atw: Re: OT Re: I simply don't believe it!Hang on to your genes!
- From: MHT <runfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 22:19:46 -0500
Trouble is, the same bioweapon would take out used car salesmen as well
(OKAY so maybe that's not a bad thing either)
mnmary
At 12:14 PM 6/7/04 +1000, you wrote:
>Personally I think an Ethnically Specific Bioweapon is a good thing....
>errr... are politicians an ethnic group? :)
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of MHT
>> Sent: Monday, 7 June 2004 12:14 PM
>> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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