Nick Datesh’s Comments

• Apr 16th, 2010 @ 9:51am

  Twitter Forever

  on Library Of Congress To Store Your Inane Twitter Chatter For All Eternity
  When, tomorrow, you forget that remarkably foolish Tweet you just wrote... Well, the future won't.
• Apr 15th, 2010 @ 12:03pm

  devil's bargain

  on What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong?
  I think the devil's bargain in patents is the exchange of the monopoly for the disclosure of the invention.
• Apr 14th, 2010 @ 10:04am

  rights

  on Is Intellectual Property A Violation Of Real Property?
  The claim that anyone has the "right" to anything ignores that no one has the right to anything unless they have the power to exclude others.
  
  This is certainly true of real property. The property has no particular use to me if everyone can use it without limitation. Now, give me a small army of gunslingers and I can make my land worth something.
  
  Until someone comes along with a bigger army, of course.