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RE: Regarding Plagiarism and Intellectual Property
(only six deep... I continue here)
Like I said - to the vikings or the mongols ownership of property meant only little, at least outside their own communities, but they had what you and I don't - violent force. Jacob Appelbaum from the TOR-project had a secret government swat-team waking him up one night. Now he lives in Berlin. Philosophy is arguing about what is real and what is not. Politics is about realism.
Politics is about influence. It's a different kind of domination. Pillage 2.0
Some very smart thugs figured out that you don't have to expend so much physical energy conquering your neighbors and taking their stuff if you can conquer them intellectually instead.
Edit: That went of topic so let me bring it back around. Saying that I own that idea even though I sold it to you is sort of like how the government can say that they own my land even though I bought it. They even charge me rent for it. They call it taxes.
Sorry, I think we will have to end here, you suddenly lost height, and I am a bit to busy. But pleasant exchanging thoughts with you.
Just so long as I get the last word.