atw: Re: OT Re: I simply don't believe it!Hang on to your genes!
- From: "bja" <bashley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:14:17 +1000
Personally I think an Ethnically Specific Bioweapon is a good thing....
errr... are politicians an ethnic group? :)
Bruce Ashley
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> Subject: atw: OT Re: I simply don't believe it!Hang on to your genes!
>
>
> Peter,
> A <body part> patent is the LEAST of your worries:
>
> #16 Human Genome Project Opens the Door to Ethnically
> Specific Bioweapens
>
> http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2001/16.html
> Washington Free Press
>
> And BTW, there are many of us who are not happy with the
> current situation
> in the USofA.
> Money can also manipulate the vote and buy a presidency.
> And somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot.
> Minnesota Mary
>
> At 02:33 PM 6/4/04 +1000, you wrote:
> >Don't look now, but it appears that our projected "Free Trade"
> >agreement with the US would apply patent protection here to this
> >travesty, along with the even-more-outrageous "patents" applying=
> > to
> >body parts -- also known as components of the human genome...
> >
> >Without getting the right to vote in the US, we are not only
> >committed to a few of their foreign affairs failures (aka wars,
> >expeditions, call them what you will), but also subject to the
> >vagaries of under-educated government legislators, officials and=
> >
> >judges who wouldn't know an algorithm from an alternator.
> >
> >(That is the country where one state legislated to set the value=
> > of
> >pi )
> >
> >Mind you, if the US in turn recognizes the Australian patent on=
> > the
> >wheel, as claimed and registered with IP Austalia by John Keogh=
> > in
> >July 2001, perhaps we might have a modicum of revenge or=
> > retribution
> >(or moola)!
> >
> >But swapping our stupidity for their doesn't strike me as quite=
> > the
> >right answer.
> >
> >There is something basically stupid, to my mind, if we accept
> >limitations implied in patent laws in other countries as a=
> > simple
> >matter of course. Imagine for a moment, what further=
> > wonders
> >Imelda Marcos might have been able to achieve if the Philippines=
> > had
> >had a similar free trade agreement with Australia....
> >
> >The lever -- the shoe tree ...
> >
> >-Peter G. Martin, Technical writer, Proxima Technology
>
> "Well-behaved women rarely make history."
>
> -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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