Comment: Re:There is a way they could escape the harassment (Score 1) 429
Comment: There is a way they could escape the harassment. (Score 5, Informative) 429
Comment: Biological Computer? (Score 5, Funny) 89
Comment: $10,000 is pretty cheap for a marketing budget. (Score 0) 1121
Comment: You're doing it wrong. (Score 5, Insightful) 312
Comment: Re:quit whining over loss of free services (Score 1) 383
Seriously, only "geeks" read blogs.
smh
Comment: In other news... (Score 4, Funny) 397
Comment: But who would build the desks? (Score 0) 522
Comment: Re:And the Steamroller begins (Score 1) 175
Comment: I don't always make predictions... (Score 1) 421
Stay sub-atomically stable, my friends.
Comment: Background audio (Score 1) 266
Comment: Re:Patents are by definition not the free market (Score 1) 240
I can easily lock my car to keep valuables inside it safe without the government's involvement. And the government is completely powerless to stop someone from smashing the window to get in and take my valuables.
For the record, I'm not speaking strictly of capitalism, but rather free markets. There is a difference. Adam Smith didn't write "The Wealth of Individuals." So if he is the basis of your capitalism then, yeah, there is a governmental role and it is not, strictly speaking, a basis for a free market.
Comment: Patents are by definition not the free market (Score 5, Insightful) 240
Many patents are filed defensively since someone else could use the force of government to prevent Amazon from conducting free market business in the future by getting this patent.
The patent, copyright and entire IP systems is not a construct of the free market and we could be so much further advanced without these government interventions.