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TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’ve already said as much and in much fewer words.

How are you this fucking stupid? Like, do you work at it? The point is that you’re making a straw man argument. You attribute a credible position to yourself and an absurd position to those your don’t agree with. It’s garbage. It’s a joke.

While there are many ways a p…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Autumn,

Except you aren’t. You’re just building a field of gun-control scarecrows then going hog wild on a crusade against your own creations. Meanwhile, gun control advocates are standing off to the side scratching their heads asking ‘Are those scarecrows supposed to be us?’

Assertion not found in evidence. Join your fe…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Davis, I never thought I would change any minds on this subject. I’m just pointing out how fallacious and ridiculous the arguments are for gun control.

Except you aren’t. You’re just building a field of gun-control scarecrows then going hog wild on a crusade against your own creations. Meanwhile, gun control advocates a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Autumn wrote:
It was created to regulate the right to create reproductions/ prints of written works. Protecting the intellectual property of authors came after (though instituted long before any of us were born). But ultimately, even in that regard, copyright protects the owner of the IP.

We do not pass laws to protect works of art…

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Unseen wrote:
@autumn Sometimes people just don’t speak the same language. It’s often framed as being designed to protect works of art, but works of art by themselves are inanimate, lifeless things.

It was created to regulate the right to create reproductions/ prints of written works. Protecting the intellectual property of authors came after (th…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Other gun control freaks also bring up suicide often because they too think that other people’s lives are “resources” that belong to “society” and that suicide is depriving “society” of it’s fodder.

Viewpoints on suicide are bound to vary considerably on either side of the gun control debate. Many, if not most people are…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I said, copyright, right to control and sell copies or sell the original, belongs either to the creator or whom they work for. Where do we disagree?

Unseen wrote:
We’re talking about two different things. I’m defining copyright in terms of its purpose of protecting creators from infringement. You’re talking about ownership.

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Unseen wrote:

Autumn wrote:
There are many cases where copyright defaults to the creator of the work in question, but it’s not ubiquitous.

As I wrote.

It’s not as you wrote for the reasons already outlined up above. If you are talking about copyright in its contemporary meaning, you are, indirectly, talking about the ownership of IP because t…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
We’re talking about two different things. I’m defining copyright in terms of its purpose of protecting creators from infringement. You’re talking about ownership.

That isn’t its purpose though. It’s one of the major applications and benefits of copyright law, but copyright didn’t originate for that reason and copyright law in vario…[Read more]

Intellectual property requires the ability to own property. In the case where AI has some measure of personhood, it’s not going to be entitled to property rights. In the case where a corporation of entity that has corporate personhood is the owner of the AI, then perhaps that entity could claim copy right.

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Which is the source of much of my apathy regarding political and economic affairs these days. We’re going to keep propping up a broken system pretending like it adds up when it doesn’t. Working within it is like deciding if you want death by hanging or death by guillotine. It seems collectively humans would rather embrace a familiar agony than…[Read more]

Declining population is, to some extent, an imaginary issue. Even if we look at Japan, halving or even quartering the population would still leave the Japanese people far from endangered in terms of numbers. The problem is that our economies don’t work when they become too top heavy with regard to age.

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RichRaelian wrote:
Hi! I won’t pay attention to you if you swear every other word that comes out of your mouth.

It was actually four consecutive swears rather than every other word, if that helps. Anyway, there’s nothing fucking wrong with swearing. In the case of the thread title, it was appropriately emphatic. I remember the rhetoric that f…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Autumn wrote:
Some might consider it odd that if someone doesn’t like the rain that they’d vote for the hurricane to get out of it. I can understand why many are apathetic, disenchanted with, or disapproving of Biden and the contemporary Democratic party,

I think a big part of it is tribalism, one group versus another. It…

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Unseen wrote:
@ Autumn Trump is a master of looking like a populist and plugging into that anger and alienation you referred to.

He certainly gives people license to feel it.

Trump also has read the pulse of the public when it comes to immigration. The outrage over immigration has many facets.

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Fellow Unbelievers, What else can anyone expect when our so-called “betters” in Congress can’t be expected to dress in greater dignity than a bunch of tweakers in a convenience store….

It depends on one’s view of humanity. Some might consider it odd that if someone doesn’t like the rain that they’d vote for the hurri…[Read more]

The thing is, Trump isn’t just doing well against Biden; he’s dominating DeSantis and every other Republican candidate. Even just a year ago, the gap wasn’t as wide as it is now with Trump having a more than 40 point lead.

Not that it’s entirely this simple, but if I had to guess, Trump does a better job than any other politician on the market of…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I will concede something: Yes, an armed citizenry would pose a danger to a specific sector of “society,” namely, criminals such as Belle Rose’s former partner, who live by preying on the Life, Liberty, and Property of others.

Seriously, what the fuck are you doing?

Belle Rose wrote:

Does your work at least offer benefits so you can get support to help manage the stress and navigate the whole situation?

Thankfully yes….hoping they don’t give up on me. My attendance lately has been less than stellar

What you’ve gone through typically results in psychological trauma. Psychological trauma typically needs car…[Read more]