One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.