You're preaching to the choir. It wasn't a dig at science, it was a dig at people who take everything a scientist says as absolute, unquestionable truth.
If you wish to quote Robert A. Heinlein, maybe you should consider attributing the quote?
I generally like to put what character said it in what book and such, but I was too lazy to track it down, so I just threw it in quotes so people didn't think it was me. Easy enough to Google if someone really cared.
And yeah, so that makes ... say Charles Manson a 'free man'in your view?
Was Rosa Parks a "free woman" while she was in jail for not sitting at the back of the bus? As long as she acted in a manner consistent with her beliefs, I would say she was.
Like most idealistic views (communism, capitalism, christianity, buddhism), it tends to have the drawback that people *can* be egotistic bastards who kill, maim, (mass-)murder, rape, pillage and ... well, generally do despicable as well as wonderful things.
Note that I never said that I expect society to refrain from punishing me because I broke the law. I only meant that I, personally, am morally responsible for deciding which laws to follow and which to ignore. I ignore so-called "intellectual property" laws because I find them to be a morally repugnant concept. Telling me that I have to follow morally repugnant laws because otherwise there would be "anarchy" assumes that everyone doesn't already ignore laws they find obnoxious or wrong.
If the SS showed up at your house and told you that the law required you to point out all the Jews living nearby, would you follow the law, or follow your own sense of morality and justice? I hope that's a rhetorical question.
So if we can assume that everyone already follows laws they agree with, breaks the ones they vehemently don't, and tolerates the existence of some where the two categories overlap, do we already live in "anarchy", or do we just live in a society where everyone agrees more often than not?
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
As always, if someone has something they don't have the rights to, they obtained it illegally. You beat around the bush and play games with it, but the underlying act is there.
Move goalposts much?
Copyright infringement is illegal.
Stealing is illegal.
That doesn't mean that copyright infringement = stealing.
This is basic stuff, and not at all hard to understand.
It scared me. I don't know who this guy is! I went out to my car until he left.
What you don't see is all the people you're around everyday that carry concealed, like me. :) In fact, more people carry concealed than openly, so if you haven't been in the middle of a shootout yet, I think it's safe to say your fear of guns is rather unfounded.
Do you run to your car and wait whenever you see a police officer with a gun on his hip? Do you personally know every police officer on the force where you live? Why do you assume that your average police officer is any more upstanding than your average citizen?
Who will block you, and how? There are multiple methods to buy and sell bitcoins for USD, and it's quite easy to launder coins through alternate addresses before you do. PayPal, Mastercard, et. al can't stop you.
He's not only admitting that most patents are obvious, he's admitting that most ideas are independently invented.
If he's worried about big companies "stealing" the ideas of inventors, he just lost his own argument because he subsequently claims they haven't even seen the ideas they are supposed to have stolen.
Number of Actual Hackers Caught: 0
Number of 13 Year-Olds Running LOIC Caught: 16
Good job, FBI. Keep spending millions of taxpayer's money to catch the low-hanging fruit because you can't do anything else. I'm sure the 984 other LOIC script-kiddies are shaking in their boots right now.
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I generally like to put what character said it in what book and such, but I was too lazy to track it down, so I just threw it in quotes so people didn't think it was me. Easy enough to Google if someone really cared.
And yeah, so that makes ... say Charles Manson a 'free man'in your view?
Was Rosa Parks a "free woman" while she was in jail for not sitting at the back of the bus? As long as she acted in a manner consistent with her beliefs, I would say she was.
Like most idealistic views (communism, capitalism, christianity, buddhism), it tends to have the drawback that people *can* be egotistic bastards who kill, maim, (mass-)murder, rape, pillage and ... well, generally do despicable as well as wonderful things.
Note that I never said that I expect society to refrain from punishing me because I broke the law. I only meant that I, personally, am morally responsible for deciding which laws to follow and which to ignore. I ignore so-called "intellectual property" laws because I find them to be a morally repugnant concept. Telling me that I have to follow morally repugnant laws because otherwise there would be "anarchy" assumes that everyone doesn't already ignore laws they find obnoxious or wrong.
If the SS showed up at your house and told you that the law required you to point out all the Jews living nearby, would you follow the law, or follow your own sense of morality and justice? I hope that's a rhetorical question.
So if we can assume that everyone already follows laws they agree with, breaks the ones they vehemently don't, and tolerates the existence of some where the two categories overlap, do we already live in "anarchy", or do we just live in a society where everyone agrees more often than not?
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Seems To Me
"A scientist said it, so it must be absolute truth."
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living in a democracy and a rule of law also means you have to obey even the laws that you do not agree with
Not true. Everyone chooses for themselves what laws they will and won't follow. You can't do otherwise.
copyright is not in contradiction to human rights
I disagree. Copyright is a violation of property rights, which is at the very heart of all human rights.
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You're not fooling anyone.
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Yikes. I think pretty much everyone in the world is a thief, then.
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Move goalposts much?
Copyright infringement is illegal.
Stealing is illegal.
That doesn't mean that copyright infringement = stealing.
This is basic stuff, and not at all hard to understand.
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What you don't see is all the people you're around everyday that carry concealed, like me. :) In fact, more people carry concealed than openly, so if you haven't been in the middle of a shootout yet, I think it's safe to say your fear of guns is rather unfounded.
Do you run to your car and wait whenever you see a police officer with a gun on his hip? Do you personally know every police officer on the force where you live? Why do you assume that your average police officer is any more upstanding than your average citizen?
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Dwolla
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Who will block you, and how? There are multiple methods to buy and sell bitcoins for USD, and it's quite easy to launder coins through alternate addresses before you do. PayPal, Mastercard, et. al can't stop you.
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My Wish
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If he's worried about big companies "stealing" the ideas of inventors, he just lost his own argument because he subsequently claims they haven't even seen the ideas they are supposed to have stolen.
Poor showing on his part.
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Wow
Instead, I'll just help seed his torrent and send some bitcoins his way.
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I'm Certain This Will Be Effective
Number of 13 Year-Olds Running LOIC Caught: 16
Good job, FBI. Keep spending millions of taxpayer's money to catch the low-hanging fruit because you can't do anything else. I'm sure the 984 other LOIC script-kiddies are shaking in their boots right now.
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