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To: elmatador who wrote (118072)	4/13/2016 3:19:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar bart13 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220189

Bludgers of the world unite. We want free stuff. You work, we eat. Down with patents. We want it free. We haven't got money so you should work for us for nothing. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. That is so lovely. I didn't do all that work and study to provide free stuff to bludgers. They will pay me or I won't invent stuff. Some I'll do for free because it's fun and no biggie. But I want money too. The free stuff is MY choice, not some stinking government department of criminals elected by bludgers and whiners. For example, in climate change, in 1985 I invented a CO2 sequestration technique and told some visiting Mitsubishi engineers [BP Oil International had a technology exchange agreement with them]. I didn't know about patents then and didn't know such a simple thing could be patented. But a couple of years later they patented just that idea. Cheeky blighters but fair enough I suppose. Hey, look how good Google is now. Here's the patent: google.com The density of liquid CO2 is more than sea water, so it would sink and form a puddle on the bottom. It was about 400 metres of water needed to keep it in liquid phase. The energy from compression and production to get the liquid CO2 could be used for heating - build houses and whatnot around the power station and compression system. I calculated at the time that the extra energy would be only about 20% or 25%. BP Oil had Orimulsion [tar and water from Venezuela] for power stations so it would be a good system. There is vast amounts of heavy goop in Venezuela which BP was able to extract with water and surfactant. About 3% of the energy is used in evaporating the 30% water content in a power station when it's burned. Not much at all. In 1989 I came up with the idea of using Fourier transforms to encode cellphone signals to dump it across the whole spectrum instead of allocating clear channels for each conversation. Asics were getting really powerful and small so I thought that would work. By a sheer stroke of luck, I stumbled across Bill Gardner who told me he worked for a cellphone company doing just that. OMG. So I risked all our money to invest despite a Stanford Professor saying it breached the laws of physics [the near-far problem]. Now that industry is worth $trillions just in cash flow, but the opportunity cost is 100 times that. Having mobile Cyberspace is worth an arm and a leg, literally. Unfortunately, bludgers and whiners have got away with all the loot and even now are stealing more. Qualcomm, which enabled the world's most amazing thing in all of history with help from Google who delivered the content by ranking pages and GPS and thousands of other inventions, gets almost none of the money. It's easier to just be a bludger and whiner. No wonder there are so many of them. They just have to vote and hey presto, they get opm. But they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. It seems like a good idea at the time when there are golden eggs still in the goose and the goose is delicious. But then it's not so great when the party's over. If people don't want to be poor, they should figure out what it takes to not be poor. Notice, for a start, that patents are enforced in rich countries. Private property rights. Stealing is illegal in rich countries. Free enterprise is allowed and thrives in rich countries. Virtuous Victorian Values - that's how to do it. Being a colony of England was a great idea. Now that they have independent countries, they are flooding into Europe to try to get to England. It turns out they prefer to be ruled by the English after all. While she's still alive, they could apologize to QEII [not quantitative easing II] and ask to be reinstated as a colony, England of course won't have them back on the old terms. It would have to be on an arms length basis. Mqurice