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jaster is back in black
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 Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:06 am Post subject: The Future is Now, and We're Fucked |
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This is from a few days ago, but we are all freakin doomed: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/health/13patent.html
Excerpt, if you're too lazy to read the article:
| Quote: | | ...a single company, Myriad Genetics, [owns] the patent on two genes that are closely associated with increased risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer, and on the testing that measures that risk. |
These are the end times.
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Nah, we're all good.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah you can just live in the woods dancing in goats blood with witches. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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It's more like we were fucked "more than ten years ago" when the government made a decision to allow this sort of thing. So, the future was ten years ago and we're getting unfucked, likely. There's no way the courts will allow a patent on a gene.
Also, you're pretty much right about the goat's blood.
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| But what happens when they start patenting goats' blood? |
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| kallie wrote: | | But what happens when they start patenting goats' blood? |
When you outlaw goat's blood, only outlaws will have goat's blood.
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