Yeah, how dare Mike ask you to actually cite some facts rather than spouting your same old tired propaganda. Assuming of course that there are any facts that would support your mind-numbing "Patent Thieves" stance...
I have a problem with a company believing that I really should pay for Asteroids or Battlezone... AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN, in fact everytime I go to a new system. Even though the code (ROM) stays the same, I should pay up for the privilege of playing it on my phone now? Give me a break. I'll help the emulator developers instead, thanks.
Besides, with all the quarters I pumped into the arcade machines, I probably paid the developer costs single-handedly.
Most geographic locations have a maximum of three, count them THREE internet choices, not types mind you (although they usually match types: Cable, DSL, satellite), but there will only be three companies providing service to a particular location, due to govt. granted monopolies. Such bullshit.
"""I don't know about everyone else, but there have been a few times I've been more upbeat online than I've been in real life."""
That is an excellent point. I don't have a problem with the profile, even the private parts, being used for discovery, but I don't think that everything expressed there should automatically be assumed to be true; heck, I'm not even sure that "Internet" sources should even necessarily be admissible due to the flexible(alterable) nature of digital information. I don't think courts should even accept photographs as evidence anymore unless they have a "photoshop" analyst that is willing to state under oath that a picture has not been altered.
"""Kids aren't as stupid as people like you seem to think, and if you bother to take the time to explain things to them (like money/cost, gifts and their context, and the meaning of the word 'no')."""
Floyd, for the most part I agree with what you're saying, but I don't agree with the statement above. By providing explanations to your kids, you are encouraging them to seek explanations for other decisions from other adults (like teachers, for instance). The items you noted (money, gifts, etc.) should be discussed, but not in the context of an explanation as to why you're not going to buy them the Super-Awesome-Whatever they just saw on t.v.
Generally speaking, the answer should be "no" and the answer to "whyyyyyyy" should be "because I said so".
You are correct of course, there already has been an increase in legislation to fight infringement. But as many commenters have noted, that bird has flown the coop, Pandora's box has been opened, Humpty Dumpty has been cracked, [your favorite analogy here], and basically the government and *AA groups should move on because it's just not that big a deal anyway.
Unless you're a popcorn farmer, then you're just screwed.
"""Of course they can read it-- they just have to pay for it."""
First part correct, "they can read it" at many many other websites that don't put up idiotic paywalls. Nobody is saying the FT shouldn't try to make money, but a paywall is doing it wrong.
Second part is incorrect because as I noted, you can go almost anywhere and read the information without paying for it.
p.s. News (aka information) has essentially become an infinite good. Deal with it.
"""But then there were a bunch of links claiming (ironically in this thread) that I was part of a Jewish banker conspiracy aimed at overthrowing sovereign governments and installing a world government plutocracy."""
Furthermore, as to #2, saying that someone is taking care of Jewish workers would not be anti-semitic, it would be pro-semitic. Or something like that.
(Full disclosure: I also have, and probably will in the future, texted while driving.)
"""Anyone that tells me I'm unsafe can look at my 16 year driving record and consequently eat me."""
I don't need to look at your driving record, it is completely irrelevant. Trying to type out a text message while driving is basically inherently unsafe. If you do it, you are an unsafe driver. Also, I decline to eat you, thanks anyway.
Texting almost always involves: taking hands off the steering wheel, taking eyes off the road. Now explain to me how you're a borg and you only use one hand and you don't have to look at your phone to write and send the message. Congratulations, you are in a minority so small that I wouldn't even begin to try to calculate the percentage.
Bottom line: it's an unsafe practice, many many of us do it, and most of us agree that there could/should be a better way to answer and send messages without disrupting our driving.
"""How are search engines to pull down content that does not reside on their servers?"""
A search engine cannot pull down content, of course, but they can "refuse" to list the result in their search returns. I gather this is what is being requested. This would effectively "take down" the content since nobody can basically guess at a random URL to view the disputed content.
Re: Toyota settled the case the day the ITC was to begin its investigation
"""And why would they do that !!!, possibly an investigation was something toyota did not want to happen ?"""
Because the whole patent system is so FUBAR'd there was a chance that this company (which it would seem never PRODUCED anything) might get an injunction, which would almost certainly be more expensive than just paying this stupid company to go away. It does not in anyway imply an admission of "guilt". In fact, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to cut their losses, and if that means paying up to a patent troll, then they will pay up to a patent troll.
It's (really not) nice to see you being the usual apologist for patent trolls.
"""Patents are issued to the inventor, meaning the first to make a discovery. They then own the technology."""
What a moronic statement.
Also, there was no "technology". There was a "method of" or a "way to" or a "system whereby" or some other equally vague and idiotic statement. Unless Paice can show an ACTUAL WORKING prototype of their "technology" and then show that Toyota's stuff is an extremely close match, then there should be no case.
"""To me, intellectual property and regular property deserve the same protections for the author/creator."""
What does 'deserve' have to do with it? We're just talking about physical realities here. It's difficult (and expensive) for me to precisely replicate a [car, chair, pizza, human]. Therefore, those things will not be copied any time soon. But as soon as someone invents a [car, chair, pizza, human] digitizer, you are GOING to see copies of those things proliferate and laws be damned.
It's not difficult (anymore) or expensive to duplicate a [book, song, movie, picture] and so those things get duplicated.
Get over your inane fascination with laws (yes, I read you are a law student, more's the pity) and just take a look at reality.
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Besides, with all the quarters I pumped into the arcade machines, I probably paid the developer costs single-handedly.
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Most geographic locations have a maximum of three, count them THREE internet choices, not types mind you (although they usually match types: Cable, DSL, satellite), but there will only be three companies providing service to a particular location, due to govt. granted monopolies. Such bullshit.
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That could be an informal definition of court "discovery".
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And give me a freaking break on the McDonald's coffee case, that particular McDonald's did wrong, she only wanted her medical expenses paid, move on!
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That is an excellent point. I don't have a problem with the profile, even the private parts, being used for discovery, but I don't think that everything expressed there should automatically be assumed to be true; heck, I'm not even sure that "Internet" sources should even necessarily be admissible due to the flexible(alterable) nature of digital information. I don't think courts should even accept photographs as evidence anymore unless they have a "photoshop" analyst that is willing to state under oath that a picture has not been altered.
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Floyd, for the most part I agree with what you're saying, but I don't agree with the statement above. By providing explanations to your kids, you are encouraging them to seek explanations for other decisions from other adults (like teachers, for instance). The items you noted (money, gifts, etc.) should be discussed, but not in the context of an explanation as to why you're not going to buy them the Super-Awesome-Whatever they just saw on t.v.
Generally speaking, the answer should be "no" and the answer to "whyyyyyyy" should be "because I said so".
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Unless you're a popcorn farmer, then you're just screwed.
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Re: Why not link to them?
First part correct, "they can read it" at many many other websites that don't put up idiotic paywalls. Nobody is saying the FT shouldn't try to make money, but a paywall is doing it wrong.
Second part is incorrect because as I noted, you can go almost anywhere and read the information without paying for it.
p.s. News (aka information) has essentially become an infinite good. Deal with it.
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Yeah, sorry about that.
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"""Anyone that tells me I'm unsafe can look at my 16 year driving record and consequently eat me."""
I don't need to look at your driving record, it is completely irrelevant. Trying to type out a text message while driving is basically inherently unsafe. If you do it, you are an unsafe driver. Also, I decline to eat you, thanks anyway.
Texting almost always involves: taking hands off the steering wheel, taking eyes off the road. Now explain to me how you're a borg and you only use one hand and you don't have to look at your phone to write and send the message. Congratulations, you are in a minority so small that I wouldn't even begin to try to calculate the percentage.
Bottom line: it's an unsafe practice, many many of us do it, and most of us agree that there could/should be a better way to answer and send messages without disrupting our driving.
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A search engine cannot pull down content, of course, but they can "refuse" to list the result in their search returns. I gather this is what is being requested. This would effectively "take down" the content since nobody can basically guess at a random URL to view the disputed content.
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Re: Toyota settled the case the day the ITC was to begin its investigation
Because the whole patent system is so FUBAR'd there was a chance that this company (which it would seem never PRODUCED anything) might get an injunction, which would almost certainly be more expensive than just paying this stupid company to go away. It does not in anyway imply an admission of "guilt". In fact, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to cut their losses, and if that means paying up to a patent troll, then they will pay up to a patent troll.
It's (really not) nice to see you being the usual apologist for patent trolls.
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Re: Please write about something else
What a moronic statement.
Also, there was no "technology". There was a "method of" or a "way to" or a "system whereby" or some other equally vague and idiotic statement. Unless Paice can show an ACTUAL WORKING prototype of their "technology" and then show that Toyota's stuff is an extremely close match, then there should be no case.
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"""To me, intellectual property and regular property deserve the same protections for the author/creator."""
What does 'deserve' have to do with it? We're just talking about physical realities here. It's difficult (and expensive) for me to precisely replicate a [car, chair, pizza, human]. Therefore, those things will not be copied any time soon. But as soon as someone invents a [car, chair, pizza, human] digitizer, you are GOING to see copies of those things proliferate and laws be damned.
It's not difficult (anymore) or expensive to duplicate a [book, song, movie, picture] and so those things get duplicated.
Get over your inane fascination with laws (yes, I read you are a law student, more's the pity) and just take a look at reality.
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