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Whats with this protesting European Patenting Stuff?
Doctor V:
Its not even about having so much power you can eliminate competition in a heartbeat anymore. All a company needs is to own a patent for their own business model and the act of competeing with that company becomes illegal. No exaggeration here, its that simple. Lets say you wanted to set up an internet auction site, thinking you could do it and give users a better deal than ebay does, guess what, if your American, can can't, its illegal cause some guy owns online auctions. And Ebay got sued for 35 million dollars cause of it. Read more. Maybe you want to sell things online and making it easy for users to use by storing their info in cookies...if your American and you did that you'd get your ass sued off. Amazon owns doing that, youd have to ask their permission and probably pay them royalties if you wanted to sell things online and keep user info in cookies. Read more.
Better start a business doing something else. And you better do it quick too, cause considering how vague and far reaching many of these patents are, pretty soon there will be really nothing left thats not covered by someone's patent. Sound crazy to you yet? Some people get a crazy patent of a business model or two, never lift a finger in doing anything with it, and wait for someone else to get rich off it so they can sue them to hell. Sick, no?
We all suffer from this, we have to pay Amazon prices when who knows, another company might have been able to compete with them and bring their prices down. This is just a start, its going to get a whole lot worse from here. Now if I was in Europe, I would be in flames trying to keep this shit from happening too.
Now there's alot alot alot more to be said about the issue. I suggest you read up on it when your done reading about Adam Smith and capitalism, and them form a more educated opinion before bringing it back here.
;) V
jasonlane:
quote: Now if I was in Europe, I would be in flames trying to keep this shit from happening too.
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We are :mad: :mad: :mad:
Fortunately nearly all of our politicians are also against it.
Calum:
money talks though.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/kapor.html
i'll be posting regular updates on www.promote-opensource.org if and when updates re: the european software patents issue become available.
hm_murdock:
The GTO and Charger were from a different era. 15 cents a gallon for gas, with 25 gallon tanks. You can drive across the country on less than $75 of gas.
As for pickups, I didn't say pickups. I'm talking about Suburbans and Tahoes and Ford Excretions. The wastes. Stuff the size of the S-Blazer/Trailblazer and smaller, shit, those things typically have rather efficient V4s and V6s that have enough pep while keeping city MPG in the high teens and highway driving in the mid 20s (remember, around here, highway MPG means something, because our cities don't cover hundreds of square miles and a "highway" moves at 70MPH, not 5 :-D
Splurging a little doh for pleasure is one thing, I don't see people who own late '60s muscle and show cars driving them all the time. However, I do see cheesy soccer moms with their 454 V8-powered 'Burban driving to the grocery store when a hatchback would do just fine.
But then, I guess all of us dudes here in the midwest that are tired of spending a day's worth of work at the pumps are just cheesy, backward old "hicks" or "rednecks" because we have quaint ideas like buying gas-electric, or electric automobiles, or driving motorcycles. Having a bicycle or moped for in-town driving or even... dare I say... WALKING?!!?
I guess I should return my 32MPG V6 Accord and go buy a big SUV and slam down a few barrels of oil like the were cans of Mountain Dew.
I bet you'll vote him in for another term, eh?
I'm not. I'm voting for Jean-Baptiste Immanuel Zorg in 04.
Remember, guys... write-in Zorg/Dallas in 04
[ September 05, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]
Faust:
quote:saw the protest I didn't read about it, cus I don't care.
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quote:do u think martin luther was never beaten by violent cops? Yet they still didn't get violent.
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The protestors trampled by horses werent getting violent you fuck arse. Bit hard when a horse just broke your ribs. What I said was that horses will balk and throw their riders if they are being made to charge at a group of people who by the way WERE SITTING DOWN PEACEFULLY AT THE TIME.
quote:Why don't current protestors know this and know the solution?
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They do you retard. Unfortunately people like you get shown scenes of a few violent protestors over and over again and associate that with all protestors because you are too fucking apathetic and weak to go out and see the real world.
quote:if one company has so much power that they can eliminate another company in a heart beat... so be it
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quote:If you have such a big problem with ur emplyers... quit. Stop working for them.
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You mean unionize and say "either treat us fairly or we leave?" Holy shit! Never would of thought of that one!
quote:Unions also bother me, they are designed to give the worker more over time, for doing nothing more.
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Man you have no fucking clue...
quote:Just remember that the rich people were poor at one time. and they did exactly wut u are doing now.
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William Henry Gates the Third was poor at one time? George Bush Junior was poor at one time? Those at the top DO NOT WORK THEIR WAY TO THE TOP. They start there and never leave.
quote:I am a very cynical person with very few morals and the belief that all people are evil.
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I agree completely, except your not cynical - your a naive moron who doesn't know what the fuck your talking about and accepts whatever CNN shows him at face value.
quote:"the richest and most wasteful part of the richest and most wasteful country in the world"
and I'm proud of it. So, I'll continue to drive my SUV and look for a muscle to purchase
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quote:You just can't expect me to be a humanitarian. I live to make money... then enjoy life.
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So in other words me me me? Let me tell you something - you will never be able to enjoy that life. You just arent good enough to reach "the top" because for the average person to "work their way up" you need a level playing field of a lot of talent, and from what I see you have neither.
quote:you really are not familiar with the economics of wasting money (for pleasure).
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Good corporate Ameican citizen. Now go consume and be a patriot. (patriot, noun - anyone who likes his country more than its people.)
Hopefully when you're older and actually have to see what the real world is like you'll start thinking then.
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