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wilko11 writes "There have been two cases recently where websites have requested the removal of modules from CPAN. These modules could be used to access the websites (EuroTV and Streetmap) from a PERL program. The question being asked on the mailinglists (threads about EuroTV and about Streetmap) is 'can companies dictate what software you can use to access web content from their server?'"
I hate to tell you this, but you are completely wrong.
The cause of so much violence is poor leadership, lax morals, the advent of a philosophy that tells people they are not responsible for their actions.
You didn't kill him, the gun did.
You didn't kill him, the guy who sold you the gun (who also sells guns to millions of other people who didn't kill anyone)--he killed him.
You didn't gamble all your money away, drink too much, hit your wife, and sodomize your daughter. It was the dirty corporate scum who exploited you by paying you, out of the kindness of their filthy hearts, 10 times what they could pay someone in Costa Rica--who needs it much worse than you do--for the same job.
You didn't choose to eat too much at McDonald's, McDonald's used mind control techniques to make you eat too much at McDonald's.
You didn't fail out of school, it was the elitist punk who studied too much and went to Harvard that made you fail out of school.
Because the government spends all its time trying to tell you how to act all day long, it doesn't have time to punish the real criminals, or even defend its own borders. Because you let the government make all your decisions for you, you aren't responsible for any of the outcomes of your actions.
When you take control of someone's life, you are committing a crime worse than murder.
Europe deserves what it gets. France, Germany and Belgium will be Third World countries by the end of this century. If the US isn't careful to not follow their example, we won't be far behind.
Of course, you probably think I'm some simple-minded, hate-filled warmonger. The fact of the matter is that I'm college educated (graduated with honors), give money to charities (probably more than you do), and generally don't like war or violence--I don't even own any guns. It makes me sad to see a continent with such a proud history--a history that is really my own as well--fall into such disrepair. Even in America, it makes me sad to see such a powerful country fall apart.
I fight every chance I get to promote the ideals that will save us; while people like you roll over and let it all slip away.