Patent #49382

Thing that does other things.

You have a right to protect your life too, but that doesn't mean you can go around putting everyone you think is reaching for a gun in a headlock.

There needs to be heavy punitive measures against this sort of thing.

If it's more sanctions it's working.

So they don't own the genes, they own a procedure.

I find it odd they could patent something they didn't invent.

The IRS doesn't levy taxes. Congress does.

Like the F-35?

It can't even go to warp.

The only part that sucks is finding seeders for my torrents.

Yeah Cisco totally hooked me up with this $22 000 router. What a bargain!

I have a solar panel just in case all the major cities are wiped out.

That way I'll still have the internet. Right?

It's not voluntary if there's negative repercussions if you don't do it.

For the record, these internships were internships in name only. They were long hour, monotonous assembly line jobs, nothing more. Just because you call forced labor something different does change the fact it's forced labor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/technology/foxconn-said-to-use-forced-student-labor-to-make-iphones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

According to the department of labor, slave labor is

Threats of university punishment if the internships is not taken is a kind of coercion, therefore making this sort of behavior slave labor.

Do note that I said allegations in my previous post, which are quite legitimate claims. These aren't just being made up to try to trash Apple.

It's not really spin, he does have a point. The manufacturing is done by outside contractors, that's where the slave labor allegations come in.

Yeah, this may strike down the bill, but it shows how they really feel about it.

The death of Aaron Swartz wasn't enough to show them that they lost their humanity.