Eyes are donated when a person dies and the family permits the donation. A genuine, registered eye surgeon comes around and harvests the eyes. The eyes are kept in an eye bank for later use. It is a properly regulated system.
Amitabh Bacchan, who is probably the most popular and respected Indian, is often seen on TV ads in India urging people to donate their eyes when they die. So there is a regular and above board source of eyes for harvesting in India.
Organlegging in eyes doesn't happen in India.
That is not to say dubious stuff doesn't happen. Just like in the US, some doctors in India have forgotten the bit in the Hippocratic oath where the welfare of patients is more important than profit.
You need to bear in mind that eye surgery in India is a big fundraiser (for aid from the first world, as well as in India). Wherever there are big funds, there is big risk of corruption. There are some things that could certainly be improved.
Actually, the species you want to imitate is the bonobo (they used to be confused with chimpanzees, but turned out to be 1.5 million years or so further up the evolutionary tree).
Unlike the chimpanzees, whose behaviour consists of aggression, threats, and chest-thumping I-am-da-alpha-male etc attitudes, bonobos resolve conflicts by cuddling up to each other and having snuggly therapeutic sex. Sometimes the whole troupe gets into it.
Nothing like an orgy to defuse aggression.
So, if it were bonobo behaviour the study was emulating, I would leap into my monkey suit and sign up right away - wild monkey sex was after all the stuff of my schoolboy fantasies.
She followed the therapy only after examining the russian studies. I had a look at her photocopies of the material, and it looked pretty rigourous and convincing (I am a PhD in physics, and I am also pretty skeptical about alternative therapies generally, so I am quite capable and ready to pick holes in such stuff. Still, I could be wrong in my assessment - it'd be kewl if more people looked into it).
She ended up playing the prescribed tapes of drum rhythms for her larval parasites during pregnancy. I have not been able to see a website talking about/selling this stuff though, which is kind of surprising, since seems that it would be a pretty good web biz to get into.
On a related note, I have a friend who got into prenatal sound therapy for her two kids during gestation. They are way more hyperactive and brighter than their peers. Sure, it'd be easier for her if they both had prefrontal lobotomies, but they are really good, well-balanced kids otherwise. She's convinced the sound therapy made a great difference, and there is a lot of evidence due to a bunch of russian studies on the benefits of this. I'll definitely be going for the therapy too when it's time for me to spawn.
Another kewl thing about sylpheed is that you can use it easy-peasily with authentication, tls etc.
And you can use it easy-peasily with hotway and hotsmtp (these make it possible to talk POP and SMTP with your hotmail account - ie make your hotmail account act like a normal mail account).
Not at all. It's actually government run amuck. Patents are a monopoly granted by the government. Far better to rely on trade secret behaviour to protect inventions and implementations of inventions. It would lead to faster progress.
Patents will eventually lead to a development gridlock in the USA.
You are assuming that wealth is zero-sum. Standard of living is a measure of wealth, and the average middle class Indian has a better standard of living than King Alfred the Great.
Basically, wealth grows alongside development. Sure, over a short period of time there is a near enough fixed amount of wealth. But over the timescale involved in having "to fight over less than 50% of the world's [remaining] wealth" countries develop and create more wealth anyway. To the benefit of everyone in the long run.
I believe that all patents of any form retard development. However, the current state of the patent system is even more dangerous to everyone in the long run because it is self-perpetuating and threatens to bring development to a halt in the end. The crux of the problem comes out if you follow this syllogism:
* Patenting locks up development, * The locking-up timescale is great enough to retard long-term development. * Retarded long-term development is not easy to see. * Hence patents will perpetuate and retard development further. * Corollary: countries that are not constrained by patents will develop faster over the long term.
The retardation timescale I am talking about is greater than the timescale of this current locking trend. The current trend is of the order of a decade or so. The retardation I am talking about is over a longer period than that. Since this is close to our productive lifetime timescale, we are in danger of retarding development. *And* this looks like it will be self-sustaining, since there is no relative individual benefit within a lifetime to throwing away patents. Eventually, without most people noticing it, everything will be fenced off by patents and development will slow down to a diminishing crawl.
This is the same problem as in "tragedy of the commons" where individuals/corporates benefit at the expense of everyone in the short term, but in the long term everyone (*including* the people who helped themselves over the short term) suffers, perhaps a generation or two later. With patents, the commons is the area of invention the patent covers, and the suffering is retarding development.
Slashdot Mirror
Eyes are donated when a person dies and the family permits the donation. A genuine, registered eye surgeon comes around and harvests the eyes. The eyes are kept in an eye bank for later use. It is a properly regulated system.
Amitabh Bacchan, who is probably the most popular and respected Indian, is often seen on TV ads in India urging people to donate their eyes when they die. So there is a regular and above board source of eyes for harvesting in India.
Organlegging in eyes doesn't happen in India.
That is not to say dubious stuff doesn't happen. Just like in the US, some doctors in India have forgotten the bit in the Hippocratic oath where the welfare of patients is more important than profit.
You need to bear in mind that eye surgery in India is a big fundraiser (for aid from the first world, as well as in India). Wherever there are big funds, there is big risk of corruption. There are some things that could certainly be improved.
Unlike the chimpanzees, whose behaviour consists of aggression, threats, and chest-thumping I-am-da-alpha-male etc attitudes, bonobos resolve conflicts by cuddling up to each other and having snuggly therapeutic sex. Sometimes the whole troupe gets into it.
Nothing like an orgy to defuse aggression.
So, if it were bonobo behaviour the study was emulating, I would leap into my monkey suit and sign up right away - wild monkey sex was after all the stuff of my schoolboy fantasies.
Thunderbird can support (ie, pick up and send) from your hotmail address without a problem if you use hotwayd.
She followed the therapy only after examining the russian studies. I had a look at her photocopies of the material, and it looked pretty rigourous and convincing (I am a PhD in physics, and I am also pretty skeptical about alternative therapies generally, so I am quite capable and ready to pick holes in such stuff. Still, I could be wrong in my assessment - it'd be kewl if more people looked into it).
She ended up playing the prescribed tapes of drum rhythms for her larval parasites during pregnancy. I have not been able to see a website talking about/selling this stuff though, which is kind of surprising, since seems that it would be a pretty good web biz to get into.
On a related note, I have a friend who got into prenatal sound therapy for her two kids during gestation. They are way more hyperactive and brighter than their peers. Sure, it'd be easier for her if they both had prefrontal lobotomies, but they are really good, well-balanced kids otherwise. She's convinced the sound therapy made a great difference, and there is a lot of evidence due to a bunch of russian studies on the benefits of this. I'll definitely be going for the therapy too when it's time for me to spawn.
Another kewl thing about sylpheed is that you can use it easy-peasily with authentication, tls etc.
And you can use it easy-peasily with hotway and hotsmtp (these make it possible to talk POP and SMTP with your hotmail account - ie make your hotmail account act like a normal mail account).
Close to trivial to implement - most sysadmins would probably handroll it themselves something along the lines of the following algorithm:
er...that's it really.
But probably nice to have a specific package for it - securitynotifier.deb or whatever.
Any man who cares to reduce the risk of burning his penis?
> bloody capitalism runamuck
Not at all. It's actually government run amuck. Patents are a monopoly granted by the government. Far better to rely on trade secret behaviour to protect inventions and implementations of inventions. It would lead to faster progress.
Patents will eventually lead to a development gridlock in the USA.
You are assuming that wealth is zero-sum. Standard of living is a measure of wealth, and the average middle class Indian has a better standard of living than King Alfred the Great.
Basically, wealth grows alongside development. Sure, over a short period of time there is a near enough fixed amount of wealth. But over the timescale involved in having "to fight over less than 50% of the world's [remaining] wealth" countries develop and create more wealth anyway. To the benefit of everyone in the long run.
Yes.
I believe that all patents of any form retard development. However, the current state of the patent system is even more dangerous to everyone in the long run because it is self-perpetuating and threatens to bring development to a halt in the end. The crux of the problem comes out if you follow this syllogism:
* Patenting locks up development,
* The locking-up timescale is great enough to retard long-term development.
* Retarded long-term development is not easy to see.
* Hence patents will perpetuate and retard development further.
* Corollary: countries that are not constrained by patents will develop faster over the long term.
The retardation timescale I am talking about is greater than the timescale of this current locking trend. The current trend is of the order of a decade or so. The retardation I am talking about is over a longer period than that. Since this is close to our productive lifetime timescale, we are in danger of retarding development. *And* this looks like it will be self-sustaining, since there is no relative individual benefit within a lifetime to throwing away patents. Eventually, without most people noticing it, everything will be fenced off by patents and development will slow down to a diminishing crawl.
This is the same problem as in "tragedy of the commons" where individuals/corporates benefit at the expense of everyone in the short term, but in the long term everyone (*including* the people who helped themselves over the short term) suffers, perhaps a generation or two later. With patents, the commons is the area of invention the patent covers, and the suffering is retarding development.