[ExI] Help with freezing phenomenon

[John Grigg]

Spike, considering Max More is the new CEO of Alcor and that you are a
recently retired engineer bursting with great ideas for the
organization, why don't you volunteer there, or even apply for a paid
position with them?

John  : )

On 1/27/11, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] Help with freezing phenomenon
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> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>> Max, shall I desist posting these notions forthwith?  Plopping this
>>> into the public domain, we run the risk of some yahoo running to the
>>> patent office with it, ja?
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>>...1) If some yahoo does run to the patent office, inspired by your post?
> You've got provable prior art - and as such, if he does get a patent, a case
> to simply take his patent away from him (and into your pocket) wholesale, or
> at least invalidate his patent.  Your evidence?  *These very posts.*
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> Good thanks.  I don't want patents in this area.  This needs to be open.
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>>...2) Do you seriously believe no one has ever had a thought similar to
> what you pose before?  Getting a patent involves far, FAR more than merely
> having and stating an idea...
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> The idea of a beam splitter and reflector, with a wavelength of around 8 cm
> to maximize microwave destructive interference in the center of a hemisphere
> I suspect has never been patented.  The rest of it, ja, likely a hundred
> previous yahoos have tried to patent that stuff.
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>>...  But I am also increasingly seeing that I am not alone in seeing
> technologies where I materially, even financially, benefit even if someone
> else rakes in the direct monetary profits.
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> May we all benefit.
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> And just to add another idea without going even more than I already have
> over the voluntary daily posting limit: is it not absurd that trains go
> woooonk wooooonk wonk woooooonk to warn traffic where streets cross
> railroads?  Could they not simply have speakers set up at the roads that do
> the woonk wonk thing when the train is coming, so that it doesn't need to
> make all that racket that can be heard for miles?  And why a horn, instead
> of a human voice saying "Heads up prole, train coming!"  Is the train horn a
> bad solution to an engineering problem or what?  What happened, did some
> yahoo patent the idea of making train warning horns next to the road instead
> of on board the train?
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> I don't want to see cryonics technology get trapped in blind alleys because
> of intellectual property law.  It's too important.
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> spike
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