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[CuriousChris]

Chris, Steel, it is no secret that oil companies seek the highest profits they can get.  It is also no secret that they exercise what they can to pump up those profits.  Bush's wars and $6 trillion in US treasury, and over 100,000 maimed and 7,000 dead US soldiers to fight them is a national tragedy.  People should be jailed for that treason.  But the specific charge of Shell trying to prevent fuel economy improvements by buying up patents and somehow preventing them from being practiced is missing a key component:  Evidence showing that Shell prevented the patents from being practiced.

LOL. OK Whatever.

[gravityblock]

posted in wrong thread by accident

Gravock

[raburgeson]

So, now it is in the news. It is in Snowden's scarfed information we find out that you are dealing with a government paid agent when you find yourself fighting to speak your mind.

Let me tell you it is not just corporations that are buying patents or developing them to keep them off the market. I will give you an example. When it became public that hemp is a good medicine the U.S. government stepped up and said we have a patent on that. That is an insight for you. Not only did they know that it worked on cancers and more, they did seek to bully the public with a patent that can not exist because hemp is a natural substance and can not be patented.

[sarkeizen]

So, now it is in the news. It is in Snowden's scarfed information we find out that you are dealing with a government paid agent when you find yourself fighting to speak your mind.

Not likely. If your view is, by your own admission an extreme minority.  Then BY DEFINITION the number of people who think you are crazy is going to be large.  Significantly larger than the number of MIBs in your twisted fantasy world.  Hence
What Snowden's documents allege is that specific government agencies at least at one time are not above attacking specific person to harm their reputation online.

When it became public that hemp is a good medicine the U.S. government stepped up and said we have a patent on that.

They have a patent on cannabinoids for treating certain diseases like Alzheimer's.  They may have more.  However this was long before there were any large controlled studies on this or other outcomes. You almost always, in medicine file for a patent before you have anything more than preliminary data.   The patent databases have patents for hydrazine sulphate which failed as a useful drug.  Right now the evidence for medical cannabis is pretty...*meh*.

[MarkE]

Not likely. If your view is, by your own admission an extreme minority.  Then BY DEFINITION the number of people who think you are crazy is going to be large.  Significantly larger than the number of MIBs in your twisted fantasy world.  Hence
What Snowden's documents allege is that specific government agencies at least at one time are not above attacking specific person to harm their reputation online.They have a patent on cannabinoids for treating certain diseases like Alzheimer's.  They may have more.  However this was long before there were any large controlled studies on this or other outcomes. You almost always, in medicine file for a patent before you have anything more than preliminary data.   The patent databases have patents for hydrazine sulphate which failed as a useful drug.  Right now the evidence for medical cannabis is pretty...*meh*.

The evidence for the medical use of cannabis is beyond reproach.  It is a very effective treatment for double fudge chocolate ice cream adversity syndrome.