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Guavanaut posted:I was going through some East German chemistry patents a while back *red light starts blinking in corner of GCHQ*
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Azza Bamboo posted:Yeah that's neither as bold or as cowardly as I was wondering might happen, but squarely in the And because Starmer wanted Miliband in a mid-tier post, but didn't think Shadow Education played to his strengths?
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Made some bread for the first time, and it was actually pretty good! Either I got lucky or I'm some kind of baking savant.
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Guavanaut posted:Sure, but there's the whole filing cost and process, whereas copyright is an automatically occurring thing. I get why it is, there's no library or numbered list of copyrights, it's just weird that copyright is so extensive in timeframe whereas patent is so limited. Like it'd make more sense if you owned the copyright for life but people were allowed to remix or use it in part in other things without paying royalties after say 25 years, or if copyright was automatic but non-transferable, or if you could transfer it, but you had to register it. It's generally because patents have to be unique. You can file for £60 if you do the prior art searches yourself or you just feel confident about doing it. The reason patents are generally short is because your idea is supposed to be useful to society so it's long enough for you to make money out of it before everyone gets a crack at it. Patent is 20 years, maybe copyright should be as well, or just life of the creator? I'm not sure.
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crispix posted:Daddy Bowis sent me a letter today I hear he personally licked all the envelopes from his hospital bed where he's currently having a member of special branch clean up his runny bum.
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Josef bugman posted:But why? Surely simply curing the sick is good and the company itself shouldn't be generating profit? I'm still confused, you're argument seems to be that patents don't work for capitalism, but they really really do, like all the time they feed into the capitalist system.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I hear he personally licked all the envelopes from his hospital bed where he's currently having a member of special branch clean up his runny bum. I thought grooms of the stool could only be in the monarch's employ but I suppose it makes sense to give them that level of security clearance You could really do a lot of damage to a person with unfettered access to their arse
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Aramoro posted:I'm still confused, you're argument seems to be that patents don't work for capitalism, but they really really do, like all the time they feed into the capitalist system. Oh no, I mean it does work for Capitalism, it just doesn't "work" for helping folks (which is supposedly what Capitalism is for)
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Aramoro posted:It's generally because patents have to be unique. You can file for £60 if you do the prior art searches yourself or you just feel confident about doing it. The reason patents are generally short is because your idea is supposed to be useful to society so it's long enough for you to make money out of it before everyone gets a crack at it. Patent is 20 years, maybe copyright should be as well, or just life of the creator? I'm not sure. I think copyright used to be just life of the creator until Disney got the yanks to go with life of the creator + the number of years since Walt Disney died, and everyone else followed.
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marktheando posted:I think copyright used to be just life of the creator until Disney got the yanks to go with life of the creator + the number of years since Walt Disney died, and everyone else followed. “US copyright law traces its lineage back to the British Statute of Anne, which influenced the first US federal copyright law, the Copyright Act of 1790. The length of copyright established by the Founding Fathers was short, 14 years, plus the ability to renew it one time, for 14 more. 40 years later, it was changed to 28 years. It was not until a full 180 years after its establishment that it was significantly extended beyond that, in Copyright Act of 1976 to "Either 75 years or the life of the author plus 50 years". and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (also called the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act", because it prevented the copyright from expiring on the first commercial success of the cartoon character Mickey Mouse), which increased it even more, to 120 years, or the life of the author plus 70 years.” Edit: thought I was in uspol, still. mediaphage fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Aramoro posted:It's generally because patents have to be unique. You can file for £60 if you do the prior art searches yourself or you just feel confident about doing it. The reason patents are generally short is because your idea is supposed to be useful to society so it's long enough for you to make money out of it before everyone gets a crack at it. Patent is 20 years, maybe copyright should be as well, or just life of the creator? I'm not sure. Like if you put out an EP and I just duplicate it without any creative labor of my own and start selling it for a quid less then that's clearly bullshit and artists should be protected from that. But if I want to remix a song from the 50s that they themselves stole from a delta bluesman without credit, then having to hunt down the rights holder because the original author only died 30 years ago is some horseshit. That should be like 20 years max to encourage creative freedom, in the same way that patents are short to encourage innovation. crispix posted:You could really do a lot of damage to a person with unfettered access to their arse  
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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. My block is (South Wales) (Our local postperson uses a pull-along cart as it is town centre.)
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Could people take me out of the OP for Labour contacts? I resigned my membership this afternoon after Keir appointed a transphobe to the NEC. Have considered doing this a number of times during Corbyn's tenure but this was the final nail in my faith that transphobia was going to be dealt with in the party. It's loving everywhere and Labour isn't safe for LGBT+ people to be in.
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mfcrocker posted:Could people take me out of the OP for Labour contacts? I resigned my membership this afternoon after Keir appointed a transphobe to the NEC. Oh yeah, me too
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What's this 'Karen' thing? I feel I have missed something.
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Stereotypical middle aged middle class woman who wants to see your manager immediately.
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I'm asking the question already knowing the answer in my heart, but you can't get UC/JSA if you quit your job, can you? Even if you quit because your company is forcing you not only to come in to work when there's nothing to do, but threatening to dock your wages if you're not in exactly 9-5 even though that means you have to travel on public transport at the busiest time?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's this 'Karen' thing? I feel I have missed something. Essentially you know the lady who says "I want to speak to your manager" because you are dealing with two things at once when you are on the front desk of some big hotel/ retail place? That. Except that a lot of Terfy folks are now crying about it because it's misogynistic. To be slightly fair to them, it is. But it is more about Class than anything else and the fuckers saying it are the exact same people who identify most closely with "Karens" than anyone else.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's this 'Karen' thing? I feel I have missed something. It’s almost always a middle-aged white woman who is both completely blind to her privilege and extremely offended when you point out she’s using it
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mfcrocker posted:Could people take me out of the OP for Labour contacts? I resigned my membership this afternoon after Keir appointed a transphobe to the NEC. Barry Foster posted:Oh yeah, me too I hope that if Labour becomes a better place for everyone that you folks feel able to come back. Keep safe and keep fighting the good fight.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm asking the question already knowing the answer in my heart, but you can't get UC/JSA if you quit your job, can you? Even if you quit because your company is forcing you not only to come in to work when there's nothing to do, but threatening to dock your wages if you're not in exactly 9-5 even though that means you have to travel on public transport at the busiest time? Yes you can
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communism bitch posted:Stereotypical middle aged middle class woman who wants to see your manager immediately. Also, white - I think it's from black twitter originally
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Josef bugman posted:I hope that if Labour becomes a better place for everyone that you folks feel able to come back. Keep safe and keep fighting the good fight. Sure, it won't though. There's too many transphobes in the PLP, far too many in the CLPs and no-one's paying any attention to turfing them out.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's this 'Karen' thing? I feel I have missed something.  feedmegin posted:Also, white - I think it's from black twitter originally
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm asking the question already knowing the answer in my heart, but you can't get UC/JSA if you quit your job, can you? Even if you quit because your company is forcing you not only to come in to work when there's nothing to do, but threatening to dock your wages if you're not in exactly 9-5 even though that means you have to travel on public transport at the busiest time? you can claim straight away, but if the DWP don’t accept that your reason for quitting was good enough your first 3 months will be sanctioned. no idea how the situation you’ve described would play out. but if they can afford the 20% pay cut for going on the government furlough scheme that could be a better option if the company accepts the suggestion
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Guavanaut posted:Good news, another contributor figured out a way to do it that's relatively hobbyist proof! Ah good good, I didn't think it would need to be very complicated. The ones I've seen on commercial masks are pretty simple. Literally just a flap of flexible rubbery stuff which is mounted in such a way that it blows open from one direction and sucks closed with airflow the opposite way. Admittedly yeah you need a rubber washer or flap made from a different kind of material, but there are components companies out there like Essentra who sell those things by the 100,000 - I've used Essentra for stuff before, most of their stuff has "In stock - 130,217" or whatever.
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crispix posted:Well, so long as it's dignified and orderly At least they're still in boxes.
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Looke posted:Yes you can Cerv posted:you can claim straight away, but if the DWP don’t accept that your reason for quitting was good enough your first 3 months will be sanctioned. Thanks both, I wasn't asking about a specific person, more a composite of a couple of people I know in broadly similar situations (which suggests there are probably tens of thousands in similar or worse positions).
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