I have a simple question about bank deregulation.

[werepossum]

So Obama is trying to help them by doing all of the things I stated which is basically just continuing to do what Bush did? Why do Obama and the Democrats in Congress hate America at least as much as Bush and his cronies?

At least you agree that the new boss isn't very different then the old boss.

Haven't you been listening? Obama, like Frank and Dodd, is a well-meaning chump duped by Bush, the super villein. All Democrats have blanket amnesty from any responsibility, evidently because Bush eats babies.

If only there were some way to combat Bush's evil super intelligence!

 

[Fern]

Originally Posted by Darwin333
As I understand it, current patent law states that certain genes in your body could be the property of someone else. If that is the case then why should thoughts be any different?

Easy, this shouldn't be the case. I've never agreed with the idea that something innate to my mere existence should be patentable.

In this matter, I agree with you.

Those people shouldn't get a patent, they didn't invent the genes.

In a sense, they have reversed engineered something, and now want a patent for it. Nope.

Fern

 

[Fern]

Dunno that Obama would have done things differently, but the die was cast before he took office- the bailout was in full swing. I doubt that he could have backed out of it if he'd wanted to do so...
-snip-

I remember reading quite a bit how the Bush team worked with Obama's team on the bailout. I recall they were said to have been accomodating to the Obama team's requests; if any "die was cast" Obama and his team would seem to have played a significant role in casting it.

Fern

 

[Darwin333]

In this matter, I agree with you.

Those people shouldn't get a patent, they didn't invent the genes.

In a sense, they have reversed engineered something, and now want a patent for it. Nope.

Fern

In a lot of cases, at least as I understand it, they simply "found" something that nature created. It would be like someone having the patent on water.

So just for shits and giggles, if you have a gene in your body that someone holds a patent on are in infringing upon their patent? Can they sue you? Can they make you give them back "their" property? Can they forcibly require you to provide them with a sample?

 

[Darwin333]

I remember reading quite a bit how the Bush team worked with Obama's team on the bailout. I recall they were said to have been accomodating to the Obama team's requests; if any "die was cast" Obama and his team would seem to have played a significant role in casting it.

Fern

As I recall, Bush intentionally left half of the money for Obama and his team to dole out.

 

[werepossum]

In a lot of cases, at least as I understand it, they simply "found" something that nature created. It would be like someone having the patent on water.

So just for shits and giggles, if you have a gene in your body that someone holds a patent on are in infringing upon their patent? Can they sue you? Can they make you give them back "their" property? Can they forcibly require you to provide them with a sample?

I agree completely. Finding something should not give you a patent on it. A corollary would be if I discovered a new darter, patented it, then sued everyone creating any pollution* for damaging and/or endangering my fish.

* (Note: Since CO2 has been defined as a pollutant, that would be the whole world. Even Barack Obama's brother living in Kenya on a dollar a month is secreting a dangerous toxin that is endangering my fish! I mean, if I had a fish patented.)