Yeah...but no. That's more than a little bit of a stretch, except for the blind "adherence to narrative" exhibited by liberals.
It would be more accurate to say that this kind of police misconduct derives from UNION EMPOWERMENT AND SOLIDARITY.
It's reaching far, far afield to say that anyone who criticizes black leadership should be suppressed because that might lead an irrational, racist, union-empowered thug-with-a-gun to misbehave.
In terms of thoughtless lockstep attitude, I see more here from YOU than from the police. Which of course absolves the cops of NOTHING here.
The raw number of EOs is less important than what he is implementing via executive order.
And of course he is only resorting to using EOs because...you wanna do this like every other apologist in every other political thread on the entire Internet??
Never mind, we both know it's "...because the obstructionist Republicans refuse to work in a bipartisan manner!"
I find the continued existence of Obama apologists to be as amazing as the continued existence of flat-earthers and breatheairians.
per Neo: "...they do play an important role in ensuring that big companies can't abuse the little guy"
"...many in our society are simpletons,...never think deeper into implications..."
"You may want to think about the implications to patent protection and IP in general..."
"...rather than discussing legal and technological implications of a decision..."
Cases are not, and cannot be, decided based on such down-the-road effects as you promote here. They are decided by law. Period. Not to serve some "little guy vs. big guy" rooting interest. Not merely to thwart Big Corporation A.
And also, a judge damn well better be able to disregard "...multiple reviews by the USPTO, a District Court Judge, a jury" if the results have been uniformly stupid, as here.
Still, kinda cute how you went with numbered points to make it look like you're presented a large number of "proofs", when the Commutative Property of Bullshit shows that 4bullshit+3bullshit=bullshit, same as 10bullshit+4bullshit=bullshit. Nice try.
IF, as you imply, you have suffered from this condition, you should be first in line to decry said condition being used to redefine the normal activity, attention span and behaviors of little boys as medical conditions requiring drug treatment. Whatever you suffer from, this ongoing redefinition requires ADHD and hyperactivity being used as "fake ass shit".
If you think that hasn't been happening...well, then, don't knock knowing what you're talking about till you've tried it.
People who think comparing the US Government and Google or Facebook should thank God, or the power of evolution, for the existence of the medulla, which controls autonomic systems like breathing and heartbeat. Because clearly they don't have enough intelligence to maintain those activities on their own.
I mean, you are passing this off as "thought"??
"Google gets my info." "NSA gets my info." "Therefore the threat from each is the same."
Seriously?
The compared things (Google=NSA) are not alike enough for the comparison to be useful. When Google has SWAT teams, courts and prisons, THEN maybe your bullshit 'argument' would be worth examining, but not until.
Till then, good luck remembering to breathe you fucking idiot.
Hide and watch. Someone obliquely responsible for hiring Johnson and funding his efforts as a lobbyist against patent reform will be appointed. Someone more prominent than Mr. Johnson, who has never gotten his* hand dirty. Of whom it can be said "He* brings a uniquely wide experience in the field and correspondingly impressive expertise."
Because we need that kind of expertse.
*-Sorry bout the "incorrect though statistically defensible"...errr...misogynistic pronoun. I hope the usage didn't trigger anyone. It's like the War on Women all over again. Times a thousand.
"Only Obama has ever done this sort of thing. All prior occupants of the whitehouse and halls of congress have been pure as the driven snow. This makes it much more difficult to bear, it's terrible."
*sigh* You know it's really sad when Obama supporters have to point to the fact that all other politicians have been (mostly) corrupt to assuage their bitter, bitter disappointment.
We're too far into his presidency for 'But...but...BUSH!!", and Reid and Pelosi have too much power to say 'But...but...CONGRESS!'. So now, all they're left with is "Well, historically, he might not be the worst!". A ringing endorsement indeed.
I knew they (Obama supporters) were in trouble when, faced with the clear fact that for many of his supporters, getting the DEA off the backs of marijuana users was a primary concern, he literally laughed at them. The fact that many of them voted for him again in 2012 was a clear sign he knew he only had to be "better than the Republican candidate" to win.
Only in that roundabout way can we blame the Republicans for the duplicity exhibited by our POTUS.
I have to think it's doable, ideally in a manner that would allow those motivated and tech savvy enough (a modest level?) to circumvent it, but creating backlash from everybody else, hopefully a considerable amount. That judge may already be getting pounded, possibly by his own family, which must number among them some people under the age of 60 screaming "WTF you fucktarded looser?? What were you thinking??"
Maybe Google is concerned people would start using all those other search engines, like...ummm...Bingo? Is that one??
Whatever else Eugene has accomplished, it's certainly motivated more than a few people to WD-40 those rusty Rhetoric class and Philosophy 210 skillz and bring them to bear on Mike's common sense explication of this story. These comments have only succeeded in sharing their authors' opinion of their own intelligence and analytical ability. Sadly, this does little to answer the question of whether or not this 'Eugene' device satisfies the conditions of the Turing Test.
More importantly, such respondents do not deal with the question of whether software like Eugene (and predecessors) is not more a "program designed to imitate human conversational function", manipulating symbols and text of which it has no real understanding, than an actual "thinking machine". (This was Searle's objection to the test in his 1980 paper, Minds, Brains, and Programs.)
When a computer/program can incorporate prior content of a conversation into an original thought or proposition, it will be somewhat convincing, and might actually win the Loebner Prize. (Not to say that's ever a motivation for such research.) Indeed, the 'winner' of the first Loebner competition (Weintraub's PC Therapist) did so by the programmed emulation of pauses and misspellings common to human respondents, not by 'intelligence'. Unless you want to argue that our intelligence is defined by it's limitations and inefficiencies.
I doubt Turing would consider Eugene a "thinking machine", or an example of "artificial intelligence". Now, when a software/hardware construct can misconstrue obvious common sense objections such as Mike has raised here and then respond as if he had instead presented a tightly-reasoned, peer-reviewed thesis...THEN I'll be impressed. Because choosing the response "Let me show off how smart I am." rather than, you know, actually contributing something, really does demonstrate (the misuse of) human intelligence; as well as some other, less commendable human traits.
In the example you present (NDA), you've sold off your RIGHT TO UTILIZE your free speech(and only about a very specific subset of well-defined things), but you haven't "exchanged it for money" in the sense that your hypothetical Chinese employer can use it and you no longer can.
Ah, people will be down with militarized police forces, SWAT teams serving every single subpoena for every single thing, and military force used against fellow citizens IF IT'S THE RIGHT FELLOW CITIZENS.
ICP has been declared a 'gang'. Excessive, or rather, "extreme force as dictated by the violent nature of the perpetrators and consistent with the safety of law enforcement personnel" force is allowed, even recommended.
Just target the Tea Party, Christians, libertarian groups and all those other bad people (all funded by well-known Nazis the Koch Brothers) and large segments of the commentariat, the professoriat and the fucking-liberal-doucheiat will be completely down with justifying any level of violence, in the interest of bringing about the "hegemony of the good guys". Hell yeah.
Eventually we'll get to see if our troops will fire on their own families and friends to defend 'the government', after said government's interests become synonymous with the interests of the 1%
Loreena McKinnit (Canadian Folk/Celtic/World music artist) couldn't get a record deal. So she spent ten years working her ass off building relationships with her audience, with music stores and gift shops that would carry her CDs and tapes (this was a while ago) and eventually developed a fan base of near a hundred thousand people and she was getting 70% of the purchase price of her music!! (reasonably priced, too!)
When she went in to Warner Bros. to finally get a deal, she was able to show them what she was currently making, the "standard contract" went into the garbage and she negotiated a REAL deal with the studio.
Amusing that this red-headed, harp-playing soprano took the studio by the throat and dictated terms and screaming tatoo-leather-and-spikes metalheads are left whining about getting assraped.
The named companies are no longer the agile, aggressive innovators of Silicone Valley past. They are the RCA, GE, Kodak and JC Penney of the 21st century. (if not already the tech equivalents of Exxon, ADM, the **AAs and Goldman Sachs)
And with today's political/regulatory climate being so amenable to protecting "Big Anything", it's more likely they'll 'innovate' new and improved lobbying methods to protect their status and profitability than do anything to continue the vibrant and stimulating climate in which they themselves were formed.
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Because revolution led to police improvements in Russia, and Egypt and France and China and....
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Re: Prejudices have a way of coming true
I know, child-like, starry-eyed optimism there. Sorry.
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Re: First Step in Censorship
It would be more accurate to say that this kind of police misconduct derives from UNION EMPOWERMENT AND SOLIDARITY.
It's reaching far, far afield to say that anyone who criticizes black leadership should be suppressed because that might lead an irrational, racist, union-empowered thug-with-a-gun to misbehave.
In terms of thoughtless lockstep attitude, I see more here from YOU than from the police. Which of course absolves the cops of NOTHING here.
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And of course he is only resorting to using EOs because...you wanna do this like every other apologist in every other political thread on the entire Internet??
Never mind, we both know it's "...because the obstructionist Republicans refuse to work in a bipartisan manner!"
I find the continued existence of Obama apologists to be as amazing as the continued existence of flat-earthers and breatheairians.
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Re: "To protect and serve"
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derpdedurrr...
"...they do play an important role in ensuring that big companies can't abuse the little guy"
"...many in our society are simpletons,...never think deeper into implications..."
"You may want to think about the implications to patent protection and IP in general..."
"...rather than discussing legal and technological implications of a decision..."
Cases are not, and cannot be, decided based on such down-the-road effects as you promote here. They are decided by law. Period. Not to serve some "little guy vs. big guy" rooting interest. Not merely to thwart Big Corporation A.
And also, a judge damn well better be able to disregard "...multiple reviews by the USPTO, a District Court Judge, a jury" if the results have been uniformly stupid, as here.
Still, kinda cute how you went with numbered points to make it look like you're presented a large number of "proofs", when the Commutative Property of Bullshit shows that 4bullshit+3bullshit=bullshit, same as 10bullshit+4bullshit=bullshit. Nice try.
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If you think that hasn't been happening...well, then, don't knock knowing what you're talking about till you've tried it.
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I mean, you are passing this off as "thought"??
"Google gets my info."
"NSA gets my info."
"Therefore the threat from each is the same."
Seriously?
The compared things (Google=NSA) are not alike enough for the comparison to be useful. When Google has SWAT teams, courts and prisons, THEN maybe your bullshit 'argument' would be worth examining, but not until.
Till then, good luck remembering to breathe you fucking idiot.
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Because we need that kind of expertse.
*-Sorry bout the "incorrect though statistically defensible"...errr...misogynistic pronoun. I hope the usage didn't trigger anyone. It's like the War on Women all over again. Times a thousand.
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*sigh* You know it's really sad when Obama supporters have to point to the fact that all other politicians have been (mostly) corrupt to assuage their bitter, bitter disappointment.
We're too far into his presidency for 'But...but...BUSH!!", and Reid and Pelosi have too much power to say 'But...but...CONGRESS!'. So now, all they're left with is "Well, historically, he might not be the worst!". A ringing endorsement indeed.
I knew they (Obama supporters) were in trouble when, faced with the clear fact that for many of his supporters, getting the DEA off the backs of marijuana users was a primary concern, he literally laughed at them. The fact that many of them voted for him again in 2012 was a clear sign he knew he only had to be "better than the Republican candidate" to win.
Only in that roundabout way can we blame the Republicans for the duplicity exhibited by our POTUS.
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I have to think it's doable, ideally in a manner that would allow those motivated and tech savvy enough (a modest level?) to circumvent it, but creating backlash from everybody else, hopefully a considerable amount. That judge may already be getting pounded, possibly by his own family, which must number among them some people under the age of 60 screaming "WTF you fucktarded looser?? What were you thinking??"
Maybe Google is concerned people would start using all those other search engines, like...ummm...Bingo? Is that one??
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More importantly, such respondents do not deal with the question of whether software like Eugene (and predecessors) is not more a "program designed to imitate human conversational function", manipulating symbols and text of which it has no real understanding, than an actual "thinking machine". (This was Searle's objection to the test in his 1980 paper, Minds, Brains, and Programs.)
When a computer/program can incorporate prior content of a conversation into an original thought or proposition, it will be somewhat convincing, and might actually win the Loebner Prize. (Not to say that's ever a motivation for such research.) Indeed, the 'winner' of the first Loebner competition (Weintraub's PC Therapist) did so by the programmed emulation of pauses and misspellings common to human respondents, not by 'intelligence'. Unless you want to argue that our intelligence is defined by it's limitations and inefficiencies.
I doubt Turing would consider Eugene a "thinking machine", or an example of "artificial intelligence". Now, when a software/hardware construct can misconstrue obvious common sense objections such as Mike has raised here and then respond as if he had instead presented a tightly-reasoned, peer-reviewed thesis...THEN I'll be impressed. Because choosing the response "Let me show off how smart I am." rather than, you know, actually contributing something, really does demonstrate (the misuse of) human intelligence; as well as some other, less commendable human traits.
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In the example you present (NDA), you've sold off your RIGHT TO UTILIZE your free speech(and only about a very specific subset of well-defined things), but you haven't "exchanged it for money" in the sense that your hypothetical Chinese employer can use it and you no longer can.
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Outer: Safety
2nd: Health
3rd: National for the children
Bullseye: FOR THE CHIIIILDREN!!
They usually go with any two of the above.
If the dart misses the target they request higher budget to bring in more budget proposal specialists. For the children.
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ICP has been declared a 'gang'. Excessive, or rather, "extreme force as dictated by the violent nature of the perpetrators and consistent with the safety of law enforcement personnel" force is allowed, even recommended.
Just target the Tea Party, Christians, libertarian groups and all those other bad people (all funded by well-known Nazis the Koch Brothers) and large segments of the commentariat, the professoriat and the fucking-liberal-doucheiat will be completely down with justifying any level of violence, in the interest of bringing about the "hegemony of the good guys". Hell yeah.
Eventually we'll get to see if our troops will fire on their own families and friends to defend 'the government', after said government's interests become synonymous with the interests of the 1%
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When she went in to Warner Bros. to finally get a deal, she was able to show them what she was currently making, the "standard contract" went into the garbage and she negotiated a REAL deal with the studio.
Amusing that this red-headed, harp-playing soprano took the studio by the throat and dictated terms and screaming tatoo-leather-and-spikes metalheads are left whining about getting assraped.
Is that irony, or one of them other things?
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And with today's political/regulatory climate being so amenable to protecting "Big Anything", it's more likely they'll 'innovate' new and improved lobbying methods to protect their status and profitability than do anything to continue the vibrant and stimulating climate in which they themselves were formed.
Sad, and sadly predictable.
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