And that is a good reason not to have millions of people driving cars. It will be easier and faster to work out most of the bugs in a computer driven car, than to get everyone to drive error free.

proving theories is left as an exercise for the reader

At the time of the closing, the value of the tape couldn't have been more than a few dollars.

So... the worst of both worlds then?

I've always though open office discourage collaboration... It is hard to have a chat in an open office. You either have to find a conference room, or you keep your voice down... or you disrupt others.

So what you are saying is... screw the little guy, hurray for the big companies with money?

The whole point of a patent is to promote science. One awesome way to encourage small inventors to invent, is to allow them to license their invention to someone with the means to produce it. By making it so only active users can hold a patent, you've made it very difficult for the little guy to hold on to patents. And thus you discourage them from inventing.

While bendable displays are all the rage at CES at the moment, one advantage to a multi monitor display is that I can position the different displays on different planes. That is a bit difficult to do with a single display. Multi monitors haven't held back the monitor industry. Rather television has

Why? Would you be angry if the company bought a new faster copier? Or are you just suggesting that the company can never upgrade anything ever? "That typewriter still works, why are you replacing it?" Not only should these things improve productivity, I'd be willing to bet they can recoup the investment with lower energy cost.
But thats ok, you know better. No one should ever spend money to improve tools.

I don't understand your point #2. If a book is in public domain, and someone else releases a DRM protected eBook version. Nothing stops you are anyone else from releasing a public domain eBook version.
Don't complicate things needlessly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/07/31/why-does-amazon-have-more-books-from-the-1880s-than-the-1980s-blame-copyright/ claims there is a SIGNIFICANT drop off of books on amazon after about 20 years. So it appears that something in the range of 25 years (at least for books) is a fine length of time. I don't see why that wouldn't work for any other medium.
Any period of time that is longer than the average lifetime of a human, isn't really limited.

And not even an old boring object... An object used in the same project

Too bad it is impossible to take a list of lats and longs and depths and generate a map.
For a project this size, you could hire a few people to read the paper work and pull the lats and longs out.

Where are all the dash cam videos of the event? Oh wait, that is right, it didn't happen in Russia.

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I think this could just be amended to "For a group of scientists this is a daunting endeavor." Of course scientists attached to a legal institution can probably draw on the help of other resources and people who know how to jump through some of these hoops. But they still have to deal with the same legal issues.