In order to properly balance a thing against another that clearly outweighs it, one need only move the lesser thing out to a greater extreme.

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Those who are not a socialist in their twenties have no heart.

Those who are not a conservative in their forties have no money.

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An nice addition to DRM in a Nutshell:

Thieves may always want to steal things intended for customers,
But customers will never want to buy things intended for thieves.

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There's only so much you can do to change the human condition before you have to change the human.

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Assholes(R) versus Pussies(D)

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Is it more dangerous to give common people control of powerful technologies - or to keep it from them?

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An encryption system is a way to deliver information securely, even through the hands of thieves.

A DRM system, however, is a way for us to cut out the middleman, and deliver information securely into the hands of thieves directly!

Confusing the thief for the customer is why DRM will never work.

Confusing the customer for the thief is why DRM will never sell.

Thieves may always want to steal things intended for customers,
But customers will never want to buy things intended for thieves.

An encryption system is a way to deliver information while keeping it secret from eavesdroppers.
A DRM system is a way to deliver information while keeping it secret from the recipient.

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The reason that Encyclopedia Britannica is better than Wikipedia is that, when Britannica makes a mistake, almost no one finds out.

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Harold meyerson in the Washington Post

In 1913, Henry Ford resolved to pay his workers more so that they could afford to buy the things they sold.

Today, Walmart resolves to pay its workers less, so that they have no choice but to buy the things they sell.

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Tell you what, I'll make you a deal: You let me have a copy of your CD, and I'll let you have a copy of my twenty bucks.

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Cocaine versus Code:

With atoms, the first one is always free.

With bits, the first one is the only one that really costs anything.

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Taxes are theft. But that's not all; Freeways are theft, too.

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Time is not something you have; it's something you make.

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I've got some idle hands. Got any devil's work?

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Libertarians just want to be left alone;
Progressives just want to be left together.

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The word "corporation" derives from the Latin "corpus", meaning "body". All they're really missing is a head.

That's what Artificial Intelligence is for.

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You can't really "get ahead" in business. You can only hope to survive persistent failure for long enough to witness a miracle in your favor.

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comments — Nato Welch 2006/01/07 21:38

Enforceable laws deter crime;

Unenforceable ones deter only obedience.

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Comments — Nato Welch 2006/10/22 15:28

For the first six years of this new century, we had been governed by a party that often professes that when they govern least, they govern best. And in 2006, they finally succeeded in persuading the American people of the truth of that claim. As a result, the electorate concurred, and set forth to ensure that Republicans did indeed govern as little as possible.

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What a matter means depends on why a meaning matters.

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mindovermeaning — Nato Welch 2006/09/12 09:58

There is no such thing as mob rule; only mob rulers.

These would be those who would cynically attempt to manipulate otherwise rational and peaceful people into committing atrocities through the expedient of inciting them to fear.

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Capitalism is the rising tide that raises all boats yachts.

You do have a boat yacht... right?

From Amor Mundi

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To hear Hollywood explain it, imitation is the sincerest form of burglary.

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There are two ways to become a leader:

The first is to persuade others to follow your example,

And the second is to slow down in a no-passing zone.

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Questions of technical feasibility are always for believers to resolve; never for skeptics.

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Trying to fix bad government by eliminating it is like trying to fix a flat tire without a spare.

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The Market tells us all that whenever we are poor, it is often because we deserve poverty.
But whenever I see the rich, it is seldom because they somehow deserve their wealth.

Zingers — Nato Welch 2006/02/28 20:34