Comments on: Wasting police time

By: john b

john b — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:35:00 +0000

While the theft is a crime against a company alone, abduction at gunpoint is not. The police should be trying to track the gunmen down (although they should only be attempting to recover the money to the extent that it helps them do this).

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:30:00 +0000

If the police should only investigate crime against individuals, how much effort do you think that NI bank would have made in investigating the IRA theft, knowing that its employees' families could be taken hostage again?

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:34:00 +0000

All property is intellectual property. Without intellect, all objects are valueless. For instance, land is valueless. Land plus knowledge of agriculture is valuable; land plus knowledge of house-building is valuable; land plus a desire for territory is valuable.

I have no idea what implications, if any, that insight has for IP legisation, though.

Every time I see the abbreviation "IP", I think "address". Does this make me a geek?