Unfortunately, yes, suing will often be the only way.
Don't forget that too many websites are driven by marketoids whose world revolves around bullshit. Bullshit being the absence of substance, it is clear that those bullshitter will try to hide their absence of content behind smokescreens made out of Javascript and flash.
And marketoids consider themselves artists, and there are no people more willing to shove useless crap down people's throats than artists.
I think it is also dangerous to build your world view around the desire to get free music and software. Your points will also have much more weight if you will sign your name. But then of course you will then have to take responsibility for your posts.
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Is that Timothy Cambpell of the old "SASSY" BBS? The "Tim Cambell who sucks gerbil cocks"??? If so, well, I'm Josif (remeber Josif, your friendly arch-nemesis???).
Oh, and being thoroughly french, WE do not believe in personal responsibility.
Your disrespect surprises me. Ayn Rand has had a dramatic and positive impact on the world you enjoy today. L. Ron Hubbard? Was that a serious comparison? Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes (Scientologists) are not Alan Greenspan and Ronald Reagan (fans of Rand).
Positive impact? Positive impacts of Alan Greenspan (choking the Economy during depressions to prevent inflation to prevent the little guys from improving their lot in life) or Ronald Reagan (unleashing a horde of money-grubbing henchmen that think nothing of wrecking whole sectors of the economy at the expense of most people working there)??? Such assholes are not worthy of disrespect, but nothing less than a bullet in the head for inflicting so much suffering upon Mankind!!!
Once you do read up a little, you'll learn that fundamentally she illustrates simply that it is best if everyone chooses their own path and should not be forced to carry others.
Funny though that the assholes who are Ayn Rand fans are very good at having everyone else carry their burden, parasitic as they are...
Ayn Rand is nothing but a bunch of cavemenistic "might is right" crap, always the same kind that had done so much trhoughout History to disseminate pain, suffering and sorrow through Mankind...
Despite your callow question about the 911 firefighters, I will give you the courtesy of a serious reply. The 911 firefighters are heroes for many things, which I'm sure we would both agree on, but also in an objectivist sense, for the integrity with which they honored their job.
Thank to their self sacrifice so assholes like you (the root cause of the terrorist attacks) could live and continue to spread suffering???
Read up some more. You'll be much happier.
Because one will turn-up like a pillaging cavemen who enjoys spreading suffering????
Good story, wrong lesson. The lesson is nature is nature and human nature is human nature. To deny it is to deny the sun and the earth. Stop living off others. You're making yourself miserable. Here's some homework for you: http://www.aynrand.org/
Ayn Rand is nothing but caveman crap. That shit is regurgitated from the deepest pits of mankind's cesspools that even the old-testament patriarchs (you know, those who eat their children) would consider it "shoot on sight" stuff, lest it made their brains recess well beyond the ape-stage (as this would definitely prove the validity of Darwin's "origin of species").
Ayn Rand crap is touted by people who have no sense of Civilization, and solely view their own self enrichment as the only thing in the world; actually, precisely like those DRM lawyers.
Whenever someone talks about Ayn Rand, one can be sure that this fellow is at the mental level of a caveman, and has no humanity beyond what it takes to swing a club and enjoy his own little superiority over others to rape, pillage and plunder the weaker.
A few months ago, we wandered into a chemical plant plant (you know, the kind with whole tank cars full of nasty chemicals), looking for the guy in charge (it must have been two in the morning). While we waited in the control room, we could not help but notice that the computers were all running Windows...
I have no hairy hands, yet I already have masturbated twice to date today: once while taking my shower this morning, and a second time at work before lunch (yes, I masturbate at work whenever I take a jerk-off break). I plan to further masturbate at least twice more today, or maybe three if I'm exceptionally horny (on a good day, I can masturbate as much as seven times).
This was the legal basis for the old USSR to criminalize Bible smugglers. It is often helpful to remind Christians of this when debating ill conceived government censorship programs. I am a Christian, and I despise pornography.
So, therefore, you see nothing wrong in shoving your views down every one else's throats. Just because you were too stupid to find naked pictures in order to facilitate your masturbation sessions as a kid doesn't mean that you should make life harder on those people who don't...
For a change, let me shove my views down your throat. I believe that your addiction of bullshit stories (the bible) is very bad for society, because it promotes superstition, it let people be bullshitted by control-freaks so they lose their self-control of their lifes.
So, you are not allowed to show a bible to children, and teach them religion, as this can adversely affect their minds, and render them into helpless psychologically-dependent people who cannot run their own life.
It destroys the viewers sex life, and in cases of violent addiction those of many others around him (it is usually a male).
I have read heart wrenching letters from women, one of them I know personally, who have no sex life because their husband would rather do himself in front of a picture.
Has it occured to you that, perhaps, the bitch is a bit stuck-up, is a religious hag, or is a dog and is unable to sexually satisfy her husband who cannot therefore be blamed for using pornography to masturbate???
Nevertheless, what words or images act as pornography varies with the culture and individual.
Yeah, so you're perfectly free to despise pr0n, but just make sure you keep your social dictates off my face. Otherwise, it will be a pleasure for me to shove that fucking bible in your asshole page by page, without vaseline.
Machines might be able to recognize images containing bare skin, but bare skin is not pornography. It might be possible to create a bayesian like filter that could be trained to block text and images offensive to an individual. Or an individual can hire a service that shares his/her values to do the filtering. The government (US or AU) does *not* share my values.
How about keeping an open mind (of course, this is impossible for a religious type, because religion is first and foremost about closing minds)???
For my own family, I check authentication and do bayesian content filtering using pymilter for email. I use squid with a "safesites" list for kids and a "bannedsites" list (obtained from the browsing habits of porn addicted employees of my clients who couldn't stop on their own during working hours) for adults. I use pine to screen my personal email (no images) and lynx to screen websites before adding to safesites.
So, just because you're afraid of seeing the bodies of fellow human beings, you deprive yourself of technology... How about learning morse code? Your technological whereabouts would be even more painful this way... With smoke signals, you can also have tear in your eyes, and, if you're careful enough, burn your fingers for more pain.
Tell me, by inflicting all that pain on yourself and on others, what is your ultimate goal? Do you seriously expect that there will be a "great suffering reckoning" some day which will bring you goodies just because you sufferred and made other people suffer?
If so, this is the greatest testimonial to the terminally assinine stupidity of religious people (I lump together christians, jews and muslims, but feel free to include other assholes in there).
Some of the students in a beginning programming class I teach were unable to browse web pages on group theory, klein bottles, and other topics which I really doubt acted as porn for anyone alive now or throughout history. They were
Not dominated, guided, but that totally depends upon the parents. They have a responsibility to society for rearing well-adjusted children. Yes, this is an ideal that is not necessarily carried out. Witness all the bastard children, and adults for that matter, who don't know shit about their country and have no notion that they should be responsibile for the consequences of their actions. Witness the welfare-warfare state at work.
Actually, no. Stupîd people is not a hallmark of welfare states, but rather of bourgeois-run states. Bourgeois have absolutely no use for educated, intelligent people: they tend not to buy the crap they sell to people, and keep questionning the orientations the bourgeois try to imprint on society.
For the bourgeois, intelligent, educated people are therefore the kind of people they's RATHER NOT see around them. This is the reason why bourgeois-run countries have such rock-bottom quality public education systems, like one can see in the USA (the proverbial bourgeois-run country).
In the US, the majority of the people are deliberately dumbed-down, so when they have jobs, they will not question anything about their work and blindingly peform any senseless or illegal act when asked by their bosses; in addition, they will also stupidly buy the crap that is shoved at them trough advertisements and peer pressure without the slightest question.
Overflowing the complaint system is the solution. Most complaints come from a very narrow set of individuals. This could be easily defeated:
Let's organize a loosely coordinated network that would, for every given TV programme, send, say, some 120 complaints or so. Each sender sould not sent more than 1 complaint per week, in order to sufficiently randomize the sample; the idea is that the onslaught of complaints coming from all over the place will overwhelm the FCC complaint-reception system, thus diluting the whole effot by those right wingnuts.
Your prostate is nowhere (topologically) near your asshole.
Ever wondered why some people like to be fucked in the ass? That's because the fucking dick rubs against the fucked prostate, and this enhances the orgasm the fuckee experiences. See for yourself.
Of course, you don't have to use an actual penis to do this, a dildo will do fine.
In business, more than anywhere else, you have to know how to say "no". Sometimes you have to terminate a customer. This could be a good opportunity to do so.
Absolutely. You want to pass obviously unconstitutional legislation? Your consitutents can pay the bills. After enough money down the tube, perhaps they'll think twice before electing you again.
There should be penalties for passing anticonstitutional laws.
Something like barred from office for life for proposing the law, and being kicked-out of office at once for voting for someone else's law.
Taking care of people today is counter-productive and can destroy opportunities in the future.
For three generations, the American South had a reputation for degeneracy and sloth that had affected blacks and whites.
That ended when the Rockfeller Foundation made the first serious and sustained effort to eliminate hookworm and other endemic diseases.
The sick and starving cannot help themselves. You must begin at the beginning.
You're trying to explain to a blind man what are colours...
This guy has been terminally lobotomized by the libertarian mantra which says that only money can solve every problem in the known universe, and that anything that hinders the flow of money (preferably into his own pockets) is double plus ungood...
... I want to make sure that money is spent with accountability. I am sick of giving money to the UN only to see it taking care of people who don't need help. I also am sick of giving money locally to charities who spend more on their own needs than the needs of the poor.
It is assholy stupid people like you who insist on Goverments being run as cheaply as possible (well, like private entreprises), causing them to skimp on salaries that is the direct cause of the rampant corruption one can see throughout turd-world countries.
Your politics are the root source of the problem, not the solution!!!!
While I think Gates is right to mock these laptops, I don't think he understands the realities of the problems of helping others around the world. The only thing that helps others is letting them find or create their own opportunities to better their futures. Taking care of people today is counter-productive and can destroy opportunities in the future.
Computers don't make opportunities. Teachers don't make opportunities. Public funding of projects, businesses and markets doesn't make opportunities. Opportunities come when a given community finds that is can accomplish something that others in a market want.
What a fuckinly assinine yankee viewpoint. Yankees view ***EVERYTHING*** in terms of money; money to be made, money to be lost. Everything in life boils down to a "market", to "opportunities". Outside of the Holy Market, you might as well die. Ever wondered why, with an attitude like that, people are willing to kill themselves while flying aircraft into your buildings just to drive home the point that you suck, big-time???
Assholes like you are the ones who started the war on terror, and it's a war assholes won't win.
To stay a bit on topic: I recently spent quite a bit of time researching the Swedes, and I'm very surprised at the amounts of freedoms they had in a country that has typically been considered socialist. I think they'd be a dream country for most Progressives (which means it would be a nightmare for me), but it surprises me how many rights they still retain that we gave up in the US a long, long time ago. The freedom to do what you want with products you physically own is a great freedom, in fact I believe it is the basis for freedom. The freedom to do what you want with your labor and your mind is included in that freedom, and that is why I am against intellectual property rights in every way.
The fact that socialism is touted as an "ennemy of freedom" is the biggest political lie westerners are spoonfed by the bourgeois. Extensive social programs, such as chidren day care, universal medical insurance and unemployment insurance go a very long way in protecting the economic freedom of the little guys.
And even then, very often, social programs are implemented to suit big companies. Take unemployment insurance in Canada, for example. It was not implemented to allow people to take time off from their job, but rather to allow seasonal industries to layoff workers without any social pangs.
Likewise, in british Hong-Kong, hardly a parangon of socialism, rents were strictly controlled, only to make sure that employers would not face strikes of their workers asking for more money to pay for their increasing rents.
And about universal medical insurance, I am willing to bet that within a few years, the USA will have a canadian-style universal health-care system, simply because the big corporations cannot pay for their employee health-care anymore.
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Of course, any new social paradigm, such as open-source, which challenges "current" intellectual "property" paradigms will stir controversy...
Don't forget that too many websites are driven by marketoids whose world revolves around bullshit. Bullshit being the absence of substance, it is clear that those bullshitter will try to hide their absence of content behind smokescreens made out of Javascript and flash.
And marketoids consider themselves artists, and there are no people more willing to shove useless crap down people's throats than artists.
Oh, and being thoroughly french, WE do not believe in personal responsibility.
For Dada, the State has not business other than enforcing his business will upon others, and making sure his wage slaves do not rebel against him.
If he wants to impose his will upon someone who lives thousands of miles from him, the State should take all means possible to do so.
As a bourgeois, Dada only wants the whole world to conform to his standard of mediocrity.
You must have a pretty small brain to be impressed by DADA's cavemen arguments...
Ayn Rand is nothing but a bunch of cavemenistic "might is right" crap, always the same kind that had done so much trhoughout History to disseminate pain, suffering and sorrow through Mankind...
Thank to their self sacrifice so assholes like you (the root cause of the terrorist attacks) could live and continue to spread suffering??? Because one will turn-up like a pillaging cavemen who enjoys spreading suffering????Ayn Rand is nothing but caveman crap. That shit is regurgitated from the deepest pits of mankind's cesspools that even the old-testament patriarchs (you know, those who eat their children) would consider it "shoot on sight" stuff, lest it made their brains recess well beyond the ape-stage (as this would definitely prove the validity of Darwin's "origin of species").
Ayn Rand crap is touted by people who have no sense of Civilization, and solely view their own self enrichment as the only thing in the world; actually, precisely like those DRM lawyers.
Whenever someone talks about Ayn Rand, one can be sure that this fellow is at the mental level of a caveman, and has no humanity beyond what it takes to swing a club and enjoy his own little superiority over others to rape, pillage and plunder the weaker.
A few months ago, we wandered into a chemical plant plant (you know, the kind with whole tank cars full of nasty chemicals), looking for the guy in charge (it must have been two in the morning). While we waited in the control room, we could not help but notice that the computers were all running Windows...
I have no hairy hands, yet I already have masturbated twice to date today: once while taking my shower this morning, and a second time at work before lunch (yes, I masturbate at work whenever I take a jerk-off break). I plan to further masturbate at least twice more today, or maybe three if I'm exceptionally horny (on a good day, I can masturbate as much as seven times).
So, therefore, you see nothing wrong in shoving your views down every one else's throats. Just because you were too stupid to find naked pictures in order to facilitate your masturbation sessions as a kid doesn't mean that you should make life harder on those people who don't...
For a change, let me shove my views down your throat. I believe that your addiction of bullshit stories (the bible) is very bad for society, because it promotes superstition, it let people be bullshitted by control-freaks so they lose their self-control of their lifes.
So, you are not allowed to show a bible to children, and teach them religion, as this can adversely affect their minds, and render them into helpless psychologically-dependent people who cannot run their own life.
Has it occured to you that, perhaps, the bitch is a bit stuck-up, is a religious hag, or is a dog and is unable to sexually satisfy her husband who cannot therefore be blamed for using pornography to masturbate???
Yeah, so you're perfectly free to despise pr0n, but just make sure you keep your social dictates off my face. Otherwise, it will be a pleasure for me to shove that fucking bible in your asshole page by page, without vaseline.
How about keeping an open mind (of course, this is impossible for a religious type, because religion is first and foremost about closing minds)???
So, just because you're afraid of seeing the bodies of fellow human beings, you deprive yourself of technology... How about learning morse code? Your technological whereabouts would be even more painful this way... With smoke signals, you can also have tear in your eyes, and, if you're careful enough, burn your fingers for more pain.
Tell me, by inflicting all that pain on yourself and on others, what is your ultimate goal? Do you seriously expect that there will be a "great suffering reckoning" some day which will bring you goodies just because you sufferred and made other people suffer?
If so, this is the greatest testimonial to the terminally assinine stupidity of religious people (I lump together christians, jews and muslims, but feel free to include other assholes in there).
For the bourgeois, intelligent, educated people are therefore the kind of people they's RATHER NOT see around them. This is the reason why bourgeois-run countries have such rock-bottom quality public education systems, like one can see in the USA (the proverbial bourgeois-run country).
In the US, the majority of the people are deliberately dumbed-down, so when they have jobs, they will not question anything about their work and blindingly peform any senseless or illegal act when asked by their bosses; in addition, they will also stupidly buy the crap that is shoved at them trough advertisements and peer pressure without the slightest question.
My pr0n involves ch1x0r wearing spandex or rubber. The less skin visible, the better.
I guess it's not very effective, then...
Let's organize a loosely coordinated network that would, for every given TV programme, send, say, some 120 complaints or so. Each sender sould not sent more than 1 complaint per week, in order to sufficiently randomize the sample; the idea is that the onslaught of complaints coming from all over the place will overwhelm the FCC complaint-reception system, thus diluting the whole effot by those right wingnuts.
Of course, you don't have to use an actual penis to do this, a dildo will do fine.
Enjoy.
In other news, cause for Mexican-food flatulence not determined yet.
Something like barred from office for life for proposing the law, and being kicked-out of office at once for voting for someone else's law.
This guy has been terminally lobotomized by the libertarian mantra which says that only money can solve every problem in the known universe, and that anything that hinders the flow of money (preferably into his own pockets) is double plus ungood...
Your politics are the root source of the problem, not the solution!!!!
Assholes like you are the ones who started the war on terror, and it's a war assholes won't win.
And even then, very often, social programs are implemented to suit big companies. Take unemployment insurance in Canada, for example. It was not implemented to allow people to take time off from their job, but rather to allow seasonal industries to layoff workers without any social pangs.
Likewise, in british Hong-Kong, hardly a parangon of socialism, rents were strictly controlled, only to make sure that employers would not face strikes of their workers asking for more money to pay for their increasing rents.
And about universal medical insurance, I am willing to bet that within a few years, the USA will have a canadian-style universal health-care system, simply because the big corporations cannot pay for their employee health-care anymore.
What will it take to make sure the First Amendment is no longer trampled here and there???? Here, the school district is acting like a bully...
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