Text 1321, 100 rader
Skriven 2004-10-29 10:57:40 av Adam Flinton (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 1307 av Gary Wiltshire (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Article on WIPO & the public good
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From: Adam Flinton <adam_NO_@_SPAM_softfab.com>

Gary Wiltshire wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:20:21 +0100, Adam Flinton
> <adam_NO_@_SPAM_softfab.com> wrote:
>
>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:24:36 +0100, Adam Flinton
>>> <adam_NO_@_SPAM_softfab.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You don't believe in a public good such as a shared language &
>>>> people   who are educated to speak & interact in that language. As
>>>> such go  speak  one of which you are the only speaker & do so
>>>> exclusively.
>>>
>>>   What I take issue with is the silly insistance that your and yours
>>> have  that nobody really creates, that all they do is take whatever
>>> is  in the  public mind around them.  Wrong.  Only a minority of
>>> people  write  symphonies or invent airplanes.  These people create.
>>> Certainly  they  don't do that in a vaccuum, but they still create
>>> what did not  exist  before.
>>
>>
>> Very very very few have come up with something completely new.
>>
>> In most cases it is a matter of incremental improvement.
>>
>> e.g. someone notices static electricity caused by friction on a pice
>> of  cloth.
>> Someone then notes this & decides to explain how & why etc.
>>
>> After a while you have electric cars.
>>
>> In terms of creating what did not exist before, that is fatuous as
>> every  time you go to the toilet you have created something which was
>> not there  before.
>
>
> I couldn't have more clearly indicated your disdain for those that produce.
>

What you have indicated is merely your propensity to wooly & vacuous thought.

>>
>>> You typify the differnence of mindset between the drone who has
>>> always  been only an employee versus those who take the risk of the
>>> entrepreneur.
>>>
>>
>> What total & complete bollox. I started & ran & owned a trading
>> company  which traded between Western Europe & the Former SU. It is
>> still running  quite happily & I am still the biggest shareholder
>> (though I do not  control the majority of the shares anymore, nor do I
>> run it as that is  left to the Moscow office).
>>
>> I started, own & run a software company which operates in part in
>> Russia  & in part in the UK.
>
>
> You sure don't sound like an entrepreneur.  You come across more like
> the  eternal drone whining that he never had a chance.
>

Maybe that's because you have very little idea about entrepeneurs. I am not
whining about the fictious legal contruct under discusion, I am pointing out
it's fictitious nature & the damage that it is causing to the corpus of
humanity.


>>>> & a million years ago homo sapiens did not exist & there is no
>>>> reason  to  think that in a millions years homo sapiens will still
>>>> exist.
>>>
>>>   There's no reason to think we won't, either.  There are many, many
>>> species  older than one million years.  I think in a million years
>>> our  descendents  will have colonized the galaxy, even absent
>>> faster-than-light travel and  will have speciated into multiple Homos.
>>>
>>
>> We might. Or we might have evolved a sub-branch which is better
>> adapted  & wipes us out.
>
>
> Not on our own planet as isolation of populations decrease.  If
> anything  the population still on Earth will be pretty homogenized by
> then and  speaking the distant descendent of American English.
>
>

You disregard current advances in genetic science. We can now force evolution
to occur in human timeframes.

If a major country decides it's time to have GM humans then it will happen.

Adam

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