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Did you come up with the idea of owning a novel? Right, so the distinction between ownable and non-ownable ideas is originality. I would not consider it a depraved act for someone to put one of my original ideas in a book, but I would consider it a questionable act if someone were to quote me word for word without attribution and then include my words
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I want to know whether IP proponents believe that any ideas or products of a persons intellect are 'ownable' or whether there is something distinguishing ownable ideas from non-ownable ideas. - allowing people to 'own ideas' is just a mechanism for creating an incentive to invent valuable ideas, just like private ownership of land creates
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@ OP, I think that argument is the basis of proposals by people like Henry George or Thomas Paine for land taxes; i.e., they're not really taxes, they're rent. people can't really 'own land,' because people can't and didn't create the land. We can own the improvements we make on the land, however, because we did make those
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I like JFK and Jefferson though. What's the problem with Jimmy Carter? Anything he did bad pales in comparison to those who came before and after him: LBJ - killed JFK, killed 3 million in Vietnam Nixon - killed 3 million in Vietnam Ford - pardoned Nixon, participated in the Warren Commission coverup Carter - peanuts Reagan - trained death squads
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How about some non-American names like Lord Salisbury? Do you mean the prime minister? - I can't find any evidence he supported this, though he certainly seems to have opposed democracy for Irish, Indians and Africans... Now name one American President of similar values! Most of them? In the early days, debtors couldn't even vote in many states
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"america has the best cancer survival rate" - I can't find that data, but here's the overall cancer mortality rate - America is middling. # 1 Netherlands : 433 deaths per 100,000 peopl # 2 Italy : 418 deaths per 100,000 peopl # 3 Hungary : 411 deaths per 100,000 peopl # 4 Luxembourg : 409.7 deaths per 100,000 peopl # 5 Slovakia : 405
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anyone who believes the infant mortality / life expectancy is a reliable statistic needs to do some research before speaking It's sure better than any evidence you have. Welcome to the social sciences.
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I dunno, I don't think it's too hard to find objective measures for how healthy we are. Take infant mortality - U.S is behind 44 other countries according to the CIA . For life expectancy we're #47. Both of those things are easy to measure objectively and have a lot to do with how good a nations health care provision is. And the U.S. objectively
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also, university libraries will sometimes let non-students buy a library card... whether that's a good deal would depend on whether you'd use the libraries other services and how much they'd charge
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any articles in particular you want?