At least some of that is a result of how most doctors treat patients. A lot of the basic principles of RTB can be translated to Reasons Not To Sue, but instead most doctors think the better way to go is to hide behind waivers and to record everything they do for use in court. Depressingly few doctors do anything to make their customers not want to sue.
Before cave paintings, humans were some kind of group-based animal. Tribes or packs or herds or something. Even bacteria have cultures. The mistake that needs to be corrected is cellular division. Only then can we be alone.
Yes, I've heard that combat experience tends to transfer well to copyright litigation. Why would anyone ever bother questioning the motives and actions of someone so clearly qualified in this field?
Or do you think that fighting in a war gives someone carte blanche to profit off of other soldiers in whatever way he sees fit? It doesn't. I don't care if he personally shot Hitler, that's no reason he should be able to ransom a war memorial for several million dollars. This is wrong.
This seems reasonable to me. Can you imagine how many sales of this statue Gaylord must have lost due to the wide distribution of those stamps? I heard he only managed to sell one of it!
"We thought it would be nice to put our idea out there and wait to see how many people were willing to give us money for it. As it turns out, that was a mistake. This fundraising has been ridiculous. We don't need millions of dollars of donations, people. That's your money! I mean, thank you, but stop it!"
"Part of the stipulated settlement is that Perfect 10 will never again sue Google over such claims in the past (going forward is another story)."
People assume that lawsuits are a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, they're more like a big ball of wibbley-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
"IP and Piracy is the only crime that people insist will stop if we merely 'educate' people properly."
I've seen a similar sentiment with drugs and underage drinking. What it amounts to is an acknowledgement that there isn't much reason for people to think out something's bad on their own, coupled with an admission that conventional law enforcement strategies aren't working.
If you can infringe on a patent without making a product substantially similar to the patent holder's, and all the basic components are no longer patented, then the patent is too broad. What does Honeywell even have patented here? Connecting an appliance to the Internet? Using words to prompt the user to enter their preferred temperature range?
I'd say Nest's reception is relevant, if indirectly. If Nest really was as substantially similar to Honeywell as is being claimed, it probably would not have been nearly as well-received.
It's hardly an airtight argument on its own, but it does seem like it could be a valid support.
Etiquette has little to do with it. A person can be polite while saying nothing substantial (such as your "are you okay" example). However, a person can also be blunt without saying anything substantial (posting "jealous wee bitch" at every opportunity as if it was the only thing you knew how to type). The important part is that you finally used words to convey real thoughts, which is something you had been failing to do in most of your earlier posts. Prior to your more recent posts I wasn't even sure that you had any real thoughts to convey. And, as an aside, there are more ways to be a dick than to call people mean names. I'm fond of condescension, myself.
I didn't before I started trying to figure out how to hack my computer. As it turns out all that's required is downloading one off of Sourceforge and running the program. Other things I learned during that process included what a keylogger is, what Sourceforge is, and what freeware is. A determined child with a specific objective can learn a lot very quickly when armed with Google.
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Or do you think that fighting in a war gives someone carte blanche to profit off of other soldiers in whatever way he sees fit? It doesn't. I don't care if he personally shot Hitler, that's no reason he should be able to ransom a war memorial for several million dollars. This is wrong.
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We're just as entitled to that argument as you are.
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People assume that lawsuits are a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, they're more like a big ball of wibbley-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
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I've seen a similar sentiment with drugs and underage drinking. What it amounts to is an acknowledgement that there isn't much reason for people to think out something's bad on their own, coupled with an admission that conventional law enforcement strategies aren't working.
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It's hardly an airtight argument on its own, but it does seem like it could be a valid support.
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Step 1: Install keylogger on computer.
Step 2: Find blocked legitimate site.
Step 3: Request that parent bypass block for legitimate site.
Step 4: Retrieve password from keylogger.
I'm sure there are other ways to get around them too, but that was how my first day with my own laptop went.
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