Gee... I wonder how many billions of dollors have been spent fighting the 'war against drugs' for the past 50 or so years. Funny, because People could still buy drugs then, and they can still buy drugs now. But billions have been spent on the various program(s) (All I remember was when the police officer at my school told me not to do drugs when i was 9), and has it really done anything?
Who cares who corrupt our leaders are as long as they're tough on crime?
Maybe we should just legalize the stuff so that everyone can get really messed up, but then the few people who didn't become druggies can see how screwed up people get, so they will be less prone to using it. Not to mention the fact that it would get rid of 90% of all organized crime.
Silly person. You are under the opinion that the American Goverment (I'm being rude and assuming you live in the us) actually is responsible for the repression of civil rights (and other assorted hollywood plots). But it's all about Big Buisness, the laws protect the companies, and the people are almost an afterthought.
Rember like how it was the 1950's, and all these really neat folks got blacklisted becaues they may have possibly been linked to communism- the dreaded opposition of imperialism and exploitation? Or perhaps just 10 years ago when we fought the gulf war... and we got lots of feel happy goverment propaganda that helped fuel ethnic hatred about those damn iraquis- what the hell are they doing, attacking those poor innocent people?... when the only reason the usa was involved was so that Big Buisness would be in control of the oil so they could get rich by killing their planet.
I think this is perhaps a little off topic, but i think it does have to do with the situation in some aspects. Rember when Gorbachov (my hero!) said that free speech was ok in the USSR, so then all this anti-gov't propaganda came out, and there was this coup, and it was all screwed up and confusing? Well, I think that freedom of though, freedom of alternative sources of goods and media and sex (does net porn hurt companies like playboy?) will hurt Big Business. And in the spirt of all things American, laws will be adapted by the right-wing-fascists to protect Big Buisness from *competition*, or horrible ideas that might make you think it is not cool to [pay a company [that gets people to pay them money to be a billboard] money to be a billboard] (say THAT 5 times real fast).
But seriously, what's the diffrence between seeing nekkid ladies in the magazines under your friend's dad's bed and getting it from the net? I have been exposed to the Horrors of the free internet for most of my life. Hey guess what? Nothing happened (aside from growing more independant, caring, smart, computer literate, informed, more artistic, etc....)
Sorry if that's a little off topic, but it's late, and the exhaust from all the SUV's is affecting my brain, and I'm a rebellious hooligan in the street who's been brainwashed by his deviant musical tastes so just leave it be:)
ARGHH, those gosh-darnned republican neo-nazis keep taking our rights away! That's it! It's time for violen-
Oh what? You mean- America actually stood up for justice and/or freedom?? Wow.... what a bizarre feeling it is *not* to get all enraged whenever anything regarding legislation on the net is discussed. Yippie! It's a very weird feeling. I don't think that I have heard anything positive regarding freedom online since sometime before I knew what a computer is. Maybe I just hang out at the Peacefire site too much... Hmmm, darn. I feel kinda silly having wasted all that $$ on the gas for the molitoff cocktails at the riot I was planning.
Oh well, maybe the DeCSS case will turn out bad, because I don't know what I would do if I lived in a world where I couldn't protest against white-wing-fascists:-)
The problem with allowing child pornography and then prosicuting people who expolit children without their consent is that if this was allowed, it would let politicans give all sorts of reasons to make speaches about how they should make the internet into a police state so that they can track down everyone who might possibly be linked to the photo(s) in question. Then these politicans (isn't it odd how the most computer illiterate people are the ones making all the laws about technology?) will pass laws so that everything you do or say is monitored.
Imagine if you could not reply to this as "anonomyous coward", and you disagreed with my opinion (and just suppose that my opinion was the one the cops liked), a little "*" would appear next to your name on the great list of the citizen's offical internet accounts, and everything you say or do would be monitored. I think it's better not to encourage any regulation of the internet... I think there's enough wacky porn out there without kiddie pron... err uh, at least... um... I've been told.:)
I hope i didn't mis-understand your comment... but that's just the point that my mind recived and processed. Hope that's not too off topic.
If you have to cover up what you are saying so that other people don't arrest you for it, that is not free speach at all. I think it is submission to repressive goverments and corporations. Free speach means saying (typing) whatever you want, not having to hide it.
you twit! You took my idea! I bet you're the one monitoring the microsoft computer chip implanted chip inside my brain without my knowladge or consent that transmits everything i think to the secret base where the human clones are made.
This may be a little of subject, but it would be funny (or scary, I'm not sure) if the lego company declares their plans for their lego projects as propritory information, and if I reverse engineer a completed lego project, or photo-copy the lego project plans, and I was given a cease-and-decist notice.
You could add ventelation ass needed I hope that case comes with an air freshener
I've had lots of fun searching for easter eggs in the past, but recently, I found a diabolical egg/trojan sort of by mistake. I bought this software for an obscene amount of money... and when I was trying to install it, some stupid torjan in it filled my hard drive with all sorts of gibberish almost completely filling it up. And the next time I booted my puter, it would crash like every 5 minutes.... what was the program?
So assuming that the DeCSS case will wind up in the worst case scenario, i.e., the companies outlaw knowladge, I think it would be a great time for programmers to being to unionize, and go on strike.
actually, there is nothing specifically saying that you cannot use profanity over ham radio, it's more of a social code, where if you curse a lot, no one will want to talk to you.
This is why we need to educate the general public and media on things like this
That would be a cool idea, but Have you ever heard of the DeCSS case? I think what is happening as a result of it is that the major media companies decide to ignore the plight of individuals, and particulalry those associated with the open source movement. result: The only people who can be educated are the ones that already know about the problem... like/.ers.
Hello! The internet is not capitalism! It is anarchy! There is no such thing as private property or total control of anything electronic by a single individual (or *gasp* corporation), on the internet.
Have you ever noticed that nowhere in history has any group of people who oppose social progress ever been successful in their attempts to stop the break from an oppressive world to a liberal one?
It's my bet that in 10 years, all there will be is about 5 or 6 diffrent companies who control the world, instead of the few hundred companies who control the world today.
So much for "competition", welcome to corporate feudalism.
However, I think that it is important to do something before it gets too out of hand... but then again, I'm just sitting here doing nothing.
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I hope this isn't offtopic...
Gee... I wonder how many billions of dollors have been spent fighting the 'war against drugs' for the past 50 or so years. Funny, because People could still buy drugs then, and they can still buy drugs now. But billions have been spent on the various program(s) (All I remember was when the police officer at my school told me not to do drugs when i was 9), and has it really done anything?
Who cares who corrupt our leaders are as long as they're tough on crime?
Maybe we should just legalize the stuff so that everyone can get really messed up, but then the few people who didn't become druggies can see how screwed up people get, so they will be less prone to using it. Not to mention the fact that it would get rid of 90% of all organized crime.
//initiate rant sequence
Silly person. You are under the opinion that the American Goverment (I'm being rude and assuming you live in the us) actually is responsible for the repression of civil rights (and other assorted hollywood plots). But it's all about Big Buisness, the laws protect the companies, and the people are almost an afterthought.
Rember like how it was the 1950's, and all these really neat folks got blacklisted becaues they may have possibly been linked to communism- the dreaded opposition of imperialism and exploitation? Or perhaps just 10 years ago when we fought the gulf war... and we got lots of feel happy goverment propaganda that helped fuel ethnic hatred about those damn iraquis- what the hell are they doing, attacking those poor innocent people?... when the only reason the usa was involved was so that Big Buisness would be in control of the oil so they could get rich by killing their planet.
I think this is perhaps a little off topic, but i think it does have to do with the situation in some aspects. Rember when Gorbachov (my hero!) said that free speech was ok in the USSR, so then all this anti-gov't propaganda came out, and there was this coup, and it was all screwed up and confusing? Well, I think that freedom of though, freedom of alternative sources of goods and media and sex (does net porn hurt companies like playboy?) will hurt Big Business. And in the spirt of all things American, laws will be adapted by the right-wing-fascists to protect Big Buisness from *competition*, or horrible ideas that might make you think it is not cool to [pay a company [that gets people to pay them money to be a billboard] money to be a billboard] (say THAT 5 times real fast).
But seriously, what's the diffrence between seeing nekkid ladies in the magazines under your friend's dad's bed and getting it from the net? I have been exposed to the Horrors of the free internet for most of my life. Hey guess what? Nothing happened (aside from growing more independant, caring, smart, computer literate, informed, more artistic, etc....)
Sorry if that's a little off topic, but it's late, and the exhaust from all the SUV's is affecting my brain, and I'm a rebellious hooligan in the street who's been brainwashed by his deviant musical tastes so just leave it be :)
//terminate rant sequence
ARGHH, those gosh-darnned republican neo-nazis keep taking our rights away! That's it! It's time for violen-
Oh what? You mean- America actually stood up for justice and/or freedom?? Wow.... what a bizarre feeling it is *not* to get all enraged whenever anything regarding legislation on the net is discussed. Yippie! It's a very weird feeling. I don't think that I have heard anything positive regarding freedom online since sometime before I knew what a computer is. Maybe I just hang out at the Peacefire site too much... Hmmm, darn. I feel kinda silly having wasted all that $$ on the gas for the molitoff cocktails at the riot I was planning.
Oh well, maybe the DeCSS case will turn out bad, because I don't know what I would do if I lived in a world where I couldn't protest against white-wing-fascists :-)
The problem with allowing child pornography and then prosicuting people who expolit children without their consent is that if this was allowed, it would let politicans give all sorts of reasons to make speaches about how they should make the internet into a police state so that they can track down everyone who might possibly be linked to the photo(s) in question. Then these politicans (isn't it odd how the most computer illiterate people are the ones making all the laws about technology?) will pass laws so that everything you do or say is monitored.
Imagine if you could not reply to this as "anonomyous coward", and you disagreed with my opinion (and just suppose that my opinion was the one the cops liked), a little "*" would appear next to your name on the great list of the citizen's offical internet accounts, and everything you say or do would be monitored. I think it's better not to encourage any regulation of the internet... I think there's enough wacky porn out there without kiddie pron... err uh, at least... um... I've been told. :)
I hope i didn't mis-understand your comment... but that's just the point that my mind recived and processed. Hope that's not too off topic.
heaven forbid that our children see pornographic material at home rather than going out and having sex, getting std's, and pregant.
Hey- weren't we just boycotting the mpaa? I thought jon katz ate that geek protest stuff for breakfast. What happened here?
If you have to cover up what you are saying so that other people don't arrest you for it, that is not free speach at all. I think it is submission to repressive goverments and corporations. Free speach means saying (typing) whatever you want, not having to hide it.
you twit! You took my idea! I bet you're the one monitoring the microsoft computer chip implanted chip inside my brain without my knowladge or consent that transmits everything i think to the secret base where the human clones are made.
This may be a little of subject, but it would be funny (or scary, I'm not sure) if the lego company declares their plans for their lego projects as propritory information, and if I reverse engineer a completed lego project, or photo-copy the lego project plans, and I was given a cease-and-decist notice.
You could add ventelation ass needed
I hope that case comes with an air freshener
Soup is good food.
I've had lots of fun searching for easter eggs in the past, but recently, I found a diabolical egg/trojan sort of by mistake. I bought this software for an obscene amount of money... and when I was trying to install it, some stupid torjan in it filled my hard drive with all sorts of gibberish almost completely filling it up. And the next time I booted my puter, it would crash like every 5 minutes.... what was the program?
I belive it was called "Windows."
So assuming that the DeCSS case will wind up in the worst case scenario, i.e., the companies outlaw knowladge, I think it would be a great time for programmers to being to unionize, and go on strike.
I think Jello Biafra said it pretty good in Electronic Plantation
actually, there is nothing specifically saying that you cannot use profanity over ham radio, it's more of a social code, where if you curse a lot, no one will want to talk to you.
This is why we need to educate the general public and media on things like this
That would be a cool idea, but Have you ever heard of the DeCSS case? I think what is happening as a result of it is that the major media companies decide to ignore the plight of individuals , and particulalry those associated with the open source movement. result: The only people who can be educated are the ones that already know about the problem... like /.ers.
Hello! The internet is not capitalism! It is anarchy! There is no such thing as private property or total control of anything electronic by a single individual (or *gasp* corporation), on the internet.
Have you ever noticed that nowhere in history has any group of people who oppose social progress ever been successful in their attempts to stop the break from an oppressive world to a liberal one?
It's my bet that in 10 years, all there will be is about 5 or 6 diffrent companies who control the world, instead of the few hundred companies who control the world today.
So much for "competition", welcome to corporate feudalism.
However, I think that it is important to do something before it gets too out of hand... but then again, I'm just sitting here doing nothing.