We elected the idiots, yes.
Of course, position statements on patent law haven't exactly been
front-and-center in campaigns.
In general, US elections have more to do with
1. Appealing to enough special interests to get loads of money to
inundate the masses with campaign ads
2. Forming an /image /(not substance) that connects with their base and
a few independents
3. Repeating terse, almost meaningless 60-second blurbs ad nauseum
Deeper discussion is too time consuming. It's also too dangerous to the
candidate as they might actually talk about the real complexity of
issues rather than simple, pat answers. No pure party line fully holds
water when one takes a deep look at any issue. Instead, real solutions
tend to be complicated, nuanced, and involve some mix of ideas from a
variety of sources -- something no US political party will really
tolerate today.
I think Mickey Edwards (author of 'The Parties Versus the People') might
be on to something
(http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec12/edwards_08-21.html)
urging:
* No closed, single-party primaries but rather a primary taking all
candidates from all parties with the main election being a runoff
between the winners
o Today's closed primaries produce extremist candidates from all
parties
* Huge reductions of party power and party separation in Congress
o Right now if you don't tow the party line you get no power in
Congress, party-purity reigns supreme
--
Jess Holle
On 8/25/2012 6:09 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote:
Since when are laws concerning IP making much sense ? Since when is
the law a synonym for justice ? That must be a long time ago now...
Absurd yes - but it's Legal Absurdity. And therefore, if they don't
comply to The Law, they're criminals. And will be punished. But if
they comply, they'll pay $1bn. And will be punished too. Nice, this
Legal Injustice.
But to be honest, didn't *we* elect those idiots voting those absurd
laws ? So maybe the law is such a mess because we'd rather not use our
brains at the election.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Ricky Clarkson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Oracle case: Can you write a library that provides compatibility
with someone else's library?
Samsung case: Can you copy your competitor's handling of
finger-to-screen events?
The Oracle case was clearly more relevant to programmers.
On Aug 25, 2012 4:07 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici"
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I completely fail to understand why we (and the rest of the
blogosphere) have spent hundreds of emails discussing the
Oracle vs Google suite, as something that could menace Android
and thus the freedom to innovate, while almost nothing has
been said about the Apple vs Samsung, which is just a proxy
for Apple vs Google. BTW, Oracle has lost (at least the first
round) challenging on technical stuff, I mean something
related to the *implementation* of a VM, Apple has won on
"pinch to zoom", which is 100x absurd. My only explanation is
a prejudice against Oracle (added to a previous prejudice
against Sun), which seems much stronger than the prejudice
against Apple.
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Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."
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<mailto:[email protected]>
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