I would suggest America is not the problem, but rather Corporations and human greed everywhere are the problem. The manifestation is particularly sharp in the US, due to embracing "commerce" as a societal value (over what are arguably higher principles).
In my experience, New Zealand has lost significant quality of life due to a similar change in approach, and from my experience of Australia so far (only Sydney after all), it looks like it has happened here too - personal enrichment is valued over aspects of integrity and consideration of others. There are drive-by shootings here now. Regards, Bret On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 23:56, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: > To all those who worry about it, > > An amersgtfican patent should only be valid in amgfdgerica, if you want a > world wide patent you have to apply for a world wide patent, that is, a > patent in every country in the world. > > They have to patent it here for it to be valid here. > > You can develop your gear over here without a patent, most likely your > programs will not be able to be copyrighted/lefted because they are developed > open source, so you sell your services as an IT consultant instead of selling > the software, you shouldn´t be touched, because you aren´t selling software > are you ... ? - check with a solicitor to confirm - what was that song?? > ............. better get a lawyer son, better get a real good one, I fell > down, I got up, better get a lawyer son ... > > They can´t patent anything that is a prior art, so if the art exists before > they applied for the patent their patent is not valid, those are Australian > patent laws, Alan Tyree might be able to illucidate on this. If you ever > wrote a scripting file (and it worked) before they did, that is prior art - > go to the earliest examples of your programming, send your art to the patents > office so they know it is so, before they hit the Australian IPO. An example > of this is that in the states I recently saw a patent for roof top sprinklers > (against bushfires) was granted, about 3 ~4 years ago, we´ve been doing it > here for over 20 years, those Amdsgdseriafsdfdgfcan scum grab everyone´s > ideas and patent it in their own country and then claim they came up with the > invention first - ¨how dare you indians extract drugs from that neen tree for > the last 3000 years, we´ve got a patent now that says you can´t do > it!!!!!!!!!!! and we´ll sue your sorry ass for twenty trillion dollars for > good measure¨ ... just the legal fees would scare anyone off fighting the > bastards. > > As another example you should see how the Brits were treated by the yanks with > relation to the development of SuperSonic flight, all their ideas ( and the > lives of some brit airmen) were taken by the amerxshgcans, but none were > given in return, and the ameriddgsvans developed a supersonic vehicle, they > misled the british ministry of defence into believing that is wasn´t worth > pursuing, the govt then withdrew funding to the brit program, the yanks then > proceeded, though with funding the brits would have got it before them, never > be fooled by an amaergsdican. Another thing I saw was a brilliant invention > by an aussie guy named Mafgagiake O´Ladfseaasfdry - the caseless ammunition > gun, now known as ¨metfjlkjaal stoadsfjhjksam¨, who discovered that in order > to sell his invention, he had to manufacture in amaericak, the last time I > looked he had a sorry selection of amerieaetscacn retired generals on his > board of directors sucmkiong his brains and back pocket just so he could get > an op to sell in the ameetyralnaph market, its a sad state of affairs. No > wonder 9/11 happened. > > Patents are a form of oppression for intelligent people who have some > brilliant ideas but can´t afford to patent them, patents only favour rich > people and countries (usually the USA) at the expense of poor people and > countries, take the AIDS antiviral as an example, I have been thorough the > mill, with one simple invention it could cost as much as $250k AU$ to patent > it world wide, a copyright costs nothing.... my patent cost $5k so far, I had > to give up on an international patent due to the expenses of establishing > one, I missed the boat because I couldn´t come up with the money. > > I´ve heard it said that Marsdfcosdgsni didn´t develop the wirdfselefdsss > (radfsdsdffdisdfo)., he merely came up with the fees to patent it, with his > name on it.... pity the poor immigrant he ripped the idea off, don´t fall > into the same boat - refer led zepplin - immigrant song, followed closely by > ´hangman´. > > > Hope this helps, > > > Nicholas Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
