Yes they do.
No they don’t, we do.
It wasn’t a compliment. I’m calling your thinking “creative” because of your propensity to see truth where none exists. That requires a creative imagination.
It’s not that my thinking is on par with Mobulis’ thinking. His thinking just happens for once to be on par with mine. And he probably got that from me because I made that point earlier in this thread though I had forgotten that when I made that remark about his reply to you.
I’m supportive of intellectual property, but I don’t actually think it is property. You probably just regard it as property because that’s probably how you’ve been raised to think about it. I don’t think you have actually reflected on the nature of intellectual property.
Someone British judge in the nineteenth century—the time when copyright really began to develop—argued against copyright on the grounds that it was, at least how he saw it, a tax on consumers. I don’t think that that is true, but people are compelled to pay copyright holders for something that could otherwise be used freely.
What a stupid response. He couldn’t like California so much that he thinks New Jersey should be like California? Honestly, this remark is the hallmark of non-thinkers.
It actually does not. It only requires a broader understanding of what it means to be enslaved.
Spoken like someone who has never invented or created anything of value.
How does that work?
Mobilus and Samson are crushing it in this thread.
Ol’ Samson’s become one of the grumpiest posters around here. Whew! 
Slavery has to do with owning another person as property. If you are not property of another, you are not a slave.
Its like arguing with creationists and flat earthers. They say they are open to challenges and they will go away as soon as someone discredits their position, outside a few, they never do. The flat earth society has been completely debunked yet they will not go away, beginning to see similarities?
It starts out “We the people … “ and goes on from there.
I love irony. 
That’s one definition. Being forever unwillingly beholden to someone who has power over you is another.
By that definition you are not a slave.
No it doesn’t, the govt owns what it buys with tax money.
John, to his credit, has actually put forth an argument (which I still eed to get to). Samm just keeps telling me that my problem is that I am not using a “broad enough” definition of “slavery”. Well, that’s the point in contention. Curiously, the problem with deniers of patriarchy is that they fail to use a broad enough definition of rape that includes all sex.
As a New Jersey Turnpike employee, will it surprise you when I get a new contract with 8 years of retro pay? Because that’s going to be on the table.
How will it be paid For?
Weed tax?
Allan
