A few random thoughts... - I envy people who remember their dreams, especially so many details. It's rare that I remember anything about what I dreamed about the night before. Is this perhaps a side-effect of me drinking in the evening and having sleep apnea? I'm pretty sure my inability to remember...

More and more news each day of a growing number of people getting fed up with the current lockdown/rules. I see things from both perspectives. My wife has some medical concerns, including asthma. My daughter also has asthma. I've got some issues of my own. So, when I go out (I'm the one who goes out...

Yee ha! So - what's the consensus on picking upgrades? Option 1: get a basic configuration and plan on replacing in 4-5 years. Option 2: max out memory and cpu, and count on keeping it for 7 years or more. I did Option 2 in 2013, and the limit I ran into is the battery - performance is otherwise fi...

I prefer manual transmission. My first MT was a 1991 Toyota MR2, bought new. When I married my wife she had a 1993 (I think) Nissan Altima that was also MT and a pretty nice car, overall. Quite some time later I bought a 2008 (I think) Mazda RX-8, brand new. That was so much fun to drive, but horrib...

This overall topic is especially interesting to me in the coronatimes. as I see so many parallels. Restaurant CEO on COVID-19: 'I honestly don't see a scenario where 50% to 60% of restaurants don't close' https://finance.yahoo.com/news/atlas-restaurant-group-ceo-on-coronavirus-impacts-124127891.html...

Unlike so many in the knuckleheads forum, I'm not a Warren Buffet groupie, but I just read this article and was pretty amazed and impressed by how clearly/simply/casually he expresses his confidence in the US economy based simply on the fact that this country can pay its own debts via their own prin...

I know this will probably sound heartless and appalling to some people (probably the same ones who don't want kids playing in the park) but I can't help but think of the beneficial effect COVID is having on reducing the enormous cost of end of life care in this country and others with aging populat...

For anyone who hasn't watched "Project 11" on ESPN, please do so and post back with your thoughts. Full disclosure: I'm an Alex Smith fanboi...started following him with the 49ers in 2011...then followed him to the Chiefs...then to the Redskins.

Anyway, Scott, here's the quote In fact, based on my very limited understanding of what "patent trolls" are, I actually consider them to be a very good thing. So that's that. Well, now you got me to go back and reread what I wrote, and I see that you selectively quoted me, so I'm disappoi...

And I doubt Scott said trolls are a good thing. In any case, the problem is not patent trolls. The problem is really not even other people who hold patents. It's the patent system itself. It's sort of like--for those of us who oppose welfare, the problem is not the people who sign up to get it. If ...

Interesting article:

Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab With Millions of U.S. Dollars For Risky Coronavirus Research
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backe ... 0741?amp=1

Well, last night another mouse made the mistake of roaming around our house. My wife and I were watching some TV and I got up to go to the kitchen and saw Zuzu playing with a mouse, which I assumed at first was one of the toy mice. On second look, nope, it was a live one. My wife started filming the...

They did close the stores in liquor-monopoly Pennsylvania, announcing the last day or two that they'd be open. They had hoped that people would just buy in moderation and were then shocked, shocked to see a line down the block in what was a record-setting day of purchases. My brother is in PA and h...

Yeah, it's difficult to justify qualifying a liquor store as being "essential" while deeming any other business to be non-essential. I was a bit surprised, though, by the news of Georgia allowing restaurants to reopen. I would have figured that restaurants would have been one of the *last*...

I’m surprised that the first thing you both say about patent trolls is that they are within the law. Yes, i know what they do is legal. I thought this would fall under the status quo that you (especially NKinsella) despise. I mean, isn’t all intellectual property legal by definition? It is the abus...

I am a hardware engineer, need a lab and temperature chamber to do debug on a new product, and am terribly busy. Would be impossible to replicate at home. I've also made the choice since there are only about 8 people going in daily in a building with labs that easily sites 40+, so there is plenty o...

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:45 pm Confucius say, "Good thing come to those who master wait."

Confucius also said, "Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:09 pm The next girl is going to be the one. I've got a good feeling about it.

In that case, bet it all on black.

We were deemed essential, because we do military and networking equipment. Even so, the CEO gave people the option to work at home, which about 80% of the people have been doing. (I come in every day) But it is coming to a head. He needs/wants more people in the office, and we can certainly keep ou...

I must be a total loser for thinking that if I want to enjoy a song or a movie I should be willing to pay the creator's asking price. There's nothing "stupid" about wanting to support (whether financial or otherwise) artists whose work you appreciate. In fact, absent IP laws, a lot of peo...

Actually I disagree. Patent trolls are not really the issue. What they do is legal, and all they usually want is a little fee. In fact, based on my very limited understanding of what "patent trolls" are, I actually consider them to be a very good thing. Because they're "working the s...

Another thing you should do is to provide some examples of how creators will still be able to profit from the investment of time/money that they have put into creating a work of art or technology (assuming the work actually has sufficient value to other people) and won't lose all value to free ride...

I may have used the wrong terminology, but I was answering Scott as to why people, ordinary people, can’t protect their own names from being copied. Again, you're missing the point of my original post on this. I was listing a bunch of things that should be allowed to be protected by IP laws if all ...

As for the subject of the Star Trek "replicator." Wouldn't most agree that the world would be a better place for everyone if everyone could easily replicate things? A world where replicator technology existed, but was not allowed to be used, is a world where we're inflicting unnecessary ha...

Oh boy... Do you really, do you really, do you really have a clue as to the difference between copyright, patent, and trademarks? Do you really? If not... why not just SHUT UP until you learn something? I don't get it. why do peopel like you who obviously know nothing about IP policy, want to pontif...

I provided several dot-point examples in one of my recent posts of ideas/inventions that could be considered as IP. I'd sincerely like to see some of you quote that section and provide your opinions on each of them as to how you think they should be treated, and your justification/logic for each one.