More importantly than whatever final list ICANN comes up with, there needs to be a Black Flag of sorts within DNS. An anarchistic wastland where all domains are first come, first served, all registrations final, and over which all lawsuits are prohibited.
DNS needs a ".alt" top level domain.
When the Big 7 newsgroups were being drafted on USENET just prior to the great flag day, this simple need was recognized practically from day one and.alt was born (and is today bigger than all the Big 7 groups combined).
Flame all you want, but without a dumping ground where anything goes without restrictions, the trash will not go away. It will seep into all areas of the "approved TLDs".
If an.alt TLD is set up, it will make rule violations in the remaining TLDs much easier to enforce because there will always be an alternative. "You didn't have to create [domain] here".
Trap the rats with no way to register their profane, controversial, questionable, or whatever-offends-whoever domains and they'll start clawing at the walls of whatever other heirarchy they can get at.
Remember, in the Big 7 newsgroups, there was no room for sex or drugs, so these because the very first two alt groups.
Even the cleanest, most orderly city still has a garbage dump.
Burn thousands of acres of foliage around the top secret facility to force it evacuated, then move in and steal the data. Yeah, the fire was just a controlled burn that somehow got out of the control of the "experts" who set it. Musta slipped up, eh? Oops. Then the fire and smoke forces Los Alamos to evacuate. Now data and files turn up missing. Wow, that's quite a coincidence. It'll all look legit and no one will suspect... until it's too late.
Just think if the lending library did not yet exist; if the only way to read books was to go and buy them.
Now suppose that Benjamin Franklin was alive today and just now proposed the idea that large buildings be constructed with taxpayer dollars and more of those tax dollars be used to purchase books and magazines (copyrighted material) so that the public can come anytime and read these materials freely.
The print publishers would FLY INTO A RAGE and call Franklin every dirty name they could think of from "thief" to "crook" to, yes, even "pirate" who is "opposed to people profitting from their hard work" and "taking the food out of baby's mouths bacause writers won't be able to support their families anymore", and how all publications and writing will end because there's no money in it anymore.
Of course, today, Franklin would have proposed that libraries included software, video, and audio, and indeed, all copyrighted works. Today, many public libraries today do lend VHS and CDs. And it wasn't just for the purpose of education and betterment of the public. Most books were an entertainment medium in the 18th century as much as movies are today. So don't isolate Franklin's idea as having only altruistic motives.
Who would say that closing all libraries would be a GOOD idea? Very few I'll wager. Why should it be any different when it comes to CDs/movies/software than it is with books/mags?
And oh yes, despite the existance of libraries, (gasp!) people still make money and can even (choke!) earn a living as writers and publishers. Well imagine that. Free access to copyrighted books and magazines didn't kill the industry after all. In fact, it expanded it. Just like VHS rentals home video sales resulted in Hollywood making more money today from home video sales than it ever did or ever will from theatrical ticket sales (despite the Great VCR lawsuit against Sony's Betamax).
Ever rent a movie, video game, book, or magazine. Then you too are as much a pirate and thief as you label others to be. Libraries even install photocopy machines at taxpayer expense. What's all that about? I see no harm here.
Snippets from many comments and the articles itself:
These porting people should know that bogomips does not relate to the processor's performance.
The BogoMIPS value is a measure of how many million times per second a processor can perform "do nothing" executions. It's measured at startup and used to tweak some timing loops in the kernel. From a marketing standpoint, however, there is absolutely nothing sexxy about publishing how good your cpu is at doing nothing.
But both Bogomips and a boot log can hardly show the real advantages
since it's in the pre-production stages, they removed the BOGOMIPS value.
Obviously plenty of people think the bogomips value is SO FSCKING IMPORTANT that they felt it necessary to hide it and then claim that it has no meaning? THis is like the gov't claming there's no base near groom lake, Nevada, and infact that there's nothing there at all, yet threatens to arrest/detain/kill (signs say "use of deadly force authorized") anyone who tries to go there.
Get over yourselves. Bogomips matter. Your own paranoia over them just proves it all the more.
"...this product may not be used to disparage Microsoft or its employees or management..."
"...this product [e.g., a compiler] may not be used to create a product which competes with this one..."
"...[companyname] reserves the right to alter or revoke this EULA at any time and for any reason and without having to provide notification...and that you agree to these terms by using [softwareprocuct]..."
"...reverse engineering, disassembly, or any analysis of program code for any reason is prohibited..."
"...license is non-transferrable and must be surrendered to [companyname] upon termination for any reason..."
Linus could pervert the kernel to another agenda except that there are a lot in the kernel that isn't his, and you can see that when you read the source comments.
Linus can only prevent the kernel from being sold under the "Linux" name. The kernel is GPL'd and as such anyone can repackage and resell it under any made up name and Linus cannot stop that. Linus only controls the use of the "Linux" trademark name.
The web was a superrior reimplementation of and has far more in common with gopher (invented at the U of Minnesota, that's in the USA) than with tim berners-lee. Geez, you might as well say that whoever invented the idea of a bibliography is the true creator of the web. Bull. Fucking-euro. Shit.
You still have "licence to use Win". So copy a CD!
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Even if your copy of windoes is the "restore CD" version. It's still a single user windows license, right? So find a copy of the full version (not hard if your job is software related) and burn yourself a CDR copy of that full version of windows.
This does not violate the law or the EULA, nor its spirit.
MS is just proving yet again that it is a manipulative dominating monopoly that SCREAMS to be broken up. They'ce shown zero remorse nor any attempt to "fix things" since the DOJ investigation bagan. They've slapped more people in the face with their practises time and time again, from the "we're going to be pissing on JFC at every opportunity" [Halloween papers] to threatening PC makers with "**all** your products run windows or none will". Pure spoiled brat behaviour. MS so deserves to be busted down as hard as possible.
And then a script (which could also be run from the command line) could be run that does the apt-get of the.deb files and installs "the rest of the system", for those that want it. The free-software-or-DIE crowd doesn't have to run the script, yes? But offer a CHOICE. Or do you Debian folks PH33R to facilitate free decisions and free thinking by the Linux user?
Siezed all his equipment? When has that ever been done before in a libel case?
On the bright side, this kid will have a nice scolarship fund to put away for college after he sues the police for violating his civil rights (due process).
There aren't enough programmers in Canada to meet the requirement!
And all of the (now required) French text in Windows will have to be in a twice as big font in Quebec!
Check out Vampire Miyu. Far creepier.
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Vampire Hunter D tries to scare you with lots of physical gore. Yawn.
If you're into psychological fear and terror (you like Lain), then you must see Vampire Miyu.
For a vampire story, there's virtually no blood, but plenty of things to creep you out when you're alone in the dark.
Do it & it's adios. I'll tell banner ad folks too.
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What percentage of ALL slashdot posts are from ACs and that are NOT moderated down? ACs are the great equalizer that allows people to speak freely without the Fear of God from their employers firing them, or suing them, or otherwise harming them in any way for telling the evil truths about what they know from the inside.
Th ban ACs is to tacitly sanction the status quo of "shut up or we'll bury you".
It's why the rape crisis hotlines are anonymous. It's whi the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have anonymous tip crime lines. It's why the media has legal protection from and cannot be forced to reveal the source of their news stories.
Will ACs also abuse their power? Certainly. Then again, the crime rate was much lower in the Soviet Union than in a free society. Shold all freedoms be abolished in exchange for a little more order? (that can be filtered out by setting your threshold appropriately anyway.)?
I don't want to live in the world where every time you visit a sight you get a call at home from a salesman, or every time you download a file you get someone sending you and email that offer the full featured version of that software for the low-low price of 29.95 + shipping.
Then you must be PRO kiddie porn.
At least this is how issues like this are turned into law in congress. Worst case scenarios of how anonymity can be abused are invented, portrayed as "this could happen to your kids", and then legislators must then vote on the basis of either being for this or against this. Classic spin tactics. (Like the "million" mom march that wasn't even 10% of that.)
Legislators seem to be in the mode of passing everything, no matter how stupid, just to get votes, handshake photos, or campaign money kickbacks, and leave all questions of right and wrong and reasonable to the courts.
The US needs a 4th branch of gov't, created by constitutional amendment.
I propose that all laws, no matter what the law, NO MATTER WHAT THE LAW, that all new laws have an automatic AND UNIFORM 10 YEAR expiration date assigned to it. Existing laws get assigned expiration dates in staggerad rounds until they are all assigned one to prevent a mass law expiration of all current laws 10 years from now.
The new branch of gov't shall be composed of elected officials who shall be required to either renew or let expire laws up for renewal. And the expiration dates are absolute. No time to review == automatic expired law. No going back for it later, either. No executive priveledge. Prioritization will be necessary. Representatives, as in the senate, will come from the states to give equal representation by the states in the 4th branch.
Expired laws must start all over again with a bill in the house or senate.
Also, RENEWALS MUST BE SUSTAINED BY A 2/3 SUPERMAJORITY. 50%+1vote laws passed by legislative/presidential branch either gain enough support to survive renewal or get dumped. Sort of an eval period.
Do you own water rights to your land? Mineral rights? A few old geezers still do. Otherwise you do not really own your land. You were only sold some of the property rights. Other nameless holding companies or the gov't owns the rest. See the goal of no more privately own land being realized in the US, just like Americans used to look down on the communist countries for doing. It's all about being able to kick you off your land for any reason. THey can because you don't really own it. Just like you don't own your car. ("title" != ownership).
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property
Well, since no one can acquire property anymore, it kinda puts a damper on the 5th amendment, eh? See property seizures by SUSPECTED drug dealers to see the result of seemingly subtle changes in land ownership.
The first draft of the US DOI had it right, that there is an inalienable RIGHT to "life, liberty, and property". But with this, land could never ba taken from people, even for non-payment of taxes.
It's not about the right to dig for gold or drill for oil on your land, it's about an inalianable human right to land.
Is there a free online cost of living converter where you can input current-residence/income vs. new-location/income and compare the REAL difference in income?
Also, it should allow comparisons of jobs around the globe, not just in the USA.
Protect your personal code library. Co may own it!
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resources and references - one greatest asset is my annotated library and my code snippets. Who in the hell can remember every little instruction?? Knowing where to look it up helps a lot, but many "younger" programmers refuse to do so.
Watch out. Your employer may well think all you code is his and only his exclusively. Quit. Go work someplace else, and pull code from your bag o tricks, and your new company gets sued for "stealing proprietary code" from your previous company. And spawned lawsuits make you look a drag on the new company.
Who maintains obsolete HW? Cobol programmers?
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Look at the salaries offered to RPG/Cobol programmers. These skills are in high demand because obsolete hardware does NOT go away just because it's obsolete. And just because Y2K is over does not mean that there's no need for Cobol/etc. programmers. This is a myth. Now that the year 00 has passed, even old two digit code will work just fine again if it does not have to deal with old 99- dates. So if it works, why to blow money upgrading just to end up with normal operations unchanged?
Sherman, set the wayback machine for the early 1990s. A new trend had started among the big retail music chain stores. Used CDs. Racks and racks of them. This got the ire of the music industry to threaten stores with no more new CDs to sell if they didn't yank the used ones. Drugstore cowboy singer Garth Brooks made himself the pulpit boy for the cause. The claim was that used CD sales is "theft" from the artists because the sound quality on used CDs degrade. A used CD sounds just as good as a new one. Brooks and the RIAA wanted to ban used CD sales or at least to 'tax' them with the kickback going to the RIAA to make up for loss to artists (/me scratches head at logic here). The issue was LAUGHED at by the public at large. Garth Brooks was seen as a raving idiot and the issue faded away.
You just have to understand what it is to be under the control of a racist country for 5 years with no freedom of speech, freedom of press, etc... Also 6 millions peoples have died from those ideas.
And all of this is truer 10 times over and more for religion. The unbelievers are brutally slain in the name of the assassin's preferred God(s). Any writings or speech or even thoughts that is counter to the local faith is met with similar burtalization.
Six million were killed by Nazis and Nazi believers. But hundreds of millions were killed in the name of various religions. Which is the more dangerous philosophy again?
How can you condemn Nazism more than religion when the former has killed less than the latter?
Oh that's right, you're one of "them". And your religion tells you you're right (absolutely) in persecuting others. Your belief controls your definitions of right and wrong. Therefore the belief, naturally, can never define itself to be wrong under any circumstances. See the power play and the mind control tactics here?
Go ahead. Persecute me and prove my point. Moderate me down and oppress the free speech you all claim to support. Tolerance was never meant for those you disagree with, right? Just a trendy buzzword that has little meaning when it really matters.
Do I expect you to say you believe in Nazism? No. But if you truly support freedom and tolerance, then you must say that you support my right to support Nazism or the KKK or Grape Nuts or whatever you may not personally agree with.
So far the DMCA and similarly stupid (WIPO) laws has been hearalded as the great tool which will slay the pirates, the w4r3z kiddies, the RE hacks, etc., even those "hiding" in foreign nations who think they can't touched. Impudent fools.
Now we see that these same laws will let tiny businesses and gov'ts of other nations sprinkle iron filings into our e-economy and screw up local business and cost jobs with blame falling on politicians who want ot get re-elected badly. Finally corporate pressure will start demanding a relaxing of these stupid laws. And maybe we, the common user, can benefit too.
As the sysadmin at my own company, let me be the first to educate you, the user, on your "rights".
This is my my hardware. Not yours.
You're here because I graciously allow you to be here.
You will use my hardware in exactly the limited ways in which I authorise and permit you to.
Anything stored on my system becomes my own personal property. I may read it. I may sell it. I may profit from it. And I don't require your permission to do it. In short, don't store anything here you don't want others to get at.
Deviate in the slightest and I am fully within my rights to banish you for all eternity, delete anything you saved on my hardware, or send copies of it to your supervisor.
If any of this is not to your liking, there's the door. You're free to leave. No one forces you to work here or purchase our services.
Users must agree to the above in a signed ledger before they may even log on.
Does that make it clear enough? It's time you college students, riding on daddy's money in your paid for apartment driving about in your paid for automobile, slacking about campus, wearing Birkenstocks, Bob Marley T-shirts, with backpack slung over one shoulder with your 'save the rainforest' anti-free market business, plastic petroleum made coffee mugs, gets a clue about the real world if like and learns that no one's going to pay for your screw ups anymore and that you, and no one else, must bear the full brunt of responsibility for your actions.
That Oxford official was a blithering idiot. The whole damn point was to show how phobic most people are of Official Lawyer Letterhead, it was explained to him that he proved the damned point, and he still doesn't get it!
No sir, the Oxford official was correct. Any third party is neither required no obligated in any way to fund or support your protest and practise of civil disobedience.
Was this student's protest part of a course related project?
Did the student seek permission from officials before using university resources on his own personal, non-school related project?
Did any of what the student violate the terms of service (TOS) that all universities now require their students to read and sign and adhere to?
Or did he simply take advantage of and abuse free, high bandwidch connections and file server space and waste the resources of the school and work time of its staff, who found themselves with a great mess to clean up after a student executed his 'rights'?
Sorry, I have difficulty feeling any shread of pity for a fool.
He should have protest on his own time and with his own self paid for internet resources. To do otherwise demonstrates a clear lack of honour and respect towards others on the consequences of one's actions.
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DNS needs a ".alt" top level domain.
When the Big 7 newsgroups were being drafted on USENET just prior to the great flag day, this simple need was recognized practically from day one and .alt was born (and is today bigger than all the Big 7 groups combined).
Flame all you want, but without a dumping ground where anything goes without restrictions, the trash will not go away. It will seep into all areas of the "approved TLDs".
If an .alt TLD is set up, it will make rule violations in the remaining TLDs much easier to enforce because there will always be an alternative. "You didn't have to create [domain] here".
Trap the rats with no way to register their profane, controversial, questionable, or whatever-offends-whoever domains and they'll start clawing at the walls of whatever other heirarchy they can get at.
Remember, in the Big 7 newsgroups, there was no room for sex or drugs, so these because the very first two alt groups.
Even the cleanest, most orderly city still has a garbage dump.
Burn thousands of acres of foliage around the top secret facility to force it evacuated, then move in and steal the data. Yeah, the fire was just a controlled burn that somehow got out of the control of the "experts" who set it. Musta slipped up, eh? Oops. Then the fire and smoke forces Los Alamos to evacuate. Now data and files turn up missing. Wow, that's quite a coincidence. It'll all look legit and no one will suspect... until it's too late.
Just think if the lending library did not yet exist; if the only way to read books was to go and buy them.
Now suppose that Benjamin Franklin was alive today and just now proposed the idea that large buildings be constructed with taxpayer dollars and more of those tax dollars be used to purchase books and magazines (copyrighted material) so that the public can come anytime and read these materials freely.
The print publishers would FLY INTO A RAGE and call Franklin every dirty name they could think of from "thief" to "crook" to, yes, even "pirate" who is "opposed to people profitting from their hard work" and "taking the food out of baby's mouths bacause writers won't be able to support their families anymore", and how all publications and writing will end because there's no money in it anymore.
Of course, today, Franklin would have proposed that libraries included software, video, and audio, and indeed, all copyrighted works. Today, many public libraries today do lend VHS and CDs. And it wasn't just for the purpose of education and betterment of the public. Most books were an entertainment medium in the 18th century as much as movies are today. So don't isolate Franklin's idea as having only altruistic motives.
Who would say that closing all libraries would be a GOOD idea? Very few I'll wager. Why should it be any different when it comes to CDs/movies/software than it is with books/mags?
And oh yes, despite the existance of libraries, (gasp!) people still make money and can even (choke!) earn a living as writers and publishers. Well imagine that. Free access to copyrighted books and magazines didn't kill the industry after all. In fact, it expanded it. Just like VHS rentals home video sales resulted in Hollywood making more money today from home video sales than it ever did or ever will from theatrical ticket sales (despite the Great VCR lawsuit against Sony's Betamax).
Ever rent a movie, video game, book, or magazine. Then you too are as much a pirate and thief as you label others to be. Libraries even install photocopy machines at taxpayer expense. What's all that about? I see no harm here.
These porting people should know that bogomips does not relate to the processor's performance.
The BogoMIPS value is a measure of how many million times per second a processor can perform "do nothing" executions. It's measured at startup and used to tweak some timing loops in the kernel. From a marketing standpoint, however, there is absolutely nothing sexxy about publishing how good your cpu is at doing nothing.
But both Bogomips and a boot log can hardly show the real advantages
since it's in the pre-production stages, they removed the BOGOMIPS value.
Obviously plenty of people think the bogomips value is SO FSCKING IMPORTANT that they felt it necessary to hide it and then claim that it has no meaning? THis is like the gov't claming there's no base near groom lake, Nevada, and infact that there's nothing there at all, yet threatens to arrest/detain/kill (signs say "use of deadly force authorized") anyone who tries to go there.
Get over yourselves. Bogomips matter. Your own paranoia over them just proves it all the more.
"...this product [e.g., a compiler] may not be used to create a product which competes with this one..."
"...[companyname] reserves the right to alter or revoke this EULA at any time and for any reason and without having to provide notification...and that you agree to these terms by using [softwareprocuct]..."
"...reverse engineering, disassembly, or any analysis of program code for any reason is prohibited..."
"...license is non-transferrable and must be surrendered to [companyname] upon termination for any reason..."
And them's just fer starters.
Linus can only prevent the kernel from being sold under the "Linux" name. The kernel is GPL'd and as such anyone can repackage and resell it under any made up name and Linus cannot stop that. Linus only controls the use of the "Linux" trademark name.
The web was a superrior reimplementation of and has far more in common with gopher (invented at the U of Minnesota, that's in the USA) than with tim berners-lee. Geez, you might as well say that whoever invented the idea of a bibliography is the true creator of the web. Bull. Fucking-euro. Shit.
This does not violate the law or the EULA, nor its spirit.
MS is just proving yet again that it is a manipulative dominating monopoly that SCREAMS to be broken up. They'ce shown zero remorse nor any attempt to "fix things" since the DOJ investigation bagan. They've slapped more people in the face with their practises time and time again, from the "we're going to be pissing on JFC at every opportunity" [Halloween papers] to threatening PC makers with "**all** your products run windows or none will". Pure spoiled brat behaviour. MS so deserves to be busted down as hard as possible.
And then a script (which could also be run from the command line) could be run that does the apt-get of the .deb files and installs "the rest of the system", for those that want it. The free-software-or-DIE crowd doesn't have to run the script, yes? But offer a CHOICE. Or do you Debian folks PH33R to facilitate free decisions and free thinking by the Linux user?
On the bright side, this kid will have a nice scolarship fund to put away for college after he sues the police for violating his civil rights (due process).
Who polices the police?
And all of the (now required) French text in Windows will have to be in a twice as big font in Quebec!
If you're into psychological fear and terror (you like Lain), then you must see Vampire Miyu.
For a vampire story, there's virtually no blood, but plenty of things to creep you out when you're alone in the dark.
Th ban ACs is to tacitly sanction the status quo of "shut up or we'll bury you".
It's why the rape crisis hotlines are anonymous. It's whi the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have anonymous tip crime lines. It's why the media has legal protection from and cannot be forced to reveal the source of their news stories.
Will ACs also abuse their power? Certainly. Then again, the crime rate was much lower in the Soviet Union than in a free society. Shold all freedoms be abolished in exchange for a little more order? (that can be filtered out by setting your threshold appropriately anyway.)?
Then you must be PRO kiddie porn.
At least this is how issues like this are turned into law in congress. Worst case scenarios of how anonymity can be abused are invented, portrayed as "this could happen to your kids", and then legislators must then vote on the basis of either being for this or against this. Classic spin tactics. (Like the "million" mom march that wasn't even 10% of that.)
Flame the products that suck. Praise the ones that rule. The US no longer protects free speech, but we do! We're outside US jurispridence!
The US needs a 4th branch of gov't, created by constitutional amendment.
I propose that all laws, no matter what the law, NO MATTER WHAT THE LAW, that all new laws have an automatic AND UNIFORM 10 YEAR expiration date assigned to it. Existing laws get assigned expiration dates in staggerad rounds until they are all assigned one to prevent a mass law expiration of all current laws 10 years from now.
The new branch of gov't shall be composed of elected officials who shall be required to either renew or let expire laws up for renewal. And the expiration dates are absolute. No time to review == automatic expired law. No going back for it later, either. No executive priveledge. Prioritization will be necessary. Representatives, as in the senate, will come from the states to give equal representation by the states in the 4th branch.
Expired laws must start all over again with a bill in the house or senate.
Also, RENEWALS MUST BE SUSTAINED BY A 2/3 SUPERMAJORITY. 50%+1vote laws passed by legislative/presidential branch either gain enough support to survive renewal or get dumped. Sort of an eval period.
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property
Well, since no one can acquire property anymore, it kinda puts a damper on the 5th amendment, eh? See property seizures by SUSPECTED drug dealers to see the result of seemingly subtle changes in land ownership.
The first draft of the US DOI had it right, that there is an inalienable RIGHT to "life, liberty, and property". But with this, land could never ba taken from people, even for non-payment of taxes.
It's not about the right to dig for gold or drill for oil on your land, it's about an inalianable human right to land.
Also, it should allow comparisons of jobs around the globe, not just in the USA.
Watch out. Your employer may well think all you code is his and only his exclusively. Quit. Go work someplace else, and pull code from your bag o tricks, and your new company gets sued for "stealing proprietary code" from your previous company. And spawned lawsuits make you look a drag on the new company.
Look at the salaries offered to RPG/Cobol programmers. These skills are in high demand because obsolete hardware does NOT go away just because it's obsolete. And just because Y2K is over does not mean that there's no need for Cobol/etc. programmers. This is a myth. Now that the year 00 has passed, even old two digit code will work just fine again if it does not have to deal with old 99- dates. So if it works, why to blow money upgrading just to end up with normal operations unchanged?
It's okay to bootleg concert performances.
It's okay to copy an album to tape for a buddy.
It's all about quality and scale.
Sherman, set the wayback machine for the early 1990s. A new trend had started among the big retail music chain stores. Used CDs. Racks and racks of them. This got the ire of the music industry to threaten stores with no more new CDs to sell if they didn't yank the used ones. Drugstore cowboy singer Garth Brooks made himself the pulpit boy for the cause. The claim was that used CD sales is "theft" from the artists because the sound quality on used CDs degrade. A used CD sounds just as good as a new one. Brooks and the RIAA wanted to ban used CD sales or at least to 'tax' them with the kickback going to the RIAA to make up for loss to artists (/me scratches head at logic here). The issue was LAUGHED at by the public at large. Garth Brooks was seen as a raving idiot and the issue faded away.
Now it's Napster. Same shit all over again.
And all of this is truer 10 times over and more for religion. The unbelievers are brutally slain in the name of the assassin's preferred God(s). Any writings or speech or even thoughts that is counter to the local faith is met with similar burtalization.
Six million were killed by Nazis and Nazi believers. But hundreds of millions were killed in the name of various religions. Which is the more dangerous philosophy again?
How can you condemn Nazism more than religion when the former has killed less than the latter?
Oh that's right, you're one of "them". And your religion tells you you're right (absolutely) in persecuting others. Your belief controls your definitions of right and wrong. Therefore the belief, naturally, can never define itself to be wrong under any circumstances. See the power play and the mind control tactics here?
Go ahead. Persecute me and prove my point. Moderate me down and oppress the free speech you all claim to support. Tolerance was never meant for those you disagree with, right? Just a trendy buzzword that has little meaning when it really matters.
Do I expect you to say you believe in Nazism? No. But if you truly support freedom and tolerance, then you must say that you support my right to support Nazism or the KKK or Grape Nuts or whatever you may not personally agree with.
Now we see that these same laws will let tiny businesses and gov'ts of other nations sprinkle iron filings into our e-economy and screw up local business and cost jobs with blame falling on politicians who want ot get re-elected badly. Finally corporate pressure will start demanding a relaxing of these stupid laws. And maybe we, the common user, can benefit too.
This is my my hardware. Not yours.
You're here because I graciously allow you to be here.
You will use my hardware in exactly the limited ways in which I authorise and permit you to.
Anything stored on my system becomes my own personal property. I may read it. I may sell it. I may profit from it. And I don't require your permission to do it. In short, don't store anything here you don't want others to get at.
Deviate in the slightest and I am fully within my rights to banish you for all eternity, delete anything you saved on my hardware, or send copies of it to your supervisor.
If any of this is not to your liking, there's the door. You're free to leave. No one forces you to work here or purchase our services.
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Does that make it clear enough? It's time you college students, riding on daddy's money in your paid for apartment driving about in your paid for automobile, slacking about campus, wearing Birkenstocks, Bob Marley T-shirts, with backpack slung over one shoulder with your 'save the rainforest' anti-free market business, plastic petroleum made coffee mugs, gets a clue about the real world if like and learns that no one's going to pay for your screw ups anymore and that you, and no one else, must bear the full brunt of responsibility for your actions.
No sir, the Oxford official was correct. Any third party is neither required no obligated in any way to fund or support your protest and practise of civil disobedience.
Was this student's protest part of a course related project?
Did the student seek permission from officials before using university resources on his own personal, non-school related project?
Did any of what the student violate the terms of service (TOS) that all universities now require their students to read and sign and adhere to?
Or did he simply take advantage of and abuse free, high bandwidch connections and file server space and waste the resources of the school and work time of its staff, who found themselves with a great mess to clean up after a student executed his 'rights'?
Sorry, I have difficulty feeling any shread of pity for a fool.
He should have protest on his own time and with his own self paid for internet resources. To do otherwise demonstrates a clear lack of honour and respect towards others on the consequences of one's actions.