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The Law of Unintended Consequences: Patents
An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has an
interesting article about the relationship between patent law and innovation. It compares the biotech industry with the computer industry and discusses the effects of the Bayh-Dole amdendment, which has allowed universities to make a lot of cash. But in the process innovation and scientific collaboration seem to have been stifled."
(I know this is a bit offtopic, but...) Last spring, on Wikipedia, a user named Plautus Satire join joined. He was the absolute epitome of a toil-foil-hat crackpot, and unquestionably Wikipedia's most disruptive user ever. Among the many crackpot edits he made, was this this gem, stating that Einstien plagurized all his work from patent applications while he was a patent clerk. [As we were getting ready to kick him out, I started compiling his rantings here. ]
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
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does anyone know how to email the daily show with jon stewart? they keep saying chimps and humans are 98.5% similar when we now know through the mapping of the chimp genome that we're actually 96%. this isn't an argument against evolution(i know the hypersensitive evolutionary zealots will try to say this). using bad or outdated estimates is alway harmful to science's credibility which is why they should correct themselves
I wish I had mod points today. I haven't seen such an excellently argued and well-rounded point in a long long time. Well done, hopefully someone with the hallowed mod points will notice your comment and give you the recognition you deserve.
Insane people are always sure they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.