has over 6,000 patents that are kept secret from the public for 
"national security reasons"--this is probably why we still dont have flying cars 
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Neighbor, do you really want the average burger to have access to a flying car? I don't need some 400 lbs. brap to come barreling through my bedroom window because she dropped her triple cheeseburger
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just make it prohibitively expensive so that only the rich can afford it
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Its called helicopters and private jets.
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one day itll be aircraft involving something like this perhaps
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
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Are you too good for brap
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Oh look my practice area of patent law.
I know a lot of people think ISA patents are hiding all the secrets to the universe, but they probably are just for munitions. Besides, the really cool government tech wouldn't be patented because then they'd have to have some level of public disclosure. Those secrets stay locked up
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Yeah I assume it's all just formulations for explosives and nuclear-related stuff.
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isnt the whole point that they keep the patent under-wraps/not public/dont actually publish it publicly?
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What if you (yes, you
) come up with an idea that infringes on these patents? How would you know? How would they let you know?
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By getting a 9mm hemorrhage in the middle of the night.
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"We" have flying cars. Maybe you don't, but that's on you.
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Snapshots:
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don't worry guys i'm going to 1337 hakzor them and we'll find out what these patents really are
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