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Old 03-20-2012, 12:17 PM   #362
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow View Post
But only because you asked about knowledge and meant entertainment. Misleading would be an epic understatement.
No, I asked the question because some people do need access to the digital library, and they cannot afford the price of books. A thousand page treatise on the genetics of Triticum is usually pretty pricey.

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And how do you figure that? Quite a few systems work reasonably well, only systems that depend on people being nice to each other are doomed. This truth has been understood for a long time, and we have managed to develop systems that work reasonably well. Democracy for example.

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It is my belief that any system that is built around guarding against those who would take advantage of the system, rather than those who would not is doomed to eventual failure. Simply because of its inefficiency.
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