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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 08:09 AM EDT |
| I can't imagine lawyers being stupid enough to start patenting legal arguments. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 08:12 AM EDT |
there is still prostitution.....available,
assuming your parents are reasonable lot![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 08:27 AM EDT |
Yes, even farmers need to fight the patent system about abusers like Monsanto et
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 08:38 AM EDT |
Yup...heard about the guy that got his field cross-pollinated with the
neighbor's patented plants, and got sued for not paying the license fees?
(Christenson)
This increases my perception that momentum for a change is on the rise.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 09:21 AM EDT |
Yep - that "comic" is indeed "too funny" (but only when
looked at with a dose of irony, from a realist, or relative
point of view).
25 years ago, the price a farmer could get on the market per
hundred weight was $15. Today, after years of inflation,
the price is from between $16-$20 per hundred weight. The
cost of fuel, equipment, taxes have soared thru the roof and
to make it as a farmer today, you need to be milking 2-3000
cows per day (many small farmers are out of business).
Sadly, you can't just "jump" into farming without a massive
amount of cash (maybe a lawyer after an IP case has this
cash). So, they sue, or defend, make money, cash out, and
become farmers. Only farmer that can survive as a startup
is one that goes into a program where the government pays
them to not produce product because there is already an over
supply produced by the "factory farms".
In this economy, as small "new" start-up farmer, you are
competing with the larger ones out of the gate, and as well,
starting a small business, the same is true (bigger business
already has taken advantage of economies of scale, and can
out compete a smaller business). FYI - larger companies,
due to volume of the purchase can even buy health insurance
at sometimes up to 1/3rd of the cost that small business or
individuals pay for it... so, their cost per employees are
lower allowing them to price products lower (something that
smaller business can not do).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 12:50 PM EDT |
Farmers are getting sued for using seeds cross pollinated
(contaminated).
Heirloom seeds are like open source software
and equally endangered.
example:
http://nelsonfarm.net/
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 07:19 AM EDT |
| Dilbert ---
The following program
contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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