This is not a site full of smart people submitting and discussing smart things. This is a site where someone says 'stealing' and someone else patiently points out that piracy is not stealing because bla bla bla YAWN.
He waited for a while until someone came by. The passerby extended his hand and said "Your hand. Give me!" The mullah angrily told him "Move along. You are not one of our people!"
Some more hours passed while the scholar stood knee deep in foul matter, until another man passed by. He said to him "Here my hand. Take!" Again, the scholar glared "Move along! You are not one of us!"
So this went on for few hours until, finally, the scholar's nephew happened to pass by and saw his uncle in that filthy ditch. He cried out "O dear uncle! Here, take my hand!". The scholar said, "Yes. You are one of us!" and reach[ed] out to his nephew.
But the nephew was weak and he too fell in the hole.
[As related by Mowlana Shamsud'din Tabrizi.]
This needs to be corrected. The story is called the "blind grammarian" and naturally far more robust in the original by Shams (as translated into English) than my recollection above. There is also a second part to it that has been omitted.
My comment was not intended as sarcasm, nor was I asserting sarcasm in comments by others.
I wont question if it's true or false. But the mere repetition makes what the grandparent says true: this is not a site full of smart people.
Or at least: this is not a site full of smart people _above_ repeating for the nth time the same tired internet flames.
The piracy thing seems like a silly semantic issue on the face of it but the semantics strike at the heart of the issue.
And that is why we need to broaden software patent laws to also include Internet arguments: patent trolling to counter actual trolling.
(BRB, patenting this idea)