Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "Detroit auto engineers tear down BYD's Seagull: "An extinction-level event"" video.
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@DW-op7ly If I am right about something, why should I be less biased?
I am an inventor. So let me explain how inventions and patents work:
In the old days, there were no patents. When somebody had a good idea, everybody just copied it and everybody was happy doing it that way.
Even today, an invention can go directly into the public domain if the inventor does not patent his invention. I personally have an invention that I did not patent and everyone has copied it and you can buy it in many stores.
I do not get any residuals from my invention, and if you use my invention, I am happy for you.
This has been the way of the world for thousands of years. But in the last hundred years or so, thought on patenting has evolved. Specifically, what has evolved is the COST of inventing something.
When life was simple, the cost of inventing was small. But the type of inventions that we have in the high-tech modern world can cost a million dollars of research. The cost of the research is why we have patents. If a company spends a million dollars in research, they need some way to recover that money back.
The company recovers their money by having the exclusive right to produce and sell their invention for several years.
If you short-cicuit the protection process, that company cannot recover their million dollars. If you continue short-circuiting the protection process, that company will go bankrupt and shut down. Any inventions they would have invented in the future will never come into the Earth.
If you do that to enough different high-tech-companies, they will all shut down.
That will end scientific progress as we know it.
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@yunko9369
"In 1843, the British, under Captain Lord George Paulet, occupied the Hawaiian Islands for five months because of a land dispute involving a Briton, Richard Charlton. Hawaiian sovereignty was restored by Rear Admiral Richard Thomas five months later, who renounced the actions of Charlton and Paulet. In 1849, the French arrived in Honolulu with ten demands for the monarchy, including an end to continued persecution of Catholics and high tariffs on French goods. When these demands were not met in a timely fashion, the French invaded Honolulu and captured the city. They left one month later, after raiding government buildings and other property in Honolulu.
In the face of increasing European interest in the islands, Kamehameha III decided to solicit protection from the United States. On March 10, 1851, the King formally applied to the United States Congress to become a protectorate of the United States. Hawaii did not become a protectorate of the United States in 1851, but the seeds were sown for the relationship of dependence that would color the remaining years of the Hawaiian monarchy."
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