I think it will implode because 80% of the people trying to sign up now are just waiting to troll the site itself. The site will spend 95% of its time banning users and the other 5% recovering from crashes.
The multi-millionaire owners of a zillion-dollar entertainment business are bickering over how much to pay their multi-millionaire employees to spit, scratch themselves, and occasionally hit a ball and run a bit? How unfortunate for us all!
AT&T provided DSL to the people I bought my new house from, but when I tried to get it they said "the wires are rusty or something". I have to go across town to use the internet.
Patents have very little to do with innovation. They're just poker chips for legal negotiations. Company A has 1000 patents, company B has only 500, company B pays more to cross-license. If Company C has only 20 patents, they'd better be good ones, and Company C had better not make enemies of A or B.
At every company where I've worked in the last 35 years, the legal team has stressed that we engineers should never, ever, look at a patent. Because if we accidentally do something that is covered by some patent and we "could have known" about it, we're risking triple damages.
I hold about a dozen patents, but there are only a couple that I consider to be really neat ideas. I've created and implemented many more really neat things that were never patented, because the lawyers didn't think it was worth pursuing or the company didn't want to spend the money to file.
Build the thing, solve the problems, get it to market, repeat. You make money selling things, not from patents. One of the signs that a company is headed downhill is when they start suing instead of competing.
Ft. Lauderdale is only 9 feet above (today's) sea level, and the ground is mostly limestone, coral, and mud. Building a tunnel would be more like holding a giant pool noodle under the sea.
Re:
I think it will implode because 80% of the people trying to sign up now are just waiting to troll the site itself. The site will spend 95% of its time banning users and the other 5% recovering from crashes.
(untitled comment)
As long as we're invoking Federal law to justify robbing vehicles, perhaps the Fourth Amendment should get a look in?
Re: Screen Doors
Or electing idiots as Senators.
Re: Not the end; not by a long shot.
That's not cynicism, it's just life experience.
Re: Re: Re:
No, the book, which limited age to 21. The movie bumped to 30.
I think. I'm way past both now, so I don't... something.
/ties an onion to my belt
Easy enough to pass this
Just name it the "Protecting our Children From Pedophiles Act". The text doesn't matter, just the title.
Could be a lot better
Colorado's HB 21-1250 seems really good. It'll be interesting to see what happens when it goes into effect next year.
Thanks!
Keep up the good work, Mike.
Texas Regulators Learned Nothing
I disagree. They learned that they still don't have to bother regulating anything to keep getting those paychecks.
Re: Re: Take Five
My apologies! Thanks for the correction.
(untitled comment)
Seems like Take Two is clearly infringing Dave Brubeck's copyright on the word "take" followed by any non-negative integer. His heirs should sue.
Oh, no!
The multi-millionaire owners of a zillion-dollar entertainment business are bickering over how much to pay their multi-millionaire employees to spit, scratch themselves, and occasionally hit a ball and run a bit? How unfortunate for us all!
Anyway...
a few bad apples
The expression is "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel". It's not "there's one in every bunch", as media reports seem to assume.
One is too many.
isn't "representative" government somewhat obsolete?
It's not obsolete, it's just discontinued.
mexicans could tear down that section of fence
They should probably be careful to do it from beyond rifle range.
Re: Love the competition!
AT&T provided DSL to the people I bought my new house from, but when I tried to get it they said "the wires are rusty or something". I have to go across town to use the internet.
Re:
PETA gets sued by the AI's lawyerbot.
Re:
It would probably be easier to look for those who didn't.
Innovation?
Patents have very little to do with innovation. They're just poker chips for legal negotiations. Company A has 1000 patents, company B has only 500, company B pays more to cross-license. If Company C has only 20 patents, they'd better be good ones, and Company C had better not make enemies of A or B.
At every company where I've worked in the last 35 years, the legal team has stressed that we engineers should never, ever, look at a patent. Because if we accidentally do something that is covered by some patent and we "could have known" about it, we're risking triple damages.
I hold about a dozen patents, but there are only a couple that I consider to be really neat ideas. I've created and implemented many more really neat things that were never patented, because the lawyers didn't think it was worth pursuing or the company didn't want to spend the money to file.
Build the thing, solve the problems, get it to market, repeat. You make money selling things, not from patents. One of the signs that a company is headed downhill is when they start suing instead of competing.
A tunnel in what? Water?
Ft. Lauderdale is only 9 feet above (today's) sea level, and the ground is mostly limestone, coral, and mud. Building a tunnel would be more like holding a giant pool noodle under the sea.
On the plus side, it should be easy to dig.
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