全球最大線上拍賣網站 eBay 27 日透露，德國高等法院裁定，eBay 必須採取行動，阻止仿冒品繼續在其網站上公開標售。
根據 eBay 公司的財務申報紀錄，這樁官司已纏訟六年，原告 Rolex 控告 eBay 德國網站放任會員在線上拍賣仿冒的勞力士錶。Rolex 提出這起告訴時，是以不公平競爭的罪名控告 eBay，同時向法院聲請禁止 eBay 在網路上繼續銷售勞力士錶，並且向 eBay 求償。雙方的爭議點在於，eBay 起標價偏低。法院判決書指出，有一新刊登的起標價低於 800 歐元，足以構成該勞力士錶是假貨的證據。
eBay 在每季定期向美國證管會申報的資料中寫道：「德國法院的決定中判定，一旦 eBay 被告知有明顯侵權行為發生，就必須採取合理措施，防止這種事再度發生。」德國是 eBay 僅次於美國的第二大拍賣市場。 eBay 說，這項判決可能導致該公司在德國面臨更多的訴訟。
eBay 並且宣布，將繼續打兩樁法國訴訟。eBay 在法國也因為仿冒品拍賣問題，吃上另外兩樁官司，提告商家是精品集團 LV，以及 Christian Dior。 這兩起訴訟都指控 eBay 違反法國法律，允許賣家在 eBay 網路上刊登仿冒品拍賣訊息，並任由他們買廣告關鍵字，引導搜尋相關品牌商品的買家，連上仿冒品拍賣刊登頁面。原告求償 3,500 萬歐元。
去年另有一樁訴訟，則是原告 Parfums Christian Dior、Kenzo Parfums、Parfums Givenchy 和Guerlain Societe。他們在巴黎提出告訴，控告 eBay 旗下的網站干擾這些香水廠商的獨家經銷網路。原告求償 900 萬歐元，並向法院聲請禁止繼續銷售的禁制令。
看來 eBay 未來的麻煩還沒完沒了啊!
Source: CNet
Ecological Homeostasis
Are We Short of Water and Food ??
- Meteorite Asteroid Impact On Earth Doomsday 2012
- Nasa Climate Report
- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of UN IPCC on a Win-Win Situation for the Planet: Go Vegetarian!
- 20 Questions About Vegetarianism
...Excess protein consumption can cause a variety of problems including bone mineral loss, kidney damage, and dehydration. Your body can only use so much protein, the excess is either broken down through oxidization, placing an enormous strain on the kidneys, or it is stored as body fat. Neither option is particularly desirable...
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Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
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From All Corners of the Galaxy
Which Stars Are You From?
- Galactic Highway - The Wormhole
- Stream of Time
Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).
Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.
Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.
Source:http://www.universetoday.com/
Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.
Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.
Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.
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