What to do with BenTucker?

Leave him be, he represents valuable opposition

11 (28.2%)

Don't respond to his posts, because it gets us nowhere

9 (23.1%)

Put him on ignore, to reduce the signal-to-noise ratio

7 (17.9%)

Make his life miserable, God knows he's done it to us

4 (10.3%)

Petition Ian and Mark to ban him, he is basically a spammer

3 (7.7%)

Hunt him down and kill him, he's compelled us to labor for our existence for too damn long!!

5 (12.8%)

Total Members Voted: 13

[gandhi2]

Hey, Ben...you believe that keeping IP rights exclusive would create an obligation to redistribute the benefits for those individuals who have privilege, don't you?  How does this extend to privacy rights?  Should you get to keep your email private, your real name, or your home phone number?

I'm willing to bet, like everybody else...when it affects you negatively, you'd have to restructure your beliefs to prevent personal pain.

[BenTucker]

you believe that keeping IP rights exclusive would create an obligation to redistribute the benefits for those individuals who have privilege, don't you?

I believe that law-based property rights to intangibles like IP can only come at the expense of labor-based property rights to tangibles.

How does this extend to privacy rights?  Should you get to keep your email private, your real name, or your home phone number?

I believe it is a question of exclusion...if someone else had the same e-mail address or phone number as me then how will the proper communication that was intended for me be delivered?

[gandhi2]

I believe it is a question of exclusion

Not what I'm getting at.  Privacy rights are essentially IP rights...you have some information and you want to keep it a secret.  If somebody finds out this secret, and uses it to hurt you, they are held accountable by the law.

Maybe I should start a new thread with this.

I think that privacy rights are a good case study for IP rights.  If you can keep it secret, and bind others to a contract to keep it secret(Privacy Policies), then they must abide the terms of that contract.  If somebody breaks privacy policy, they are held accountable for breach of contract.  However, if you declare to the winds some information, whether it's meant to be private or not, then you can't claim any compensation if somebody capitalizes off of it by overhearing.

This can also be applied to first-use land rights.  If you can secure it, and bind others to a contract to its use, then you can keep it.  If you open your borders, and post no warnings about its private-ness, and have no sign of first-use, then other men must assume that it's available.  Therefore, any unimproved land follows the same rules that IP would.  It's a naturally occurring phenomena.

[Hittman]

So to the question of what to do with him. . .

How about creating a forum called "Under the bridge."  Anyone who consistently derails topics with the same bullshit is limited to that one forum with all the other trolls.  The ticket for admission could be, say, 300 bitchslaps.   

That way anyone who want to bother with him could, and everyone else could enjoy the party without this dipshit dipping his ass in every punchbowl. 

[aquabanianskakid]

I had thought about that bitchslap idea before... but then there are a couple people here that do actually contribute and have lots of bitchslaps from one or two people that just got pissed at them.


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Time for another "sentence".

[goten1201]

Can Ben Tucker be the first person to hit -1000?  join the movement.

[aquabanianskakid]

I think he can be... Gene is next.

[bonerjoe]

I dunno.

[goten1201]

congratz ben is now at -1000   i was the last one to do it !  here's a special pic just for it.

[ForumTroll]

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[anarchir]

wtf is this shit

[Ecolitan]

It's called a necroed thread and it's an individual equal access right.  Everyone has a right to this thread but space is limited so by posting here you've used valuable storage space and bandwidth and you are perfectly welcome to do that as it is your right but you've also deprived the next guy of that space and bandwidth so you owe Ben Tucker 25 dollars.  Have a nice day and thank you for your patronage.