What makes you think you had something when there was a gold standard? Gold isn't intrinsically very useful or valuable. It is valuable because people think it is. Just like other forms of money.
It isn't that I lobby I just acquired the hobby Of working hard to influence them all It's not because they paid me And no, nobody made me, It's just that I'm at Comcast's beck and call A lobbyist I'm not That's simply Tommy rot
Your writing isn't funny I hand out LOADS of money To anyone who'll scream that they agree It's not influence I'm buying (Although I'm really trying!) It's the only way that they'll be friends with me A lobbyist NO WAY I simply preach for pay!
Suppose I take out a trademark for Rear Lee Gude watches, my being Rear Lee Gude, but Amazon has never heard of me. Now suppose a customer of Amazon's, or possibly more than one such customer, is dyslexic and tries to search for a really good watch. Can I sue Amazon for trying to sell these unfortunate individuals really good watches made by other people?
It is high time that judges were held to a reasonable standard.
Re: As prophecized in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Now you've posted that Douglas Adams will have been dissuaded from ever writing anything again!
:D
On a separate note were I an Australian voter I would message my member of parliament to say that I would guarantee to vote for them at the next election if they read and signed the non-disclosure then stood up in Parliament and read out the whole document. I believe that Australian Parliamentary proceedings are, like UK ones, privileged in such regards. You cannot sue an MP for what he says there, even if he signed a promise not to.
Actually Edison's electric light patents were far from clear, and also probably not inventive as it described nothing more than obvious improvements on already existing ideas, both patented and not. His team didn't discover the filament that worked until well after the patent was filed and indeed in other countries the primacy of his inventions for the purposes patents was not accepted. The patent system has been broken for MANY years, James Watt and Matthew Boulton used very dubious patents to stifle any and all improvements in steam engines for decades, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent has long been mired in controversy, Marconi with Radio and countless other examples keep cropping up. These current patents are egregiously bad because they clearly derive from complete non-inventions but that's nothing new!
You say you have troubles as great as my own On the surface this seems to be true But you see all my troubles all happen to me But yours only happen to you
Or in grammatical terms, there are irregular verbs
I enact necessary environmental legislation You enact regulations that unfairly favour local companies They want to steal from me
There would seem to be a large number of "slam dunk" convictions available to the FBI and law enforcement agencies. For perjury, or will the desire to obtain easy convictions now evaporate?
All speech is free, if you agree with everything I think And never have opinions of your own, Then any day you'll have your say and I shan't even blink You'll find that perfect tolerance is shown, But if instead you use your head and think things for yourself, I shall ensure a large policeman calls. True liberty applies to me, all else stays on the shelf, No other rights pertain within these walls. One Man One Vote, I am that man, I do these things because I can!
If the student's name is to be made public for playing a stupid prank then the school principal, the school head of IT and the teacher in question must all be named too so we can see what sort of incompetent idiots are in charge of educating young Americans. We could then start a couple of watch lists "People who should never be allowed to teach or work in contact with young people" and "People who must never be allowed to work in any way connected with law enforcement" This could also be a shot in the arm for the American paper ink and pen manufacturing industries ...
What is REALLY worrying is that had this guy shot an unarmed teenager in a hooded jacket who was walking down a street after dark rather than having a photograph taken with a celebrity he'd be in the clear!
As a British subject I strongly object to the University of Kentucky infringing on our will known and historically important UK mark. We are quite capable of our own stupidity without someone else trying to usurp our interests. Where do we go to sue ...
Science almost never says "this is true" that isn't how it works. Science works the other way about, you make an hypothesis based on evidence and then you attempt to disprove it. Most people however are not scientists they want to know if x is x and y is y so journalists, being people selling their views to people like to say "Scientists tell us ..."
The reason it is vital that papers are available for everyone to read is that the paper should contain the evidence and the reasoning so you can judge for yourself.
"That does not seem like a particularly intelligent way to govern or to legislate."
I've never yet in all my reading of history come across an example of any state finding an intelligent way to legislate. People in power, on the whole, tend to act in their own perceived interest, and they cannot believe anyone else does otherwise.
Many people have started to actually lock their doors! How can the police be expected to keep us all safe if they cannot walk in unannounced and check that we are being good citizens?
I want a separate plumbers' copyright, every time someone new comes to a house and uses a tap or the loo they should make a payment to the plumber that installed it. Further, you should not be allowed to use the facilities the plumber installed for anything new without paying. Cooking a new dish? The cooker installer should get a royalty, reading a new book after sunset? That's money for the electrician, before that, pay the glazier!
Sounds to me like criminal damage and in any reasonable jurisdiction would result in jail time for Sony execs, too bad there isn't such a jurisdiction ...
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Re: Re: Correction
On the post: Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'
I just acquired the hobby
Of working hard to influence them all
It's not because they paid me
And no, nobody made me,
It's just that I'm at Comcast's beck and call
A lobbyist I'm not
That's simply Tommy rot
Your writing isn't funny
I hand out LOADS of money
To anyone who'll scream that they agree
It's not influence I'm buying
(Although I'm really trying!)
It's the only way that they'll be friends with me
A lobbyist NO WAY
I simply preach for pay!
On the post: 9th Circuit: Amazon's Search Results Too Useful, Must Be Trademark Infringement
It is high time that judges were held to a reasonable standard.
On the post: Top FBI Official Says Tech Companies Need To 'Prevent Encryption Above All Else'
Never mind shredders
We must ban matches, apparently if you burn a letter no-one can read it afterwards.
Oh and foreign languages, many people don't even speak God's good English how can we be expected to understand that?
Oh and whispering!
For pity's sake when will they ban whispering, we must think of the children ...
sounds of very small brain exploding ...
On the post: WikiLeaks Wants To Crowdsource $100K Reward For Leak Of TPP Text, As Doubts Grow About Agreement's Value
Re: As prophecized in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
:D
On a separate note were I an Australian voter I would message my member of parliament to say that I would guarantee to vote for them at the next election if they read and signed the non-disclosure then stood up in Parliament and read out the whole document. I believe that Australian Parliamentary proceedings are, like UK ones, privileged in such regards. You cannot sue an MP for what he says there, even if he signed a promise not to.
On the post: Why Does The US Patent Office Keep Approving Clearly Ridiculous Patents?
Re: long way since Edison
The patent system has been broken for MANY years, James Watt and Matthew Boulton used very dubious patents to stifle any and all improvements in steam engines for decades, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent has long been mired in controversy, Marconi with Radio and countless other examples keep cropping up. These current patents are egregiously bad because they clearly derive from complete non-inventions but that's nothing new!
On the post: Corporate Sovereignty Trumps National Laws; Here's How The US Thinks It Can Get Around That
Re: Re:
You say you have troubles as great as my own
On the surface this seems to be true
But you see all my troubles all happen to me
But yours only happen to you
Or in grammatical terms, there are irregular verbs
I enact necessary environmental legislation
You enact regulations that unfairly favour local companies
They want to steal from me
On the post: Report: 'Nearly Every' FBI Forensics Expert Gave Flawed Testimony In 'Almost All Trials' Over A 20-Year Period
And now ...
For perjury, or will the desire to obtain easy convictions now evaporate?
On the post: Student Sues College After Campus Cops Demand He Get A Free Speech 'Permit' Before Handing Out Fliers
A new college anthem ..
And never have opinions of your own,
Then any day you'll have your say and I shan't even blink
You'll find that perfect tolerance is shown,
But if instead you use your head and think things for yourself,
I shall ensure a large policeman calls.
True liberty applies to me, all else stays on the shelf,
No other rights pertain within these walls.
One Man One Vote, I am that man,
I do these things because I can!
On the post: Teen Changes Wallpaper On Teacher's Computer; Gets Charged With A Felony By Sheriff's Office
Fair is fair
We could then start a couple of watch lists
"People who should never be allowed to teach or work in contact with young people"
and
"People who must never be allowed to work in any way connected with law enforcement"
This could also be a shot in the arm for the American paper ink and pen manufacturing industries ...
On the post: State Trooper Disciplined For Taking Photo With Person With 'Well-Known Criminal Background'
Interesting Value system
On the post: University Of Kentucky Disputes 40-0 Trademark Owned By Someone Else While 2 Wins Away From Achieving That Record
Speaking of silly trademarks ...
Where do we go to sue ...
On the post: Elsevier Appears To Be Slurping Up Open Access Research, And Charging People To Access It
Re: Re: Re: Re: It's time
Most people however are not scientists they want to know if x is x and y is y so journalists, being people selling their views to people like to say "Scientists tell us ..."
The reason it is vital that papers are available for everyone to read is that the paper should contain the evidence and the reasoning so you can judge for yourself.
On the post: Keurig Competitor Offers Free Hack Workaround For Keurig's Absurd Java Bean DRM
Drink tea!
On the post: Less Than A Week After Failing Last Attempt, UK Lords Try To Sneak Through Snooper's Charter Once Again
Intelligent legislators?
I've never yet in all my reading of history come across an example of any state finding an intelligent way to legislate. People in power, on the whole, tend to act in their own perceived interest, and they cannot believe anyone else does otherwise.
On the post: Lagunitas Drops Trademark Suit Against Sierra Nevada After Public Backlash
Re:
But they spelt IPA the same way, if they changed that it would solve the confusion ...
:D
On the post: New York's Top Prosecutor Says We Need New Laws To Fight iPhone/Android Encryption
Far far worse
There ought to be a law!
On the post: Actors Unions Come Out In Support Of Separate Actors Copyright To Support Innocence Of Muslims Actress
Plumbers!
On the post: Amazon Fire TV Firmware Update Bricks Rooted Devices, Prevents Rollback To Previous Firmware Versions
On the post: Shocking: Sony Learned No Password Lessons After The 2011 PSN Hack
Re:
Everyone can look up on the interwebs how to make a tumbler lock. But best of luck to you in opening a 7 lever one without the key!
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