Engineers do not 'discover', that is done by scientists, in the true sense and some other groups of thinkers. Engineers are one of the classes of people who use a known technology to a predictable outcome (others are the craftsmen that you refer to, among others). Engineers design, in the way a house builder may design a brick structure. As such they should be held accountable for the ethical consequences of what they do. Like everyone else should be. You exercise free will, you are also free to suffer the consequences. You seem to want free will without the consequences.

That will be the Great Firewall of Britain then. Based on a proven working model and it will keep more IT people employed, blocking not just 'Scunthorpe' but 'Bombay' as well.

While this made an interesting point (of course only partially true), I think the post was intended to be funny. And it is!

Corruption is defined differently in different jurisdictions - some things are outlawed in one country but not in another. Does Transparency int somehow apply the same laws across the world?

Yes, Americans who think they value their liberty have a tendency to forget that their liberty depends also on the liberty of others. Starting with the slaves who their founding fathers conveniently forgot, now it is terrorists, criminals, citizens of 'enemy' countries, and finally all non citizens. As has been seen recently, spying on non-citizens gives the means to spy on citizens. What Americans have really is not liberty but power, and the Golden Rule (reciprocity) is inessential when you have power.

What about bugging the White House? I mean, anyone can get to be president (in theory of course, in practice it is any multimillionaire with lots of friends in the US establishment). You've got to check on them, or else how can they be trusted? And what about all those that know the president or is related to the president, you've got to check on what they are saying ... and so on.

It can be revised all you like but it won't do any good if you have a corrupt police (secret service?) who know their job is to protect their masters in Westminster and Washington.

Was that the way the Phillipines or Cuba were 'helped' that you're referring to? One of the characteristics of any successful imperial state is that its own propaganda is more effective that others, especially on its own citizens.

and the US also lost the war long before they decided to leave.

It's the City of London police which is something most Londoners never come across. It is a small police force with jurisdiction over the tiny historic core of the metropolis of London. This historic core is now the home of the British business, capital and the financial industry. It houses very few residents (i.e. people living there) but lots of employees. It is not surprising that this force particularly identifies with matters of interest to large companies.

Well its not likely to happen in any other industry either where there is a low population of people capable or willing to write software. There's a reason why most of the open source volunteer's attention goes to operating systems, graphics packages and the like. There is is almost no open source used in my field (certain sections of UK local government) and despite the UK central government doing a bit more to encourage use of FOSS, this does not mean that any specific packages will be developed.

I think one point is that the previous version was not patented in India (as mentioned before). So essentially Novartis tried to get a patent on a minor alteration of a patent free compound.

And of course see the British spelling for other metals - sodum, potassum, et.c., and also the British spelling for a certain part of the head is cranum. Sheer arrogance.

The only way you have not completely lost the thread of the original story is unless you are suggesting that this new process provides an easy way to create deuterium (and it looks as though you need to read up on what deuterium is). And as far as I know there is no shortage of deuterium to cause difficulty in either nucleary weaponry or nuclear energy.