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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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In other odd/silly news, the Pope put out his own "first tweet" - filmed of course for the news. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...702-1gvyp.html
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2011-07-03, 21:11 | Link #5162 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Boston tavern boss happy as clam with chowder title
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...07-03-21-11-13
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2011-07-04, 02:14 | Link #5163 | |
Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
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If you hold patents that are essential for other businesses you can gain access to their patents (for cooperating businesses that means free technologies for the cooperating parties) if you wish or you could deny others access (this is what big corporation usually does in the case of rivals). Technically that gives big corporation (who hold vast amounts of patents) a competitive advantage over smaller businesses or start ups that have to license every patent they need. The patent market is not so much about money as it is about control over access to technologies. Its like technological imperialism.
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2011-07-04, 04:27 | Link #5164 |
books-eater youkai
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Can Will and Kate reverse our declining attachment to the monarchy?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2083910/ In Quebec, it's even worse than in the Rest of Canada...
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2011-07-04, 04:58 | Link #5165 | |
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Unlike Microsoft which has a perpetual hold on the tech market through its OS, the lack of earnings meant that Nortel's patents had alternatives, so buying them wouldn't be much of future use as they might be relegated to being legacy devices in probably less than a decade or so. Actually I do bids in prime numbers when I seriously want an item from an auction. *runs*
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2011-07-04, 10:47 | Link #5166 |
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I recall back in 2001 when I visited Scotland that people seemed to not all that much care about the Royality so much anymore. They all respected the Queen and her mother, but there was no respect for Prince Charles or anyone else in the family anymore. They were keeping an eye on William and Henry though, seemingly more out of respect for Diana than anything else. At the Stone of Scone they said they would ship it to London to crown the next monachy, but it would come back that day or the next. They also said if anything they would rather the crown skip Charles completely...and given the age of his mother and grandmother...it seemed very likely that would happen. That or get rid of that institution once Queen Elizabeth II dies.
But, the Commonwealth seems to have taken a fancy to Prince William. Maybe they won't just scrap the Monarchy just yet.
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2011-07-04, 12:32 | Link #5168 |
Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
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Its more like an evolutionary process most of the time. If you have patents for the basic stuff on which all the progress is made, than you have something quite future proof. Besides, if your current systems already use these patents, you would not want rivals to own them (you don't want to stop selling your products and redesign them, just because someone bought the patents and denied you a license - this would turn out much more expensive then the money that was paid).
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2011-07-04, 12:49 | Link #5169 | |
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2011-07-04, 22:39 | Link #5173 |
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As Ithreko noted, that [whats the point of being king if you can't order someone heads cut off?] is actually an old quote from a Bloom County comic strip where a toddler Prince William asked that question when daddy told him about the duties of a modern king.
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2011-07-05, 01:07 | Link #5174 | |
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1. You cannot be a king to order someone's head cut off, you have to be a queen. 2. Even if you are the queen, you have to be part of a poker deck - the Queen of Hearts.
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2011-07-05, 10:28 | Link #5176 | |
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NY motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law
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2011-07-05, 16:14 | Link #5178 | |
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I love riding motorcycles, but you'll never see me on one without a helmet. I'm not so stupid that I'd want my head splattered all over the asphalt. A motorcycle isn't like a car, you are completely exposed and unprotected without a helmet.
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2011-07-05, 18:02 | Link #5179 | |
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My mother and her community a few years ago had to fight a local idiot that wanted to make his property a toxic waste dump. Quite likely would have poisoned the water supply.
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