On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 13:23, Tom wrote: > The CIA definitely has more experience training and supporting > terrorists or conduction operations themselves than they do with > writing poems or songs, so - uh, or did you mean what is more important > to _prevent_ ? > > > > On a more serious note: Doing away with the idiotic concept of > "intellectual property" is almost certainly more important. Terrorism > kills a few thousand people in a good year, the patents on HIV drugs > alone kill several times that. > Sorry, but not treating someone is not the same as killing someone. Just as me keeping a secret from you is not the same as lying to you. I don't think the concept of intellectual property is "idiotic", just the current laws in place that deal with it. -- noah silva
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