Re: Intellectual property & copyright

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Norman,

I am not advocating charging poor people for information they need. You
are playing the old trick used by journalists when they want to address
a problem by going "up close and personal." I.e., you want a good
article on a homeless person? You don't write about that guy who squats
on a corner with his cap out, muttering obscenities under his breath,
but about the articulate single mom trying to raise two children who has
been thrown out of work and is now living in a former jail. Thus, you
are merely using one anecdotal incident that I cannot possibly refute
without looking like a skank. I am not a skank and I refuse to play your
game.

WARNING: This poster is speaking for himself and not his employer and
does not advocate housing homeless families in former jails.



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