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Re: News Story ...(developers of VLC) consider themselves targeted...
de "John Jay Smith" <-> 04/17/2006 10:07
I agree with him.. but I would take it a step further...
they can "get rid" of you without even have to call you a criminal! lol
> IMO, good science fiction is, like philosophy, thought-provoking (and both
> can be funny).
Yes you are right.... I do some SF myself...
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> John Jay Smith wrote:
>
>> "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government
>> has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't
>> enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
>> crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking
>> laws."
>>
>> I am trying to understand if this is a joke or a Science fiction
>> statment.....
>
> From <http://www.working-minds.com/ARquotes.htm>:
>
> "Ayn Rand was one of the most inportant philosophers of the XXth Century,
> and quotations from her work are both cogent and thought-provoking. These
> bite-size pieces of her Objectivist philosophy are taken from the
> wide-ranging elements of her career fiction & non-fiction writings,
> lectures, movie scripts, newspaper columns & articles, and television &
> radio appearances."
>
> I havn't read 'Atlas Shrugged', or a translation of it that i know of,
> just came across that qoute some time ago.
>
> IMO, good science fiction is, like philosophy, thought-provoking (and both
> can be funny).
>
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> Curiosity *may* have killed Schrodinger's cat.
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