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05-16-2021, 10:45 PM
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So if Antifa comes and blows up your home ...
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Antifa is more likely to blow up your home. They are anti-right are they not? You are a rightist are you not?
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05-17-2021, 04:53 AM
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Let's try this again.
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Why can't someone steal the guy's program?
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How is someone going to do that?
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05-17-2021, 12:16 PM
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Antifa is more likely to blow up your home. They are anti-right are they not? You are a rightist are you not?
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Oh...so Antifa does all their homework before deciding who they're going to kill? 
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05-17-2021, 12:17 PM
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Let's try this again.
How is someone going to do that?
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Take it off the person's computer, how else? Or by hacking.
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05-17-2021, 12:21 PM
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Ad hominem!
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No, it's not. People who enjoy pain, suffering, misery or anxiety are psychologically maladjusted and in need of some professional help.
I mean...if you came to me and said, "Boxcar, I need my fix of pain today, so please take your pencil and stick it in my eye", I'm supposed to think that is a normal, natural, ordinary, rational request? 
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05-17-2021, 02:01 PM
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Take it off the person's computer, how else? Or by hacking.
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One down. Next item.
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Or why can't someone steal the guy's system ...
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By "system" do you mean a computer algorithm?
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05-17-2021, 02:13 PM
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No, it's not. People who enjoy pain, suffering, misery or anxiety are psychologically maladjusted and in need of some professional help.
I mean...if you came to me and said, "Boxcar, I need my fix of pain today, so please take your pencil and stick it in my eye", I'm supposed to think that is a normal, natural, ordinary, rational request?
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He said nothing about getting a pencil stuck in his eye. He specified coming here to exchange jibes with you.
Do you know what a flagellant is?
Have you ever heard the phrase "learn to love the rope?"
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05-17-2021, 02:54 PM
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He said nothing about getting a pencil stuck in his eye. He specified coming here to exchange jibes with you.
Do you know what a flagellant is?
Have you ever heard the phrase "learn to love the rope?"
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Learn to read. In my last post, I said nothing about Thask. I used YOU as the example of a masochist.
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05-17-2021, 02:55 PM
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One down. Next item.
By "system" do you mean a computer algorithm?
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Why can't his system be on paper? Or kept in a .doc or .txt file on a computer?
It's still intellectual property.
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05-17-2021, 04:01 PM
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Learn to read. In my last post, I said nothing about Thask. I used YOU as the example of a masochist.
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Moving the goal posts! You clearly were responding to Thask's post.
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05-17-2021, 04:11 PM
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Why can't his system be on paper? Or kept in a .doc or .txt file on a computer?
It's still intellectual property.
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I'm just asking questions. However, FYI from M-W.
Definition of algorithm
: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation
: a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end
Algorithms can be on paper. For example the method of successive approximations for finding the square root of a number that you were taught in high school mathematics (at least I was). Whether on paper, or in a computer, algorithms are public domain and cannot be copyrighted. Ergo, for practical reasons, algorithms are not property.
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05-17-2021, 05:24 PM
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Moving the goal posts! You clearly were responding to Thask's post.
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Go back and read my post. What part of "you", don't you get?
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05-17-2021, 05:28 PM
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[b]I'm just asking questions. However, FYI from M-W.
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Dumb ones to boot. Theft is theft, whether the stolen item is tangible or intangible. Algorithms are products of someone's mind.
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05-17-2021, 10:06 PM
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Go back and read my post. What part of "you", don't you get?
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This part.
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I can't speak for the rest of the world...but it's obvious to me that I welcome some "distress" in my life. Why else would I come here and willfully engage you in conversation?
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How can the pronoun "you" refer to me when you (i.e., boxcar) quote a post from Thask in its entirety.
You had best be careful. One of the commandments which you claim to believe says "Thou shalt not bear false witness."
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05-17-2021, 10:12 PM
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Dumb ones to boot.
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Given your record of equivocation any request for a clarification is far from dumb. Only a moron or a slave would consider such a request dumb.
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