"I saw [Twilight: Eclipse] in theaters with a girl I was dating at the time. I spent more time staring at my toes and wiggling them than I did watching this abomination. When Edward proposed to Blank Face, I finally looked up with a revelation.
I blurted out loud, in a dead silent theater full of teenage girls on opening night "Wait a minute, Edward has no blood flow. How does he get an erection?" I heard several men laughing, and had several girls turn and stare at me.
I did not get laid that night." - Berengier817
I blurted out loud, in a dead silent theater full of teenage girls on opening night "Wait a minute, Edward has no blood flow. How does he get an erection?" I heard several men laughing, and had several girls turn and stare at me.
I did not get laid that night." - Berengier817
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^I agree that it shackles scientific evolution.
It will probably get easier to get screwed over if you invent something without patents though.
It will probably get easier to get screwed over if you invent something without patents though.
"every now and again you come across a game that has so little emotional connection to who you are that you end up standing there, gazing at the screen and saying "I'm just pressing buttons and my life has no meaning,"" - Colin Campbell
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Searz wrote:
^I agree that it shackles scientific evolution.
It will probably get easier to get screwed over if you invent something without patents though.
Well, at best what would happen is that, for example, you make a new cellphone with a new technology and other companies would use that technology on their next generation of cellphones. You would still have gotten that head start.
Besides, there's plenty of people who get screwed over by selling their patents to a company who the doesn't want to use them. For example, my chemistry teacher invented a chemical literally a thousand times more powerful than morfine. This enabled hospitals to dilute it to 1/1000 of it's concentration and get incredibly cheap anesthetics. What the morphine companies did was buy the patent and then never use it so they could keep making money selling morphine. The new substance was so cheap that it wouldn't be profitable for them.
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http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227
Someone actually managed to patent a way of using a swing.
So every time somebody uses a swing that way, they'd be forced to pay a royalty fee.
I don't even...........
Luckily, the patent was later invalidated, but the fact that it got validated in the first place is just insane.
If stuff like that is allowed I might as well patent the use of rectangular screens or the use of glass to protect a screen, or how about "Several still pictures in a sequence, to mimic movement." which basically means that I'd have patented animation.