cognitive slavery

[Michael Perelman]

The have already granted a patent for a number and for the proper way to lift a
box.  A NY patent attorney is arguing that athlete's moves should be patented.

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:


> wait till they start doing it to physicians and physicists. "Texaco today
> patented a close cousin of the Higgs boson; since the particle accelerator
> and the algorithm for making it manifest  were owned by the firm, the judges
> declared they had a right to charge a fee to anyone who used the particles.
> When it was subsequently found that the particles were ubiquitous in the
> frontal lobes of all humans, the species effectively became wards of the
> firm...."

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu