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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's Emmett
You remember the story I wrote about Outcast, the gay magazine in the UK that had their website pulled because of stupid legislation, poor competition and a frightened ISP? Well, I've been invited to speak about it on eYada's Rotten Radio, an internet radio show hosted by John Lydon, better known to the world as Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols. I'll be on the show tonight; the show runs from 4-8pm EST. You'll need RealPlayer.
That is incredible. it seems like the situation with censorship in the UK is getting out of hand. but then again, we have our problems here too. like the -nakedness is free speech- case with the stipper ban... ah who know.
Lydon doesn't like disengenuine people. The instant you open your mouth and start asking him the same old and retarded questions about the Sex Pistols, like everyone else, he will grow bored with you immediately. From the sound of the post, that looks like the first turd that will fall out of your mouth. You know how the saying goes..Dont be "that guy".
If you want to get on his good side, thank him for being himself.
Bowie J. Poag
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please, let's do whis without any "God Save The Queen" puns!
--Jim
Bonus kudos to you if you can describe the situation as 'Anarchy in the UK' without getting anything thrown at you. :)
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Now I'm far more confused than I was after reading the Finnish version :) Cheers.
three informative/funny posts, and the rest just trolls... does anyone else have the sinking suspecion that those pop-up adds on aol are starting to contain links to slashdot?
Well, actually..If you look at a cross-section of the people who are involved with computers, a disproportionately large number of them are gay. I can't exactly speak for those people (silly me, i'm straight..heh) but there are quite a few.
Im not too particularly fond of that sort of "lifestyle" either, but, throwing God into the ring is just as boneheaded as Emmett introducing this sort of topic in the first place. Its fine if you believe in God. Just do us a favor and don't add to the problem.
Traditional, or non-traditional, your sexual orientation is your own business. Even if you're straight, making what you do in your own bedroom a matter of public record is as equally pointless as it is stupid.
Bowie J. Poag
Project Founder, PROPAGANDA For Linux (http://metalab.unc.edu/propaganda)
Bowie J. Poag
There is nothing wrong with asking Mr. Lydon all about his career as a Sex Pistol...as a matter of fact you should ask him that first and see what he does.
Don't be an asshole..!!!
I mean, who is really interested in what is happening to a magazine in England? Anyone? Why can't we have more important stories about stuff that directly affects us as Americans, and leave the rest of the world to their half-baked socialist fantasies. America is the greatest nation on Earth and what happens here will affect everyone, and so American issues are the real things that need to be discussed here. Anything else is of secondary importance.
Censorship affects us all. If the UK passes stupid legislation that promotes censorship online, it means that in the states, I'm being stopped from viewing the information.
This is not a gay issue, it's not even a newspaper/magazine issue. This is a clear-cut censorship and anti-competition issue.
--Emmett
Also, check out #slashdot on irc.openprojects.net
I guess the evil moderator doesn't like quality Texas Vegetables. If you like quality Texas Vegetables...Moderate this UP
Chaos, Mayhem, and Destruction: Not
You move the site out of the country, somewhere that doesn't give a shit about what you're publishing, you then update the DNS records to point to the new address.
It'll take all of a day to accomplish plus a couple of days to propagate.
On the Internet, *WE the people* have the power, not them.
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It's also a slang term for people of polish ancestry.
jerdenn
As someone who has listened to Eyada.com with both, I can tell you that Eyada sounds better with the Windows Media Player than it does under RealPlayer. Please update your information.
Cheers,
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Just a little nitpicking here but I like my punk history to be reported correctly. Johnny Rotten was not the lead singer for the Sex Pistols. That would be Sid Vicious. Johny Rotten did sing for Public Image and Public Image, Ltd. Check out their first couple records sometime if you get the chance.
I think the subject says it all. I'm definitely pro-choice on the matter.. it's up to the people. But c'mon.. Emmett, I don't think it's necessary to shamelessly plug *yourself*. Course it doesn't really surprise me that much.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
"Litigation and governments getting in here will fuck the whole thing up." -- Johnny Rotten on the Internet
That sums up my whole outlook on it.
-- iCEBaLM
With the number of worthwhile comments posted these days, I think by default *any* post should be -1. This way the moderators will only have to moderate the 2 or 3 non troll comments up rather than moderate down the other 80 posts.
"I'm not an anarchist, but..."
;) don't know if it was intentional or not.
good one emmett
don't have anything important to say, but i enjoyed the combined rantings of both emmett and mr. lydon.
And, of course, this post would be stuck at -1. :) But seriously, this belongs more in an article with the Topic of Slashdot and regarding suggestions for improvements of Slashdot.
Chris Hagar
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
And after that dose of liberal pro- homosexual propaganda we're supposed to believe that you're straight, right? If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem, and I think you've made your problem obvious to all.
What? I can't hear you with that cock in your mouth!
You could surf at level 4 or 5. Then you get zero posts. But who expects anything different out of such a godawfully stupid topic. "Emmet is interviewed by former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten on the radio about queer website censorship in England." Just sit and think about that for a minute. Can you think of anything less interesting? Okay, maybe gopher breeding is less interesting, but it' s not nearly so ridiculous.
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
heh, honestly, one comment like this it kinda cute. the problem is that trolls tend to travel in packs. large ones. think mongol hordes. that's when the funny stops and it just gets lame.
To the homophobic & racist posters: kiss my gay Mexican ass, assh*les, and stop posting your offtopic comments.
For any of you that didn't actually go hear the show from yesterday, 4/8/00. Check out the yewrl in the article from emmett. The show was certainly worth a listen. emmett's section is about 2 hours and 40 minutes into the show.
If you do listen to it, take note of the part where they begin discussing napster and mp3s in general. Notice how emmett (our hero of open source and information freedom crusader) takes the protagonist side of the issue. While, Jonny "Rotten" Lydon, a musician leans toward the antagonist. Thanx for the informative and nerdy half hour emmett.
- tre
http://piclabs.com
Immediately before the segment with Emmet (about 2hrs 50min in), Lydon replies to an e-mail and mentions that he doesn't know what Linux is!!!
:D
Quick, everybody mailbomb him and tell him what an ignorant ass he is!
:P (That was sarcasm.)
Seriously though, I have no idea if he's interested in computers outside of the online aspect, but I bet somebody who's clever could get him hooked on the issues involved with free software. (Especially after all that slashdot pimpage.) Now who wouldn't like to hear Johnny Rotten go head-to-head with Richard Stallman?
In any case, I really enjoyed how well the dialog turned out between Emmet and Lydon.
I have my threshold set to 3, which gives a pretty good indication of the quality of replies to any one topic. On this item there is only 1 out of 190 that reaches a score of three. That's really sad. I'm starting to agree with those who have had it with this forum due to the mass immaturity, homophobia, ethnocentricity, xenophobia that borders on racism, to say nothing of the rife sexism.
Not only that, but the sheer stupidity of some people who leap to defend the very things that threaten their own rights is just mind-buggering. Wake up people, an injury to one is an injury to all, and the more we let the powers that be feed prejudice, attack freedom of sexuality, or speech, the more they'll be encouraged to fuck you over next. Of course this kind of thing needs challenging in public forums everywhere, including the radio.
i'm not really an expert on this, but.
U.S. has a much better protection for deflamotory speech than any other countries, thanks for 1st amntmt. Maybe they can just publish (on the internet) in the states?