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Agreed. Not all good ventures rely on research and other things that come out of university facilities.

The whole .COM thing for example definitely did NOT come out of the university/research space. In fact in many ways the whole university/research space was clueless about this kind of startup and had very little (if anything) to contribute to it.

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I'd like to second this motion. Like the caller who just called, there are a lot of interesting opportunities (big and small) that need angel investment to get going.

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I think a distinction is whether you perceive opera as music, or as theater. Probably the majority of opera fans only know it as music they have listened to but not seen live. They don't care as much about the words, the staging or the costumes. Instead they know it as a rich type of music.

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I think it's appropriate, yet also misleading to discuss concerns about victim and witness rights for videotaping police activity. I would venture to guess that generally when there is controversy over taping, it involves an arrest or other police activity not centered around dealing with a victim or witness. In fact the person taking the video probably perceives the person being arrested as a victim, and they themselves are a witness to the event.

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