When you speak of property rights in regards to spam, you are extending your rights to include what can be done with the entirety of the internet. You are, in essence trespassing against someone else's use. For example, I'm certain you get advertisements daily through your snailmail. What is the difference between that and a spam for viagra? Both are unasked for, both can be seen as a public nuisance, except when attempting to press charges of trespassing against Safeway for a bulk advertisement; you would be laughed out of court. You do not get to define the operation of the entire postal service just because you have an address.
The difference is that - to complete your analogy - you hired a guard, build a fence and boarded up your mail slot, and Safeway decided to wrap their commercials around bricks to be able to throw them into your backyard lawn.
And if you think the intentions of the spammers way of spelling their products is vague, youre the one who should get laughed at.
Legal way of hitting this would be to make such thing as electronic littering an offence. Charge them pr message.
Disclaimer: Safeway used here for analogy only, no insinuation intended!
No, no, by all means keep up the good work, anti-Bush politicians should not be allowed to fly anyway! Is'nt that what democracy is all about?
This is not a glitch. Get it? And that is the problem.
Much of the money brought in from EST sequencing (which had *nothing* to do with TIGR's main goals as a genomics institute -- we just had spare sequencing capability to rent out, just like some organizations rent out spare computing power)
I don't think you got what I was pointing out as suspect. TIGR's goals cannot be said to have *nothing* to do with the HGS relationship, if Venter, your boss (then) owns 10% of the company that TIGR does research for. This is what I found suspect. Heavens, I don't mind commercial interrests having co-founding TIGR, but, I mind people closing their eyes to the commercial interrests effect on the research. Does anyone know which grants and/or companies is paying for this latest Venter-Venture? I think this will answer a lot more thank just saying 'it is non-profit'.
Craig's institutes, TIGR, IBEA, TCAG are *not busineses* -- they are non profit research institutions.
Somehow, this does not ring true with what I know. My information is that TIGR were a front for Institute for Genomics Research, which got six months exclusive rights to all patents of all TIGR's research. To my knowldge Venter owned (owns?) 10% of that stock.
Calling TIGR a non profit research institution under this arrangement is a LONG streach.
I have been told that Venter later broke his ties with this company. Can anyone comment on which similar deals exist with TIGR's commercial backers today?
Jonathan?
Hmm, i wonder if SCO can get any kind of ruling at all?
Judge: "Sorry SCO, I have to excuse myself, I cant rule on this issue as I'm using Linux myself for work, and so does all the other judges."
I guess Hotmail just became absolutely useless for anything important. I wonder if MS marking knows that now hotmail can only be used as throw-away addresses?
Is the picture ofthe display seems a bit misleading,
I would think that the narrow bands of the ambient light that matches the projector colors are also reflected, of course that might be much less than the bulk of the ambient light, explaining how this thing works.
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Gigantic coils that induce power in the battery?
And if you think the intentions of the spammers way of spelling their products is vague, youre the one who should get laughed at.
Legal way of hitting this would be to make such thing as electronic littering an offence. Charge them pr message.
Disclaimer: Safeway used here for analogy only, no insinuation intended!
No, no, by all means keep up the good work, anti-Bush politicians should not be allowed to fly anyway! Is'nt that what democracy is all about?
This is not a glitch. Get it? And that is the problem.
Craig's institutes, TIGR, IBEA, TCAG are *not busineses* -- they are non profit research institutions. Somehow, this does not ring true with what I know. My information is that TIGR were a front for Institute for Genomics Research, which got six months exclusive rights to all patents of all TIGR's research. To my knowldge Venter owned (owns?) 10% of that stock. Calling TIGR a non profit research institution under this arrangement is a LONG streach. I have been told that Venter later broke his ties with this company. Can anyone comment on which similar deals exist with TIGR's commercial backers today? Jonathan?
Let me see, you claim that you are 'not the type of person who usually points these types of things out'.
/. free of grammatical errors for ~5 years.'.
:-)
However your handle is 'grammar_nazi' and your sig is 'Keeping
I would wager that your are EXACTLY the type of person who usually points these types of things out...
Apart from that, you are perfectly right.
Hmm, i wonder if SCO can get any kind of ruling at all?
Judge: "Sorry SCO, I have to excuse myself, I cant rule on this issue as I'm using Linux myself for work, and so does all the other judges."
I guess Hotmail just became absolutely useless for anything important. I wonder if MS marking knows that now hotmail can only be used as throw-away addresses?
Is the picture ofthe display seems a bit misleading, I would think that the narrow bands of the ambient light that matches the projector colors are also reflected, of course that might be much less than the bulk of the ambient light, explaining how this thing works.