|
Bardeh posted:Haven't had anything for quite a few days now. I imagine it's a really lovely time to be a postman to be honest. It's hard to complete most rounds at the best of times, let alone when every fucker in the country is buying literally everything online and half the delivery office is off sick and/or self-isolating. That, plus the fact that they're not allowed to van-share at the moment means that I would imagine there is a quite frankly ridiculous backlog in every delivery office. Is this the beginning of the chain of events that set the scene for the beginning of Going Postal? Because if so I'm looking forward to post golems in a few decades
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 00:22 |
|
|
I don't even know how the delivery office I used to work in will even be functioning without van-sharing. 90% of all rounds there were two people sharing a van, and still on some days if there was a problem with your van it would be a struggle to find a replacement. If they need literally double the amount of vans....well, it just doesn't work. Thank gently caress I'm not a postman anymore.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:43
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:Isn't patent law all about ensuring that things people "create" become used by a few uber rich companies who buy out anything that might change things and build it into something they want to see? Not in principal. When I did our patent application with my company it was to give us the opportunity to get our product out there without a larger much more organised company being able to sweep and do the same thing with a higher marketing budget. In practice it lets large companies buy ideas. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Apr 6, 2020 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:45
|
|
|
ronya posted:it's still the case that the move toward lower tuition fees and cheaper/freer childcare has shifted the zeitgeist... okay, maybe Britain did not need an agonizing seismic shift in the Labour party for the politics of the squeezed middle to assert itself. Still, nobody really has any bright ideas here. tens of millions just got laid off during the worst ever financial crisis during a global pandemic, I'm not sure the squeezed middle has come back to existence just because the Labour party didn't bother to vote in its own leadership contest
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:45
|
|
|
Just built the wife’s home office setup while she made lunch. She delivered my cheese toastie with a horrified look and pointed out that we were actually performing traditional gender roles for literally the first time in our marriage. I married well.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:48
|
|
|
Bobstar posted:Is this the beginning of the chain of events that set the scene for the beginning of Going Postal? I wish Moist von Lipwig was the Prime Minister.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:49
|
|
|
Aramoro posted:Not in principal. When I did our patent application with my company it was to give us the opportunity to get our product out there without a larger much more organised company being able to sweep and do the same thing with a higher marketing budget. In practice it lets large companies buy ideas. Why is it that when Capitalist ideas don't work in practice it is a failure of that particular subset, but when Communist ideas don't work in practice it is because it never will?
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:49
|
|
|
peanut- posted:Are people still getting post delivered generally? I've had nothing since Wednesday and am expecting things that I know have been sent. We've had three instances of Royal Mail saying they've attempted delivery of packages in the last week. We've been in 24/7, no one's been and no cards have been left. Can't get through on the phone either and we have no idea where our orders actually are or how to get them.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:49
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:Isn't patent law all about ensuring that things people "create" become used by a few uber rich companies who buy out anything that might change things and build it into something they want to see? It's used to provide an incentive for people to create something - if it'll take me 2 years to design and create something, and then another company just copies it straight away and I lose a massive share of the market it becomes much harder for me to justify spending two years of lost wages etc designing it. Owning a patent on the product means that I can spend the time designing, knowing that if it's successful I will be given a limited period of exclusivity to sell the product.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:50
|
|
|
Bobstar posted:Is this the beginning of the chain of events that set the scene for the beginning of Going Postal? Neither rain nor snow nor glom of nit, but don't ask us about global viral pandemics or Mrs Cake.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:50
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:Only One World Cup matters, It's definitely a pain to use but you might consider sanding and going over with a shellac primer. It works pretty fam dantastic as a sealer
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:52
|
|
|
Red Oktober posted:It's used to provide an incentive for people to create something - if it'll take me 2 years to design and create something, and then another company just copies it straight away and I lose a massive share of the market it becomes much harder for me to justify spending two years of lost wages etc designing it. But I assume that the incentive will mainly have vanished because most "new" inventions aren't actually done by a single person, but by a larger organisation.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:54
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1247158845690044416
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:56
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:Why is it that when Capitalist ideas don't work in practice it is a failure of that particular subset, but when Communist ideas don't work in practice it is because it never will? As part of a capitalist ideal it's isn't not working? You invent something and someone pays you for it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:56
|
|
|
Aramoro posted:As part of a capitalist ideal it's isn't not working? You invent something and someone pays you for it. Doesn't work how it is "supposed to" then, under the way capitalism is "supposed" to work.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:57
|
|
|
Hell yeah he's tuss enough
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:58
|
|
|
Aramoro posted:Not in principal. When I did our patent application with my company it was to give us the opportunity to get our product out there without a larger much more organised company being able to sweep and do the same thing with a higher marketing budget. In practice it lets large companies buy ideas. The problem with copyright is the complete opposite.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 14:59
|
|
|
Jess Philips is appointed gently caress all
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:00
|
|
|
I find the theory of patent/copyright law fascinating, can anyone recommend a good book on it, perhaps one that covers the history of it and also covers the communist (practical or theoretical) approach to it?
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:00
|
|
|
Full Shadow Cabinet is released - https://labour.org.uk/press/keir-starmer-appoints-shadow-cabinet/ quote:
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:00
|
|
|
peanut- posted:Are people still getting post delivered generally? I've had nothing since Wednesday and am expecting things that I know have been sent. I've not had my letter from Joris yet, nor my letter for being in the ultra high risk group that should have been here weeks ago.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:00
|
|
|
David Lammy, Shadow Justice Secretary  That's a good pick if ever I saw one
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:01
|
|
|
Bring out the budgetstones.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:01
|
|
|
RLB to Education, huh
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:02
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:Doesn't work how it is "supposed to" then, under the way capitalism is "supposed" to work. A principal of capitalism is that everything has a price, does it mean some people are working out patents with out the ability to produce them just to sell them? Sure. But most people use patent protection to make the thing they patent.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:02
|
|
|
ronya posted:RLB to Education, huh Yeah that's neither as bold or as cowardly as I was wondering might happen, but squarely in the ??? sideways ??? I guess it's because the position is now vacated by Rayner.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:03
|
|
|
Ugh get that oval office Ian Murry tae gently caress
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:04
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:The problem with patents is that the barrier to entry is high for the ordinary person and the timespan is short. It's not too bad really, myself and my colleague filled and got a patent on something, the patent office really help you through the process. It's more complex because they are attempting to stop you patenting things that everyone already knows and does, unlike copyright where is an actual concrete thing, patent is an idea about how to do a thing so it's naturally more complex. Any reasonably intelligent people could file a valid patent.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:05
|
|
|
JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I find the theory of patent/copyright law fascinating, can anyone recommend a good book on it, perhaps one that covers the history of it and also covers the communist (practical or theoretical) approach to it? I was going through some East German chemistry patents a while back and they all seemed quite close to Western ones. The 'owner' of the idea was almost always the research institution rather than a business or individual, but that's not really unusual in the West for those types of patents. Most anarchists would dispute the whole idea, because as Kropotkin would say, your brain only got that idea to make that thing because of the whole of society, the people that taught you to read, the people who taught you science, the people who made books available free in libraries, the people who blowed the glass for your glassware, the people who hauled the coal that kept your lab warm, so that patent contains a small amount of the sweat of all their brows. Within a capitalist system that just means that big companies would profit from your work for free, but he would say that's a problem with big companies and profit rather than intellectual freedom. Aramoro posted:It's not too bad really, myself and my colleague filled and got a patent on something, the patent office really help you through the process. It's more complex because they are attempting to stop you patenting things that everyone already knows and does, unlike copyright where is an actual concrete thing, patent is an idea about how to do a thing so it's naturally more complex. Any reasonably intelligent people could file a valid patent. As it is it's automatic like a human right, but alienable like a bond or a chocolate bar, and it lasts for far too long. Also Disney keeps extending it which is a joke because most of their movies are pilfered from the public domain.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:13
|
|
|
Gonzo McFee posted:Ugh get that oval office Ian Murry tae gently caress Like I said on the Twit machine, I'd rather a dastardly Sassenach as Shadow Scottish Secretary than that turd in the punch bowl.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:14
|
|
|
bojo definitely not dead and actually completely fine and normal, nothing to see here, move alongCoronavirus: Boris Johnson in 'good spirits' in hospital posted:Boris Johnson says he is in "good spirits" after spending the night in hospital with coronavirus. e: I'm sure they would definitely tell us if he was dying saw this guy in the response to the tweets and he's so Tory boy it hurts https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1247137221167153153?s=20 E2: Johnson is definitely a Tory boy, but this is the one I meant https://twitter.com/JamesLYucel/status/1247138334713032706?s=20 XMNN fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Apr 6, 2020 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:15
|
|
|
The aldi near me has been out of sunflower seeds so I changed to a mix and I was worried the birds weren't as keen on it. I swapped it out with black sunflowers and the bullfinches are back which is a relief:  CHOMP: 
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:16
|
|
|
forkboy84 posted:Like I said on the Twit machine, I'd rather a dastardly Sassenach as Shadow Scottish Secretary than that turd in the punch bowl.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:17
|
|
|
ukle posted:Full Shadow Cabinet is released - broad tent-y looking with the expected sidelining of corbyn figures i kinda think the rachel reeves and chancellor right wing cabinet stuff was probably put out beforehand to make whatever came next look better
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:19
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:But I assume that the incentive will mainly have vanished because most "new" inventions aren't actually done by a single person, but by a larger organisation. The organisation still needs to pay those workers, and therefore have them developing something which can be monetised. Take pharmas, where development can take years and years, so they want a period of exclusivity to make sure they can get a return.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:21
|
|
|
So we have Anneliese Dodds - Shadow Chancellor Lisa Nady - Shadow Foreign Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds - Shadow Home Sec Rachel Reeves - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Jonathan Ashworth - Shadow Sec for Health and Social Care David Lammy - Shadow Justice Sec John Healey - Shadow Defence Sec Ed Miliband - Shadow Business, Energy and Industrial Sec Jo Stevens - Shadow Digital, Culture Media and Sport Bridget Philipson - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Luke Pollard - Shadow EFRA Steve Reed - Shadow Communities and Local Government Sec Thangam Debbonaire - Shadow Housing Sec Jim McMahon - Shadow Transport Sec Preet Kaur Gill - Shadow Intl Development Sec Louise Haigh - Shadow Northern Ireland Sec Ian Murray - Shadow Scotland Sec Marsha de Cordova - Shadow Women and Equalities Sec Andy McDonald - Shadow Employment Rights and Protections Sec Rosena Allin-Khan - Shadow Minister for Mental Health Lord Falconer - Shadow Attorney General
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:21
|
|
|
Red Oktober posted:The organisation still needs to pay those workers, and therefore have them developing something which can be monetised. Take pharmas, where development can take years and years, so they want a period of exclusivity to make sure they can get a return. But why? Surely simply curing the sick is good and the company itself shouldn't be generating profit? I am of course speaking of how things should be as opposed to how they are.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:24
|
|
|
ukle posted:Jonathan Reynolds, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary This is the only pick that's worrying me. Sure there's some assholes, but this guy feels more like a snake.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:24
|
|
|
Daddy Bowis sent me a letter today 
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 00:22 |
|
|
I ordered a book a couple of weeks back a few days before the lockdown begun, and i've had some other mail through but not that. i'm just assuming it's gone forever and if it does turn up eventually that'll be a nice bonus. i mean it's not like i actually need it and one of the independent bookshops around here got some money out of it so could be worse.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2020 15:26
|
|
