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  1. Re: Pirate a pirate on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 2

    It could be said that they want you to copy the look feel and what they do, no steal the source code.

  2. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    The initial planting was not willful. In addition hos did he infringe? did he create the seeds, or did nature after he unintentionally planted the first batch?

  3. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 2

    How do you know they did not find out afterwords, and then decided to spray? Are you a payed shrill or something?

  4. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    ever heard of a thing called patent exhaustion?

  5. Re:he used the seed as Roundup-Ready on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    Except that is not what happened here. Besides the fact that they are trying to patent an effect of nature, that the farmers cant control.

  6. Re:Great business model! on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    It is not a myth, if you read above it has been shown that they do, and have lost cases to that fact. Also how is it more profitable to not reuse seeds from a later generation?

  7. Re:What about the ACTUAL corn? on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    This is IF he bought it under contract. If he did not then he is not party to that contract. In addition the courts shout NOT have found that in the later case, otherwise they are patenting nature.

  8. Re:What about the ACTUAL corn? on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    It does not matter. If he was not party to the contract then he is not held to it.

  9. Re:What about the ACTUAL corn? on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    No, nothing was stolen. You cant help it that plans pollinate on their own.

  10. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    It is relevant, He asked for an example and received one.

  11. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    Maybe they found out later.... It does not mean they knew when they bought it.

  12. Re:What's the cost for Cash? on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    those are costs already associated, since they already have to be willing to accept cash.

  13. Re:What's the cost for Cash? on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    yes and unless you have a credit union or something debit cards are no different. Banks themselves will batch transactions and hold them, hoping that you go over your limit with the card, even without overdraft. They also reorder the transactions so that they are top heavy not aged by date.

  14. Re:Not really a speedbump on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    The non credit users dont pay into that system, the merchants keep that money as extra profit, not the credit card companies.

  15. Re: I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    The situation may be different, but the argument was that they have different protections. If you dispute a transaction with your CC company the money is still out of your account, until the dispute is handled. The protection is the same, you are just using a red herring.

  16. Re: I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    So people are claiming and bemoaning the belief that cash takes longer and is more open to fraud, but you still right checks?

  17. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    Repubs are only not happy with the benefits that they dont get, ask any old repub and they will tell you to get rid of the ones they are NOT on, otherwise they will be pissed. dems use the loophole cause they are there, but would just as happily get rid of them.

  18. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    right, so one industry proves your point, and it is an industry that sells nothing but big ticket items at that, where most people use a CC with rewards for that industry.... Yea that really proves your point.

  19. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    You are crazy, I mean after all you see places everywhere requiring a minimum purchase to use cash right? oh no it is the other way around.

  20. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 3, Funny

    I get thousands of dollars a year in rewards.

    Interesting... you get free money, and wonder why there may be fees now?

    It's not free money, it's a kickback. "As long as you are going to buy that HDTV anyway, why not use our credit card? We'll get the merchant for 4% and give you 1%..."

    And you payed 4% higher price because of it, so here, we will make that easier and make it so you only lost 3%....

  21. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    they already have that fee, IE wages for the cashier. Most places dont only have a self checkout line.

  22. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    Hate to see the bank you use.

  23. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    then use a debit card. or did you not read the part where this is for credit card fees, not debit card fees?

    There might not be fees associated with the Debit card.. but legally you don't have the same protections that you do with a credit card .. That said .. I'll be walking out leaving stuff at the register if they attempt to charge a fee..

    Legally does not matter when you contractually are offered the same protections: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/herigstad-debit-cards-consumer-security-1294.php The only real difference now a days is rewards.

  24. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    I have a credit union and unless I am in a 1 stop light town for some reason there are more Cash Points stations where I dont have to pay because the union then there are most other bank ATMS combined. In my general area, a small collage town there are like 5 cash points, and like 5 real bank atms.

  25. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    I wholeheartedly agree. Putting the cost on the card users is the right way.

    Then we should put the extra labor cost of manipulating and accounting all the cash money onto only the cash customers. And we should put the cost of those electric scooters on the fat/crippled people, and the cost of automatic doors on people with no arms. I never use the bathroom at the supermarket, so maybe it should just cost $1 per use. And there are certain aisles that I never shop from, so maybe the cost of stocking those items can be put on only the people who buy them -- it costs $1 to access any given aisle. I never shop at the deli or fish counters, so we should just charge $1 to access those also...

    They already charge you for the cost of labor and accounting all the cash.. That is what the wages for their cashiers. With the time difference being small it is not going to add up to be a huge amount, they still already have to do it all.