NSA tells you to upgrade your Windows or Mac OS, a friend comes round and upgrades your linux.

is it a general purpose machine or a specific purpose machine? is it an objectifiable patent or a meta-patent?

Likewise, books are language. Can books be copyrighted? No one owns language.

Copyright is not a patent and a breach of copyright may make you a parrot but it does not make you a thief. If it's a book of facts, then no you can't copyright those facts.

A power drill is metal and plastic. Can a power drill be patented, then?

I've made one from wood and gas, a plastic and metal one may be patented, but I can still make a wood and gas one.

it's the implementation of the mechanism not the power and the drilling, which can be done in a number of ways.

ohhh.. often the problem is that they can define when logical conditions are met, they just can't then generalize and turn it into patterns etc... and well that's all too much like hard work when I can just hack and slash myself through the day...

it's like they've written a function in C++ but the body of the function looks more like very bad prologue.

void foobar(int &a)
{
int tmp = a;
if (a = 1)
{
a*=a;
a=(int)sqrt(float)a));
a++;
      if (a + 1 = 2 )
{
printf ("goofie%d", a);
}
a--;
} else if (a 0)
{
}
if (a 0)
{
}
a = tmp;
}

and of-course their XSLT looks like a bad day with asp and grep, so they clearly can't turn that prologue like C into prologue like XSLT.

CDATA.... ahhh.........

I usually write XSLT as with a few document() selects a few includes and XML 'control and data' in a number of separate files to work on the document I want to transform and it's all pretty nice, neat, easy,modular etc.... (tail recursion not withstanding).

it's in the self.

I'd see the Dr about that if I where you, that's what she said.

cats are illiterate, they walk all over the bloody keyboard causing all kinds of havoc.

"I know someone who is a good intuitive mechanic, but somehow managed to get to adulthood with less than third grade reading and writing skills.",
quite possible the way that he learns things (ergo... schools are crap)

I have/had that problem, in that language is generally poorly designed and people like to fuck with other peoples heads. But I worked out how they do that now and it kind of, mostly, started to sort itself out.

programmer-safe language.

That's just asking for trouble,that's like saying a keyboard is safe from illiterate people because it has letters printed on the keys.

Oh come on man, everyone know that the Egyptians infiltrated the Jewish 'escape' from tyranny with one of their own who runs all the scams.

I got there first and he approved.

a large part is a bit like big portion, well that's what she said.

stiff hand job all the way baby.

I prefer fit blonds

what she just said.

I prefer putting down straw men, whilst laughing.

Yeh, they need access to kiddie porn'o too. So they can think of the children of-course.

I was reading the news about censorship the other day, whilst busy swapping some stuff on the dark net, as you do.
And my mate said to me, "Thank God the internet isn't a human, right?"