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Comment Re:a few hundred years earlier than that (Score 4, Insightful) 1330

Exactly. It is a good idea going completely out of control. I am for corporations having legal rights, but it was intended to be limited.

When you say corporations have the same legal rights as people, you're giving them the cake and letting them eat it, too. Saying they ARE people is a power grab, and all of a sudden there is no trade off for the idea of limited liability.

Again... the idea that corporations can have religion is absurd. The limited liability company makes profit their religion. The door is wide open for all types of abuse. The right wing anti-gay zealots are already lining up to use this decision to try to roll back civil rights gains.

Comment Re:And so Putin approves $50 billion for Sochi (Score 1) 40

Yes, Government DOES get in the way of things, but whether or not government is working might be able to be gauged by WHOSE BEHALF it is getting in the way.

Humans formed governments for a good reason, and that's because that it was too easy for the stronger guy to take food from the smaller guy, and as a group we thought that probably wasn't always a good thing.

If the government doesn't protect the weaker person then maybe it's more destructive than good, which is where U.S. society seems to be right now.

Comment Re:Disbelief in evolution=proof of science illiter (Score 3, Interesting) 772

Literally or figuratively. The only way they can't work together is if you believe the Bible is a literal document. If you have any basic ability to read literature as symbolism you can easily see the creationist story as a story of evolution. If you believe everything happened in six literal 24 hour days not so much so.

Again society is pitted against literalists with no imagination and those that can think beyond the rigid parallel lines. It's always the same thing.

Comment Re:Torrents to the rescue (Score 1) 329

copyright is still pretty much tied to physical copies. It is, of course, another example of law not keeping up with the technical reality. I've even heard it surmised (possibly here) that putting a computer program in memory for execution is technically a copyright violation. It will never be tried in court as it goes way beyond the idea of common sense (even in today's corporate controlled courts), but it could be true.

It's going to take a long time before we have copyright reform that makes sense when we have a system of law that is dedicated to keeping the corporate status quo.

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