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Germany to Vote Against Software Patents in the EU
YKW writes "According to Ars Technica, Germany has decided to vote against all changes to current European patent laws. In a statement given to demonstrators in Germany, Federal Department of Justice Minsterial Director Elmar Hucko read the riot act to the EC: 'Under no circumstances do we want American procedures in Europe, Hucko vowed with regard to the US patent process. A patent must be "a fair reward for a bona fide invention and not abused as a strategy to bludgeon competitors.' With the largest EU member against software patents and French IT leaders lobbying their goverment to vote against them too, Europe might be saved from software patents. At least for a while. An older Slashdot article about software patents in Europe is here."
>>What's so great about the US nowadays?
You won't have to have a national ID tatooed into your forehead or right palm, and you still have the right to keep and bear arms.
Ah so that is what still is great about the US?? That every looney can keep and bear arms and possibly use it to shoot other people? Never wondered why there are so much more shooting incidents in the US compared to Europe, huh?
And what's this 'national ID stamped on your forehead' BS all about? What's wrong about having a national ID as long as you're not involved in something criminal or illicit?
I am not being trite when I say read the US Bill of Rights. This is not to say that the EU is not substantially improved from the past, nor to disrespect their current condition. It is also not ignorant of the Domestic Disregard given to the Bill of Rights.
To be painfully accurate there are some areas the EU may actually be paving the way and US Citizens should not be to arrogant. However; the USA has substantial advantages in the Ownership of Property, rights to political dissent and the rights to defend ones rights. These involve a vast improvement in the rights to relief from problems with the government via a court system that despite all its flaws is orders of magnitude more likely to answer to the interests of ordinary people when they dispute with the strong and powerful than in EU or elsewhere.
There is also a very substantial issue of FACT regards the stated government and the delivery. In the USA most people take for granted that the Police and Courts actually will deal with problems and redress without bribery. This is substantially flawed in its delivery even in the EU in comparison.
The American complaints against a progressively declining state of personal liberty are valid. The EU remarks on current progress are valid. The status of fact is a wide seperation in delivery vs expectations. EU types have been raised under a system where they delt with a thousand years of entrenched bureaucracy with its systematic and embedded corruption at a level beyond any American Imagination. They see some improvements in this and have imagined that they are equal or better than the USA which is clearly trending towards the EU condition. In individual cases they may actually be better but taken as a whole, the EU Condition is so intolerably worse than the US condition that Americans would meet it with Firearms if it were suddenly imposed on them.
Much of the current Economic troubles in the USA and Social Discord are the result of this trend towards EU solutions and methods.
You asked for a explanation. You got it! In synopsis, the EU is a Bureacratic Super State where Citizens have no particular rights except those granted by PERMIT. The Brussels system will further dominate the area by an Oligarchy and the delivery of individual freedom in the EU is questionable at best in FACT. The US System is degrading towards the EU model. Regards "social" issues the EU is a socialist mecca. Some personal demands they make in exchange for their rights include the loss of freedom to change jobs easily in exchange for the protection of employment, better severance pay, and a more assured retirement.
This is not to say that they are worse or better in these areas. This illustrates the complete NON-Parity of the comparison. Imagine you not being able to quit your job today unless you want to pay your employer. Imagine having 5 weeks of vacation paid a year vs none or just 2 weeks. Imagine your employer required to pay benefits such as Health Care. Some may read this as EU better and US worse. Some may see it US Better.
Never Politically Correct ~ I prefer the facts If you don't like what I say, get a life, or comment yourself.
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Campaign Finance Reform should come in the following solutions.
Only Real Persons who are "Qualified Electors" in the district of an election should be allowed to give to campaigns.
All Contrabutions of any size should be disclosed.
Citizens should be allowed to bring charges for violations and have them prosecuted.
Heavy fines for those giving and those knowingly receiving violations should occur. If in office, IMMEDIATE REMOVAL should also apply and the prosecution here should be totally by Civilian Effort.
The penalty for any foreign national giving to a US Election should be DEATH. In addition this should apply to any US candidate or office holder knowingly taking the money or to their assistant who knowingly takes the money from a foreign person or Corporation!
There is no substitute for Citizenship here either. No person should be a Qualified Elector unless they reside in the district of the election and are a taxpayer in the district. If you don't pay the bills you should not decide how the money is spent. It is beyond irresponsible to allow parties to vote who cannot or do not support the system.
Finally the USA Citizens had better take seriously the fact that they need to quit listening to slick media campaigns and choosing parties because "They can win." They need to support the parties who support and care about their country.
Remember Membership is India PAC or the India Caucus is TREASON. It would apply to any party elected to US office who sells his representation to another nation. These are our Benedict Arnold Congressmen and Senators.
Never Politically Correct ~ I prefer the facts If you don't like what I say, get a life, or comment yourself.