do you think it would irritate you if whenever an american bigot wanted to describe something as really pathetic, they'd use the term garethwi (or whatever your name is) to describe it?
i don't mind jokes. i do mind having my sexuality used as a general descriptor for everything that's seen as lame and pathetic in this world. there is a difference between humour and offensive bigotry
or perhaps you think that it's ok that people like me should feel hurt and humiliated by someone's comments just so long as people like you find the joke funny?
and i have a fucking life (now at least, i had to pretty much fight for it having grown up at a time when guys fucking guys was seen as pretty unthinkable).
=me= unclench? haha! (they don't call me slack alice for nothing mate)
=me= fuck off? brave words from a little boy on the other end of a network connection? i suggest you come here and make me fuck off if you really think you're up to it mate?
i don't think commerce is driving the internet. i believe that something more fundamental to the agenda behind organic life is. that's why it's so out of control- i think the direction it takes is more about what we fundamentally are and less about what we think and believe.
child porn: it's already freely available on the intrnet. (i.e. attempts to control it _have_already_ been futile). i don't think this is a good thing- i think there are many things that are going to happen as a result of the internet that will not be in the general interests of the human race. i hope governments try to wipe out child porn. i also know that they never will.
regulation: well i would suggest that if access to information is important to you, then you will find a way. sure some people will not bother (and will therefore have been in a sense restricted by the chinese government). i don't call that control though. i would say that my access to information has been controlled when i have _no_ possible route to it, not just when access has been made a bit difficult...
i don't know babes, i didn't use the word "revolution"?
and napster is the =whole= internet is it? napster is 1 tiny application out of 1000's (not all of which will survive)
what about porn web sites? the censorship laws for porn in the UK have changed =dramatically= since it hardcore porn became freely available over the internet. the english government realized the futility of trying to restrict it and gave up. porn web sites are a successful internet application. you're now going to tell me that the british government is a less powerful force on the planet than the record industry aren't u? *grin*
(and on the subject of knowing what i'm talking about, i can still find any MP3 i might possibly want on the internet? i'm sorry to hear that you think napster is the only file transfer protocol...) #;-)
the internet is controlled by laws (those of information evolution) far more powerful than any government on this planet- the chinese don't stand a snowballs chance in hell of controlling it! no-one does! i don't know if that's good or bad because it's a move away from centralized democracy towards social anarchy but there ain't no stopping it now.... (oops?)
am i the only one here that thinks it's a vile nasty bit of kitsh? bsd is clearly a groovy bit of software, the little daemon is (in graphical form) rather groovy too, but nasty little bronze statues of it??? (reminds me of them horrific 'wade wimsies'...)
who cares? the whole thought that these loonies can have any real impact on the situation is laughable. the internet operates more by the laws of evolution than it does by the laws imposed by our conciousness- occasionally you see some insecure and arrogant government try to censor and control it but usually they realize pretty quickly that it's like trying to store milk in a sieve and give up
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phil
Slashdot Mirror
i don't mind jokes. i do mind having my sexuality used as a general descriptor for everything that's seen as lame and pathetic in this world. there is a difference between humour and offensive bigotry
or perhaps you think that it's ok that people like me should feel hurt and humiliated by someone's comments just so long as people like you find the joke funny?
and i have a fucking life (now at least, i had to pretty much fight for it having grown up at a time when guys fucking guys was seen as pretty unthinkable).
=me= unclench? haha! (they don't call me slack alice for nothing mate)
=me= fuck off? brave words from a little boy on the other end of a network connection? i suggest you come here and make me fuck off if you really think you're up to it mate?
child porn: it's already freely available on the intrnet. (i.e. attempts to control it _have_already_ been futile). i don't think this is a good thing- i think there are many things that are going to happen as a result of the internet that will not be in the general interests of the human race. i hope governments try to wipe out child porn. i also know that they never will.
regulation: well i would suggest that if access to information is important to you, then you will find a way. sure some people will not bother (and will therefore have been in a sense restricted by the chinese government). i don't call that control though. i would say that my access to information has been controlled when i have _no_ possible route to it, not just when access has been made a bit difficult...
and napster is the =whole= internet is it? napster is 1 tiny application out of 1000's (not all of which will survive)
what about porn web sites? the censorship laws for porn in the UK have changed =dramatically= since it hardcore porn became freely available over the internet. the english government realized the futility of trying to restrict it and gave up. porn web sites are a successful internet application. you're now going to tell me that the british government is a less powerful force on the planet than the record industry aren't u? *grin*
(and on the subject of knowing what i'm talking about, i can still find any MP3 i might possibly want on the internet? i'm sorry to hear that you think napster is the only file transfer protocol...) #;-)
the internet is controlled by laws (those of information evolution) far more powerful than any government on this planet- the chinese don't stand a snowballs chance in hell of controlling it! no-one does! i don't know if that's good or bad because it's a move away from centralized democracy towards social anarchy but there ain't no stopping it now.... (oops?)
after all of slashdot's (justified) slagging of doubleclick i was a bit surprised 2 c this bit of code in =this= page...
w s/B35606;sz=468x60;ord=985955146985955146"
IFRAME SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N815.andoverne
errm, oops? #-)
ipchains was invented for?
something like:
ipchains -A output -i eth0 -d doubleclick.net/16 -j REJECT
kind of sorts the problem out #-)
shudder
phil.
who cares? the whole thought that these loonies can have any real impact on the situation is laughable. the internet operates more by the laws of evolution than it does by the laws imposed by our conciousness- occasionally you see some insecure and arrogant government try to censor and control it but usually they realize pretty quickly that it's like trying to store milk in a sieve and give up -- phil