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While that is true, everyone except Canadians assumes they are just an informal 51st state.

OTOH, if I were France and had behaved like they have the last 60 years, then I'd be paranoid too. http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsam-lbj/nsam-336.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2005/03/27/wfran27.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html= /archive/1998/05/28/wjup28.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osirak
http://beta.morons.org/tally-ho/article/read/11

There's plenty of stupidity in the USA too. http://www.slate.com/id/2077874/

But Lord Grabiner, QC, for Apple Computer, countered that "only a moron in a hurry" could confuse his client's download system - which, he said, was basically transmitting data - with a record label.

BestBuy: good concept, bad execution.

The blog linked to by Slashdot actually links to a Baltimore Sun story (use email "bselig@dodgeit.com" and password "bseli" to log in) dated March 8 (well before April 1). Maybe you should RTFB.

[...] the GPL is harmful. It forces its twisted political agenda upon others, robs individuals of their intellectual property, spreads itself like a virus, and causes the same kind of predatory behaviour that its proponents lament. It must be avoided at all cost.

...AIDS education is equivilent to baptist religion in the United States of America.

...Citizens of the United States of America pay 2-3x as much for US Made Rx drugs than any other people in other countries pay for US Made drugs. And George W Bush's recent seniors drug bill just made it illegal to go to canada to purchase drugs.

...Internal Government agencies murder and jail for life farmers for producing state sanctioned crops.

...freedom of speech is nonexistant in the United States of America.

...soldiers are given amphetamines to enhance battle skills.

...infanticide of children in poverty is commonplace

...
of course the list goes on...

Cool quote, but not true.

"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil."

-- John Ashcroft, before Senate Judiciary Committee, December 6, 2001

It's remarkable how John Ashcroft is the karmic successor to Joseph McCarthy; we're in a modern-day Red Scare, but with a very sympathetic administration and a apathetic public. The potential for (further) permanent damage to Americans' civil liberties is very real and very frightening.

Am I exaggerating? Well, can you tell them apart?

FWIW, link to ACLU coverage and a Google News search.

Actually, I came up with the quote for this story before I got linked to that version of it.

So, being a McCarthy wannabe isn't enough for Ashcroft, I see.

This guy just gives me more and more reasons to vote Libertarian. The more I see the Bush admininstration trampling our rights, the more I hate this government.

Not that Gore would have been much better, with Senator Joe "Blacklist America" Lieberman as veep and all.

Sigh...I think I'll flee this country in terror before too much longer.

So, being a McCarthy wannabe isn't enough for Ashcroft, I see.

This guy just gives me more and more reasons to vote Libertarian. The more I see the Bush admininstration trampling our rights, the more I hate this government.

Not that Gore would have been much better, with Senator Joe "Blacklist America" Lieberman as veep and all.

Sigh...I think I'll flee this country in terror before too much longer.

The prizes are my decision, but as for consolation, here is a link to a humorous morons.org article. Woot!

You should join the Libertarian Party. We don't pay taxes because it's not in the Constitution, and if the Federal Gub'mint comes to collect, well, we still have our guns right? HAHAHAHAHAHA.

There's a good criticism of it here...

That's a very clueless essay, actually. The silly question the essayist poses doesn't address the copyleft issue at all. It doesn't even give the reader the impression the author is aware of software freedoms. Instead it looks like just another RMS-bashing screed (complete with tired namecalling). Fair use, picking another program to base one's changes on, the problem of conflating physical and conceptual works (resulting in thinking of copyrights and patents as "property"), and writing one's program from scratch are some of the overlooked issues in "Nick"'s tirade. You'd do well to avoid this reference.

Mozilla is (partially) GPL too. There are good and bad sides to the GPL... it's a tricky issue for sure. There's a good criticism of it here... in my opinion, there are extreme views either way. But, a company (or a Kompany) has to make money. But really, a copyright and its terms would be just as enforcable on open source code as it would be for a fiction, paperback book, wouldn't it?

Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Falung Gong?
Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Branch Davidian's of Waco or Ruby Ridge

Or the China Democratic Party founder Lu Xinhua, who was convicted of subversion [bbc.co.uk] for an article posted on the internet?

Or the U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer & McCarthy jailing Commies(TM)Even better is Bush / Aschcroft Terrorist campaign this is amusing. How about this jailed dissident?

Lastly, I'd like to remember at the incident at the Tiananmen. It maybe more than ten years ago, but the leaders are the same.Lastly, I'd like to remember at the incident at Tulsa. It maybe more than 80 years ago, but the leaders are the same.

Furthermore they stated (in 2001) that its decision back than was correct because it was a "counter-revolutionary turmoil" aimed at overthrowing the administration.

How about the CoIntelPro program during the 60's? And the rest of the past and present domestic and foreign PsyOps and BlackOps programs -- active campaigns to squelch "counter-revolutionary" ideas.

Red Flag is under the control of the China Academy of Sciences, headed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of the president Jiang Zemin

Does nepotism bother you? How about a Senator screwing with the voting in his state to help elect his OWN BROTHER... did I mention that they were both Sons of a former President? Its almost like a father appoints his own children to office...

Wow. How did they ever get this popular with ideals like that? Back then, I owned a colecovision and a mac 512 and had no concept of gaming outside of my arcade ports and macpaint. They're almost like some sort of uber-parental group.

Please have a look at this and see if you still want to.

And why do so many projects use the GPL but put in exceptions to it? Why bother with the GPL at all?

http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3

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