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05-15-2013, 01:02 PM | #1 |
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No, what he is saying is, it doesn't matter what the law is if it can't be enforced.
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05-15-2013, 01:21 PM | #2 |
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"Again you have assumed the law is fair"
Nope. Law is a stick, wielded by those motivated by self-interest...nuthin' fair or unfair about it...it just 'is'. "You have assumed their royalties are not fair because you have no contract. Nope. Never said anything about the 'fairness' or 'justness' of company A's claim. You should read what I wrote and not what you think I wrote. ## "what he is saying is, it doesn't matter what the law is if it can't be enforced" What I'm sayin' is, I don’t care what Law says -- enforceable or not -- if said Law presumes 'I' can be enslaved. ## "Fortunately we have laws to protect us from others who have contempt for the law." Contempt for Law (and lawmakers/enforcers) is what -- in the context of this thread -- separates 'individual' from 'cog'. All this Law nonsense dredged up sumthin' from my deep memory that I'll now expand on over in 'my grinded gears'. |
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Topic is patent law and what patent laws says about intellectual property (ie genes) rights. What happens if genes can be patented? Genes in a crop are protected no matter who breeds more sees from that hybrid seed. Or is it the resulting seed that is patented; not the genes? If I understand it correctly, should you grow crops from that seed and not sell those crops or resulting seeds, then it is legal? |
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05-16-2013, 02:39 AM | #4 |
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Ohferchristsakes, you keep expounding about what congress should do, and what should or should not be patentable.
We're talking about who pays in the gene case.
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05-16-2013, 09:23 AM | #5 |
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"anarchist"
*ahem*
That's 'Anarchistic Sociopath' (and for you, that’s MISTER Anarchistic Sociopath). # Bruce, tw is an archetypical 'Lawful Neutral' character...for him, 'LAW' is the sum, the total, the end, the means, the 'reason'. The quality of 'LAW' is irrelevant to tw: all that matters is that 'LAW' exists and that 'LAW' be obeyed. For example: my contempt for 'LAW' is, according to tw, irrelevant to the discussion, which, of course, is absurd...if company A lays claim to a gene in me and demands payment, and I refuse to pay, fundamentally, my contempt for 'LAW' is the radix of the soon-to-be war between company A and myself. *shrug* I don't expect tw to get this...again: he's Lawful Neutral (and I'm Chaotic Evil)...practically speaking: we -- he and I -- aren't even of the same species. |
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You have completely ignored the fundamental question demonstrated by genes and other patented items.
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05-16-2013, 11:39 PM | #8 |
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Yes I have. If you think you can command moi, or anyone else, to address the case of the beans, you don't know beans.
I was participating in the other discussion about patenting human genes, which I find much more compelling, because I can summon my inner child to get all emotional and shit.
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05-17-2013, 07:52 AM | #9 |
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Of course, Google now owns that inner child you thought was yours.
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