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  1. Mind if I stopped listening after a minute? I tried turning down the volume, but it didn't help against the hysteria. Anyway, ignore these sort of people, reality will deal with them.
  2. I regret to inform you that Britain is not the exception in Europe. Here in the Netherlands we had legal squatting for decades. This law was only recently repealed, but squatting continues as the law of the EU is not quite clear on the matter. Apparently squatters are considered legal residents under EU law and cannot be evicted. Unfortunately, socialism is still dominant on the European continent. Take for example the European Parliament, the biggest parties are the 'Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats' and the 'European People's Party'. (The latter are socialists in disguise.)
  3. My current contract explicitly ties IP with copyrightable material relevant to the products I work on. So the answer to your first question is simply 'I do' and the answer to the second is 'I do, unless I implement/document it'. I guess a lot depends on the exact terms of one's contract, though obviously that doesn't say anything about the nature of IP itself. To be honest, I never thoroughly thought about the concept of IP, even though I am planning on starting my own (software) business some day. So I think I'll keep this thread monitored.
  4. I am sorry for jumping the gun on the proof thing, I honestly thought it was just a trick. I did a bit more research this time, and the most intuitive strategy I could find was multiplying 0.333... = 1/3 by three. Though I must admit that 0.999... = 1 still seems a bit odd.
  5. All 'proof' that 1 equals 0.999... is based on discarding precision when switching from natural numbers to rational numbers. As such it is nothing but a mathematical illusion. Nice trick though.
  6. Being a computer programmer I did indeed sign a contract containing a clause that says my intellectual work belongs to my employer. I think it goes without saying that whatever you create during work hours belongs to your employer, it doesn't matter if it is a physical or intellectual product. The principal remains the same. I didn't read the sex dolls thread. But I have the suspicion that, in Atlas shrugged, the Twentieth Century Motor Company breached contract first, as I can't imagine Galt agreeing to such an absurd payment scheme. It's funny that you mention the problem with engineers and philosophy. I took an ethics class when I studied Computer Science. The only thing I can remember was being disgusted with utilitarianism, while my teacher thought it was a great idea.
  7. A baby is not a rational actor, and is as such incapable of deciding whether or not it want to be born. Therefore I think it is absurd to consider conception or birth an act of force.
  8. I would say that this statement is wrong: "'Bugaboos exist' is a statement about something that does not exist, namely Bugaboos." It -is- a statement about something that exists, namely existence itself. It becomes obvious when you rewrite "Bugaboos exist" as "Bugaboos are part of existence". As bugaboos are not part of existence, the statement is false.
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