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I don't follow the USA too closely, but I'm wondering if some Trump friend is cracking on the USPTO yet?
I mean, Musk and his crackers are getting rid of USAID, FDA, CDC, NIH, Department of Education, and assorted public services.
Trump is also behind changes to FTC, FCC, pentagon, and whatnot.

I mean I guess the patent office is self funding, crooks pay for their monopolies and for their licenses to sue people out of business, but now that they are at it, they could close it too, couldn't they ?
If not for government efficiency, at least to keep entertained some Trump friends who are likely out of jail. Storming the USPTO should be about as much fun for all those retards as the Capitol or what's their notion?

Are they going out of the TRIPS, Berne, etc like they are going out of WHO, WTO, etc. ? They already got out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, can't they get out of the Paris Convention from 1883 ?
 
I don't follow the USA too closely, but I'm wondering if some Trump friend is cracking on the USPTO yet?
I mean, Musk and his crackers are getting rid of USAID, FDA, CDC, NIH, Department of Education, and assorted public services.
Trump is also behind changes to FTC, FCC, pentagon, and whatnot.

I mean I guess the patent office is self funding, crooks pay for their monopolies and for their licenses to sue people out of business, but now that they are at it, they could close it too, couldn't they ?
If not for government efficiency, at least to keep entertained some Trump friends who are likely out of jail. Storming the USPTO should be about as much fun for all those retards as the Capitol or what's their notion?

Are they going out of the TRIPS, Berne, etc like they are going out of WHO, WTO, etc. ? They already got out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, can't they get out of the Paris Convention from 1883 ?
How I look at it:
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Well, I'm disappointed that the Linux Foundation, or even the FSF isn't already suing the White House for insider trading and favoritism. I hear they're imposing tariffs on islands only inhabited by penguins, but no tariffs on imports from Mars or the Moon.
The trade imbalance between the imports of Mars Sample Return (if it ever materialises) in one side and exports of Curiosity, Perseverance, and all the gadgetry may seem favorable to USA, but I bet that's still more imports than from Norfolk island, who got tariffs imposed. That's an obvious favor to SpaceX, Blue Origin and friends. Expect guano prices through the roofs in retaliation, once those penguins hold their next meeting (although that might be low impact, I doubt the USA needs any more dung right now, unless consumers there prefer overseas exquisitessen over government provided rations).
 
The objective of tariffs is re-shoring which benefits factory workers and hurts multinational corporations. It hurts Tesla.
 
The objective of tariffs is re-shoring which benefits factory workers and hurts multinational corporations. It hurts Tesla.
It's also an indirect way of attacking Russia by forcing OPEC to produce more oil, lowering it's price. The US should hope it yields long term results as for the short term everyone is impacted.
 
The objective of tariffs is re-shoring which benefits factory workers and hurts multinational corporations. It hurts Tesla.
I was joking. I'm not against tariffs. I'm more or less against globalization. I just found funny how they did them, and I never trust rich people caring for poor people, so I always suspect underhand deals and legal uncertanity as a way to wield undue power.
But the rumors about LLMs generating the tariff plan are kind of fun. I mean, they'd be better if a nobel prize on economy had advised Trump, but if he can only afford Musk and ChatGPT, then, well, that still must be better than Trump alone, I guess.
 
I am against tariffs!!!! They are just another form of taxation, which of course benefits governments. I am in favor of them only if they protect job markets, but they are a cost to everyone. I am against rampant globalization if it hurts job markets, which it does. My basic tenet is everyone should be able to get a job that pays adequately and suits them. This requires protectionism which comes at a cost so should be handled judiciously but is a price worth paying. So people can do something they don't hate 8 hours a day then have enough money to do things they love in their spare time. It should be attainable.....
 
I am against tariffs!!!! They are just another form of taxation, which of course benefits governments. I am in favor of them only if they protect job markets, but they are a cost to everyone. I am against rampant globalization if it hurts job markets, which it does. My basic tenet is everyone should be able to get a job that pays adequately and suits them. This requires protectionism which comes at a cost so should be handled judiciously but is a price worth paying. So people can do something they don't hate 8 hours a day then have enough money to do things they love in their spare time. It should be attainable.....
One of the reasons globalization would be bad is that we still run into issues with other countries. It's always healthy to have a mix of sources for your goods as disasters can always happen and it's more efficient to get perishable goods from sources near you.
But when you cannot trust any goods to be delivered you need to source all goods from your local community which isn't efficient either.
I think it's good that this balance is restored more at the moment, so we again create local sources for things we should already have locally. But I also don't like it as it provides pain in the current system before this balance is restored, it could have happened in a consumer friendlier way. But I also guess that it wouldn't have happened without some force applied to make the change.
 
My basic tenet is everyone should be able to get a job that pays adequately and suits them. ... So people can do something they don't hate 8 hours a day then have enough money to do things they love in their spare time. It should be attainable.....
With all due respect, but that's BS. When you do get a grasp of and do consider how our overall productivity has gone up over the last 2 centuries or so (and is still going), you've gotta accept that that's utterly unrealistic. Unless of course, you want to establish tons more of BS jobs to make your goal met.
Already a necessity and progressively more and more so is unconditional basic income one can live off of. "This is the Way."

Now it's really resonating

Similarly, Keyboardio sent out email to their customers alerting them to the upcoming import taxes and advising US customers to buy rather now then later.
Yeah, US Americans, please do stock up on their keyboards. You'd support a US company and I'd like to see them keep existing. :)
 
With all due respect, but that's BS. When you do get a grasp of and do consider how our overall productivity has gone up over the last 2 centuries or so (and is still going), you've gotta accept that that's utterly unrealistic. Unless of course, you want to establish tons more of BS jobs to make your goal met.
Already a necessity and progressively more and more so is unconditional basic income one can live off of. "This is the Way."
I'm not talking about the future. In Switzerland you can live comfortably as a graphic designer, bus driver, baker, architect, etc. In England you're in poverty.

But yes, in the future it would be nice if there were bullshit jobs for everyone, to get you out of bed and contribute a bit to society. Part time service sector jobs, pedagogy, etc. I'd love to make sandwiches or coffee for people. Or pour beer :cool:

Or do you envisage a society where people don't have to do anything? A lot of people would become completely introverted, just play video games and never go outside. This is already happening in Japan and Korea. Probably other rich countries like Germany too.
 
Or do you envisage a society where people don't have to do anything?
Yes. But not without a cultural shift, where someone not working a job isn't called a failure. And education should be good enough so that people can actually hold a job, when they do chose to.
I would think, what you're describing is people that rather resigned than terminally feeling bad about themselves. I.e. stop putting people in positions, where they've got little to no chances.
I'm convinced human beings ain't built to do nothing useful. They're conditioned to do so.
 
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