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Promenade / Re: intellectual property

« on: November 07, 2017, 08:54:14 AM »

Seems to be intellectual property is theft. If you want exclusive ownership of your ideas, don't put them in public. Otherwise you're colonizing my mind and telling me I can't use the parts that store my memory of your ideas.

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Promenade / Re: The Pirate Code

« on: November 07, 2017, 08:49:00 AM »

It seems to me everyone has the right to expel someone from their own property. A homeowner may expel you from their home, even though you may not expel them, but this doesn't constitute a disparity of rights. It's about context. It's certainly a higher risk scenario where expulsion means floating in the ocean, or worse in space. I stand by the code as written. The best answer I can give is that in the scenario where the captain is the sole owner of the ship, and is employing crew, there is an employment agreement which could easily describe the terms of termination. If you are the captain you are free to write your own code, and if you're the employed crew you're free to raise this concern before setting sail. Perhaps even amending the employment agreement, or the code, aboard that ship. The Pirate Code is not intended as the code of all pirate ships. It's the code of Captain Marque's ship. Historically crews were more likely to maroon someone, or throw them out at the next port, than throw them to the sharks. Hollywood tells a different story for dramatic effect.



Personally, were I captain, I would be extremely careful expelling crew by any means, because I understand that mutiny is always a possibility, regardless of what is written. My reputation as a captain plays a part in keeping conduct on board civilized, and if I push the crew too far they may very well turn on me.

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Promenade / Re: Every kid knows...

« on: November 07, 2017, 08:08:05 AM »

I certainly thought about money when I was a kid. I had the advantage of living in a variety of foreign countries as a child, and watching my parents trying to spend all their paper on something that would still be valuable in the next country. That was a eye opening observation. Paper is apparently so valuable that everyone in a country was working for it, and we were traveling to other countries to acquire it, but it was worthless in the next country. But a comic book, or a candy bar was still valuable when you crossed borders.