Re: And credulous weenies hail every wacky gadget as "revolutionary".
Ya know, I had the same experience with the first phone--damn useless wired toy. I could only ever speak to a girl named Operator (Oprah, for short) and she was a very boring conversationalist.
It's all about matching percentages. If you have 10% unemployment, then take 10% of the wealth away from the 10% of wealthiest individuals in the country and disperse the funds directly to the unemployed. Repeat every month until there are no wealthy or there are no unemployed.
(For our experiment, "unemployed" means "does not have a job", not "looking for a job"--because lots of gov statistics are bullshit.)
"Pandora is not yet profitable, and may never be profitable -- as it is required, under current webcasting rates, to pay about 50% of its revenue out as royalties (while terrestrial radio and satellite radio get to pay much, much less)."
This is perfect! Now, when radio broadcasting fades away, they groundwork for raping webcasters will already be a precedent and the US Courts & DOJ will continue to violently enforce the MAFIAA "rights" to "earn" money for doing not a damn thing.
Given the way our often farcical legal system works, Megaupload will no doubt be convicted en absentia--that is, if Megaupload is even allowed to field a response.
Very well, I have chosen to break the code of silence we time travelers share.
You see, the patent system exists in its present monstrosity form in order to save the world. It was carefully crafted over 150 years to achieve exactly this effect.
Why, you say? In the future, the world was destroyed by runaway rampant research, innovation, creativity.
It was horrible. You'd buy a stereo hifi pizza for breakfast and then a skateboard taco for lunch. Nobody was safe.
One day, a man name Victor Chipmunk Merkenholt discovered "Merkenholt radiation"--a product of research, innovation, creativity; called RIC for short.
Normally, Merkenholt radiation exists in such minute quantities as to be harmless and largely undetectable. Usually fading away into the background before any sizable amount built up, but due to the horrible dangers of runaway RIC the levels were reaching lethal.
Law makers tried to put a halt to RIC--but how do you stop something which anybody could do on their holographic printer and flat-space laboratory in their spare time? Nobody worked, they all just invented things to share with their friends.
The final step was taken... in order to stop RIC from destroying the world, men were sent to the past to sabotage the patent system. Now you know the truth.
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Re: But Philip Morris might be right...
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Wow lol
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Re: ;-P
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XKCD book!?!?!
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Re: And credulous weenies hail every wacky gadget as "revolutionary".
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Re: Free bird.
It is similar to feeling threatened. The key words in any self-defense case are "I felt threatened".
One can only come to the reasonable conclusion the key words in any censorship case (what's the PC way to say "censored"?) will be "I felt offended".
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Re: PFRA Forever!
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Re: Re: Will Theorisation!
How to reach full employment:
It's all about matching percentages. If you have 10% unemployment, then take 10% of the wealth away from the 10% of wealthiest individuals in the country and disperse the funds directly to the unemployed. Repeat every month until there are no wealthy or there are no unemployed.
(For our experiment, "unemployed" means "does not have a job", not "looking for a job"--because lots of gov statistics are bullshit.)
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Re: 'Tard
"Be sure to read instructions before doing assignment."
Really? Couldn't find the link, eh?
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In other news
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Into the wild future!
This is perfect! Now, when radio broadcasting fades away, they groundwork for raping webcasters will already be a precedent and the US Courts & DOJ will continue to violently enforce the MAFIAA "rights" to "earn" money for doing not a damn thing.
(/shill /troll /not.sure.what.to.tag.this.with)
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Ham Sandwich Award
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Re: Total misread...
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Re: and yet
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More likely:
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Art Movements
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Re: Re: *wink wink*
On the post: Last Year, Google & Apple Spent More On Patents Than On R&D
*wink wink*
You see, the patent system exists in its present monstrosity form in order to save the world. It was carefully crafted over 150 years to achieve exactly this effect.
Why, you say? In the future, the world was destroyed by runaway rampant research, innovation, creativity.
It was horrible. You'd buy a stereo hifi pizza for breakfast and then a skateboard taco for lunch. Nobody was safe.
One day, a man name Victor Chipmunk Merkenholt discovered "Merkenholt radiation"--a product of research, innovation, creativity; called RIC for short.
Normally, Merkenholt radiation exists in such minute quantities as to be harmless and largely undetectable. Usually fading away into the background before any sizable amount built up, but due to the horrible dangers of runaway RIC the levels were reaching lethal.
Law makers tried to put a halt to RIC--but how do you stop something which anybody could do on their holographic printer and flat-space laboratory in their spare time? Nobody worked, they all just invented things to share with their friends.
The final step was taken... in order to stop RIC from destroying the world, men were sent to the past to sabotage the patent system. Now you know the truth.
It's horrible, but it must be this way.
:,/
For the good of all mankind.
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Re: Re: Pleebs
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Re: Pleebs
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