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If anyone understands the law they are not admitting it. When I was sued by Microsoft they said I owed them $200,000 per copy and that there were “at least” five copyrights involved. They said I sold two copies so my math brought it to two million dollars, but if you read the law it is $100,000 per copy, not that it makes any difference. Their position is to try to scare me into giving them money. And the judge just wants both of us to settle. When I mentioned the $100,000 difference to their lawyer she shrugged.
It is all a game, a trick, a job, a strange way for justice to work. Your MP3 player or iPod might be worth a billion dollars in copyright fines. Does anyone pay the fines? There are cases where people are found liable but I sincerely doubt they had the means to pay the fines. Ask any lawyer and they will defend the law, that its intent is different, that no one really follows the letter of the law. But that is the lawyer and the lawmaker’s livelihood. A licensed electrician will defend the idea that electricians need licenses. It is job protection. I am for safety and transparency but not necessarily the licensing that I have seen.
In my case the only one who cared about justice was the Judge. I mean why would any lawyer act like a human being and want what is fair for all? It is not their job to be fair, it is their job to win money for their client. In this case, Microsoft wanted as much as possible from me and did not care to even be present or know the details.
When it became apparent that I was the only reasonable one in the room, and the law is so incomprehensible to everyone so much so that no one even admits to what it really says in a room full of people, then why even bother with courts? Because that is the industry, that is why. Because it scares people. Because it redistributes wealth among the wealthy.
Yes lawyers, lawmakers, government employees and insurance companies rely on laws that make little sense. I was sued again by my snow-removal contractor because he fell in the snow that he was hired to remove, on my property. My insurance company did not give me a chance to do anything at all. He was paid $50,000 and I didn’t even so much as sign my name. I did not agree to anything.
A colonoscopy at the local clinic costs $3800 if you have insurance and $995 if you don’t. But google colonoscopy and you will find companies that will fly you to Costa Rica for three days and get your procedure done for that same $995. When I had mine done I was in and out in just over an hour, and the doctor answered none of my direct questions. I said “Did you see any diverticulosis?” He said “Not much” turned away to walk out without hearing my other questions. I tried to call later, what a joke.
My daughter quit her job at the Veterans Administration to have children. So she found that without the job and with her husband working as a subcontractor she qualified for state subsidized insurance. Now she is pregnant again and had her obstetrician bill was refused because her paperwork said she was male. So with babe in arms she goes to the insurance office and is disgusted by how many people are on break, how many people are in the office, how little work needed to be done (literally deleting “m” and typing “f”) but she had to wait an hour in the office while the workers talked to her, were well aware of what is going on, but would not do the work until it was her turn. She finally left trusting that the job would get done eventually.
The system is gone amuck. No one doubts it. Partisan people say it is the other side’s fault, but the truth is it is all our faults. We let Congress cost us $30 million a DAY to do literally nothing. We let government employees encourage each other to work less. We think productivity is bad for the economy. We would rather do nothing than do something. We are all screwed up, and it starts with our system of laws. The only hard work being done is performed by those we term “illegals”.
