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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >   
   > Frank Frank sent the following on 10/28/2009 3:28 AM:   
   >> Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >>> SFTV_troy sent the following on 10/26/2009 8:24 PM:   
   >>>> On Oct 26, 3:05 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>>>> [Rest of lame justification for theft snipped.]   
   >>   
   >> Who said anything about theft? Copying something is not theft.   
   >   
   > If you don't have the legal right to copy it, it's theft.   
      
   Bullshit. It may be copyright infringement but it is emphatically NOT theft.   
      
   > It's obviously an inconvenient reality for freeloaders like yourself,   
   > but denial doesn't change reality.   
      
   Freeloaders? I'm not the one who produces a single hit work and then   
   sits back and lives large on government largesse. Meanwhile, I've paid   
   at least marginal cost for all of my things, except if they were being   
   sold below cost as part of a deal or given freely as gifts.   
      
   >>> Besides which, even the smartest people can screw up, as did Albert   
   >>> with his "cosmological constant."   
   >>   
   >> Did he?   
   >>   
   >> He called it his greatest blunder, but then in the 1990s some   
   >> astronomers discovered evidence that there is a nonzero cosmological   
   >> constant.   
      
   There were some ad homs in here but I deleted them as they were not   
   worthy of a specific response.   
      
   Get back to me when you have a *real* argument.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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