GMCA: Genetic Millenium Copyright Act - You will be required to pay a $30 licencing fee everytime you have sex. Of course open-gene advocated will claim that this violated their rights, and will find ways to circumvent it, forming gene-sharing systems such as Brothelster and Screwtella, but the GIAA will have them shut down.
But seriously, how can a company patent a GENE? I mean, sure, If they have spent a long time ENGINEERING a gene that cures disease X in plant Y, then they can patent it, since they invented it. BUT, you shouldnt be able to parent a gene just because you found it first. It IS prior art. Most of our genes have been around for billions of years. I have had copies of genes for over 18 years, so I dont like that fact that some of them have been patented.
If a Company was liable if their software fails to perform properly, then I think there about 350 million computer users who have a valid lawsuit against microsoft. I've lost count of the number of times Ive had hours of worked go down the drain due to a random bluescreen. (Of course I switched to linux 2 years ago and havn't had any problems since). Come to think of it, the company where I work produces tv commercials and promos, and I can tell you from personal experience that Adobe Premier isnt exactly a masterpeice. It crashes a lot, randomly corrupts project files, and has so many memory leaks it makes Office look nice, but you dont see Adobe worrying about getting sued.
Liarwall n, a device used to protect your corporate ass from hostile 'packets' such as lawsuits
Thank god they wern't NASA scientists- they would have gotten metric and imperial confused and god knows where the mars polar lander would have la-.. I mean god knows how much of an earthquake it would have caused.
I can remember back in grade 8, we all had to learn the most annoying, stupid, lame, crappy, pitifull excuse for a language ever made, second only to Visual Basic. I still have that turtle burned into my mind. Anyone else remember Lego Logo?;-P
> First the pass big brotherish computer laws that basically allow computer spying
Just like USA (you do know what Carnivore is dont you?), and the UK, and russia, and china, and probably most countries.
>and now the refusal to maintain the.au domain system
It's being controlled by a commercial entity, to maintain it better (at least we dont go around thinking we are so good we dont need.au and take over.com like the US did, giving away domains on a first come first serve basis with no regard to trademarks)
I still cant beleive how moronic Americans can be. "Why, its our constitutional right to cary automatic weapons, kevlar armer, and armer peircing bullets.". Why?. how come you need such firepower? You sit back and watch as crazy teenagers with serious problems blow the shit through each other with weapons that should be reserved for Military use ONLY. You may argue that a pistol can be used for self defence. ok, fine. just dont expect to be allowed to carry around AK47's because some guy 200 years ago in a completely different world said that John Q Citizen could carry around heavy arsenal. in those days heavy arsenal was a 12 Guage, not something that could cut down a tree with a 3 second burst.
Hey I got an idea. how about you cary around a Tazer. cheaper, not lethal, excelent for self defence, and unlike a desert eagle, its very hard to massacre high school students with.
Are americans idiots? or just plain stupid. Australians have more freedom than any other nation on earth. yes, you heard me right. We have more freedom than americans. If you doubt me, why dont you do a little research into australian law, culture, etc, before you go slamming australia. I think that if you do some research into it, rather than just being american and complaining about EVERYTHING, how about you get off your fat fucking arses and stop making comments about a country, the location of which half of you dont even know, yet alone what life here is like.
>Well, they may own Christmas Island, but they don't own my homestead in the USA. If they come to my front door in a feeble attempt to assert jurisdiction over me, I'll send 'em home with a mouthful of 00 buckshot, firmly delivered.
Yes, thats typical of an american. thinking that shooting someone with a big gun is cool, even though your just proving you have a small dick. Perhaps you should start dropping smart bombs on us?
>...which sucks a 48% income tax and a 10% General Sales Tax out of them
Again, another example of american stupidity. Assuming something without any knowledge of it at all. you only pay the 48% income tax if you dont provide your employer with your tax file number. the 10% GST is actually not so bad, since its pretty much the only tax on most things. since a lot of stuff already was taxed more than 10%, stuff like cars, computers, etc are now cheaper than before.
>protecting them from those evil refugees on a Norwegian ship trying to land on Christmas Island
We have a policy on refugees and I respect howard for sticking by it. If you look at Americas policy on refugees its actually very similar, your polititions's are just to chicken shit to stand by something if it might lose them votes. If we send the message that we dont accept refugees then we stop having the problem. In any case, most of the refugees come here, then expect us to give then luxury accomodation, internet access, cable Tv, and after dinner mints. stuff which many australians dont have. (Remember the kosovo refugees people?)
>Perhaps they really do need to go to the polls and vote for a positive change to the way their government is presenting their country to the outside world.
America doesnt have a very good reputation to the outside world, in case you didnt notice. You are generaly considered to be illiterate egotistic idiots, and, well anyone that goes on Jerry Springer to resolve personal problems has some serious issues.
[not that I think Australia is likely to drop paratroopers into Jersey to cart this guy away]
Na. We'd just send in our stealth bombers and smart bombs and put a little laser dot through their bedroom window, shoot the bomb, and have it land on the day care center next door. of course we'd deny it, but say that even if it WAS us, its ok because it was a dictatorship country. And if you mention it again you'll disapear.
Oh wait. no. sorry. I got confused with America for a second there.
In Australia there are laws restricting ownership of firearms, and guess what? we havnt had children running around with assault rifles and grenades blowing classmates heads off? in fact there hasnt been one major shooting in the whole country since the laws were passed. but of course that makes us a dictatorship, because our government wants to take over the whole country and doesnt like freedom. NOT. the point of the government in australia is to serve the people, not the other way round as it is in some countries (like the good old us of a). John Howard does not have absolute power. he cant just sick the secret service on people he doesnt like. In australia if a politition accepts a $50 bribe its all over the news.
as for the GST... well yeah, it might suck, but you forgot one thing. WE VOTED FOR IT. John howard explicitly said "If I am re-elected I will bring in a GST". it was the basis for his entire election campain. and guess what? he won the election.
I dont like fellow aussies sitting on there ass and bitching about Howards policys. I absolutely cant stand uneducated Americans who dont even know where Australia is, or anyone else not australian who sits on there ass, reads a few things about australia, and then decides that Australia is a dictatorship, or communist, or a crappy country or whatever. We were actually voted as the second best place to live, after sweden or something. america wasnt even on the list. So shut up about Australia if you dont know anything about it.
Ok... so say the computer proved excellent at recognising people, so the security guys just went on computer logs and didnt actually record videotape. it would be very easy to fool a computer with a mask, whereas a human could tell the difference most of the time. how hard would it be to frame someone like that?
... A recent report has revealed that children could steal porn mags from newsagencys. Many community groups are horified and are urging the government to shut down all newsagencys, magazine companys, printing presses, and are enforcing the destruction of all photocopy machines, since they may allow children to copy porn.
Other groups are pushing to stop the production of all illicit content in movies. Mrs Jones from SimTown commented that "I let my son burrow a video from the video store, and it contained NUDITY!... I shouldnt have to worry about monitoring what my children watch... why should I have to check to make sure the video isnt X rated?... I plan on suing the RIAA for allowing my son to see what a naked female looks like!"
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The same logic behind Fungus x2 = Fungi
GMCA: Genetic Millenium Copyright Act - You will be required to pay a $30 licencing fee everytime you have sex. Of course open-gene advocated will claim that this violated their rights, and will find ways to circumvent it, forming gene-sharing systems such as Brothelster and Screwtella, but the GIAA will have them shut down.
But seriously, how can a company patent a GENE? I mean, sure, If they have spent a long time ENGINEERING a gene that cures disease X in plant Y, then they can patent it, since they invented it. BUT, you shouldnt be able to parent a gene just because you found it first. It IS prior art. Most of our genes have been around for billions of years. I have had copies of genes for over 18 years, so I dont like that fact that some of them have been patented.
If a Company was liable if their software fails to perform properly, then I think there about 350 million computer users who have a valid lawsuit against microsoft. I've lost count of the number of times Ive had hours of worked go down the drain due to a random bluescreen. (Of course I switched to linux 2 years ago and havn't had any problems since).
Come to think of it, the company where I work produces tv commercials and promos, and I can tell you from personal experience that Adobe Premier isnt exactly a masterpeice. It crashes a lot, randomly corrupts project files, and has so many memory leaks it makes Office look nice, but you dont see Adobe worrying about getting sued.
Liarwall n, a device used to protect your corporate ass from hostile 'packets' such as lawsuits
Is this similar to the reason why there is a lack of intelligence in America?
>We weren't created by no 'God' - we created by an alien race (who look just like us) who posed as gods.
Ahh... do You mean the Goa'uld? Have they got a stargate on Mars then eh?
Because we all know that the average american schoolkid weighs more than the average adult in the rest of the world.
Thank god they wern't NASA scientists- they would have gotten metric and imperial confused and god knows where the mars polar lander would have la-.. I mean god knows how much of an earthquake it would have caused.
I can remember back in grade 8, we all had to learn the most annoying, stupid, lame, crappy, pitifull excuse for a language ever made, second only to Visual Basic. I still have that turtle burned into my mind. Anyone else remember Lego Logo? ;-P
> First the pass big brotherish computer laws that basically allow computer spying
.au domain system
.au and take over .com like the US did, giving away domains on a first come first serve basis with no regard to trademarks)
Just like USA (you do know what Carnivore is dont you?), and the UK, and russia, and china, and probably most countries.
>and now the refusal to maintain the
It's being controlled by a commercial entity, to maintain it better (at least we dont go around thinking we are so good we dont need
I still cant beleive how moronic Americans can be. "Why, its our constitutional right to cary automatic weapons, kevlar armer, and armer peircing bullets.". Why?. how come you need such firepower? You sit back and watch as crazy teenagers with serious problems blow the shit through each other with weapons that should be reserved for Military use ONLY. You may argue that a pistol can be used for self defence. ok, fine. just dont expect to be allowed to carry around AK47's because some guy 200 years ago in a completely different world said that John Q Citizen could carry around heavy arsenal. in those days heavy arsenal was a 12 Guage, not something that could cut down a tree with a 3 second burst.
Hey I got an idea. how about you cary around a Tazer. cheaper, not lethal, excelent for self defence, and unlike a desert eagle, its very hard to massacre high school students with.
Are americans idiots? or just plain stupid. Australians have more freedom than any other nation on earth. yes, you heard me right. We have more freedom than americans. If you doubt me, why dont you do a little research into australian law, culture, etc, before you go slamming australia. I think that if you do some research into it, rather than just being american and complaining about EVERYTHING, how about you get off your fat fucking arses and stop making comments about a country, the location of which half of you dont even know, yet alone what life here is like.
>Well, they may own Christmas Island, but they don't own my homestead in the USA. If they come to my front door in a feeble attempt to assert jurisdiction over me, I'll send 'em home with a mouthful of 00 buckshot, firmly delivered.
Yes, thats typical of an american. thinking that shooting someone with a big gun is cool, even though your just proving you have a small dick. Perhaps you should start dropping smart bombs on us?
>...which sucks a 48% income tax and a 10% General Sales Tax out of them
Again, another example of american stupidity. Assuming something without any knowledge of it at all. you only pay the 48% income tax if you dont provide your employer with your tax file number. the 10% GST is actually not so bad, since its pretty much the only tax on most things. since a lot of stuff already was taxed more than 10%, stuff like cars, computers, etc are now cheaper than before.
>protecting them from those evil refugees on a Norwegian ship trying to land on Christmas Island
We have a policy on refugees and I respect howard for sticking by it. If you look at Americas policy on refugees its actually very similar, your polititions's are just to chicken shit to stand by something if it might lose them votes. If we send the message that we dont accept refugees then we stop having the problem. In any case, most of the refugees come here, then expect us to give then luxury accomodation, internet access, cable Tv, and after dinner mints. stuff which many australians dont have. (Remember the kosovo refugees people?)
>Perhaps they really do need to go to the polls and vote for a positive change to the way their government is presenting their country to the outside world.
America doesnt have a very good reputation to the outside world, in case you didnt notice. You are generaly considered to be illiterate egotistic idiots, and, well anyone that goes on Jerry Springer to resolve personal problems has some serious issues.
[not that I think Australia is likely to drop paratroopers into Jersey to cart this guy away]
Na. We'd just send in our stealth bombers and smart bombs and put a little laser dot through their bedroom window, shoot the bomb, and have it land on the day care center next door. of course we'd deny it, but say that even if it WAS us, its ok because it was a dictatorship country. And if you mention it again you'll disapear.
Oh wait. no. sorry. I got confused with America for a second there.
In Australia there are laws restricting ownership of firearms, and guess what? we havnt had children running around with assault rifles and grenades blowing classmates heads off? in fact there hasnt been one major shooting in the whole country since the laws were passed. but of course that makes us a dictatorship, because our government wants to take over the whole country and doesnt like freedom. NOT. the point of the government in australia is to serve the people, not the other way round as it is in some countries (like the good old us of a). John Howard does not have absolute power. he cant just sick the secret service on people he doesnt like. In australia if a politition accepts a $50 bribe its all over the news.
as for the GST... well yeah, it might suck, but you forgot one thing. WE VOTED FOR IT. John howard explicitly said "If I am re-elected I will bring in a GST". it was the basis for his entire election campain. and guess what? he won the election.
I dont like fellow aussies sitting on there ass and bitching about Howards policys. I absolutely cant stand uneducated Americans who dont even know where Australia is, or anyone else not australian who sits on there ass, reads a few things about australia, and then decides that Australia is a dictatorship, or communist, or a crappy country or whatever. We were actually voted as the second best place to live, after sweden or something. america wasnt even on the list. So shut up about Australia if you dont know anything about it.
Ok... so say the computer proved excellent at recognising people, so the security guys just went on computer logs and didnt actually record videotape. it would be very easy to fool a computer with a mask, whereas a human could tell the difference most of the time. how hard would it be to frame someone like that?
... A recent report has revealed that children could steal porn mags from newsagencys. Many community groups are horified and are urging the government to shut down all newsagencys, magazine companys, printing presses, and are enforcing the destruction of all photocopy machines, since they may allow children to copy porn.
Other groups are pushing to stop the production of all illicit content in movies. Mrs Jones from SimTown commented that "I let my son burrow a video from the video store, and it contained NUDITY!... I shouldnt have to worry about monitoring what my children watch... why should I have to check to make sure the video isnt X rated?... I plan on suing the RIAA for allowing my son to see what a naked female looks like!"