That's the point, I wouldn't touch American so-called chocolate any more than any of their 'cheese' products. And anyone who drinks 'grape flavour' drinks needs to try Schloer.
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You know who also do multi-thousand dollar challenges in a pathetic attempt to be taken seriously? Creationists. Congrats on being as relevant and able to 'contribute' to society.
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I seem to recall America profiteering nicely (over decades) for 'saving' the free world that it couldn't be bothered to 'save' until Axis declared war on them, some 3 years after the main war started.
To be fair, there have been a good number of Out_of_the_Ballpark's posts that haven't been flagged - I think he's been taking his meds more often - certainly he's said a few things that actually made sense, even if they weren't agreeable.
But lacking an upvote/downvote system, or a "This is complete tosh" button, it's all we have. Take it up with Mike...
It used to be not uncommon for some stores in Europe to have an 'entry' charge if you don't buy anything, but it's pretty rare these days.
The only way I can see this actually working is if you gave customers a voucher to get something from the store's website to promote brand loyalty - otherwise it'll just drive people away from casual browsing, and even those people who know what they want. Also, is this per head or per family - that would also have an effect.
Way to cut out all those poor-but-tech-hungry teenagers & students though!
I think he means the latest iteration of creationists, the ones who have access to the science yet reject it. There's nothing special about Isaac Newton being a 'creationist' - so was everyone else, as no-one knew any 'better'. But creationist favourite Dr Steve Austin? He has no excuse. These are the 'new world' creationists.
Nowhere near as shameful as the fact that due to bad laws and worse lawmakers, Swartz was pushed into a position where that became a viable option for him.
If you lost someone who you admired to stupidity or evil, wouldn't you do everything you could to redress things? Probably not, because that requires empathy, a soul and a beating heart...
What's depressing is that those people *granting* the patent can't tell the difference between the method and the entity (just look at 'design' patents!) and that's what worries us - because we can see how it could be abused, and therefore how it *will* be abused, based on past and current abuses of the existing system.
Once you start patenting 'nature' that you have discovered, then you really open up major cans of worms - just look at the mess there is with medical diagnostics. Great, so there's a cure for a form of cancer - but the cancer, the diagnostics and the cure are 'locked up' and no-one can 'improve' on them because that's "felony interference with a (poor) business model".
Wow, a typical pile of Randian bollocks. They seem to have forgotten that society is made up of individuals, and you owe everything you are to both the individuals you are exposed to, and society as a whole.
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The error is in thinking that *only* patented products are useful for this. Are the table and chair used patented? No, but they are a rather important element of a computer shop's work. What about the front window, or shelves? Patenting random crap has really little effect on improving life overall.
But you shouldn't be able to patent 'the petrol engine' - you should just be able to patent a particular implementation. Just look at the competition over the electric light bulb... ("Edison took years to see the light!" ;)
I actually know the guy (online, if it's who I think he is) and he is a decent-enough guy. I haven't read the article yet (blocked at work) but I know the circumstances at the time. Your argument fails on the grounds that saying that ANYONE teaching their children a foreign language at home might be considered child abuse. Seriously, would you tell a Sri Lankan couple they couldn't use Tamil at home (in the US) as that's "child abuse"? Kid soak up language, and they easily pick up the dominant language around them the moment they start school or pre-school. As someone with a foreign-speaking wife (and son) I am quite familiar with how kids with foreign-born parents actually end up as perfect speakers of the local language.
Now, obviously Klingon is of limited use in the 'real world' outside of fun and academic study (yes, as a constructed language it has genuine academic applications). However, in this case because the language is actually quite limited in vocabulary (less so in grammar), the child quite rapidly outstripped the ability to express everyday things in it - it's all very well being able to order someone to fire photon torpedoes, but if you can't even ask for a glass of (cow's) (milk) then the average three-year-old will start to use another language - which is what happened here. So it was an interesting experiment, nothing more. ['Official' Klingon was created by one man, Marc Okrand, and relies on his very occasional addition of vocabulary and grammar, so misses much 'everyday' lanaguage.]
And by the way, plenty of studies have shown that multi-lingual kids have much better language abilities when older, so it's unlikely to have actually harmed him.
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On the other hand, is that you, Tara? :)
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And it's rich commenting about people responding to you, when you 'cared' enough to comment in the first place.
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But lacking an upvote/downvote system, or a "This is complete tosh" button, it's all we have. Take it up with Mike...
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The only way I can see this actually working is if you gave customers a voucher to get something from the store's website to promote brand loyalty - otherwise it'll just drive people away from casual browsing, and even those people who know what they want. Also, is this per head or per family - that would also have an effect.
Way to cut out all those poor-but-tech-hungry teenagers & students though!
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If you lost someone who you admired to stupidity or evil, wouldn't you do everything you could to redress things? Probably not, because that requires empathy, a soul and a beating heart...
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Once you start patenting 'nature' that you have discovered, then you really open up major cans of worms - just look at the mess there is with medical diagnostics. Great, so there's a cure for a form of cancer - but the cancer, the diagnostics and the cure are 'locked up' and no-one can 'improve' on them because that's "felony interference with a (poor) business model".
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Now, obviously Klingon is of limited use in the 'real world' outside of fun and academic study (yes, as a constructed language it has genuine academic applications). However, in this case because the language is actually quite limited in vocabulary (less so in grammar), the child quite rapidly outstripped the ability to express everyday things in it - it's all very well being able to order someone to fire photon torpedoes, but if you can't even ask for a glass of (cow's) (milk) then the average three-year-old will start to use another language - which is what happened here. So it was an interesting experiment, nothing more. ['Official' Klingon was created by one man, Marc Okrand, and relies on his very occasional addition of vocabulary and grammar, so misses much 'everyday' lanaguage.]
And by the way, plenty of studies have shown that multi-lingual kids have much better language abilities when older, so it's unlikely to have actually harmed him.
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