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    Microsoft and Onkyo Sign Android Patent Agreement

    Patent nonsense as usual. Patents serve to stifle innovation and harm competition by making entry into an industry more difficult. There entire purpose was to serve as a monopoly to spur innovation but that's not the way it has worked. If a company has something they know is difficult to copy...
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    The Navy Bought 59,000 Fake Chinese Microchips

    And how would do the protection? 1) Tariffs will make costs of input goods higher, such as natural resources and components that can be made more cheaply there. 2) Having the Fed print up money to lower the value of the dollar will have the same effect 3) Establishing limits on goods that can...
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    Samsung Must Show Cell Phones to Apple

    Intellectual property is idiotic. The idea you can have a right to property that supersedes everyone's right to use their own property is crazy. And the idea that patents result in more innovation is crap. If Apple wins where is their incentive to innovate? They now don't have to advance...
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    European Politicians Look To Ban WiFi in Schools

    Believe whatever nonsense you want, but you have no right to force your views on other people through legislation.
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    Cost of iPad Production in the US $1140

    This kind of "catch 22" is not a bad thing, and not really a catch 22 at all. It's what is fantastic about trade. Trade scales in benefit. The more trading that is done the better. We find competitive advantages, faster ways of doing things, design new equipment, processes, and techniques...
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    2,000 Cardboard Boxes + 200 Electric Motors = Rain?

    Why do I have a strong feeling that some government paid for this? I guess people could have saved up for all the boxes and motors, but I doubt this was a profitable venture. I'm not saying it wasn't cool to some degree, but not cool enough for the expense.
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    DOJ: Too Much Emphasis on Child Porn

    Doesn't limiting the transfer of the images themselves actually prevent them from finding the people who make them? And it's not the images themselves that are the harm, it's those making the children do these things in the first place. There seems to be this inherent Keynesian notion in...
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    California To Generate Electricity Using Rush Hour Traffic?

    This sounds unreasonably optimistic. 1) The amount of energy sounds way too high 2) So these devices don't require maintenance or replacement? And what about the electric cabling that would need to be run in order to connect these power lines into the system?
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    House Votes to Undo Net Neutrality Rules

    I'm reading this as code for "if you don't agree with me you're not thinking for yourself." I'll pass. But thanks. Government is merely a construct, not a reality. There are only individuals. Government is the use of force to tell others what to do or not to do. I'll agree that this is...
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    Mass BlackBerry Confusion in Looming Government Shutdown

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Tax_Receipts_as_a_Percentage_of_GDP_1945%E2%80%932015.jpg Despite the higher tax rates taxation was still only about 20% of GDP. There are 2 core reasons for this. 1) Incentives of higher taxes produce more looking for loopholes/etc. to find...
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    Mass BlackBerry Confusion in Looming Government Shutdown

    So in the 1980s I could have had a 1080p projector, a 42" HD TV, thousands of dollars worth of anime, 6 quad core PCs, a laptop, various handheld electronics, 2 cars and a house (without significant or unusual debt) on a middle class income? And you say that only the richest have accrued...
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    House Votes to Undo Net Neutrality Rules

    Why anyone would support government restrictions on the use of property by it's owners is beyond me. Is it honestly the belief of such people that the government can do no wrong? Perhaps you wouldn't say as much, but on what grounds do you trust them? If you don't like your ISP by all means...
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    'Wolverine' Pirate Going To Prison

    Drugs is a pretty good parallel situation in some ways. Why anyone thinks there should be laws that force 2 people not to trade just because they happen not to like the product is beyond me. I'd have thought we would have learned when prohibition failed, but we continue to this day. The...
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    'Wolverine' Pirate Going To Prison

    And this is one reason I'm an anarchist. Taxation is theft. I don't voluntarily give my money to imprison people. Even if I thought IP was a valid property right I would think the property enforcement would be making the guy pay restitution in line with the damage arising from his action...
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    "Piracy Is Not Theft" Quote of the Day

    Can we not edit posts on this forum or am I missing the button?
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