Posts by Don Christie
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I didn't find it that big a deal, really.
Well, Apple think jailbreaking is a big deal. They tried to persuade Congress that it was. Now they claim it is a breach of copyright, patent law and anything else they can throw at you.
But, you keep presenting this to punters as "not a big deal". Why?
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one irritating quirk of the iPad: unless you're prepared to jailbreak your device, the iPad won't mirror its screen in general use
"Irritating"..."little"...?
Just what are you willing to sacrifice to the bonfire of Apple gagetisation?
and really, yet another Apple review? Come on Russell, you're better than this.
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My friend Matt spent a while interviewing those queuing in the rain for one of these on Friday. Interesting results:
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The interesting question is, how many media apps will iPad users buy? One for each site you go to regularly?
I realise there is some short term money to be made but not far beyond short term, web apps are hard to beat for multi-device functionality.
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Giovanni and Bart
Don I believe this is theft and so did the Canadian courts. If you want to argue that people should be able to take food when they want from people who have food then that is a different cultural model.
I was referring to your comment that infringing on a patent was the equivalent of stealing physical seed. It isn't an never will be. It is patent infringement, not grand larceny.
Patenting living organisms only started in the 1990s when the USA decided to try and make a land grab on ideas. In other words this was a very recent development. Crop and feed research carried on just fine for 100s of years without patents.
You might think they have the moral high ground on this, I don't.
Hey Russell, why don't you write an article about this science? A bit boring and mundane but has an impact on our agri-contribution to globale warming.
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Actually, I think a better question to ask would be what is the PEDA initiative trying to achieve. There is no doubt we have many communities, especially in South Auckland, that are dis-empowered and disenfranchised. That someone in National might be looking at how to address these issues is interesting.
Whilst it is nice to have an opportunity to beat up on the VRWC (vast right-wing conspiracy) I am much more fascinated in seeing how initiatives like this might work.
So, there goes my pinko card. Sorry.
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Bart. I have been following your comments closely. Thanks for taking time to explain your perspective so patiently. My points were not against GM. Another poster, RBentley, explained my suspicions more clearly.
I will pick up on this:
If they then take cuttings from those trees and start planting out orchards from those cuttings then they are stealing from us and yes we prosecute them too.
Just because someone didn’t use a crowbar to jimmy open a seed warehouse to steal the seed doesn’t make it less of a theft.Actually, it is absolutely not a theft. Using someone's ideas, through copying or replication is not theft. No-one starves as a result, no-one deprived of a 'good'. Quite the opposite in the case you raise. That's why Monsanto and their likes are pricks.
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I'll put one up for the Greens here.
1. I don't think cow burps and farts are causing global warming all that much. It's all the bloody fossil fuels.
2. Ag Research has been looking for excuses to introduce GE and GMO to NZ for ages. Now their have their trojan. Bully for them, maybe the rest of us can think a little bit about what it means in the longer term.
3. There has been quiet a bit of research done on food that cows could consume that would also reduce burps. No GM as far as I remember. What happened to that?
4. Are our consumers (outside of the USA - 'cause noone tells them anything) happy to eat / drink our produce if it consumes GM? Where is the research on that?
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Ah. Bye then.
that’s where to point your keyboard
well, I'll also go looking for those Randian toss-pots who held the Federal Reserve for so long...
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And here is another way the internet is being censored:
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/06/08/159217
Racketeering.