The imperialist part I like, the dictatorship part, not so good, but it's been a dictatorship for a long time. Watch Rurouni Kenshin sometime, and look at Kenshin's approach to things as opposed to the Meiji government. I find some similarity between the U.S. government and the Meiji government. This link I found in someone's sig, I think, is also relevant in this story.
Information has value too. Or why do people pay money to take classes. Besides in admitting that services have value you are undermining your initial argument that if it does not have a physical shape, then it has no value. If you want to look at it from a services perspective the artist performs a service in rendering the work.
"stealing" is merely a means of converting what is yours into what is mine, just like commerce. It is not "what is yours is mine". When people stop interacting with each other or repeatedly fail to communicate society is breaking down. The examples that you have pointed out is just a small subset of situations that can occur when this happens. Futhermore, from what I have seen of communist implementations, it would seem that they started with a society that was already pretty broken down, which makes them poor examples of the ability for communism to succeed.
I can't open the door for someone and then demand that I be paid. Just because it is so, doesn't mean that the act of opening the door doesn't have value. That's what musicians do the equivalent of. They do a job no one hired them to do, then expect to demand payment. Hotels hire doormen, you know.
It's that "dire circumstances" part that makes "stealing is wrong" as a blanket statement untenable. That and also the scope of property rights. Sure a little property rights is necessary to keep society from breaking down, but does anyone really know how much property rights are necessary? And what about when society is already breaking down (as it appears to me it is now) and property rights won't do a thing to stop it?
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When you're moving back to a system that you had just moved from.
That's because you are too tightly wound. You're setting yourself up for an aneurysm
They just weren't targeted to American children, those poor fragile things.
Lawrence Lessig seems stable enough. And weren't there some economists that said copyright was hurting the economy.
Does this mean that the QuickBasic site can have the URL back?
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Has the old QB website pages
Cisco:Hard to configure, very configurable.
Linksys:Easy to configure, not very configurable
The Democrats keep hoping what's happening isn't happening.
The imperialist part I like, the dictatorship part, not so good, but it's been a dictatorship for a long time. Watch Rurouni Kenshin sometime, and look at Kenshin's approach to things as opposed to the Meiji government. I find some similarity between the U.S. government and the Meiji government. This link I found in someone's sig, I think, is also relevant in this story.
Drag the link to the address bar.
Max Steel, and then there was Action Man.
It is also a service to themselves when they hear it, and a service to others when they hear it.
I get the services idea from the fact that musicians still want to get paid.
Sure there won't be any new songs, but then I haven't heard all the ones already out yet.
Information has value too. Or why do people pay money to take classes. Besides in admitting that services have value you are undermining your initial argument that if it does not have a physical shape, then it has no value. If you want to look at it from a services perspective the artist performs a service in rendering the work.
No, I'm not. Mind explaining why you want me to be a troll so I can explain to you why it's good that I'm not?
And yet I feel that the British and American actions bring us closer to world peace. For the purpose of war is that eventually one side will give up.
Services have a value.
"stealing" is merely a means of converting what is yours into what is mine, just like commerce. It is not "what is yours is mine". When people stop interacting with each other or repeatedly fail to communicate society is breaking down. The examples that you have pointed out is just a small subset of situations that can occur when this happens. Futhermore, from what I have seen of communist implementations, it would seem that they started with a society that was already pretty broken down, which makes them poor examples of the ability for communism to succeed.
I can't open the door for someone and then demand that I be paid. Just because it is so, doesn't mean that the act of opening the door doesn't have value. That's what musicians do the equivalent of. They do a job no one hired them to do, then expect to demand payment. Hotels hire doormen, you know.
Easier said than done.
Me? The government sends me a check to do nothing.
It's that "dire circumstances" part that makes "stealing is wrong" as a blanket statement untenable. That and also the scope of property rights. Sure a little property rights is necessary to keep society from breaking down, but does anyone really know how much property rights are necessary? And what about when society is already breaking down (as it appears to me it is now) and property rights won't do a thing to stop it?
If you can truly benefit from it, then it IS moral.
Why is it immoral to steal. You present this assumption as if it is fact, but is it?
Music should be paid for in terms that both the musician and listener both like. Until then, war's all.
but you can telnet to switches too.