Comment Re:plenty of things wrong with the war on drugs (Score 1) 561
Your mention of cocaine is incorrect -- the "naturally occurring" part is coca. Cocaine is what you get after isolating the alkaloid and processing into a pure form.
I have an EE degree. What's a good 2nd degree? CMP ENG or Comp Sci? I want to be eligible to apply for more jobs.
Stay with your interests--Comp Sci will get you more theoretics, engineering more practical. Otherwise, there's a lot of crossover. If you liked engineering, stay with engineering.
I'd say do a MS in EE or computer engineering--several universities offer a non-thesis option (thesis will introduce you to more research).
That is the the root of the issue at hand. From a reductionist standpoint, you could make that argument about anything. An inked cartoon character is just an ordered and structured collection of pigments. This construct can be represented by a polar graph of molecules and their locations. This can be made into an equation, which is just a mathematical construct, which is just an abstract arbitrary construct of mankind, which you cannot patent. That is the trouble with patents, delineating intellectual property from reductionist components. It can be argued both ways.
That's why you trademark and/or copyright the mouse, not patent it.
I can copyright my finished implementation of the equation just fine.
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