What I want to know is what we can do to prevent theft of our rights and freedoms from those who wish to abuse us for their own gain. Does anyone have any ideas, or are we going to allow our governments (and the corporations who are gaining control of them) to make us into second-class citizens for their own greed?
Would someone here be willing to start some sort of a public forum so that we could intelligently discuss how to protect ourselves? Preferably before we can start expecting Miniluv knocking on our doors for having a dissenting opinion (or should that be before we start worshiping Our Ford?).
P.S. Those of you who find my arguments US-centric, take a look around and honestly tell me that you don't find that your country's laws and economy haven't started looking more and more like those of the US over the past couple of decades. Ask yourself how long you think it'll take for new US laws designed to reduce freedoms make their appearances in your country. And remember, ACTA's supposed to be an alliance to do just that, in the name of copyright protection.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-Thomas Jefferson
Yes my country is quickly becoming an oppressive fascist police state too. Thomas Jefferson has the solution who has the balls to organise it. What level of outrage before we fertilise the tree of libery again before it dies?
I have found my plans to sell bags of dirt and small rocks
The guys marketing that as "potting mixture" seem to have no trouble. Their version with plant nutrients seems to be the most popular? Did you include extra plant nutrients or was it just plain sterile dirt and small rocks? Seems to me the Guys marketing as potting mixture seems to include a little bonus with their dirt and small rocks package. Or was it a marketing failure?
Too bad the linked sites are full of numb nuts who only allow access inside the USA. That's too bad else they might have actually recaptured some customers. Oh well.
Yes I am aware one could setup a VPN and gain access.
I don't think Apple has ever determined that they must win.
In the early years Apple (Jobs) wanted to do to IBM what Microsoft (Balmer) wants to do to Google today. In the early days Apple saw IBM as their main competition.
We have a whole box of unsold vista at my store. Last time we sold one was before win7 came out.
I still get the occasional machine with vista on it that needs a repair though. So I think "undead" is an appropriate description. I will still be trying to drive a stake through its heart every time it rears its ugly head.
There is also the possibility that the greens could horse trade censorship for carbon trading or some other environmental pet project they want. Remember these people are polititians.
For me it was a simple change. I couldn't work out why after I left home I had gained weight over a number of years. At age 39 I was diagnosed with diabetes. I narrowed it down with a discussion with my parents that my extra intake was due to sugary cola drinks.
As I don't drink coffee yet I enjoy caffeine to help start my day. Since cutting out the sugared cola and gone to a diet brand I can handle (I really don't want to have to kick the caffeine habit) I have had to make minor changes. Including keeping down the simple carbs as much as possible (even though all my favourite foods are loaded with them). I am losing the extra pounds at the rate I had gained them. I have also been able to get off the injections and pills.
For those of us who gain after leaving home it could be a simple change that is required. My parents used to regulate the cola use as they bought it only rarely. Once I left home it was my own money and I bought what I liked. The gain happened over a long period of time and I didn't notice it.
The president already does that. One would assume they must enjoy it. The president supposedly works for the people. So in a way your already doing that.
Blame the media for focusing attention on them and giving them a platform to launch their tirades of bullshit.
Yeah well maybe now they will pull their heads out of their asses and start finding out what people really want. Getting a Hung parliament should send the message people are getting fed up with the bullshit, lies and spin.
No I will be voting below the line and assigning preferences as pertain to my values and beliefs. One of the edits I will be making will be putting them just above family first party on the bottom of the ticket. I am familiar with that site and have used it's edit facility to customise my ticket.
I'm not saying I agree with the photographer doing what he is doing. I am saying if they valued their privacy they would have been better off with the status quo. Now they have a lot more unwanted attention due to trying to suppress a street view of their house.
I agree that the guy reposting the pictures google had so graciously removed is a jackass. There will always be at least one jackass.
That's why If you want to be anonymous your better off not saying anything. Taking a proactive approach and build a privacy hedge park your car in a garage. That would have preserved their privacy without the unwanted attention that a jackass can bring.
Maybe I could have been more diplomatic in my previous post. Maybe I shouldn't be posting whilst I have been drinking.:P
If they cared about privacy, they wouldn't draw attention to themselves. By distinguishing themselves out of the other millions of people who have had their place of residence indexed on google street view, they have effectively induced the Streisand effect.
If their goal was to feel special then I say mission accomplished.
They also give a free pass to religion. Religious texts are uncensored and do not have to be submitted for censorship. I don't want to have my child exposed to religion at a young impressionable age. I will leave that to him to decide when I think he is intellectually ready for it. I am personally offended by mixing young children and religion. While I do not agree with censorship this latest push for censorship from the Labor party makes me wonder where it will stop.
I'm voting No1 Australian sex party. The two major parties are both shit house it's time to help someone else have a go. And at least when it all goes to hell I won't be to blame.
I had the Killer CPU. Two PSU Motherboard Vid card along with 4 sticks of ram and two HDD. That's right it killed two complete systems. Funny thing is the system would work for about a week then the problems would start.
It was hell to diagnose. the only part not replaced was CPU.
Who the fuck are you, Stephen Conroy? Seeing fucked up shit re minds us of how fucked up the world really is. If you want to bury your head in the sand then I suggest disconnecting your internet and taking your PC in the back yard and bury it six feet down.
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No. It wouldn't. Link -> content remains on the author's web page.
No content is sent to your computer. One could even put forth the argument that it is copied to your computer.
What I want to know is what we can do to prevent theft of our rights and freedoms from those who wish to abuse us for their own gain. Does anyone have any ideas, or are we going to allow our governments (and the corporations who are gaining control of them) to make us into second-class citizens for their own greed?
Would someone here be willing to start some sort of a public forum so that we could intelligently discuss how to protect ourselves? Preferably before we can start expecting Miniluv knocking on our doors for having a dissenting opinion (or should that be before we start worshiping Our Ford?).
P.S. Those of you who find my arguments US-centric, take a look around and honestly tell me that you don't find that your country's laws and economy haven't started looking more and more like those of the US over the past couple of decades. Ask yourself how long you think it'll take for new US laws designed to reduce freedoms make their appearances in your country. And remember, ACTA's supposed to be an alliance to do just that, in the name of copyright protection.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-Thomas Jefferson
Yes my country is quickly becoming an oppressive fascist police state too. Thomas Jefferson has the solution who has the balls to organise it. What level of outrage before we fertilise the tree of libery again before it dies?
I have found my plans to sell bags of dirt and small rocks
The guys marketing that as "potting mixture" seem to have no trouble. Their version with plant nutrients seems to be the most popular? Did you include extra plant nutrients or was it just plain sterile dirt and small rocks? Seems to me the Guys marketing as potting mixture seems to include a little bonus with their dirt and small rocks package. Or was it a marketing failure?
No silicon heaven, where do all the calculators go?
Maybe we need to test the parameters of the limit first. Two is a painfully small sample size. Maybe we could up the sample size to say.....10 000.
Too bad the linked sites are full of numb nuts who only allow access inside the USA. That's too bad else they might have actually recaptured some customers. Oh well.
Yes I am aware one could setup a VPN and gain access.
I don't think Apple has ever determined that they must win.
In the early years Apple (Jobs) wanted to do to IBM what Microsoft (Balmer) wants to do to Google today. In the early days Apple saw IBM as their main competition.
Pics or it didn't happen? Yes.
http://www.edibleapple.com/old-school-steve-jobs-flicks-off-ibm/
http://www.pidjin.net/2010/04/11/stop-me-if-i-can/
We have a whole box of unsold vista at my store. Last time we sold one was before win7 came out.
I still get the occasional machine with vista on it that needs a repair though. So I think "undead" is an appropriate description. I will still be trying to drive a stake through its heart every time it rears its ugly head.
Or the marketing droid told him it would sound better that way. ;)
There is also the possibility that the greens could horse trade censorship for carbon trading or some other environmental pet project they want. Remember these people are polititians.
For me it was a simple change. I couldn't work out why after I left home I had gained weight over a number of years. At age 39 I was diagnosed with diabetes. I narrowed it down with a discussion with my parents that my extra intake was due to sugary cola drinks.
As I don't drink coffee yet I enjoy caffeine to help start my day. Since cutting out the sugared cola and gone to a diet brand I can handle (I really don't want to have to kick the caffeine habit) I have had to make minor changes. Including keeping down the simple carbs as much as possible (even though all my favourite foods are loaded with them). I am losing the extra pounds at the rate I had gained them. I have also been able to get off the injections and pills.
For those of us who gain after leaving home it could be a simple change that is required. My parents used to regulate the cola use as they bought it only rarely. Once I left home it was my own money and I bought what I liked. The gain happened over a long period of time and I didn't notice it.
So fuck them.
The president already does that. One would assume they must enjoy it. The president supposedly works for the people. So in a way your already doing that.
Blame the media for focusing attention on them and giving them a platform to launch their tirades of bullshit.
Government wouldn't like that either. That would equal less people paying taxes.
I guess a hung parliament means I wasn't alone with my voting for none of the above. ;)
If watching film and TV has taught me anything over the years it's that, in any major disaster large American cities are doomed.
Yeah well maybe now they will pull their heads out of their asses and start finding out what people really want. Getting a Hung parliament should send the message people are getting fed up with the bullshit, lies and spin.
No I will be voting below the line and assigning preferences as pertain to my values and beliefs. One of the edits I will be making will be putting them just above family first party on the bottom of the ticket. I am familiar with that site and have used it's edit facility to customise my ticket.
I'm not saying I agree with the photographer doing what he is doing. I am saying if they valued their privacy they would have been better off with the status quo. Now they have a lot more unwanted attention due to trying to suppress a street view of their house.
I agree that the guy reposting the pictures google had so graciously removed is a jackass. There will always be at least one jackass.
That's why If you want to be anonymous your better off not saying anything. Taking a proactive approach and build a privacy hedge park your car in a garage. That would have preserved their privacy without the unwanted attention that a jackass can bring.
Maybe I could have been more diplomatic in my previous post. Maybe I shouldn't be posting whilst I have been drinking. :P
If they cared about privacy, they wouldn't draw attention to themselves. By distinguishing themselves out of the other millions of people who have had their place of residence indexed on google street view, they have effectively induced the Streisand effect.
If their goal was to feel special then I say mission accomplished.
They also give a free pass to religion. Religious texts are uncensored and do not have to be submitted for censorship. I don't want to have my child exposed to religion at a young impressionable age. I will leave that to him to decide when I think he is intellectually ready for it. I am personally offended by mixing young children and religion. While I do not agree with censorship this latest push for censorship from the Labor party makes me wonder where it will stop.
I'm voting No1 Australian sex party. The two major parties are both shit house it's time to help someone else have a go. And at least when it all goes to hell I won't be to blame.
Strangely enough my nine year old hardly ever gets sick. Though he does bring it home for me to errr..... enjoy. ;)
I had the Killer CPU. Two PSU Motherboard Vid card along with 4 sticks of ram and two HDD. That's right it killed two complete systems. Funny thing is the system would work for about a week then the problems would start.
It was hell to diagnose. the only part not replaced was CPU.
If it were legalised and taxed there would be.
You forgot to up the HDD to 500GB?
Who the fuck are you, Stephen Conroy? Seeing fucked up shit re minds us of how fucked up the world really is. If you want to bury your head in the sand then I suggest disconnecting your internet and taking your PC in the back yard and bury it six feet down.