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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 06:25 PM EST |
The
Editorial opinion is supplemented in the same paper with an
op-ed article by Jane Kelsey, a professor of law at the University of
Auckland, and
on the
business pages by Stephen Jacobi, executive director of the NZ-US
Council.
Worth noting that TPP started as four small(ish) economies
looking to rationalise their trading relationships. Then,
depending on
which side of the yard you sit, the neighborhood
bully stomped in to take
over the game, or the US offered
the size of its economy to strengthen and
stabilise the "partnership".
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 08:02 PM EST |
One good thing Mark Zuckerberg has done, he has increased my curiosity about the
price of free lunches. So when I follow the Newspick link I find a neat clean
page a peg above some of the FOSS sites, but like so many it wants me to
download a key, and edit my apt/sources.list with yet another repository, but
what is Insync,
what does it do? Google tels me it's not InSync , and it's not Insync .
Ah, subtly hidden on their homepage are writeups from tech journals masquerading
as "About" docs. They don't even list the one I found most informative from
techcrunch.com . Now about that cost,
well of course it's free as in beer, just sign in with your Google account.
Whaaaa?
I give my Google account to a third party. Oh wait, they're
only an
advertising company . Mr. Z was right then, just
's/Facebook/Google/g'
Facebook was not originally created to be a
company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more
open and connected. another newspick
Then Insync must be one of Google's
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 11:49 PM EST |
http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/the-k-desktop-environment-is-15-121127164508.ht
ml
points to
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/27/the-k-desktop-environment-is-15/
points to
http://dot.kde.org/2012/11/27/15-years-kde-ev-early-years
/IMANAL
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 08:03 PM EST |
The story indicates
Isn’t the very nature of a patent to prevent
competition in exchange for the dissemination of information? Yes, yes and
YES!
to which PJ comments
Um. No. The purpose of
patent law is to encourage innovation, not prevent
competition.
The intention was to encourage innovation by
preventing competition (a.k.a. granting "exclusive rights"). That's in return
for dissemination of information.
It can certainly be argued that there
isn't enough disclosure of of information in patent applications, that many
patents are granted without novelty, that the above intention is not being well
realized, etc.
However, to say that no, patents do not by their very nature
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 08:36 PM EST |
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While you are there, stop and read some of his excellent fiction. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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