First of, copying something (whether it's software, music,...) is not stealing as the original owner doesn't lose the copied material.
OK, let's argue on that technicality. Before the copying, the rightful owner had a valuable product. Because of the copying, the rightful owner now has a less valuable product. In effect, the copier has stolen the rightful owner's product and replaced it with a less valuable one. Or looked at another way, the copier has vandalized the rightful owner's product.
Since "theft" is a criminal term, the better use for civil law is "conversion". But the proper term is copyright violation, and other terms are just analogies usable as guidelines for determining the extent of damage and proper compensation.
Samuel Clemens depended upon his writings to continue to sell, for his livelihood. He had to fight unauthorized ripoffs. In some cases, he had a financial interest in his publisher.
Remember, authors usually have contracts that pay them per copy sold by the authorized publisher. As long as the publisher can keep making sales, the author can keep getting money. When an unauthorized printer sells copies of a book, it is extraordinarily rare that the author gets any money.
In this case the copied software was used to design a new product, and it's reasonable to assume that the new product was sold to people some of whom would have otherwise bought the copied product. Therefor, real damage was done to the owners of the copied product.
In other cases, acquiring an unauthorized copy of a rare and expensive product may reduce the value of the original, due to reduction of the quality "rarity".
In the physical realm, if you steal a book from me that I've already read and have no intention of rereading or selling, you've still committed theft and should be treated accordingly. No judge or jury would have the slightest interest about whether I had any use for the book; they'd simply be interested in the questions of ownership and theft.
That you don't understand that Communist and Fascist are both left-wing shows that you've swallowed every last ounce of the bullshit.
Obama has in the top levels of his administration at least one left wing bomber, and by bomber I mean he literally made explosive devices for the purpose of destroying US government buildings and killing the people therein. If that's considered Conservative in Canada, you're screwed.
The Koche brothers' father was Fred Koche, the founder of the John Birch Society
Liar.
The John Birch Society was founded by Robert Welch. See wikipedia.
The Birch Society was effectively the political arm of the KKK
Another lie.
I know that it's a common belief among leftists that anything conservative is racist, but it's nothing but libel.
"economic justice" is a nonsense phrase. Justice applies only to individuals and a person either gets justice or not. If I don't get justice, I cannot possibly get "economic justice". If I get justice, then I must get "economic justice." The adjectives pretending to create varieties of justice are attempts to distort and hide the concept of justice, and they are used by those whose oppose justice.
If I'm jailed for buying or selling incandescent lamps, that's tyranny. "Removal of choice" sounds trivial until you realize what's required to enforce it.
Healthcare in the US is already socialized due to the fact that we do not refuse emergency medical services to the uninsured
There are several false assumptions in your statement. You assume that all uninsured people don't pay for emergency medical services. You assume there's no such thing as charity. You assume that there is no way to contract in advance for emergency medical services. You assume that there's no legal mechanism available for seizing payment from someone who refuses to pay for emergency medical services. And that's just one sentence, the implication of your second sentence is no better.
It's not an important distinction. There are myriad bad political ideas, and spending time defeating the minutia of each bad idea is a waste of time. Once a particular form of tyranny is defeated, if all you've done is to wipe out those particular ideas, some other form of tyranny is going to pop up.
General proper ideas must be formulated into law, laws that make all forms of tyranny illegal. People need to be taught proper ideas, not the just the flaws of the current forms of villainy.
Reducing costs to make theft at gunpoint to pay for medical care affordable does not make it moral, and the taxpayer victim is still morally justified to put a bullet through the tax collector's head.
There's one other factor. As most people age, their attitude changes. They recognize that they've had fun and a good life (or not) and there's not a whole lot to look forward to. Moreover, they get tired, they aren't willing to fight any more. Many become depressed. Many lose most of their fear of death.
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Expecting sense in religious rules is unrealistic. That said...
Religious rules are a hodgepodge of common sense, failed language interpretation, rules whose reasons are obsolete, interpretations of parables, and on and on. Antimasturbation comes in part from a parable about throwing seed on barren ground. Rules against priests marrying have to do with problems that arose historically when they were allowed to marry. There are many reasons for opposing premarital sex: confusing inheritance, disease spread, failure to form a good family (which includes good teaching and a stronger financial unit. You don't want your potential future revenue stream to die young.), and the general desire to boss other people around.
And if the goal of opposing abortion is to get a kid for the church, then why allow adoption?
Huh? That doesn't even make sense. Adoption can occur into, out of, or between Catholic families; furthermore, many adoptions are from orphanages or vagrants.
By definition, you've never heard of the societies wherein the secret was never revealed. Of those societies no description of their nature is possible.
If you know that a possible recon satellite passes over every n hours, you hide your stuff at that time.
Interesting sidenote: I've read that even though the US hid secret development aircraft when Soviet satellites were overhead, the Soviets knew the outline of the aircraft from the cool IR image left by the unheated ground of their shadows.
Reading your wikipedia links, it appears that the term "white spaces between channels" does not describe what is being used. Instead, channels that aren't being locally used for TV are being made available for non-TV use. "Fixed devices may use any of the vacant US TV channels 2, 5-36 and 38-51".
When the US left Vietnam, South Vietnam was relatively stable and capable of defending itself against North Vietnam, provided that N.V. received no outside help.
Well, no honest thinking person was surprised that N.V. received outside help and attacked. Few were surprised when the Democrat-controlled US Congress refused to even provide money for S.V. to buy bullets. So N.V. overran S.V. and the obvious slaughter took place.
The result is that most Americans forget the details and remember only the parts that leftists reiterate.
Anyone who relies on a pension plan is a sucker. Companies routinely underfund them, steal from them on any excuse, or go out of business before the employee can collect. They also (such as General Electric) try to drive people out of the company as they approach being able claim money from the pension.
The audio industry generally has engineers that get 10% less than they could get at other companies. Audiophiles and musicians want to work for such companies, and demand for those jobs exceeds their supply. Looked at from the other direction, engineers working for defense contractors tend to get more than others, because defense work involves unpleasant restrictions and paperwork. Money means a lot, but doing agreeable work shifts the balance.
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You have no idea how arrogant elected representatives at the federal level are. Communicating with them is an exercise in futility.
OK, let's argue on that technicality. Before the copying, the rightful owner had a valuable product. Because of the copying, the rightful owner now has a less valuable product. In effect, the copier has stolen the rightful owner's product and replaced it with a less valuable one. Or looked at another way, the copier has vandalized the rightful owner's product.
Since "theft" is a criminal term, the better use for civil law is "conversion". But the proper term is copyright violation, and other terms are just analogies usable as guidelines for determining the extent of damage and proper compensation.
Yes, but theft can become (for practical purposes) non-theft because of the age of the theft. It's called statute of limitations.
Samuel Clemens depended upon his writings to continue to sell, for his livelihood. He had to fight unauthorized ripoffs. In some cases, he had a financial interest in his publisher.
Remember, authors usually have contracts that pay them per copy sold by the authorized publisher. As long as the publisher can keep making sales, the author can keep getting money. When an unauthorized printer sells copies of a book, it is extraordinarily rare that the author gets any money.
You took the electricity and machine cycles required to serve the product.
There is no human action that does not have a moral aspect. There is no human product, and no human law, that does not have a moral aspect.
In this case the copied software was used to design a new product, and it's reasonable to assume that the new product was sold to people some of whom would have otherwise bought the copied product. Therefor, real damage was done to the owners of the copied product.
In other cases, acquiring an unauthorized copy of a rare and expensive product may reduce the value of the original, due to reduction of the quality "rarity".
In the physical realm, if you steal a book from me that I've already read and have no intention of rereading or selling, you've still committed theft and should be treated accordingly. No judge or jury would have the slightest interest about whether I had any use for the book; they'd simply be interested in the questions of ownership and theft.
Yup, because rage certainly helps people to think clearly and act productively.
"Hippy" implies a belief system which includes such things as poor hygiene, opposition to property rights, and little ambition. Not good for business.
"Redneck" implies outdoor physical labor in the southern US.
"Nigger", to use your rude language, implies nothing but ancestry.
I can see where the unjustified bias is.
That you don't understand that Communist and Fascist are both left-wing shows that you've swallowed every last ounce of the bullshit.
Obama has in the top levels of his administration at least one left wing bomber, and by bomber I mean he literally made explosive devices for the purpose of destroying US government buildings and killing the people therein. If that's considered Conservative in Canada, you're screwed.
Liar.
The John Birch Society was founded by Robert Welch. See wikipedia.
Another lie.
I know that it's a common belief among leftists that anything conservative is racist, but it's nothing but libel.
"economic justice" is a nonsense phrase. Justice applies only to individuals and a person either gets justice or not. If I don't get justice, I cannot possibly get "economic justice". If I get justice, then I must get "economic justice." The adjectives pretending to create varieties of justice are attempts to distort and hide the concept of justice, and they are used by those whose oppose justice.
If I'm jailed for buying or selling incandescent lamps, that's tyranny. "Removal of choice" sounds trivial until you realize what's required to enforce it.
There are several false assumptions in your statement. You assume that all uninsured people don't pay for emergency medical services. You assume there's no such thing as charity. You assume that there is no way to contract in advance for emergency medical services. You assume that there's no legal mechanism available for seizing payment from someone who refuses to pay for emergency medical services. And that's just one sentence, the implication of your second sentence is no better.
It's not an important distinction. There are myriad bad political ideas, and spending time defeating the minutia of each bad idea is a waste of time. Once a particular form of tyranny is defeated, if all you've done is to wipe out those particular ideas, some other form of tyranny is going to pop up.
General proper ideas must be formulated into law, laws that make all forms of tyranny illegal. People need to be taught proper ideas, not the just the flaws of the current forms of villainy.
Reducing costs to make theft at gunpoint to pay for medical care affordable does not make it moral, and the taxpayer victim is still morally justified to put a bullet through the tax collector's head.
There's one other factor. As most people age, their attitude changes. They recognize that they've had fun and a good life (or not) and there's not a whole lot to look forward to. Moreover, they get tired, they aren't willing to fight any more. Many become depressed. Many lose most of their fear of death.
Expecting sense in religious rules is unrealistic. That said...
Religious rules are a hodgepodge of common sense, failed language interpretation, rules whose reasons are obsolete, interpretations of parables, and on and on. Antimasturbation comes in part from a parable about throwing seed on barren ground. Rules against priests marrying have to do with problems that arose historically when they were allowed to marry. There are many reasons for opposing premarital sex: confusing inheritance, disease spread, failure to form a good family (which includes good teaching and a stronger financial unit. You don't want your potential future revenue stream to die young.), and the general desire to boss other people around.
Huh? That doesn't even make sense. Adoption can occur into, out of, or between Catholic families; furthermore, many adoptions are from orphanages or vagrants.
If all the ice melts, we'll be able to dig up the fossilized palm trees.
By definition, you've never heard of the societies wherein the secret was never revealed. Of those societies no description of their nature is possible.
Interesting sidenote: I've read that even though the US hid secret development aircraft when Soviet satellites were overhead, the Soviets knew the outline of the aircraft from the cool IR image left by the unheated ground of their shadows.
Reading your wikipedia links, it appears that the term "white spaces between channels" does not describe what is being used. Instead, channels that aren't being locally used for TV are being made available for non-TV use. "Fixed devices may use any of the vacant US TV channels 2, 5-36 and 38-51".
Nice job rewriting history.
When the US left Vietnam, South Vietnam was relatively stable and capable of defending itself against North Vietnam, provided that N.V. received no outside help.
Well, no honest thinking person was surprised that N.V. received outside help and attacked. Few were surprised when the Democrat-controlled US Congress refused to even provide money for S.V. to buy bullets. So N.V. overran S.V. and the obvious slaughter took place.
The result is that most Americans forget the details and remember only the parts that leftists reiterate.
That must be why NASDAQ is in Stamford, Connecticut.
Anyone who relies on a pension plan is a sucker. Companies routinely underfund them, steal from them on any excuse, or go out of business before the employee can collect. They also (such as General Electric) try to drive people out of the company as they approach being able claim money from the pension.
The audio industry generally has engineers that get 10% less than they could get at other companies. Audiophiles and musicians want to work for such companies, and demand for those jobs exceeds their supply. Looked at from the other direction, engineers working for defense contractors tend to get more than others, because defense work involves unpleasant restrictions and paperwork. Money means a lot, but doing agreeable work shifts the balance.