Today...

[Estonian dude]

I have a former classmate who lives in UAE. It is pretty liberal for (white) men, but conservative for women.

 

Noxx lives in Qatar, methinks.

 

Meanwhile, I live in a former Soviet country that has consecutively ranked higher than US in all sorts of freedom indexes (freedom of internet, press, equality in law enforcement, whatnot).

[Noxx]

But living in the desert tho

No tax, highest GDP per capita, safe. The list goes on. I have no qualification, no experience, i'm 24, and i earn more in 6 months than most Americans do in a year. I haven't had the need to lock my door or my car once in the 8 years living here. [bleep], i wouldn't care if it was a sewer then.

 

EDIT: wait, scratch that. Qatar pretty much is a sewer  :XD: "Let's throw money at them, maybe they'll forget they're just our slaves".

 

Freedom doesn't exist in the middle east, not even for the citizens. We're all sheep being led by a brainless Shepard. 

[Imperator]

I have a former classmate who lives in UAE. It is pretty liberal for (white) men, but conservative for women.

 

Noxx lives in Qatar, methinks.

 

Meanwhile, I live in a former Soviet country that has consecutively ranked higher than US in all sorts of freedom indexes (freedom of internet, press, equality in law enforcement, whatnot).

Unfortunately, many people who live here take the U.A.E. for face value only. Focusing on its pretty skyline & GDP per capita. No one takes into account the thousands of laborers that are trapped in the country as their passports have been 'confiscated' and their only option is to keep working there, even that sex before marriage is a punishable offence. Quality of life, I agree. Liberal? I am skeptical. I am not a criticizer of the nation I am living in, I just evaluate nations based on the same means and I take it as an insult that this kind country of called 'liberal' not deserving that title. :S

[Noxx]

 

But living in the desert tho

No tax, highest GDP per capita, safe. The list goes on. I have no qualification, no experience, i'm 24, and i earn more in 6 months than most Americans do in a year. I haven't had the need to lock my door or my car once in the 8 years living here. [bleep], i wouldn't care if it was a sewer then.

 

 

 

I have a former classmate who lives in UAE. It is pretty liberal for (white) men, but conservative for women.

 

Noxx lives in Qatar, methinks.

 

Meanwhile, I live in a former Soviet country that has consecutively ranked higher than US in all sorts of freedom indexes (freedom of internet, press, equality in law enforcement, whatnot).

Unfortunately, many people who live here take the U.A.E. for face value only. Focusing on its pretty skyline & GDP per capita. No one takes into account the thousands of laborers that are trapped in the country as their passports have been 'confiscated' and their only option is to keep working there, even that sex before marriage is a punishable offence. Quality of life, I agree. Liberal? I am skeptical. I am not a criticizer of the nation I am living in, I just evaluate nations based on the same means and I take it as an insult that this kind country of called 'liberal' not deserving that title. :S

 

Hell of a lot more deserving of the "liberal" title than Qatar, at the very least.

[Imperator]

 

 

But living in the desert tho

No tax, highest GDP per capita, safe. The list goes on. I have no qualification, no experience, i'm 24, and i earn more in 6 months than most Americans do in a year. I haven't had the need to lock my door or my car once in the 8 years living here. [bleep], i wouldn't care if it was a sewer then.

 

 

 

I have a former classmate who lives in UAE. It is pretty liberal for (white) men, but conservative for women.

 

Noxx lives in Qatar, methinks.

 

Meanwhile, I live in a former Soviet country that has consecutively ranked higher than US in all sorts of freedom indexes (freedom of internet, press, equality in law enforcement, whatnot).

Unfortunately, many people who live here take the U.A.E. for face value only. Focusing on its pretty skyline & GDP per capita. No one takes into account the thousands of laborers that are trapped in the country as their passports have been 'confiscated' and their only option is to keep working there, even that sex before marriage is a punishable offence. Quality of life, I agree. Liberal? I am skeptical. I am not a criticizer of the nation I am living in, I just evaluate nations based on the same means and I take it as an insult that this kind country of called 'liberal' not deserving that title. :S

 

Hell of a lot more deserving of the "liberal" title than Qatar, at the very least.

 

You folk have a lovely airport though. ;)

[Low Levelled]

Regardless, the eggles haven't won the big one in years. Nothing to see here.

[Hedgehog]

To an extent, sure. But read options aren't particularly hard to defend against, so you're just risking hits on your quarterback for a couple yards per play on average. Not to mention that it takes a lot of practice to run effectively. It's a tradeoff I can understand making, but I wouldn't recommend it.

[Noxx]

 

 

 

But living in the desert tho

No tax, highest GDP per capita, safe. The list goes on. I have no qualification, no experience, i'm 24, and i earn more in 6 months than most Americans do in a year. I haven't had the need to lock my door or my car once in the 8 years living here. [bleep], i wouldn't care if it was a sewer then.

 

 

 

I have a former classmate who lives in UAE. It is pretty liberal for (white) men, but conservative for women.

 

Noxx lives in Qatar, methinks.

 

Meanwhile, I live in a former Soviet country that has consecutively ranked higher than US in all sorts of freedom indexes (freedom of internet, press, equality in law enforcement, whatnot).

Unfortunately, many people who live here take the U.A.E. for face value only. Focusing on its pretty skyline & GDP per capita. No one takes into account the thousands of laborers that are trapped in the country as their passports have been 'confiscated' and their only option is to keep working there, even that sex before marriage is a punishable offence. Quality of life, I agree. Liberal? I am skeptical. I am not a criticizer of the nation I am living in, I just evaluate nations based on the same means and I take it as an insult that this kind country of called 'liberal' not deserving that title. :S

 

Hell of a lot more deserving of the "liberal" title than Qatar, at the very least.

 

You folk have a lovely airport though. ;)

 

Yas Island > Airport.

[Bonez899]

2nd patent granted last week. Super excited :)

What is the patent for? Or is that a patented secret?

 

 

Cause, you know. The thing is patented. I'll leave.

[stevepole]

So my Coachella group ended up hanging out with a porn star at Coachella who came with a friend of a friend. We didn't actually find out until the end of the second night, but it was pretty hilarious, and my brother especially was pretty stoked to learn he smoked a bowl with a porn star. 

[sees_all1]

 

2nd patent granted last week. Super excited :)

What is the patent for? Or is that a patented secret?

 

 

Cause, you know. The thing is patented. I'll leave.

 

 

 

What's gonna be your third patent?

 

1st patent was a new thing to display in TV guides, granted in U.S. last year.

2nd patent was a twitter application on TV, and the way it pulls in tweets associated with programming, granted in U.S. last week.

3rd patent likely to be another aspect of twitter application, which granted in Japan this morning?

 

Still have about 10 or 11 applications pending, all from work that I did and ideas I had from 2009-2012. The company that I worked for will take a disclosure (my idea), and try and break it into 1 or more patent applications. Then it'll file each application in each of 4 major governing bodies (U.S., Europe, Japan and China). So now I have 2 U.S. patents and 1 Japanese patent, on 2 different ideas but 3 different applications.

[Boris5000]

Those descriptions are so vague lmao.

 

I guess I will have the joys of going through patenting things in the future :s

[sees_all1]

I could link you to the granted patents, but the language is all legalese and very dry and boring. I gave you the executive summary because that's all I care to explain.

[RpgGamer]

Youre going to make so much money for such a simple idea

[sees_all1]

I'm not going to make any money other than a relatively small award because I don't own the patent.

[Bonez899]

That kind of sucks for you, having put in all the work and whatnot.

[Tim]

So uh.... Cyclone weather here atm. The nearby memorial park has had half its great oaks torn up from the ground...

[sees_all1]

That kind of sucks for you, having put in all the work and whatnot.

 

Other than think of the idea and write a disclosure (which was about the equivalent of a 2-3 page essay), I didn't put much work into it at all. Not to mention my company rightfully owns any intellectual property I thought of while I was employed there, and they paid me to work on it. They probably spent more than $100k alone paying fees and litigating the patent. Granted, as an individual I wouldn't pay that much but for me it was pretty much risk free money.

[RpgGamer]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Patents are weird.

 

Interesting that AUS is getting cyclones while Mid East Coast US is about to get slammed with a tornado. Is weather static and just the earth's rotation gives the illusion of movement?

[stevepole]

Who was it if you don't mind posting? 

 

I don't want to say just for privacy reasons, but I see you saw Brand New, so there is a chance you could have seen us at the end of Vance Joy before she split to go see Ryan Adams.  

[jasignhagj]

I'm spite drinking shitty white rum at 4am because the bottle looks ugly on my shelf and I'm kinda pissed the Jets are about to get swept

[Bonez899]

 

 

That kind of sucks for you, having put in all the work and whatnot.

Other than think of the idea and write a disclosure (which was about the equivalent of a 2-3 page essay), I didn't put much work into it at all. Not to mention my company rightfully owns any intellectual property I thought of while I was employed there, and they paid me to work on it. They probably spent more than $100k alone paying fees and litigating the patent. Granted, as an individual I wouldn't pay that much but for me it was pretty much risk free money.

Oh, not as bad as I thought. My thinking was that you developed the product and then had no rights to the finish. Not just thinking up the concept and stopping there.

[darkace21]

I'm spite drinking shitty white rum at 4am because the bottle looks ugly on my shelf and I'm kinda pissed the Jets are about to get swept

Cheer for the Wild then as we stomp the blues.

[Arceus]

I got an overdue haircut yesterday. Now it takes only half as long to shampoo it :P.

[Distracted]

Have a gig with the band tonight, it's a battle of the bands and I'm really looking forward to it. Our last rehearsal went pretty well but I almost lost my voice from how long it took. Let's hope my voice holds up tonight.