So the Brazilian authorities want to steal Cisco's money and somehow it is the Cisco's execs that end up in jail? They want to force you to pay the product's price twice just so they can get their cut. I'm speechless.
A few years ago it was all about Linux replacing Windows on the desktop. I guess since that didn't happen now they have to predict that Apple will replace Microsoft.
So Big Bad Corporation is to blame because it let's users create their own chat rooms. Notice how there's pretty much nothing about those who are creating and participating in those chatrooms. Why blame pedophiles when you can blame The Coporation?
What's next? "Big Bad Corporations banking on the use of baseball bats by the mob"?
Is it me or is he telling people that they shouldn't want an Xbox? 'People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices.... The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else. So making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device.'
I've been going through the comments and most of what I read is about invading Iran because they're censoring the net. How is that any better?
Can we criticize censorship without bringing an invasion into the equation? And heck a few years ago, I remember a time where many around here made comments favorably or unfavorably towards one US policy or another and yet the anti-american label was rarely used to reply to such comments.
people really have to stop obsessing about muslim countries. the world doesn't revolve around them. there are other cultures and peoples and governments ou there.
It really stinks. You criticize something in a foreign country, all of a sudden they wanna invade it. You say something bad about a US policy and you're labeled as anti-american. wth happened?
They have more advanced censors working in South Korea to detect nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants. Thanks to them they have proof that North Korea produces such weapons. Unfortunately, in Iraq's case, Saddam was too damn smart and those machines where no match to his genius:)
In short, they can have each country spy on another one in order to avoid the laws of the land.
They're even trying to legalise Extraordinary rendition so they can send suspects to countries that practice torture for interrogation. It's illegal for us to kick the shit out of suspects but it's not illegal in those countries that we wanna invade.
As long as nobody gives a damn, it'll keep getting worst.
Yeah, keep spewing your propaganda. Iraq was no threat and the Bush admin knew it. Stop coming up with excuses. Tell you what, if Saddam was able to produce WMD's undetected by all the technology that we have, he'd have destroyed us by now. With satellites that can spot underground labs in North Korea and air analyzers that can detect whenever WMD's are being produced, there's no way in hell Saddam would've been able to produce WMD's without us knowing. And that's that.
He went too far with what? He's just a radio show host expressing his opinions. If somebody got hurt as a result, they can always sue him in court and let the justice system decide. It's not up to the CRTC. The CRTC is now gonna start censoring radio stations and decides who get to speak and who doesn't based on what they say? That's pathetic.
Cheney was justified in using an insult because he couldn't come up with any other response regarding his situation with Halliburton.
On the other hand, TV isn't supposed to show us something realistic. You should only be able to watch fictional characters talking in a fictional way that no one else can identify with:)
The big corporations see governments as potential threats who'll come after them just like they did against MS. They all learned the lesson long ago and know that using there money they can control politicians and make laws that favor themselves. They're paying good money to get the governments off there back and they certainly expect to have some kind of power in return for such a waste of money.
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So the Brazilian authorities want to steal Cisco's money and somehow it is the Cisco's execs that end up in jail? They want to force you to pay the product's price twice just so they can get their cut. I'm speechless.
A few years ago it was all about Linux replacing Windows on the desktop. I guess since that didn't happen now they have to predict that Apple will replace Microsoft.
I thought all those cameras where supposed to prevent this type of crime, not increase it.
It's an unhabitable island. Can't even get to it during the winter and it's really tiny.
What do they want from it exactly?
That's all I have to say.
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." - Justice Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court
So Big Bad Corporation is to blame because it let's users create their own chat rooms. Notice how there's pretty much nothing about those who are creating and participating in those chatrooms. Why blame pedophiles when you can blame The Coporation?
What's next? "Big Bad Corporations banking on the use of baseball bats by the mob"?
And the government is gonna make schools pay millions for access to the internet? The same government who fully funds those schools?
Article is quite weird, but then again crazier things have happened.
Is it me or is he telling people that they shouldn't want an Xbox?
'People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices.... The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else. So making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device.'
I've been going through the comments and most of what I read is about invading Iran because they're censoring the net. How is that any better?
Can we criticize censorship without bringing an invasion into the equation? And heck a few years ago, I remember a time where many around here made comments favorably or unfavorably towards one US policy or another and yet the anti-american label was rarely used to reply to such comments.
people really have to stop obsessing about muslim countries. the world doesn't revolve around them. there are other cultures and peoples and governments ou there.
It really stinks. You criticize something in a foreign country, all of a sudden they wanna invade it. You say something bad about a US policy and you're labeled as anti-american. wth happened?
Yeah I thought the same to :)
They have more advanced censors working in South Korea to detect nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants. Thanks to them they have proof that North Korea produces such weapons. Unfortunately, in Iraq's case, Saddam was too damn smart and those machines where no match to his genius :)
Or is China starting to get worst all of a sudden? The Chinese people need to stand up for themselves. A revolution is in order.
"I'm invested with a divine mission: to promote the biblical world view in the policy carried out by the USA". - George W. Bush
:)
Maybe God told him to make his website unavailable for foreigners
Iran backed Bush.
Of course the Iraqi insurgents are against Bush, since he's the one who invaded their country.
In short, they can have each country spy on another one in order to avoid the laws of the land.
They're even trying to legalise Extraordinary rendition so they can send suspects to countries that practice torture for interrogation. It's illegal for us to kick the shit out of suspects but it's not illegal in those countries that we wanna invade.
As long as nobody gives a damn, it'll keep getting worst.
Really? Who does this? Excluding the Jon Stewart show of course.
Privacy is on it's way out.
Yeah, keep spewing your propaganda.
Iraq was no threat and the Bush admin knew it. Stop coming up with excuses. Tell you what, if Saddam was able to produce WMD's undetected by all the technology that we have, he'd have destroyed us by now. With satellites that can spot underground labs in North Korea and air analyzers that can detect whenever WMD's are being produced, there's no way in hell Saddam would've been able to produce WMD's without us knowing. And that's that.
I don't care, I never asked for it. Why should I pay for it?
Why should they comply? They should have the right to free speech. It's not up to the CRTC to say what is or isn't acceptable.
He went too far with what? He's just a radio show host expressing his opinions. If somebody got hurt as a result, they can always sue him in court and let the justice system decide. It's not up to the CRTC. The CRTC is now gonna start censoring radio stations and decides who get to speak and who doesn't based on what they say? That's pathetic.
The role of the CRTC should be reviewed. Censorship shall not be tolerated.
Cheney was justified in using an insult because he couldn't come up with any other response regarding his situation with Halliburton.
:)
On the other hand, TV isn't supposed to show us something realistic. You should only be able to watch fictional characters talking in a fictional way that no one else can identify with
Now we know why Afghanistan is poor :)
The big corporations see governments as potential threats who'll come after them just like they did against MS. They all learned the lesson long ago and know that using there money they can control politicians and make laws that favor themselves. They're paying good money to get the governments off there back and they certainly expect to have some kind of power in return for such a waste of money.
The corporations won the war.