Python obfuscation

[Ben Finney]

The Eternal Squire <eternalsquire at comcast.net> wrote:
> The greatest theft of sales opportunities

Utter poppycock. Who is to say that a particular entity holds an
exclusive "sales opportunity" to a particular individual? Are we to
protect the expectations of profit for some, at the expense of sharing
things with each other?

> Little can be done to stop it except through repeated education at
> every grade level that copying without paying is as bad as
> plagiarism and just as dangerous to one's career in school.

Wonderful double-think. 

> Ourselves and our children are lost generations with respect to
> ethics, manners,

Ethics such as sharing, and helping one's neighbour?

> and respect for authority

When such "authority" demands that we enter unsigned contracts to
protect their profits, they lose our respect, yes.

> perhaps we can train our grandchildren to behave more proprely.

I certainly hope our grandchildren will live in an environment that
encourages helping each other, yes.

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  `\          teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years |
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Ben Finney