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GeneralRe: Remember Einsteins Riddle? Pin
V.19-Sep-21 21:02
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GeneralAhoy, me hearties! How do pirates know that they be pirates? Pin
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Daniel Pfeffer18-Sep-21 21:15
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peterkmx19-Sep-21 3:55
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Daniel Pfeffer19-Sep-21 4:15
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It's actually from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

He's a sort of Robin Hood - he steals from corrupt governments (which in the book is all of them) and what we would call today "crony capitalists", uses some of his gains to pay his expenses, and keeps the rest in escrow until the Producers of the world finally throw off the moochers and other parasites. These Producers will then be reimbursed each according to what corruption, mooochers, and parasites cost them.

A rather idealistic view of piracy, but then the whole book is a polemic.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

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Gary R. Wheeler20-Sep-21 11:51
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DRHuff19-Sep-21 15:42
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GeneralI wonder... PinPopular
DRHuff18-Sep-21 18:33
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David O'Neil18-Sep-21 19:47
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Generalgot the book "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual " yesterday Pin
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