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Furrier transformers? You mean these guys? Or this MUSH?

Eww. I have plumbed the depths of the Internet.

But there is. According to English Common Law it is clearly trespass.

Well, Sims or no, you'll always have furries to look down on, so I think you'll be fine.

And I also found an article about archival storage of the original work.

Yes, people are boring. Your high school science teacher isn't going to become the next Karl Marx just by sitting in front of a connected computer. The internet has revolutionized the communication between "fringe" groups. Commercial interests have benefitted as well, but where else can you find This sort of thing. TV? Radio? The New York Times? Your local library?

Take the quoted statistic, that 50% of traffic is from four companies. Compare this wih TV, movies and music and see who's doing better. I'd bet that even most fringe oriented people spend a lot of time viewing mundane, commercialized content (checking weather, buying books, reading news). I'm sure that doesn't make them bad people.

Anyone who thought about it would have realized it even back in that day. Even without commercial content, there would be lots of inane, mainstream garbage. The internet is for everyone , even capitalist, commercial oriented, boring people. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them.

Baloo Ursidae came from an alter ego I developed after having many Cub Scouts describe my facial appearance to be similar to that of the bear on the Cub Scout book (I took it as a compliment).

I've since discovered my fur.

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This is very sad, yet nothing compared to stuff going on with multinational corporations and oil companies. So people will say, "you must be a communist, that will never work." I agree it will not work, and state controlled communism is a very scarey thing. There is however another political theory that barely gets any recognition at all from the mainstream media, except using it's name to be synonymous with chaos, violence, and psychos. I am not talking about libertarian capitalism (which only seems to be something that exists in america anyway), but true libertarianism, aka libertarian socialism, aka anarchy.


I know this is very slightly off topic, although it's the underlying problems which exist with MS and about every major corporation, and corporation to be. They tend (or seem to) start out as under dogs and nice, but next thing you knmow they're running everyone out of business and using third world countries for cheap labor.


For more information on the theory, I suggest you first read Noam Chomsky books as he points out modern day problems, mainly with capitalism...that way you'll be aware there are actually problems. You may think everything in the world is perfectly all right sitting in your nice house or apartment with a nice expensive computer, telling yourself you fairly earned it and ANYONE can easily do the same if they just try.


Also, I suggest reading Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guerin, who explains it pretty clearly for the average person. If you want to read material from the sources of the theory, I suggest The Essential Kropotkin by Peter Kropotkin (he didn't name the book that himself, it was named that later by the author who put the book together); God and State by Michael Bakunin; Statism and Anarchy by Michael Bakunin; Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker; Bakunin on Anarchy by Sam Dolgoff; and even the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (although he has been linked to be pro-state communism which has been proven to be "bad" as the original Russian philosophers during his time predicted). Karl Marx is one of the most popular socialist philosophers mainly because the Soviet Union massed produced his work, and obviously didn't promote the other philosophers because they opposed the state. There is an interesting (and brief) summary of the Russian revolution that many people might not actually be aware of (what really happened that is) here. There was also a Spanish anarchist revolution in the 1930s that was eventually defeated. I suggest reading The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 by Murray Bookchin if you're interested in that.


There are some good libertarian socialist websites as well. liberty for the people, anarchy library, and spunk library.


You may be interested to know the House has passed an amendment to make flag burning illegal. The only free rights we are semi guaranteed are those in the constitution, and yet we STILL have to fight for those rights as well as those not pointed out in it. Of course corporations don't have to obey the constitution and they can censor whatever they wish...unless you have millions of dollars to fight them in a legal case...and if you are working for them consider yourself fired.


We can really not be free in a world when freedom and knowledge conflict with the best interests of the massively wealthy (and corporations themselves) and the states that promote and spread their existence (such as the US military and CIA promoting right wing and fascist militaries/political parties so US corporations can use the countries natural resources and citizens for cheap labor).


I am remaining anonymous because I do not doubt that some proud patriot or some sort of jerk will flame or stuff my (e)mailbox.


Anyway, before you go attacking political theories you know little or nothing about, I suggest reading these materials. I wish everyone would/could.

This is very sad, yet nothing compared to stuff going on with multinational corporations and oil companies. So people will say, "you must be a communist, that will never work." I agree it will not work, and state controlled communism is a very scarey thing. There is however another political theory that barely gets any recognition at all from the mainstream media, except using it's name to be synonymous with chaos, violence, and psychos. I am not talking about libertarian capitalism (which only seems to be something that exists in america anyway), but true libertarianism, aka libertarian socialism, aka anarchy.

I know this is very slightly off topic, although it's the underlying problems which exist with MS and about every major corporation, and corporation to be. They tend (or seem to) start out as under dogs and nice, but next thing you knmow they're running everyone out of business and using third world countries for cheap labor.

For more information on the theory, I suggest you first read Noam Chomsky books as he points out modern day problems, mainly with capitalism...that way you'll be aware there are actually problems. You may think everything in the world is perfectly all right sitting in your nice house or apartment with a nice expensive computer, telling yourself you fairly earned it and ANYONE can easily do the same if they just try.

Also, I suggest reading Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guerin, who explains it pretty clearly for the average person. If you want to read material from the sources of the theory, I suggest The Essential Kropotkin by Peter Kropotkin (he didn't name the book that himself, it was named that later by the author who put the book together); God and State by Michael Bakunin; Statism and Anarchy by Michael Bakunin; Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker; Bakunin on Anarchy by Sam Dolgoff; and even the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (although he has been linked to be pro-state communism which has been proven to be "bad" as the original Russian philosophers during his time predicted). Karl Marx is one of the most popular socialist philosophers mainly because the Soviet Union massed produced his work, and obviously didn't promote the other philosophers because they opposed the state. There is an interesting (and brief) summary of the Russian revolution that many people might not actually be aware of (what really happened that is) here. There was also a Spanish anarchist revolution in the 1930s that was eventually defeated. I suggest reading The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 by Murray Bookchin if you're interested in that.

There are some good libertarian socialist websites as well. liberty for the people, anarchy library, and spunk library.

Anyway, before you go attacking political theories you know little or nothing about, I suggest reading these materials. I wish everyone would/could.