Which far left causes has the New York Times supported? You cannot name any I bet.

You can't have a variable time limit for patents based on when it might become obsolete because you can't predict the future that accurately. That would be a silly idea.

People who hate the idea of IP are living on a different planet.

This is force-of-nature trolling. No one, and I mean no one, can compete with this. Breathtakingly good. :-)

Ah, wishing for mod points now...

Just such a shame they asked people to obey "traffic sings" at the very end. Although they may have been talking about the engine note...

That is called "subtlety".

You are the funniest troll seen today. You win the internet, albeit briefly.

Scientists have confirmed the release of the first immortal story on Slashdot. "The HeLa genome is so amazing," said one editor. "We just can't get enough of it."

Or they'll end up (eventually) with an OS like Apple's.

No bitching here. He's one of the finest actors on British television.

Congratulations on totally missing the point I made. You are arguing along totally different lines to me as a result.

The team who worked for 6 months would have been working hard.

I think you are misreading the "hard work trumps everything" to mean "hard work means not having to have skill or talent" which is of course untrue.
However people real skill and talent who make a success of themselves tend to work very hard as well.
Great examples are the famous mathematicians down the centuries. They had to work hard and without it they would not have released their talent as much as they might have.

Hard work certainly helps those with talent develop their skills in their field.

The sad thing is when a problem occurs with real life, complicated causes and it is difficult to understand, these people won't pay attention because they think all things should be simple to explain and get your head around.

The ever-increasing amount of inquality in wealth distribution is a problem. But understanding why it is a problem is difficult. Someone can say "oooh poor people get trodden on" but that is a simplistic view and is easily countered by people with a vested interest in keeing the status quo. If people realised how *little* control governments sometimes exude they would be shocked.

The USA being like Hitler's Germany is hilarious. I don't see much evidence of a planned economy, more a modern capitalist state trying to gain more control over economic affairs and gradually eroding the privacy of its citizens as technology allows.

Just because there is more than one lazy person does not make it OK to be lazy.

Not at all. These were not classified, they were in open research environments. The plans for Colossus were destroyed.

EDSAC was inspired by a trip to the US and a lot of what was developed came from the US originally.