Erm, this has nothing to do with the election. You're right about neoliberalism and the neocons, though. This is indeed their doing; by turning intellectual output into property they can increase the rentier economy. What the robber barons of the last century did with land, they're doing with ideas and it's causing the exact same problems.
Notice that the ideology hasn't changed, only the name. Neocons are colonialists with a nasty case of White Man's Burden and neoliberalism is corporatism.
Patents, which function as government-sanctioned monopolies, invade core First Amendment rights when they are allowed to obstruct the essential channels of scientific, economic, and political discourse.
I nearly stood up at my desk and cheered. Where can I buy pom-poms in Manchester?
Software is a form of language—in essence, a set of instructions.... It is inherently abstract because it is merely “an idea without physical embodiment,”... Given that an “idea” is not patentable... and a generic computer is “beside the point” in the eligibility analysis ... all software implemented on a standard computer should be deemed categorically outside the bounds of section 101.
Dear Oracle,
please go away. Google infringed nothing since software can't be patented. Now move along.
Love,
Judge Mayer
It really is a shame this wasn't the majority opinion. Hopefully this will lead to better judgments being made from now on.
To be fair, when the odds aren't stacked against either the demand-side or the supply-side, the market can and does address wages, health care, and work schedules.
The trouble is, the odds have been increasingly stacked against the demand-side for decades and it's getting worse. Regulations are supposed to exist to address such imbalances but to be honest I find they're increasingly being used to create them. Regulatory capture is THE issue in restricted markets. It would take legislation at the national level to crowbar the moneyed interests out of local politics in order to permit the competition required to free up the market.
In the case of healthcare I understand that Medicaid for all competing with local private providers on service would resolve the healthcare costs problem. I'd also get patents off of medicine and medical equipment.
I love how these mad conspiracy theorists come dashing in here all a-froth, shouting out their fact-free declarations, and in case we're in the least bit incredulous, they shore their statements up with epithets.
Protip: your opinions have more merit when they're backed by provable, checkable facts. And there's no need for name-calling. Most of us don't bother to subscribe to particular political orthodoxies because they don't work out for us in practice.
Wrong analogy. There's a barrel of 100 apples. Some of them are starting to rot. Shall I leave it or shall I dig the mouldy ones out before the whole barrel goes off?
^This. And it's not going to stop until we stop allowing them to get away with calling intellectual endeavour "intellectual property." At lease use the scare quotes, people!
I've been waiting to hear back from the free market enthusiasts, who expect us to all to resort to their favoured tactic, voluntary withholding of continued support for these services, but the silence is deafening.
Can it be that, while we're locked into contracts that run for up to 18 months AND there's only one service provider due to regulatory capture, the market is too damn restricted to be able to self-correct?
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See every Happy Birthday lawsuit ever.
I've never seen a pro-copyright law passed or even proposed with the express intent of removing it from the public domain. The maximalists prefer to frame the argument in terms of ensuring that the property rights of the copyright holders are enforced as a matter of upholding the rule of law.
Feel free to self-righteously explode. Our government's corruption is embarrassing beyond belief.
You may find that the contempt we have for such people is due to the fact that they know damn well they have a problem but they're enjoying their problem far too much to get the help they need.
If you have an addiction you have a responsibility to make some kind of effort to get help with it. And you know you have an addiction when your pastime or poison interferes with your ability to operate normally in society or at your job.
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Notice that the ideology hasn't changed, only the name. Neocons are colonialists with a nasty case of White Man's Burden and neoliberalism is corporatism.
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I nearly stood up at my desk and cheered. Where can I buy pom-poms in Manchester?
Software is a form of language—in essence, a set of instructions.... It is inherently abstract because it is merely “an idea without physical embodiment,”... Given that an “idea” is not patentable... and a generic computer is “beside the point” in the eligibility analysis ... all software implemented on a standard computer should be deemed categorically outside the bounds of section 101.
Dear Oracle,
please go away. Google infringed nothing since software can't be patented. Now move along.
Love,
Judge Mayer
It really is a shame this wasn't the majority opinion. Hopefully this will lead to better judgments being made from now on.
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https://on-t-internet.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/once-more-with-feeling-anarchy-doesnt.html
Free markets can't exist, not because of government regulations, but because incumbents won't let them.
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Oh, dear.
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The trouble is, the odds have been increasingly stacked against the demand-side for decades and it's getting worse. Regulations are supposed to exist to address such imbalances but to be honest I find they're increasingly being used to create them. Regulatory capture is THE issue in restricted markets. It would take legislation at the national level to crowbar the moneyed interests out of local politics in order to permit the competition required to free up the market.
In the case of healthcare I understand that Medicaid for all competing with local private providers on service would resolve the healthcare costs problem. I'd also get patents off of medicine and medical equipment.
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I love how these mad conspiracy theorists come dashing in here all a-froth, shouting out their fact-free declarations, and in case we're in the least bit incredulous, they shore their statements up with epithets.
Protip: your opinions have more merit when they're backed by provable, checkable facts. And there's no need for name-calling. Most of us don't bother to subscribe to particular political orthodoxies because they don't work out for us in practice.
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That would be my fantasy: shootout at the OK Corral with Mickey as my opponent (he would be armed with a banana).
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The Market Will Self-Correct, Right?
Can it be that, while we're locked into contracts that run for up to 18 months AND there's only one service provider due to regulatory capture, the market is too damn restricted to be able to self-correct?
If this isn't tyranny, what is it?
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I've never seen a pro-copyright law passed or even proposed with the express intent of removing it from the public domain. The maximalists prefer to frame the argument in terms of ensuring that the property rights of the copyright holders are enforced as a matter of upholding the rule of law.
Feel free to self-righteously explode. Our government's corruption is embarrassing beyond belief.
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If you have an addiction you have a responsibility to make some kind of effort to get help with it. And you know you have an addiction when your pastime or poison interferes with your ability to operate normally in society or at your job.
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