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To: A. Pole
You can't design things if you don't know how to make them.

If we design it, we still know how to make it.

The bottom line is who makes the lion share of the profit, the owners of the ideas or the manufactures of other peoples ideas. I think there is strong evidence of the former.
4 posted on 12/31/2006 6:30:17 AM PST by DB
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To: DB
If we design it, we still know how to make it.

"Still" is the key word.

8 posted on 12/31/2006 6:32:41 AM PST by A. Pole (M. Boskin: "It doesn't make any difference whether a country makes potato chips or computer chips!")
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To: DB

"If we design it, we still know how to make it."

My years of experience, trying to turn blueprints and specifications into reality, argue against your thesis.


65 posted on 12/31/2006 7:31:26 AM PST by gas0linealley
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To: DB
The bottom line is who makes the lion share of the profit, the owners of the ideas or the manufactures of other peoples ideas. I think there is strong evidence of the former.

I think there is strong evidence that unions will suck the last dollar of profit out of any enterprise. They will also lobby Washington for anti-business laws and regulations. They will then strike and call your home at all hours of the night, threatening you and your family...and badmouth your product to the public.

Who doesn't want part of that?

123 posted on 12/31/2006 8:30:43 AM PST by gogeo (Irony is not one of Islam's core competencies (thx Pharmboy))
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To: DB
The bottom line is who makes the lion share of the profit, the owners of the ideas or the manufactures of other peoples ideas. I think there is strong evidence of the former.

When other people make your ideas, soon they won't be your ideas. Good luck retaining control of your intellectual property

143 posted on 12/31/2006 9:16:04 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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