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To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)4/8/2007 9:35:22 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 217882
 
so, who be the grapes that are sour?

The grapes aren't a who and they aren't sour. The fox says what he can't have is no good cause it makes him feel better - check Aesop.

Do you really think the ability to protect the copyright of a few flicks from Hollywood will make any difference at all in anything? No.

Do you imagine that ideas can be protected in the absence of economic logic and financial rationale? Of course not.


It seems to me you're making a virtue of not protecting intellectual property as a point of national pride. That's silly. If your country's leaders changed course tomorrow, you'd have to suddenly see the virtue in something new.

Do you really believe the inability to protect IP makes one iota bit of difference in humans making progress?

Yes, it makes an environment where more intellectual property gets made. And we all benefit from it.

OTOH, if CB Ilaine's point was about theft, I would suggest to her (i) she voted in a thief and a untruth-teller,

I don't think she voted for Clinton. Anyway who cares. Especially why should you? I tell sore losers here in the States all the time to get over it (during the Clinton administration the sore losers were in one party, now they're in the other). People who live on the other side of the world and who cant even vote (and say voting is worthless anyway if I remember) in our elections seem to care about them and root for one or the other - thats funny, isn't it?

and (ii) by engaging in mortgage refinancing and supporting fiat money inflation, and such, she can easily determine that she in fact is stealing, as per teachings of her Constitution and her Bible.

?? - That sentence has something to do with the theme of this silly thread I guess which seems to be about the financial collapse which didn't happen 6 years ago, but which will surely come, don't give up your faith in it ... like the messiah.

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