EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired)

Posted Jul 1, 2004 13:52 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
In reply to: EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) by verzonnen
Parent article: EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired)

No, the US Government won't revoke any patents. From long experience, I have come to realize that there is no connection between U.S. Government policy and morality, except one:

These people will *never* admit they were wrong, about *anything.* They will leave the most obnoxious, ridiculous, or stupid laws on the books forever, until interest in them withers away, rather than admin they made a mistake. Meanwhile, the "average citizen" will continue to live life as they often must, or will, with almost total disdain and disregard for all but the laws that interest or favor them.

I happen to live in a state where the law has decided to "crack down" on intoxicated motorists. Here's what good it's doing:

No drunks could care less about it.

Most of those who get caught act as if they are being put upon.

Many just continue to drive without licenses, if they are suspended.

The few people who wind up with citations because of some unfortunate situation (accidental prescription drug overdose, mismanaged care from a doctor,) and try hard to show the state gov't that they are good people, wind up getting bilked for thousands of dollars, with no recourse against the doctors, the insurance companies, or the auto companies that brought their situations about.

And you can bet your bottom dollar on this: if any U. S. government acts as if they are going to fix any of this, they will apply the fix in the narrowest possible way, so as not to affect the rich people who put that government there in the first place.