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They don't. A patent is only valid for ~20 years. The one on this particular seed is due to expire in 2014. Plant patents are only issued for asexually reproduced plants (other than tubers) that the inventor developed. Haven't read the details of the case, just read an article about it in the WSJ, it would be interesting to see how that issue was addressed in the original case. Since Monsanto requires the buyer of the seeds to agree not to replant them it's probable that the farmer signed that agreement when he bought the mix of seeds which contained the Monsanto seeds. If the grain elevator operator that sold him the seeds didn't make him sign the agreement, or didn't provide him a licensing agreement at the time; it would seem the beef is with the grain elevator operator. According to the article I read, the farmer admitted that he expected the replanted seeds to be pesticide resistant, so he probably is violating his contract. It would be interesting to hear JA's take on this.

During the 1st 18 years of your life, did your team's head coach have the IQ of a doorknob and utter such classic phrases like "they really took the sails out of our wind?" Yes No If 'yes' enter 1 ___________. During the 1st 18 years of your life, did your team's head coach quit in the middle of the season? Yes No If 'yes' enter 1 ___________.

'You can have Jennifer; I'll take Bailey Quarters!

And then there was something about a clown balancing on a board at the south pole.

It's looking like camps will open 1/12 and season openers will be 1/19. Cool, I guess.

Kind of lame, but I got a chuckle out of it: I (heart) my dog. I (diamond) my girlfriend. I (spade) my cat. I (club) my wife. where all of the () use the playing card symbols.

Pretty much where I'm at with all this. I'm hoping Buddy stays on as a scout; the O-line is the best it's been in 20 years.

New Orleans School of Cooking has demo classes daily and a hands on one on Sunday afternoons. My buddy's wife did the class and she liked it. (It'd be outside the box for foodies.) I only did the gift shop, picking up some "Joe's Stuff" (one of their instructor's own spice blend, which goes well on popcorn). There's other spice shops around town that have real good deals on cajun and other hot spices. Back when it opened, the Aquarium of the Americas was one of the best around. Not sure how well it's been restocked since Katrina, but I'd expect that's pretty good again.

That's true. There's no shame in hard work, but hopefully at some point in time she can get skills that would allow her to get a better job if she wants a better job.

There's a few things off Radio KAOS that I like, but definitely agree that the majority of his post-The Wall songwriting doesn't come close to what they did in the '70's. Even on The Wall though, the best music was Dave's - Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, and Young Lust.

Agree completely with the bolded. The key is, for those positions the person actually has a marketable skill which is the reason the jobs actually pay well.

There's nothing 'dishonorable' about any of those professions. But there also isn't much skill involved in ringing up the groceries and unfortunately for the checkout clerk not much value in the position for the store owner either.

Really? Probably a dumb question, but why should someone strive towards 40 years of Walmart or Jewel/Osco? Shouldn't they aspire and work towards doing something more than just ringing up groceries by the time they're 60?

Roger has always been the least appealing member of the group, but he also was the driving force of much of what they did. I've always had a reluctant appreciation for what he does. (Saw his 1st Wall stop in Buffalo 2 years ago, even my wife who HATES that album was impressed with the show.) Were the other songs he did also Dave's music? (CN is the only 1 I know he performed that was Dave's music.) If so, that really stinks that he didn't have Dave and Nick playing. Saw Dave solo at Shea's in '84. That was an incredible show. Have seen Roger in 3 bigger venues, but except for The Wall, Dave (and the 2 other Floyd members in '87 - they opened w/ Echoes) blew him away. The latest ('10 & '12) Wall tours are incredible. (Only saw him in '10 and because he didn't play anything beyond that album on that tour decided not to see the '12 version of it.) But it was a GREAT show.

??? Haven't seen his set yet, have it DVR'd, was hoping to watch it this weekend. Other than having Gilmour's part on Comfortably Numb sung by Eddie Vedder (which deserves an FU of it's own), what did he do?

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1 - That was a big part of the reason I didn't want to see the President re-elected and why Akin should have stepped down immediately after sticking both feet in his mouth. Keeping the SC conservative is important. 2 - They have to put forth real immigration reform solutions or become irrelevant long term. If they can get Latinos to come into their tent then maybe they can get blacks as well. The D's hold on the black vote is so strong currently, it's futile to try in the short term to change it. Though it's imperative in the LT. 3 - The R's would be wise to emmulate it (to the extent they can). I know the D's had more money than the R's again, but I saw a lot of Obama ads on national cable networks and almost no Romney ads there. Not sure why they didn't run any. That would seem to be a mistake. They also need to crank up their get out the vote efforts, which Obama seemed to be very good at. 4 - To me that is the biggest problem the R's have. They tend to annoint party insiders / the next in line. The outsiders need to be bolder and flat out take the next nomination away; if they don't the next losing presidential candidate will likely be Gingrich or Santorum. Either of which WILL get me voting 3rd party. 5 - And Ed Schultz was cackling about the end of W's reign at 2:30PM on election day in '04 on the radio. Ooops. That was the day he seemed (to me at least) to go from reasonable lefty (I actually listened to his radio show some back then) to bull goon loon. To a large extent I expect the FNC misses to be a combination of wishful thinking and trying to fire up the base. 7 - My expectation is that he goes further to the left, now that he doesn't have any more elections to possibly lose. Hope I'm wrong.

So I guess he will further extend his lead over his dad in the 'who's had a real job longer' sweepstakes.

It was '04 that the 'rule' didn't work. And, no offense, but of course it means nothing. There is no causation between the 2 events, though the correlation is pretty friggin' amazing.

Nope, 'Skins lost to the Steelers in '08 & incumbent party lost.

No, but her vs Brooks will be an interesting one. Last I saw the polling was strongly in Louise's favor.

Only time in something like 18 elections that trend didn't hold.

It's that darn NYS Republican machine stiffling and disenfranchising the Democrat voters.

So DVR it. It cuts the misery down to 2 hours or less typically.