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Comment on Libertarianism (2014-07-21 22:38:34)
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Comment on Know your gnosticisms (2014-07-21 22:37:04)
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Comment on Jezebel isn't very subtle (2014-07-21 19:32:10)
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Comment on Cure a Feminist (2014-07-21 19:28:01)
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Comment on 2048 and beyond (2014-07-21 18:42:25)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSxKjo_lvis
Comment on Road (2014-07-01 12:44:20)
It's only ever been one boy.
Comment on Red line (2014-05-08 15:54:37)
Pompadormous!
Comment on Horse Boobs (2014-04-24 12:22:30)
I'm loving that stamp art on the wa--WHAT I MEAN BOOBS
Comment on Star Trek nails (2014-04-24 12:15:14)
Data's the middle finger?
Comment on Freaky Cat (2014-04-24 12:13:17)
I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT
Comment on The War on Easter (2014-04-12 11:12:56)
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Comment on Piracy (2014-03-14 20:55:00)
And my point is that libraries still pay something for what they eventually get, or benefit from the largesse of of folks who also paid for the material they donate. The amounts involved are mere quibbling; a mugs game you play to keep pretending that that piracy is morally superior to theft because nobody really "loses" anything. If this issue is really that much of a moral puzzle for you that you feel the need to hide behind it, then that is more than a little disappointing, as I've enjoyed the many thoughtful points you've made throughout your time on this site. For my part, I feel it's pretty clear: whether it's tangible material that's getting taken from somebody, or something more nebulous but of equal-or-greater value, such as their intellectual property (a legal concept very much enforceable in this day & age, even with continuing improvements in copying technology,) either way that person's getting cheated out of what is rightfully theirs: something they either created themselves or paid for themselves. I appreciate your desire to keep this honest. For my part, I've been nothing but. And yet I'm having a hard time appreciating exactly what you yourself are being honest about.
Comment on Piracy (2014-03-14 18:56:52)
Only after buying copies, or having pre-owned copies given to them. Libraries don't just run to the store and take books off the shelves, twitch.
Comment on Piracy (2014-03-13 20:55:16)
Perhaps, but taking something that's GIVEN for free is not the same as taking something that isn't, and if you can't figure out the morality of this, then don't be shocked when you discover the whole free-market house of cards crashing down around you after decades of using whatever technology enables you to bloodsuck talent from those that support it.
Comment on Piracy (2014-03-13 12:12:42)
Now imagine the video game you spent hundreds of hours coding & perfecting --the one you were planning on selling for 99 cents a pop-- is still on your hard drive in the morning, only now there are several million copies of it on smartphones everywhere, and you never saw a dime.