Knives are bad weapons but good tools. A knife is an “all in weapon”, unless you are trying to kill someone it’s not very useful - a small knife wound, even to a vulnerable spot/painful spot like the gut, to someone up on adrenaline isn’t going to do a whole lot to stop them. I used to be a locksmith in Detroit,…

Actually, I’m pretty sure I’m part of SFAUFS. Sadly, those of us stateside are pretty much just arguing over whether or not voting for Bernie Sanders is legitimizing the system or low standard pragmatism at this point.

Some of us are actually fighting ISIS with the PKK though! That’s something I guess.

that’s why im here too.

What we need. Xcom: The Stargate Program.

Sure, but look at the history of change in this country (or any really). Even when things are obviously recognized as immoral, the system still fights to preserve order and resists change with all the entrenched power it can muster. The current wave of marijuana legalization is a good example. Tobacco/Beer lobbyists…

Law is really just about order, not morality. Just look throughout history, for the most part, law has been on the opposite side of modern morals, even after the deomcratic revolution. Either morals are inherently subjective, centered on preservation of order, or law isn’t a very good gauge of morality. Most of the…

Legality is not a good argument for whether something is right or wrong. The point is, if I copy your car, you incur not loss, therefor no harm. Something can not be “wrong” if it causes no harm.

There are solutions other than IP, just not a lot of very good market ones. There are some market ones: but none good, but…

I think you’re willfully missing the point.

How hard is it to emigrate from the US? 36 years old, Masters degree in Economics?

More like America is still “not America” and I need the fuck out of here to somewhere at least half sane (ie, Northern Europe). I’m all about using my degree to help get away from horrible American Neoliberal policies.

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It’s not a weird ideology, it’s a beneficial economic strategy.

No, you’re absolutely right. It would be some degree less efficient (ie more expensive), and you wouldn’t have oranges in Maine very often - but we’d adjust to a greater variety quickly. Just look look at small, local oriented urban farms- they’re not growing monoculture corn. There are also a huge number of benefits…

You check out a book read it to completion, and return it (full utility of consumption). That’s almost no different than playing a game to completion (full utility of consumption), and then not playing it anymore. I can long on and download a temporary ebook to my kindle from my local library, right now - which is…

If you copied my car, and produced your own copy from it - it wouldn’t be stealing my car. It’s all about an incentive to produce a good, creating a market, when physically none should exist.

It’s a flaw of a market sized all fits approach to economic systems that’s going to persist until our economic system catches…

So libraries are dens of thievery?

This. Every time I hear people cry about the moral degeneracy of “Piracy”, I imagine librarians sitting around like mafia kingpins.

If denying revenue is stealing, it is only stealing if you would have otherwise paid for it.

No, because copying games is not piracy. Hijacking goods by force during transport is. It’s a lame, bombastic comparison.

I download games I have not yet paid for all the time, and if they are good, I go buy a copy. If not, I don’t. A good example is Civ 5, when it first came out, it was shit. I downloaded it after…

Oh, nope, my bad. I replied to the wrong person. I meant fuck you to the person telling us to paint our buildings and plant some trees.

Mostly because I’m sick of having to make giant posts full of images whenever there’s an article about Detroit and hordes of people saying shit like that, who obviously have no idea…

Fuck you.

Best pair of comments. Ever.