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Yes. A character in it takes the Lord's name in vain, you know!

Either way, a state that practices official censorship of anything except for media that requires violence or fraud to be created, is a regime that directly or indirectly uses the threat of loss of life, liberty or property to silence others.
I agree, but you left the US off your list of countries. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but you did all the same. There are plenty of examples of banned media in the US which needed neither violence nor fraud to be created. You can read more here and here.

Yohooo!!! I will protest then too.

I will protest against censoring materials related to nazism & fashism. What about racism censorship? Poor kids on the block were killing others for no reason - why not to give them one???

And why U.S. ban so much books? http://www.banned-books.com/bblist.html here and here http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books. html or even http://horizon.nmsu.edu/101/pornography.html here. And I want to have no problems when searching for old Hindu symbol commonly known as swastika.

What about for example lolicon? In Japan it's pretty normal, over here in Europe as well as in USA it's considered to be paedophilia. Strangely enough, "hentai" what's normal pr0n for us, in fact is "freaking" for them...

You can hardly expect people to have the same morality standards when their cultures are only several thousand years apart. And censorship is all about morality. That's in general. As to China in particular. Memorize one saying of old: people deserve their rulers. It's not that chinese did something new. It's not USA stopped supporting them. (And it's not that USA has no censorship of their own. Who doesn't?)

Going to START banning books? I take it you've not heard of the US' banned books list.

http://www.banned-books.com/bblista-i.html

J.K Rowling, R.L Stein and Stephen King are some of the most challenged authors, according to the ALA's website.

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challen gedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

America has become a corporatocracy. The bankruptcy and energy bills are only two recent examples of legislation passed for corporate benefit and public detriment.

Why the neologism? Is this system substantially different from Mussolini's Corporatism aka Economic Fascism? To me this describes any political system that disconnects economic 'national interests' from the private interests of the majority of citizens that make up the national economy.

Communism nationalizes big industry, and Fascism jumps into bed with big industry. Corporations run the state, or the state runs the corporations. Both are faces of the same coin: the same kind of people are in charge. You don't make a free market by letting industrial policy be dictated by captains of industry.

Excuse me, but my main point was that it is not ethical, moral or harmless as the post I was replying to stated. And my secondary point was this us just more fuel for the Pro-DMCA crowd.

Your argument is tantamount to saying that it's ok to rape a girl if she's "dressed like she wants it". Poor judgement or decisions may be a factor in becoming vicitimized, but it doesn't mean it's ok to be the victimizer.

So yes, I do feel sorry for them, although that was totally not the point of my post.

Do all business plans have to include a "how to we keep from getting f*cked by geeks" section?

"The reptilian-Illuminati know that the balanced fusion of male and female energy create a third and immensely powerful force and this is the real foundation of their obsession with the "trinity".

How long before libraries can't index books? Or own them?

Uhm, hasnt this already happened many many times in the past?

can be found here. The real problem with debating this is that the terms "fascism" and "corporatism" are vague terms. Furthermore, our definitions of these systems may be different from Mussolini's.

It is therefore not necessarily a religious motivation under which Bush limited stem cell research. Not that it wasn't a religious motivation. But an experienced politician at the top of the game knows better than to try to legislate his religious ideas without a separate rational argument.

Here's what I want you to do: 1) Put on your propaganda-warning hat and pretend your George Orwell. Now, go back and reread the above sentences. Repeat until you realize what complete doublespeak that was. I don't think I've read anything that ironic in a long time.

If you don't want to protect human life as an embryo, why should your human life be protected now?

I don't. That's why I'm for the war in Iraq, for Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, pro-death penalty, don't have a problem with the CIA being legally able to kill US citizens, disapprove of educational or other measures which help stop the spread of AIDS, and, oh yes, perform ritualistic cannibalism. No profit is bad profit and God save the Republican Party.

You people would have a lot more credibility if you gave a fuck about life AFTER it comes tearing out of some bitches pussy. But fuuuuuck that. "We're conservative! We're pro-life! Unless, that is, you can breathe on yer own. Then, well, I don't want *my* tax dollars going to keeping you off the streets! And you can't put 'em in jail long enough to keep me happy!"

What the fuck ever man. A fetus is not a child. It's a salamander. It's got gills and a fucking tail. Do not care. Never will care. Gimme a cigarette, a pair of tongs, and a knocked up 14 year old. Let's go. "Let's take care of this baby so we can make another one. Mooohahahahaha."

>Legal definition of property [lectlaw.com]

Again, the non-physical definition refers to the actual right to call the item yours. ie: The right to put your name on a project. It is theft if I download an MP3 by the Beatles and rename it to say "By: shepd". However, I didn't see anything in there that says it's theft if I'm simply in posession of the unmodified MP3.

>Copyright myths dispelled [templetons.com]

Contains no references to "theft".

>The actual law [cornell.edu]

For the US. Outside, this is much more likely to be it. The original Berne convention mentions no references to theft. I don't know about this revision.

Anyways, the last few aren't exactly legal help sites, so I'll say this:

I think it still stands that downloading music from KaZaa is infact copyright violation, and not theft. But IANAL, so YMMV.

>You know what they say about people who represents themselves in a court of law?

An intelligent person? Too bad that technically most all courts in the US are now military courts (look for the gold-fringed flags), and in a military court you really do need help.

Oh COME now, you honestly think the man who stood up for his principles in the face of a jail term (here) is going to buckle under, "at the first hurdle"? I think Philip Zimmerman has more then proved to anyone with the first clue that he is no quiter. If he left NAI (and probably a damn good paycheque :)) it's because he felt he could do more good elsewhere.

The integrety of crypto software is ensured by peer review. It's the only way you can be sure. If it's not peer reviewed, you have to assume it's flawed, it's as simple as that. NAI's decision to not release complete source to their latest version of PGP severely underminds their credability, and if they were unwilling to do so, I don't see that PZ had any choice but to part company with him.

More power to him for voting with his feet.
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