Note carefully: this is not about declaring previous behavior to be retroactively legal, it is about passing a new law that would wipe out current lawsuits. This is different, and it has been done many times in the past. (After 9/11 a new law was passed to prevent thousands of expected lawsuits from being filed by victims' families.) This approach can serve a useful social purpose if used approriately, and the question is whether the tactic is appropriate to protect heavily-regulated companies who may have "over-cooperated" with government.
BTW it's good that you know the constitution because the 'ex post facto' thing is emphatically not dead, which probably led to the end run described in the article.
This one is called ComSwiki. It works on Windows and Mac and does not require installation on my company-owned laptop. It runs inside a SmallTalk environment and so is platform-independent. I can also upload files to the pages of the wiki for better organization.
Yes, searching it is definitely an issue, but I think storing it is also a significant issue. Why did they have to put something important and cool in a proven earthquake area?
At least the last time we lost the most important collection of knowledge in human history, some human intervention was required--the burning of the library at Alexandria.
We're collecting a lot of knowledge, but we seem to be forgetting some relevant history. (At least we're avoiding the other California disasters: wildfires, pestilence, mud slides...)
Umm...this isn't about the rights of the children who commit crimes. This is about the rights of those children who aren't criminals who will nonetheless have invalid and harmful conclusions drawn against them. Also include the inconvenience and harm to the parents of such children.
(By the way, what is a "yob" and what is a "scrote"? Thanks...)
GIMPS methods have already discovered Mersenne primes; experts agree on the technique, and positive results are verifiable. SETI positives are subject to interpretation, have not found any ET's yet, and are not verifiable. Not that it matters, but new primes haven't changed anyone's view of man's place in the cosmos, while SETI hits will be attacked as "theoretical" by religious fundamentalists. BTW, neither GIMPS nor SETI are used to produce advances which can be kept from humanity via intellectual property legislation, unlike distributed processing efforts supporting drug discovery and the like.
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Actually, they're called "hieroglyphs," and the writing is called "hieroglyphic writing." This is according to The Oriental Institute in Chicago.
So let's see...if/when these fish-whose-genes-are-intellectual-property reach the wild, they will compete for food and mates against the fish-whose-genes-are-not-intellectual-property. There will just be fewer non-corporate fish on the market for the rest of the world to buy. Sort of like DuP0nt's crops blowing their pollen onto--and contaminating the yield of--the fields of farmers who aren't DuP0nt customers. So, like, there's no problem, right? Unless they start busting innocent fishermen for 'possession of a controlled phenotype'...
An Idaho farmer is suing Monsanto for 'genetic trespass'. It seems that Monsanto, through it's own "act or failure to act" caused/allowed patented seed to take root in the farmer's field without his permission, thus impinging on his land, fertilizer, original crop, etc and "exposing him to a cause of action".
Oops, just kidding. But I'll bet such a farmer would get huge public support.
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Note carefully: this is not about declaring previous behavior to be retroactively legal, it is about passing a new law that would wipe out current lawsuits. This is different, and it has been done many times in the past. (After 9/11 a new law was passed to prevent thousands of expected lawsuits from being filed by victims' families.) This approach can serve a useful social purpose if used approriately, and the question is whether the tactic is appropriate to protect heavily-regulated companies who may have "over-cooperated" with government.
BTW it's good that you know the constitution because the 'ex post facto' thing is emphatically not dead, which probably led to the end run described in the article.
This one is called ComSwiki. It works on Windows and Mac and does not require installation on my company-owned laptop. It runs inside a SmallTalk environment and so is platform-independent. I can also upload files to the pages of the wiki for better organization.
Physical Botanimatics. Fun to say at cocktail parties; imposing on a resume.
Yes, searching it is definitely an issue, but I think storing it is also a significant issue. Why did they have to put something important and cool in a proven earthquake area?
At least the last time we lost the most important collection of knowledge in human history, some human intervention was required--the burning of the library at Alexandria.
We're collecting a lot of knowledge, but we seem to be forgetting some relevant history. (At least we're avoiding the other California disasters: wildfires, pestilence, mud slides...)
"This game has been modified from its original version. It has been edited for content and formatted to fit your legal system."
Umm...this isn't about the rights of the children who commit crimes. This is about the rights of those children who aren't criminals who will nonetheless have invalid and harmful conclusions drawn against them. Also include the inconvenience and harm to the parents of such children.
(By the way, what is a "yob" and what is a "scrote"? Thanks...)
GIMPS methods have already discovered Mersenne primes; experts agree on the technique, and positive results are verifiable. SETI positives are subject to interpretation, have not found any ET's yet, and are not verifiable. Not that it matters, but new primes haven't changed anyone's view of man's place in the cosmos, while SETI hits will be attacked as "theoretical" by religious fundamentalists. BTW, neither GIMPS nor SETI are used to produce advances which can be kept from humanity via intellectual property legislation, unlike distributed processing efforts supporting drug discovery and the like.
Actually, they're called "hieroglyphs," and the writing is called "hieroglyphic writing." This is according to The Oriental Institute in Chicago.
So let's see...if/when these fish-whose-genes-are-intellectual-property reach the wild, they will compete for food and mates against the fish-whose-genes-are-not-intellectual-property. There will just be fewer non-corporate fish on the market for the rest of the world to buy. Sort of like DuP0nt's crops blowing their pollen onto--and contaminating the yield of--the fields of farmers who aren't DuP0nt customers. So, like, there's no problem, right? Unless they start busting innocent fishermen for 'possession of a controlled phenotype'...
"I have the most elegant proof of this proposition, but my epidermis is too small to contain it."
An Idaho farmer is suing Monsanto for 'genetic trespass'. It seems that Monsanto, through it's own "act or failure to act" caused/allowed patented seed to take root in the farmer's field without his permission, thus impinging on his land, fertilizer, original crop, etc and "exposing him to a cause of action".
Oops, just kidding. But I'll bet such a farmer would get huge public support.