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To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)	4/8/2007 5:55:34 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217869

>Do you really believe the inability to protect IP makes one iota bit of difference in humans making progress? Do you contend that naturally vivacious inventors would stop inventing just because the ideas will be stolen by anyone> I suggest CB should go and protect the rights of all women over thousands of years who have generated wonderful recipes that the world enjoys without paying any royalties. -Arun

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)	4/8/2007 9:24:32 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217869

fresh video footage showing the captives playing chess and table tennis, and watching TV. The recordings were briefly aired on the state-run Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Alam in an apparent effort to refute allegations of mistreatment. Anything they say back home will be refuted!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)	4/8/2007 9:35:22 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217869

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.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)	4/8/2007 9:43:18 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217869

The truth how a film is made. But can you handle the truth? Most people cannot handle the truth! But lets tell you how a film comes to be made: We have this guy who used Jews as cheap manpower to make weapons for the Germans. Soros type of guy and I can tell you those Easterner Europeans, 90% of them are utterly useless, but the other 10% you've got to be carefull with them. Someone might be closing in the truth behind the guy who is a hero ot the Jews and part of the Holocaust story. As you know books are offered to publish to agents. Most of those agents are Jews. If this comes public it will be a blow to one pillar of the Holocaust story. What to do? get Spielberg to make a film about Schindler and the story still stands. Oh, scare bleu! Ultrage! Our acenstors who came from Eastern Europe are totally and absolute useless? No this is not truth. But we know here what the truth is. Whatever is not wayo, is called truth.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)	4/9/2007 3:45:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217869

TJ, there are hordes of people focused on today, being resurrection day, [in USA though the time has passed in NZ], when Nokia might, or might not, renew their intellectual property agreement with QUALCOMM. On Good Friday, President Amenhibijihad did NOT nail the British soldiers to crosses, or water-board, or stress position them, nor stack them naked while terrifying them with vicious dogs, but in a "gesture of goodwill to the British people" gave them back. Magnanimous to a fault. On Monday, I am hopeful for a resurrection. What a fun Easter. AND I got to chase Easter bunny around a garden not to mention scoffing calorie bomb hot cross buns [leavened and not Passover worthy = full of hubris]. To answer your first question, yes. <Do you really believe the inability to protect IP makes one iota bit of difference in humans making progress? Do you contend that naturally vivacious inventors would stop inventing just because the ideas will be stolen by anyone, whether by (i) outright coimpliment of copying or, (ii) by nefarious and methodical scheming of shameless lawyers in the direction of building nonsensical 2nd order patents around primary patents so as to force a cross-licensing? > QUALCOMM collects $billions in royalties. They spend $billions in R&D. No income = no R&D. It's a quite straightforward causal relationship. I am planning for the R&D to be good enough for government work after a few more years, at which time the profits will then flow to the bottom line and bust out over the gunwales into my coffers. I will, following the principles of philanthropic investing, do more R&D and excellent development to make even better things which are very high risk, so I might lose my money. But if I succeed, I will have an even bigger philanthropic investing and inventing opportunity. People who have to buy groceries next week and fill the SUV can't afford to take such dodgy chances and must invest safely in residential property to rent to retail salespeople. I think they are MAD. Rents here do NOT match property prices and neither do incomes. Thank goodness for Japanese housewives buying uridashi by the NZ$billion and pushing our NZ$ to 85 yen and US73c so Kiwis loaded down with cash [albeit on borrowed time] can go shopping in China and at QUALCOMM. They are NOT buying gold. So, while you hoard gold, Japanese hoard $NZ and Kiwis hoard houses, I am off into the wild blue yonder launching rockets into low earth orbit at 1414 km to replenish the fizzling Globalstar constellation. I'm sure you can see which is the most sensible economic activity. One of them is R&D rich, built on intellectual property protected by Uncle Sam and umpty megatons of nucular bombs, predator drones and those amazing stealth bombers and window-opening cruise missiles, bringing in the 21st century era of mobile cyberspace via CDMA cyberphones, enabling even further developments such as the Q which will replace yen, $NZ, USc and Aztec-era totems. The others are prosaic, atavistic, introspective, zero-sum swappers and squabblers. Anyway, Big Bang is today; Nokia vs QUALCOMM. Which I suspect will end as a fizzer with lawyers swarming into the arguments, litigating from Vladivostock to Valparaiso, Lebanon [middle east] to Lebanon [Kansas]. Without the cash flow, the inventors would still try to invent, but they'd have limited time what with working the tills at McDonalds. It's hard to launch a rocket without some serious cash flow. That's why USA launches rockets and NZ doesn't. We launch sheep into a shearing shed. It's good, healthy, physical work, though I prefer earning my living explaining this to you on a keyboard. Yes, it's true that intellectual property is like a tax on the rest. But the sheeple are better off for it just as sheep would not be alive if they were not being fleeced. We would not bother clearing the forests of pythons and lions [which like eating sheep], fencing pasture and filling it with sheep who get to gambol [when lambs] and eat lots of grass and have a nice lie down under a tree, which is what they like doing. The rams love it when they get turned loose during mating season. Nor do they have to worry about old age pensions, arthritis and dementia. Suddenly, they have gone. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16685)	4/10/2007 4:48:06 AM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217869

Do you really believe the inability to protect IP makes one iota bit of difference in humans making progress? Do you contend that naturally vivacious inventors would stop inventing just because the ideas will be stolen by anyone.. Nikola Tesla comes to mind... inventors who have their ideas stolen and aren't rewarded with fame and/or fortune tend to get a bit cranky. Also nowadays inventions tend to require a huge amount of time, money, and effort. If there is no pot at the end of the rainbow, why bother to slave away in a lab...? Better to invest the time in learning to rap or play metal guitar.. probably get more hot babes that way also... :)