i work for the tri-state area's largest beer distributor. it aint glamorous, but it pays the bills.
good work buttercup
this is a failure of political scientists and we are outgrowing this way of looking at things. fascism and communism are two sides of the same...
because i am a wonderful patient person, i will keep trying. ok. stop being red for a second and listen. imagine a world in which traditional...
current tv is the al gore channel
you are apparently incapable of understanding my points.
a professional hopscotcher doesnt exist. there is no market for it. so he cant live off his talents. we dont say "aww booo hoo a man should be...
or i can borrow it at the library, where me and lots of other folks get to read it virtuall;y for free while only purchasing one copy. sucks for...
and yet he still wrote it. if you are good enough write you can always get a job teaching. i didnt steal it. unfortunately back then i had to...
sure, if you say so. the reason communism doesnt work is that you need to profit motive to make people dig ditches. not true about creativity....
how much was john kennedy toole paid for "a confederacy of dunces"? (every english professor has an unpublished novel they havent been paid for)
i know it is isnt what you said. it is what i said. the world is permanently different. we dont mail letters anymore. the model is dead.
alexander solzhenitsyn called. he wanted me to tell you that he wrote a day in the life of ivan denisovitch hoping he would get rich. he said...
clearly not true. you can be really good at tons of creative things and not make a living doing them. the market only supports certain things....
incorrect. there are some arbitrary talents that creative people can ake a profit off. a writer may make money. a ballerina probably wont, because...
i am always borrowing books from my local library, i reserve them online and they have them reserved on a shelf there and i go pick them up. i...
right. they dont make money off mail anymore because the worls is permanently different. we are not gonna suddenly go back to mailing checks to...
my question is why the government should be in the business of protecting dying revenue models, rendered obsolete by technological advancement...
self-contradiction. why should they be limited at all? isnt their goal to spread info. serious question: why do you think libraries exist? (hint:...
i am not discussing what is legal i am discussing what is best for society. ask yourself why the library even bothers to exist. why is it good to...
