Virtually everyone is now choosing not to call a cab where as before they were choosing to call a cab, because cabs were a necessary evil prior to Uber/Lyft. You might not be that bright (or maybe you're just a dishonest shill for Yellow Cab) but I bet you can subtract well enough to spot the implication here.;)
While such naivete does tend to be rampant among the population at large, you are addressing people who tend to be a bit smarter and more capable of critical thinking than the rest - or yourself for that matter.
"It has been pretended by some, (and in England especially,) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance.
By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."
â"Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813
but FDR kept the U.S. from becoming a Fascist country.
Only according to the official narrative and only if you're unable to understand what's occurred over the past hundred-plus years. For fuck's sake, he's a Roosevelt; they're right up there with the Rockefellers in the insidious dept...
There are a number of herbs that have been used to induce miscarriage since ancient times (slippery elm and black cohosh come to mind); perhaps that's what it's a reference to.
You sure about that? I spent twelve-plus years in the Bible Belt and there's definitely a correlation between how "Christian" they I insist on acting (I *don't* mean "turning the other cheek") and how able they appear to accommodate a book in said fashion...
Shouldn't you fascist shills-of-merely-average-intelligence being trying a lot harder than that not to be so fucking obvious? I mean, doesn't it defeat the purpose otherwise?!
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Colorado's getting Californicated pretty badly as well...
Virtually everyone is now choosing not to call a cab where as before they were choosing to call a cab, because cabs were a necessary evil prior to Uber/Lyft. You might not be that bright (or maybe you're just a dishonest shill for Yellow Cab) but I bet you can subtract well enough to spot the implication here. ;)
While such naivete does tend to be rampant among the population at large, you are addressing people who tend to be a bit smarter and more capable of critical thinking than the rest - or yourself for that matter.
Amazing, absolutely amazing. I eagerly await with baited breath the plethora of modpoints that will surely be bestowed upon you at any minute. ;)
By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."
â"Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813
Well fucking said.
Mod up: crass, negative and totally spot-on.
but FDR kept the U.S. from becoming a Fascist country.
Only according to the official narrative and only if you're unable to understand what's occurred over the past hundred-plus years. For fuck's sake, he's a Roosevelt; they're right up there with the Rockefellers in the insidious dept...
"ordeal of the bitter water".
There are a number of herbs that have been used to induce miscarriage since ancient times (slippery elm and black cohosh come to mind); perhaps that's what it's a reference to.
I suppose you conveniently forgot which party was in power then, no?
Since they're effectively the same fucking party, that should be quite understandable.
You sure about that? I spent twelve-plus years in the Bible Belt and there's definitely a correlation between how "Christian" they I insist on acting (I *don't* mean "turning the other cheek") and how able they appear to accommodate a book in said fashion...
Not a single post in this thread actually addresses the parent's point...
Well there's little chance that display drivers under linux will provide the needed performance
This is a massive understatement if you're referring to AMD GPU drivers and total horseshit if you're referring to nVidia GPU drivers.
Crickets chirping. Seriously; do we expect anything else from these fucking establishment shills?
Seriously, though... guess we've got at least one guy here who's not earned his "red wings." :p
...while my wife was on the rag
Seriously?? Just admit that you're into women, for fuck's sake.
Where is the evidence of the FBI "making up bullshit"?
It's recursive, AC; your post itself clearly constitutes such evidence. Bet you didn't know that was going to happen. ;)
Shouldn't you fascist shills-of-merely-average-intelligence being trying a lot harder than that not to be so fucking obvious? I mean, doesn't it defeat the purpose otherwise?!
so that telecom and internet companies have to record and store all customer communications for six months, potentially at a multitrillion-dollar cost
"You keep using^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H use that word, I do not think it means what you think it means"
I can't tell if you're attempting to make a joke by appearing stupid or not, but I'll bite.
Whereas I can tell that you're not attempting to appear as if you've got Aspergers...
The Linux community wishes they had someone with 1/10th of the motivational skills the almighty Jobs had.
Spoken like someone very much not part of said community.
I'll see your 256 colors and raise you 16 colors: Tandy 16 color graphics; not even EGA compatible. ;)
Moron, the word "regulate" has another meaning.
have big exhaust scoops
Don't you mean "intake snorkel?"
Where'd you get the idea that logic and reason have a place in this debate??