No. I believe that housing and feeding everyone is what's good for society and once a person believes in what's good for society they don't have to be forced to do the right thing. Money shouldn't be used to force anyone to do anything, but there still needs to be a form of record keeping to be assist in keeping everyone up to date with society's needs.

So all the wars they taught us about didn't happen? And that slavery thing was part of the system too. No the system did not work "just about fine" for 200 years. Sorry, but attempting to look at the patent system in isolation doesn't work. But even there, I am reminded of the situation between Elisha Grey and Alexander Graham Bell. Elisha Grey couldn't file a patent on a similar system because Bell got there a little bit earlier. Perhaps neither of them should have gotten the patent because if two people could independently come up with a similar idea, one might think it would be obvious. Someone in another thread said that the Wright brothers tied up aviation advances for years with their patent. How long did the Roman empire exist for? Do you want to go back to that, too?

What's not logical is to assume that all contributing is rewarded with money, that all people who have money came by all of it by contributing, or that the contributors will produce only as much as they are capable of using so it is not being logical to be upset at those who for whatever reason aren't meeting your standards of contribution. What do you have to say about inherited wealth and investments made from it? What about being born into a rich family?

No, I am of the opinion that participating in discussion is contributing, that being someone's friend is contributing.

What we really need to do is sit down and talk about whether we merely need to stop abuses of the patent system, or need to scrap it altogether and in the meantime do what we can to stop the most egregous abuses of the system. We also need to sit down and have the same talk about the economic system in general.

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That's even worse. The beginning of the photon's wave is observed then the end, then the operation is done again for a total of four observations.

I've yet to see described the experiment that determines velocity without observing two positions of an object and then doing calculations. That is, I haven't seen described the experiment that observes velocity directly. I only hear of the uncertainty principle with regards to knowing both at the same time and something about Heisenberg having a mathematical proof and nothing about how velocity can be observed and not merely calculated from observing two timed positions. Well of course you can't know the velocity at the same time as the position if the only means of determining the velocity is through calculation.

You want to be left mostly alone by government, but nobody wants to be left completely alone by everybody else. What is work to you? Making elevators go to the right floor used to be something that people got paid to do, but now is done without pay, so I don't accept the without pay no "work" will get done without further proof, and I think those "freeloaders" are probably doing a lot of things that people at one time or another got paid to do, so I don't accept that, either.

But why are you a libertarian and why do you loathe free rides?

But what should be done with them is the question?

By who's definition? And why do they matter?

What makes you think that simply creating money makes yours worth less? I mean, do you curse all the cryptocurrency creators for making your money worth less?

You mean get rid of banks and have only credit unions?

No, it was removed from the DSM because there was no clear dividing line between Asperger's and other Autism spectrum disorders.

Dosbox or a VM perhaps?