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Let us know when this gets reported where you live: http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

Of course not -- haven't you been watching television?

I sincerely hope you aren't expecting any sort of change in this kind of sentiment once The One takes power and doesn't immediately lead us to the promised land. Any impediment he faces in bringing about utopia will be the fault of Bush. Bush will continue to be available as the cause of all...

No. but of course, I'm not trying to make a living doing it, either -- and that actually raises a good point. I'd love to make 3d modeling and the kind of thing I do in Orbiter part of a "retirement career" -- but I can't conceive of how I'd make a living at it unless I had some kind of...

I just skimmed through that site and found this link: http://www.fsf.org/resources/ which seemed like the closest to a library of explanatory/theoretical material I could find. But it basically seemed to me to be all polemical material, i.e. propaganda (not a bad thing in itself, but...

OK, well, yes, I see how the analogy to hardware breaks down (but it only begs the question of having IP in the design of hardware -- so we're back to where we started). I fear I may be too stupid to understand this. Maybe I can try another analogy: I'm a film director. I want to make the...

What if the utility of the software is such that it isn't worth the cost of developing it to a single person, but it would be worth it to aggregate the demand from lots of potential users? In other words, it will cost millions of dollars to develop a piece of software that is worth only a few...

For all practical purposes, I don't know anything about intellectual property law. I thought about it a little ten years ago or so, but other things became greater priorities for me. So I'm wide open to be educated. A question for those who think that the very notion of intellectual property...

This is correct, and I shouldn't have made this mistake, having read a number of biographies of both men -- it's hard to confuse the two of them, other than that they were both Virginians. BTW, it's not a theory about Jefferson's sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings. It's...

Whatever you do, please don't reply to the substance of what I post, OK?

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/17/guess-who-else-has-tax-liens/ Please ignore this item, as it comes from one of those horrible right-wing blogs. (Like mine.)

It's pretty clear that you're not reading what I'm writing very closely. I'm VERY well aware of the history of religious zealotry in the US. The current religious political movement in the US is something different than those that went before, but does share some things in common with them and...

My, my. I thought it might have been clear that I'm talking about the current phenomenon of religiously-charged politics in the U.S. You can either read about it or you can take my word for it from living memory -- for many decades before 1980, U.S. politics absolutely did not have the...

I am an atheist down to the subatomic level of my being, living in one of the most religious cities in the one of the most religious countries in the world. As must be painfully obvious by now, I’m also someone who spends a lot of time thinking about history, political philosophy and practical...

That kind of thinking is just as scary to me as it is to you. On the other hand, I'm also disgusted by the kind of thinking that is premised on the notion that if you just have good intentions, everything will work out OK, that somehow you can make things in the world OK if you just give enough...

Excellent regurgitation of Obama's talking points. I'm sure some Republicans have given into the temptation to pander to ACORN. But to an old-time political junkie like me, it doesn't hold up. I've been following ACORN for a LOOONG time. They are a solidly far-left organization whose...

No. But we old dinosaurs ask how one values a worker as a worker. We see the "social justice" point of view valuing workers as "whole human beings" when they say that it is "unfair" that workers don't earn more. It seems so kind and reasonable to say such a thing, that to disagree marks one...

This is one of those things I've heard all my life, but I don't know what it could refer to. The term I use for "problem" most often is this: 問題 问题 wèn tí And the one for "opportunity" is this: 機會 机会 jī huì It may be that there is some term in classical Chinese that has an overlapping...

Yes, I know what a fool I am for holding on to reason with my feeble, aging fingers. As you so kindly pointed out recently, there is nothing so terrible as an old fool. But just to try to be clear here, I am not by any means saying that something hasn't been "wrong." Something -- in fact...

Well then, herein we reach the core of our disagreement, as has been obvious all along, I suppose. I just wanted to get to the heart of it in as systematic a way as possible. I conclude that notions of "justice" do not apply to every inequity in life, and every outcome for which our hearts have...