On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 13:00:13 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am 24.01.2012, 13:26 Uhr, schrieb foobar <f...@bar.com>:
On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 07:09:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
"foobar" <f...@bar.com> wrote in message
news:gaeafbliswzwkmitp...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
IP can't be evil, it's the basic protocol of the internet ;)
seriously though, the term IP is highly misleading and
doesn't have a hold in (legal) reality. It's a collection of
unrelated laws with separate agendas and purposes:
copyright, patent, trademarks. Each individual law *supposed
to* make sense, but at a whole they really don't. Yes, it is
perfectly legitimate for an author/artist/musician/font
creator/etc to want to be paid and they really should be. it
is not hover at all legitimate that a book publisher/record
company/etc be paid if that business model isn't justified
anymore in the market place. Forcing those on the market
when they aren't necessary is the true meaning of evil. I
also disagree that it's the companies' fault. They simply
want to make money. That their purpose. The government is
the responsible party to set the rules for corporations and
not vice versa and the US government is completely at fault
for this huge mess. It's like children setting the rule for
their parents.
I'm not entirely convinced that the US gov isn't effectively
a corporate puppet.
If it is it just proves my point and stuff needs to be done to
change the current circumstances. AFAIK the current situation
is against the spirit if not the letter of the US constitution
which forbids any group from oppressing another (in this case
Corporate America vs. the little guy).
There is this phenomena in the US where some people feel that
they have the right to be ignorant but they ought to realize
that this isn't a core human right and it slowly degrades
society in such a way that they lose all other rights and
freedoms. People should educate themselves and be responsible
for their votes and actually do vote. In my country (Israel)
an elections with ~67% of people voting was the lowest
percentage ever and usually it's closer to 80%. in the USA
it's closer to 50%. That isn't even a majority of the
population!
The current situation is directly connected to the ignorance
and lack of caring by the people. After all, a democratic
government comes from the people and represents the people.
Clearly, the citizens of the USA didn't care enough.
You compare a country with two parties with a country with over
one hundred parties, this can become a long philosophical
debate. :D
I'm voting for Moria. It reminds me of Lord of the Rings.
I never claimed our system is perfect and for sure we have too
many parties. OTOH it does show we take active role and we do
care! :)
Another example would be the social protests that happened this
summer where 300,000 people physically came to demonstrate in
Tel-Aviv. No small fit for a country of 7 million.
