Has he actually filed suit against anyone? After looking through the various links, it looks like he's just threatening to sue people. NetKooks do that all the time, no biggy. (Barritry, of course.)
A modest suggestion: Start a dating service for netkooks. It might give them something else to do, and the rest of us can be entertained by the listings: "WM abduction victim seeks Reptoid F for tin-foil B&D. No implants." These's a netkook in SLC Utah who might be perfect for him.
Exactly. In your book. Using the Procrustian best-fit method. (I'm also a fiscal conservative, which your current government certainly isn't.) I'm hoping that after next week our good neighbours to the south aren't so hyper-caffeinated after a fibre-glass backrub, but I have my doubts.
Why don't we just dump a whole pile of leaves on Mars? The wind will almost certainly deposit them all on some Martian's lichen lawn or rock garden. While it's gumbling and raking, we pounce!
say "hate speech" and bam, you're a FELON if you publicly say 'I think homosexuality is wrong' (see bill C.250, Canada - no joke).
Horseshit. That law is almost impossible to apply without a lot more than just a simple statement. They tried for years with Ernst Zündel, and I forget if they ever made it stick.
I speak from personal Canadian experience of years of protesting against a particularly nasty cult that is well known for its use of lawyers, laws and courts to harrass their critics whenever possible.
I have the feeling that you're trying to slot me into your American liberal/conservative spectrum, and that's just not going to work.
I'm not sure if 100% cotton will survive that long. I've had good experience with Tilley Endurables which are a cotton/polyester blend. (The zipper packed it in after years on one pair. They replaced it free according to their guarantee.) Pricey, but they last. I prefer the shorts, which usually have more pockets.
Whereas the righties have never tried to legislate morality in comic books, movies, free-speech zones or even the bedroom?:^P
I don't think that the issues of individual rights maps very neatly onto the one dimensional left-right spectrum, and idiot control-freaks come in all flavours.
Not directly related, but I'm sure that it will have echos in the Internet bars of Europe..
there was a recent decision upholding a ban on a Bonn LaserTag-type operation. Simulated killing people is bad, you see.
A key question confronted the European Union last week: Should grown men and women who get their kicks by pretending to shoot one another with toy weapons have the freedom to do so?
German authorities, and now the EU's highest tribunal, think the answer to that question is no. On Oct. 14, the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice upheld a ban on the Bonn "Laserdrome", where participants simulated killing each other with lasers.
The court said nothing about whether the lasers can actually inflict physical pain. Instead, it found that the game operated by the Bonn-based company, Omega Spielhallen-und-Automatenaufstellungs-GmbH, is an affront to human dignity.
(I admit that running around playing rayguns isn't very dignified, but if people want to play geeky games like that, why not?)
The law was officially to maintain Canadian content laws in the face of new technology. (Not always a bad thing when you're sleeping with a lovable but huge cultural elephant that likes to hog the blankets.) In application there are all sorts of stupidities like cable not carrying the WB 49 station that I can get with rabbit ears.
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Test, Jamie, test.
A modest suggestion: Start a dating service for netkooks. It might give them something else to do, and the rest of us can be entertained by the listings: "WM abduction victim seeks Reptoid F for tin-foil B&D. No implants." These's a netkook in SLC Utah who might be perfect for him.
You mean that Grand Theft Auto isn't a tourism program? I'm shocked and want a refund!
Exactly. In your book. Using the Procrustian best-fit method. (I'm also a fiscal conservative, which your current government certainly isn't.) I'm hoping that after next week our good neighbours to the south aren't so hyper-caffeinated after a fibre-glass backrub, but I have my doubts.
Why don't we just dump a whole pile of leaves on Mars? The wind will almost certainly deposit them all on some Martian's lichen lawn or rock garden. While it's gumbling and raking, we pounce!
Horseshit. That law is almost impossible to apply without a lot more than just a simple statement. They tried for years with Ernst Zündel, and I forget if they ever made it stick.
I speak from personal Canadian experience of years of protesting against a particularly nasty cult that is well known for its use of lawyers, laws and courts to harrass their critics whenever possible.
I have the feeling that you're trying to slot me into your American liberal/conservative spectrum, and that's just not going to work.
I'm not sure if 100% cotton will survive that long. I've had good experience with Tilley Endurables which are a cotton/polyester blend. (The zipper packed it in after years on one pair. They replaced it free according to their guarantee.) Pricey, but they last. I prefer the shorts, which usually have more pockets.
Of course it was. And the list of the people who could and would trivially bypass the block is very useful to them. :)
I don't think that the issues of individual rights maps very neatly onto the one dimensional left-right spectrum, and idiot control-freaks come in all flavours.
Is the Statue of Liberty a designated free speech zone?
That's a pretty long list! ;^)
Sure. They probably felt that Grand Theft Auto was teaching the wrong lessons now that the elite actually own cars.
From a review of the case:
(I admit that running around playing rayguns isn't very dignified, but if people want to play geeky games like that, why not?)The US has Internet bars for those sorts of people.
The live ones are pretty good at it too. (No word if they got Timmy out of the well however.)
Hmmmrminmm? Aaw, just lemme sleep another planet, kay...?
The law was officially to maintain Canadian content laws in the face of new technology. (Not always a bad thing when you're sleeping with a lovable but huge cultural elephant that likes to hog the blankets.) In application there are all sorts of stupidities like cable not carrying the WB 49 station that I can get with rabbit ears.
Our grass is still green. And so are the lawns.
So the Treaty of Ghent doesn't count?
It could be worse. They could sell it to spammers as a set of "millions" CDs.
Certainly not me
Every time I get a new DHCP address from my ISP, I get endless knocks at the ports by the five different protocols that the previous owner was using.
I love the smell of .. *ARGH*, the methane, it burns, it burns!
Jupiter is outsourcing its moons.
Well that's a relief!