Business are not non-profit, those are organizations. If a company has stockholders their objective is to make as much money as possible, bottom line.
Money is always the bottom line, charitable givings are a tax right off and good publicity, despite your complaints on return of investment. Companies give for exactly that reason, they don't donate to charity out of the bottom of their heart, they make press releases around it constantly.
Patent reform as these companies want it, is to increase profits. It will invalidate many patents held by individuals as well as companies (some patent trolls, some not.) Individuals have patents that they allow others to use as long as it isn't for profit unless you pay them for use, then you can profit on it.
Why pay more for an unlocked phone? So you aren't in a contract, they don't give you a discount on services. It makes no sense that they make a person with a locked or unlocked or out of contract phone pay the same amount. Make it worth my while and I'll bring my own phone to the game.
Roads are supposed to be paid for by the gas tax collected when buying gas or diesel at the pump. So people that don't drive and don't use gas powered items don't help pay for the road. People with gas guzzlers or that commute a lot pay a lot more for the roads than other people.
My biggest concern with GMO crops is that they infect non-GMO crops with their pollen and GMO seeds somehow find their way onto non-GMO farms. Then suddenly the farmer is sued for using their GMO crops without planting. The problem with GMO crops and Monsanto goes beyond the safety of the food and into the repercussions for using it. A handful of companies control the worlds food seeds because of the patents on GMOs. Then these same GMOs are created to be resistant to things like Roundup or Liberty pesticides. Followed up by creating weeds that are immune to these super chemical pesticides and other regular pesticides leaving non-Monsanto farmers screwed.
Monsanto and others also are trying to push for suicide seeds that are unplantable a second year, which can spread to plants they don't own and ruining those for other farmers.
I'm hoping they turn it off tomorrow, what's the point of logging in if I still don't get to see the posts besides/. laughing? The number of comments has dropped significantly too due to their "humor."
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Business are not non-profit, those are organizations. If a company has stockholders their objective is to make as much money as possible, bottom line. Money is always the bottom line, charitable givings are a tax right off and good publicity, despite your complaints on return of investment. Companies give for exactly that reason, they don't donate to charity out of the bottom of their heart, they make press releases around it constantly. Patent reform as these companies want it, is to increase profits. It will invalidate many patents held by individuals as well as companies (some patent trolls, some not.) Individuals have patents that they allow others to use as long as it isn't for profit unless you pay them for use, then you can profit on it.
Why pay more for an unlocked phone? So you aren't in a contract, they don't give you a discount on services. It makes no sense that they make a person with a locked or unlocked or out of contract phone pay the same amount. Make it worth my while and I'll bring my own phone to the game.
If PRISM only collects metadata then why do they capture Skype audio and video?
Roads are supposed to be paid for by the gas tax collected when buying gas or diesel at the pump. So people that don't drive and don't use gas powered items don't help pay for the road. People with gas guzzlers or that commute a lot pay a lot more for the roads than other people.
My biggest concern with GMO crops is that they infect non-GMO crops with their pollen and GMO seeds somehow find their way onto non-GMO farms. Then suddenly the farmer is sued for using their GMO crops without planting. The problem with GMO crops and Monsanto goes beyond the safety of the food and into the repercussions for using it. A handful of companies control the worlds food seeds because of the patents on GMOs. Then these same GMOs are created to be resistant to things like Roundup or Liberty pesticides. Followed up by creating weeds that are immune to these super chemical pesticides and other regular pesticides leaving non-Monsanto farmers screwed. Monsanto and others also are trying to push for suicide seeds that are unplantable a second year, which can spread to plants they don't own and ruining those for other farmers.
What does it do when it doesn't get all of the pieces in the box?
That's not true. When you know who the foxes are you watch the foxes, when you don't know who the foxes are you watch the hen house.
I'm hoping they turn it off tomorrow, what's the point of logging in if I still don't get to see the posts besides /. laughing? The number of comments has dropped significantly too due to their "humor."