Hungarian President Resigns Over…Plagiarism?

Matt Welch | 4.2.2012 12:16 PM

Lord knows, Hungary has bigger political problems than thesis-copying (about the Olympic Games, no less!), but I'm always in favor of expanding the categories under which heads of state can resign in disgrace.

Reason on plagiarism here. Link via the Twitter feed of Budapest-based journalist Adam LeBor.

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Joe Biden 13 years ago

I am not seeing the problem here.
Warty 13 years ago

GIS for Hungarian

It'll do.
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Thank you, sir.
Waiting for Registration 13 years ago

There's no such thing as plagiarism, because there's no such thing as intellectual property.
1. Suki 13 years ago
  
  I was going to say that in the form of a question.
  1. Waiting For Registration 13 years ago
    
    What is Copyright 2012, Reason Magazine?
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      obviously not intellectual property
      1. Waiting For Registration 13 years ago
        
        Yup. This stuff writes itself.
2. Joe Biden 13 years ago
  
  There's no such thing as plagiarism, because there's no such thing as intellectual property.
  1. Anarcho-Libertarian 13 years ago
    
    You're my hero!
3. Cytotoxic 13 years ago
  
  No IP = No private property
  1. Ryan 13 years ago
    
    Actually, what IP means in practice is taking away someone's right to use their own intellectual product.
    
    It's not yours any more if it's in their brain.
    1. Ryan 13 years ago
      
      To clarify, when someone understands a concept first understood by someone else, they're merely duplicating the 'IP', but it's no less theirs.
  2. yonemoto 13 years ago
    
    So if friday watches robinson crusoe on the beach using a pole to fish for his lunch, does robinson crusoe have the right to bash friday's head in for mimicking him?
    1. Ryan 13 years ago
      
      No, he only has the right to sue him for lots of money and win, according to our government.
      1. Bullshit 13 years ago
  3. yonemoto 13 years ago
    
    also:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVaJN0f0VQ
    
    and, if you're more of a pragmatic libertarian:
    
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/mon.....lture.html
4. Brian C 13 years ago
  
  Plagiarism has nothing to do with intellectual property.
  
  It's hard to believe that this even needs to be pointed out.
Old Salt 13 years ago

Considering how many of our political elite are Ivy Leaguers, we could probably force out an atomic fuck ton of the ruling class if this were a viable option here.

If only...
P Brooks 13 years ago

What a rube.
PJ Doland3 13 years ago

Wow. Just wow.
MLK 13 years ago

I committed a ton of plagiarism and now I am the only individual American with a national holiday.

Now, where are those white prostitutes?
fried wylie 13 years ago

pretty sneaky. Now dude can't be blamed when the Hungarian Fiscal Domino falls.
Ted Levy 13 years ago

Biden...It's just a matter of time!
1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  As Joseph Biden explained, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
  1. Ted S. 13 years ago
    
    At this point, a stone was cast from the crowd, striking the sinner dead.
    
    Jesus cried out, "Mother!..."
Ted Levy 13 years ago

Hungarian Games...
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

"I wish to go over to your place, bouncy bouncy."
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

"I will not buy this Olympic Village, it is scratched."
David Faremore 13 years ago

That pompous windbag jsut looks corrupt as the day is long.

http://www.Surf-Tools.tk
shrike 13 years ago

Black is beautiful

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