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NZ Draft Bill Rules Out Software Patents
Korgan writes "In what must be a first in the face of ACTA and US trade negotiations pressure, a Parliamentary select committee has released a draft bill that explicitly declares that software will no longer be patentable in New Zealand. FTA: 'Open source software champions have been influential in excluding software from the scope of patents in the new Patents Bill. Clause 15 of the draft Bill, as reported back from the Commerce Select Committee, lists a number of classes of invention which should not be patentable and includes the sub-clause "a computer program is not a patentable invention."'"
This is OT as hell.
Are you related to Bill Clinton, and learned to parse words to death?
From [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/opinion/26krugman.html Paul Krugman - Going to Extreme]
For today's G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan -- not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It's a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans' economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It's a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side -- Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions -- are mainstream. And, as a result, it's a party that fundamentally doesn't accept anyone else's right to govern.
Bill is far from the first charismatic leader whose tallywhacker has gone walk about. What was underlying the whole charade was a dispute over Clinton's right to govern. He was elected by a majority decision, for better or worse, and the republicans failed to respect this.
What exactly is the correct way to parse a question that never should have been asked in the first place? The correct answer was "what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"
"Mr Limbaugh, are you addicted to Hillbilly Heroin?" What's he supposed to say? Sure, he's a two-faced lout, just like Clinton, but it's still an ad hominem attack, and undeserving of a straight answer.
forged prescription:addiction::lucky blow job:adultery
Does that work? I guess it depends on your attitude toward natural pain relief over artificial pain relief.
On a technical note, this is the very first time Boomtango helped me to locate something I've recently read on the internet faster than I could have done it myself. And for this, all day my Firefox is an extra beat sluggish. For now, I'm sticking with it on potential.