Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 11 Jun 2013 @ 9:21am
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I'm curious where all the Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake killers are at
Right here and as soon as I find a castle full of steel doors or a futuristic place where I can walk through walls if I hit the right spot I will no doubt go totally postal and kill everyone in the place. Now where did I put that BFG9000......
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 10 Jun 2013 @ 8:44am
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You have one absolute constraint you are required to work under: no causing massive gridlock.
Really? I suppose the US may be different but in the UK causing massive gridlock seems to be a primary function of roadworks.
Indeed in urban areas most road alterations seem to be aimed specifically at slowing, disrupting or discouraging traffic from it's already stately crawl and often perfectly fine roads are dug up to accomplish this. We might at least get some power generation while they're at it...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 8 Jun 2013 @ 8:55am
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but I'm not concerned enough about it to fight for the assholes that are dragging our political discourse into the gutter.
Whatever the "quality" (or not) of the ad, if you don't fight for the assholes' rights to free speech too then you don't have free speech period.
If you want free speech, it can't be "free except for the stuff I don't like".
"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
"Andrew Shepherd" - The American President by Aaron Sorkin
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 8 Jun 2013 @ 8:47am
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You think that goes along to the same tune there?
For the record I'll say it's definitely not the same tune as I don't want to fall foul of a copyright lawsuit alleging a derivative work of a song I've never heard in my life as far as I know... but use whatever tune you think fits :-)
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 8 Jun 2013 @ 6:08am
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Get off your I dislike Faux and fight for things that matter to our liberties.
Maybe I was reading a different article but I didn't get "fox sucks" so much as "look how broken copyright law is when a news station can use it to censor criticism", which seems exactly about liberties to me.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 8 Jun 2013 @ 6:04am
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What's really needed is a compress/show entire rest of thread toggle that pops up with the 'this post has been hidden' message.
^^^ THIS ^^^ Oh yes please!
In fact a commenting system that would allow a standard +/- expand/compress for the comment trees would be totally fabulous!
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Jun 2013 @ 10:00am
Re: more dissembling by Masnick
It’s about property [...snip, because it's basically all the same...] children and our communities
I congratulate you, sir, on the finest piece of meaningless hyperbole this side of an election campaign. I stand in awe of someone who can type so much and say so little and take my hat of at your skills at obfuscation too.
Prior to eBay v Mercexchange, small entities had a viable chance at commercializing their inventions. If the defendant was found guilty, an injunction was most always issued.
See, right there you contradict your own point - either that or you have a strange definition of "small entities". It's always been pretty unlikely that a "small entity" can afford to fight a patent battle so the patent system has always been vastly in favour of large corporations no matter what the outcome in court.
Speaking of paying people for what's "theirs"... isn't it traditional to pay for advertising space?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Jun 2013 @ 9:00am
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For that matter, as others have mentioned, the "sitting on it" patent process no longer works.
Really? You're referring to the mandatory licensing of patents "for a fair fee" mentioned elsewhere? If "sitting on it" no longer works, why do we have a boatload of patent trolls and a gazillion lawsuits (e.g. the smartphone thicket) going on over patents that haven't been licensed?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Jun 2013 @ 8:48am
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No they honor ALL their treaties...just ask the Native Americans...
You don't even need to reach that far back into history... Try asking Antigua.
This kind of "But our hands are tied! (...but we'll happily slip the cuffs whenever it suits us)" hypocrisy is one of the more disgusting things about the playground bully that is the US government.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Jun 2013 @ 7:08am
Really?
but here it looks like he was flat out lying directly to Congress. Usually, Congress doesn't like that.
Really? By outside observation they actively encourage being lied to for stuff like this. It's when it can be proved on prime time that it's a lie that it becomes a problem.
Little regard though I have for the intellect of most politicians, they can't really be dumb enough to swallow this garbage so the only possible conclusion is that the requirement is not truth but that the lie be plausible so that they (the politicians) are not responsible and can wring their hands dramatically at the appropriate juncture.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 6 Jun 2013 @ 10:32am
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they could use it, but would have to pay a "reasonable royalty"
Hmmm, so now one can pay several hundred thousand in legal fees to determine a "fair fee" that may also be on the "impractical for anyone trying to get a business off the ground" level? Yes, I can see how that would be far less hindering...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 6 Jun 2013 @ 9:29am
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And let's not forget the massive damage to innovation James Watt did with his patents.
The man who, more or less single-handedly, delayed the industrial revolution? A good one to pick up on and a brilliant example since the before and after is a more obvious contrast than the gazillion similar instances of delayed innovation since.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Jun 2013 @ 2:26pm
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so it's in their best long-term interests
Well maybe I'm a cynic (well I am but I meant in this case...), but neither corporations nor governments seem to recognise "long term" as part of a valid strategy. After all, most of the evidence seems to point to free-er markets being better for both increasing innovation/progress and the profits available in a sector, but governments have been systematically locking down markets on behalf of corporations for decades...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Jun 2013 @ 10:28am
Gosh, what a shock!
Go down to the level of a sheriff's department, and he could potentially argue that the prohibition on copyrighting works created by government don't apply
Hmm, I wonder if this kind of thing wouldn't be such a problem if one had to actually register a copyright on things... it's almost like copyright law has been broken somehow.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Jun 2013 @ 8:22am
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Do politicians ever learn?
Yes, if you pay them enough to do so... Now all we need is someone unfeasibly altruistic with billions spare to "educate" them. Sadly it turns out such "people" are rapacious corporations for whom "altruistic" means "We get really good tax breaks for doing charitable stuff".
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Jun 2013 @ 8:16am
Re: Is it something in the water?
whereas Apple is big enough, and has enough money, to fight back if they want to
Would that that were true, but I can't see them wanting to. That kind of money is spare change to Apple and is also rather less than the cost of the gazillion lawyers they'd pay to fight it (which probably had something to do with the figure chosen to claim for). Add to that the fact that they'll simply pass the cost on to consumers so they come out ahead anyway and why would they even want to fight it?
I'd say this is classic French (and it is), but none of the western governments think any different having been comprehensively bullied and brainwashed for decades by the US government on behalf of the "copyright industries".
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Solar road
Indeed in urban areas most road alterations seem to be aimed specifically at slowing, disrupting or discouraging traffic from it's already stately crawl and often perfectly fine roads are dug up to accomplish this. We might at least get some power generation while they're at it...
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If you want free speech, it can't be "free except for the stuff I don't like".
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onna beach it gets filled with sand which
makes me wanna throw it in a deep ditch...
*shrug* you didn't say it had to be good...
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In fact a commenting system that would allow a standard +/- expand/compress for the comment trees would be totally fabulous!
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Re: more dissembling by Masnick
See, right there you contradict your own point - either that or you have a strange definition of "small entities". It's always been pretty unlikely that a "small entity" can afford to fight a patent battle so the patent system has always been vastly in favour of large corporations no matter what the outcome in court.
Speaking of paying people for what's "theirs"... isn't it traditional to pay for advertising space?
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Re: Re: Ridiculous
This kind of "But our hands are tied! (...but we'll happily slip the cuffs whenever it suits us)" hypocrisy is one of the more disgusting things about the playground bully that is the US government.
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Really?
Little regard though I have for the intellect of most politicians, they can't really be dumb enough to swallow this garbage so the only possible conclusion is that the requirement is not truth but that the lie be plausible so that they (the politicians) are not responsible and can wring their hands dramatically at the appropriate juncture.
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Gosh, what a shock!
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On the post: France Tells Apple To Pay Giant 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax On iPads
Re: Is it something in the water?
I'd say this is classic French (and it is), but none of the western governments think any different having been comprehensively bullied and brainwashed for decades by the US government on behalf of the "copyright industries".
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