Is intellectual property a fair system?

Objection.Argumentative.

Let's carry on the discussion.

Let's be done with the argument.

Let's end this debate.

Let's not argue for the sake of arguing.

You're such a debater, M. Pierre.

And finally this is really the worst thing arguments don't seem to get us anywhere they're dead ends.

I move that we continue the discussion.

They can indict your ass. They can debate it.

He just couldn't capture the picture. And so they were talking back and forth about this question.

I had him in that discussion.

I am of course quoting from a famous essay by Leonard Read, the economist in the 1950s, called I, Pencil in which he wrote about how a pencil came to be made, and how nobody knows even how to make a pencil, because the people who assemble it don't know how to mine graphite, and they don't know how to fell trees and that kind of thing.

You can't help but think that.

Had something to discuss.

Once you go on that vacation, there's nothing left over.

There's nothing to test.

So we have these models argument as war, argument as proof and argument as performance.

There's the audience in rhetorical arguments.

Well, there are some other puzzles.

Now, can you imagine an argument in which you are the arguer, but you're also in the audience, watching yourself argue?

Because of the oil, everybody talked about the polilution.

They got along famously until the very end of the meal, and then they got into a furious argument.

It's the IMF Sovereign Bankruptcy Plan, OK?

I think you've imagined a good arguer, an arguer that's worthy of the kind of arguer you should try to be.

And let me explain what I mean.

We're here, we're part of a community, sharing out ideas and discussing them.

listen to at least three radio stations a day.

We are meeting today to discuss

Massimo Vignelli.

Which shall survive?

I'm just here for 80 years and then that's it.

Let's be done with the argument.

Let's end this debate.

We're discussing.

And back even two or three years ago, when people used to make this argument.

Discussion of licensing issues

Discussing look'n'feel issues

But with Africa, let's start being careful about this.

It is premature to discuss it now.

So what's the next step for Ethiopia?

Here, we will take a more conceptual approach to correlation and talk about how to interpret correlations?

Let's proceed with the items on the agenda.

Can you do that?

Think about that one have you ever entered an argument thinking,