It's easy to take things like the concept of a business's reputation for granted when we are so used to the idea of a trademark.

You're missing a couple of important points, not the least of which is that a Google bus has fuck all to do with the protester's predicament. Also the Woolworths protesters got the shit beaten out of them by the authorities. Do you remember the phrase "the whole world is watching" because that incident was a turning point in the civil rights movement where ordinary citizens were disgusted with the behaviour of the police on the nightly news.

>" If you want to see how your computer measures up to playing 4K content in 60 fps "

Not really. My monitor is 1080P, 2D. 4K 3D is about as incompatible as playing a tuna fish sandwich!

But thanks for the offer :)

It matters to me, and I'm not a patent troll. So what I make of it is that you are yourself a troll.

They might also care if, as a bakery, they decided to invest thousands of man hours in developing a new product or producing a series of books on new techniques, and then someone else who "doesn't care about IP" just ripped them off and started profiting from the other bakery's investment and creativity without having to do any of the hard work.

Actually, I have no problem sneering at people who decide that their use of a public street is more important than my use of it. I have no problem sneering at people who think that destroying property shows how virtuous they are.

Yes, vendor A says vendor B's free product sucks. I put MES on my win7 boxes after the free AGV let something thru earlier this year. The virus tricked win7 into thinking an infected system file was a good thing.Interestingly MSE was the only one of three free virus scanners I tried that picked up the infection.

However there was catch22 since MSE stubbornly refused to install itself until the infected file was gone and win7 kept restoring the infected file at boot up. The pragmatic developer in me gave up digging further down that particular rabbit hole. I realise I was now also fighting a win7 immune system that the virus had usurped, but I knew how it got in and that was enough to convince me to change the scanner I'd been using since the late 90's. First time in at least 10yrs I've had to wipe my own windows system disk because of an infection.

Why yes, IAACS, but the above is experience with MSE is a personal anecdote, not a professional opinion.

Addendum:

Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."

--Thomas

For the more esoterically-oriented out there, more relevant would be that he realized he was indifferentiable from an animal, a situation for which adding clothing would be a natural attempt to differentiate oneself.

Which, with his newly acquired cognitive range, would have presented rather troubling implications for himself and his surroundings regarding things outside the garden.

Implications which, I might add, persist for some right through to the present day.

The EU has 27 states and 500M people, the US has 50 states and 300M people. Germany and California have comparable economies, Nato and the Pentagon serve similar roles, etc. Aside from that, calculations of who contributes what to the UN should really be done on a per capita basis before you start trying to compare large federations to each other.

Your fighting human nature by pointing out the obvious, we evolved a sophisticated "theory of mind" that perceives competing tribes as a single personality. Your mind will naturally construct such a personality for just about anything (cars, houses, pet rocks, etc), you can compensate with logic but you can't make it go away.

The UN eradicated smallpox and are very close to eradicating polio, if they did nothing else all the bluster and bullshit will have been worth it. If you expect them eradicate the people you personally view as tyrants and warmongers, you will be bitterly disappointed.

I'm in my 50's, in my experience it's the adults/nations who stamp their feet and won't talk who are generally perceived as immature. There's a strong meme in the US that only "good nations" should have a seat at the UN, it's a meme that displays a complete lack of understanding as to why the UN was formed in the first place. Also, if you believe in the US ideal of free speech you will defend ImADinnerJacket's inalienable right to stand on the podium and spew his bile to the world, nobody is forcing you to listen, which is why ImADinnerJacket is normally talking to empty seats.

The uncle is not blood, the aunt is his dad's sister, her and the uncle split up not that long before the execution.

Rosa Parks went much further than that, she deliberately and shamelessly broke a strict social taboo of the day. She was lucky not to have been raped and beaten for her insolence. Passive civil disobedience in the face of systematic and violent oppression, such as displayed by Indians under Gahndi and American's under MLK, takes a lot more guts than what Snowden did. Having said that, I agree - "Berating him for [running] is not just unrealistic, it's asinine.".

Exactly, when one government desperately wants to keep you alive, you can be sure at least half a dozen others desperately want to kill you.