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Old 07-27-2011, 03:07 PM
 
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Seriously, are you trying to equate businesses retaining ownership of the intellectual property produced by their employees with slavery? Please, tell me you are not...

~ButterBrownBiscuit~


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Consensual slavery has always been a right protected by the Constitution.

To work for most Corporations, you must agree to assign any patentable innovation that may come out of your brain to the Corporation.

You agree, your hired.

See? It is all voluntary.

No force required here.
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:09 PM
 
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Consensual slavery has always been a right protected by the Constitution.

To work for most Corporations, you must agree to assign any patentable innovation that may come out of your brain to the Corporation.

You agree, your hired.

See? It is all voluntary.

No force required here.
That's a somewhat bizarre analogy.

That's a contract, voluntarily entered into by two parties.
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:12 PM
 
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That's a somewhat bizarre analogy.

That's a contract, voluntarily entered into by two parties.
Yeah, so you've heard of such a thing.

Contract, that is!
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:14 PM
 
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Seriously, are you trying to equate businesses retaining ownership of the intellectual property produced by their employees with slavery? Please, tell me you are not...

~ButterBrownBiscuit~
Consensual slavery.
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:15 PM
 
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Consensual slavery.
That's an oxymoron. Slavery can't be consensual, otherwise it isn't slavery.
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Montgomery Village
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I would imagine that in most cases in 2011 if a store owner did as you said he wouldn't be in business very long! I certainly wouldn't patronize his location! If he's stupid enough to be a bigot, let him suffer the fall out!
Hmm I wonder if Starbucks were allowed the choice of not serving blacks, would people really stop buying from them?
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:16 PM
 
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That's an oxymoron. Slavery can't be consensual, otherwise it isn't slavery.
Well!

If you feel that way about it, don't ever submit.
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:17 PM
 
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I'm tired of this. Black people we need to get out of the way of the right wings push for this kind of stuff.....before anyone goes crazy this is why,they are doing much more damage hiding and conducting gorilla warfare. We need to show our pants on the ground youth like stupid tooth lil wayne the true face of the American right. They need to wake up and get a dose of reality. Then they will no longer be able to run around like fools. Just like hitler's stupid race war helped push the civil rights era of the 60's this will allow the right to mistakenly push a new generation into stronger more reliable men. Let them have their soooo sought after right to call you a N&*^% and tell you to leave their store. We actually need this.
What the hell are you talking about?
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:17 PM
 
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Hmm I wonder if Starbucks were allowed the choice of not serving blacks, would people really stop buying from them?
I don't know.

Coffee snobbery is a difficult habit to break.
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Old 07-27-2011, 03:21 PM
 
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I don't know.

Coffee snobbery is a difficult habit to break.
the answer is probably not.

as long as i get mine, why would i care about the other person. thats the mindset of most people.
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