Because the sentence is for your entire life. Being on parole is essentially early release. You are a prisoner serving your sentence in the community.

Being on parole is not the same thing as being free. And you aren't automatically granted parole. you need to convince a parole board that you have been rehabilitated and pose no threat to the community. And even then usually restrictions are put on you, and your sentence is not commuted so you can end up back in prison for life for any small transgression.

You've also done better than most people with an IQ of 80.

I should correct that ---- This is the punishment for adults. So if you want to include children who are convicted of murder, then your information might be correct.

In Canada first degree murder carries an AUTOMATIC life sentence with NO POSSIBILITY of parole for 25 years and there is absolutely ZERO discretion in sentencing.

or they can just download any of the thousands of free classic ebooks that are in the public domain and even available on the amazon store?

Calling a corporation unethical makes as much sense as deliberately injecting ebola virus, and then calling the virus unethical. It is the entire corporatist system which is unethical. every legal market niche where there is money to be made will be occupied by some corporation. The patent system is simply being used for exactly what it was set up to do - enrich patent owners.

It supports hyperlinked end-notes and has a back-button, so unlike a real book its convenient to read the end-note and then return to your original position.

Foot notes dont make much sense when a page is dynamically formatted to the size of the screen - if you had a foot note marker at the bottom of the screen then there would be no room on the screen for the actual foot note, which means the foot note would need to appear at the bottom of the following page, which is confusing at best.

It's different because you can't install a million covert cameras without breaking into a million homes, and owning a million cameras. and then having enough personal to actually look at all the footage.
installing spyware on a million computers/phones on the other hand is ACTUALLY DOABLE.

So this is basically a make work project for already wealthy lawyers and bankers. Fascism at its best.

actually no. If jews went on a rampage and killed random people because of an anti-semitic video, I would be just as pissed off at the riots and still not really care about the video. If a video went and more or less accurately depicted Moses as the genocidal psycho that he was, I would probably applaud it.

oops I just called Moses a genocidal psycho. perhaps all the christians, jews and muslims on the earth should riot now.

Beyond a mere declaration of a function header nothing else in code that dynamically links to another object is derived from that object. And since that small snippet is an API it is not copyright protected by law. So you don't need the GPL to derive from it.

As far as any data being passed back and forth at run time - you are not the one who is copying that data, (it happens at runtime in response to actions of another human being who has dynamically linked the other object) so you are not the one who is deriving anything from the software.

If I'm wrong I'd love to know about the court case that contradicted me.

I made a claim about the definition of Libertarianism. How you get from that to all these other things is a special form of logic that eludes me.

I never claimed that either.

we are not talking about fairness. And we are not talking about advantages people are born with. We are talking about advantages that society GIVES THEM.

Property is a RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLE. It is ARTIFICIAL. You only inherit because everybody concedes that you inherit. If everybody claims that the state inherits, then the state inherits. If everyone claims that the king inherits, then that is what happens. It has to do with social relationships.

Abolishing private inheritence may do little to equal the playing field in terms of innate advantages but that is still more equal than allowing it.

It's not, but I don't care about Hollywood. We are talking Libertarian core values.

yeah because if there is a black president it means that black people are running the country.

myth. libertarians believe in the inheritance of wealth which utterly blows any possibility of equal opportunity out of the water.

Copyright revokes the normal rights other owners have over their own property. The US is the most copyright crazy country the world has ever known by the way. Beyond even the Soviet Union.