Normally I'm against simple patents like that, but I think I'd support that one being upheld. It'd give the medical community a wonderful incentive to reinvent the lung.
Internal combustion engines weren't designing around steam engines, they were improving upon the concept. The differences are, first, that if internal combustion engines were invented now the steam engine companies would sue their inventor for having an engine that uses heat-induced expansion to move pistons, and second, internal combustion engines are superior regarding power, size, and longevity, meaning there's a clear incentive to develop them beyond merely not being allowed to make a steam engine. You can also tell the difference because designing around something only happens when that something is protected by patents, which wasn't the case with steam engines at the time that internal combustion engines began to pick up steam.
The other problem with your post is the assumption that people only innovate when they don't have something that's already good enough. If that were true gas lamps and electric lighting would never have been created, because torches were not patented and therefore there was no reason to design around them. The abacus was around millennia ago so why did anyone see the need to invent computers? Do you think ironclads were invented because someone had patented wood boats, or guns because someone patented the sword? Better things are created because they are better, not because mediocrity is sometimes illegal.
And when you are a blah blah blah then people just ignore you. Not being in their field just gives them an easier out. If people don't want to believe you they'll find some reason not to.
Resources are spent making smartphones do things that smartphones already can do instead of helping smartphones do things that smartphones can not currently do. I'm not sure what the proper terminology for that would be, but invention as opposed to innovation works as well as any.
My God, you're right! Thank you for helping me to notice my own flaws, so that now I can work on correcting them. I'll go get on Kickstarter right away so I can give my money to artists!
Oh, wait, never mind, I was already doing that. Or did you just mean the artists that you think should be paid?
Correct in what respect? That you can't get things you want at a push of a button? I push buttons to get things I want all the time. There are even services such as Paypal dedicated to reducing the number of buttons I need to push each time. That creativity is prohibitively expensive? I have less personal experience in that, but half my iPod is songs people made with their own equipment for the hell of it and released freely on Youtube, Mediafire or Soundcloud, so I doubt it costs that much. That creativity is dropping off? I'll admit I like a lot of the stuff from the 70's and 80's, but there aren't enough hours in the day for me to keep up with everything that's happening now. It's so ridiculous that I've found myself feeling nostalgic for things that happened a couple months earlier. So where, exactly, is he correct?
You realize that those categories don't exclude each other, right? 90% buying music online and 60% downloading stuff illegally doesn't add up to 150%, it adds up to between 50% and 60% doing both.
The original story is still out there and won't go away, any more than showing a birth certificate convinced those people that Obama isn't Kenyan. The only way deletion has a chance of working is if no one read it before it went down. Besides, the people that believe those things and think they matter were never going to vote Democrat anyway.
This is just another exhibit showing how the old gatekeepers think they're still in charge of the gate. In past eras, if they said a story didn't exist, it didn't exist. They haven't yet adapted to the idea that people remember and spread things on their own now.
That said, this is a pretty terrible story. Even if there was a travel advisory for the area the girl went to, those advisories generally come with the assumption that tourists won't have armed guards. It makes perfect sense for someone with Secret Service protection to be less concerned about a random shooting or mugging or whatever. Whoever read something into this has lost their conspiracy privileges.
The whole of the Pirate Bay is less than a gigabyte, so having a copy on each drone would be trivial. Cutting it off in that case would likely require cutting off the Internet in the areas surrounding the drones.
You aren't thinking creatively enough. The proof that they're willing to do anything to pirate will be when they replace some of their less necessary organs with the hardware required to host a site.
Saying that you hate someone might lead to what happened. Filming without consent is, I'm pretty sure, illegal, but there simply aren't enough suicides relative to the number of people humiliated annually for this to qualify as negligent. Get him on the things that are actually crimes, and only those things.
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The other problem with your post is the assumption that people only innovate when they don't have something that's already good enough. If that were true gas lamps and electric lighting would never have been created, because torches were not patented and therefore there was no reason to design around them. The abacus was around millennia ago so why did anyone see the need to invent computers? Do you think ironclads were invented because someone had patented wood boats, or guns because someone patented the sword? Better things are created because they are better, not because mediocrity is sometimes illegal.
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Oh, wait, never mind, I was already doing that. Or did you just mean the artists that you think should be paid?
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That said, this is a pretty terrible story. Even if there was a travel advisory for the area the girl went to, those advisories generally come with the assumption that tourists won't have armed guards. It makes perfect sense for someone with Secret Service protection to be less concerned about a random shooting or mugging or whatever. Whoever read something into this has lost their conspiracy privileges.
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