"Unfortunately, the "limited rights" (economic subsidy) to inventors are not very limited at all. This sort of takes away any motivation to help them acquire monopolies from work and ideas they frequently got unrestricted from the rest of society in the first place. I'm just hoping that of the next 100,000 great ideas, I'll be able to leverage a few of those. Gosh, how inefficient! Limiting the exploitation of ideas for 20 yrs to just 1 person instead of what is natural (unlimited use by all)."
Gemini Protocol is being obscured by the media - it doesn't help that Google 'hijacked' the word "Gemini" - but people still manage to find out about it, download a client, and use it
This story isn't just about Microsoft. It's also about corruption, there are many women victims, there is abject "abuse of process", and many more scandals to be illuminated in years to come.
"The key change in this year’s Actuarial Study, due to cascading the new “risk appetite” from the financial study, is a significant increase of the total pension contribution rate of 5.7 percentage points, up to a total of 37.8%. This is driven by an unprecedented decrease in the discount rate of 105 bps down to 2.2%."
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Jose_X
2009-05-27 12:16:25