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[Anton Markov]

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Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote:
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| I will disagree with this point for a single reason: people should not
| have the right to sign away their rights.  Many laws support this notion,
| primarily because one party can exploit the needs and desires of another
| (eg. the Tenant Protection Act).
"He who can destroy a thing has ultimate control over it." ~ From "Dune"
We are only in control of our own rights if we can give them up.
Forcing rights onto someone is no better than taking rights away.

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| It may not be able to guarantee that the choice exists, but it should
| guarantee that somebody can present those choices -- without facing undue
| discrimination.
I agree.

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| Some people have a hard time seeing Microsoft as a charitable company.
| IIRC, it didn't make a major charitable contribution until the mid-90's,
| Some dontations were parts of settlements, and the value of certain
| contributions (eg. software) don't reflect the cost to Microsoft.
It's the value the donation provides to the recipient that matters, not
the cost to the entity making the donation.  If I repair computers, and
I provide a free computer repair service for a local non-profit
organization, does it not count as a donation?  It doesn't cost me money
to fix the computers.

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| Byron.
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