Yeah, it's difficult to justify qualifying a liquor store as being "essential" while deeming any other business to be non-essential. I was a bit surprised, though, by the news of Georgia allowing restaurants to reopen. I would have figured that restaurants would have been one of the *last*...

I’m surprised that the first thing you both say about patent trolls is that they are within the law. Yes, i know what they do is legal. I thought this would fall under the status quo that you (especially NKinsella) despise. I mean, isn’t all intellectual property legal by definition? It is the abus...

I am a hardware engineer, need a lab and temperature chamber to do debug on a new product, and am terribly busy. Would be impossible to replicate at home. I've also made the choice since there are only about 8 people going in daily in a building with labs that easily sites 40+, so there is plenty o...

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:45 pm Confucius say, "Good thing come to those who master wait."

Confucius also said, "Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:09 pm The next girl is going to be the one. I've got a good feeling about it.

In that case, bet it all on black.

We were deemed essential, because we do military and networking equipment. Even so, the CEO gave people the option to work at home, which about 80% of the people have been doing. (I come in every day) But it is coming to a head. He needs/wants more people in the office, and we can certainly keep ou...

I must be a total loser for thinking that if I want to enjoy a song or a movie I should be willing to pay the creator's asking price. There's nothing "stupid" about wanting to support (whether financial or otherwise) artists whose work you appreciate. In fact, absent IP laws, a lot of peo...

Actually I disagree. Patent trolls are not really the issue. What they do is legal, and all they usually want is a little fee. In fact, based on my very limited understanding of what "patent trolls" are, I actually consider them to be a very good thing. Because they're "working the s...

Another thing you should do is to provide some examples of how creators will still be able to profit from the investment of time/money that they have put into creating a work of art or technology (assuming the work actually has sufficient value to other people) and won't lose all value to free ride...

I may have used the wrong terminology, but I was answering Scott as to why people, ordinary people, can’t protect their own names from being copied. Again, you're missing the point of my original post on this. I was listing a bunch of things that should be allowed to be protected by IP laws if all ...

As for the subject of the Star Trek "replicator." Wouldn't most agree that the world would be a better place for everyone if everyone could easily replicate things? A world where replicator technology existed, but was not allowed to be used, is a world where we're inflicting unnecessary ha...

Oh boy... Do you really, do you really, do you really have a clue as to the difference between copyright, patent, and trademarks? Do you really? If not... why not just SHUT UP until you learn something? I don't get it. why do peopel like you who obviously know nothing about IP policy, want to pontif...

I provided several dot-point examples in one of my recent posts of ideas/inventions that could be considered as IP. I'd sincerely like to see some of you quote that section and provide your opinions on each of them as to how you think they should be treated, and your justification/logic for each one.

The devil seems to be in the details, and I guess that's why a court has to decide. And that's one of the big problems with IP. Proponents of IP laws want to say that "it's just another type of property." But it's not like real/actual/physical property at all. If it was, we could define v...

Two Pet Cats Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus and We Don’t Like This One Bit https://www.themarysue.com/coronavirus-kitties-oh-no/ I was actually thinking the other day that my wife goes to extreme lengths to keep our Amazon packages "quarantined" for a couple of days, then removes th...

Because your child is not a brand and you're not prostituting him/her out for profit in any way, shape or form. I think you're getting caught up on it being my child. What if it's my name? Maybe I change my name to some new word I've invented. I should get to own all rights to that word and prevent...

...So naturally millions of people pay only the $2, and I get nothing after putting my blood, sweat, and tears into the movie. Are you saying that it is okay for the third party to do that according to natural law? I'll give you the short answer: "Yes." A longer answer, is that I feel lik...

Vinny, here's the full Dog vs Cat op-ed: EV8CHN0XQAAmZvp.jpg That is hilarious. Found the text at the WSJ. I didn't read it until after I posted it. I think the idea was clever, and it was a mostly-funny read, but I suspect the author has never been a cat owner based on this quote (written by the c...

Vinny, here's the full Dog vs Cat op-ed:

This is exactly what I pointed out. Vinny She got a forgivable loan. Her employees hate her for it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/she-got-a-forgivable-loan-her-employees-hate-her-for-it/ar-BB132POb?ocid=spartanntp Great read. Yeah, that sucks. I feel for her. She needs the loan to a...

Doing a bit more Googling on "Natural rights" I found this lengthy article written by Murray Rothbard: Introduction to Natural Law https://mises.org/library/introduction-natural-law It includes this quote from Professor James A. Sadowsky, from his book "Private Property and Collective...

In order to decide if something is moral or not, one needs a source of absolute right and wrong that almost everyone agrees upon. What is that in this case? hint: It’s not the bible O0 As I mentioned before, I like to use the term "natural rights" to avoid conflict with atheists, etc. Tak...

CT, I sincerely appreciate your considered and deliberate responses. It makes contentious debate so much nicer. How many places can you find good solid debate at this level? Well done. Mark, I'm sort of new to this forum (well, I joined about 10 years ago, I think, but then the forum software chang...

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:02 pmOther than that tiny bit of white I would have thought you'd taken a picture of my Mink!

Oh, I thought your black cat had a white bib, too?

I use "right" in the same way Harry Browne did. As in they don't exist in any form. The only "rights" you have are the ones you have power or influence to make happen. Thus, knowing that I can't prevent thieves from trying to steal, I acknowledge that this is part of the real wo...

And one more comment on my earlier rant on IP theft... I don't think it matters one way or another whether we can all come to agreement on what is right or wrong or moral or immoral. It's irrelevant. Morality and legality don't even factor in. I fully acknowledge the right of low life scum to try a...