So you have no clue what so ever about the economic side of the big pharma, why the 'canada deal' exists, not to mention actually knowing anything about what the 'AIDS drugs for 3rd world' discussions and negotiations are about? You are suchs a pathetic troll.
Note that 'breach your patent rights' angle can trivialy be eliminated anywhere by revoking all patents and patentability for biological patents. One example of such is that for example in the EU, geneticly modified organisms - like say knockout mice - are not patentable. If the drugs are not patentable in say Brazil, then no patent rights are being breached, as none exist.
And the negotiation are abvout *not* revoking that type of patents in return of limiting profits on such drugs to create canada style deals.
Now, my dear clueless slashdot troll, please go away and don't ever again post in threads you know nothing whatsoever about.
Civilisation? No, not at all - your piece of the planet being off-balance doesn't tell us all that much about the beleance of the civilisation. It will probbaly just cause yor particular corner to have several quite bad bouts of stagnation.
As the world-wide reaction is increasingly negative to such biopatents the result will be:
* they will only be present in US, with
consumers in US paying ridiculously higher
prices and the creation of a
prescriptiondrug smuggling networks
* the pharmaceutical innovation will mainly
be hapenning elsewhere, with US being the
patentfight backyard where nothing is
really researched on manufactured, as it
isn't cost effective to.
<quote>
"We were convinced OpenBSD was the best platform to use as a basis for further securing open source," said Jonathan Smith, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Because DARPA does not directly fund projects outside the United States, it is Mr. Smith's computer science department that received the grant, although most of the money -- $2.3-million -- flows through to Mr. de Raadt's project. </quote>
So - Theo isn't taking the money, as DARPA couldn't give it to him anyways. So your point becomes rather infestimal sized...
Uncomfortable ? They are just communicating the fact that the money is not to implement a specific piece of functionality or do any kind of 'unspecified' contracting work for it but that it just comes as a 'here, use this to hack on openbsd as you like' no-strings-attached money.
In this regard its different from say the NAI labs security work on freebsd which (iirc) was also part-funded by darpa.
Actually the 'did nothing' part on embassy bombings is not true - the US did do an episode of firing cruise missles at suspected terrorist bases in response, including an attempt to kill bin Laden. It doesn't appear to have helped (ok, so one of the installations bomb was a aspirin factory, a classical example of intelligence being only relaiable to a limited extent) or helped to any significant extent.
Really, the proof that the whole Afghanistan affair did serve to curtail terrorist activities is still not apparent, especially with the recent reports of increased re-emergence of Taliban forces in Afghanistan and the failure to capture either Omar or bin Laden.
the 'atrifical' part of artifical intelligence is an unfortunate historical side effect. When people initialy started writing programs that made adaptable decisions, they called it (for various reasons, inc to get more fundung) artificial intelligece. For some odd reason it was thought that real machine intelligence would be just a4round the corner and the matter of merely say 20 years of development, which we no know to be wrong.
When we actually get to anywhere around something that might be sentient we will long have switched away from calling it 'artifical intelligence' - see for example Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri where there are two technologies called 'pre-sentient algorithms' and 'digital sentience'.
So, what about us who don't belong to any of the three mainstream religions that have a 'God' in the sense of an omnisentient/omnipotent creature? Aren't we automaticy excluded from such considerations? In such a case, there really wouldn't be a dilemma for a significant portion of people on this planet.
Fine by me - you are entirely welcome to continue to use MS Word for as long as you want. After all, it is your choice by which you continue to pay for Word and its functionality (including fast startup). But if you suggest that you cannot use it because start-up, a one time event takes 15 seconds, then well... what can I say - you appear to live on a different planet. There are not that many use cases that require a startup to be in 5 seconds or less, or at least ones that I can think of.
I personaly spend my time on way more productive things than you list - but the startup time of OpenOffice.org is not on my list of things that need to badly happen soon, meaning either you or somebody else who cares needs to do it.
And with all that 'wielding global warming as a weapon...' stuff you are merely saying that you just like to quote irrelevant propaganda without understanding the issues. Most importantly, you fail to demonstrate that you have any true understanding of why there is no way in which such could be credibly described as a weapon. The ironic thing is that for teh US economy it does not really matter either way - say reducing the amount of bad loans or corruption in bank by 0.5% would in comparison have much larger impact.
Please do read up on what the real long term genetical effects of exposure to DDT are. Which you dwould know (there is no higher educational system on this planet that is so bad it doesn't get covered in anybody learning organic chemistry) if you were aware of the issues and not just copying from somebody elses work.
You also apparently haven't read the book, as otherwise you would have noticed that DDT is covered much less in it that quite a number of other pesticides.
Ahem - how nice of you showing ignorance of the actual issue at hand while blaming others of it. The way GM plants are made to reduce the need for pesticides is by making the plants produce pesticide chemicals on their own. To find out why this is a bad idea and has already backffired, read this article - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=392044
You should have taken the advice to stay away from rabid dogs more seriously. Among things you are not noticing are that a) the sdk works with both the 1.0.x series and teh beta version of 1.1 and b) that OpenOffice.org has footnote support and has always had it. Maybe you should read both release notes before going wild with assumptions?
you are completely wrong on almost anything that you say - starting with not knowing what tinderbox is (come, on, go to mozilla.org and find out, it won't hurt you). And everything in SDK is definately not java based - where did you get that idea from?
see, the problem is that it does not matter one bit if he is guilty of anything or not. If he was guilty and suspected to be, and being held as material vitness, there should be charges brought against whoever did this for flasely holding him and knowingly bringing false charges.
Its really hard to assume he might be guilty if he is being held as a material witness and not a suspect.
it still doesn't change the fact that both the better and implementation of the law are against human rights, which (unlike some other treaties) the US has signed. Its also a law that is in teh very interest of US citizens to get removed, even if it can be shown to have actually saved lives (which it hasn't. If you don't understand why, you should read up on say Argentina or Spain under Franco.
As for US being fascist - thats more or less said by people who have no idea what fascist nations look like.
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So you have no clue what so ever about the economic side of the big pharma, why the 'canada deal' exists, not to mention actually knowing anything about what the 'AIDS drugs for 3rd world' discussions and negotiations are about? You are suchs a pathetic troll.
Note that 'breach your patent rights' angle can trivialy be eliminated anywhere by revoking all
patents and patentability for biological patents. One example of such is that for example in the EU, geneticly modified organisms - like say knockout mice - are not patentable. If the drugs are not patentable in say Brazil, then no patent rights are being breached, as none exist.
And the negotiation are abvout *not* revoking that type of patents in return of limiting profits on such drugs to create canada style deals.
Now, my dear clueless slashdot troll, please go away and don't ever again post in threads you know nothing whatsoever about.
Civilisation? No, not at all - your piece of
the planet being off-balance doesn't tell us all
that much about the beleance of the civilisation.
It will probbaly just cause yor particular corner
to have several quite bad bouts of stagnation.
As the world-wide reaction is increasingly
negative to such biopatents the result will
be:
* they will only be present in US, with
consumers in US paying ridiculously higher
prices and the creation of a
prescriptiondrug smuggling networks
* the pharmaceutical innovation will mainly
be hapenning elsewhere, with US being the
patentfight backyard where nothing is
really researched on manufactured, as it
isn't cost effective to.
eff has been very effective and aclu has lot of good prestige. Would you care to substaniate your claims for ineffectiveness and poor regard?
oh wait - you are an anonmous troll, aren't you?
From the original article:
<quote>
"We were convinced OpenBSD was the best platform to use as a basis for further securing open source," said Jonathan Smith, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Because DARPA does not directly fund projects outside the United States, it is Mr. Smith's computer science department that received the grant, although most of the money -- $2.3-million -- flows through to Mr. de Raadt's project.
</quote>
So - Theo isn't taking the money, as DARPA couldn't give it to him anyways. So your point becomes rather infestimal sized...
how about cluster bombs?
you are reffering to events in 1996 using the present tense????
Uncomfortable ? They are just communicating the fact that the money is not to implement a specific piece of functionality or do any kind of 'unspecified' contracting work for it but that it just comes as a 'here, use this to hack on openbsd as you like' no-strings-attached money.
In this regard its different from say the NAI labs security work on freebsd which (iirc) was also part-funded by darpa.
Actually the 'did nothing' part on embassy bombings is not true - the US did do an episode of firing cruise missles at suspected terrorist bases in response, including an attempt to kill bin Laden. It doesn't appear to have helped (ok, so one of the installations bomb was a aspirin factory, a classical example of intelligence being only relaiable to a limited extent) or helped to any significant extent.
Really, the proof that the whole Afghanistan affair did serve to curtail terrorist activities is still not apparent, especially with the recent reports of increased re-emergence of Taliban forces in Afghanistan and the failure to capture either Omar or bin Laden.
the 'atrifical' part of artifical intelligence is an unfortunate historical side effect. When people initialy started writing programs that made adaptable decisions, they called it (for various reasons, inc to get more fundung) artificial intelligece. For some odd reason it was thought that real machine intelligence would be just a4round the corner and the matter of merely say 20 years of development, which we no know to be wrong.
When we actually get to anywhere around something that might be sentient we will long have switched away from calling it 'artifical intelligence' - see for example Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri where there are two technologies called 'pre-sentient algorithms' and 'digital sentience'.
Humans have already done so, in the sense of creating a primitive life-form out of chemicals
So, what about us who don't belong to any of the three mainstream religions that have a 'God' in the sense of an omnisentient/omnipotent creature? Aren't we automaticy excluded from such considerations? In such a case, there really wouldn't be a dilemma for a significant portion of people on this planet.
- Kyoto enactment would do actual, provable economic "damage" in anything but the ultra-short term
- That the US economy is somehow special over the economy of all the other countries (which don't appear to be suffering any damage from Kyoto either)
- that oil price related damage to the US economy would in all circumstances translate to damage to teh rest of teh worlds economies
As none of these appear to have any credibility, any claims that Kyoto could be considered a weapon are just that - total bullshit.Fine by me - you are entirely welcome to continue to use MS Word for as long as you want. After all, it is your choice by which you continue to pay for Word and its functionality (including fast startup). But if you suggest that you cannot use it because start-up, a one time event takes 15 seconds, then well... what can I say - you appear to live on a different planet. There are not that many use cases that require a startup to be in 5 seconds or less, or at least ones that I can think of.
I personaly spend my time on way more productive things than you list - but the startup time of OpenOffice.org is not on my list of things that need to badly happen soon, meaning either you or somebody else who cares needs to do it.
And with all that 'wielding global warming as a weapon ...' stuff you are merely saying that you just like to quote irrelevant propaganda without understanding the issues. Most importantly, you fail to demonstrate that you have any true understanding of why there is no way in which such could be credibly described as a weapon. The ironic thing is that for teh US economy it does not really matter either way - say reducing the amount of bad loans or corruption in bank by 0.5% would in comparison have much larger impact.
Please do read up on what the real long term genetical effects of exposure to DDT are. Which you dwould know (there is no higher educational system on this planet that is so bad it doesn't get covered in anybody learning organic chemistry) if you were aware of the issues and not just copying from somebody elses work.
You also apparently haven't read the book, as otherwise you would have noticed that DDT is covered much less in it that quite a number of other pesticides.
Ahem - how nice of you showing ignorance of the actual issue at hand while blaming others of it. The way GM plants are made to reduce the need for pesticides is by making the plants produce pesticide chemicals on their own. To find out why this is a bad idea and has already backffired, read this article - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story .jsp?story=392044
StarOffice has no database component that could be open sourced - it ships with Adabas D, which can be open sourced by adabas and not Sun
You should have taken the advice to stay away from rabid dogs more seriously. Among things you are not noticing are that a) the sdk works with both the 1.0.x series and teh beta version of 1.1 and b) that OpenOffice.org has footnote support and has always had it. Maybe you should read both release notes before going wild with assumptions?
Yes, components developed with the sdk will also work with 1.1
Well, considering there is an aqua port, why not ?
Well, where are all your perfomance enhancement patches?
you are completely wrong on almost anything that you say - starting with not knowing what tinderbox is (come, on, go to mozilla.org and find out, it won't hurt you). And everything in SDK is definately not java based - where did you get that idea from?
see, the problem is that it does not matter one bit if he is guilty of anything or not. If he was guilty and suspected to be, and being held as material vitness, there should be charges brought against whoever did this for flasely holding him and knowingly bringing false charges.
Its really hard to assume he might be guilty if he is being held as a material witness and not a suspect.
it still doesn't change the fact that both the better and implementation of the law are against human rights, which (unlike some other treaties) the US has signed. Its also a law that is in teh very interest of US citizens to get removed, even if it can be shown to have actually saved lives (which it hasn't. If you don't understand why, you should read up on say Argentina or Spain under Franco.
As for US being fascist - thats more or less said by people who have no idea what fascist nations look like.
The actions would still be something for which strictly speaking those who carried them out could be charged with human rights violations.