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• On the post: National Institute For Mental Health Abandons DSM Just As American Psychiatric Association Prepares Massive Update

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 08:34pm

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  If I remember correctly, the DSM uses ICD codes which are used across all medical fields, so this shouldn't affect insurance billing.

• On the post: Doctors Call Out Novartis For Insane Pricing On Cancer Drug

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 07:29pm

  Re: yet another bad idea

  "The reason for patents is without them cos will not invest in R&D..."
  
  You do realize that the R&D for the VAST majority of drugs is actually funded and performed by universities, not the pharma companies?
  
  You also realize that marketing is far and away the largest budget item for big pharma companies?
  
  The knowledge of how to create a Strad is lost because he chose NOT to share it with anybody, not because there weren't patents at the time. The idea that patents would have spread that knowledge is ludicrous.

• On the post: Bloomberg Defends Stop-And-Frisk, Decries Critics 'Pointing Fingers From City Hall' By Pointing Fingers From NYPD Headquarters

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 03 May, 2013 @ 11:11am

  Re: name a ban that isn't

  I never found Ban roll-on to be arbitrary or capricious.

• On the post: Angry Patent Lawyer Still Angry, Claims PatentlyO's Dennis Crouch Is Both A 'Dickhead' And Violated CFAA

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 03 May, 2013 @ 04:16pm

  Just a thought...

  So, Schroeder publicly alleges that Crouch broke the law, hacked his account, etc... imagine the delicious irony if Crouch sued Schroeder for defamation and won.

• On the post: MPAA Accused Of Tampering With Evidence In Key Copyright Case In Finland

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 10:12am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Not according to the trolls. Copyright infringement is FAR more serious than murder.

• On the post: IL Follows Suit: Employers Right To Ask For Social Media Passwords Codified Into Law

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 10:04am

  Re: Re: Actually this could be good for employees!

  Just make sure you log in using a company computer on the company network. :D

• On the post: IL Follows Suit: Employers Right To Ask For Social Media Passwords Codified Into Law

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re:

  As much as I hate to say this, he's at least somewhat correct. For the most part, the Constitution protects you from government intrusion, not other parties (including businesses). There are, however other laws to protect employees.

• On the post: MPAA Pretends To Be A Regular Defender Of Fair Use; The Evidence Suggests Otherwise

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 11:22am

  Re: Typo Alert

  Though in that case it should have perhaps been "Catheter in the Rye" as the publisher and estate pissed away any public goodwill.

• On the post: Prenda, Prenda, Prenda, Prenda, Prenda

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2013 @ 03:03pm

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  I'm just glad I haven't been playing the home version of "Prenda, the drinking game". You would be able to cleanse wounds with my saliva if I had been.

• On the post: Rackspace Sues Famed Patent Troll For Breach Of Contract

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 10:52am

  Re: Re:

  It does make me long (sometimes) for Angry guy (?) his posts were at least entertaining.

• On the post: Wikipedia Editor Threatened With Lawsuit For Participating In Discussion Leading To Deletion Of Entry

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2013 @ 09:16am

  I'm starting to think that all those drugs that the 'boomers did in the 60's completely dissolved their skin. This and many other articles on here seem to illustrate that nobody can take any kind of criticism anymore. WTH?

• On the post: Peter Hansmeier Denies Connection To Prenda Cases Via Document That Shows He's Connected To The Cases

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 10:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: This never wears out for you, does it?

  Does that mean he's really out_of_the_blue_balls?

• On the post: If Congress Won't Fix The CFAA, President Obama Should Order The DOJ To Stand Down

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2013 @ 10:00am

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  I may be wrong here.. but this article isn't saying the DOJ shouldn't enforce the CFAA, only that they change their interpretation to not include violating TOS as a criminal act.

• On the post: Charles Carreon Claims A First Amendment Right To Make Vexatious Legal Threats Without Consequence

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 04:53pm

  Re: Lawyer tactics:

  So, by this logic does that mean that the facts and the law are always against YOU?

• On the post: Kiwi Three Strikes Tribunal Fines Soldier Who Was Serving In Afghanistan When Infringement Happened

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re:

  Especially those in the US who were involved.
  
  FTFY

• On the post: Patents, Trademarks And Copyrights Have No Place In Trade Agreements

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 09:32am

  Re: Copyright is important, though

  "Without international Copyright enforcement, Copyright may as well not exist"
  
  Assuming that copyright is important (and I'm not willing to concede that point) it still has no place in a free trade agreement. Free trade should be about increasing trade opportunities between countries and copyright is by definition a restriction of free trade.
  
  The other problem with that statement is that this assumes that copyright terms are the same for all the countries. It's not, and by making treaties that say all the countries need to adhere to all the other countries copyright terms, it ends up being a race to the most restrictive terms. This basically makes the legislative processes in each individual country meaningless as they wouldn't be allowed to make more public friendly copyright terms without violating international treaties.

• On the post: California Attorney General Claims Foreign Companies Using 'Pirated' Software Represent Unfair Competition

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 10:08am

  Also...

  The other huge problem with this is that now any US company doing business overseas will have a huge bull's eye on them as other governments use this same practice to enforce their laws globally.

• On the post: Giant Pharma Company Claims Releasing Data On Drug Safety Is Illegal As It's Confidential And 'Commercially Sensitive'

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 10:23am

  Re: Transparency

  I wish there were a sad but true button.

• On the post: Prenda Law Tries To Close The Barn Door After The Horse Has Lawyered Up

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2013 @ 06:53pm

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  Um.. the property in question is the agreement signed by the two parties assigning the copyright. That would presumably be a piece of paper, which last time I checked was property.

• On the post: How Much Does It Cost To Win Election To Congress?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2013 @ 10:05am

  Economic impact?

  If I remember my civics correctly, elections are held every 2 years. So if my math is correct, that means that half of congress and 1/3 of the senate are elected in each cycle.
  
  Further math would tell me that means 33 Senators and 218 Congresspeople are elected.
  
  33*$10,476,451=$345,722,883 and 218*$1,689,580=$368,328,440
  
  This means a total of $714,051,323 was spent on the winning elections. Almost 3/4 of a billion dollars mostly contributed by businesses who all claim to be losing money to some illegal upstart of one sort or another.
  
  So, what else could these companies have done with this $700K+? Well, the average wage in 2011 was just under $43K, so this would have employed over 16,000 more workers.
  
  Just sayin'

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