[QUOTE=chalsall;394354]I'm not sure if we should thank you, or not.
The term "unarmed combatants" comes to mind....[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure how to respond.
I try to err on the side of cordiality.

[QUOTE=davar55;394357]I'm not sure how to respond.
I try to err on the side of cordiality.[/QUOTE]

If nothing else, you do encourage discussion.

[QUOTE=chalsall;394359]If nothing else, you do encourage discussion.[/QUOTE]

Discussion can only lead to corrections and correctness.

[QUOTE=davar55;394468]Discussion can only lead to corrections and correctness.[/QUOTE]You haven't met my family then.

[QUOTE=only_human;394471]You haven't met my family then.[/QUOTE]

I did mean here...

[QUOTE=chalsall;394359]If nothing else, you do encourage discussion.[/QUOTE]

"Let's talk amongst ourselves" kind of thing?

I won't comment on the "nothing else" part...

[QUOTE]I won't comment on the "nothing else" part...[/QUOTE]

[I]Saying[/I] that one won't comment, [I]is[/I] a comment. I suppose outright silence might also be considered an implied comment, but it is less overt.

[QUOTE=kladner;394914][I]Saying[/I] that one won't comment, [I]is[/I] a comment. I suppose outright silence might also be considered an implied comment, but it is less overt.[/QUOTE]
Noted.

[QUOTE=kladner;394914][I]Saying[/I] that one won't comment, [I]is[/I] a comment. I suppose outright silence might also be considered an implied comment, but it is less overt.[/QUOTE]
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In regards to intellectual property, one must be able to copyright one's
story or poem or book or article or movie or play or song.
One may debate this, but it is necessary, as an adjunct to
ordinary property rights. It's the fundament of publishing,
i.e. to press for profit, the main incentive of many people for
starting or staying in their creative field.

But not a word or number (I've heard of someone trying to copyright
a number), and perhaps not a single line or phrase or title. That issue
is not resolved AFAIK. Attribution may be legally sufficient.
And there are legal and social preventions and punishments
for plagiarism.

Again, I have no problem with the adjective in the phrase "intellectual property".
In fact, it is only the thinking / creative process that gives rise to the concept
of property itself.

[QUOTE=davar55;395162]In regards to intellectual property, one must be able to copyright one's
story or poem or book or article or movie or play or song.
One may debate this, but it is necessary, as an adjunct to
ordinary property rights. It's the fundament of publishing,
i.e. to press for profit, the main incentive of many people for
starting or staying in their creative field.[/QUOTE]You keep asserting necessity despite my quoting a number of creative works produced before the introduction of copyright, trademarks, patents and so forth.

Please be honest with us and yourself. Protection is clearly not necessary. It may be desirable, but that's another matter.