we are owned

[Reaktor4]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1013_051013_gene_patent.html

 

[SimonomiS]

"While this does not quite boil down to [the patent holders] owning our genes … these rights exclude us from using our genes for those purposes that are covered in the patent," she said.

Close not but no cigar.

 

[Reaktor4]

i did read the article.... they probably own them in a similar way as labels own songs

 

[CyberPitz]

That's the most retarded thing I've ever seen.

 

[Qonfused]

How can you patent something like that?
What the hell...
The world is going down the shitter.

 

[Dekstar]

That's the most retarded thing I've ever seen.

only in the good ol' U. S. Of A

 

[clarky003]

its as dumb as people who pay to own parts of the moon, that is obsurd.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

its as dumb as people who pay to own parts of the moon, that is obsurd.

that is indeed very obsurd.

 

[Sulkdodds]

its as dumb as people who pay to own parts of the moon, that is obsurd.

that is indeed very obsurd.

No seriously, that's a little ****ed up. Well, at least it's not yet actually at the stage where they can charge you for living...

 

[Gargantou]

Are these patents in effect OUTSIDE of the United States?
They aren't, right?

 

[<RJMC>]

eh someone can explain?

 

[xcellerate]

All your genes belong to U.S.

 

[Sulkdodds]

/me patents RJMC's jeans

 

[Beerdude26]

its as dumb as people who pay to own parts of the moon, that is obsurd.

Lol I can see a huge fight between moon pioneers and the surviving family members of such a buyer
"DON'T WALK THERE! THAT'S OURS, DAGNAMMIT!"

 

[Qonfused]

/patents Sulkdodds genes.
/sues for copyright infringement.

 

[ríomhaire]

Ye haven't heard of that? Old news.
None the less it is terrible. This is what it means. A nice company discovers a way to cure genetic heart failure. Big mean company who own the sequence to the heart come along and sue the shit out the the nice one for experimenting on their genes. Hence no cure unless the mean company decides that it can be which it will not unless it will make a profit.

 

[<RJMC>]

/me patents RJMC's jeans

/me patents sulkdodds's avatar

 

[Beerdude26]

/me patents sulkdodds's avatar

Someone get Angry Lawyer to verify if it's valid :O

 

[ríomhaire]

/me patents sulkdodds's avatar

/me patents <RJMC>'s soul

 

[<RJMC>]

/me patents <RJMC>'s soul

/me patents the words "the vortigaunts revolution"

 

[SimonomiS]

How obsurd...

 

[Qonfused]

 

[Beerdude26]

I'm still waiting for Angry Lawyer's signature

 

[CyberPitz]

I'd find something to patent...but I'm too damn lazy.

I patent myself, Go to hell.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

You can't patent my signature, because it counts as a trademark.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Beerdude26]

You can't patent my signature, because it counts as a trademark.

-Angry Lawyer

I don't want to patent your signature, I want you to sign my patent

 

[ríomhaire]

/me patents the words "the vortigaunts revolution"

The unbreakable patents!

 

[<RJMC>]

The unbreakable patents!

and where is the laws of the internet thing? ha! they dont worth
/me dances

 

[Qonfused]

There are no laws since the internet is owned by no-one.
OMFG ANARCHY!

 

[ríomhaire]

There are no laws since the internet is owned by no-one.
OMFG ANARCHY!

*GOES CRAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
*bliink(why the [semi-]new av?) chases with banning stick*
*/me learns lesson*

 

[kirovman]

Fool. Shens is my brainchild which I developed in the 1950s under the US Army.

If he belongs to anyone, it's me.

But realistically, he belongs to noone, he has outgrown the confines of the system and evolved into the enigma who "just posts" today. There is no stopping the beast, the horror that lurks within.

 

[<RJMC>]

There are no laws since the internet is owned by no-one.
OMFG ANARCHY!

well duh thats the point

anyone can make laws in the internet

/me keeps dancing

 

[Maxi]

It's only in the US. Those patents mean shite in the rest of the world.