Minority Report ... ACTA

Efforts to criminalize the acts of infringement in stages of inception or planning, fashioned as Imminent Infringement, is being pushed. It is the first non-Anti-State thought crime being envisaged. India, for reasons of keeping Medical Companies' profiteering hopes alive is opposing such an effort, and the fallouts shall be beneficial for technology and innovation.



References:

India to sabotage ACTA

China, India To Raise Concerns At WTO About “TRIPS-Plus” Measures, ACTA

India Steps up to Plate to Fight US ACTA Piracy Pact

Employee Control sees new Depth!!!

I have always wondered whether this would stop at an extreme point on the scale from 1 to 10; but always find that Employee Control redefines the 10th limit each time, to push it further into the 11th, 12th and 13th degree of absolutism and insanity. The only thing that could be said here is ... "GET A LIFE, you freaking controller of lives"!!!





Reference:

Is playable Pac-Man getting Google's home page banned?

A hand that leaves the plough for the pen never returns to holding the plough ...

A hand that holds the pen moveth to the gun and sword easily than it may, though an impossibility, take to the plough ...




References:

Whither Rural India?

Indian agriculture is in deep trouble

Surging food prices reinforce tightening view

Bond like the best ...

James Bond, the epitome of the debonair, dashing, suave, philanderer, womanizer, decadent, indulgent, macho, technologically geeky and all that associated jazz. He has inspired a host of Rado Wearing, Aston Martin driving, Bollinger drinking and caviar eating hedonistic generation.

What our culture has failed to adopt from that very character described above is his honesty, loyalty, strong sense of honor, sincerity and integrity, despite his meager salary, and being surrounded by red tape and pompous politicians. He signifies the ultimate weapon of justice, wielded by the MI6, yet his license to kill does not corrupt him into making arbitrary, false or biased decisions.

We humans are very easily blown away by superficialism and most often than usual choose the easy path to glory and success, that hurts no only the weak and un-empowered, but also the deserving and honorable.

The recent Commonwealth Games 2010 at Delhi is a perfect example of how our environment is being sacrificed for the sake of conforming to the superficial, while ignoring the actual need for green cover in Delhi.


References:

SC panel nixes covering of storm water drain for Games

MCD damages 50 trees on Lodhi Road

Medical Profession NOT Medical Business ...

Synonyms? ... nope ... then what's the confusion about?!!

Our nation fails to understand the difference between Medical Profession and Medical Business and the emergence of the latter concept owing to Patent Protection and weak Drug Price Control Order, 1995.

It is sad to see that the world's largest democracy can not become "by the people and for the people"!!!



References:

Obama prods House to pass health care bill

House poised to pass historic health-care reform bill

AARP Takes a Stand, Endorses Health Care Bill

US House Nears Vote on Health Care Reform Measure

Existentialist Futility!!!

Why bother about water in Moon, is there a water pipeline planned from there; are we now going to run it dry!? Futility of our civilizational efforts is all around us when all we need is a joint effort to eradicate the earth of more important things as hunger, thirst, inequality, pollution, oceanic submersion & the like.




References:

NASA Wants to Mine Moon Water

Porsche launches Panamera in India

Samsung India bets big on touch screen mobiles

Upcoming Bugatti Galibier 16C to carry a price tag of $1.44 million

Ape Man? Researchers Spot Legendary Orang Pendek in Sumatra

Ordinary world ...

Our Independence is valuable to us as is our survival. M.K. Gandhi showed that India needed to survive the British and fight fiercely for the survival of the nation as one. We should not now leave the path of struggle when we are free to do what we can; not to turn away from our duties as a nation, especially those that concern our survival.

When will we as a nation stand up to the real issues concerning us? One look at the innumerable news channels on cable TV is conclusive of the fact that Shah Rukh Khan is more important to us than expensive and unaffordable insurance premiums, health care, drought, vanishing ground water, and what not!!! But the government aims only at hiking tax of individuals and not corporates. Where would we go if we cannot afford to live? We all need alternate sources of fuel/energy, health care, and above all employment rights that are being denied to us by planned government efforts.

I fail to understand why in such a poor country like India the Prime Minister is not nailing the real issues, when a richer country like the USA; their President can put up a fierce fight against corporates for each individual's basic necessities.

We are an ordinary people with ordinary needs. We need to survive before we can aim for luxury. Affordability of necessities should be addressed first ...







References:

Obama invokes late grandmother in health crusade

Obama attacks insurance premiums

NASA says Groundwater vanishing in North India

Draft code may make individuals pay more tax

Drought woes claim lives of 20 farmers in Andhra

Drying out

Shah Rukh may have been victim of random selection parameter

Cart before the horse = natural before unnatural!!!

All that is now needed is a probe into our bedrooms. The irony is that by stating that the law has no business in our bedrooms, it has further sanctioned legal peeping by not clarifying whether age of consent for all the 3 types of sexual acts is the same or is different. In case they are different, we all know that legal intervention is unwarranted and such differentiation is useless and humanly impossible to adhere to. Thus the only way to go about it is to have an age parity. OR ELSE start assuming that people get more "perverse" after 18 years of age and only thereafter indulge in the formerly "unnatural" sexual acts.




Reference:

Now, confusion over age of consent

Industrial Disease!!!

Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole
There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
There's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell
There's leaking in the washroom there's sneak in personnel
Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
'Goodness me could this be Industrial Disease ?'

Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
Refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most
Watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease
There's panic on the switchboard tongues are knots
Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
Some blame the management some the employees
And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease

Yea, now the work force is disgusted downs, tools, walks
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages, everyone agrees
That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless; theology is worse
History boils over there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'

Doctor Parkinson declared 'I'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smokers cough from smoking brewer's droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees
But worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease'
He wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed
But I'm glad came came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later - next patient please
Send in another victim of Industrial Disease'

I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer he's singing a protest song - he says
'They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease

They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you Rule Britannia, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'
Meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'll cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons'
The other one's out on hunger striker he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?

- Industrial Disease, Love Over Gold, Dire Straits (1982)

& let the disease speak for itself ...



References:

Skoda sees sales slow to single digit in 2009

Sensex crashes by 338 pts as equities plunge on global weakness ...

Rupee recovers sharply, at 50.27 vs the dollar

Auto sector weathers slowdown blues in 2008-09

Akshay completes flop hat-trick

Akshay, Twinkle will be arrested shortly

Economic crisis takes toll on health of employees: Survey

Melting Economy Renders Corporate Workforce Unhealthy: ASSOCHAM

Mayawati hits out at Election Commission

Maya has a new post for booted officer

Aamir, SRK join hands for 'Fair Rights for Friday Nights'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to talk to 'honest' Barack ...