Don't let your personal ideas on a topic be clouded by prejudice.
Wel, I want to agree wih you (:-), but...
But back to freedom of speech, and tangentially related: freedom of press. Also make sure to mention that currently the US ranks #44 on the Worldwide Press Freedom Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Bor ders below for instantance Mauritius and Mali, Benin and El Salvador but JUST ahead of Bolivia. The Netherlands can be found 40 places higher in this list on number 4 after three Nordic countries.
... I don't know if this is a very good point. After all, that ranking only expresses the amount of freedom the press has in saying what it wants. However, Dutch journalists (much like, as I've been told, American journalists after 9/11) have a notoriously uncritical attitude toward the government -and politicians in general. It's easy to be left in freedom if you never push the boundaries of what's generally accepted.
I think we're severely stretching the term "human right" if we're now to beleive that people have a right not to be called names, racist or otherwise.
Quotes from the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
Article 1:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 5:
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
I don't think calling someone 'nigger' is "in the spirit of brotherhood" (unless you're a bro from the hood:-), and I do think it qualifies as "degrading treatment."
The Dutch are notorious for not caring about human rights. Did you know that it's illegal to use racist remarks there? Like, if you use the "N" word in public, they can fine you or throw you in jail.
Did you know that making a racist remark is against other people's human rights? Freedom of speech is not the only human right, you know.
One bad thing about the population of the Netherlands is that the majority is
- too stupid to recognize the potential consequences of large databases (such as the one described in this article, or one created by logging all communications traffic).
- too gutless to deal with the possibility of a terrorist attack with the same resillience and diginity as the Brits.
- too trusting to see that Dutch politicians (most notably that *#@$&* Donner) go completely overboard and are not hindered by subject-matter knowledge. They no longer do what is necessary, they do what they can get away with.
I honestly believe that both Orwell's Nineteen Einghty-Four and Animal Farm should be mandatory reading for everyone in highschool.
And I envy the Americans for having a strong civil liberties organisation such as the ACLU.
Hehehe! I always thought I was the only person silly enough to actually do that... Well, sheet metal or anything else that will substantially increase the weight of the envelope.
Whenever I get a phising e-mail, I go to the website that the e-mail directs me to, and fill out the forms with data that I make up. I even memorize (or jot down) what I enter in each field, because some phishing attempts claim I made a typo and ask me to fill out the form again --I guess this is an attempt to make sure I'm entering actual data.
When enough people do this, it 'drowns' the credit card numbers and identification codes from people who are too gullible to know that their banks would NEVER invite them to update their data this way.
At the risk of turning this into a discussion on politics: it always amazed me that four years agom the US citizens voted Bush into office rather than Gore.
When they want me to pay for access to the content by viewing the ads, webmasters could simply put that content (together with the ads) in a popup window.
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Don't let your personal ideas on a topic be clouded by prejudice.
Wel, I want to agree wih you (:-), but...
But back to freedom of speech, and tangentially related: freedom of press. Also make sure to mention that currently the US ranks #44 on the Worldwide Press Freedom Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Bo
... I don't know if this is a very good point. After all, that ranking only expresses the amount of freedom the press has in saying what it wants. However, Dutch journalists (much like, as I've been told, American journalists after 9/11) have a notoriously uncritical attitude toward the government -and politicians in general. It's easy to be left in freedom if you never push the boundaries of what's generally accepted.
I think we're severely stretching the term "human right" if we're now to beleive that people have a right not to be called names, racist or otherwise.
:-), and I do think it qualifies as "degrading treatment."
Quotes from the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
Article 1:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 5:
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
I don't think calling someone 'nigger' is "in the spirit of brotherhood" (unless you're a bro from the hood
The Dutch are notorious for not caring about human rights. Did you know that it's illegal to use racist remarks there? Like, if you use the "N" word in public, they can fine you or throw you in jail.
Did you know that making a racist remark is against other people's human rights? Freedom of speech is not the only human right, you know.
and how happy I am to have a good, Christian man like George W. Bush in office.
Troll alert?
One bad thing about the population of the Netherlands is that the majority is
- too stupid to recognize the potential consequences of large databases (such as the one described in this article, or one created by logging all communications traffic).
- too gutless to deal with the possibility of a terrorist attack with the same resillience and diginity as the Brits.
- too trusting to see that Dutch politicians (most notably that *#@$&* Donner) go completely overboard and are not hindered by subject-matter knowledge. They no longer do what is necessary, they do what they can get away with.
I honestly believe that both Orwell's Nineteen Einghty-Four and Animal Farm should be mandatory reading for everyone in highschool.
And I envy the Americans for having a strong civil liberties organisation such as the ACLU.
Aho, Sethi, Ullman.
And if you buy the new edition together with the old one, you only pay $106.60! Good deal!
Hehehe! I always thought I was the only person silly enough to actually do that... Well, sheet metal or anything else that will substantially increase the weight of the envelope.
Whenever I get a phising e-mail, I go to the website that the e-mail directs me to, and fill out the forms with data that I make up. I even memorize (or jot down) what I enter in each field, because some phishing attempts claim I made a typo and ask me to fill out the form again --I guess this is an attempt to make sure I'm entering actual data.
When enough people do this, it 'drowns' the credit card numbers and identification codes from people who are too gullible to know that their banks would NEVER invite them to update their data this way.
Eliminate American Anti-intellectualism.
At the risk of turning this into a discussion on politics: it always amazed me that four years agom the US citizens voted Bush into office rather than Gore.
And that is something to be proud of?
My guess is, he knows he was wrong and is trying to save face. ;-)
I don't see it. 128 bit UUIDs/GUIDs have been around for this sort of purpose for quite some time.
Seldom have my thoughts been verbalized so accurately by someone else!
> Wait -- you said "dual core processors," not "Hardcore Pornstars." Nevermind.
I guess there's truth to the tale that masturbating affects one's hearing.
Now that her husband wants a divorce, she's asking a lot more than $10k for alimony.
"You know how much the Department of Sanitation charges just to remove all the garbage my soon-to-be -ex husband collected?"
When they want me to pay for access to the content by viewing the ads, webmasters could simply put that content (together with the ads) in a popup window.
That way, I get all or nothing.