[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.
J.A. Henshaw
jeff at jhenshaw.com
Wed Mar 27 23:54:36 UTC 2002
Wil Cooley wrote:
> Also Sprach J.A. Henshaw <jeff at jhenshaw.com> on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:16:39PM PST
>
>>"No State shall use anything but gold and silver coin as
>>payment for debts'
>>
>
> This wasn't the sentence you were making a big deal of; it
> was "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign
> Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;" in
> section 8.
>
This is part and parcel of the same argument, neither
conflicts which my assertion, and I am not sure what your
point is, particulary because I made no reference to
Article 8 in the context of this discussion on PLUG-talk;
although I of course recall our discussion in IRC - in which
you seemed to be unaware of the evils of paper money.
>
>>How do you expect them to follow this and yet use paper money?
>>
>>Do you deny that the federal reserve system is illegal and
>>unconstitutional? That it impoverishes people while it
>>enriches bankers?
>>That usury is unjust and unconstitutional?
>>
>
> I neither deny nor affirm your statements, since I am unprepared
> to argue both sides of the matter.
>
>
>>The language mutation is intentional for the exact reasons
>>you mention, you can guess how I feel about that and the
>>dumbing down by the board of education.
>>
>
> Quatsch. The mutation of language is a matter of fact. (Although I
> recognize it, I do not consider it an adequate excuse for abuse
> of the language, but that's another matter.)
What I stated does not conflict with your statements above.
They agree with your assessment I would tsay.
> I fear you live in
> a paranoid world of conspiracy.
A conspiracy is three or more people with a common goal.
I think there is more than three people who print Webster's
dictionaries.
It takes more than three to run a business that large, and
I think that I can be safe in saying that they well know
that the founders use of the word militia in the "well
regulated militia" and their use of the word "regulated" in
that sentence were a problem for those who oppose private
firearm ownership and state militias being composed of all
able-bodeied males 18 and over, rather than the corporate
US National Guard.
So if they leave out the 200 year old definition and
subsitute a NewSpeak version, I think we can safely believe
they must have had some purpose for doing so.
Who else is responsible for the perceived shift in the
meanings of words?
Mass Media?
Now, please explain the definition of the word paranoid and
how you think it applies to me.
Are you implying that everyone in the world is good and
there is no reason to suspect that there might be some very
powerful concerns that have goals in direct conflict with
the constitution?
Tisk tisk
I expect more from you Wil than to use a charged, overused
perjorative against me because I have a opinion that is not
politically correct.
If you are ready to research it as well as I have I think
you will find yourself reaching the same conclusion, there
are conspiracies in this world, Wil.
Paranoid is when you see conspiracies against yourself
personally, which do not exist.
You are using the word very loosely and inappropriately.
You are also wrong.
>
> I suspect I would agree with you about the declining standards
> of teaching.
>
>
>>Oxford was a good school.
>>
>>The constitution is a good document.
>>
>>The problems are not with people being educated and
>>literate, it is the uneducated and illiterate which needs
>>fixing.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what the second clause in the latter sentence means.
> What's the antecedant of "it"?
>
> Wil
>
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