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Ukraine Tries to Avoid U.S. Trade Restrictions
GMFTatsujin writes: "In response to the threat of US trade sanctions, the Ukraine parliament hastily passed an anti-piracy bill aimed at reducing the bootlegged CD problem. I especially liked this quote from this Wired article: '"We are deeply disappointed that Ukraine has not passed an effective law and instead is rushing through an ineffective law," said Eric Schwartz, vice president and special counsel of the International Intellectual Property Alliance." This is a follow-up to our story of two weeks ago about Ukraine not complying with U.S. demands for 'an optical media licensing regime.'
You call Ukraine weak???!? Ukraine is strong!!
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/1/17/21155/1 564/65#65
Jamie posted in the article about the thread in the Oracle story. Link above; quoted below:
If you're so dumb that you post off-topic comments and think it's horrible, evil censorship when they get moderated off-topic, then great, please leave Slashdot. Go away. I'm serious. You're an idiot and you won't contribute anything of value anyway.
Everyone who's still here: please note that Slashdot lets you create a discussion about anything you want. If you're logged in you can write a journal entry about anything you want. Pick the topic, go nuts and start posting to it. Hundreds of people have done this.
Join them! Write journals! Write lots of journal entries and comments to other people's journal entries, and start your own anonymous discussions. And if you want, make them all about those evil programmers who wrote the code to let you post journals and start discussions, and how we're not actually enabling you to speak, we're censoring you. It's postmodern, ironic fun for all! Whee!
That's not enough for you? Fine -- we even sometimes run front-page stories about Slashdot's code and moderation system, like the one we did earlier this month. If you want to gripe about moderation, go for it, there's an on-topic place to do it.
But if editors (who of course have unlimited mod points, we've said this before) happen to notice off-topic threads taking over stories, we moderate them as such. Duh.
So basically, if you disagree with what the editors are doing to that thread, you're "dumb" and an "idiot."
Also, it doesn't matter if the community finds the thread to be interesting. Apparently, it's all up to the editors instead. Community-based? Ha!
I am probably going to lose karma for posting off topic, but oh well.
Trolls are not censored on slashdot. they are modded down. Their input, such as it is, remains a part of the discussion. But people who don't want to see it can chose to browse at 0 or 1. Anyone who likes the trolls, they can read at -1. Just like I do.
granted, but it's still a pro-censrship move when in entire thread gets bitchslapped to -1. someone doesn't want everyone reading that thread, and, with the tools at hand, bitchslapping the entire thread is the best way to achieve that goal.
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Your first Seinfeld-related comment was very amusing. You've nullified your efforts entirely with this second attempt. You fool, for shame.
YUO = pr0n k1ng. you obvious son of a bitch.
Maybe the thread gets censored because you're drawing so much negative attention to it by posting off-topic about it in other threads, which is pissing off the people that have moderator points and encouraging them to go waste their points in that thread.
Geez, even if it really is a conspiracy against you, who the fuck cares? It's a website. If you want to help a cause, join the EFF or the Red Cross or something. Don't waste your time on something as insignificant as a poor moderation system on some random website.
I'm drunk and posting from Russia so I might even call a number you give me...
where would you propse it be discussed? starbucks?
Ukraine strong is nation in world.
Yes. Or, as someone else mentioned elsewhere, download the source to slash, implement a better moderation system, and demonstrate that it's better.
The people with mod points don't care if the mod system is broken, because they have mod points. The ones without mod points, for the most part, don't care either.
If you want to fix it, then get off your ass and fix it -- don't whine about it. If you really just want to troll, stick to the hot grits and natalie portman. Either way you're going to get modded down, because that's what the system is built for.
Props.
mad props. you sure told him!
people who get stoned shouldn't throw glass houses!
From Janes.com:
u ri ty/news/jid/jid020114_1_n.shtml
http://www.janes.com/security/international_sec
Belarus, Ukraine and the separatist Trans-Dniester region of Moldova have all shipped arms to Chechen rebels and the Taliban despite their protestations of support for Russia's continuing campaign with separatists and Islamic fundamentalists.