I'm not exactly endorsing anything here, but don't all the lower grade schools (1-12) get government funded textbooks? I guess maybe it's your local school district, but that's government...
Maybe if the government paid for all college books as well, you'd get some standardization. For example, if the college kids in (name of state you hate form some irrational reason) had to study from the same books as (name of state you like for some equally irrational reason) then maybe the net effect would be positive.
Obviously the grade schools aren't a sterling example of this, because of the wide variance from state to state, but this could be a new start for them as well.
Um, no. You don't understand the context. Shakespeare uses this line as the capper to a whimsical discussion of utopia, as in "how do we start off building a utopia, i.e. the perfect place?" Is the answer free beer? No. Is the answer health care for all? No. Is the answer a beer-dispensing sexbot capable of correcting your humors and curing gout? No. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
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Goodness, are you paying attention? The point of this article is to update us on how yet another company is doing something stupid based on senseless greed and only have a chance to do so because our copyright laws are stifling real creativity in favor of the perpetuation of corporate profits. There's a chance they will actually do the smart thing, which he does report on and does not gloss over. If he was as single-minded as you make him out to be, he most assuredly wouldn't have mentioned that.
Also, if you look at the links in the item, you'll see a previous discussion about the game, it's excitement level, other versions available and a lot of other interesting stuff. Obviously he felt there wasn't a need to re-hash all of that, since regular readers, like me, remember the previous entry and wouldn't need to wade through a bunch of crap to get what is essentially an update on a continuing story. Not everything written is a term paper and needs to be cited like such.
"radio announcers shouldn't be able to read the news on the air if they found the story in a newspaper." Just like radio announcers can't play a song off a CD they brought from home without being subject to all those licensing fees.
An ignored story behind the copyright troubles is that there seems to be a double standard for the written word versus everything else. My theory is that the written word has been around long enough for people to realize what won't work. Not so with other media. Sadly no one seems inclined to learn from history.
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Maybe if the government paid for all college books as well, you'd get some standardization. For example, if the college kids in (name of state you hate form some irrational reason) had to study from the same books as (name of state you like for some equally irrational reason) then maybe the net effect would be positive.
Obviously the grade schools aren't a sterling example of this, because of the wide variance from state to state, but this could be a new start for them as well.
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Also, if you look at the links in the item, you'll see a previous discussion about the game, it's excitement level, other versions available and a lot of other interesting stuff. Obviously he felt there wasn't a need to re-hash all of that, since regular readers, like me, remember the previous entry and wouldn't need to wade through a bunch of crap to get what is essentially an update on a continuing story. Not everything written is a term paper and needs to be cited like such.
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An ignored story behind the copyright troubles is that there seems to be a double standard for the written word versus everything else. My theory is that the written word has been around long enough for people to realize what won't work. Not so with other media. Sadly no one seems inclined to learn from history.
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