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President elect Obama may apparently delay the tax hike for the rich that he touted so often during that campaign of "change" and peoples champ, if you smell what I am cooking. Considering all the money he plans on spending, from bailouts to economic stimulus etc., I am not sure this is all that great of an idea.
McDonalds has filed a patent for making sanwiches. Seriously, because they invented that **** for sure. They do have some sort of specific flow chart that they patented, but I can't believe something like this would hold up as a valid patent. I love Top Gear, unfortunately I don't get to watch it on TV. If I want to check it out I need to download it or result to Youtube clips. On digg today they had the top 14 moments in Top Gear history. Check them out, clips included!
I Am Legend 2? With Will Smith returning? What kind of bull**** nonsense is this? What is next, "Star Wars 7 - Return of the burnt to crisp by my son on Endor, Darth Vader". Come on, the Fresh Prince died in that ****, no sequels!
National Geographic has some sweet underwater footage of a squid with elbows. Taken out in the Gulf of Mexico by a Shell Oil ROV, the footage shows the coolest squid since the Watchmen and definitely looks like the one kind of seafood I would never eat.
Another fight video that defines greatness. This sucker punch is brutal and the damn car doesn't help one bit:
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CrispyDeath Nov 25, 2008 at 12:33 pm
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I don't see why you're against patenting a process. Either way patents only grant a short monopoly over the process.
I am not quite the expert in areas if IP law yet, but there doesn't seem to be anything remarkable or unique about their process.
I am not quite the expert in areas if IP law yet, but there doesn't seem to be anything remarkable or unique about their process.
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Slapnuts Nov 25, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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Main my issue is patents after the fact, and super frivolous ones. The patent trolls that write something up when it is obvious and wide spread and try to make money on it. Or when a system has been developed by someone else, and someone who never made a proof of concept goes and gets a patent well after the fact based on someone else's completed process.
Things like that really bother me. The McDonalds thing not as much, as it does seem to be semi unique, but I am sure countless other fast food companies have similar flow charts, so where is the line drawn?
Things like that really bother me. The McDonalds thing not as much, as it does seem to be semi unique, but I am sure countless other fast food companies have similar flow charts, so where is the line drawn?
oradol Nov 25, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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The real problem comes when other companies follow suit, because you have a basic process here that can only be done so many ways. McDonalds might have been the first to formalize this specific process where the X is put on before the Y, so the next sompany has to put Y on before X... but eventually every variation ends up being patented.
CrispyDeath Nov 25, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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There are safeguards to frivolous patents. I am just not sure exactly what they are.
whyisthisrequired Nov 25, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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Never saw this episode of Top Gear till youtube and ... being that I ventured into America's heartland a few months ago this is pretty funny stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOyDLUzAAOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syY12OPkwI
The signs have bullet holes hahah
edit: tried to embed, doesn't work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOyDLUzAAOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syY12OPkwI
The signs have bullet holes hahah
edit: tried to embed, doesn't work?
Wadsworth1 Nov 25, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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Nice fight vid. The guy that got punched now has evidence for a lucrative law suit. Sue the pants off'em.
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