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Name:
Andrew
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

If you are reading this, then it is likely that I have annoyed or offended you with abrasive sarcasm. It's in my nature. If you don't like it, I encourage you to write me a strongly-worded but grammatically-incorrect response.

I generally delete the comments that are merely a string of profanities and/or death threats. That's why there aren't that many comments that make the cut.

The most annoying thing is when someone sends me a personal message damning me to hell for something I said but fails to remind me of the video to which I was responding.

I especially like the people who send me three page rants that ironically begin, "There's no way I could ever be genuinely upset or offended by some stranger on the Internet." However, they do get their revenge as I typically laugh so hard that my belly muscles ache and burn.
Hometown:
Michigan
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Evil Lawyer
Books:
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
Channel Comments (136)
azis1100 (1 week ago)
You have the best avatar ever~
CollateralSandwich (1 week ago)
You seem like 'just my kind of asshole'.
andrewh23 (1 week ago)
If you're arguing there should be some reform of the patent system, that's probably a good idea. It certainly shouldn't be eliminated altogether though.
andrewh23 (1 week ago)
If the United States or any other country removed the ability to get a patent, they would be putting themselves at a severe disadvantage, discouraging domestic invention and innovation, and losing the huge tax revenues from that inventors income. Also, the US would be violating a number of its treaties and alienating its allies. Copyright protects information with the potential to enrich the soul or the mind. Patented inventions save lives and create new jobs. Its benefits to society greatly outweigh any of its flaws.
andrewh23 (1 week ago)
I don't have a vested interest in patent law. I am an attorney but I don't do patent law. You need to have a BS in a scientific field to go into patent law and it requires a separate bar examination. I did study patent law in law school though. A patent on an impossible or useless machine is most likely not going to be approved, and if it is what harm could it have? If you're making the argument that the system is not perfect, then you are right. It isn't. But no system created and run by human has ever been perfect.
flowerbower (1 week ago)
Moreover, the percentage is not as minute as you imply. Try surveying (as I have done this year) the worldwide output of patents which contain 'propulsion' as a keyword. I estimate that at least 1% were contrary to the laws of physics. That is a ludicrously high percentage, given the supposed expertise of the 'experts' who pore over them. But, hey, what do the 'experts' care? They get paid anyway. I again conclude that the patent system is, like a lottery, a tax on stupidity.
flowerbower (1 week ago)
Fine words in defence of the system! You must have a vested interest. However, publishing patents is nothing like publishing books (unless one includes the well-known vanity-publishing scam). No sane publisher aims to publish a bad book, and even the judgement of 'badness' is a mere matter of opinion. And considering the care with which a patent supposedly has to be checked for originality and applicability, even a single crazy patent that gets through is an indictment of the entire system. How would you excuse even the merest consideration of an application if the inventor claimed that his brainchild were bigger on the inside than on the outside. It has happened!
kaysandesses (1 week ago)
FYI, News1News, is now NewsPoliticsAmerica.
andrewh23 (1 week ago)
No they didn't. All of News1News videos were yanked down because Fox News made complaints under the DMCA. In contrast, all the Glenn Beck clips and other Fox News clips posted by conservative youtube commentators were not taken down because Fox made no DMCA complaints against the posters.

News1News has already setup new accounts to post Fox News clips. So, we'll see what happens next.
RetSquid (1 week ago)
"like I was right about Fox News."

Not really, they took them all down equally.
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