Ok, give me your definition of what a market is. Please.

No, dude, I want you to substantiate your claim that markets are natural and predate “government.” The fact that you drew up a strawman to knock down demonstrates that you really don’t have the ability to do that. You’re operating on some theory that says a market exists any time someone sells something to someone…

Nope. There may be people selling stuff inside a prison, but there isn’t a market. You’re falling for a fallacy of nature. This one says that markets are a natural phenomenon that predate human society in some way. That simply doesn’t make sense at a base level. In order to exist, a market has to have certain rules or…

Government and markets aren’t separable. Markets only exist because institutions create them.

That’s a kind of a dumb position though, because it essentially demands that the majority live at the will of the minority. That is, if you dislike the tyranny of the majority, you are simply saying that you think no one can be compelled according to any principle. It’s a recipe for atomization and cannot be the basis…

What’s your beef with government? It’s just people. That’s the way democracies work.

Thanks, that’s a really interesting point. I haven’t read the CJR article, but I will look at it later. I listen to a few podcasts, though not with much regularity. However, I was listening to Ezra Klein’s podcast recently and he has had a few different people on to talk about internet problems in general. He had…

Yeah, I guess what I meant was that part of the reason this was doomed to fail was that it’s still advertising supported, right, and there is a limited amount of advertising revenue to go around. Again, I’m not in this industry and I don’t know what I’m talking about really. Let me step back. You said it was a bad…

That would be rad. Turning in place. But I have a thing for tanks. Anyway.

They ever do a little bit of his work, you think? Maybe he mentors them a bit in return?

Eh, it’s just business. Not everything is a good idea, not everything works, but might as well try, right?

Judge has a clerk or two, right?

Vox Media, not vox.com, fired a bunch of people last week. Those people were supposed to be making videos for the internet, but the company found that, in fact, video content does not give you higher ad revenues. That comment is a whole lot of inside baseball about digital media in general.

No, it’s not. Taking a photo of an unreleased car design is not depriving the owner of that design of possession of the design. You are making an argument about the misappropriation of trade secrets, not theft in general. In order for there to be a crime here, the person who took the photo would have to use that…

That’s not the definition of theft. If that were the definition of theft, no one pick up change on the floor or move a sandwich in the refrigerator at work. In the moment you moved the sandwich, you would a) have something you should not have, and b) have acquired it by your deliberate actions.

No, dude, I get that you’re not a lawyer. IP theft isn’t taking pictures of a car design. It’s using someone else’s IP to your own benefit in a commercial manner, i.e., monetizing someone else’s IP by copying it. This doesn’t fit the definition.

Did you read the link? It kind of explains why you’re wrong about this. In order to be liable for this sort of theft, you have to knowingly steal intellectual property and use it for your own gain.

I kind of hate it? The current gen has a really nice design that just flows. I don’t get the giant black slats here, and it seems like the ridge below the lights, where the car is the longest, is too high up. You kind of want that lower down so that it looks like the car is hugging the ground. This is just weird.

Probably. Ford was offering factory approved flashes for its ST cars for a while. You could order them from Ford’s website and have the dealer install them. I don’t think anyone else does that. Third party add-ons typically void the warranty.

Jack Daniels calls itself Tennessee Whiskey, but it would technically meet the requirements for bourbon. They just choose to not call it bourbon because they think it makes them distinct. The Tennessee legislature, I believe, passed a law a few years ago to codify the meaning of Tennessee Whiskey. It has to be made in…