"Fictim" - I'll accept that coinage! Well done.

Just a few more spices to add to the crockpot:

Educating regular on Copyright is an uphill battle, at best.

Few folk now grok the idea that Science and Expression belong to all, and that Copyright is the granting of a LIMITED monopoly in order to encourage development without emaciating the public weal.

At least in the US, as originally envisioned by the Framers.

This very idea has become lost in the obfuscating thickets of the Valenti glamour known as "Intellectual Property."

Now that folk have been conditioned by repeated incantations of the "Intellectual Property" enchantment over the past two generations, they tend to accept the formulation that Ideas are Things,and Things are meant to be owned, not shared in consumer/capital society.

The public weal is all ready an undernourished, behavioral disordered halfwit, and so appeals to the public for the need to keep it fed only bring blank stares.

Now try getting a politician, who chiefly shares his discourse only with other politicians and lobbyists, to understand this.

All they see is that, since Ideas are Things, folks that use them without permission are thieves.

And so bills like this pass 410-11.

Despite (and this is my other point,if you can call these crude meanders 'points') the rather active and vocal opposition of Law Enforcement. Who correctly see the fiscal, bureaucratic and working nightmare that adding a CopyCzar to the rolls of Federal Government will create.

Business and labor are behind this bill, not law enforcement.

The DoJ has objected to the bill many times. But the politikis will hide behind the badge as they "fight crime" and "international piracy" with this "new, tough bill."

This bill, and its many many cousins and siblings in the US and abroad, are about one thing, and one thing only:

In the 21st Century, governments exists to protect the interests of the Factory and not the People.

"This is the guy who literally put the same chapter—word for word—in four different books."

To be fair, it was a crossover.

You know, that whole multiverse thing.

I'm with Neil.

It's like Kirby or Lee, the influence is a given.

You know - aside from the first time I saw it at the age of 3 in 1968 (hey! it was rated G! what were parents to think?) which resulted in my being carried out the theater screaming as all my 3 year old neurons went into overload - i never had any plot/narrative problems with 2001.

It's about evolution. Of species. Of tech. Of consciousness.

In short, it's a birthday movie.

And the slabs appear to shepherd us along.

"Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" Shonen Knife -
Great, now I've got a song created in Cory's imagination stuck in my head.

At lease the Waits cover is real.

Send me you want list - I'll see what I can do...

I am aware that Master Mystery predates Rossum's Universal Robots.

"They" didn't call it a robot. I did. Because we do.

And "first ever automaton" hardly conveys teh awesome that is "Q."

Sometimes an error ain't nuthin' more than sidewalk hucksterism.

"Paris Hilton's terrible genitals" - dang, Cory went and named yet another alt/quirk rock band.

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