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byIndustrialComplex
rch 01, 2016 @10:07AM
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Attached to: FujiFilm Discontinues Last Film For Millions of Polaroid Cameras
These products are patented. If you so wanted, you could look up the patents and provided the ~20 years are up start up a factory and start producing them. The trick isn't the IP, it's the fact that no one in their right mind would build an entire factory to produce a product with such a limited market.
It's not an IP issue, it's a tooling issue.
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byIndustrialComplex
February 24, 2016 @09:41AM
(#51574633)
Attached to: Internet By Light Promises To Leave Wi-Fi Eating Dust
A recessed bulb in the ceiling can cover a wide area of a room with direct LOS. It doesn't necessarily have to be a desk lamp as the light source.
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byIndustrialComplex
anuary 21, 2016 @09:59AM
(#51343561)
Attached to: 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months
Space opera = future fantasy. Space magic.
There is no reason someone can't enjoy futuristic fantasy stories.
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byIndustrialComplex
anuary 21, 2016 @09:56AM
(#51343543)
Attached to: 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months
aka space cowboys
See you space cowboy.
(If being a simpleton gets me more space cowboy, I'm all for it)
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byIndustrialComplex
January 13, 2016 @08:45AM
(#51292659)
Attached to: ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump
I agree, I was puzzling for a bit trying to figure out if it were some local acronym. Seattle's Agriculture Task Force or something which would be justified in trying to catch grease dumpers. Knowing it was the federal Bureau is important.
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byIndustrialComplex
January 13, 2016 @08:39AM
(#51292625)
Attached to: Scientists Struggle To Stay Grounded After Possible Gravitational Wave Signal
It's not until you can recreate the process that you will know if the dove was in the sleeve or if the magician picked up the dove with the other hand while you weren't looking.
Technically you can't know if that's what the magician did. You can only rule out what he could not have done.
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byIndustrialComplex
January 13, 2016 @08:34AM
(#51292589)
Attached to: US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons
I'm not so sure I'm comfortable with a precision modernization program for a nuclear arsenal. For better or worse, our MAD deterrent seems to have worked. No country has used nuclear weapons since WWII. They are doomsday weapons and any use of them would escalate a conflict well into a total-warfare situation regardless of their precision. A nuclear weapon applied even on the most restricted and limited of targets is the most destabilizing thing you can probably do. Worse yet, it encourages other countries to consider 'usable' nuclear weapons of their own. As much as I hate our current situation I would hope we would work towards disarmament rather than finding more palatable means to deploy nuclear weapons.
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byIndustrialComplex
January 06, 2016 @09:53AM
(#51248247)
Attached to: Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology
As someone who is not a citizen of the USA I have to ask, what do Americans think is the answer?
Honestly? End the drug war on all drugs and repurpose that money into non-discriminatory mental health services. Currently our civilians are being consumed in a proxy war between the police and the cartels.
After that? I'd start with a massive effort to reform our police forces. Currently there is a massive divide (real or perceived) between our police and the people. We have given a great deal of discretion to police officers but the oversight that should accompany that discretion is practically non-existent. Until we can get our urban areas behaving more like communities rather than a bunch of people living in close proximity I don't see us making any headway. Eliminate the profit motives from our governments who use the police forces as a tax collection service and revenue generation tool (fines, asset forfeiture, etc create perverse incentives)
So in short: End the drug war, reform our police force into a community force.
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byIndustrialComplex
January 06, 2016 @09:33AM
(#51248079)
Attached to: Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology
You forgot the most important part: Putting a battery into a gun. The magnetic one might get around this, but the RFID and Fingerprint options would have you relying on a small battery. Even if you don't need to shoot, how many of you have opened up a battery case to discover that one has corroded and damaged your device? How great would that be to discover that your firearm now has a corrosive item included in it?
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byIndustrialComplex
ember 21, 2015 @09:11AM
(#51158197)
Attached to: FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available
If that private plane or jet is on final near my house and that low it's already going to be crashing in my fields.
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byIndustrialComplex
ecember 10, 2015 @09:18AM
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Attached to: $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer
I know, right? If I am spending a whole $5 on a computer, it shouldn't have any limitations.
That's what I'm trying to figure out here. What exactly were they expecting. This is like buying a scooter and complaining that it fits fewer people than a bus.
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byIndustrialComplex
vember 24, 2015 @11:09AM
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Attached to: Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use
I don't know, how much excess radiation was absorbed by those bodies?
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byIndustrialComplex
ovember 19, 2015 @08:50AM
(#50961591)
Attached to: Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal
The main difference in the business models is that Taxi companies have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a taxi license/plate/medallion, the supply of which has been artificially restricted by government regulation. This forces costs up for them and prices up for customers. There is no such regulation on Uber and so they are competing on unequal terms.
The supply of the taxi medallions has been restricted by regulation... regulations specifically lobbied for by the taxi companies. This is their own mess that they created, and a disrupting technology is ruining the business model they turned into law.
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byIndustrialComplex
ovember 19, 2015 @08:42AM
(#50961547)
Attached to: Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal
With regard to calling Uber parasitic rent seekers... Isn't that exactly what this medallion system created? A bunch of rent seeking?
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byIndustrialComplex
ovember 19, 2015 @08:39AM
(#50961523)
Attached to: Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction
They are building a large apt building near Conshohocken. The thing must be 5 stories tall but the whole damned thing went up with wood framing (at least it looked like it from I-76). I'd imagine that there are quite a few buildings like that which would have model like collapses if subjected to typical movie building trauma.
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