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Pence said, “We’re going to have a president again who will never say what we’ll never do.”
Yay! The President can crush innocent children’s tes ticles again! So awesome!
I can only imagine how powerful that makes some really insecure people feel.
The irony of Malcolm’s post (with his own select choice of imagery) is most assuredly lost on Malcolm, who remains the Trump of this blog (except winning any competition save perhaps “arse of the year” and the like).
his own select choice of imagery
Ah, what short memories you racist torture-luvving wingnxts have ….
You are doing that over-personalizing thing again…
You are doing that under-objecting to maniacs and fascists thing again.
Speaking of which:
[Leading alt-right ideologue Richard Spencer] railed against Jews and, with a smile, quoted N a z i propaganda in the original German. America, he said, belonged to white people, whom he called the “children of the sun,” a race of conquerors and creators who had been marginalized but now, in the era of President-elect Donald J. Trump, were “awakening to their own identity.”
As he finished, several audience members had their arms outstretched in a N a z i salute. When Mr. Spencer, or perhaps another person standing near him at the front of the room — it was not clear who — shouted, “Heil the people! Heil victory,” the room shouted it back.
And the major platform for white supremacists? It’s run by Trump’s chief strategist.
But … more jobs! And stronger patents! Yay!
MM bra they making you a new town:
link to yahoo.com
Remember last week when 6 got himself all lathered up thinking about the origin of the word “feminism”?
I do.
So … who popularized the term “alt-right”? Answer: Richard Spencer. The N a z i.
Nobody could have predicted that.
“So … who popularized the term “alt-right”? Answer: Richard Spencer. The N a z i.”
Ok? Who cares? I can tell you’re all worked up about the alt-right MM, at your media’s behest no doubt, but I personally don’t really care about them. There’s like 10k of them in the whole world, tops. More like 1k is more realistic. That’s probably less than the other fringe “nazi” groups, neonazis etc. They’re like the nicer softer lite version of a supremacist group. We just want white people safe spaces” < actual paraphrase of the alt-right. Just because Breitbart was the first one to give them literally any mainstream recognition (after they already existed for like a decade+ without anyone even noticing them) doesn't mean much, they're an actual news organization that collects you know, "news" about stuff happening. I note also that NPR looks like it's hot on Breitbart's tail of covering them.
Tell you what MM, if you will join me in taking down the millions of feminazis then when we are done I will join you in squelching the few rooms full as hats at alt right conferences. Sound like a deal? Or did the "really smert womens" you've known (been gynocentrically brainwashed by) since you were 9 foreclose that opportunity for you?
Also, here's a little something up your alley I saw the other day, it's about what is apparently the biggest bubble in the world atm. You like big bubbles in economics. (be sure to shout RAYCIST during the vid)
link to youtube.com
Here’s a nice vid for you M of the big heart M. Here’s what happens when you have an open borders policy that’s super nice to “immigrants”. These are african migrants in the video, they are doing as a lot of migrants do around coast guard ships sinking their own boat to get a ferry service to the EU mainland. Except, opps, this isn’t a coastguard boat, it’s just a Arabic fishing boat that isn’t going to help them (probably can’t even if they wanted to). So they all drown.
link to youtube.com
Let me know the intersection with patent law, Malcolm.
There are plenty of other sites for what seems to possess you. May I suggest that you spend your time there. Everyone would be better off.
I had to read a zillion comments on this blog about Obama being responsible for “anti patent” judges and corrupt PTO directors who were bought and paid for by giant corporations.
Now the rightwing money grubbers have elected a misogynist white supremacist fraud who whines and moans about “political correctness” out of one side of his moutth while tweeting that we shouldn’t boo his soci 0path vice president. And the guy this fraud nominated as an attorney general is a racist slimeb@g.
And apparently we aren’t allowed to talk about this. Really? LOL
Place your bets, folks.
Both can be true. Maybe you need to grow and understand that everything you just wrote about Obama can be true and everything you just wrote about Trump can be true. Or do they not allow you to have mature opinions at your paid blogging job?
Pretty sad state of affairs. We have become Rome in the falling years. The realty is that Obama was a terrible president. The intellectual left sure thinks so. I don’t know of any intellectual that has anything good to say about Trump other than he knows how to play the new reality game of win the presidency.
Obama was a terrible president. The intellectual left sure thinks so.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
OK. Zero content again.
NWPA I don’t know of any intellectual that has anything good to say about Trump other than he knows how to play the new reality game of win the presidency.
But I know at least one m0 uthbreather commenting here who was super excited about Trump’s judicial nominees.
Any memories of that, NWPA?
The justices we are likely to get from Trump are likely going to be better than from HRC.
No doubt about it.
Everybody following along?
NWPA: I don’t know of any intellectual that has anything good to say about Trump
NWPA: The justices we are likely to get from Trump are likely going to be better
Of course, we already that NPWA wasn’t an intellectual. Most underperforming kindergartners aren’t.
Empty ad hominem with zero connection to patents, patent law, or anything even remotely related to either.
Prof. Crouch, maybe a better muzzle is in order.
But may MM you will rethink your defense of the likes of Lemley and the anti-patent judicial activists. I have been saying for years now that this is not going to turn out well if people like Lemley are allowed to write papers with bad cites and that intentionally misrepresent facts and the law.
It is a race to the bottom with the means and at this point the ends seem to be all hidden agendas.
Want the country back? Condemn the SCOTUS for Alice (which is clearly unconstitutional). Condemn the anti-patent judicial activist not for their ends, but their means.
Lemley and the like created Trump. I have been saying for years that this was going to happen unless the means were policed.
Lemley and the like created Trump.
Good. L0rd.
The st 0 0pit. It burns.
“It is a race to the bottom with the means and at this point the ends seem to be all hidden agendas.”
I wouldn’t say it’s all that hidden brasef. The corporate “progressive” agenda has been well and truly seen and “exposed” over the last few years.
Lol – but look at the rampant denials of that self same corporate agenda, 6.
It very much be like “hiding in plain sight.”
“Lol – but look at the rampant denials of that self same corporate agenda, 6.”
Who is denying it?
Malcolm, for instance, 6.
Plus plenty of echoes.
It very much be
LOL
Good old, “anon.” Still working on his “serious” shtick like a diligent 8 year old.
And yet another mindless ad hominem post..,
Yay ecosystem
Malcolm,
You STILL are not getting that this is a patent blog.
You disdain comments about politics which have patent connections, and rail ad nauseum on things politic with no patent connections.
Talk about your false equivalencies….
politics which have patent connections
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wait a minute ….
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Anon, for serial question, should memes be patent eligible if they can be demonstrated to have actual irl “magical” (read “mental”) utility?
link to youtube.com
You are going to have to be more specific than a mere link to a 20 minute youtube video.
At the very end where the alt right dude in a white tee is trying to look cool and is talking about using pepe (a meme) and “meme magic” aka the spreading/changing/etc of symbols (here pepe) to promote (and accomplish) the changing of a society by literally changing the thoughts in people’s heads. If they do a new meme (symbols, images etc) to intentionally change people’s thoughts and mold society intentionally should it be patent eligible?
As I understand your explanation, you have not left the “TOTALLY in the mind” realm and thus you have not worked yourself into the type of utility (the Useful Arts) that you need for patent eligibility.
Perhaps though if you have invented “molding tools” you may have something (much like playing a violin is not eligible, but the process of making, or the innovation of a new instrument would both be eligible).
Does that answer your question?
““TOTALLY in the mind” realm ”
“Pepe” is a cartoon frog, with thousands or millions of pics drawn of him, statues made of him, etc. But memes come in many physical forms. And, let’s just presume that it becomes “common knowledge” to “one skilled in the meme art” that indeed x y or z meme did in fact shape the culture or society a b or c way and nobody doubts this as a factual matter. Are shaping culture/society not a “utility” under the patent lawls?
“Does that answer your question?”
Not really.
Observe one of many thousands or millions of pepe’s embodiments (he’s the green one next to trump):
http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/trump-clinton-and-the-deplorable-picture-x750-800×430.jpg
Also see statue:
link to img.ifcdn.com
Done with links, 6. Perhaps you can summarize?
The links are a digital picture of pepe and a statute of pepe (or a frog that looks like pepe which kids are attributing to being pepe).
It’s just two links, just click them, takes like 5 sec.
digital picture and a statute….?
Sounds like Fine Arts to me…
Whew at 14-18 min people not knowing what equity is has now come home to roost and the left has hijacked it. Coming soon to a leftist near you.
link to youtube.com
Question for the Republican patent maximalists:
Should the black people you want to keep from voting be allowed to apply for patents without first presenting a voter ID to the PTO? There are arguments on both sides. So let’s discuss them! Because you’re s00per serious people and we don’t have to worry about “political correctness” anymore. Right?
Also, what do you Republican patent maximalists propose that we do with women examiners at the PTO who are “crazy” because they are menstruating or they are on birth control? Should we require that they put their cycle information in their Office Actions? It seems there are arguments on both sides so let’s have a sooper serious discussion about it.
Yes, my rich patent attorney Republican peers: this is the awesome “change” you voted for when you elected a white supremacist misogynist maniac. Enjoy the tax break!
What does voting have to do with applying for patents…
a) given the number of foreign filers, and
b) the excessively thin veneer being used to (yet again) whine about things politic?
Isn’t enough enough Prof. Crouch?
What does voting have to do with applying for patents…
It’s about fraud and the people most likely to engage in fraud. Republicans have identified those people with surgical precision (<-exact words used by Federal judge) and they are (surprise!) poor minorities. You missed that somehow?
This is about protecting the PTO from fraudsters — as identified by the Republican party.
What's the matter, "anon"? Don't you care about fraud on the patent office? Have you no respect for our institutions?
I don't see why you don't want to have this discussion. Is it somehow not "politically correct" to dicuss this, "anon"? If black people are rigging elections and committing voter fraud, it seems reasonable to conclude they would also seek to defraud the PTO. Why don't you want to talk about this? It was important enough for Republicans to pass legislation all across the country. But we can't talk about black people and their fraudulent ways here? Really?
Seems kind of hypocritical, "anon." What's your position on black people and their s00per fraudy ways anyway? Step up and proclaim your beliefs. Nothing's stopping you.
I absolutely did miss it Malcolm as I look here for discussions of patent law instead of focusing (as you do obviously) on non patent law politics.
Fraud on the patent office is one thing – your continued political rants under thin veneer are quite another.
Hence the call to Prof. Crouch.
You really have gotten out of hand with your whining (no matter how anyone feels about race issues).
MM, unfortunately, I think your views are reflective of where the Democratic Party is today. Otherwise we could dismiss your deranged rants out of hand.
“deranged rants” — that is how I feel about your 101 arguments Ned.
Question for you anti-patent judicial activists.
The inventors that you want to take their inventions from, is it because you want them to be poor so you can bugger them?
Because patent law is an aspect of the law:
[Jeff Sessions, t]he man who President-elect Donald Trump will nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United States was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a black attorney “boy,” suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor, joked that the only issue he had with the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use, and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American” organizations trying to “force civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them.”
Sessions has been normalized by his two decades of service in the Senate (such an outsider!), but his views are more than a little bit outside the mainstream. Just in the last several years, he opposed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, efforts to remove the Confederate battle flag from display on state property, and the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.
Sessions defended Trump on his “grab them by the p-ssy” comments in a way that speaks directly to his qualifications as attorney general: “I don’t characterize that as sexual assault,” Sessions told The Weekly Standard in the spin room after Sunday night’s presidential debate.
If you voted for the mis0gynist white supermacist maniac, then you own all of this. Because it was all perfectly predictable. But enjoy stuffing that money into your pockets, all you s00per serious s0ftware patent loving patent attorneys! And it’s so “uncivilized” to keep pointing this stuff out to people. After all, you make the world go around. You told us so!
Oh, and lest anyone doubts the intimate relationship between the patent maximalists and the “policies” of the mis0gynist white supremacist maniac who’s leading the Republican party, just walk over to Quinn’s blog and read the comments.
Keep on lumping everyone together no matter what they may believe, Malcolm.
Tell everyone what you believe, “anon.”
And try to do it honestly. Nobody believes you supported Bernie Sanders for 1 second so you don’t have to waste your time with that silliness.
Pretty much everything you say and do here is entirely consistent with you supporting the white supremacist elect and his policies, except to the extent that he isn’t going far enough for you. You act just like the guy, with your path0logical l y ing and false equivalence bal 0ney, all in behalf of the effort to line your own pocket.
Do you want to whine about “political correctness” some more, “anon”? Because gosh knows you’re a s00per persecuted guy. I remember when you spent two solid years in these comment threads accusing me of being a racist. Remember that, “anon”? Good times.
Your wanting to speak for anyone else is a preposterous way to start your whining rant Malcolm.
Especially as you are the cite’s least honest person EVER.
Further, what I “accused you” of was nothing more than the factual matter that only two people ever used the “N” word, that being 6 and you. I then (as you conveniently forget) modified that to 6 being the one to use the “N” word and you being the one that defended 6’s use (as it turned out that those of us more vocal in being pro-patent were the ones aghast at 6’s use on these boards – and your defense was likely just a knee-JE RK reaction against those not having the same feelings as you).
But such facts only get in the way of your rants (as usual).
So yes, I remember that situation quite well, thank you.
Bernie sides with Trump Brosefulus.
link to npr.org
Isn’t that what racists do?
So let’s see, back in the day Sessions made racially insensitive remarks (like Clinton and her hordes did as well), talked not entirely hostilely to the Klan (like Clinton and her hordes did as well), referred to the use of gubmit power/arms to implement civil rights laws as literally what they were/are, attempts to force the implementation of civil rights on those that don’t want them (because those that did want them didn’t need the law to force them to do anything), noting at the time that as of that time such nonsense was certainly fundamentally un Merican (a fact about the culture of the time). And he has since gone nigh the mainstream flow of tots not being RAYCIST. But he’s still a RAYCIST while Hillary and her hordes are now totally NOT RAYCIST (they’re tots reformed). This being because they wear a liberal pin on their lapel that makes an “I’M NOT A RAYCIST” field.
“. Just in the last several years, he opposed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, efforts to remove the Confederate battle flag from display on state property, and the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law”
Further he opposed [insert se xist act here] so he’s totally a MISOGYNISM, and efforts on behalf of the federal gov to tell state govs what they can put on their property (again SO RAYCIST), and he opposed the repeal of the “if you’re gay just don’t tell us and we won’t ask and nobody will care” law for the military which makes him TOTS AF EARED OF HOM OS (So he’s a HOM OP HOBICISM).
Further, he is an actual lawlyer who does not characterize grabbing women that allow you to grab them by their ho ha as s ex ual assault (which again makes him a total SEXIT IME ISMIST and MYSOGYN ISM IST).
And, if we voted for Trump we have to “own” all of this guy’s past deeds.
We’re loling at you MM. And we lol at your ID politics. But do keep “reminding” us how how funny you are while the rest of us concentrate on MAGAing.
I still think the patent maximalists around here are thinking too small when it comes to Trump’s pick for PTO Director.
Why not Peter Corcoran, or Erich Spengenberg, or Jay Mack Rust, or Nathan Myrvhold? I mean, just go for it. What could go wrong? The worst that happens is that in four years the system is fubar’d so completely beyond recognition that Congress pulls the plug and does a complete reb00t.
But in the meantime, think of all the cash that the patent attorneys and the b0ttom feeders can make! It’ll make the previous ten years look like peanxts! And when Congress rewrites the statutes, the remaining guys I listed above who weren’t named Director can help write the statutes.
It’s just power and money, after all. None of this affects ordinary people who have to buy stuff, or people who would like to program their own programmable computers to process information using rules and logic in some particular context (like running a business). And who really cares about those people anyway? If they’re not on board, then they’re just lazy copyists who don’t understand techn0logy. Or they’re Amish.
Special note to Ned Heller: has Trump appointed enough cronies and professional DC vermin for you yet? Sk-mbag big0t Jeff Sessions for AG? Michael “Muslims are Scary!” Flynn for National Security Adviser? When’s the tipping point, Ned?
You do realize that some of us have been pointing out the problems with the system already – quite apart from your “everyone in the same bucket” rants…
While he is overqualified for the job, I recommend Adam Mossoff as the next PTO Director. He supported the petitions of Cooper and MCM with briefs arguing that patents were property and not public rights. This is the kind of guy I want in the government advising on patent policy.
link to law.gmu.edu
Mossoff is an academic that I can respect.
What does he think of 101? If it is like Ned, then no way. Ned still talks about witches and other abstractions in his head rather than patent law.
Note that MM’s brains are evi1 and mine are good.
Well, Night, I had no idea that I and the Supreme Court of the United States are practicers of witchcraft for following the law. I wonder what it would be like if witches were not so law abiding?
But, go and find out what Mossoff’s position is?
It is NOT “following the law” that make you a practitioner of the dark arts.
Clearly Ned, what is being referred to is the LACK of respect for the separation of powers and the broken score board that the judicial branch has rendered to the statutory law that was written expressly by Congress.
Ned, you recommended him. So, you should know his position on 101. I seem to remember that his views are not metaphysical as yours are.
And, Ned, just because you are a lot scary looking than me doesn’t mean you can order me about. We are a blog of laws.
He supported the petitions of Cooper and MCM with briefs arguing that patents were property and not public rights
Is that what those poor persecuted unemployed white rust belt Republicans want? More money and power to lawyers and other wealthy elites?
Fascinating to watch this play out. And so unpredictable!
As is your spiel and ven0m towards your own profession.
MM, you might want to consider that it is you who side with the rich, wealthy and largely white elites, sneering, as you do, at common folk who shop at Walmart because they are out of a j0b or live hand to mouth.
The individual inventor, the startup, the university cannot afford a patent examination/grant system that today costs upwards on $million just to get a patent into a “bullet-proof” condition to be enforced in a court of law. The system you advocate is a system where only the very wealthy can play. You sneer at those who are trying to protect their inventions and stand up to such enormous power by calling these small fry rich, white and probably racist. This is grotesque.
MM, you have no idea how this mantra of yours sounds to others.
I have pointed out to him that his mantra against software is a mantra against the form of innovation MOST accessible by the non-wealthy.
All he does is the same thing he has done for a full decade now.
Happy Decade of Decadence