A failure of our intellectuals.

http://mises.org/daily/3864

What do you think that Plato or Socrates would have though of this? I would never attend a class conducted by someone who had decided that ideas were his, and his alone.

Do I think that it's right to be able to copyright a plan, or an object? Absolutely. But an idea? An undefinable, ethereal image of a dream! How can one learn and grow if all ideas are owned?

Just another step in the ever-advancing corporatism of the modern world.

Links

Time to pass on a few important bits:

• http://cryptome.org/info/g8-police/g8-police.htm Pictures from the G20/G8 protests. 
• http://www.zcommunications.org/political-myths-we-live-by-by-peter-lach-newinsky A list of some of the fallacies that we have about politics. Some, in my opinion, are slightly exaggerated (I think that there is a difference between the Right & Left, although not a huge one at that.)
• http://www.30daydefox.com/ Time to give FOX what they deserve. 
• http://www.wspa.org.uk/helping/action/pigsofgod.aspx Seems pretty disgusting (and unecessary) to me. 
• http://transformingpower.ca/en/blog/toronto-burning-or-it
• http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/projects/halfprice/index.html Clever. 
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