That's all well and good, but if having a cross up on
a wall does no harm to the others around... surely the other symbols should be just as innocent.
Not exact matches
I favor simplicity in investing, and think that many exchange traded products will
harm investors on average because the investors
do not understand the underlying economics of what they own, while
Wall Street uses them as a cheap way
to hedge their risk exposures.
It is common
to find them stalking behind
walls or pouncing and chasing approaching feet and ankles, causing scratches and minor bite wounds (rest assured, they mean no
harm when they
do that).
So for example, if you run your Lancer out from behind a
wall and then shoot at an enemy tank, you can still use up the remaining movement points
to move back out of
harms way, barring you didn't take
to many steps
to begin with.
While many decry reforms like these — especially the one relating
to banks — as nothing more than Washington, D.C., political game - playing and
Wall Street favors, each in its own right highlights the larger problem with business method patents: instead of spurring innovation (as the patent system is intended
to do), they often
harm businesses by imposing additional costs (in the form of licenses or litigation), which in turn
harms the consumer, as well as the economy at large.