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And your patent numbers are?Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
Apparently making sense is still optional.Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
Give me a couple months.Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
And your patent numbers are?
I'm casting the largest net possible.Come on. You were fishing for this question weren't you?
--Mike Jr.
Five or 6 years ago some woman on BBC explained the new reality:Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
Apparently making sense is still optional.
government automatically owned all the work and discoveries. Ended upWhenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
One problem for us whose work was largely on DOD contracts, the
I can relate to that. I worked for the Navy and the CIA on variousBret Cahill wrote:
Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
One problem for us whose work was largely on DOD contracts, the
government automatically owned all the work and discoveries. Ended up
with zero patents when I retired. Hope that doesn't mean my work had
zero value. On the other hand, another figure of merit is list of
published papers. Have a fair number of those, since there are
classified journals.
I can top that. I have a patent for the achromatic doublet. True it"Don Stauffer" <stauf...@usfamily.net> wrote in message
news:4b6ad34c$0$1336$815e3792@news.qwest.net...
Bret Cahill wrote:
Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
One problem for us whose work was largely on DOD contracts, the
government automatically owned all the work and discoveries. Ended up
with zero patents when I retired. Hope that doesn't mean my work had
zero value. On the other hand, another figure of merit is list of
published papers. Have a fair number of those, since there are
classified journals.
I can relate to that. I worked for the Navy and the CIA on various
clandestine "gadgets" over the years none of which ever got patented. I have
one, count 'em, one patent to my name and that was for a capacitive coupling
device that to me seemed totally obvious and unworthy of a patent. You might
say I reinvented the capacitor! Yet the patent office granted a patent on
it. Many patents are absurd these days, its about money, not invention and
even a bent piece of wire may garner a patent depending on the claims. There
are several perpetual motion patents as ridiculous as that is. There is no
requirement that a patent works.
Last year I tried to research the EE - authors of an old declassifiedWhenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
One problem for us whose work was largely on DOD contracts, the
government automatically owned all the work and discoveries. Ended up
with zero patents when I retired. Hope that doesn't mean my work had
zero value. On the other hand, another figure of merit is list of
published papers. Have a fair number of those, since there are
classified journals.
When you go to the supermarket put all the ice cream and chips youWhenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
Apparently making sense is still optional.
Five or 6 years ago some woman on BBC explained the new reality:
"Anything less than genius just won't do."
Then you should throw your computer in the trash, and learn to live
with your sub 70 ID10T quotient while learning basket weaving.
It's not a bent piece of wire, you fool! It's an advancedMany patents are absurd these days, its about money, not invention and
even a bent piece of wire may garner a patent depending on the claims.
---Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
There just isn't all that much of an intersection between justice andWhenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
One problem for us whose work was largely on DOD contracts, the
government automatically owned all the work and discoveries. Ended up
with zero patents when I retired. Hope that doesn't mean my work had
zero value. On the other hand, another figure of merit is list of
published papers. Have a fair number of those, since there are
classified journals.
I can relate to that. I worked for the Navy and the CIA on various
clandestine "gadgets" over the years none of which ever got patented. I have
one, count 'em, one patent to my name and that was for a capacitive coupling
device that to me seemed totally obvious and unworthy of a patent. You might
say I reinvented the capacitor! Yet the patent office granted a patent on
it. Many patents are absurd these days, its about money, not invention and
even a bent piece of wire may garner a patent depending on the claims. There
are several perpetual motion patents as ridiculous as that is. There is no
requirement that a patent works.
Yes, after enough out-venting, in-venting becomes necessary. Here is anOn Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:23:20 -0800 (PST), Bret Cahill
BretCahill@peoplepc.com> wrote:
Whenever some idiot on a science or tech tries to bluff he is more
worthwhile than Al Gore in a dust devil, just ask him for his patent
numbers.
Inventing is no longer optional.
Bret Cahill
---
He fancies himself an inventor,
a lover of science, a mentor.
A seeker of truth,
but it's clear from his tooth,
that he's only an abject dissenter.
The company I work for owns all my work-related ideas, but the patentOne problem for us whose work was largely on DOD contracts, the
government automatically owned all the work and discoveries. Ended up
with zero patents when I retired.