You could even take the analogy further. Cats don't pay anything to live with us, get fed, and be sheltered. The economic exchange between humans and pets is purely abstract - devoid of any direct payment - and yet no less valuable to those interested in participating.
The Patent Office should take a cue from the script reading industry. If a script reader sends a producer a terrible script, it counts against them. Do this enough and you're fired. This is how Hollywood manages the millions of godawful scripts it gets every day (and yet they *still* make bad movies...granted, the script is only about a tenth of what's represented on screen).
Imagine if the patent office worked that way. Suddenly the incentive is reversed. It would be in their best interest to *not* approve bad patents, and to err on the side of caution.
Well, whenever we get a ship outside the Earth's gravitational pull, it can basically get infinity miles to the gallon. So distance is essentially irrelevant at that point. May as well weigh all the options.
It's the sort of joke that he could have easily been used before the internet without issue. These days, our self-absorption comes pre-packaged with globalized ego searches. We don't know shit about Canada, but damn it, the second they say something about us we're paying attention :p
See, I say this happens all the time, that the press is constantly being mislead by companies that use actors and other tricks to perpetuate false information, and people just brush it off. "oh Eugene, you and your conspiracy theories".
Well suck it, rational people! I was right! Booyah
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm sure my local Wells Fargo is going to be doing some celebrating when they hear about this. Lord knows they loved it when BofA's "keep the change" shenanigans went down.
First of all, this is the internet. Snark is the name of the game, suck it up.
Secondly, I actually found it interesting how perfectly mirrored Mike's response was. And that says something not about the content of the argument, but the argument itself. Namely that it's not coming from a legal or moral stance, but from a purely ideological one. It serves to highlight that this is the result of the ingrained traditions of the entertainment culture, rather than the result of evidence either scientific or social.
And speaking as someone with experience in the entertainment industry, I can assure you that this is a problem of mindset that she shares with many, many people.
Yeah, exactly! And have you heard about this: it turns out that a lot of murderers in the past have used ice picks to do their dirty work. And yet these ice pick manufacturers are getting a free pass to continue making this dangerous devices that are literally killing people! What kind of world are we living in here, where ice pick manufacturers can just avoid justice while our children die at the hands of psychopaths!
This Blumenthal guy, he knows what's-what. I'm sure once this business with Craigslist is over, he'll go after ice pick manufacturers next. I sure hope so.
Ugh I hate stacked graphs. But why does it look like the government subsidies are the largest factor in the graph, when they're only a 30% contribution as explained in the article?
On the one hand, my own experiments in Facebooking have shown me that unsolicited friending of random people is obnoxiously easy.
On the other hand, organizing those specific people in way that makes it easy to track the relevant things they're doing is just plain obnoxious.
Facebook is tailored toward inanity, not valuable information. Any useful information revealed by a given person on Facebook is likely to become buried in piles of shit before an opportunist has a chance to exploit it. It would require tons of serendipity in order for a burglar to consistently extract valuable information using a social program.
Just keep in mind that many of the more famous burglaries in history required tons of serendipity. "Needing a lot of luck" does not instantly translate to "impossible".
In other words: don't post personal information in a public forum, retards.
And, before people start claiming that we're now saying "the business model is to take vacations with your fans,"
Seeing as how good business models are never tied to the spotlighted product (McDonalds sells Coke, not hamburgers; Xerox sells toner, not copy machines; theaters sell popcorn, not movie tickets; etc), you actually have grounds to not just call those accusations false, but actively disingenuous.
Ironically, that quote is an oblique attack by Newton toward a short-statured colleague who he felt was receiving more credit than he deserved for some discovery or another.
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Imagine if the patent office worked that way. Suddenly the incentive is reversed. It would be in their best interest to *not* approve bad patents, and to err on the side of caution.
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1934 supreme court justice, or 17th century character from a Shakespeare play? Tough call.
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Re: Another problem.
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Well suck it, rational people! I was right! Booyah
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Secondly, I actually found it interesting how perfectly mirrored Mike's response was. And that says something not about the content of the argument, but the argument itself. Namely that it's not coming from a legal or moral stance, but from a purely ideological one. It serves to highlight that this is the result of the ingrained traditions of the entertainment culture, rather than the result of evidence either scientific or social.
And speaking as someone with experience in the entertainment industry, I can assure you that this is a problem of mindset that she shares with many, many people.
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This Blumenthal guy, he knows what's-what. I'm sure once this business with Craigslist is over, he'll go after ice pick manufacturers next. I sure hope so.
For the children.
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On the other hand, organizing those specific people in way that makes it easy to track the relevant things they're doing is just plain obnoxious.
Facebook is tailored toward inanity, not valuable information. Any useful information revealed by a given person on Facebook is likely to become buried in piles of shit before an opportunist has a chance to exploit it. It would require tons of serendipity in order for a burglar to consistently extract valuable information using a social program.
Just keep in mind that many of the more famous burglaries in history required tons of serendipity. "Needing a lot of luck" does not instantly translate to "impossible".
In other words: don't post personal information in a public forum, retards.
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Seeing as how good business models are never tied to the spotlighted product (McDonalds sells Coke, not hamburgers; Xerox sells toner, not copy machines; theaters sell popcorn, not movie tickets; etc), you actually have grounds to not just call those accusations false, but actively disingenuous.
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Re: That's pretty much the mantra these days
Newton was kind of an asshole.
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