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Too bad it's Verizon.
Too bad it's Verizon. Oh well, more ethical companies will follow in their footsteps. When I was living in Tokyo two years ago, fiber to my apartment was $5/month on top of service. But DSL was 8Mbps, who cared to pay the extra?
Boycott of Verizon Communications, by Carl Bussjaeger
North American Samizdat - BOYCOTT VERIZON! Free Hunter!
End the War on Freedom - Verizon Must Die
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Re:Not worth it
The front lines are in lower Manhattan. Every true God fearing American knows that. Didn't you hear President Bush's speech? Or were you too busy listening to America's enemies whine about our Great Leader's so-called "lies" about the dangerous weapons of mass destruction that were controlled by Saddam's regime?
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Re:Or how abouteven if the idea behind it is noble
The idea behind libertarianism is the zero-aggression principle.
If the zero-aggression principle is noble, then how can the deliberate killing of innocent people (an act of aggression if there ever was one) ALSO be noble as you claimed before?
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IP is neither Intellectual nor Property...
Must read for all of us libertarians and others:
William Stone III explodes the Myth of Intellectual Property in a series of articles entitled
Law Versus Reality
http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/tle265-20040404-09. html is part 4 (with links to the other 3 parts)
Part 1
quote from the article:
I've argued that information shares none of property's unique characteristics, therefore information cannot be treated as identical to property. -
IP is neither Intellectual nor Property...
Must read for all of us libertarians and others:
William Stone III explodes the Myth of Intellectual Property in a series of articles entitled
Law Versus Reality
http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/tle265-20040404-09. html is part 4 (with links to the other 3 parts)
Part 1
quote from the article:
I've argued that information shares none of property's unique characteristics, therefore information cannot be treated as identical to property. -
Re:Thats a new twistYou don't have to be a rocket scientist to know, that US govt would never give away one of their citizens to another countries authorities....
That's because we don't need to. The U.S. is perfectly capable of- proposing laws to strip American suspects of their citizenship,
- imprisoning American citizens arrested on American soil as "enemy combatants" without recourse to civilian courts or legal counsel despite the contrary dictates of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, and
- sending non-citizens arrested in the U.S. to be tortured in third countries at the whim of U.S. authorities.
When I was a kid, I used to mock my leftist acquaintances (hi Anne!) for their devotion to the Soviet Union despite the Soviet Union's abysmal record on human rights and liberties as detailed, among many other places, in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago . While I also derided Joe McCarthy and his ilk, little did I guess that a Republican administration would start off the twenty-first century with a scramble to enact laws as threatening to liberty as the Soviets'.
Under current American law, you can actually get ten years in Federal prison -- for editing a book written in country under U.S. embargo. That's right: editing a book written by a Iranian or a Cuba or a Syrian or a North Korean -- or even adding illustrations to such a book -- is now a criminal offense in this the "land of the free and home of the brave".
And to and insult to injury, the same administration that is trampling our traditional liberties- hasn't bothered to reform an FBI that in the days before September 11th intentionally destroyed translated intercepted terrorist conversations, in order to get the FBI budget increased,
- apparently preferred to invade Iraq rather than deal with the more immediate threat of Osama bin Laden after September 11th,
- and now in the ultimate on ironies, while ignoring the Sixth amendment (and the Fourth) is telling us that a top priority should be, not Iraq, not Osama, but passing a Constitutional Amendment to marginalize gays!
How about protecting the Bill of Rights and the Twin Towers first, and worry about denying gays their pursuit of happiness as part of a cheap political appeal to your Fundamentalist base after you've explained where those WMDs got to?
Oh, I nearly forgot: on Wednesday, President Bush used the occasion of a media dinner to joke about not finding the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" that were his excuse for going to war.
Mr. President, there are more than 500 young American service men and servicewomen who fought and died in Iraq who won't ever be able to laugh at any jokes again. They went to Iraq because they believed your word about the WMDs, Mr. President. And to you safely back in Washington, it's all a joke, Mr. President.
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Re:bad for economy too
Hey, yourmom16, there's an inaccuracy in your sig. I also quite enjoyed L. Neil Smiths's _The_Probability_Broach_, but it is Robert Lefevre who deserves the credit for the line you quote.
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Re:I can see Constitutional Appeals
while driving is a privilidge not a right,
This is off topic, I know, but there are people who believe driving is now a right.
I am not sure whether that GPS tracking case has been ruled on by the supreme court yet, but i do know that some suspected murder led police right to the body by the use of a hidden GPS. Privacy issues as well
This was a little different IMHO. Here it wasn't an onboard gps like the one described in the article, it was a "bug", for lack of a better word, planted under warrant by the police. I don't know if it's going to the SCOTUS but the state supreme court said it was OK if done under a warrant. -
Cluster Farming is nothing new.
I'm surprised the government is still funding old-fashioned "Supercomputers" though. Well no, I guess I'm not. They're still subsidising helium production, so why not supercomputers?
Seems like everyone who needs tons of power has been doing Beowulf clusters for years. Wish the government would catch up.
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Bread & Circusmichael writes:
"How can a responsible thinker so easily shrug off the need to protect oneself from the unknown abuses of the future just because one may think things are relatively agreeable at present?"A lethal combination of:
- Bread & circuses.
- Those that do not know history are condemned to repeat it.
- Current Question == Unpatriotic perception.
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The two worst things you could be
Will the terrorist ID cards have "TERRORIST" across the picture diagonally, like some states do with "MINOR" on driver's licenses?
Interesting juxtaposition. What are the most important things someone might want to know about you when looking at your driver's license?
- You might be a terrorist.
- You might be less than 21 years of age.
The U.S.A. limits the rights of both kinds of people, but until this September, routine ID checks were only designed to catch one of them. Which one?
Now would be a good time to read David Deutsch's article The Final Prejudice.
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This weapon is probably more for domestic uses
Recently there have been lots of "anti-terrorist" domestic military exercises taking place in major US cities, as well as the escalating usage of military weapons/personnel against protest efforts by peaceful American citizens during events such as the WTO conference recently in Seattle, constituting possible violations against the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
The increasing use of military force right here in America lends weight to the idea that "non-lethal weaponry" is being deployed more as a domestic deterrent rather than as true war weaponry for use against other countries. Obviously they don't want to kill American citizens if they don't have to, but a zap from something like this would, apparently, be acceptable to the People In Charge...
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Re:A car analogy would be more appropriate"...you don't have to register a car unless you take it off of private property. You can drive it around till doomsday without plates or taxes etc as long as you don't take it onto tax funded roads. Next time some gun-grabber says they want to treat guns like cars just tell them 'Fine, dump the FBI check and and lower the age restriction, teach kids how to shoot in high school (call it Shooter's Ed) and subsidize American gun manufacturers so they can sell guns more cheaply than foreign competitors". Then watch smoke come out their ears."
- Letter to the editor, The Libertarian Enterprise
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Re:watch out katz... you are right on targeti always complain that for the most part libertarians upset me more than the hardcore conservatives because the libertarians, if they cared, might be somewhat supportive on social legislation, but they dont.
Don't confuse the politics of the Libertarian Party with libertarianism. In recent years, the LP has followed the stupid strategy of allying itself with the Republicans in an attempt to take down Democrats. This has led to the even more stupid tactic of selectively choosing which issues to highlight and which ones to ignore (ostensibly "for now") to avoid offending Republicans. This, in addition to the fact that many gay rights legislation put forth by Democrats gives gays more rights than non-gays (reverse discrimination is also wrong), is why the party ignores gay rights issues.
Of course, The LP has done this for such a long time that we now have more neo-republicans in the ranks than true libertarians. (They talk like Republicans, act like Republicans, why shouldn't Republicans join? They get to look "fresh" too.)
My point is that the net is libertarian in the sense of the ideology, not in the sense of the Libertarian Party. (which sucks)
Take a look at The Webley Page for some essays talking about this (and other) libertarian issues.