from the libertarian newspaper

[Jared]

>> I have been a socialist. I have been a libertarian. I have
>> been an anarchist. And not just from the armchair. I have been
>> arrested as an anarchist protesting the government.
> 
> I think a funny scene in a political comedy -- sort of like the scene in
> Woody Allen's Zelig where Zelig tries to play cello in a marching band --
> would be someone bringing an armchair with them to a rally or protest
> event, getting arrested along with their armchair, seeing the character
> in a jail cell with his armchair with him.  That would be funny,
> would it not?

Yes, and a powerful parable as well. Perhaps he could receive a more
severe sentence than the flag burners.

And in other news,

> The master shook his head, and said "No shoes will let me outrun a lion.
> Fortunately, I don't need to do that.   I only have to run faster than the
> slowest of my companions."  With this, the students were enlightened.

Some teachers give the running shoes to the slowest student, and
provide a whole nuther kind of enlightenment.

And now for something completly on topic:

>> Linux *is* centralized, in a hiearchy even. Anti-"IP" is not 
>> anti-property, but rather anti-usury. Socialism is by definition 
>> statist.
> 
> I was with you on your comments (and strangely even agreed with them)
> until I got to "anti-usury." I am against "intellectual property" as
> defined by software patents, but I can't make the connection to usury.

Usury. The well-known "Microsoft Tax." Made sense to me.

-Jared