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>>Science isn't about the "truth,"

Heh heh heh You got that right ;=) just look at all of the supposed facts some of them have been pushing down our throats for years... now we find out they were stretching their facts a bit just one example--> http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/0100114.ht ml

Actually, a lot of recent evidence suggests that the pyramids where not built by slaves, but rather by paid workers. See below:

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.htm l

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Actually, BBC dearest, Saddam ordered the estuary and the marshes to be dried up:

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/010538.htm l
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/5981 406.htm
http://www.waterconserve.info/articles/reader.asp? linkid=22888
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects/edenagain/2 003/ajan/27_wetlands.html

The BBC makes it sound as if the palms accidentally died as a result of war, when in fact the genocidal dictator purposefully ordered them starved of water.

The BBC... shielding Saddam from criticism 'til the bitter end.

The most impressive enginering feats were done with slave labor.

Please name some of these feats. If you're thinking of the Pyramids, BTW, you're wrong.

Good God:

Naval Academy fires broadside at copyright violations - 6.December.2002
"Punishment could range from loss of leave time to court martial and expulsion."

Shoot Iraqis trying to surrender: SOP. Trade MP3s however, and it's time for a serious court martial.

Remember, kids, when you download MP3s, you are downloading Communism!

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to patent the patent process... seems like it might to through nowadays. :)

Hell, if you can patent the wheel, then why not?

Once you "own" the rights to the patent process, you might be in a position to fix it!

(As a bonus, I found this article that puts forth the idea of creating " public-domain information preserves" for things like medical and other fundamental concepts that really need to be public in order to be beneficial.)
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Native Americans run their own casinos and bingo halls, up here in Canada. They're completely independent of the government.

Sometimes, people discover things that weren't suspected when you learned about them.

Sorry, it's been done.

Of course, it's an Australian patent, so maybe you could get the US rights to it.

Last year in a show of how easy it was to disrupt and abuse the patent process by registering a common, every-day idea a Melbourne lawyer patented a "circular transportation facilitation device" with more info on the story here, here(pdf file), and here

Obviously it's too easy to get things patented these days, especially in areas of high technology as few if any patent officer workers are well versed in the areas of technology. Most of the patent office stampers would have little inclination as to how an intigrated circuit works or if an item of software recently designed is any different or unique from any other piece of similar software.

Sure, it's nice to be able to patent and protect your inventions and innovations, but when most of today's patent holders are larger corporations, it's hardly meant to protect the garage inventor anymore.

Last year in a show of how easy it was to disrupt and abuse the patent process by registering a common, every-day idea a Melbourne lawyer patented a "circular transportation facilitation device" with more info on the story here, here(pdf file), and here

Obviously it's too easy to get things patented these days, especially in areas of high technology as few if any patent officer workers are well versed in the areas of technology. Most of the patent office stampers would have little inclination as to how an intigrated circuit works or if an item of software recently designed is any different or unique from any other piece of similar software.

Sure, it's nice to be able to patent and protect your inventions and innovations, but when most of today's patent holders are larger corporations, it's hardly meant to protect the garage inventor anymore.

I think an American already tried this, or something similar to it: http://www.harvard-magazine.com/issues/ja99/right. patent.html.

Look at the last paragraph.

It's a patent for the wheel. Check out this link for the patent or this article for more information.

Actually...

Patent on a "Vehicle Wheel"

Said patent claims to have rights to the wheel, including "an annular rim, a central hub and a plurality of spoke rim portions running between the rim and hub... HMMMMMMMN

How about "U.S. Patent No. 5,120,657, for a "gene gun" that shoots foreign genes into soybean cells, was followed by a European patent for exclusive rights to any and all genetically altered soybeans, created by any method whatsoever."

Or... "U.S. Patent No. 5,401,504 was issued for the use of turmeric in healing wounds--a part of Indian medicine that probably predates Hippocrates."

HMMMN...

grabbed these from cpcn.com, did other research for the wheel patent, you honestly COULD get away with just about any thing *ANY*thing

Jeremy

Earth does not have the atmosphere of Venus. Venus' atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of Earth. We lost most of our atmosphere in the impact that created the Moon.