This plus allowing gay marriage makes it sound like a nice place. The average/. raving technolibertarian might be at home. But there's still the gun laws.
I'm one of the few that argues against patents/copyrights. Look, it was modded down and all the arguments for continuing the patent system (in a non-elegant half-ass kinda way) are modded up. The best argument I can give is a philisophical one. Any idea can be independently discovered, so nobody can own an idea. Now that's the exact same argument against copyright.
I'm one of the few saying to ban patents/copyrights. Hmm, maybe people think I patented the idea to ban patents. Or copyrighted the words "abolish copyright" (c).
How funny the similarities are. DMCA=helping possible runaways. One involves owning a sentient being, the other owning an idea. Both highly illogical. And then there's the compromisers. No more slave imports! Lower copyright length! And both apparently will require an amendment to the constitution.
We all know bad things happen from overpopulation (too many laws, intellectual property). Why not something to thin the herd and/or kill it off completely? Let a species that won't dream up something dumb like copyrights come to power.
No patents does not mean no technology. Technology, lots of it, is always good. In the short term it'll falter, but in the long term it will grow much faster.
How come this is not brought up much? The simplist, most elegant solution is to completely abolish patents. Patents were not now and never were a good idea. They fly in the face of logic itself.
*Gasp*, a libertarian on/. is unheard of. Now why should government be getting involved? If there are any libertarians out there, how can you justify this _regulation_? Now libertarians tend to be intelligent and intelligent people tend to hate advertising, so how do you reconcile?
"subset of all possible ideas is significantly less than infinite"? What does that mean? Well, even if it were infinite, it would not change your first paragraph. Very good way to put it in the first paragraph. Did you come up with that? Well, then, who did? (ha ha, the irony, eh). I'll have to copy that, err, discover it from the realm of ideas that exist outside of time.
When you're dead, you can't things like "The least sophisticated way of relating to others people is killing them." It is hard to win debates when you're dead, making whatever argument you have pretty much moot.
You sound like an idiot **AA lawyer, not a computer science person. There's no way to stop people from locally storing data. And local storage of something like music that won't change just makes sense.
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Our web pages are already colored with hex anyway.
This plus allowing gay marriage makes it sound like a nice place. The average /. raving technolibertarian might be at home. But there's still the gun laws.
If everything were in hexadecimal and you didn't have to convert, I think that would solve this and many other problems.
I'm one of the few that argues against patents/copyrights. Look, it was modded down and all the arguments for continuing the patent system (in a non-elegant half-ass kinda way) are modded up. The best argument I can give is a philisophical one. Any idea can be independently discovered, so nobody can own an idea. Now that's the exact same argument against copyright.
I'm one of the few saying to ban patents/copyrights. Hmm, maybe people think I patented the idea to ban patents. Or copyrighted the words "abolish copyright" (c).
How funny the similarities are. DMCA=helping possible runaways. One involves owning a sentient being, the other owning an idea. Both highly illogical. And then there's the compromisers. No more slave imports! Lower copyright length! And both apparently will require an amendment to the constitution.
I've been tagging abolish copyright/patent posts. Like this. But they are fedw and far between.
Abolish patents. It's a wonder few bring up this possibility.
up with ipv6!
Beginning to think the copyright trolls had taken over. We need another civil war! Down with IP!
We all know bad things happen from overpopulation (too many laws, intellectual property). Why not something to thin the herd and/or kill it off completely? Let a species that won't dream up something dumb like copyrights come to power.
That's 800h.
Oh good, they can start using a more logical radix. All that logic will certainly cut the aggression and wars there.
Besides the number of body digits in hex.
This will speed up the takeover of decimal by hexadecimal. Disagree? Tell me in a web page--using your favorite color (ha ha).
Really, this is the future. If waiters and preachers can live off donations, so can information producers.
Or at least mods for it? I don't like to use decimal.
No patents does not mean no technology. Technology, lots of it, is always good. In the short term it'll falter, but in the long term it will grow much faster.
Just wondering, how does it feel to be a dinosaur? I mean, is the view nice up there? Is it refreshing not having to think much?
How come this is not brought up much? The simplist, most elegant solution is to completely abolish patents. Patents were not now and never were a good idea. They fly in the face of logic itself.
*Gasp*, a libertarian on /. is unheard of. Now why should government be getting involved? If there are any libertarians out there, how can you justify this _regulation_? Now libertarians tend to be intelligent and intelligent people tend to hate advertising, so how do you reconcile?
"subset of all possible ideas is significantly less than infinite"? What does that mean? Well, even if it were infinite, it would not change your first paragraph. Very good way to put it in the first paragraph. Did you come up with that? Well, then, who did? (ha ha, the irony, eh). I'll have to copy that, err, discover it from the realm of ideas that exist outside of time.
When you're dead, you can't things like "The least sophisticated way of relating to others people is killing them." It is hard to win debates when you're dead, making whatever argument you have pretty much moot.
For one, it does not imply copyright violation. The laws of the universe are against your case.
You sound like an idiot **AA lawyer, not a computer science person. There's no way to stop people from locally storing data. And local storage of something like music that won't change just makes sense.