RE: Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Comment The US (and Australia’s John Howard, prior to the last election) is constantly demonised because they won’t ratify Kyoto. However, I agree with the US stance - there’s no point to a climate change agreement that doesn’t include all the major...
[May 6, 2008, 14:09 by ElizHart]
Not so!
Talkback America has NOT adopted any legislation to ratify the relevant treaty with UK. The American Constitution prevents this. Consequently, America has to go through rigorous due process as opposed to the untested assertions made against Gary McKinnon...
About: Tories champion Nasa hacker in parliament
[July 24, 2009, 9:29 by Moley]
EU-wide patents 'move closer'
Talkback Software patent campaigners have previously warned that this law would ratify the European Patent Office's practice of granting software patents" - actually this wouldn't change the granting of European Patents (which have been around since 1977...
About: EU-wide patents 'move closer'
[May 8, 2006, 9:50]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
Talkback No they best wait and see if Microsoft catch up and then ratify their format (I can't imagine that they are an organisation that knows what both their hands are doing! What do you expect. The EC can't be decisive, people might just get the idea...
About: EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
[May 9, 2006, 12:13]
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]



