It seems like there are dozens of these type of cases going on constantly. Corporate litigation is rife with abuse right now... this ought to be going on every day. I guess a lot of the integrity has been bought or bribed out of the system...
And yet, when Congress or whichever President discusses "tort reform" they mean making it harder for us actual human beings to sue when we are injured.
Those living in glass houses should not cast stones... (Someone from USA accusing others of religious zealotry?!)
Not everyone in the US is a religious zealot. It's just that the zealots are well-funded, loud, annoying, and all over the airwaves.
Besides, it's the religious zealots who insist on supporting Israel in *absolutely everything* they do, even if it insane or completely against our interests. This is all because their bizarre interpretation of Revelations and various Old Testament prophets.
Who needs science when we have your unedchumicated opinion that ya just spew out.
Lets just all ignore the sun's effect on heating and lighting the planet when we have your computer models that can't predict the past, present, future, or weather next week.
Thanks for clearing it all up for us.
Thanks for intentionally misunderstanding the difference between weather and climate, dipshit. I guess you can ignore the predictions about when the tide will come in and out too since we can't predict accurately the timing, size and location of each and every wave that will crash on the shore.
Not quite. The "press" learned that ice-ages were periodical from the discovery in the late 70s, and then started publishing crap like "Oh noes! We're heading for an ice-age!", despite being unequivocally denied by everyone in the field. So what we have today it people like you continuing the myth that it was valid information back then. It wasn't, so stop it!
Ozone is a different matter, it's is a real problem, and the govts lead by Thatcher did something about the cause. We now have to wait several decades for the damage to be repaired. Go and ask someone down-under about their massive hole and skin-cancer problem.
So, you mean Newsweek and Time aren't reputable, peer-reviewed scientific journals??? Say it isn't so!
rather that the hole in the ozone layer and other environmental disasters would cause something I didn't pay attention to
FTFY
BTW, the reason things like the ozone layer and acid rain (which is one you apparently forgot) aren't so worrisome now is that we actually *did* something about them. Funny how seeing a problem, determining the correct solution, and then implementing the solution tends to actually produce positive results. It's certainly a lot better than sticking our heads in the sand or plugging our ears shouting "LA! LA! LA! I can't hear you!"
Hope you're also fine with a country like China outlawing gross obesity next and starts asking for extradition of obese US citizens.
Sounds fine to me. We need to get those fat fucks out of here. When they came for the obese, I said nothing, 'cause I hate those fat fuckers. They never came for me 'cause they had too much trouble getting those fat fucks in the cattle cars.
why is it that always republicans are behind the gravest, dastardliest shit, and they are behind less dastardly shit with a democrat close to their aisle ?
a while ago, i heard that mccain and 30 other republican senators opposed a bill which would prevent companies from putting clauses into their contracts that would prevent female employees from suing the company if they were raped in company's employ overseas by company employees. that included john mccain, the presidential candidate. the justification was 'we think it is wrong to tell businesses how to do business'. so, its ok if a company legislates rape in its overseas operations by putting a clause in its contracts ?
what the fuck is wrong with republicans ?
Simple. They like gang rape. They are opposed to abortions.
Read his comment fully before you retort - you look like an idiot when you get upset at the first sentence, get pissed, and reply without ever reading the second.
Read some of his other comments in this article. What I replied was consistent with his overall attitude, even if he temporarily had enough sense to add a few qualifiers to this one.
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Okay, let's say someone wants to gun down students in a school. You know they want to gun down students in the school. Instead of calling the police, you meet the guy who is going to gun down the students and see what his plans are. You laugh at his idea to go in with an old, rusty M-1 and blaze away. You instead help him pick out a good sniper rifle with a scope. You teach him the finer points of camouflage.
Yes, you did not actually cause the school massacre and some sort of school massacre would have happened anyway. But, did you really need to make it that much easier for him?
Your construction is interesting "one's children"; that is a possessive construction, and its one that everyone uses because quite naturally, properly functioning human beings understand that children really do belong to their parents
Good grief, you're so fucking stupid! By that argument, "my boss" and "my girlfriend" are also my own personal property? Are you really that big of an idiot??? Plus, if you really think your children are your property, you need to have them taken away from you. Now. Because, if you really think they are your property, then you think you can sell them, molest them, kill them, or do any other sort of horrible thing to them.
Please, for the sake of your children, kill yourself. Immediately.
our president is a publicity sensitive demagogue who can be relied upon to give in to the pressure group that screams the loudest and refuse to ratify the law which automatically refers the law to a plebiscite.
Wait a minute! Obama is also president of Iceland?
How can Slashdot not handle such a basic task as international character support?
Especially considering the number of times the look and interface has changed. You would think in 2011 they could sort of throw that in. I know the site is an English language site. But, even when posts are in English, you may occasionally need to use one o' them thar' furrin' werds.
Seriously, you guys don't even have the decency to respect this man's decision without making it a talking point against the socialist boogeyman out there? Careful, the ghost of Karl Marx is out to get you, mate.
You have to forgive us. We're Americans. Everything we don't like, we label "socialist". It's kind of like the Troll mod on slashdot.
You're not really good at reading comprehension, or understanding shades of gray, are you? I never said that one should *never* watch television or *never* do anything like read slashdot. For example, my posts you so triumphantly mentioned were over two months ago. I do not treat slashdot, television, or anything similar like a *necessity*, which is what you were implying television shows, DVRs and so on are for people.
One simply does not need to spend inordinate time on these things. One does not need to watch television for hours a day, buy DVRs, keep up with the latest bullshit, and so on. Do you understand? No, probably not. You are too interested in "winning" an argument instead of understanding a point of view.
You see, I have watched Star Trek, Doctor Who, and other shows. So what? If someone thinks they are stupid, I don't care. I do not have a show "that you dare not criticize". You assume "elitism" (whatever the hell that is) simply because I do not share your world view. Most people in the world do not feel the need to spend their lives glued in front of a television set. But, I guess they are all "elitists" to you, too.
The problem of course is that if you practice a patent technique, you have infringed on the patent. When the patented technique is a gene, the way you practice it is by growing and selling produce that contains that gene. This is a statutory obligation, not a contractual obligation; you agreed to it when you elected the bastards who made it legal to patent genes.
We don't elect the Supreme Court. Diamond v. Chakrabarty is what led to being able to patent genes.
> Potato selection from year to year is like updating your apps at user level
No, it is about taking half of a source code from two different kernels and mixing them randomly together. We can partially predict the outcome. E.g. 1/4 of the results will be something what we like, with unknown side-effects. If sex would be invented today, it would never be allowed by anyone because it is so random and dangerous. Think about genetic diseases.
> GM, is like poking and mixing the bytes and the bits of the KERNEL itself
No, it is about changing one, well known place is the source code to something well known, where the end results can be predicted. Think about fixing genetic diseases.
No, it's like taking two cars of the same make and model, and roughly the same year, and making a new car out of duplicate parts from each of the two cars. You can be fairly certain that it will work, although in some cases there may be defects since a part from one car may be slightly incompatible with a part from the other car. GM crops are like taking rolls royce and replacing the timing belt with one taken from a pinto. You don't know exactly what you'll get, but either way it will be an abomination.
you would realize that many of the protesters are local farmers.
yeah, right. And most of the Iranians who occupied the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 were 'students.'
And this, gentlemen, is the rarely-seen-in-the-wild Straw Man/Non-Sequitor/Category Error! Or, could the great Bing Tsher E please explain what in the name of Zeus's asshole does the Iran Hostage crisis have to do with the protesters in the article???
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It seems like there are dozens of these type of cases going on constantly. Corporate litigation is rife with abuse right now... this ought to be going on every day. I guess a lot of the integrity has been bought or bribed out of the system...
And yet, when Congress or whichever President discusses "tort reform" they mean making it harder for us actual human beings to sue when we are injured.
"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency" - President Barack Obama
Perhaps we should all attend Obama rallies with signs that say "[citation needed]"
Those living in glass houses should not cast stones... (Someone from USA accusing others of religious zealotry?!)
Not everyone in the US is a religious zealot. It's just that the zealots are well-funded, loud, annoying, and all over the airwaves.
Besides, it's the religious zealots who insist on supporting Israel in *absolutely everything* they do, even if it insane or completely against our interests. This is all because their bizarre interpretation of Revelations and various Old Testament prophets.
doh! "you're"! Damn you, too fast writing irony!
Who needs science when we have your unedchumicated opinion that ya just spew out. Lets just all ignore the sun's effect on heating and lighting the planet when we have your computer models that can't predict the past, present, future, or weather next week. Thanks for clearing it all up for us.
Thanks for intentionally misunderstanding the difference between weather and climate, dipshit. I guess you can ignore the predictions about when the tide will come in and out too since we can't predict accurately the timing, size and location of each and every wave that will crash on the shore.
Not quite. The "press" learned that ice-ages were periodical from the discovery in the late 70s, and then started publishing crap like "Oh noes! We're heading for an ice-age!", despite being unequivocally denied by everyone in the field. So what we have today it people like you continuing the myth that it was valid information back then. It wasn't, so stop it!
Ozone is a different matter, it's is a real problem, and the govts lead by Thatcher did something about the cause. We now have to wait several decades for the damage to be repaired. Go and ask someone down-under about their massive hole and skin-cancer problem.
So, you mean Newsweek and Time aren't reputable, peer-reviewed scientific journals??? Say it isn't so!
rather that the hole in the ozone layer and other environmental disasters would cause something I didn't pay attention to
FTFY
BTW, the reason things like the ozone layer and acid rain (which is one you apparently forgot) aren't so worrisome now is that we actually *did* something about them. Funny how seeing a problem, determining the correct solution, and then implementing the solution tends to actually produce positive results. It's certainly a lot better than sticking our heads in the sand or plugging our ears shouting "LA! LA! LA! I can't hear you!"
I bet your sorry now you spent all those years in school, since you apparently never learned reading comprehension.
Hope you're also fine with a country like China outlawing gross obesity next and starts asking for extradition of obese US citizens.
Sounds fine to me. We need to get those fat fucks out of here. When they came for the obese, I said nothing, 'cause I hate those fat fuckers. They never came for me 'cause they had too much trouble getting those fat fucks in the cattle cars.
why is it that always republicans are behind the gravest, dastardliest shit, and they are behind less dastardly shit with a democrat close to their aisle ?
a while ago, i heard that mccain and 30 other republican senators opposed a bill which would prevent companies from putting clauses into their contracts that would prevent female employees from suing the company if they were raped in company's employ overseas by company employees. that included john mccain, the presidential candidate. the justification was 'we think it is wrong to tell businesses how to do business'. so, its ok if a company legislates rape in its overseas operations by putting a clause in its contracts ?
what the fuck is wrong with republicans ?
Simple. They like gang rape. They are opposed to abortions.
You work it out.
Knock-knock!
Who's there?
Interrupting cow.
Interrupting C-
Moo!
Thank you. I'll be here all night!
Read his comment fully before you retort - you look like an idiot when you get upset at the first sentence, get pissed, and reply without ever reading the second.
Read some of his other comments in this article. What I replied was consistent with his overall attitude, even if he temporarily had enough sense to add a few qualifiers to this one.
Okay, let's say someone wants to gun down students in a school. You know they want to gun down students in the school. Instead of calling the police, you meet the guy who is going to gun down the students and see what his plans are. You laugh at his idea to go in with an old, rusty M-1 and blaze away. You instead help him pick out a good sniper rifle with a scope. You teach him the finer points of camouflage.
Yes, you did not actually cause the school massacre and some sort of school massacre would have happened anyway. But, did you really need to make it that much easier for him?
So funny. A Westerner who think the rules of his tribe are laws of nature!
Good grief, you're so fucking stupid! By that argument, "my boss" and "my girlfriend" are also my own personal property? Are you really that big of an idiot??? Plus, if you really think your children are your property, you need to have them taken away from you. Now. Because, if you really think they are your property, then you think you can sell them, molest them, kill them, or do any other sort of horrible thing to them.
Please, for the sake of your children, kill yourself. Immediately.
Bunch of fucking rednecks (yes, Iceland has their analogue).
Well, to be fair, *every* country has its analogue.
our president is a publicity sensitive demagogue who can be relied upon to give in to the pressure group that screams the loudest and refuse to ratify the law which automatically refers the law to a plebiscite.
Wait a minute! Obama is also president of Iceland?
Come on people, this is embarrassing.
How can Slashdot not handle such a basic task as international character support?
Especially considering the number of times the look and interface has changed. You would think in 2011 they could sort of throw that in. I know the site is an English language site. But, even when posts are in English, you may occasionally need to use one o' them thar' furrin' werds.
Seriously, you guys don't even have the decency to respect this man's decision without making it a talking point against the socialist boogeyman out there? Careful, the ghost of Karl Marx is out to get you, mate.
You have to forgive us. We're Americans. Everything we don't like, we label "socialist". It's kind of like the Troll mod on slashdot.
FTFY
One simply does not need to spend inordinate time on these things. One does not need to watch television for hours a day, buy DVRs, keep up with the latest bullshit, and so on. Do you understand? No, probably not. You are too interested in "winning" an argument instead of understanding a point of view.
You see, I have watched Star Trek, Doctor Who, and other shows. So what? If someone thinks they are stupid, I don't care. I do not have a show "that you dare not criticize". You assume "elitism" (whatever the hell that is) simply because I do not share your world view. Most people in the world do not feel the need to spend their lives glued in front of a television set. But, I guess they are all "elitists" to you, too.
First you have to get the fish really drunk.
Well, that should be easy. After all, he drinks like a fish! (Thank you! I'll be here all night!)
The problem of course is that if you practice a patent technique, you have infringed on the patent. When the patented technique is a gene, the way you practice it is by growing and selling produce that contains that gene. This is a statutory obligation, not a contractual obligation; you agreed to it when you elected the bastards who made it legal to patent genes.
We don't elect the Supreme Court. Diamond v. Chakrabarty is what led to being able to patent genes.
> Potato selection from year to year is like updating your apps at user level
No, it is about taking half of a source code from two different kernels and mixing them randomly together. We can partially predict the outcome. E.g. 1/4 of the results will be something what we like, with unknown side-effects. If sex would be invented today, it would never be allowed by anyone because it is so random and dangerous. Think about genetic diseases.
> GM, is like poking and mixing the bytes and the bits of the KERNEL itself
No, it is about changing one, well known place is the source code to something well known, where the end results can be predicted. Think about fixing genetic diseases.
No, it's like taking two cars of the same make and model, and roughly the same year, and making a new car out of duplicate parts from each of the two cars. You can be fairly certain that it will work, although in some cases there may be defects since a part from one car may be slightly incompatible with a part from the other car. GM crops are like taking rolls royce and replacing the timing belt with one taken from a pinto. You don't know exactly what you'll get, but either way it will be an abomination.
you would realize that many of the protesters are local farmers.
yeah, right. And most of the Iranians who occupied the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 were 'students.'
And this, gentlemen, is the rarely-seen-in-the-wild Straw Man/Non-Sequitor/Category Error! Or, could the great Bing Tsher E please explain what in the name of Zeus's asshole does the Iran Hostage crisis have to do with the protesters in the article???