Re: Making money from Java

"Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 90% of patents are registered in the US? How many of those are for
> perpetual motion machines (one was recently patented in the US)

Wow, Alistair, are you being serious? :-) For a very long time (maybe since
the 1800's) it has been the official policy of the US Pattent Office to
reject all "perpetual motion" ideas without any review. The last time I
looked there was such a statement on their website. :-)

> and how
> many for discoveries made elsewhere (such as the UK) and brought to the
> US? And how many of those were patented in the US simply because
> nowhere else allows patenting on that product/concept?

As I said, the 90% are for processes developed *in* the US. One
insignificant little US invention that wasn't patented is this thing we are
using right now, called the Internet. :-)

> Sorry if people think that I'm beginning to sound a little anti-US but
> I am pro-US and would/have forgiven the US for much of the wrong that
> it has done the UK and the world over the years. I just can't help
> think that there is something wrong with a president who believes that
> he has the (God-given) right to bomb a free press office (Al Jazeera)
> in an allied countries' territory (Doha in Qatar).

>From that disclaimer, Alistair, you must appear to be anti-US, even to
yourself. :-)

Does that "wrong the US has done" include our 5% of the world's population
sending more aid to suffering people around the world than all the other 95%
combined? :-)

Like so many others, you seem to easily overlook or take for granted the
vast good the US does, then nitpick us to death over the few bad things. No
country is perfect, but there isn't a country in the world that comes
remotely close to doing as much for others as the US. Some of the most
prosperous countries in the world are countries who made themselves enemies
that we had to defeat, after which we immediately proceeded to rebuild. No
country in history has shown the mercy, compassion and generosity toward
defeated enemies as the US. But do we get credit for that? Of course not, we
get castigated because we didn't do it *perfectly*, denounced as children
demanding our way if we try to promote our agendas (as if everybody else
doesn't promote theirs!), and slammed for our every mistake and failure. Not
fair, Alistair, not fair. :-)
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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