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Comment: Re:intellectual property (Score 1) 77

Oy, what did I tell you about telling on me in public? Not fair!

You checked the box at your last doctor's visit that allowed your clinic to share your personal, non-identifying information about your condition for research purposes. And since you have now publicly disclosed your medical condition, not me, we can now use your comment and likeness in a public awareness campaign we're launching in your area on male impotence.

Yours truly,

Big Pharma

Comment: Re:intellectual property (Score 2) 77

I hear ya' Big Pharma. In order to acknowledge your potential ownership of this IP and the related virus I would like to hereby volunteer to force feed it to you with a rusty funnel until you successfully recall the "share and share alike" lesson you should have learned in pre-school.

I have a patent on that form of intra-oral medication delivery and since I haven't licensed it for commercial production, you'll owe me $150,000 per rusty funnel used so far by you, henceforce referred to as "John 'Rusty Funnel' Doe, Defendant", $15 million for the rights to use the rusty funnel -- a 1 year limited, non-exclusive license, treble the amount of any profits incurred through the use of the rusty funnel intra-oral delivery system, and $150 million in legal fees due to us being forced to defend our intellectual property.

Comment: Re:Liability? (Score 2) 77

Fine, you knuckleheads want to claim ownership? How about some wrongful death suits?

"You think that one of the biggest, most powerful companies in America is secretly a profiteer who spends his nights beating the tar out of citizens in court... and your plan... is to blackmail this company? Good luck." -- Morgan Freeman

Comment: Re:Scooped? (Score 1) 77

I know Slashdot is a US centric site but please remember that there are many non-native-US-English speakers reading it as well.

There's a website for that problem. And just so we're clear; There's a lot of lingo us Americans don't understand. Calling gas "petrol", for example, or a semitruck a "lorry". Seems just a bit hinky, if you ask me. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to shove off and go do the needful somewhere.

Comment: intellectual property (Score 4, Insightful) 77

You freeloaders should be ashamed. It takes a lot of money to do that kind of research, and all these poor, defenseless companies are doing is protecting their investment by patenting the genes they discovered so if and when they choose to further develop it, they will make a reasonable perfectly reasonable 3000% profit on every pill sold.

Not only that, but I think you're all forgetting a very important point here: This virus kills quickly, and any treatment would only last a few days. Where's the profit in that? Sure, it'll kill you, but you as a patient are worth far less than the guy with the limp dick and a few extra bucks to eat pills to make him hard again.

If you want the situation to change, you need to get sick with diseases that are treatable but long-term. We're simply not interested in short-term illness, regardless of whether it kills you or not. Any cures or treatments for a short-term illness are purely accidental and you should be thankful we even bothered to develop it and market it! Ungrateful poor people... jeez. Why can't you all just dry up and die?

Yours Truly,

Big Pharma

P.S. I know you're taking Ritalin your friend gave you to do better on the finals. Contact me privately and I can hook you up with a doctor of questionable repute who will give you your very own legal script. Remember: Unless it comes from Big Pharma, it's a Bad Drug(tm).

Comment: Re:There are always limits to abuse (Score 1) 500

by geekoid (#43815481) Attached to: FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month

"Netflix exists, you do not need to be streaming content to your friends and family."
becasue netflix has everything ever put out and recorded? no? stfu.

"Unfortunately its guys like this that makes the services and service plans shitty for all of us because I am sure now Verizon will now impose some hard limit on the unlimited plan which will probably be targeted towards the upper 25% of their users."
There is no reason to think that. All they did was tell him to switch to business and stop violating there ToS. which would have been a violation even if he had 1MB. Granted it wouldn't have come to there attention, but you see my point.

"But really, there is no reason for a consumer level customer to be using even 1 terrabyte a month in usage and not doing anything illegal, so doing so just paints a target for MPAA and RIAA and the rest of them."
Thank you for putting a hard number on what 'legal' usage is. Without people like you what would the world be like..beside peaceful and smarter.

Comment: Re:Blanket on a dog (Score 1) 259

by geekoid (#43815357) Attached to: Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test

How far would you run if the person you depend on to survive through an imaginary stick? and that person could have you killed with no repercussions.

Seems like NOT pleasing that person is dumb, from a survival standpoint.

Of course, animal IQ always seems to reflect what the owners thing not actual objective measurment.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? -- Robert Moses

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