[I Was Naked]
When I Wrote ThisWhy The Chinese Ignore Nipples
2007-03-14
Well, NIPLECC to be honest. I just think that when making a new agency to protect Intellectual Property, sound it out first.However, the reality is, the billions of dollars lost to not just the auto, music, and film industry, and hitting Bill Gates in his wallet, but it affects small business owners too.
I called a friend of mine the other night to see how he was doing. He has a patent or two out there on ink that he markets and sells worldwide. There have not been many changes to inks in the past thousand years, until he came along and invented one with properties that make it foolproof and the ink actually bonds to paper therefore destroying the ability for forgery. It really is quite remarkable and he has developed other inks that won’t freeze, his Polar line, and his ink has gotten enough attention to have caught the eye of Modern Marvels. Not a bad day in the sun when you are still 32.
So as I said hello to him on the phone and asked how he was I was surprised to hear him say, “There is a warrant out for my arrest.”
At first, I didn’t believe him, knowing the hours that he works, and he generally stays inside. I asked him what happened and then he clarified.
Seems he pissed off the Chinese government, and will continue to do so. He feels he is in good company as the Chinese also issued warrants back in the day to John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. He did ask that they send it through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the NY Times will do a piece on it.
You may wonder what a small business in our country could do to piss off a whole country. Simple and genius enough in my humble opinion. He included anti communistic statements as well as FREE TIBET on the hand made labels, essentially rendering the Chinese unable to pirate his ink for resale. The market that buys his ink for use, also made a market to collect the labels as well. My friend is a staunch American, where every component he uses to make the ink as well as the bottle only come from American companies. He keeps the business on the home front, but distributes worldwide.
He explained to me that the Chinese use patents as essentially a recipe for piracy. They don’t respect intellectual property at all. Our government knows this and formed NIPLECC in a half ass attempt at protecting its people and my guess taxable revenue, otherwise there wouldn’t be any motivation to help John Q.Public. Another factor though, is the public welfare and safety of US citizens, because not only is piracy so rampant, but pharmaceuticals and food items are pirated as well.
As I sat in my chair this evening at the hair salon, the subject on everyone’s lips after the usual course of events, was the fake fur may not be fake fur but dog fur coming out of China. Well, they did have that little rabies problem over there and the government killed 50,000 dogs to alleviate the problem. Though it would have made more sense to me to pirate a rabies vaccine and inoculate, but that would not have been profitable.
The other big ticket item pirated right now is furniture. I had another friend who was shopping for some the other week or so ago in a store, but I won’t mention names. However, the evening news was on and as the sales rep tried to sell my friend some furniture. As he falsely stated how the Chinese really made a good quality product, the local news team was reporting how poorly constructed these knock offs are, and my friend told the clerk to hush for a moment as he followed the news story. With a laugh, and a “Guess you picked the wrong time to be watching TV” statement he left the store, slightly more educated and off to find some quality goods not Made in China.
Now our government has identified the top three countries between 1994 and 2004 for violation of patents, copy writes and trademarks for US intellectual property. They are China, Paraguay, and the Ukraine. There have been trade sanctions imposed against the Ukraine for failure to comply with our effort to reduce piracy. The whole testimony can be found here, it’s a short read but interesting to say the least. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d041093t.pdf.
Piracy is affecting all aspects of goods up to and including parts manufactured for your vehicle. Sure there always has been a little something called Planned Obsolescence that exists to make the consumer want the better, faster, more stylish. Do the manufacturers have the capability of designing parts for vehicles that could last 20 years? Sure they do, but it isn’t profitable, and you take your car in to have it serviced and replace what is needed. But now add pirated parts that have no defining value placed on the consumer, and now your car is nickel and quartering(inflation) you to death, if it doesn’t cause an accident and your death first. There is also the hidden cost of what you could have spent your money on, if you did not have to keep replacing the same parts every few months, instead of every 20,000 miles or so.
Sure everyone loves a good deal and beef with broccoli. But ask yourself how much money are you really saving before you shell out money on disposable goods. You are the last line of defense against piracy.
If you have an interest in fountain pens and the ink that is forgery proof, go here. www.noodlersink.com The Bulletproof inks withstand the test of time and he has a challenge with a thousand dollar reward if you can modify a document, but read about it first, he may have upt the ante.
To see how we aren’t winning the war on another front http://usinfo.state.gov/ei/Archive/2004/Sep/23-463846.html
Information on the slaying of dogs and boycotting China can be found here:http://www.byteland.org/boycottchina/luckydog.html
To view the Chinese Nipple and god knows why she isn’t arrested go here http://www.bastardly.com/archives/2005/02/15/nipple-alert-is-bai-ling-the-chinese-paris-hilton/
Now I'm going to try to go back to sleep, I thing the MSG is keeping me up.
Witqueen (2007-03-14)
But our country as it stands from a democracy is 231 years in the making..China..goes back thousands of years. It isn't getting better, any we only delude ourselves if we think it is.
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