Somebody want to explain to me how an ISBN—a number assigned to a book by an outside organization, which helps to catalog the book—can be the "intellectual property" of a bookstore?

You see, I use those numbers as part of the database I have on my own books, so I don't want to be stepping on on the toes of that fine Haaarrrvaarrrd bookstore!

It wouldn't have to do anything, in reality, with (sssshhhhh!) competition and free markets would it?

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China has decided that it is going to regulate reincarnation. It seems the Dalai Lama (who hasn't done the Chinese any favors by shutting up on how they are destroying the land of Tibet) has stated he won't be reincarnated in Tibet as long as the Chinese are in Tibet.

Ummm...so by doing this, doesn't the Chinese government legitimize religion, the afterlife, Buddist philosophy, etc.?

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