Dude… you are posting nonsense. I have close to two dozen patents. My company pays through the nose … first the resources- labor and capital expenses- for me to perform the research, then for the labor to go through internal reviews of scientists, engineers, and marketing people… second, the patent attorney fees that they charge to work with me on the actual application to the USPTO… third, the USPTO fees, and then finally if a patent is granted there are patent maintenance fees if you want to keep that patent. And that does not cover one cent of the cost of defending the company’s claim to the patent if there is a dispute. For my patents, which all have defense applications, the government has royalty free use of the patent. So it is to the government’s benefit mostly.
Did the leftist hive narrative start including a section on patents as a form of welfare? Those who repeat the narrative almost always end up running away from their posts, looking like fools. Looks like you are trying to follow in those footsteps. I would advise against it.
Imagine if we had no patents. A person has an idea, puts the idea into production at great cost. Price the product to reflect his cost and profit.
A large corporation reverse engineers the product and begins production in an existing facility undercutting the inventors price.
The person who has time, and possibly costs in the invention loses everything and the corporation wins big time with little cost.
The other side is a song was released and had more than 7 nots in a row and the artist was sued by the originator with their 7 notes under music copyright law. The artist lost and paid millions even though the song was nothing like the original song.
The question is is the law to strict? Are patents which take 3 years to strict and limit competition? In China I went into one of their stores. The has a kids T-shirt that had a picture of Donald duck, their version had a WALT Risney logo similar to the Walt Disney logo and the name on the shirt was Ronald Duck. Clearly a patent infringement and little could be done about it.
I made an impromptu thread about gender roles and how biological based strategies for societal pressure are different for each gender, also why they shouldn’t overlap.
As I said, I do flatly oppose all inheritance taxes. The state should have no basis to basically assert a right of inheritance just because we live under it … it isn’t the King.
But besides that: why only fungible you ask?
Because if non-fungible assets are taxed, and it is often the case that the estate is relatively cash poor (that the value is in the land, the business etc. dominate by wide margin) what happens and the damnable leeches of the takerment are breathing down your neck for their take as they appoint themselves right of a heir?
But if you reformed that by only allowing fungible assets to be taxed concern about loosing the family farm or business goes away. No matter how valuable these may be they are not included.
Only assets that are by their nature liquid would be subject to inheritance taxes.
Okay. So you paid the government to give you a license to extort money from others.
Intellectual property is really not topic that anyone who does not already have a strong interest in it talks about. The ACLU in the BRCA cases, the EFF, the free software community, Google geeks, IP Watchdog, and certain pro-paatent entitled brats are a few of those groups that do talk about it.
Oh, I’m not running away. But why are you coming at me with a gun for those “licensing fees”?
That’s my position just without the interjected slip into mania. The non-fungible stuff can have sentimental value to people. I think that’s important to care about.
Well, as an alternative to relying on the USPTO records and attorneys, my company could simply destroy anyone that attempts to use the ideas that I patent without paying and send leather winged demons to eat the hearts of those who say they invented it first.
Don’t have the children if you can’t afford them. When I was president of the local school board parents would meet with me to bitch about their kids making failing grades. First words out of their mouths was the teachers were being too hard on them and loading them up with homework.
My suggestion was maybe spend more time with your children helping them study. All hell would break out. Their excuse was they both had to work to make ends meet and never had the time to spend working with their children. That was the job of the school, not theirs.
But most of these parents were driving new cars, sporting the best cell phones and living in houses that cost way too much for them to afford. What can you say to these parent’s that would get them to understand? Not a damn thing.
I actually had teachers who were reading the newspaper in the corner instead of teaching. Because they were concerned with educating and not just there to earn a paycheck, I’m sure. Are all teachers like that? No. But there are enough of them to validate at least some of the complaints from parents who want their kids to actually get an education.
Me, personally, I’d rather do away with public education altogether. It’s another government waste and it’s failing. If employers need an educated workforce, let them pay for it. Then when the educators fail, those employers can hold them accountable. What can you do when a public school teacher fails to teach your kids? It’s not like you can get them fired. You can’t really pull your kids out of the school either, unless you move. Why do you think there have been more and more parents saying fuck public education and homeschooling over the years instead?
Back in the days of the early 1980’s and maybe into the 1990’s…we didn’t have this absurd issues about Gender Roles. This is what happens when you have those on the left trying to shove this garbage down our throats. AS IF…now we have to “respect” those “women who want to be men” and vice versa.
I understand it is their God-given right to choose. But it isn’t their God-given to decide what God gave you. The reason why these people aren’t “happy” for being what they are…they should appreciate who they are.
A number of years ago I watched a shrives, Roswell.
Last night in Netflix thy had the remake. What a sick reproduction of a family series. This is what Hollywood is all about today, sick twisted people trying to dump their beliefs on everyone else. As a side note target has a new shirt for their employees. Top half of the Target logo is a rainbow.