...will you please pay property tax on it? According to its perceived value (which, by the way, will also be put into the calculations regarding damages from illegal copying...).
Historical reenactors will have a problem. Jousting, like these do, http://www.orderofthecrescent.com/ in historical armour? Illegal. These things might be hardened, in which case they are resistant against small arms fire. My own armour sure is.
Collectors? Museums? Sorry, their exhibits are now illegal. 15th to 17th century armour is most probably resistant against small arms fire. And WW1 trench armour maybe even against rifles.
Celebrities and their bodyguards? Sorry, they won't be able to wear armour.
Neither can people that do money transfers for banks.
And probably civilians that work with explosives could neither. People from mining or tunnelling companies and such.
I'm pretty sure I missed a lot of professions that depend on some kind of ballistic body protection.
The creationists from the school board were probably very distressed about somebody shooting evidence for intelligent design. The police meanwhile didn't know what the word "cretinism" meant and denied any involvement with intelligence, designed or not.
This is nothing less than a ban on scientific discourse, and also, a ban on participation in open source projects.
Plus of course, it's a license to kill the public domain. Everyone can just republish something either under the public domain or under a free license and gets a new right on it.
As expected: The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. -- The Economist, July 26, 1851
We all pay, with goods whose cost consist to a third of a fee to the Eponians and to local lawyers.
We all pay, with innovation disrupted, and slowed down.
We all pay, with monopolist incumbents destroying smaller competition.
"The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just." -- The Economist, July 26, 1851
This is very much the way in which western nations are going
Yep, "This is very much the way in which western nations are going". And there's a word for what "This" is. It's called fascism. And it's still fascism when "everyone does it".
"Air Traffic Management", "ENFOPOL", "anti-personnel-mines"... And that's not new. The whole ENFOPOL-shenanigan was basically ratified by the commission for Agriculture and Fisheries. I think something on copyright as well.
If you think you've got something that you can't get through the appropriate commission, try the one for Agriculture and Fisheries.
Indeed, perhaps 99% of all software-patents were granted illegally. But there are actually software patents that really qualify in the United States[1].
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Re: Hawking
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if copyright is property, no questions asked...
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How stupid can you get?
Collectors? Museums? Sorry, their exhibits are now illegal. 15th to 17th century armour is most probably resistant against small arms fire. And WW1 trench armour maybe even against rifles.
Celebrities and their bodyguards? Sorry, they won't be able to wear armour.
Neither can people that do money transfers for banks.
And probably civilians that work with explosives could neither. People from mining or tunnelling companies and such.
I'm pretty sure I missed a lot of professions that depend on some kind of ballistic body protection.
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Anonymity is prerequisite for democracy
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Bullshit Jobs and Clueless Lawmakers
http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
This here too:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/sopa-debate-highlights-congresss-ignorance-38666/
As are recent phenomena like "creationism".
There's a culture developing, where knowledge, science and craft are de-valued.
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Re: Cyber!
Well, this dystopian future we're running into sounds very much like a William Gibson novel.
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Re: Re:
> next guys in charge may not be as good
This is exactly what already happened after 9/11.
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Re: some infringement? no such thing
Ideas are not copyrightable.
It _might_ infringe some trademark of Nintendo, but that would remain to be seen.
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A Ban on Scientific discourse
Plus of course, it's a license to kill the public domain. Everyone can just republish something either under the public domain or under a free license and gets a new right on it.
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Re: Re: Patent selling
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Re:
The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. -- The Economist, July 26, 1851
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Re:
We all pay, with goods whose cost consist to a third of a fee to the Eponians and to local lawyers.
We all pay, with innovation disrupted, and slowed down.
We all pay, with monopolist incumbents destroying smaller competition.
"The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just." -- The Economist, July 26, 1851
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Re: Re: Godwining indeed.
In fact, fascism is on the rise, world-wide.
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This is very much the way in which western nations are going
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Re: Smoke and Mirrors
http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXV/EU/02/93/EU_29311/imfname_10474926.pdf
"Air Traffic Management", "ENFOPOL", "anti-personnel-mines"...
And that's not new. The whole ENFOPOL-shenanigan was basically ratified by the commission for Agriculture and Fisheries. I think something on copyright as well.
If you think you've got something that you can't get through the appropriate commission, try the one for Agriculture and Fisheries.
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Re:
http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-moby-dick-support-device/
Of course, this kind of reasoning was already completely bonkers with the player piano.
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Re: Question
I think PoIR has written something about it.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2010092621054289
[1] In Europe, all software-patents are explicitly illegal.
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The main problem is actually software security vulnerabilites and backdoors
Apart from bugs, misguided secret service and law enforcement demands will either constitute or induce the biggest threats to autonomous vehicles.
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