Maybe they should wait until all the scientist are in complete agreement regarding the facts on the Zika virus. Some of them say it is something else, like Monsanto products in Brazil. This could hurt the economy and businesses. Oh, wait, that is climate change. Never mind, fund the hello out of this.
I already like what I saw more than the actual Star Trek crap J.J. Abrams created. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon and making their fans happy, they prefer to protect their mindless, action packed, no real story drivel.
Stats for North America are incorrect. Mexico is not a part of Central America, it is part of North America. Some may not know or like this, but it is correct.
This claim is an over-generalization. Nobel prize does not cover all fields of science. Actually, very few. There is no way to predict that someone will not come along and actually make a finding that does not require huge labs or previous work. Almost sounds like a troll to me.
It is interesting to see this on slashdot. I currently work/live in Guatemala (Latin America). The Business Software Alliance ("Microsoft") sent letter all over the country to various types of institutions including Academic and politely but firmly did something similar as what other are commenting. It seems to me that they have a right to be paid for their efforts, but I believe that people have the right to the presumption of innocence unless there are good reasons to think otherwise.
Although some of the legal discussiones don't necessarily follow for our legal system, it strikes me that our current laws give Intellectual Property owners to much influence over the system.
Another thing that compounds the problem is that the average income and the exchange rate make it even much harder to purchase software legally. Let 's say a give piece of MS software costs USD $500. That for us would be like around Q4,000 or four time what a secretary makes monthly. They are just forcing people to pirate software if the want to charge the same as in a first world market. It would be smarter to price adjust it for our country.
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Maybe they should wait until all the scientist are in complete agreement regarding the facts on the Zika virus. Some of them say it is something else, like Monsanto products in Brazil. This could hurt the economy and businesses. Oh, wait, that is climate change. Never mind, fund the hello out of this.
I already like what I saw more than the actual Star Trek crap J.J. Abrams created. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon and making their fans happy, they prefer to protect their mindless, action packed, no real story drivel.
Stats for North America are incorrect. Mexico is not a part of Central America, it is part of North America. Some may not know or like this, but it is correct.
This claim is an over-generalization. Nobel prize does not cover all fields of science. Actually, very few. There is no way to predict that someone will not come along and actually make a finding that does not require huge labs or previous work. Almost sounds like a troll to me.
It is interesting to see this on slashdot. I currently work/live in Guatemala (Latin America). The Business Software Alliance ("Microsoft") sent letter all over the country to various types of institutions including Academic and politely but firmly did something similar as what other are commenting. It seems to me that they have a right to be paid for their efforts, but I believe that people have the right to the presumption of innocence unless there are good reasons to think otherwise.
Although some of the legal discussiones don't necessarily follow for our legal system, it strikes me that our current laws give Intellectual Property owners to much influence over the system.
Another thing that compounds the problem is that the average income and the exchange rate make it even much harder to purchase software legally. Let 's say a give piece of MS software costs USD $500. That for us would be like around Q4,000 or four time what a secretary makes monthly. They are just forcing people to pirate software if the want to charge the same as in a first world market. It would be smarter to price adjust it for our country.