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Our pervasive permission culture.

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Without copyright law, art would not exist! Without patent law, inventions would not exist! Without real estate law, land would not exist. Without marriage law, love would not exist.

Stupid, right? But I hear this argument for copyright law all the time.

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From PokerNewsDaily.com I learn that the terrorists hate us so much for our freedoms, they are now preventing us from using their online poker rooms.

SwitchPoker.com, a small independent online poker room, became a trailblazer this week, becoming the first internet poker room to accept Bitcoin as a valid currency for both deposits and withdrawals.  Bitcoin is a unique currency, as it is purely virtual and does not require financial institutions to process transactions… It does not accept players from the United States.

What will the terrorists think of next?

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“Is” “water” “healthy”?

by Daniel Coleman November 19, 2011

Some more classificationism run amok in the UK: The EU was ridiculed last night after it took three years to issue a new rule that water cannot be sold as healthy. In a scarcely believable ­ruling, a panel of experts threw out a claim that regular water consumption is the best way to rehydrate the [...]

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Mimi & Eunice: Commerce is Bad

by Nina Paley November 15, 2011

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Mimi & Eunice: Copy Animals

by Nina Paley November 13, 2011

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Mimi & Eunice: Patented Emotions

by Nina Paley October 22, 2011

Update: Meir alerts us it’s been translated into Hebrew:

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