You can't sue people for violations of your patent if they don't actually commercialize it.

Well, you could, but you'll just get laughed out of court and end up paying for all the patent lawyers.

Why shouldn't it be? It's an unique way of doing something that people may find useful. If they do then the creator gets some profit from it. Isn't that the whole point of patents?

Wow. Winnipeg MB must be really damned cold.

I use dialup/stolen wireless, you insensitive clod!

Is better reading comprehension supposed to help me magically work out your unsourced statistics and thereby find myself in agreement with your conclusion?

By the way, not counting the opinions of political criminals and radical dissidents, the PRC has the highest citizen satisfaction rating, and is therefore obviously the best place in the world to live.

...What?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

Not even close to the highest.

The official record speed is the average over two runs.

I mean, seriously? What'd you expect?

Can you click on two things at once with a mouse? How about four? Ten?

Try thinking outside the box sometimes.

Huh? You didn't have to memorize 1s 2p etc in high school chemistry?

That's ludicrous. Does using lithium-ion battery packs instead of gas in cars admit that lithium-ion is a more effective tech for storing energy than gasoline is?

(It's not, in case if you're puzzled by the analogy.)

How is that a result of betrayed trust?

The only one you can blame for how your money does "in the market" is yourself.

I think the only conclusion we can draw from your anecdotes is that your workplace is full of idiots.

If only Japan could somehow magically create more open, unfarmable, and uninhabited land where the turbines could be placed without taking away already scarce farm land or slowly deafen anyone within a kilometer!

I'll admit that it was a momentarily amusing thought with no solid base, and that there are obviously a thousand other factors involved, but you're actually the one that's completely wrong.

Are you suggesting that they all have... higher murder rates instead? Does Slashdot not understand basic mathematical relationships anymore?

Inversely proportional means one stat goes up as the other goes down. The US has a higher homicide rate and a lower execution rate than the other four countries, therefore the relationship between homicide rate and execution rate is inversely proportional. This place used to have math nerds...