The concept of treason is no longer meaningful. The state no longer exists other than as a sham or shell around the control exerted by powerful individuals and groups.
Over time, as the public becomes increasingly familiar with the type and extent of government corruption and illegal behavior, how likely is it that they will view government incitement to 'lawful' behavior by the public to be hypocritical and will this lead to a push for less control ? i.e. will "do as I say not as I do" really be tolerated by thinking beings?
It gives me a warm glow that things worked out this way.
Now if the warden of a local maximum security prison were to start a crowd-funding campaign, I'd be willing to sponsor a short stay in jail for those that brought charges against this curious schoolgirl.
You're going to need to provide some actual documentation of your claims other than your own personal (non-lawyer) logic for that. Just because you personally feel that they aren't allowed to do something doesn't mean that they actually aren't.
That's incorrect. No matter how self-consistent the set of rules making up US law; no matter how well-studied; no matter how well-discussed - objectively, they are no more valid than the GPs own set of beliefs.
Where they do differ and where most seem to find illusory objective validity is in the increasing acts of punishment that will be handed-out for failing to act as if the set of rules are indeed objectively valid.
Ultimately, for all our sophistication and rationalization, this is what 'civilization' comes to... "do what I say, or else!"
But the patent still applies because he can use the seed to grow more seed, and he knew it.
No, he can use the seed to grow new seed and everyone knows it. What's appalling is that not only does this company seek to pervert a natural cycle for financial gain but that they have 'legal' backing.
Answer me this: What level of horrors-of-corruption and incitement-to/enforcement-of self-blinding behavior need to be inflicted upon *customers* before the consensus is that things have gone too far? Will this frog hop out before it's cooked?
Nothing indicates that they sold him the chair to be sat on. They sold it for firewood, but he decided to sit on it instead. He brought it upon himself.
Had the proposed target of a lawsuit genetically engineered the locusts to have some non-naturally occurring properties, I would agree that this was a valid comparison.
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The concept of treason is no longer meaningful. The state no longer exists other than as a sham or shell around the control exerted by powerful individuals and groups.
Over time, as the public becomes increasingly familiar with the type and extent of government corruption and illegal behavior, how likely is it that they will view government incitement to 'lawful' behavior by the public to be hypocritical and will this lead to a push for less control ? i.e. will "do as I say not as I do" really be tolerated by thinking beings?
Why not? too specific? :P
Pew! pew!
Hello? This is slashdot.
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As usual, the slashdot maximum score of five proves hopelessly inadequate. Why not remove the limit ?
Translation: The Americans did it.
Google glass - crowd-sourcing invasion of privacy. Way to go Google.
PS. send me one plz
It gives me a warm glow that things worked out this way.
Now if the warden of a local maximum security prison were to start a crowd-funding campaign, I'd be willing to sponsor a short stay in jail for those that brought charges against this curious schoolgirl.
How many copies of the various flavours of Call of Duty were sold?
"We are not doing that thing which until just now you had no reason to suspect we were doing."
Thanks for the info. What else aren't you doing? Huh?
That's incorrect. No matter how self-consistent the set of rules making up US law; no matter how well-studied; no matter how well-discussed - objectively, they are no more valid than the GPs own set of beliefs.
Where they do differ and where most seem to find illusory objective validity is in the increasing acts of punishment that will be handed-out for failing to act as if the set of rules are indeed objectively valid.
Ultimately, for all our sophistication and rationalization, this is what 'civilization' comes to... "do what I say, or else!"
No, he can use the seed to grow new seed and everyone knows it. What's appalling is that not only does this company seek to pervert a natural cycle for financial gain but that they have 'legal' backing.
Answer me this: What level of horrors-of-corruption and incitement-to/enforcement-of self-blinding behavior need to be inflicted upon *customers* before the consensus is that things have gone too far? Will this frog hop out before it's cooked?
In violation of the patent which is a concept within a system imposed upon him.
That's not the way it works. The lawyer-squad with the most money behind it wins.
rofl @ sig
I would love to be a fly on the wall of the back-room where the fix goes in to allow the patenting of respiration.
There appears to be no limit to the depravity of the American system of 'law' nor of its pernicious influence on the rest of the world.
At least that's how it looks.
How much longer until every single pocket has a corporate-American hand in it?
It seems within the bounds of reason that he would have sprayed his crops with weed-killer to... ya'know... kill weeds, does it not?
FTFM
It looks, at least in the immediate future, as though there's going to be benefit to patenting the firing all lawyers into the sun :S
Had the proposed target of a lawsuit genetically engineered the locusts to have some non-naturally occurring properties, I would agree that this was a valid comparison.
Does anything in congress happen without bribes changing hands?
What new ground of questionable logic can be broken from here?
FTFY