Personally, I've never interacted with a cop who wasn't a lazy, cowardly, meat-headed bully scumbag with little concern for the law and open contempt for his fellow citizens. Villains and thugs every last one.
Have you really had such radically different experiences? I'm a big nerd, totally non-violent. The kind of person who when I was younger and stupider thought the pigs were obviously on my side. Then I lived in nasty filthy violent American big cities for a while, and saw what contemptible gangsters the cops really are.
Are you speaking from lived experience, or from what the bigmedia told you to think about the pigs?
so when your boss asks you to sign a non-disclosure, it's unconstitutional? clearly your freedom of speech is being violated
The US Constitution is an old piece of paper in a glass case. Nice tourist attraction, but of little relevance to the actual exercise of juridical power under the empire. (Thanks SKCOTUS!)
But yeah, non disclosure contracts certainly do constrain a person's freedom of speech. Some people think it's a-okay to stifle speech provided it's done in the name of private capital (as opposed to public authority). Whereas other people think that's not so okay. Value judgement etc.
What YOU don't apparently get is that when we talk about "free speech," we're talking about your speech being free from government infringement. That has nothing to do with private businesses and gathering places.
No, that's what you are talking about when you say "free speech". The rest of us are talking about, like you know, actual freedom.
This is the same line of reasoning that says it's okay to ban free speech in "privately owned" public places such as shopping malls, outdoor plazas, etc. From a legal-formalist perspective that is willfully blind to reality and cares not a whit for freedom, such bans on speech are A-okay. But in practice it means that outside a few old city centers, today there is nowhere in the USA where controversial speech is permitted in public.
Anonymous is a brand not a group. A free brand that anyone can use if they want. What the brand represents is just the aggregate of the many individual actions done and opinions put forth under its banner. How has this purported attack impacted the Anonymous brand?
Typical of semi-official "professional" journalism, TFA does not give any details about the target(s) of the DOS attack. But isn't that a key piece of information if we want to understand the situation? The alleged attackers could be engaged in civic activism, a boycott / blockade / picket line, vandalism, extortion, insurgency, (anti-)religious fanaticism, guerrilla war (with or without a traditional government sponsor or opponent) - anything really. Or they could just be script kiddies in it for the lulz. Does not our perception of the attack, and thus of the attackers, depend in greatest part upon the target?
So a smarmy guy makes a website to host homemade pornos of questionable provenance, then tries to charge prudes to have their videos removed. Pretty unsavory and undesirable, but it didn't physically harm anyone. In response the Kangaroo Kourt sentenced him to nearly two decades of daily rape and torture. I fear our legal apparatus has abandoned all sense of proportion in its mad rush to satisfy a lust for revenge.
How can we even speak of reform, when the hands of every judge in the Empire are soaked and dripping with blood?
Why do people still use Reddit? My impression is that it's so heavily censored as to be utterly worthless as a "news" site, and has been for many years. Am I missing something?
What job titles and keywords are used in ads for troll operator positions? I would love to read some of their job postings.
Reading job ads is a good way to see what the Empire is actually working on. For instance, if you work on databases, the job ads in Northern Virginia are just fascinating. Read them for a while if you wish to be disabused of the silly notion that we live in a free republic. Similarly, I suspect job ads for troll operators would give some insight into the ideologies and memes promulgated by the financialist cybernetic police state.
My neighborhood bar uses an old mechanical cash register - the kind you pull a lever to operate. Pretty sure it will work just fine even without internet connectivity to China.
I wouldn't say DICSS is a particularly useful piece of software, and I doubt it's gonna get very wide adoption. But it's a real Javascript library released under the MIT license. IMHO both the README and the parts of the source code are hilarious. YMMV.
The author of DICSS seems like a pretty good comedian. If lewd humor gets your knickers in a twist, you might prefer his Artisanal Javascript page instead.
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Personally, I've never interacted with a cop who wasn't a lazy, cowardly, meat-headed bully scumbag with little concern for the law and open contempt for his fellow citizens. Villains and thugs every last one.
Have you really had such radically different experiences? I'm a big nerd, totally non-violent. The kind of person who when I was younger and stupider thought the pigs were obviously on my side. Then I lived in nasty filthy violent American big cities for a while, and saw what contemptible gangsters the cops really are.
Are you speaking from lived experience, or from what the bigmedia told you to think about the pigs?
Do I smell bacon?
so when your boss asks you to sign a non-disclosure, it's unconstitutional? clearly your freedom of speech is being violated
The US Constitution is an old piece of paper in a glass case. Nice tourist attraction, but of little relevance to the actual exercise of juridical power under the empire. (Thanks SKCOTUS!)
But yeah, non disclosure contracts certainly do constrain a person's freedom of speech. Some people think it's a-okay to stifle speech provided it's done in the name of private capital (as opposed to public authority). Whereas other people think that's not so okay. Value judgement etc.
Neo-Liberalism destroys nations.
In America they call themselves "Centrists".
Kangaroo Court rules no one is allowed to challenge the diktats of Kangaroo Court. Surprise surprise.
The cartoonist who does XKCD is a skilled humorist, but a lousy political philosopher.
There is a big difference between dissenting political speech and truly hateful speech. Everyone can see the difference
I can't.
What YOU don't apparently get is that when we talk about "free speech," we're talking about your speech being free from government infringement. That has nothing to do with private businesses and gathering places.
No, that's what you are talking about when you say "free speech". The rest of us are talking about, like you know, actual freedom.
And users of the internet, in turn, have the right to call them out as freedom-hating douche nozzles for it.
FTFY ;)
This is the same line of reasoning that says it's okay to ban free speech in "privately owned" public places such as shopping malls, outdoor plazas, etc. From a legal-formalist perspective that is willfully blind to reality and cares not a whit for freedom, such bans on speech are A-okay. But in practice it means that outside a few old city centers, today there is nowhere in the USA where controversial speech is permitted in public.
fact
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a strongly-held opinion
Anonymous is a brand not a group. A free brand that anyone can use if they want. What the brand represents is just the aggregate of the many individual actions done and opinions put forth under its banner. How has this purported attack impacted the Anonymous brand?
Typical of semi-official "professional" journalism, TFA does not give any details about the target(s) of the DOS attack. But isn't that a key piece of information if we want to understand the situation? The alleged attackers could be engaged in civic activism, a boycott / blockade / picket line, vandalism, extortion, insurgency, (anti-)religious fanaticism, guerrilla war (with or without a traditional government sponsor or opponent) - anything really. Or they could just be script kiddies in it for the lulz. Does not our perception of the attack, and thus of the attackers, depend in greatest part upon the target?
How so?
So a smarmy guy makes a website to host homemade pornos of questionable provenance, then tries to charge prudes to have their videos removed. Pretty unsavory and undesirable, but it didn't physically harm anyone. In response the Kangaroo Kourt sentenced him to nearly two decades of daily rape and torture. I fear our legal apparatus has abandoned all sense of proportion in its mad rush to satisfy a lust for revenge.
How can we even speak of reform, when the hands of every judge in the Empire are soaked and dripping with blood?
Do I smell bacon?
In cybernetic capitalism the distinction between government and corporate is a false dichotomy.
NSA's domestic spying is highly secretive and covert.
They run away from any sunlight and do not engage in propaganda, which would've blown their secrets.
So which organizations ("government" or "corporate") are responsible for our domestic propaganda ops?
Why do people still use Reddit? My impression is that it's so heavily censored as to be utterly worthless as a "news" site, and has been for many years. Am I missing something?
What job titles and keywords are used in ads for troll operator positions? I would love to read some of their job postings.
Reading job ads is a good way to see what the Empire is actually working on. For instance, if you work on databases, the job ads in Northern Virginia are just fascinating. Read them for a while if you wish to be disabused of the silly notion that we live in a free republic. Similarly, I suspect job ads for troll operators would give some insight into the ideologies and memes promulgated by the financialist cybernetic police state.
My neighborhood bar uses an old mechanical cash register - the kind you pull a lever to operate. Pretty sure it will work just fine even without internet connectivity to China.
I wouldn't say DICSS is a particularly useful piece of software, and I doubt it's gonna get very wide adoption. But it's a real Javascript library released under the MIT license. IMHO both the README and the parts of the source code are hilarious. YMMV.
The author of DICSS seems like a pretty good comedian. If lewd humor gets your knickers in a twist, you might prefer his Artisanal Javascript page instead.
Except it's definitely software, and definitely open source. So you just want Github to censor READMEs you don't like?
There is no defense. Accusation is guilt.
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