You quote one of Ronald Reagan's most famous lines, and you're telling the reader they missed your point if they didn't take it to be about copyright? Did I miss the real "/s"?
> You quote one of Ronald Reagan's most famous lines, and
you're telling the reader they missed your point if they
didn't take it to be about copyright? Did I miss the real
"/s"?
The OP wasn't paying attention to important context.
It would be like if someone at Reagan's speech said,
"There's no substance to that line. It wouldn't have been
on TV except for the person who said it. It's hard to see
how something like this is going to generate useful
discussion. Is it the color of the wall or the dimensions of
the wall that he has a problem with?"
PG, a man with a huge reach, nothing to gain (and a lot to
lose) from taking a stand on such a controversial issue that
the public is far from knowing what the just side is, who
doesn't mince words and thinks deeply about topics until he
arrives at the truth, just came out and stated his support
for Sci-Hub. Beyond the practical matter that he is at least
an acquaintence of @jack's, perhaps even a friend (I have no
knowledge of their relationship, other than I had a YC
dinner a long time ago with them), and this might lead to
@Sci_hub's reinstatement, it is an inspirational message for
those of us who are fighting so that every child has access
to the world's best information. YMMV, but I personally would consider the abolition of copyrights and patents to be bigger than the reunification of Germany in the long run.
They sold a lot of copies of that album. Only took 10 years for it to go from talking/singing about it to actually happening, and even then it was supposed to take longer, but for once an accident of poor public planning worked out in humanity's favor.
They didn't actually mean tear it down now, they meant we should form a committee to discuss a plan to fund a study to determine how you'd go about tearing down the wall.
Then some busybodies showed up with crowbars and hammer drills and concrete saws and it was just chaos in the streets.
