The US patent office has granted me patent no: 776865656C for what I describe to be:
A sophisticated mechanism to reduce frictional loss in man-made moving objects by converting applied force to angular momentum.
I expect to get handsome royalties from this patent, enough to let me spend the rest of my life in the pursuit […]
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Despite all the attempts at privatization, it turns out that there are some things that don’t want to be owned. Music, water, seeds, electricity, ideas—they keep bursting out of the confines erected around them. They have a natural resistance to enclosure, a tendency to escape, to cross-pollinate, to flow through fences, and flee out […]
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