On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:44:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > We may be facing a future where evidence of thinking thoughts that > > have been patented by others will be a crime. Can you imaging what the > > world would be if Pythagoras (or some group) had patented his theorem? > > If these forces that want to convert the thought world into a bazaar > > succeed, we may be facing a world darker than the worst nightmare. > > I highly recommend reading "Melancholy Elephants": > > http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you Collin. Beautiful reading. Scary. To think that so many of the statements made in science fiction have come through, to know how dark life can be made to be on the surface of this ball, or on the surface of the other near hovering balls. Already some are talking about colonizing Mars. The resources to be spent in making a basically dead ball habitable are much larger than the resources needed to fix the problems of this already habitable ball. They know it. They know how to weigh their purses. Thus, they are not interested in doing it for the good of humanity, but for the purpose of acquiring another post to control. Buzzards well know that from the heights is easier to attack and capture. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
