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Hong Kong Boy Scouts to Protect IP
phresno writes "Declan McCullagh at C|net's News.com has a short article on the development that the Hong Kong Boy Scouts Association has teamed up with the MPA to create an intellectual property merit badge. Mike Ellis of the MPA hopes this program will 'provide thousands of young people -- future leaders -- with a better understanding of the value of intellectual property.' Those with tinfoil hats will surely be thinking of the youth in Orwell's 1984."
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Hopefully as a requirement of this badge, they are letting the little scouts know that their ip is in their pants and that their leaders are not allowed to have any piece of it.
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Here are several merit badges foreign powers could "suggest" (strong-arm) the Boy Scouts of America to include...in the interests of fair balance, cultural exchange, and all that:
1) Suicide Bomber Merit Badge (sponsor: Saddam Hussein Regime in Exile)
2) Suicide Pilot Merit Badge (sponsor: Al Q'aida)
3) Cheese and Wine Merit Badge (sponsor: France)
4) Diplomacy Merit Badge (sponsor: the whole of the Earth outside of the USA, note attached reads "Please America, learn this one well!")
5) Cooperative and Free Culture Merit Badge (sponsor: the whole of the non-western world that still remembers a time when the people owned their culture, not the copyright cartels of faceless corporations).
6) P2P Merit Badge (sponsor: every tech-savvy person under the age of 40)
I'm sure there are others, like remedial courses in the separation of church and state, tolerance for women, tolerance for gays, and so on, but the list grows rather onerous quite quickly.
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You can't seriously be this stupid.
Even if your infinitesimal 'correction' had any merit whatsoever, that would mean you're contradicting yourself.
Log off before you hurt yourself.
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Slashdot mods are idiots? I would be surprised, if anyone else was surprised about that modding.
No, he's just another malcontent blowhard who, like you apparently, slap terms like "bigot" and "homophobe" on anyone with whom they disagree.
If only that were true. Unfortunately, today's USA is better described with the following addition: "If someone else has something good, let's bomb the hell out of them and take over their country. And tell everybody else to create the same laws as in USA, or else."
Keep in mind that the Boy Scouts in America are 'honorable' that they forcibly exclude boys for no other reason than being gay.
Honorable.. hardly.
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IP merit badge or not- the Boy Scouts have been the very model of training young boys to become fine upstanding "citizens" to our corporate oligarchy for 150 years now
And let's not forget the racist/fascist training which suddenly stopped in 1945.
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Its also under a 100 years not over 150. Alos your word doesnt matter because your a commy. So what if you call me a fascist it still better bering a facsist than a rusky.
"The Boy Scouts were formed to make boys of upright character to serve the military and the Empire well." Some people see parallels between these and the Hitler Youth. Note also the picture of the young boy on this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth/