Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas
This is pretty good, arguing torrenting versus the ethicality of libraries:
The Piratebay is the worlds most efficient public library
The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This supposedly deprives the author or artist of those millions of people’s money. One group has acquired over 50 million media items, and makes each of them available to approximately 20 million people — which must be a tremendous hit to creative professionals’ wallets. This notorious institution is called the New York Public Library.
It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency…
If free and open access to all of human knowledge at the push of a button truly prevents our society’s beloved artists, authors, thinkers, and other creative people from putting food on their tables, then maybe it’s time to rethink how to put food on their tables.
Awesome
Peter Schiff: Majority Doesn’t “Have A Right To Steal My Money Just Because They Voted For It”
I never get how lowering taxes has somehow failed. Intelligent people usually don’t balance their checkbooks by working harder…They just spend less.
On the other hand, clearly printing money has definitely failed (QE Infinity) but they continue to call for more of that. There is no hope with people who don’t reason.
On the other hand, clearly printing money has definitely failed (QE Infinity) but they continue to call for more of that. There is no hope with people who don’t reason.
Arguably it prevented the situation from becoming worse.
Then again, I am not in the heads of the beneficent overlords that rule over us. They might have something in mind. I wonder why they’re keeping so many excess reserves without letting the money out.
LMAO as soon as the pent up reserves in the banks really hit the loan market shits gonna go down.
Neodoxy, do you think they are that stupid? 'nanke’s up to something.
Anyone here ever read “Brave New World?” Tell me how it was.
I enjoyed it. Definitely worth reading. One of the biggies along with 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
Thanks. I honestly didn’t care for Fahrenheit 451 though, as I found the writing style to be overly-flamboyant and unduly descriptive.
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Office Space and Government
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Anarchy
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Game of Drones
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Imagine
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Statism
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Terrorists
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Public Service Announcement
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Negotiating With Terrorists
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The Constitution
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Mises Speaks
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The Election
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Violent Street Gangs
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Threat to Freedom
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H. L. Mencken
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Government
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Mind Control
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Disintermediation
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Standing Alone
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Anti-Violence
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Journalism
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Withdraw Your Consent
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Don’t Hit or Steal
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Vote for the Greater Evil
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Wouldn’t You Kill To . . .
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Unemployment
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Truth: Not Wanted
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The Many Lies
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Taxation
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Spot the Difference
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Brains
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Stockholm Syndrome
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Political Gangsters
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The Presidential Debate
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Debating Big Bird
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I Am . . .
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Being Stationary
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Message from the Bastiate Institute
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Defending What?
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Goldman Sachs-Bernie Madoff Comparison
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Mugger
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Music Piracy
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Austrian View of Keynes
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Morality v. Obedience
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Government and Terrorism
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The Pledge of Allegiance
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Representation Question
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Democratic Platform Comparison
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RIP
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Rothbard in Trouble
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Nothing to Hide
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Warning Label
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Romney’s Geographical Knowledge
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Statist or Anarchist
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Childrearing
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George Carlin on Your Rights
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Experimenting with Science
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Time Out
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Sexual Double Standard
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How Do You Like It?
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Obama on the Mandate
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Anarchical Peace
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Eye See Anarchy
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Gay Marriage
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Cat Anarchist
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If I had $100 . . .
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Snoopy
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Fall in . . .
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Legal and Illegal
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Ambiguity
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Irony
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Minorities
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Troop Supporter
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In terms of sheer writing style, 1984 takes the gold medal. Orwell could write.
Clayton -
Yes. Orwell the man wasn’t exactly on our side of libertarianism. He was one of the traditional anarchists, and he claimed that he was, by writing the novel, attacking the “bourgeoisie,” and not the governmental side of things.
Clayton -
1984 failed to meet my expectations. I felt the main character was too selfish in the beginning.
No joke. They didn’t want a revolution - they just wanted to carve out a tiny place for themsleves and otherwise carry on with their lives (iirc).
Gotta love this. China’s governemnt spends billions to build up industrial production, attracting business all over the world, but these industries turn out not to be self-sustaining.
It was good for the world, China basically subsidized our goods. Terrible return on investment for China. But governments never learn.
Move Over, Michigan, China Is The World’s Next Rust Belt
Six cities in Liaoning province, including Shenyang and Anshan, recently announced they are converting abandoned industrial sites to farmland. Dongguan, once a booming factory center, is on the verge of bankruptcy as companies close, leaving the local government severely cash-strapped.
“Don’t listen to economists. They just make theories all day.” - Robert Laughlin
http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/12/pennsylvania-court-strikes-blow-against
Court Judge Dan Pellegrini called the state’s civil asset forfeiture law “state-sanctioned theft”.