Killer of Scribes

every time you buy a printed book / a scribe loses his job / all books are printed. you killed the scribes!

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Ye Olde Technologie

why should i go to church / i can just staye home and read my new printed bible / technology is killing culture

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Balance, again

slaves are property! slaves are people! / slaves are an economic incentive for plantation owners to produce cotton which benefits society / in that case lets just balance slaveholder's rights with human rights

Here’s that word balance again. Read more about the slavery analogy.

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Incentive to Create

no one would create without monetary incentives / nonsense people create for all kinds of reasons / who paid you to say that

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Originality

OriginalityMimi & Eunice distill an earlier article, The Cult of Originality. (Reposted because the one I posted in October has a weird URL. Also because it’s ironic.)

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Limits to Speech

there have to be limits to speech / otherwise it'd be a free-for-all / i feel much safer in a fear-for-all

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Not a Good Idea

you wouldn't know  a good idea if it hit you in the face / pow / maybe that wasn't a good idea

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Good Ideas

there aren't enough good ideas / sure there are / i don't see any! you don't have enough attention

Attention is scarce, information is not.

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Authoritarian update

Authoritarian

I’m re-posting this cartoon today because the US Department of Homeland Security seized more than 70 web sites over the weekend (while sites like arstechnica.com and techdirt were on vacation, and the mainstream media were devoted to stories about holiday shopping). Democrats: unless you stand up to stop this NOW, I am never voting for you again.

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Principles

a quarter i'm insulted / you should have to pay $15 for a cd! how much would you get / a dime but it's the principle of the thing

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