IF the labels raise their prices when their current contract with apple runs out, what will apple be able to do? It isn't like they can second source the music from another company.
We have the tech to secure our borders, we just have to spend the money to do it.
And a brute force attack with a truckbomb against a building will do as much, if not more, damage then a well planned attack with man portable amounts of HE. Just look at OC.
The FBI does have counter terrorism duties, and border control is need to do that. Hell, if you where in the military and setup your base defense the same way the US 'protects' its borders you would be charged with deriliction of duty in about 3.1415 seconds.
One reviewer doesn't have that power. The real movers and shakers in the stock market, the instutional investors, don't read the tech review section of the WSJ. They use insider info.:->
Most of those crimes you mentioned are state/local crimes. Let the states handle them.
The US goverment is tasked with the job of guarding our borders. We are currently using a much higher level of tech on guarding the borders of Iraq and Afg. then we are using to guard our own borders.
I would think that someone crossing our borders with a man portable missile is a much greater potential risk than a college student asking about some tunnels.
No, it doesn't. The US policy of being open to immigrants applies to those that come to this country legally. I don't know of a time when we allowed unrestriced immigration, hell, even Ellis Island turned away a lot of people.
The people I know that are most upset about illegal immigration are those that have or are in the process of coming to this country legally.
Large transnational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont and others have been investing into biotechnology in such a way that patents have been taken out on indigenous plants which have been used for generations by the local people, without their knowledge or consent. The people then find that the only way to use their age-old knowledge is be to buy them back from the big corporations. In Brazil, which has some of the richest biodiversity in the world, large multinational corporations have already patented more than half the known plant species. (Brazil is estimated to have around 55,000 species of flora, amounting to some 22% of the world's total. India, for example, has about 46,000.)
A patent gives a monopoly right to exploit an invention for 17-20 years. To be patentable an invention must be novel, inventive and have a commercial use. Controversially though, the US and European patent offices now grants patents on plant varieties, GM crops, genes and gene sequences from plants and crops. The current WTO patent agreement, TRIPs - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - has been very controversial in this respect for many developing countries who want to have it reviewed, but are being somewhat blocked by the wealthier nations from doing so.
As reported by Environment News Service, "Knowledge is proprietary. It belongs to corporations and is not accessible to farmers," [Dr. Altieri] said. Altieri feels that biotechnology has emerged through the quest for profit, not to solve the problems of small farmers. "Scientists are defending biotechnology... but at the same time there's a lot of money from corporations going into universities, influencing the researchers in those universities in the wrong direction," Altieri said.
The cost to developing countries in "pirating" their knowledge has been considerable:
"Vandana Shiva believes that the West has a clever structure in place. Using convenient patent laws as a system, the Trade Related Intellectual Property [TRIP] instrument as a stick and the World Trade Organisation [WTO] as the enforcing authority, the First World is seeking to 'rob' the Thirld World. She says in a rigorous article: "When the US introduced IPRs in the Uruguay Round as a new issue, it accused the Third World of 'piracy'. The estimates provided for royalties lost in agricultural chemicals are US$202 million and US$2,545 million for pharmaceuticals. However, as the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), in Canada has shown, if the contribution of Third World peasants and tribals is taken into account, the roles are dramatically reversed: the US owes US$302 million in royalties for agriculture and $5,097 million for pharmaceuticals to Third World countries."" -- Abduction of Turmeric provokes India's wrath, Good News India, January 2002
Some examples
In Texas, a company called RiceTec took out the patents on Basmati rice (which grows in the Indian and Pakistan regions) and have created a genetically modified Basmati rice, while selling it as normal Basmati -- and it was not against the law, either. In fact, four of the patents were withdrawn in June 2000, when the Indian government formally challenged the patent. However, it, and other incidents continue to raise controversy on patenting indigenous plants. Eventually though, 15 of the 20 patents were also thrown out by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) due to lack of uniqueness and novelty. However, towards the middle of August 2001, three patents were awarded to RiceTec -- to variants called Texmati, Jasmati and Kasmati, all cross breeds of Basmati and American long grain rice, while RiceTec was also given permission to claim that its brands are "superior to basmati" as reported by the Guardian, who also point out the uproar that has caused in Indian political circles. The article also points out how RiceTec CEO doesn't understand why there is such a fuss over this,
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IF the labels raise their prices when their current contract with apple runs out, what will apple be able to do? It isn't like they can second source the music from another company.
Well, lack of good linux drives stops me from buying ATI cards for the Windows systems the rest of my family use.
If they had linux support, the cards in those systems might be ATI, but they are not.
A source within apple told them. It's called not ratting out your sources.
Because fake bullets don't kill people, fake boobs do!
Because I can break anything. It it is portable and plays music it will not last if I get my hands on it.
I don't know why, my PDA's and laptop don't break, but all my music players do...
Not strong enought. I can be very hard on portable music players. :->
I don't like it. I would drop it and it would break.
:->
Till they make one that can survice a runin with a M1A1 I will not be able to buy one.
I never understood the hot grits...I was here when it first started, but I still just don't get it...
We have the tech to secure our borders, we just have to spend the money to do it.
And a brute force attack with a truckbomb against a building will do as much, if not more, damage then a well planned attack with man portable amounts of HE. Just look at OC.
The FBI does have counter terrorism duties, and border control is need to do that. Hell, if you where in the military and setup your base defense the same way the US 'protects' its borders you would be charged with deriliction of duty in about 3.1415 seconds.
Some of the gave false info on their visa apps. That is against federal law.
One reviewer doesn't have that power. The real movers and shakers in the stock market, the instutional investors, don't read the tech review section of the WSJ. They use insider info. :->
Excuse the spelling.
Someone is using Steve Jobs RDF and he is going to be pissed!
I should have said it was the 'official' policy of the US goverment, that they ignore because it drives down wages.
I should have been more clear.
No, it isn't. Something is illegal if it breaks the law and what happend back then didn't break any laws.
Most of those crimes you mentioned are state/local crimes. Let the states handle them.
The US goverment is tasked with the job of guarding our borders. We are currently using a much higher level of tech on guarding the borders of Iraq and Afg. then we are using to guard our own borders.
I would think that someone crossing our borders with a man portable missile is a much greater potential risk than a college student asking about some tunnels.
One way to tell is if they follow the current legal ways to immigrate into this country.
What the colonists did may have been immoral, but it wasn't illegal.
No, it doesn't. The US policy of being open to immigrants applies to those that come to this country legally. I don't know of a time when we allowed unrestriced immigration, hell, even Ellis Island turned away a lot of people.
The people I know that are most upset about illegal immigration are those that have or are in the process of coming to this country legally.
Please point out where I even suggested that we stop legal immigration.
The US goverment can not secure our borders, yet they are going after people that file FOIA requests.
Someone please explain to me how in the hell that make sense.
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I had to ask, this being /. I was expecting an answer like Bob the Caveman from Mars. :->
Then who did?
I am going to make the assumption that your sig refers to the current resident of 1600 Penn. Ave.
It's wrong.
President Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut...
No, it may be plagerisim , but it isn't a troll. Learn the difference.
Large transnational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont and others have been investing into biotechnology in such a way that patents have been taken out on indigenous plants which have been used for generations by the local people, without their knowledge or consent. The people then find that the only way to use their age-old knowledge is be to buy them back from the big corporations. In Brazil, which has some of the richest biodiversity in the world, large multinational corporations have already patented more than half the known plant species. (Brazil is estimated to have around 55,000 species of flora, amounting to some 22% of the world's total. India, for example, has about 46,000.)
... but at the same time there's a lot of money from corporations going into universities, influencing the researchers in those universities in the wrong direction," Altieri said.
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A patent gives a monopoly right to exploit an invention for 17-20 years. To be patentable an invention must be novel, inventive and have a commercial use. Controversially though, the US and European patent offices now grants patents on plant varieties, GM crops, genes and gene sequences from plants and crops. The current WTO patent agreement, TRIPs - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - has been very controversial in this respect for many developing countries who want to have it reviewed, but are being somewhat blocked by the wealthier nations from doing so.
As reported by Environment News Service, "Knowledge is proprietary. It belongs to corporations and is not accessible to farmers," [Dr. Altieri] said. Altieri feels that biotechnology has emerged through the quest for profit, not to solve the problems of small farmers. "Scientists are defending biotechnology
The cost to developing countries in "pirating" their knowledge has been considerable:
"Vandana Shiva believes that the West has a clever structure in place. Using convenient patent laws as a system, the Trade Related Intellectual Property [TRIP] instrument as a stick and the World Trade Organisation [WTO] as the enforcing authority, the First World is seeking to 'rob' the Thirld World. She says in a rigorous article: "When the US introduced IPRs in the Uruguay Round as a new issue, it accused the Third World of 'piracy'. The estimates provided for royalties lost in agricultural chemicals are US$202 million and US$2,545 million for pharmaceuticals. However, as the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), in Canada has shown, if the contribution of Third World peasants and tribals is taken into account, the roles are dramatically reversed: the US owes US$302 million in royalties for agriculture and $5,097 million for pharmaceuticals to Third World countries."" -- Abduction of Turmeric provokes India's wrath, Good News India, January 2002
Some examples
In Texas, a company called RiceTec took out the patents on Basmati rice (which grows in the Indian and Pakistan regions) and have created a genetically modified Basmati rice, while selling it as normal Basmati -- and it was not against the law, either. In fact, four of the patents were withdrawn in June 2000, when the Indian government formally challenged the patent. However, it, and other incidents continue to raise controversy on patenting indigenous plants. Eventually though, 15 of the 20 patents were also thrown out by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) due to lack of uniqueness and novelty. However, towards the middle of August 2001, three patents were awarded to RiceTec -- to variants called Texmati, Jasmati and Kasmati, all cross breeds of Basmati and American long grain rice, while RiceTec was also given permission to claim that its brands are "superior to basmati" as reported by the Guardian, who also point out the uproar that has caused in Indian political circles. The article also points out how RiceTec CEO doesn't understand why there is such a fuss over this,