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  1. Re:Sorry Blizzard, no longer a customer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful · on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th

    "Mistakes were made"

    "Did my opponent rape and murder a young girl in 1990? I'm just asking questions"

    Your pedantry is both unwarranted and dangerous. The grandparent attempted to engage in emotional manipulation with an analogy specifically chosen to align Blizzard with a particular group of heinous abusers, and I rightly called him out. By allowing him to retreat behind his semantics, rather than the obvious subtextual intent, you contribute to one of the core problems of modern society.

    Inform yourself.

  2. There can be only one answer to this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law

    Canadians, refuse and resist! And force your representatives to do so.

    An ordinary dude from Europe who likes Wikilivres...

  3. Re:Lesser of two evils? by sabre86 · · Score: 1 · on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions

    That definitely makes sense. That would be a hard decision to make, though.

    Noting your user name, are you in or from Canada? Apparently, Orwell's works are public domain there. For instance, this appears to be the link to 1984.

    --sabre86

  4. Re:Lesser of two evils? by sabre86 · · Score: 1 · on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions

    That definitely makes sense. That would be a hard decision to make, though.

    Noting your user name, are you in or from Canada? Apparently, Orwell's works are public domain there. For instance, this appears to be the link to 1984.

    --sabre86

  5. Re:1984 by sabre86 · · Score: 1 · on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions

    1984 was on Gutenberg? Like Project Gutenberg? It doesn't seem to be there now. Or anything by Orwell. (Or Eric Blair.)

    Maybe you're in Canada? His works seem to be public domain there.--sabre86

  6. Re:MiniTruth: This warn you. by hannson · · Score: 1 · on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984

    Only in the USA I think. It's public domain in many countries:

    http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984.htm

    http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

    http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/index.html

    http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/

    http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

  7. Re:Interesting! by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Insightful · on 35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found

    > The more I learn about the subject, the more convinced I am that
    > the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that
    > we often imagine them to be.

    G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man has some thoughts along the same lines. From this page:

    It may be that in certain savage tribes the chief is called the Old Man and nobody is allowed to touch his spear or sit on his seat. It may be that in those cases he is surrounded with superstitious and traditional terrors; and it may be that in those cases, for all I know, he is despotic and tyrannical. But there is not a grain of evidence that primitive government was despotic and tyrannical.