Are you thinking of the Let's Pretend Feudalism's Over (Scotland) Act 2000? As you say, it makes little difference to the limits imposed by government on land ownership.
The "thing is" that all property is held in fee simple and ultimately belongs to the government, and most of what you can and cannot do anywhere is defined or enforced or allowed to be enforced thanks to the government. This will never change as long as the world is ruled by humans. So the question becomes whether you want a government which can be bought by the many or bought by the few. The answer will depend on whether the dominant philosophy in the country is to invent rights for the powerful or rights for the weak. America just might possibly be slowly changing its mind, but it's still firmly in the former camp.
"But won't somebody please think of the mall owner!" OK, I'm thinking of him, and I've decided that where lots of public eyes may go, he must permit private photographs as an extension of the natural faculty of memory (which may be photographic).
the obscene stick figures on their signs, which I don't care for my kids to see.
And this is borne of the same religious sex-hating sentiment which gives us the Phelps' views.
The dick and the cunt are natural. As is sex. No more reason to be ashamed of it than of eating, breathing or taking a shit. Nor any need to worry about a depiction of someone enjoying eating, breathing or shitting.
So you want to start a movement encouraging people to knowingly break the law in order to protest a law
That's what civil disobedience is. If you simply have a problem with the notion of breaking an unjust law, your ailment is far more fundamental.
that punishes people
First, let's note that punishment isn't justice: if we restrict someone's liberty, it's to protect the interests of society while they are rehabilitated, if they can be. Second, let's observe that deliberately denying people access to a tool which allows them to work and contribute effectively is cruel and degenerate. You might as well ban a man from reading every book merely because he read a couple of censored publications (e.g. Holocaust revisionism in France). Reducing opportunities for criminals to integrate as law-abiding residents - that always works!
for taking that which is not their own and contributing nothing in return....
I wouldn't steal a car. I wouldn't steal a baby. I wouldn't shoot a policeman. Bla bla bla. Intellectual property is a recently fabricated fiction. Copyright infringement is not theft. Culture is built on sharing and we don't have to make a payment to the gods of culture each time we benefit from it. See a thousand essays already written on this topic.
I know you agree with me because you're speaking English right now with no payment whatever to the heirs (real property is heritable!) of the generations before you who developed the language, divided carefully according as their relative contributions. Where is your receipt for using all those letters, citizen-consumer?
You know those web sites which have existed as small, specific operations doing one or two things well for as long as you can remember? Always looking a little amateurish but getting the job done.
And you know how one day suddenly their web site goes all corporate and the old services are just sidelines? Looking slick but now seemingly just providing expensive consulting services.
And the following year they're doing something absolutely huge, like the fat kid known for baking tasty cakes who has just been given the job of head chef at the most famous restaurant in the land?
All 650,000 people on your first strike, please proceed to your second. The 44,000 on your second, proceed to your third. The rest of you, endeavour to earn your first over the coming weeks.
Come on, France. You still understand the effectiveness of collective withdrawal of labour. So call the government on its own foolishness by forcing the law to take steps which withdraws you from effective contribution to the country. Do not stop until you can proudly call yourself the nation with the most people individually forbidden from using the Internet.
First, other countries will laugh at you. Then your businessmen will realise what they've just done to their chances to make money. Then your government will listen to that whispering, gold-plated voice in their ear and the law will be repealed. Foreign governments and business will realise what will happen if this sort of law is enacted in their own precious fiefdoms and global attitudes will start to change.
But you have to start yourselves by taking a risk and standing up.
Nazism was powerful and kept getting more powerful. if you're going to post that it sucks, please post a link to a regime you have built so we can compare.
Modern software development is so boring. Most developers waste so much time learning some new hep framework which will become irrelevant in a couple of years and spend no time actually thinking about how to solve interesting problems.
Slowly but surely we're the approaching asynchronous functional multiprogramming which first became the subject of research, well, 40 years or so ago. In the meanwhile, we'll have to put up with this fly-by-night BUY MY STUFF THEN MENTION IT ON YOUR CV crap.
It's true. For all the justified dislike for Apple there is, Jobs has spent the last 30 years being excellent at picking the good ideas at the right time, which explains why they're such a successful and popular brand.
Mind you, MS is still the only one of these big three to have a committed interest in long-term research (the "grand vision" which has kept IBM alive despite a century of changes): Google, for all its PhDs, publishes very little interesting research, and Apple publishes nothing, only occasionally advancing the state of the art where it's been important for implementation.
Yeah, but before 2000 a well-executed Hello World was sufficient to get VC funding.
And even for a couple of years after that anyone who hadn't gone completely insane needed very little brain to achieve. (That would explain how I got anywhere, anyway.)
Slashdot Mirror
Androgynous.
Hourglass.
Fat.
What happens when the denial goes away.
HTH.
What is it with geeks and the thin 12 year old boy look?
Are you thinking of the Let's Pretend Feudalism's Over (Scotland) Act 2000? As you say, it makes little difference to the limits imposed by government on land ownership.
The "thing is" that all property is held in fee simple and ultimately belongs to the government, and most of what you can and cannot do anywhere is defined or enforced or allowed to be enforced thanks to the government. This will never change as long as the world is ruled by humans. So the question becomes whether you want a government which can be bought by the many or bought by the few. The answer will depend on whether the dominant philosophy in the country is to invent rights for the powerful or rights for the weak. America just might possibly be slowly changing its mind, but it's still firmly in the former camp.
"But won't somebody please think of the mall owner!" OK, I'm thinking of him, and I've decided that where lots of public eyes may go, he must permit private photographs as an extension of the natural faculty of memory (which may be photographic).
See, that's the problem with putting so much value on "private ownership rights": someone ends up owning the government, and it generally isn't you.
Hitler did none of those things either.
Hate is best directed at ideas and, if you want to personify it, the leaders who promulgate them.
Rape's awful for one person and perhaps those close to him. Jobs's less awful for any individual but his negative impact touches much of the world.
So one level of indirection fewer than buying from business, and you never lose the vote to change your mind.
It wasn't forced: you always had the alternative of death.
Just like among those dark, satanic mills of C19 capitalist paradises.
sex?
1. You THINK that you elect your politicians.
OK, I'm game. Give me the conspiracy theory.
You do realise that people elected the representatives of governments which then went on to form the UN, yes?
It's like business only your vote isn't weighted by your material wealth.
And the robotic arms - don't forget the robotic arms.
Teledildonics will reach mainstream yet!
(But only when it's possible to explain to mumsy what THAT thing is for.)
the obscene stick figures on their signs, which I don't care for my kids to see.
And this is borne of the same religious sex-hating sentiment which gives us the Phelps' views.
The dick and the cunt are natural. As is sex. No more reason to be ashamed of it than of eating, breathing or taking a shit. Nor any need to worry about a depiction of someone enjoying eating, breathing or shitting.
Ugh, astrolabe smells horrible, but some women swear by it.
Ohhh...
So you want to start a movement encouraging people to knowingly break the law in order to protest a law
That's what civil disobedience is. If you simply have a problem with the notion of breaking an unjust law, your ailment is far more fundamental.
that punishes people
First, let's note that punishment isn't justice: if we restrict someone's liberty, it's to protect the interests of society while they are rehabilitated, if they can be. Second, let's observe that deliberately denying people access to a tool which allows them to work and contribute effectively is cruel and degenerate. You might as well ban a man from reading every book merely because he read a couple of censored publications (e.g. Holocaust revisionism in France). Reducing opportunities for criminals to integrate as law-abiding residents - that always works!
for taking that which is not their own and contributing nothing in return....
I wouldn't steal a car. I wouldn't steal a baby. I wouldn't shoot a policeman. Bla bla bla. Intellectual property is a recently fabricated fiction. Copyright infringement is not theft. Culture is built on sharing and we don't have to make a payment to the gods of culture each time we benefit from it. See a thousand essays already written on this topic.
I know you agree with me because you're speaking English right now with no payment whatever to the heirs (real property is heritable!) of the generations before you who developed the language, divided carefully according as their relative contributions. Where is your receipt for using all those letters, citizen-consumer?
Yes, only idle teens who use the net to jack off will get accused of copyright infringement.
History has demonstrated this to be true, after all.
You know those web sites which have existed as small, specific operations doing one or two things well for as long as you can remember? Always looking a little amateurish but getting the job done.
And you know how one day suddenly their web site goes all corporate and the old services are just sidelines? Looking slick but now seemingly just providing expensive consulting services.
And the following year they're doing something absolutely huge, like the fat kid known for baking tasty cakes who has just been given the job of head chef at the most famous restaurant in the land?
What's up with that?
All 650,000 people on your first strike, please proceed to your second. The 44,000 on your second, proceed to your third. The rest of you, endeavour to earn your first over the coming weeks.
Come on, France. You still understand the effectiveness of collective withdrawal of labour. So call the government on its own foolishness by forcing the law to take steps which withdraws you from effective contribution to the country. Do not stop until you can proudly call yourself the nation with the most people individually forbidden from using the Internet.
First, other countries will laugh at you. Then your businessmen will realise what they've just done to their chances to make money. Then your government will listen to that whispering, gold-plated voice in their ear and the law will be repealed. Foreign governments and business will realise what will happen if this sort of law is enacted in their own precious fiefdoms and global attitudes will start to change.
But you have to start yourselves by taking a risk and standing up.
Thank you.
...between the deaths of Diana and Steve, expressed in a notation equally meaningful to American and European conspiracy imagineers.
Nazism was powerful and kept getting more powerful. if you're going to post that it sucks, please post a link to a regime you have built so we can compare.
Modern software development is so boring. Most developers waste so much time learning some new hep framework which will become irrelevant in a couple of years and spend no time actually thinking about how to solve interesting problems.
Slowly but surely we're the approaching asynchronous functional multiprogramming which first became the subject of research, well, 40 years or so ago. In the meanwhile, we'll have to put up with this fly-by-night BUY MY STUFF THEN MENTION IT ON YOUR CV crap.
Oh, everyone ends up on the winning side.
History is the propaganda of the winner, comrade.
It's true. For all the justified dislike for Apple there is, Jobs has spent the last 30 years being excellent at picking the good ideas at the right time, which explains why they're such a successful and popular brand.
Mind you, MS is still the only one of these big three to have a committed interest in long-term research (the "grand vision" which has kept IBM alive despite a century of changes): Google, for all its PhDs, publishes very little interesting research, and Apple publishes nothing, only occasionally advancing the state of the art where it's been important for implementation.
Yeah, but before 2000 a well-executed Hello World was sufficient to get VC funding.
And even for a couple of years after that anyone who hadn't gone completely insane needed very little brain to achieve. (That would explain how I got anywhere, anyway.)