> -----Original Message----- > From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On > Behalf Of John Williams > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:32 PM > To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion > Subject: Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, > dsummersmi...@comcast.net<dsummersmi...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > No, it's the courts that decided, not the patent system itself. > Enforcement > > of patents and other IP are in the courts, not through patent clerks. > > So, if some politicians decided to make a law that all Texans must > have a job and they cannot be paid more than the minimum wage, and the > courts enforced it, then it is the courts fault?
No, that is the fault of the laws as written. The problem with the court system is that they do not understand enough to enforce the laws as written. > > No matter how the laws are written, those with the most money tend to > win. > > Laws are typically analyzied right left and upside down. They are > > typically gamed by lawyers, and the ones who can afford to spend the > most > > on gaiming them almost always wins. > > That sounds like a good argument for severely limiting the number and > complexity of the laws, so that anyone can be familiar with most or > all of them, and easily understand them. So, then, we need to have no field of engineering so complex that a layman cannot understand it? Simple laws can be gamed and have long been gamed. Let me give you an example from my field. The laws of classical electrodynamics are so simple they can fit on a tee shirt. Yet, people who have studied them and worked with them for years can still be surprised by their application. Such it is with the law, and its application. Or, if you just want to consider the law, think about the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is a _very_ simple document. Its interpretation has been varied, subtle and complex. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
