WildUtah

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by WildUtah 11y ago
They say that in Chilean waters past 40º S there is no law. And past 50º there is no God. You have to get to about 57º to pass around the Horn in open water.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Technically Panama's is the first transcontinental railroad, beating the Union Pacific by fourteen years. Panama's was running in 1855 while the line over the Sierra Nevada opened in 1869.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The responsibilities of a white collar job, the wages and respect of a blue collar job, and the number one target of mass skilled immigration to drive down wages. That's what you get when our profession is distinctive for the lack of s
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Yes. Also in patents.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
A patent is in the public domain until it issues and after it expires. It just means the patent is not yet or no longer in force and therefore the subject matter is not restricted. 'Public domain' has nothing to do with being secr
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"I’ve been raised to consider the police my friend. I understand the notion of them being in office to protect and serve the people and I have felt comfortable in the presence of the law as long as I can remember. Naive[sic] as ever I
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by WildUtah 11y ago
That doesn't stop software patents on literally millions of long established practices.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Expired in 2007 for failure to pay the year 11 maintenance fee. Feel free to use this patent in your own products; it's in the public domain!
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Owens Valley was a prosperous farming community before LA diverted all the water and dried up the lake. Now Owens Valley has been abandoned for about a century.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"The MRA for each Representative is calculated based on three components, including personnel, which is the same for each Member ($944,671 for each Member in 2014)" "Each Member may use the MRA to employ no more than 18 perma
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by WildUtah 11y ago
It's an old Carl Hiaasen line.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) in 2001 introduced the SSSCA, the bill to take away all the pansy freedom of speech provisions of the DMCA and really lock down computers for the legitimate big business that should control programming. It
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by WildUtah 11y ago
the safety of our critical infrastructure, baking Well, the baking industry is certainly more productive of human comfort and happiness than certain other industries demanding protection from the laws the rest of us live by -- such as fin
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by WildUtah 11y ago
When the 880 connector between 980 and the Bay Bridge was rebuilt in 1998, traffic engineers were predicting that it would increase traffic congestion and lengthen almost all trips that used it or passed near it. And it did indeed slightly
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Jogging, fried chicken, and coffee shops. Yup. You'd be paying fines and penalties if you posted this from the USA. I doubt there'd be criminal prosecution under 42 USC unless you repeatedly continued posting this kind of content
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by WildUtah 11y ago
You've apparently never met anyone from the patent bar. Their entire purpose nowadays is often to justify monopolies based on nothing more than doing it on a computer. [0] The judges of the CAFC -- the patent court -- make a deliberate
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Actually, civil engineers routinely deliver infrastructure projects on time and budget with accurate projections in Spain and Korea. [0] The failure of projections in the USA and the typical 10x cost for the same project (at least as far as
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Unfortunately Apple makes it near impossible to get a middle mouse button effect. It's absolutely essential to copy-and-paste or to open new tabs. And X has had it right for thirty years. Still Apple can't manage to get a middle b
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by WildUtah 11y ago
As for Toyota, Japan has the second highest corporate tax rate in the first world, after the USA. And until two years ago, Japan had the highest rates. So I don't think Toyota was running the same schemes we see in tax havens.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The overwhelming majority of programmers are strongly opposed to any patents on software. The opponents of gene patents have nothing on the fury programmers vent when they see what lucrative software patents actually look like.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
You mean, the total homicides (the violent crime ones) are about half the rate of motor vehicle deaths. Actually closer to a third. It's about 10-15k homicides v 40-50k car crash deaths per annum in the past decade.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"I find this fear of city denizens exists almost exclusively in people in rural areas" I saw Deliverance, a documentary about life in rural America, and have the same worries about that part of the country. I don't want to sq
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"People want door-to-door personal transportation... and they have ever since the car was invented." Really?! Byzantines didn't want door-to-door personal transportation? Spanish conquistadors? Ancient Greeks? The Han Dynast
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by WildUtah 11y ago
In fact, studies have long shown that 98% of US commuters favor transit, but rather fewer are willing to use it.[0] [0] http://www.theonion.com/article/report-98-percent-of-us-comm...
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by WildUtah 11y ago
It's impossible to design a community at any reasonable cost where a large fraction of people are expected to drive cars unless you make all other forms of transportation impossible or impractical. The space needed for most people at a
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The guy is an expert in his field. Yeah, but the field is foreign development aid. He'd have more credibility if he were an astrologer or a patent attorney.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Did Obama ever come out and condemn pakistani actions? Obama took big risks in the 2008 campaign to accuse Pakistan of harboring Usama ibn Laden. Hillary and McCain both condemned him for telling the truth. The national media and national
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by WildUtah 11y ago
You could always put up a fence to divide yourself from North India, but then you'll just have to pay taxes to light that one up.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
One policy innovation here is being tried in LA. With a $15 minimum wage you can drive away the jobs of the people who would be unable to pay their fare share for motorway space. Those jobs that can't pay $15 will simply relocate to sm
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by WildUtah 11y ago
So is 28 USC §1400. It was not repealed and plainly sets more particular jurisdiction for patent cases. What can Congress do now to re-institute the validity of it? It's already in the USC. Pass a new clause "and we really mean it

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