<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Dunn</b> <<a href="mailto:job17and9@sbcglobal.net">job17and9@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brian Dunn wrote:<br>> this is me, trying to sound smart for my International Politics term<br>> paper.<br>> <a href="http://www.cs.okstate.edu/~dunnbp/pols_essay.pdf">http://www.cs.okstate.edu/~dunnbp/pols_essay.pdf
</a><br>> If you've nothing better to do I'd love to hear opinions.</blockquote><div><br>I liked the last bit that charles liked as well, but I did find one bit rather naive:<br><br>[if you could duplicate oil like software] "Oil would no longer have value (peace in the middle east!)".
<br><br>The peace you describe - if oil suddenly had no value - would be the final peace of the dead, after the war, violence, starvation, and a mass exodus of the survivors to countries that still had a viable product to sell.
<br></div><br>To some extent this is what the war over patents and copyright is about, except that it's only the copyright/patent owners that would starve, and the copyright creators possibly find their incomes somewhat reduced.
<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> /brian<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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