The inhumanely arrogant practice of patenting naturally occurring substances and organisms, and those developed long ago by other people - making customary practices such as growing crops and conceiving babies patent violations.
Patenting human genes is an act of biopiracy that makes it impossible for Australian Aborigines and African bush people to have babies without violating those patents.
In the year 2000, the Indian government found it necessary to file 50,000 pages of scientific evidence against a 1997 American biopiracy patent on Basmati rice.
In the year 2000, the Indian government found it necessary to file 50,000 pages of scientific evidence against a 1997 American biopiracy patent on Basmati rice.
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
Get the biopiracymug. 1. From Greek; pan = all, and theon = gods. Literally, all the gods.
2. All the gods recognized by a particular religion.
3. The three members of the Trinity.
2. All the gods recognized by a particular religion.
3. The three members of the Trinity.
by Downstrike May 24, 2004
Get the pantheonmug. Made to seem less awkward or rude, or to seem politically correct by changing terminology. Frequently amounts to outright lying.
sWindles is frequently euphemized as Windows.
Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible is frequently euphemized as Network Solutions, Incorporated.
Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible is frequently euphemized as Network Solutions, Incorporated.
by Downstrike September 13, 2004
Get the Euphemizedmug. Abbreviation for Multi-Level Marketing, a business model in which marketers are paid commissions on the sales of other marketers that they recruit, as well as on their own sales. To qualify as MLM, the business plan must actually focus upon selling a marketable product or service.
Business and marketing n00bs frequently confuse MLM with pyramid schemes, a business model that focuses on paying bonuses for recruiting people, rather than commissions on sales, because the criminals who start pyramid schemes like to scam n00bs and flatter themselves by calling their schemes MLM. They may even pretend to operate an MLM business by forcing marketers to stockpile unmarketable products to pretend they are selling it.
Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.
Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.
by Downstrike April 08, 2006
Get the MLMmug. Clichés such as as phalli, (see phallus), ankhs, crucifixes, eggs, rabbits, and maidens dressed in white; the proper trappings for certain pagan holidays, such as Easter.
I prefer honest pagans and Real True Christians to those who pretend that the fertility symbols of Easter, such as eggs, rabbits, and maidens dressed in white have something to do with Jesus.
by Downstrike May 24, 2004
Get the fertility symbolsmug. Anything that may influence circumstances so that one may continue in one's current employment, regardless whether the job actually needs to be performed.
by Downstrike May 21, 2004
Get the job securitymug. Yet another way to misspell pedophile for the purpose of childishly defining someone as a pedophile and slipping it past UrbanDictionary editors.
by Downstrike May 26, 2006
Get the pedaphilemug.