The United States of America ...

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.
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 Cory Doctorow

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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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 Cory Doctorow
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
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It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
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