Shoot! I have to respond to this.
NOONE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR PERSONAL RETURN EMAIL SETTINGS WHEN YOU RESPOND TO POSTS IN VORTEX-L. EVERYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO RESPOND TO YOUR VORTEX POSTS ARE CONSTANTLY IN DANGER OF SENDING EMAIL TO YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT, NOT TO VORTEX-L. WE HAVE TO MANUALLY OVERIDE YOUR CURRENT REPLY SETTINGS. PLEASE FIX THIS! I realize we are speaking hypothetically here. I also realize I'm speaking to the equivalent of a brick wall. But alas, that is the cross I must bear. > The fact is if I was in a situation where I was an inventor > and my technology was stolen, money would be the last thing > on my mind. If I was forced to accept money, I would work > with lawyers to try and find the best way to use it against > the company that stole my technology. I would not care how > much I had to benefit, or the world had to benefit. So, what this all really boils down to is the fact that it's about your rights and your principals. This concept you've come up with concerning your rights and principals are so important to you that you really don't give a crap what happens to the world - just as long as you don't end up prostituting your rights and principles. Well, I can appreciate your principals, but only to a certain extent... The rest of it just turns into a horrible Greek tragedy. > I am in the real world. I realize I am not a law expert, but > at the same time I know what is right and what is wrong. If > I had a technology that was stolen, I would simply strive to > do anything and everything to prevent the other company from > being able to use my technology. I might fail, and they > might be allowed to sell the technology. But I would do > everything (that is peaceful and non-violent) to hinder that > company for the rest of my life. Hopefully, I would at least > slow down the proliferation of the stolen technology. In other words, your "rights' and "principals" are so important to you that you really don't give a crap what happens to the world for which you and the rest of us live in, as you go about defending your "rights" and "principals". If your "peaceful" attempts to hinder the manufacture of something that would benefit the world are realized, you don't consider how potentially violent that could turn out to be for everyone being prevented from benefiting from the invention? I wonder what Jesus would have to say about that? > Sadly, you and others seem to think the needs of the many > are more important than the rights of the individual. That > is how our sickening world works these days (for the most > part). However, I hope that will change in the future. The > rights of the individual must be protected at all cost, > because otherwise life becomes meaningless. If I do not have > my rights and freedoms protected, I might as well not be > alive. If I had an amazing invention that I knew would benefit the world, I most certainly would want to profit from it. As much as I could! However, I hope I would also weigh my own personal individual rights & principals with the rights & principals of the rest of the world. I'm not the only person on this planet who has rights and principals that need to be respected, you know. If someone stole my money making invention, I'd go to court, just as you would. However, in my case if it was becoming clear to me that it would be unlikely that I'd get my invention back I would seek to get the matter settled through some kind of a financial compensation / arrangement. Since it is likely that I would have sufficient evidence to prove that I deserve SOME kind of compensation for my contribution to society, I suspect a financial arrangement would eventually be worked out. Why would I want to, as you seem to want to do, spend the rest of my life trying to turn the life of my competitor "enemy" into what I hope will be a bloody living hell for the rest of his life...all on "principal" of protecting my personal "rights""? Quite frankly, I think you are so worried about not having any principals or rights at all in which to hang your hat on that you are willing to sacrifice the rights and principals of rest of the world, just so you can prove to yourself that you actually DO have rights and principals that you stand by. Have you so little sense of self-confidence in yourself that this is the only kind of self-destructive action you can conjure up - all in the name of proving to yourself that you do have rights and principals? Again, what would Jesus have to say about that? What would Jesus have to say about focusing all of your actions on the need to protect your own "rights" to such a maniacal degree that it ends up trashing the "rights" of your neighbor. Alas, I realize this response of mine is futile. Talking to noone noone about "rights" is like talking to a brick wall. All I can say is that I sure don't want to live by noone's principals. By my "religion" that would result in WAY TOO much bad karma that would likely take me several lifetimes to work off. But then, I would imagine that would be of little concern to noone's sense of personal principals... certainly not in this lifetime. ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
