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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

Prior Art? Here's the flash file from May 11, 2005: iparigrafika.hu at archive.org

For those fond of radio dramas, "The Roads Must Roll", as presented by X-Minus One (care of Archive.org)

Post links to the Wayback Machine instead.

Go on. C&D a non-profit org. The internet won't thank you for that one, and there's quite a lot of voters connected to it.

It would be great if the schools responded by setting up a massive file sharing system loaded with public domain, Creative Commons, GPL, and other legal content. There could easily fill it with hundreds of gigs of free legal music. I think pushing free legal non-RIAA music would be an AWESOME way to comply with RIAA demands to combat downloads of their stuff.

Just a few links to get them started:
http://www.dance-industries.com/
http://ccmixter.org/view/media/remix
http://phlow-magazine.com/free-mp3-music-download
http://www.clearbits.net/torrents
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
http://newteevee.com/2007/03/03/ten-sites-for-free-and-legal-torrents/
http://newteevee.com/2010/02/05/ten-more-sites-for-free-and-legal-torrents/

and another four or five hundred links:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories

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Not so: the ACLU is for collectivist rights. This is incompatible with the principled basis for Liberty, natural rights.

Here's their own position statement on gun rights. Now that Heller is the law of the land, that's taken down.

"The problems affecting the Dell computers stemmed from an industrywide encounter with bad capacitors produced by Asian PC component suppliers."

No kidding. It was a disaster that affected everybody that used these capacitors. The story here is that Dell apparently knew about the nature of the problem but tried to downplay it for years to avoid replacing defective boards, and then they replaced them with boards that would probably also fail.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

http://web.archive.org/web/20060831124229/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/060619fr_archive01

This article is long but fascinating - long story short, guy loses his vision as a young child (possibly the key point), regains it 45 years later, struggles very much to deal with sight for several years, but misses his past, sight-less life. He has a very hard time correlating objects' feel with their appearance, he has a hard time appreciating perspective, he can only navigate around his own house by using key landmarks and following preset paths, etc. Eventually he mostly gives up on being able to perceive the world visually. His state of mind plays a huge role in the situation, and visiting his childhood home helps significantly.

Maybe this is just anecdotal and I'm certainly no expert. But before reading this, my thoughts would have been exactly what you wrote, and that is not entirely accurate.

guerrilla.net was active some years ago, then after a sellout to l0pht, it went dark. It really is time to resurrect the idea of an "underground Internet," consisting of radio links and mesh networks. If you don't believe it's possible that the gov't will ever invoke the "kill switch," think again: Right after 9/11, the gov't did something that was considered both improbable and impossible: It effectively banned all air traffic across the nation. And it did so without asking the public for its input. Does anyone think the gov't will ask the public for its input when (and if) it decides to kill the Internet to ensure "national security"?

No, you knew this years ago.

Back then, Apple thought that 100dpi was in fact the best possible screen resolution ;-)

On the subject of the imperfect nature of machines, I found this post by Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin, a noted electronic music composer) quite interesting. He describes how the physical machinery of analog electronic music machines means it is near impossible to duplicate them in digital programs.

link

Author: analord
Date: 02-07-05 03:14

some people bought the analogue equipment when it was unfashionable and very cheap though.
some of us are over 30 you know!
anyone remember when 303`s were £50? and coke was 16p a tin? crisps 5p

also you have overlooked A LOT of other points because its not all about the overall frequency response of the recording system its how the sound gets there in the first place.
here are some things which you can`t get from a plugin,they are often emulated but due to their hugely complex nature are always pretty crass aproximations..

the sound of analogue equpiment including EQ, changes very noticably over even a few hours due to temperature changes within a circuit.
Anyone who has tried to make tracs on a few analogue synths and make them stay in tune can tell you this,you leave a trac running for a few hours come back and think Im sure I didnt fucking write that,I must be going mental!

this affects all the components in a synth/EQ in an almost infinte amount of tiny ways.
and the amount differs from circuit to circuit depending on the design.

the interaction of different channels and their respective signals with an analogue mixer are very complex,EQ,dynamics....
any fx, analogue or digital that are plugged into it all have their own special complex characteristics and all interact with each other differently and change depending on their routing.
Nobody that ive heard of has even begun to start emulating analogue mixer circuitry in software,just the aesthetics,it will come but im sure it will be a crap half hearted effort like most pretend synth plugins are.
they should be called PST synths, P for pretend not virtual.

Every piece of outboard gear has its own sound ,reverbs,modulation effects etc
real room reverb, this in itself companies have spent decades trying to emulate and not even got close in my opinion, even the best attempts like Quantec and EMT only scratch the surface.

analogue EQ is currently impossible in theory to be emulated digitally,quite intense maths shit involed in this if youre really that interested,you could look it up...good luck.

your soundcard will always make things sound like its come from THAT soundcard..they ALL impose their different sound characteristics onto whatever comes out of them they are far from being totally neutral devices.

all the components of a circuit like resistors and capacitors subtley differ from each other depending on their quality but even the most high quality milatary spec ones are never EXACTLY the same.

no two analogue synths can ever be built exactly the same,there are tiny human/automated errors in building the circuits,tweaking the trimpots for example which is usually done manually in a lot of analogue shit.
just compare the sound of 2 808 drum machines next to each other and you will see what I mean,you always thought an 808 was an 808 right?
same goes for 303`s they all sound subltey different,different voltage scaling of the oscillator is usually quite noticable.

VST plugins are restricted by a finite number of calculations per second these factors are WAY beyond their CURRENT capability.

Then there is the question of the physicallity of the instrument this affects the way a human will emotionally interact with it and therfore affect what they will actually do with it! often overlooked from the maths heads,this is probably the biggest factor I think.
for example the smell of analogue stuff as well as the look of it puts y

Nah, $2-$5 is micropayments. [...] I have no idea where you got $0.05 from.

Get off my lawn:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970601153143/http://www.millicent.digital.com/ (as low as 1/10th cent)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20011223.html ("In addition to true micro-payments, some sites might have midi-payments ranging from 20 cents to a dollar, and perhaps even maxi-payments of several dollars.")

Sorry, but I regularly purchase $2 to $5 items on my credit card. Calling that a micropayment is ridiculous.

...guerrilla.net (R.I.P.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20020418225227/http://www.linuxandmain.com/features/lokistory.html

I think the GP is doing a bit of hyperbole but it did come out of the bankruptcy proceedings that there was financial mismanagement and a few times they pulled from the company's budget for personal purchases.

Also in January, Draeker was subject to a second deposition, this time in a Federal 20-04 examination as part of the bankruptcy proceeding. In it, he testified that Loki did not retain such basic business records as bank statements or even keep careful track of the checks written by the company. After having testified in July that Kayt was and always had been chief financial officer, he now testified that she was not and never had been, and that he, Scott, always had been. And yet, Draker said, "there were several occasions where my wife mistakenly transferred money to our account prior to issuing money orders as opposed to issuing them from Loki's account." Asked if Loki had recorded these erroneous transactions, Draker replied, "We didn't have anyone keeping records at that time. It was -- it was in the bank statements, the record of that." Those bank statements had not been kept by the company. Additionally, the company was apparently unable to produce any financial records for the period from September 1999 to May 2001. The deposition took on a surreal air at times, with Draeker refusing to say whether or not he is a lawyer and in one spectacular moment testifying that as president of Loki he could say how much had been paid to Scott Draeker and when, but as Scott Draeker he could not say whether he actually received the money. Yet when asked if, shortly before the bankruptcy filing, Loki had paid him $13,000, he replied, "Uh, as I said before, there are several occasions on which Loki did pay me. And I don't recall specific dates or amounts."

I'm posting supporting stats before /. archives the story, to prove how culturally independent from company commitment the US is. I just wish I had stats for Japan, which is supposed to have a high loyalty rate and very personal tie between work life and personal life, where your kissing up to the boss after hour is expected. Anyway, age apparently drives people to be loyal; it's either a generational gap, or the likely fear of older people putting family mouths in danger by moving around or switching careers.

From the lion's mouth (US Bureau of labor statistics) is an interesting document on tenure for employees
Only 27% of US workers 16 or older were at their employer for more than 10 years. For people over 55, more than 50% have 10 year of tenure. "The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer was 4.1 years in January 2008." You can imagine the curve joining these two endpoints, or just read the first couple pages of the report above, which is all I've done.

Decisions in this most influential country on earth are made without much expectation of being there to account for them. For anyone with a little time, poke around the historic values for 2006 and 2004.

PS: Some later searching shows that recent stats are paywalled by academic sites. There is the short pdf (tables around [scanned] page 726) with data from 1979, showing japan had a mean of 8 years (4 for the US) and 25% tenure for 10+ years, compared to 15% in the US. Google books shows that Japanese workers were the highest tenured in 1990, followed closely by Germany, France and Spain. The US was last in a list of around 10. I also found a forum comment citing that the Phillipines have the 2nd highest turnover rate in Asia-Pacific, which is bone-chilling seeing how we think Indian callcenters suck, and how Americans are switching away from India to cheap pinoy labor. I could not confirm if India has the highest rate or not, but it still gives me a chill.

As a bonus, since I'll refer to this in the future, here's a short general article on employee retention and company culture.

The Internet Archive has a project to do this: http://www.archive.org/details/software

I don't have time to read this through, but there is a method called Avy which is a branch of IRV.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060103122806/http://www.ijs.co.nz/irv-wrong-winners.htm

The best strategy in Cumulative voting is to vote plurality-style. You want to make a difference: well, the best way of doing that is pushing all your votes toward the candidate most likely to win that you like (the least of two evils) - that's pretty much what the page says.

Personally, I'd be in favor of a Condorcet method for single-winner and a proportional representation method like STV for multiple winners. The Condorcet criterion simply says that if one candidate is preferred to every other one-on-one, then that candidate should win. It's like sports: if a team beats every other team outright, it should win. The Schulze method, which is a pretty good Condorcet method, is being used by Wikimedia, the Pirate Party of Sweden, and KDE already. It's not very easy to explain, however; if that's a goal, Ranked Pairs is pretty easy and good, too.

Unlike the above, STV has actually been tried in America. New York used it in the 1930s-1940s until the established party machines abolished it by Red Scare tactics. STV's problem wasn't that it didn't work, its problem was that it worked too well. It is indeed interesting that the Republicans, who had no chance of winning pre-STV, actually opposed STV.

One should be very careful about turning the multiwinner system, STV, into a single-winner system (IRV). Some groups in the US are trying to do so, most notably FairVote, and they are linking the concept of the ranked ballot to IRV itself. IRV is not a very good method: while it is more fair than Plurality, as another post here stated, Australia has been using IRV for a very long time and still has a two-party system.

There is such a thing as a type of STV that becomes a Condorcet method when only electing a single winner: Schulze STV, but it is very complex; about the only chance one would have to implement it would be if the voting population could trust the method on performance alone, like a computer or other machine (which most people don't know how works, yet use).

LINK to scifi.com in 1996 - http://web.archive.org/web/19961124030947/http://scifi.com/

Fast loading (even on dialup). Clean. Easy to use
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The following are recordings (even older) that Edison made, but not of himself. Still, very interesting:

Ada Jones

Can you imagine if they actually listened to CmdrTaco at right time and open the damn source (no matter how bad quality it is) years before?

I speak about this article
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113192359/slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=425 That is way before the "Cathedral and the Bazaar wondering around at Netscape building" times.

That is from 1998. Of course, AOL is also the company who effectively destroyed last remains of Netscape brand via rushing Netscape 6.x out of the door while ANY Mozilla user/developer could tell them that it is way too early.

I thought of Arthur C Clarke's A Slight Case of Sunstroke myself...

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

I believe it was primarily their choice of a minimal utilitarian design that made people flock to Google, and the quality of the search results, good as they were, was a distant secondary factor among typical users.

I remember it the exact opposite way. Their search results were an order of magnitude better than anyone else's. Back then I had a two part search strategy: first, try Yahoo. They were usually pretty good but if it was an unusual term there might be very few results. If that happened, I'd go to AltaVista, which would produce tens of thousands of results no matter what you searched for (like they did nothing more than a plain text search, and maybe even an 'OR' one at that) and if I got lucky I'd find the answer before I got tired of clicking through pages.

Then along came Google and they were known for good results, period. PageRank worked fantastically well back when "SEO" was nothing more than long page titles and META tags. That's why they created and publicized the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button--if was their way of saying "We're so good, we'll bet that what you want is first result"--like the Russian Roulette of searching. I remember hearing over and over how you could search for Coke or Stanford or Ford and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" and wind up at the company's/school's/whatever's site.

The fact that Google had a clean page was just a bonus, though the fast-loading front page was also nice back when most of us were on dialup. Back in January 1999 (shortly after Google launched) it actually had quite a few links (compared to today) and the Portal Wars had not really yet begun. (I imagine they started, in fact, due to the fact that Google was kicking their ass in search.*) They had plenty of links on their page but a) it was still relatively clean and b) most of those were for browsing their hierarchy. Yahoo's only had three graphics on their page in this sample.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990117053926/http://yahoo.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/http://www.google.com/ Ha--Google itself was "Beta" back then. :-)

I come up with 10,482 bytes for Google and 18,720 bytes for Yahoo. That would be about 2 seconds vs. 4 seconds at 56k.

* In June 1999, Yahoo started using Google to power their search results. That's how good they were. That lasted until Feb. 2004.

I believe it was primarily their choice of a minimal utilitarian design that made people flock to Google, and the quality of the search results, good as they were, was a distant secondary factor among typical users.

I remember it the exact opposite way. Their search results were an order of magnitude better than anyone else's. Back then I had a two part search strategy: first, try Yahoo. They were usually pretty good but if it was an unusual term there might be very few results. If that happened, I'd go to AltaVista, which would produce tens of thousands of results no matter what you searched for (like they did nothing more than a plain text search, and maybe even an 'OR' one at that) and if I got lucky I'd find the answer before I got tired of clicking through pages.

Then along came Google and they were known for good results, period. PageRank worked fantastically well back when "SEO" was nothing more than long page titles and META tags. That's why they created and publicized the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button--if was their way of saying "We're so good, we'll bet that what you want is first result"--like the Russian Roulette of searching. I remember hearing over and over how you could search for Coke or Stanford or Ford and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" and wind up at the company's/school's/whatever's site.

The fact that Google had a clean page was just a bonus, though the fast-loading front page was also nice back when most of us were on dialup. Back in January 1999 (shortly after Google launched) it actually had quite a few links (compared to today) and the Portal Wars had not really yet begun. (I imagine they started, in fact, due to the fact that Google was kicking their ass in search.*) They had plenty of links on their page but a) it was still relatively clean and b) most of those were for browsing their hierarchy. Yahoo's only had three graphics on their page in this sample.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990117053926/http://yahoo.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/http://www.google.com/ Ha--Google itself was "Beta" back then. :-)

I come up with 10,482 bytes for Google and 18,720 bytes for Yahoo. That would be about 2 seconds vs. 4 seconds at 56k.

* In June 1999, Yahoo started using Google to power their search results. That's how good they were. That lasted until Feb. 2004.

Only a few years ago Apple was touting its discovery that 100dpi is in fact the optimal resolution of a computer display:

    http://www.apple.com/displays/technology.html

Priceless quote:

"After years of experience, Apple engineers have discovered the ideal resolution to display both sharp text and graphics — a pixel density of about 100 pixels per inch (ppi). Other vendors may offer a larger monitor, but with less resolution, so you end up with fewer pixels, or a smaller monitor with a high resolution that causes eyestrain and headaches."

You say bombastic... ...I say full of shit? :)

it seems to me that dogmatic, xenophobic, recidivist behaviour is on the rise worldwide

The US was just as xenophobic during the last period of high levels of immigration, for example see the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned Chinese immigration for 10 years. Or the Immigration Act of 1924 that had a quota system that reduced Italian immigration from 200,000 per year to 4,000 per year.

In 1882 a writer in Atlantic Monthly wrote: "Our era . . . of happy immunity from those social diseases which are the danger and the humiliation of Europe is passing away . . . every year brings the conditions of American labor into closer likeness to those of the Old World. An American species of socialism is inevitable." Doesn't this sound like our current concerns about Latin American immigration?

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

After reading many of the comments here, this entire line of argument seems to overlook one basic fact.

Newspapers do not sell news. Newspapers sell ads.

They don't make money when people look at ads, just when they print them. Readership is a number (the revenue is a very small portion of the income) which is used to justify the rates for advertising. The advertisers don't care if you sell it or give it away, as long as you get it into as many hands as possible.

If a story appears in a publication, the newspaper has already been paid (or is owed) as much as they will be receiving for that issue. The amount of editorial content is determined on a basis of a percentage of the overall space vs. how much advertising has been purchased (usually 60% ads and 40% editorial, although a 70/30 split is not uncommon. You maximize advertising by ignoring real news and concentrating on puff pieces that promote the advertisers. Fill the rest with wire service stories.

Even better, get advertisers to give you fully printed inserts (grocery stores are best for this). That way, you don't even need news to balance it.

If you intercept their readers, it's called "competition." Real competition comes when you go to the source and steal their advertisers. That's where the money is.

If you have a newspaper in Alabama and your biggest advertisers are car dealers, having an unauthorized reprint in a Colorado rag (or website) will have exactly zero effect on how many people patronize your advertisers. If your local competition is doing it, that's another story.

...the people who have to write their mortgage checks feel the same thing.

I worked as a newspaper editor before the Internet. None of us made enough money to qualify for a mortgage. Even the publisher rented.

Plagiarism is not acceptable, of course. But it is not "theft," according to the Supreme Court (Dowling v. United States - 1985). Copyright infringement does not "appropriate a physical object," nor does it cost the creator ownership of the copyright. Also, "works that are not sufficiently original, or which constitute facts, a method or process cannot enjoy copy protection."

In addition to exempting much of what could truly be called news, that section alone ought to put every 12-bar blues tune straight into public domain, unless you invented the key of H today.

The writer doesn't own a copyright. The newspaper does. The writer has a 9-5 job that pays by the hour, whether he/she is lifting a story from another publication and rewriting it to fill space, or putting together a Pulitzer Prize winning article, which will pay off regardless of the number of times it has been reprinted without permission. Might even be what puts it on the radar in the first place.

The newspaper biz says it's all about the writers; the music biz says it's all about the artists. In both cases, this is 97% false. With the exception of a few "stars," the idea has always been to pay the writers and artists as little as possible for as much creativity as can be squeezed out of them. Same thing in the movie business, otherwise various groups (writers, directors, actors, stagehands) wouldn't go on strike every time the union contracts came to an end.

All of the indignant self-righteousness is appalling. Those on the moral bandwagon, standing up so tall for copyright, have little to no true concern for the authors and creators; you are fighting to support the corporations which abuse them.

But that's okay. We saw what suing your customers did for the record biz. Now indie film producers are adding themselves to the list of things that the rest of us will never buy or patronize. A subset of us won't bother to take it for free, either.

If you don't want people to read your articles, hear your songs or see your movie, abiding by that give me great pleasure. Saves me a lot of damn money, too.

Tons of free, legal music and movies at the Internet Archive (http://arch

Necessity and Incentives Opening the Space Frontier

Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space

by James Bowery, Chairman

Coalition for Science and Commerce

July 31, 1991

Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee:

I am James Bowery, Chairman of the Coalition for Science and Commerce. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to address the subcommittee on the critical and historic topic of commercial incentives to open the space frontier.

The Coalition for Science and Commerce is a grassroots network of citizen activists supporting greater public funding for diversified scientific research and greater private funding for proprietary technology and services. We believe these are mutually reinforcing policies which have been violated to the detriment of civilization. We believe in the constitutional provision of patents of invention and that the principles of free enterprise pertain to intellectual property. We therefore see technology development as a private sector responsibility. We also recognize that scientific knowledge is our common heritage and is therefore a proper function of government. We oppose government programs that remove procurement authority from scientists, supposedly in service of them. Rather we support the inclusion, on a per-grant basis, of all funding needed to purchase the use of needed goods and services, thereby creating a scientist-driven market for commercial high technology and services. We also oppose government subsidy of technology development. Rather we support legislation and policies that motivate the intelligent investment of private risk capital in the creation of commercially viable intellectual property.

In 1990, after a 3 year effort with Congressman Ron Packard (CA) and a bipartisan team of Congressional leaders, we succeeded in passing the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990, a law which requires NASA to procure launch services in a commercially reasonable manner from the private sector. The lobbying effort for this legislation came totally from taxpaying citizens acting in their home districts without a direct financial stake -- the kind of political intended by our country's founders, but now rarely seen in America.

We ask citizens who work with us for the most valuable thing they can contribute: The voluntary and targeted investment of time, energy and resources in specific issues and positions which they support as taxpaying citizens of the United States. There is no collective action, no slush-fund and no bureaucracy within the Coalition: Only citizens encouraging each other to make the necessary sacrifices to participate in the political process, which is their birthright and duty as Americans. We are working to give interested taxpayers a voice that can be heard above the din of lobbyists who seek ever increasing government funding for their clients.

Introduction

Americans need a frontier, not a program.

Incentives open frontiers, not plans.

If this Subcommittee hears no other message through the barrage of studies, projections and policy recommendations, it must hear this message. A reformed space policy focused on opening the space frontier through commercial incentives will make all the difference to our future as a world, a nation and as individuals.

Americans Need a Frontier

When Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, we won the "space race" against the Soviets and entered two decades of diminished expectations.

The Apollo program elicited something deep within Americans. Something almost primal. Apollo was President Kennedy's "New Frontier." But when Americans found it was terminated as nothing more than a Cold War contest, we felt betrayed in ways we are still unable to articulate -- betrayed right down to our pioneering souls. The result is that Americans will never again truly believe i

Hacking resources on OS X is almost as easy... if not easier. Almost everything is in tif, png or other resource files.

(As part of a bet I created the first "theme" for OS X way back in the day.)

Same goes for almost any widget in any application, just find the image resource and edit it.

You can still load 'extensions' without rebooting (although you do need admin access).

No, you didn't. Here is Comcast's Internet signup page: High-Speed Internet.

I challenge you to locate exactly where it says 'unlimited.'

Here is the high-tier 'Blast' plan description:

Blast!®
Downloads up to 20Mbps, uploads up to 4Mbps with PowerBoost®.

• Super fast speeds so you can download music, movies and games and upload photos in a flash.
• Norton(TM) Security Suite -- superior protection, fastest performance (a $160 value) included at no additional charge.
• SmartZone® Communications Center with 7 e-mail accounts, each with 10GB of storage.
• ESPN3.com on Comcast.net.

And the terms:

Not all services available in all areas. High-Speed Internet service limited to a single outlet. Service subject to Comcast standard terms and conditions. Prices shown do not include equipment and installation charges or taxes. PowerBoost provides bursts of download and upload speeds for the first 20 MB and 10 MB of a file, respectively. Many factors affect speed. Actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Cable modem required. Norton comparisons based on Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security Performance Benchmarking, Edition 4, by PassMark Software Pty., Ltd. (March 2009). Pricing, services and features subject to change. Please call your local Comcast office for restrictions and complete details about service, prices and equipment. Comcast ©2010. All rights reserved. Norton is a trademark of Symantec Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Now you're going to reply that Comcast changed their webpage. Then prove that by citing archive.org. FWIW, in my 10 years of being a Comcast customer, I don't recall ever seeing 'unlimited' service offers.

Even if unlimited service was advertised at one point -- speculation itself -- this would have meant nothing. Comcast would have noted otherwise in their ToS and fine print. If it weren't for that, Comcast likely would have been sued multiple times. Probably by someone unreasonable like yourself.

A good response to Who Killed the Electric Car is a blog entry from a few years ago, Who Ignored the Facts About the Electric Car.

Really? Here is a quote from that blog: "Although I have not seen the movie or received an advanced DVD as others have from the film’s producers, I can tell you that based on what I have heard there may be some information that the movie did not tell its viewers."

A good response to Who Killed the Electric Car is a blog entry from a few years ago, Who Ignored the Facts About the Electric Car.

This blog entry doesn't address the one strange fact that bothered me the most about the EV1, and that was shared with the vehicles in this story: The programs were terminated by shredding the cars.
It just doesn't seem like the thing to do if it was simply a case of "we tried really hard and it just didn't work out". Or, "Just not enough interest in the program". Or, "just not commercially viable".
Are concept vehicles routinely shredded?
What other experimental automotive programs terminated in a systematic shredding of every vehicle they produced?
It seems completely insane to me. To the point that even if there is some rational reason for the shredding, it would probably still be insane.
As someone who "makes stuff", and "discovers stuff" the concept is insane on the face of it.

Those who have watched the movie "Who killed the Electric Car" know that industry and politics will conspire to do what's profitable, not what's good policy.

That might be true, but it's also the case that they understate the technical limitations keeping pure electric vehicles off the road. Some of these (batteries, fuel cells, motors) are only just now reaching into the realm of practicality.

A good response to Who Killed the Electric Car is a blog entry from a few years ago, Who Ignored the Facts About the Electric Car.

Both sides make good points, but this is hardly a case of the Evil Oil Conspiracy covering up the 100 MPG carburetor.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

As IALs go, Esperanto is pretty bad. Most of the world's population couldn't speak it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030904080229/www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Criticism

If you like following Blender Open Movies, then you should know about The Morevna Project, a traditional animation project which uses Synfig in addition to Blender. It's a sci-fi (or is that SyFy?) version of a Russian fairy tale. It's much longer than the Blender movies, and is intended to be a real story, not a tech demo. Download preview video. YouTube version

Don't be so certain they are completely gone. Google, The Internet Archive, and other crawlers may or may not have saved that information in some form that is accessible. Now with Twitter being archived by the Library of Congress and the never-ending FB account, the age of discarded information is slowly disappearing.

The Alto was first conceptualized in 1972 in a memo written by Butler Lampson, inspired by the On-Line System (NLS) developed by Douglas Engelbart at SRI, and was designed primarily by Chuck Thacker.

Going back farther, NLS was inspired by work done by Ivan Sutherland who created a program called Sketchpad as his Ph.D thesis.

Sketchpad:

is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting (CAD) programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, the Graphic User Interface was derived from the Sketchpad as well as modern object oriented programming. Ivan Sutherland demonstrated with it that computer graphics could be used for both artistic and technical purposes in addition to showing a novel method of human-computer interaction.

Some video of Sketchpad in action is available online. (Jump to the four minute mark.)

Going back still farther, Everyone I've mentioned points back to an article by Vannevar Bush published in 1945 describing an imaginary personal computer called the Memex as a huge inspiration.

The Memex (a portmanteau of "memory" and "index", like Rolodex an earlier index portmanteau common at the time) is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The memex is a device in which an individual compresses and stores all of their books, records, and communications which is then mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. A document can be given a simple numerical code that allows the user to access it after dialing the number combination. Documents are also able to be edited in real-time. This process makes annotation fast and simple. The memex is an enlarged intimate supplement to one's memory.

To sum things up...

Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad was inspired by Vannevar Bush's idea of the Memex.

Douglas Engelbart at SRI was inspired by Sutherland's Sketchpad when he created NLS.

Xerox was inspired by NLS when they created Alto.

Apple was inspired by Alto when they created Lisa and Macintosh.

None of these was a direct copy of the other. Learn some history, and STAY OFF MY LAWN!

(BTW - Neither Alto nor Macintosh were written in an object oriented programming language.)

'I have the feeling the conviction has more to do with a bunch of white supremacists holding large quantities of ricin, than that actual act of learning how to make it.'

However, in the other case mentioned in TFA (the most worrying from a civil liberties point of view), Terrance Brown was apparently just compiling stuff available elsewhere (mostly or entirely online) and selling it on a CD:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070108155556/www.anarchist-cookbook.com/CD.htm

This includes everything from 'Fruit Machine Cheating' and the 'Big Book Of Chemical, Powder, And Thermonuclear Explosives' to the infamous 'Al Qaeda Training Manual' - looks like he indiscriminately trawled the net for anything vaguely terrorist/anarchist related and lumped it all together. It was probably the AQ manual that caught the attention of the police. This has featured in other UK cases and is apparently illegal here, though freely available from many respectable sites including one at the US Department of Justice and another at the USAF Air University:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qaeda_Handbook
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/notts_al_qaeda_manual_case/

I guess the implications of our Trusted Ally in the War on Terror distributing terrorist material via official government and military websites have never been fully explored...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080410231952/http://www.anarchist-cookbook.com/ "Following the recent terrorist activities, new laws are in progress to ban the information contained in our CD-ROM. This is against all the freedom of speech that we have had for so long, but we will abide with the law and bring the cookbook (as we know it) to an end." ... I guess so.

Check this Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=243665

http://web.archive.org/web/20080627194858/http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/about/history/

"Acknowledgements
This list is not fully exhaustive, but we would like to acknowledge the support of the following funders (in alphabetical order):

        British Council, British Petroleum, Broom's Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European Communities (CEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met. Office, UK Nirex Ltd., United Nations Environment Plan (UNEP), United States Department of Energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wolfson Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). "

No "Fat Finger" - this is market manipulation. Interestingly timed with the Senate's "Audit the Fed" vote.

MUST HEAR: Panic And Loathing From The SP 500 Pits
        May 7th, 2010

Mirror for audio file.

A car is one futures contract.

A handle is a full point.

Via: ZeroHedge:

Guys this is probably the craziest I have seen it down here ever. Here it is, memorialized for the generations and away from the now openly ridiculous disinformation propaganda of the mainstream media, just what a full market meltdown panic sounds like: straight from the epicenter, the SP 500 pits. Luckily open ouctry still exists, if at least for shock value. Click here for a first hand account of the most shocking 15 minutes in recent market history. Fat finger my ass.

Research Credit: dagobaz

Apple is now hated slightly less than MS, which is pretty significant given how maybe a decade ago they were not hated at all.

Errm, you are new to this internet stuff, right? May I present you with ihateapple.com, which started hating in 1999, and stopped in 2008? Hardly the only place where the Apple haters hung around.

I must have completely missed it, but... what exactly would "Mozilla's font files" entail?

Netscape 4.x through 5.x supported "Dynamic Fonts", downloadable font files. Worked fine, but Microsoft didn't like it and didn't support it in IE. When IE was free and Netscape cost money, IE won out. Netscape then gave up on font support, which was a technology they licensed from Bitstream, not an open standard.

...it's impossible to keep archives of old web pages, or for anyone to download and mirror content.

Now jurors are more likely to know that there's information out there that they're "not allowed" to read. Which is fine - as a juror I might do as I'm told to prevent my becoming prejudiced - unless I've just found out that the information has been hidden from everyone, in which case I might consider it my duty to read the information anyway.