Brain falls on floor, gets squashed

So let's see, the PM of Sweden declaring randomly that some dude who isn't Swede and may or may not have had inappropriate touchings with Swedish ladies is "public enemy number uno" in Sweden can be somehow justified because....

- There is a difference between Sweden and the US

- Nations are interconnected in "some fashion or another"

- Destabilizing political power has consequences on the economy

- Gov's agree that Assange is an ass.

Yes. Brilliant. Paris, please.

You fail

For using "US government" and "legal right" in the same sentence.

Unless you were born after 2000.

Get out of here, Stalker!

That was too easy.

No.

Look up "Non-accelerated frame of reference".

If you need assistance, ask you school teacher about it!

Then come back to post again.

Rent seekers gonna seek rent.

The problem is not "bad patents". The problem is the existence of state-granted market-entry denial thingamabobs like "patents" in the first place.

In the best case, it's a tax that self-proclaimed inventors can pull in from companies that actually make the effort to go to market. In the worst, it's a writ to enable some cretin to keep others in the stone age.

"ZOMG torrent please"

That would be "stuxnet, (c) 2008 Pinky & The Brain"

Give it up, man.

Sappeur won't take over the world even you post in every Reg article.

"someone's hard work *has* been ripped-off"

Someone doesn't understand what a "patent" is all about.

Go educate yourself, greenhorn.

Remember when software patents where still a gleam in lawyers' and other boardroom sociopaths' eyes and bureaucrats from the USPTO as well as politicians hungry for free food and wine were picking up on the idea?

Most sane people though the idea ridiculous.

It's been downhill ever since.

No.

Everyone alive since the 70's "xeroxes". Because the Xerox Copier owned the market at one stage.

Young ones may not be aware that this was the case...

And there is also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RanXerox for those who read 70's Sci-Fi pulp mags.

We have been there before

As Murray Rothbard wrote in 1979:

As the debate intensified, the answer to this puzzle became all too clear: these soothsayers and space cadets don't really care all that much for liberty. They don't in fact, care very much for the real world or reality. What motivates them is not the prospect of liberty but spinning phantom scenarios of the never-never land of Eden. (...)

But this is indeed a religion — it is not a political philosophy, and it sure as hell is not political action. Yet libertarians have not come to promise human beings a technocratic utopia; we have come to bring everyone freedom, the freedom of each individual to pursue whatever his or her dreams of the future may be. Or even to have no vision of the future. Libertarianism is surely not all of life; it brings the gift of political freedom to every person to pursue his own goals. His goals, not ours. To call — as a political party — for a specific vision of the future, the space-cadet vision, implies that that particular goal is going to be imposed on everyone, whether they like it or not.

This is not freedom: it is totalitarianism. Primitivists, after all, have rights too. They too should have the freedom, if they wish, to live unmolested on their own. Thus, neither primitivists nor space cultists should be given a forum within the Libertarian Party to promote and impose their own favorite level of technology.

To put it succinctly: the goal of libertarianism is freedom, period. No more and no less. Anything less is a betrayal; but anything more is equally a betrayal of liberty, because it implies imposing our own goals on others. To be a libertarian must mean that one upholds liberty as the highest political end not necessarily one's highest personal end. To confuse the issue, to mix in any sort of vision — technocratic or futuristic or any other — with politics, is to abandon liberty as that highest political goal, and at the very least to destroy the very meaning of a political movement or organization.

Oddly enough, space and the space program — which the great revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes aptly termed the "moondoggle" and "astrobaloney'! — is precisely the area where the government has exercised total domination. Such futurist heroes of our "libertarian" space cultists as Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill are government-financed scientists and researchers whose projected "space colonies" will not be the "free space colonies" of our space cultists' dreams but projects totally planned and operated by the federal government. Yet instead of engaging in sober critiques of the governmental space program, our space cadets embrace these state futurists as virtually their own.

http://mises.org/daily/4491

In that case...

...you could reverse-filter them.

ISP shall be required to add meta-tags to any outgoing HTTP traffic from mumsnet members.

"Assisted selection"

There's an app for that!

COBOL *is* mighty!

Like the Force or Dark Matter, it pervades the Universe and controls your bank account.

But GiTS had a good storyline

Also, Fujikomas.

I blame unions.

California according to Gary North:

1. A gigantic debt

2. A gigantic annual deficit

3. A declining school system

4. High unemployment

5. A rotten business climate (48th worst)

Now add:

6. Sheer bloody-mindedness in nonzero-risk situations

Because Nature doesn't work with equations but equations model it...

There do not seem to be "actual infinities" cropping up in real life, so the idea to smell the brimstone when your equation breaks down is a good one. E.g. in General Relativity, you have infinities at Black Hole centers. But this is most probably unphysical - in real life "in the small, and at extreme curvature", spacetime may undergo state transitions so that the equations of GR are no longer applicable at all and you have to switch to something else. Take a look at Chemistry where some equations are applicable "generally", but once things heat up and get too energetic, you better invent new math to describe what happens.

Wilzek on SUSY is here:

http://video.ias.edu/stream&ref=409

Very nice.

Apparently some kind of event...

...whereby participants are encouraged to give their brain stems the shaky treatment by smashing heads together.

Apparently ads are also shown.

Call to protect my ruined PS3 experience spotted, film at 11

The paycheck from Sony will clear, I'm sure.

Inspecteur La Bavure

I the police was doing something they would probably have shot the twin brother at point-blank range. Mistaken identity etc..

Good to hear that

Reg. Checks. Not.

"Too Big To Fail"

Her Imperial Cluelessness hasn't been her of yet. Let the Imperial Vice President speak:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0127/Joe-Biden-says-Egypt-s-Mubarak-no-dictator-he-shouldn-t-step-down

Asked if he would characterize Mubarak as a dictator Biden responded: “Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing relationship with – with Israel. … I would not refer to him as a dictator.”

(...) Mr. Biden's comments are unlikely to be well-received by regime opponents, as they fit a narrative of steadfast US support for a government they want to bring down. About eight protesters and one policeman have died this week as Egypt has sought to bring down the heavy hand of the state against opponents. Since the US provides about $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt a year, the repressive apparatus of the state is seen by many in Egypt as hand in glove with the US.

Nope

You ask the European Central Bank for some help.

It then socializes the cost over Europe by printing money and ratcheting up inflation.