You clearly believe passionately in what you are saying and it should now be
clear that you don't support software piracy. I must admit I agree with most
of what you have said. In a perfect world every crime would be treated as
important, irrespective of whether it involve $1 or $1000000, but its an
imperfect system we have and resources have to be prioritised. I somehow
doubt that even Bill Gates gets his vandalised car checked for fingerprints
though lol

Chelsea





"Theodore Baldwin Boothe III" <DNC_TN@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:49:32 -0000, "Chelsea" <gallium1@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Don't you guys think this thread has run its course now? Stealing is bad
>>and
>>Bill and Melinda Gates are loaded. Is there much more to say?
>
> Perhaps? One more item: Theft is very wrong. Also, when a man making
> $18K per year has his car stolen, little effort by the local PD is
> given to find his car. I recall having an item stolen from my car
> years back. I asked the cop if they could fingerprint the car and
> perhaps look for a print of a person already in the system, so they
> could catch the person. The cop said "we don't roll out those people
> for crimes under $500....it just wouldn't make sense because we have
> to focus on the big crimes where people get something very valuable
> stolen.." I was like shaking my head and wondering why I was not
> important enough? Wasn't my radar detector, something I paid good
> money for, worth finding? I guess not. A guy making $18K per year who
> get's things stolen from him is not worth the time or effort to find
> the theif.
>
> Now let's look at what IS considered worthy of finding. Microsoft is
> likely the largest corporation in the world. It also holds perhaps
> 80-90% of the OS market in the world. It's founder and CEO is worth
> just under $50 Billion and the company has more than $150 Billion in
> cash on hand, and untold $billions in value based on it's stock price.
> When someone steals something from them, all hell breaks lose and
> nothing is spared to find this person[s]. Understand, if they lose $1
> Million in stolen software, it would be like you and I losing a dime!
>
> So we have our priorities in order now
> To sum up
> If you're poor and have something stolen, good luck with that.
> If you're worth billions then god himself will find the theif.
>
> NO NO NO, I want to make it clear AGAIN:Stealing is wrong, very very
> wrong. People should not steal because it is morally and legally wrong
> to do.
>
>