How many people outside of fields like engineering and other math-specialty careers even need to be able to do much beyond the basic four functions anyway? Sure, it'd be nice to have a general populace well-versed in all subjects, but at this point in time I think that's little more than wishful thinking.
A number of fields outside of math or science need math. My sister who majored in accounting for her BA had to take calculus for business and statistics classes. Other fields in the business arena require calculus as well, even more so in finance and economics.
Your earning potential in the modern world is largely dependant on your Math and Language skills
In college I tutored in math, and chemistry, and one of the first questions I asked a new student was if they were good with languages or art. I'd say math was just another language, just translate the different symbols and math should be easy. Or I'd say you had to be creative in how you analysed a problem so you can come up with a solution. This pretty much worked with most of the students I tutored. The only one it didn't work with was this girl who's parents were paying her expenses and she was frequently drunk, she kept an ice filled cooler in her car stocked with beer. After a couple of weeks I couldn't take it anymore and had to stop tutoring her.
Myself, I was torn between CS and engineering entering college
Me, I was torn between taking Computer Engineering or Marine Biology as a major in college. If I knew then what I know now I would of done a double major, both CE and Marine Bio.
Even worse, a surprisingly large number of elementary school teachers are these sorts of people, and they teach their hatred and ignorance of mathematics to new generations, crippling their early mathematical development, and repeating the cycle.
This reminds me what happened to me. In sixth grade towards the end of the year the students met with guidance counselors from the junior high to decide on what classes to take and the one I saw said I should take algebra but because I didn't know how to do square roots he couldn't let me take it. From then until tenth grade I took as advanced a math class as I could without taking algebra. Then about 6 weeks after my tenth grade year started because the teacher I had for math took my homework out once he collected it and ripped it up in front of the class I got pissed off. I grabbed all of my books and stuff then went to my guidance counselor and told her I had to get out of that class. She looked at my grades in math then said I should of been taking algebra. I told her what I had been told before, that I couldn't take algebra because I didn't know how to do square roots, but she said you learn to do them in algebra. Again I got so pissed off, if I had been allowed to take algebra in 7th grade I could of taken AP Calculus in high school.
The way to "fix" this is to help others to migrate to Linux systems. With the open source advocates pulling - and Microsoft pushing (with their anti-consumer acts) it's a sure win for Linux. It's going to take some time to get there, though...
It's those MS tactics that treat consumers like criminals like Activation and WGA/WPA that have finally driven me away from MS. Though I'm using Windows now my desktop replacement PC came with Linux preinstalled, I haven't compleatly switched yet due to not having the new PC ready yet, and for a laptop I plan on getting a Macbook Pro.
From what I've read if you release software into the public you can be held accountable for any damages caused by the software. Public domain doesn't allow for use "as is", indemnify.
It's unfortunate, but current tort law has made it such that there is (effectively) no such thing as a Commons. It won't be until nearly 2030 until the first piece of software without this liability risk comes off Copyright; I doubt that when it does, you will be able to get useful source code for it anyway.
If the media, publishing, and some software companies get their way by 2030 copyrights will last 1000 years. The terms for copyrights and patents need to taken back to 14 years, with one 14 year extension possible, at the longest. In today's age, with the internet speed of things, I'd even have patents even shorter, say 7 years. However I'd change it to 7 years from the tyme a patented item is available and not from when it was patented. Unfortunately this causes a problem, submarine patents, where companies are issued a patent then holds onto it until another entity releases a product the patent holder can sue saying it infringes the patent. To solve this maybe the patent holder could be alotted a couple of years to bring something to market but if they don't then it enters the public domain.
If you don't mind many others making stuff with your code, avoid GPL and use Apache/Mozilla instead. If you want to only have your code used by unwashed hippies like RSS, then go GPL and don't look back.
Many corporate shops I've worked with avoid GPL'd code, because they want the option of selling the product they make. They may never exercise that option, but they want it.
The GPL license does allow you the option of selling software under the license. What it doesn't do is allow you to prevent others from taking your software and also trying to make money from it as well. I've been wondering what license I'd write programs under myself. As I'm a photographer I'd like to work on a graphics program, specifically a photo editor with similar capabiliies to Photoshop, however if I'm going to spend all the tyme developing such a program I want to make sure I can make enough money selling it so it's worth my tyme before others can also sale it without me seeing a dime. Tyme that I could of used taking photos instead.
Two of the worst countries I know of for a low birth rate are Italy and Canada.
Though I don't recall the town one town in Italy started a tax on single adults a few years ago. The idea was to pressure singles to get married. However I bet it backfired, I'd think such a tax would drive singles away from the town.
if you go to Toronto or Vancouver you might as well be in Asia, because everyone there has immigrated in the last 25 years.
With the handover of Hong Kong back to China quite a few fearing the handover moved to Vancouver. Why there I don't know but it was a popular destination for Chinese fleeing Communist China. I heard Montreal also had a number of Asians move there. I'd love to go there for the Jazz festival.
On the other hand, I'll have to manage to afford my own food, electricity, water, gas, living quarters, and vehicle repairs. This is fine; I'm still here because I can't do that yet. Besides storing up money at $35000/year
You're saving $35,000/yr and you can't make it own your own? My income is less than half that, I'm on disability and don't work. Forget if my income was $35,000, if I were able to save I'd be able to save and invest that much and still have plenty of spending money then after a few years I'd have enough saved up to buy a duplex, triplex, or quadraplex and live in one apartment while renting out the others. Actually that's the plan for me now. I have an apartment in a quadraplex my sister owns, and when she builds up enough equity in the building she plans on selling it to me. I'll assume the morgage. Then I'll basically be living free.
The planet is already overpopulated, and 2 is enough.
Actually the replacement, or fertility, rate is more like 2.6 children per couple. Some countries, like Sweden and the USA, are seeing a drop in native born citizens and the only way they can maintain the same level of population is by allowing more and more immigrants to settle in the country. Even the two most populous nations in the world, China and India, are seeing their populations leveling off. Though I don't have a link, I think some were in The Economist, I've read of studies that showed within a generation there will be fewer people in China supporting more old people there.
The best way to control the amount of people there are is to increase both education and equality. As the educational level improves the people are able to get better paying jobs and equality allows females not to only get an education but also get a ob outside the home. And as income raises people have fewer children.
Look, you're hired to do a job. If you can't or won't do it, find a different job... there are plenty of people who are willing to do the job that they're hired for.
Perhaps the one who needs to get a new job is the one who can't setup a system that does not need babysitting or doesn't need to be fixed constantly. That's a job no employer should need, do the job right the first tyme!
I prefer model #3 -- I'm freelance, work around 6 hr a day on average for small companies/startups, and bill 2-3x as much for my services as I would get if I were working as an employee.
Not having worked in more than 10 years, I'm on disability but want to start working again ASAP, and because of my disability the only way I think I'll be able to work is if I freelance or start my own business, become selfemployed. Even if I wanted to, I don't think I would be able to work fulltime at least not without a lot of assistance to start with.
If you're taking on someone into a management or competitive career track (think junior partners in big law firms), who are you going to pick: the male employee, who's going to work his ass off, and then work his ass off some more, or the female employee, who's going to work her ass off, but then quite possibly go take six or nine months off to have a kid, and then only want to come back on a reduced schedule? It's a no-brainer, and this is why there's a culture of discrimination in many of those workplaces.
Several years ago my sister started an accounting business with some friends of hers. Then three years ago she gave birth to her daughter. She worked until the day she delivered then went back to work within days. While her husband stays home taking care of their daughter she puts in 50+ hours a week in the office, works from home, and runs a talk radio show she owns.
Also, this whole topic is predicated on the belief that there are no single fathers out there trying to raise their kids. Fewer of them to be sure, but they are out there.
Actually there are more and more Stay at home dads. My brother-in-law is one. While my sister works in her office where she and some of her friends started an accounting business, she's a CPA, he stays home taking care of their 3 year old daughter. He may be working from home now, I don't know if he still does, but he used to work from home as a day trader.
Contrary to myth, Mac OS X has vulnerabilities. If you want to know why it hasn't been the target of a concerted hacker attack, you have to look elsewhere than the "Windows is insecure by design, OS X and Unix isn't" stuff that's become the prevailing consensus.
Though not many will admit it a good reason OSX and the Unices don't suffer as many exploits as Windows does is because they only have a small market share. Once their desktop market shares increase substantially, and I hope to see both Linux and Macs gain a lot on Windows this year, more people will work on exploits, viri, and other malware on them.
Look, capitalists just aren't going to ask the government to ban a cheap, useful, industrial commodity. If hemp were as useful as its proponents say, there would be an industry producing products from it. No law will get in the way of that. Look at the immigration situation in the USA - plenty of laws and even more who turn a blind eye to the law. If hemp were as useful to industry as cheap labor, you can bet your last dollar companies would be engaged in its production on an industrial scale, regardless of the law, just like they import cheap labor on an industrial scale, despite the law.
Hemp is in many products, from clothes to food. There's a hemp store about 15 minutes walk from where I live that sells clothes and other things made from hemp. In the opposite direction another 5 minutes walk takes me to a coop, The Wedge, that has hemp salad dressing as well as hemp bits that can be sprinkled on salad and other food much like bacon bits or croutons are. Even Target and Walmart sale items with or made from hemp. Just because you and others don't know these are available does not mean they aren't. And the government doesn't want people to know, because if they did then more people would become informed about the uses of hemp. This could start a mass of people to demand hemp be more widely available, even farmed, in the US. As it is now, Canada has already gotten a head start on farming hemp. More can be found in Google's Industrial Hemp directory.
Much AIDS research is publicly funded. In fact, a key AIDS drug, Norvir [wikipedia.org], was publically funded [pubpat.org]. Tell me why it is that I should pay for drug development with my taxes, then pay incredibly high prices ($8.57 per day) just because someone holds a patent?
I think you're mixing up two different things, issues, public funding of research and patents. If a business pays it's own costs for research they should be able to get a patent. If however the goverment pays for the research then it should be released to the public and whoever wanted to manufacture said drug would be able to use the research.
just look at how Mugabe destryed Zimbabwe by taking away land from one group of people to give it to another group
Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of southern Africa, allowing them to grow enough food for the country with plenty left for export, but Mugabe turned it into a basket case. By as you say taking farms away from the farmer, who knew how to grow food, and giving it to his cronies, who knew nothing about farming. If Mugabe had really wanted to help Zimbabwians economically what he could of done was to to require the farmers who wanted to sale the farm to sale them to the government, who would then give or sale the farms to those who wanted to farm, or to other Zimbabwians then hired them to teach the new owners how to farm. Perhaps pay X for the farm then pay Y to teach to farm. But only if they wanted to sale.
You're right, the purpose of patents, and copyrights, is to encourage the progress of the arts and sciences.
with the actual methods the patent uses kept secret by the patent office,
Hiding the methods can lead to a dead end. If they are hidden then someone else can't improve on them, not legally. The reason to issue patents is so others may be able to learn how to do something. If you're going to hide something then why do you need a patent?
True, so here's a solution: tie patents to individuals rather than corporations. Make them non-transferable, and make corporations ineligible for owning patents
Wrong, if I own something I should be able to sell it!!! And that includes patents. Now as to whom patent may be assigned, that should depend on a number of factors. If a person invents something on their own they shoud get to patent, however if they invent something as part of their job and they are work for hire then the employer should be the one that owns the patent. With the inventor being credited for the invention.
"and throw out the rest of the archaic, railroad-boss-purchased corporate personhood"
CORPORATIONS never innovate anything at all, they just fund the results. Individuals do the thinking and develop the ideas.
Ah but since businesses including corporations fund the research they should be able to make a profit off the research they fund. Admittedly the actual person, or people as usually it's a team effort, should get a big chunk of the money though.
With the patent system, essentially, Adam Smith's invisible hand pays for the Reaserch
Actually Adam Smith hated and didn't believe in patents. Instead he believed anyone should be able to make whatever they wanted. Then those who offered the best quality and/or lowest price could make profits. Patents are an enlargement of government and he hated government, wanting it as small as possible if not nonexistent. Patents are the one thing I disagree with him on, I believe a person should be able to try to make a profit off of what they spend their tyme and money trying to invent without someone else taking their idea, product, or whatever and making all the profits. However it should be for a limited period. Same with copyrights!!!
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How many people outside of fields like engineering and other math-specialty careers even need to be able to do much beyond the basic four functions anyway? Sure, it'd be nice to have a general populace well-versed in all subjects, but at this point in time I think that's little more than wishful thinking.
A number of fields outside of math or science need math. My sister who majored in accounting for her BA had to take calculus for business and statistics classes. Other fields in the business arena require calculus as well, even more so in finance and economics.
FalconYour earning potential in the modern world is largely dependant on your Math and Language skills
In college I tutored in math, and chemistry, and one of the first questions I asked a new student was if they were good with languages or art. I'd say math was just another language, just translate the different symbols and math should be easy. Or I'd say you had to be creative in how you analysed a problem so you can come up with a solution. This pretty much worked with most of the students I tutored. The only one it didn't work with was this girl who's parents were paying her expenses and she was frequently drunk, she kept an ice filled cooler in her car stocked with beer. After a couple of weeks I couldn't take it anymore and had to stop tutoring her.
FalconMyself, I was torn between CS and engineering entering college
Me, I was torn between taking Computer Engineering or Marine Biology as a major in college. If I knew then what I know now I would of done a double major, both CE and Marine Bio.
FalconEven worse, a surprisingly large number of elementary school teachers are these sorts of people, and they teach their hatred and ignorance of mathematics to new generations, crippling their early mathematical development, and repeating the cycle.
This reminds me what happened to me. In sixth grade towards the end of the year the students met with guidance counselors from the junior high to decide on what classes to take and the one I saw said I should take algebra but because I didn't know how to do square roots he couldn't let me take it. From then until tenth grade I took as advanced a math class as I could without taking algebra. Then about 6 weeks after my tenth grade year started because the teacher I had for math took my homework out once he collected it and ripped it up in front of the class I got pissed off. I grabbed all of my books and stuff then went to my guidance counselor and told her I had to get out of that class. She looked at my grades in math then said I should of been taking algebra. I told her what I had been told before, that I couldn't take algebra because I didn't know how to do square roots, but she said you learn to do them in algebra. Again I got so pissed off, if I had been allowed to take algebra in 7th grade I could of taken AP Calculus in high school.
FalconThe way to "fix" this is to help others to migrate to Linux systems. With the open source advocates pulling - and Microsoft pushing (with their anti-consumer acts) it's a sure win for Linux. It's going to take some time to get there, though...
It's those MS tactics that treat consumers like criminals like Activation and WGA/WPA that have finally driven me away from MS. Though I'm using Windows now my desktop replacement PC came with Linux preinstalled, I haven't compleatly switched yet due to not having the new PC ready yet, and for a laptop I plan on getting a Macbook Pro.
FalconWant to help people? Public domain: give it away.
From what I've read if you release software into the public you can be held accountable for any damages caused by the software. Public domain doesn't allow for use "as is", indemnify.
FalconIt's unfortunate, but current tort law has made it such that there is (effectively) no such thing as a Commons. It won't be until nearly 2030 until the first piece of software without this liability risk comes off Copyright; I doubt that when it does, you will be able to get useful source code for it anyway.
If the media, publishing, and some software companies get their way by 2030 copyrights will last 1000 years. The terms for copyrights and patents need to taken back to 14 years, with one 14 year extension possible, at the longest. In today's age, with the internet speed of things, I'd even have patents even shorter, say 7 years. However I'd change it to 7 years from the tyme a patented item is available and not from when it was patented. Unfortunately this causes a problem, submarine patents, where companies are issued a patent then holds onto it until another entity releases a product the patent holder can sue saying it infringes the patent. To solve this maybe the patent holder could be alotted a couple of years to bring something to market but if they don't then it enters the public domain.
FalconIf you don't mind many others making stuff with your code, avoid GPL and use Apache/Mozilla instead. If you want to only have your code used by unwashed hippies like RSS, then go GPL and don't look back.
Many corporate shops I've worked with avoid GPL'd code, because they want the option of selling the product they make. They may never exercise that option, but they want it.
The GPL license does allow you the option of selling software under the license. What it doesn't do is allow you to prevent others from taking your software and also trying to make money from it as well. I've been wondering what license I'd write programs under myself. As I'm a photographer I'd like to work on a graphics program, specifically a photo editor with similar capabiliies to Photoshop, however if I'm going to spend all the tyme developing such a program I want to make sure I can make enough money selling it so it's worth my tyme before others can also sale it without me seeing a dime. Tyme that I could of used taking photos instead.
FalconWikipedia has some useful information on the various licenses if you don't want to read through them directly.
Thanks for the link, I too was wondering what OS license to use too but didn't think of checking wiki.
FalconTwo of the worst countries I know of for a low birth rate are Italy and Canada.
Though I don't recall the town one town in Italy started a tax on single adults a few years ago. The idea was to pressure singles to get married. However I bet it backfired, I'd think such a tax would drive singles away from the town.
if you go to Toronto or Vancouver you might as well be in Asia, because everyone there has immigrated in the last 25 years.
With the handover of Hong Kong back to China quite a few fearing the handover moved to Vancouver. Why there I don't know but it was a popular destination for Chinese fleeing Communist China. I heard Montreal also had a number of Asians move there. I'd love to go there for the Jazz festival.
The best birth control is EDUCATION!
Agreed.
FalconOn the other hand, I'll have to manage to afford my own food, electricity, water, gas, living quarters, and vehicle repairs. This is fine; I'm still here because I can't do that yet. Besides storing up money at $35000/year
You're saving $35,000/yr and you can't make it own your own? My income is less than half that, I'm on disability and don't work. Forget if my income was $35,000, if I were able to save I'd be able to save and invest that much and still have plenty of spending money then after a few years I'd have enough saved up to buy a duplex, triplex, or quadraplex and live in one apartment while renting out the others. Actually that's the plan for me now. I have an apartment in a quadraplex my sister owns, and when she builds up enough equity in the building she plans on selling it to me. I'll assume the morgage. Then I'll basically be living free.
FalconThe planet is already overpopulated, and 2 is enough.
Actually the replacement, or fertility, rate is more like 2.6 children per couple. Some countries, like Sweden and the USA, are seeing a drop in native born citizens and the only way they can maintain the same level of population is by allowing more and more immigrants to settle in the country. Even the two most populous nations in the world, China and India, are seeing their populations leveling off. Though I don't have a link, I think some were in The Economist , I've read of studies that showed within a generation there will be fewer people in China supporting more old people there.
The best way to control the amount of people there are is to increase both education and equality. As the educational level improves the people are able to get better paying jobs and equality allows females not to only get an education but also get a ob outside the home. And as income raises people have fewer children.
FalconLook, you're hired to do a job. If you can't or won't do it, find a different job... there are plenty of people who are willing to do the job that they're hired for.
Perhaps the one who needs to get a new job is the one who can't setup a system that does not need babysitting or doesn't need to be fixed constantly. That's a job no employer should need, do the job right the first tyme!
FalconBut leaving because they don't want long, inflexible hours? Tough. Men have to put up with it. Why shouldn't women?
Because they are smarter and won't put up with being treated like garbage.
FalconI prefer model #3 -- I'm freelance, work around 6 hr a day on average for small companies/startups, and bill 2-3x as much for my services as I would get if I were working as an employee.
Not having worked in more than 10 years, I'm on disability but want to start working again ASAP, and because of my disability the only way I think I'll be able to work is if I freelance or start my own business, become selfemployed. Even if I wanted to, I don't think I would be able to work fulltime at least not without a lot of assistance to start with.
FalconIf you're taking on someone into a management or competitive career track (think junior partners in big law firms), who are you going to pick: the male employee, who's going to work his ass off, and then work his ass off some more, or the female employee, who's going to work her ass off, but then quite possibly go take six or nine months off to have a kid, and then only want to come back on a reduced schedule? It's a no-brainer, and this is why there's a culture of discrimination in many of those workplaces.
Several years ago my sister started an accounting business with some friends of hers. Then three years ago she gave birth to her daughter. She worked until the day she delivered then went back to work within days. While her husband stays home taking care of their daughter she puts in 50+ hours a week in the office, works from home, and runs a talk radio show she owns.
FalconAlso, this whole topic is predicated on the belief that there are no single fathers out there trying to raise their kids. Fewer of them to be sure, but they are out there.
Actually there are more and more Stay at home dads. My brother-in-law is one. While my sister works in her office where she and some of her friends started an accounting business, she's a CPA, he stays home taking care of their 3 year old daughter. He may be working from home now, I don't know if he still does, but he used to work from home as a day trader.
FalconContrary to myth, Mac OS X has vulnerabilities. If you want to know why it hasn't been the target of a concerted hacker attack, you have to look elsewhere than the "Windows is insecure by design, OS X and Unix isn't" stuff that's become the prevailing consensus.
Though not many will admit it a good reason OSX and the Unices don't suffer as many exploits as Windows does is because they only have a small market share. Once their desktop market shares increase substantially, and I hope to see both Linux and Macs gain a lot on Windows this year, more people will work on exploits, viri, and other malware on them.
FalconLook, capitalists just aren't going to ask the government to ban a cheap, useful, industrial commodity. If hemp were as useful as its proponents say, there would be an industry producing products from it. No law will get in the way of that. Look at the immigration situation in the USA - plenty of laws and even more who turn a blind eye to the law. If hemp were as useful to industry as cheap labor, you can bet your last dollar companies would be engaged in its production on an industrial scale, regardless of the law, just like they import cheap labor on an industrial scale, despite the law.
Hemp is in many products, from clothes to food. There's a hemp store about 15 minutes walk from where I live that sells clothes and other things made from hemp. In the opposite direction another 5 minutes walk takes me to a coop, The Wedge, that has hemp salad dressing as well as hemp bits that can be sprinkled on salad and other food much like bacon bits or croutons are. Even Target and Walmart sale items with or made from hemp. Just because you and others don't know these are available does not mean they aren't. And the government doesn't want people to know, because if they did then more people would become informed about the uses of hemp. This could start a mass of people to demand hemp be more widely available, even farmed, in the US. As it is now, Canada has already gotten a head start on farming hemp. More can be found in Google's Industrial Hemp directory.
FalconMuch AIDS research is publicly funded. In fact, a key AIDS drug, Norvir [wikipedia.org], was publically funded [pubpat.org]. Tell me why it is that I should pay for drug development with my taxes, then pay incredibly high prices ($8.57 per day) just because someone holds a patent?
I think you're mixing up two different things, issues, public funding of research and patents. If a business pays it's own costs for research they should be able to get a patent. If however the goverment pays for the research then it should be released to the public and whoever wanted to manufacture said drug would be able to use the research.
Falconjust look at how Mugabe destryed Zimbabwe by taking away land from one group of people to give it to another group
Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of southern Africa, allowing them to grow enough food for the country with plenty left for export, but Mugabe turned it into a basket case. By as you say taking farms away from the farmer, who knew how to grow food, and giving it to his cronies, who knew nothing about farming. If Mugabe had really wanted to help Zimbabwians economically what he could of done was to to require the farmers who wanted to sale the farm to sale them to the government, who would then give or sale the farms to those who wanted to farm, or to other Zimbabwians then hired them to teach the new owners how to farm. Perhaps pay X for the farm then pay Y to teach to farm. But only if they wanted to sale.
Falconan incentive to invent.
You're right, the purpose of patents, and copyrights, is to encourage the progress of the arts and sciences.
with the actual methods the patent uses kept secret by the patent office,
Hiding the methods can lead to a dead end. If they are hidden then someone else can't improve on them, not legally. The reason to issue patents is so others may be able to learn how to do something. If you're going to hide something then why do you need a patent?
FalconTrue, so here's a solution: tie patents to individuals rather than corporations. Make them non-transferable, and make corporations ineligible for owning patents
Wrong, if I own something I should be able to sell it!!! And that includes patents. Now as to whom patent may be assigned, that should depend on a number of factors. If a person invents something on their own they shoud get to patent, however if they invent something as part of their job and they are work for hire then the employer should be the one that owns the patent. With the inventor being credited for the invention.
"and throw out the rest of the archaic, railroad-boss-purchased corporate personhood"
AGREED!!!
FalconCORPORATIONS never innovate anything at all, they just fund the results. Individuals do the thinking and develop the ideas.
Ah but since businesses including corporations fund the research they should be able to make a profit off the research they fund. Admittedly the actual person, or people as usually it's a team effort, should get a big chunk of the money though.
FalconWith the patent system, essentially, Adam Smith's invisible hand pays for the Reaserch
Actually Adam Smith hated and didn't believe in patents. Instead he believed anyone should be able to make whatever they wanted. Then those who offered the best quality and/or lowest price could make profits. Patents are an enlargement of government and he hated government, wanting it as small as possible if not nonexistent. Patents are the one thing I disagree with him on, I believe a person should be able to try to make a profit off of what they spend their tyme and money trying to invent without someone else taking their idea, product, or whatever and making all the profits. However it should be for a limited period. Same with copyrights!!!
Falcon