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upland

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  1. Huh?

    KEI has obtained the February 10, 2011 US government draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).

    The text is marked to be "protected from unauthorized disclosure," and the USTR is seeking to classify the document until four years from entry into force or the close of the negotiations. The document has been distributed to all member states particpating in the TPP negotiations, so it is not secret from any of the parties in the negotiations. The document may also be subject to review by the hundreds of corporate insiders who serve on USTR advisory boards. It is, however, secret from the taxpayers and voters who live in the United States, and people everywhere who are going to live under the new norms. In this case, the secret text involves tough new rules for patents, copyright and related rights including broadcaster rights and expressions of folklore, digital rights management information, trademarks, domain names, geographic indicators, regulatory test data for pharmaceutical drugs and agricultural products. There are also more than 15 pages of oblgiations regarding the enforcement of those rights, including criminal sanctions against infringers.

    KEI objects to the policy of making the negotiating text of intellectual property agreements secret, particularly when the documents are distributed to all parties in a negotiations, and thus are only secret from the public. The Congress needs to intervene and require that such texts be made public routinely.

  2. I have the Casio Waveceptor that Jason Bourne wore in the Bourne ultimatum, thats not why I bought it, I bought cause I love Casios. I have around 5 I think.

    The waveceptor has a lap timer on it which, when I was still able to ride motorcycles, was great. On track I could set it at the start line, and it would collect every lap I made and would show average lap time, all single laptimes and my average speed per lap!

    For £160 that is a serious piece of kit!! It was so accurate some of my racer friends used it to compare against their onboard computer data, it was never wrong once!!

    Will get someone to give me the model number tomorrow and try and dig up the specs on it!

    Sixx :bones:

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  3. You will know immediately when you use the crown. Asia 21j (4813) feels like wind-up tin robot toy .. rough and loose. Swiss 2836 feels like silk .. and tight .. like precision machinery.

    4813

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    This,very romantic and metaphorical description,inspired me to create some Rep-Rap lines.. :yu:

    "Swiss 2836-

    feels like silk.." yeh

    Second hand-

    moves in a blink.. (of an eye)..yeh

    finally, shipment

    prepared by Hont.. yeh!

    thanks RWG,

    I'll have what i want. Oh,yeh.. :whistling:

  4. I just went to check a reference number on John Holbrook II's reference site, and was confronted with this page. I cannot believe a company would be so pathetic, so petty and so precious about their name, that they will not allow someone to quite correctly label a private website 'RolexReference'. Knowing what a totally classy guy John is, I'm not surprised that he complied with their request to maintain his relationship with the company, but damn that is a low thing for them to do to such a loyal customer and staunch ambassador of the brand. It was his site which first educated me in the basics of the Rolex line, and I think it only right that he have named his site as he did. I have to admit, if I were John, I would certainly find my appreciation for the company tarnished by such treatment. *sigh* :wounded1:

    Not that I likely ever would have brought a gen Rolex, but from now on, I will certainly only ever wear rep Rolexes as a private protest.

    :g: Be careful TJ, i just counted, you used 6 times word R###x :g:

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