Ahh, but based on the IP address from which she accessed Facebook, he can find someone to sue. That is, of course, if the ISP will cough up her identity...
But... but... they really do have a squad of inspectors who stop and test every farmer's crops, and then match it up against records of Monsanto seeds. And suits like this are the result.
I know, I know... ten gallons of fail, and I choose to point out this tiny little crumb; but I must say that I was moved by the story of poor Jamie -- Jamie Thomas-Rasset, that is. I know why she stole them Internets; she was put up to it by her dastardly cousin, Jammie!
Sounds to me like he was deliberately sold a product which could not legally be used to do the things it was sold for. "Warranty of merchantability" comes to mind... lawsuit, anyone?
To complete the moneygrubbing portrait of US healthcare's failings, be sure to read Dr. Atul Gawande's New Yorker expose' comparing health care costs in Rochester, MN, home of the Mayo Clinic, to dirt-poor Hidalgo County, TX. Predictable, right? Scores of top Mayo experts, incredible high-tech facilities, highly systematized; vs. a cobbled-together network of individual practitioners, and patients who can barely afford to pay. Except the reality is backwards... costs incredibly less to be treated in a well-run, expert system, mostly because in the unorganized environment, each and every practitioner has opened a freestanding clinic or specialty in a strip mall, and each is scamming federal reimbursement right up to the legal limit... and beyond. Kickbacks, payoffs, gaming the system; given the right unregulated environment, greedy providers will go for the gold every time.
Agreed. Freedom, and all that... yes. You are all free to click whatever buttons you find here. But if there were no "hide" button, I would use my freedom-loving eyeballs to skip over the nasty bits, and get to the good stuff. Maybe enjoy a morsel of trollery from time to time if that strikes my fancy.
I appreciate your efforts on my behalf. But remember... if you voted to hide, it's because you already read it; and now you've made that harder for me to do, which makes no sense. "Don't worry your pretty little head," you say. But you've made your decision, let me make mine... less of this juvenile hiding nonsense.
A similar situation has been brewing in Africa. According to this story at the "AllAfrica" site, American seed interests, with help from the World Bank and others, are attempting to establish a foothold for corporate seed interests to displace locally-grown seed. African agronomists insist that local seed is genetically best adapted to African growing conditions and environments; not surprisingly, Big Seed thinks that African prosperity depends on an explosion of agribusiness interests. "Agribusiness" means massive first-world plantations, of course; so the prosperity train likely won't pass by the African farmer's front door, no matter what is claimed. And at the very least, once seeds transition from locally-grown to corporate-grown (and potentially GMO), prices will be out of reach for small African farmers. Far from an economic stimulus, this would appear to leave African subsistence farmers far worse off, and would reduce biodiversity, offering the same homogenized range of crops as is gradually being pushed across the world by corporate seed interests.
I'm reading all those auditor comments aloud using Frances McDormand's wonderful Minnesotan accent from "Fargo"... and that makes them all sound perfectly sensible.
"... many libraries, for example, stopped taking federal funding to avoid the issue altogether."
Actually, the American Library Association credo is strongly anti-censorship, and member professionals guard Internet freedom like pit bulls. Even if it means that they have to occasionally clean up certain... fluids... left by their male patrons at the public access computers.
Oh, that's right... I forgot. The purpose of patents is to prevent drug abuse.
That's a good thing, because they're sure not protecting innovation like they were intended to do. At least they occasionally serve some useful purpose.
Guess I was looking from the other end... a suspect who, although not Mirandized, knows enough to invoke those rights nonetheless (and clams up). I understand Miranda's purpose... formal notice... but wondered, as that whole no-Miranda-for-you media cycle unfolded, whether the officials involved really thought that omitting the notification would actually change his right to remain silent. Or that it would force him to run his mouth, when simple common sense says otherwise.
I know it's just a minor point on the Senator's Idiocy Hit Parade, but that Miranda thing... seriously. The question of whether or not to "read him his rights" -- what, is Miranda a secret? Is it written in Esperanto, and needs to be translated so that you know you have rights? What if he's already heard it? Considering its repetition from the days of Jack Webb and Dragnet, all the way through all the dozens of Law and Order franchises... how can anyone, even an immigrant, not know what the words and concepts are?
And better yet, Miranda isn't about having rights... it's about getting reminded of them. The rights are already in place.
Re: Re: Get AARP involved?
Byt the time AARP members typed that TLD into their browsers, they would no longer need pharmaceuticals.
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A Scooby Doo episode in which Shaggy posts steamy torrents involving Daphne and Velma, in order to ensnare downloaders and extort money from them.
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Ahh, but based on the IP address from which she accessed Facebook, he can find someone to sue. That is, of course, if the ISP will cough up her identity...
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But... but... they really do have a squad of inspectors who stop and test every farmer's crops, and then match it up against records of Monsanto seeds. And suits like this are the result.
Fine details of failure
I know, I know... ten gallons of fail, and I choose to point out this tiny little crumb; but I must say that I was moved by the story of poor Jamie -- Jamie Thomas-Rasset, that is. I know why she stole them Internets; she was put up to it by her dastardly cousin, Jammie!
Sue Monsanto...
Sounds to me like he was deliberately sold a product which could not legally be used to do the things it was sold for. "Warranty of merchantability" comes to mind... lawsuit, anyone?
Re: How is it different?
Not at all different! But the equation is only complete when someone actually gives the money.
Entrepreneurial docs, too
To complete the moneygrubbing portrait of US healthcare's failings, be sure to read Dr. Atul Gawande's New Yorker expose' comparing health care costs in Rochester, MN, home of the Mayo Clinic, to dirt-poor Hidalgo County, TX. Predictable, right? Scores of top Mayo experts, incredible high-tech facilities, highly systematized; vs. a cobbled-together network of individual practitioners, and patients who can barely afford to pay. Except the reality is backwards... costs incredibly less to be treated in a well-run, expert system, mostly because in the unorganized environment, each and every practitioner has opened a freestanding clinic or specialty in a strip mall, and each is scamming federal reimbursement right up to the legal limit... and beyond. Kickbacks, payoffs, gaming the system; given the right unregulated environment, greedy providers will go for the gold every time.
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Thanks for sharing!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Agreed. Freedom, and all that... yes. You are all free to click whatever buttons you find here. But if there were no "hide" button, I would use my freedom-loving eyeballs to skip over the nasty bits, and get to the good stuff. Maybe enjoy a morsel of trollery from time to time if that strikes my fancy.
I appreciate your efforts on my behalf. But remember... if you voted to hide, it's because you already read it; and now you've made that harder for me to do, which makes no sense. "Don't worry your pretty little head," you say. But you've made your decision, let me make mine... less of this juvenile hiding nonsense.
Here endeth the lecture.
D-word
"Administration... diffused the situation..."
Or, in the case of a bomb threat, defused the situation.
Same in Africa, but worse
A similar situation has been brewing in Africa. According to this story at the "AllAfrica" site, American seed interests, with help from the World Bank and others, are attempting to establish a foothold for corporate seed interests to displace locally-grown seed. African agronomists insist that local seed is genetically best adapted to African growing conditions and environments; not surprisingly, Big Seed thinks that African prosperity depends on an explosion of agribusiness interests. "Agribusiness" means massive first-world plantations, of course; so the prosperity train likely won't pass by the African farmer's front door, no matter what is claimed. And at the very least, once seeds transition from locally-grown to corporate-grown (and potentially GMO), prices will be out of reach for small African farmers. Far from an economic stimulus, this would appear to leave African subsistence farmers far worse off, and would reduce biodiversity, offering the same homogenized range of crops as is gradually being pushed across the world by corporate seed interests.
Think "Fargo"
I'm reading all those auditor comments aloud using Frances McDormand's wonderful Minnesotan accent from "Fargo"... and that makes them all sound perfectly sensible.
Innovation defended... treasure the moment
"So shines a good deed in a naughty world..."
(Merchant of Venice)
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"... many libraries, for example, stopped taking federal funding to avoid the issue altogether."
Actually, the American Library Association credo is strongly anti-censorship, and member professionals guard Internet freedom like pit bulls. Even if it means that they have to occasionally clean up certain... fluids... left by their male patrons at the public access computers.
Re: Re: and years ago
Oh, that's right... I forgot. The purpose of patents is to prevent drug abuse.
That's a good thing, because they're sure not protecting innovation like they were intended to do. At least they occasionally serve some useful purpose.
Re: Re: The Secret of Miranda
Guess I was looking from the other end... a suspect who, although not Mirandized, knows enough to invoke those rights nonetheless (and clams up). I understand Miranda's purpose... formal notice... but wondered, as that whole no-Miranda-for-you media cycle unfolded, whether the officials involved really thought that omitting the notification would actually change his right to remain silent. Or that it would force him to run his mouth, when simple common sense says otherwise.
Hope this one sticks
Seemingly, a respected American business pleading its case in thorough, rational matter.
But what will it take to generate action around this? Is it just headed for the "empty rhetoric" file, like so many position papers and amicus briefs?
The Secret of Miranda
I know it's just a minor point on the Senator's Idiocy Hit Parade, but that Miranda thing... seriously. The question of whether or not to "read him his rights" -- what, is Miranda a secret? Is it written in Esperanto, and needs to be translated so that you know you have rights? What if he's already heard it? Considering its repetition from the days of Jack Webb and Dragnet, all the way through all the dozens of Law and Order franchises... how can anyone, even an immigrant, not know what the words and concepts are?
And better yet, Miranda isn't about having rights... it's about getting reminded of them. The rights are already in place.
Too late
"As that makes clear, the proposed system would basically spy on everything you type into your Web browser..."
As if that isn't happening right now, every day.