Innovation doesnt necessarily benefit end consumers, especially in specific industries. Some industries are more protected for physical property and some for intellectual ones, notwithstanding regulation applying to the whole market in general.
US: the sherman act contains the competition policy whereas IP rights are written in the constitution.
EU: Art. 82 is simply superior than IP rights protection...
"the name of the game is the claim"-quoting...
i happened to be sick last night that i had to stay home this morning;
i happened to go to university later because a teacher is looking for me.
i, as usual, was late for the train i wanted to catch, 15 minutes later;
i, as usual, still wandered about before the train station, looking for the green box in which i threw my glass bottles,
i, as usual, adventured a different route.
i happened to walk a very different route,
i happened to think of a professor in fine arts whom i only met once in my life, and his studio,
2 seconds after stopped thinking,
i happened to see him and his bike passing me, when i walked out of the maize i chose to be in,
i couldnt believe my eyes at the beginning,
but it feels familiar,
i still remember the other morning,
i happened to get up late,
i sat in the toilet suddenly thinking about one of my very few internet orders i wondered if Factoryprices.nl is a fake web and if they would send my things at all,
2 seconds after i stepped out of WC,
the bell rang, and it was the order from that company,
i think there is sth. in the air or in the brain undefined, there is some connection between people unexplained, if the brilliant you have an answer, let me know!
As everyone knows what "god" means, i would like to define what i called "undefined superior power" as "god". "God" punishes me yesterday. What happened-i wanted to buy furnitures. i wanted also to meet Neto. Yang wanted to work. Yang didnt want me to travel without eating a diner and a headache from jetlag. I visited the furnitures and I visited Eindhoven, in the end, for vain. Because i should have listened, less to myself. But the result is not too bad: at least the big palm tree and the white clothes cabinet went to my friends. At least they could enjoy them, instead of me. Maybe i already learnt the lesson, the old Chinese wisdom: thinking of others will make yourself a happy person, because "god" sometimes intervenes.
In some mornings of my life, I woke up with a smile, while in others, i woke up with a most ugly word in world, "sh**". I then recalled what i have done the day before and was sometimes puzzled why i didnt make use of my time better and why i didnt do the most urgent however difficult things. Maybe that is the essence of obstacles? You find it difficult to do it. But the scary thing is that the more you postpone in doing it, the more difficult it would be, also less time you can take to do it...
so my squash teacher does have a good point: " stop saying sorry, just do it and hit a good ball." So many times saying sorry is actually a way out after doing sth. wrong. So saying sorry is not good in this case, I should allow as few chances as possible for myself to be sorry, both to myself and to others. And JUST DO IT when confronted with difficulties and DO IT RIGHT!
There are many "?" that shine like stars in my sky:
? : why do I exist like this and not that?
? : why is there love or hatred?
? : why are people selfish?
? : why is there war?
? : why do I ask?
.......
But, at this moment, i most urgently want to know:
? : why is there so much corruption?
What does it mean if a country is featured with widespread corruption? What does it mean if one or two government official is over millions units of money corrupted? What does it mean if one needs to be corrupted besides monetary motivation? What happened after a country is seriously corrupted for a long time? What is the worst consequence of corruption? Who benefits most from corruption and who the least?
