Why would they hide it? Who's going to do anything about it?
obviouspornalt
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I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.
There's a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.
I'd like to get back to 'for limited time'. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).
I think it's fair to say that not enough was done about the coup attempt, but there were hundreds of cases successfully prosecuted. That's not 'nothing'.
Oil being priced in dollars is a primary driver of why other countries need to buy dollars. I'm worried we're about to find out what happens when OPEC decides to start allowing oil to be traded in euros or yuan.
Isn't a much simpler answer that China started dumping bonds, and they'll dump a lot more if the tarriff situation isn't resolved soon?
As a real estate investor who's mortgaged to the max, Trump wants high inflation to increase the nominal value of his properties, and low interest rates. China has extensive US bond holdings and at least some ability to drive up 10 year rates by selling those bonds. Trump doesn't want higher rates, even if you only consider his direct, personal situation.
When it comes at you, it doesn't seem to be livin'
Why can't they deport you? Does the jail in El Salvador care what the nationality is of the people the US is paying to hold and torture?
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who also has the initials 'J. G.'
No, every single member of that chat should have pointed out that the communication violates multiple clear, long existing federal laws about how communications about federal government business is to be conducted, especially about military operations, and refused to communicate via signal instead of approved channels.
All of them violated multiple laws.
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Let me stop you right there....