Posts by lone_wolf

Freedom of Association

So no one ever discusses how anti-discrimination laws infringe on freedom of association?

ejected material

so if i understood this correctly the scientist were looking for basically debris kicked up from the impact similar to any ordinary impact?

if that is so how would that even be possible given that the debris would have to traveling faster than the speed of light to have a possibility of being thrown up to form a temporary cloud?

Jefferson

when i was a lad back in my middle school days. We were taught that copyright and patents are government enforced monopolies, that was intended to reward the artist/inventor. Therefore it should be temporary and strike a balance between protecting the artist and the rights of the fellow citizens and society in general as music/books/movies are all representations of culture in general. The term of copyright was to be calculated as 1/4 of the average lifespan with an extension that had to be applied for by the holder. The reason for this was so future generations could take that same material and freely reinvent it to be applicable to that generation.

It was never to be used as a business model which is what we have going on now. Large media companies. That can afford armies of lobbyist, to get their dream of permanent monopoly put in place. That is why you now have lifetime of the author plus 72 yrs, with an automatic renewal. The original intent and purpose has been so obscured and distorted by these media companies. That it may be impossible to restore the balance back may take multiple generations and we are looking at losing all since of fair use.

term linits

old geezers that don't understand the nature of eCommerce you have to have internet just to pay your bills with a lot of companies. another argument for term limits.

we build new models of open collaboration and accountability

so we know who created SkyNet now, good thing they had these open models...

deployed to wrong markets

so you rolled it out in large cities that already have a lot of competition and wonder why the sign up rate is so low.....

Why not go for areas with low completion or none at all. where i live i can only get satl. internet there is no broadband otherwise. only one company ATT and they have no intention of doing fiber wanting to force all the users to their over priced "wireless" options.

made in america

the fact of the matter is Apple did manufacture all it's products in the US. I am not 100% sure but i believe Steve Jobs was the one that started moving all manufacturing over to China.

looks like Eddie Munsters Mom.

Federal Goverment

having worked in for the Fed. briefly I can say that most of the IT staff is probably not as skilled as the author thinks. The way the hiring is done for the USA government is as follows:

1) internal employees

2) vet's

3) special minor groups

4) any one else out side the above 3.

The job requirements are secondary to the selection of the personnel that is hired. So if some one whom has 10 years direct experience applies for the same position as some one with 1 ( but is in group 1 thru 3), the person with 10 years experience will be pasted over. The issue with this that just like all other US companies the Fed does not do any training. So even if you have a person that has a lot of drive but little experience apply the odds of their skills increasing outside their own efforts is very low.

two applications open at the same time

I don't understand how having 2 applications open at the same time with each using half a screen could be considered patentable?

You could do that on computers since the 90's, or how that could been seen as revolutionary...

They should get Peter Jackson to make it into a three part trilogy.