dont get what you mean. The Republicans are seeking to abolish Democracy and our Freedoms in the name of Security (proving that they deserve neither, as it were) -- that means, by logic, you need to be voting Democratic, right?
(Assuming you're from the United States, my apologies if I am in error.)
I think you need to re-examine the definition of bigot. My point is, was, and will be that you're making claims out of the entire religion of Islam because of a relatively small number of extremists.
it doesnt happen with 'coup'. it happens with 'boarding schools' which take in children of ages 7 to 18. they run these 'charities' for children who cant afford a good education.
Not just boarding schools - US prisons have become indoctrination centres for Islam. So you get some guy who goes to jail for his 5th armed robbery, serves a couple years, and finds Islam. He then goes back to the ghetto and knocks up a couple more baby momma's, thereby producing more cannon-fodder for the mujahadeen. And you as a taxpayer get to fund the entire process from start to finish.
Don't ever let anyone say the islamists are stupid.... But there's absolutely no problem at all if the same criminal finds God, leaves prison, goes straight, gets a job, raises a family...
Which is exactly what you're describing, except instead of "God" it's "Allah" (which is another word for "God")...
I'd quote the coup in Argelia just to prevent a (democratically elected) islam party from taking the government. No major occidental nation, press or organization cared to defend democracy. Democracy is a strange beast that only works while people believe in it. its an utter stupidity to believe that factions who seek abolishment of democracy and freedoms should be allowed to take power through democracy. its also paradoxical. So I take it you're voting Obama this November?/Snark
Not from my viewpoint. Anything Scientology related, Jesus Camps, nonexistent American Islamic Boarding Schools... scientology uses assasination and intimidation through laws. it is nothing compared to what islamist radicalism uses. islamist radicalism directly tells people to go do suicide bombings. So Suicide Bombings aren't "Assassination and Intimidation"? We must have differing definitions of the terms.
Besides, calling suicide bomber "jihadists" merely "Islamic Radicals" is like insinuating that all Christians are like the GodHatesFags guy. A disgusting oversimplification that insults all people involved.
I put that in quotes because as many people seem to forget, America is a secular nation. That means that Islam is as much a part of the US as Christianity, Wicca, Buddhism, and countless other beliefs -- all equally valid and equally worthy of our respect and protection. turkey was also a secular nation. its in the constitution. islamists have got ahold of the government through majority vote after multiplying in numbers. now they are trying to change the constitution. And as a Democracy, that is their right as the majority party. Your point?
you havent seen scary, until you have seen the extent of brainwashing that happens in an islamic boarding school. christian brainwashing and radicalism pales in comparison. Not from my viewpoint. Anything Scientology related, Jesus Camps, nonexistent American Islamic Boarding Schools...
It's all pretty damned scary from looking in from outside the bubble.
Seriously, "our" brand of fanaticism is no worse, no better, than "theirs" -- "their" PR departments just don't have control of the media like "ours". (Note that inside "their" bubble, it's the exact reverse -- that's why you don't hear about Al Sadir or whatever his name is being run out of town.)
"They" decry the "great Satan" and leave pipe bombs near roads, "we" hide pipe bombs in Abortion Clinics' parking lots and post the home addresses and pictures of doctor's children.
No difference, except for the level of desperation.
I put that in quotes because as many people seem to forget, America is a secular nation. That means that Islam is as much a part of the US as Christianity, Wicca, Buddhism, and countless other beliefs -- all equally valid and equally worthy of our respect and protection.
it doesnt happen with 'coup'. it happens with 'boarding schools' which take in children of ages 7 to 18. they run these 'charities' for children who cant afford a good education. they brainwash kids there. also they tell their supporters to multiply like madmen. results are phenomenonal. Religious boarding schools... Huh. You mean, something like this?
They should have gone a step further and told Lieberman off for being a censorship nazi. Wait till the people making these videos get in charge... you haven't begun to see censorship yet. Yes, yes, because we all believe that some random stone-age twits who got lucky are going to somehow stage a coup. Get real, you pathetic fear-monger.
This is America, not France/*insertshittyeuropeancountryhere* where the muslims are allowed to run free protesting all the values of western civilization (freedom) and calling for the beheading and execution of anyone who even talks negatively about islam, let alone draws a cartoon. Nah, Islam's not allowed to do that, instead we just have people saying 9/11 occurred because we haven't killed / locked up all the homosexuals, atheists, and Jews. And these people are not only allowed on TV after having said this, are actually well respected members of the national community.
I will disclaim beforehand; I realize that you are (probably) being sarcastic. In case you are not being sarcastic then I will tell you that the site was likely censored because of unmitigated use of keyword flagging. I deduce that the references to "child pornography" likely flagged this Web site. Funny story, actually, DailyKOS was actually blocked by the same censorship software for a while. This was right before the November elections, and although I risk being labeled a tinfoil hat wearer for saying this, I don't think it was accidental.
Quite a few poor people (logging on through libraries -- as required by that nice new law Bush requiring libraries to install filters) and students have to go through this censorship software, and those demographics typically vote heavily Democratic. Having a pretty major Progressive News Site as well as several major Democratic Politician sites blocked right before an election could have been crippling.
This is ignoring the rather chilling idea of a Republican government (at the time) requiring libraries to install software made by right wing corporations that seemed to (at the time) be leaning towards blocking any and all left wing online websites of note.
Not only that, the block at that time was spreading between the various censorship software companies -- and since these aren't "learning filters" and don't use heuristics, someone had to be adding them to the lists.
Brilliant way to troll, it must be said.
Anyway, someone had to have added Wikileaks to the site, and obviously those keywords are wrong -- there's no hate speech on the site, it's not "historical revisionism", and "extreme" is one of those catch-all bullshit words they use to block anything they don't agree with. Of course, having delt with this crap for a long while now, I've noticed a habit of them doing so -- BoingBoing is on a perma-block for "Nudity" after publishing an article critical of their methods, for example. They also block any news site that critiques them, as "Anonymizer/Translator"s.
The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Hate Speech, Historical Revisionism, Extreme
You can:
Use your browser's Back button or enter a different Web address to continue.
The powers of be must HATE that site. I don't think the Historial Revisionism thing even exists on Smartfilter's official list of categories to censor.
By the way, the summary is wrong - that study the other day did not say the crimes didn't deter crime... only that they don't help much in SOLVING street robberies. Big difference, that. The difference being, of course, that you can actually measure the rate of solving street robberies, whereas determent rate is about as quantifiable as the atomic weight of angel farts.
What are they going to do, walk around with surveys asking anyone they think might commit crime if they decided not to because of the cameras?
I would call that horribly ineffective service. I hope the court would agree. You should never pay to know you're sued;) I would call it bloody brilliant by the villains in this story. Give the guy 2 weeks to reply, but make sure it takes him 2 weeks to even get the info? Perfect!
The only way it could be better is if he had to admit guilt to even get the lawsuit information -- but hey, lets face it, not everyone can be as efficient as the US Government.
Why does a takedown notice get more respect than the site owner? Because a person sending such a notice seems more sue-happy than the site owner?
Site owners can sue too. That is, unless when you sign up for hosting you agree that your site can be taken down for any reason. Except that the DMCA is specifically worded to screw Google and other hosting companies over if they don't take a "Shutdown Site Now, Think Later" position. I.e., if the DMCA complaints turn out to be true, and Google didn't shutdown first and think later, Google becomes liable for everything.
Brilliantly worded bit of kit there. It's like an anti-terrorism law that states "If you don't make a citizen's arrest, and it turns out that random Arabic/Mexican/Just-Not-White-Enough chap really is evil, you're liable for anything he does cause you COULD have stopped him."
Absolutely stupid idea, but hey, it's ""Intellectual Property" Law", leave your brain at the door.
If I were Zelenik, the next iteration of GTA would have a character that looked exactly like Jack Thompson that a little old lady blows away with an Uzi.
Just a thought.
Supposedly GTA4 has/had a Lawyer that, when faced with the main character gunning him down, screams out that Guns don't kill people, Video Games do, and that violent video games are what's making the main character kill him. Thompson *already* threatened to sue him over it.
That reminds me, didn't he have an agreement wherein they don't crush him like a bug for libel and he stops mentioning them and their games, at all, forever?
Maybe someone should tell MADD that they would probably have better luck getting their message out if they didn't take positions that are somewhere between sophomoric and insane.
If they really think that people are so completely unable to distinguish games from reality then they should understand that it means that people are so stupid that they can't be educated to stop drinking and driving anyway. ... Remembering that MADD was founded and is mostly made up of parents who lost their children to drunk drivers. A bit of anger in their message is understandable.
This: Drunk driving is not a game, and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable. that's ok. I agree with that. Hell, I agree with Jack Thompson when he says stuff like "Hay guys, maybe 8 year olds shouldn't play GTA4". (Sprinkle with batshit and curse words to taste.)
THIS however: MADD also is asking Rockstar Games to consider removing GTA IV from distribution 'out of respect for the millions of victims/survivors of drunk driving.' goes well past "Angry ex-parents who have a point" to "Angry ex-parents who are woefully uninformed as to what they're asking."
They go 60's camp. You are a super villains side kick, dressed in fluro spandex you have to try to dominate your city before the other super villain gangs do, all the while evading police and the occasional vigilante dressed in a leotard with a really cool utility belt.
I would buy that in a heartbeat, there's not enough supervillain games out there.
A sandboxy Batman game would also be pretty good.
I would also buy "Grand Theft Auto: Mushroom Kingdom", a self-parody with Wario running around outrunning Toadstool cops and the like.
It's ironic that in America, the country that much of the basis for the Internet hails from, seems to be regressing in Internet access. In Eastern Europe, more and more people enjoy fast and unthrottled connections, and ISPs don't care how many gigabytes of traffic you pull in each month. One ISP I know in Romania helped alleviate demands on its network by setting up a DC++ server where people could share films and music with people from the same city, not by penalizing customers. Well that's because Romania and other Eastern Union countries don't, as a general rule, worship Greed like the United States does.
Nanoparticles make everything taste like chicken. That is the power of nanoscience. Anyway, research animals should be eaten if the substances which were used on them are safe. Well, we'll let you can be the first to try a hydrogen-peroxide-bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, then.:)
If Dell is in the business of installing unsupported operating systems, why not instead redirect the customers to their Ubuntu offerings instead?
Selling a computer with XP past the Microsoft cutoff date is pretty irresponsible. At least Ubuntu has community support, whereas XP will have no support? Is it really Dell's place to oversee microsoft's business decisions? Because no one wants Ubuntu, they want XP.
Sorry to be so blunt, but there it is. Dell sells Ubuntu, but it is still a niche, and suggesting that Dell just drop XP altogether to try and force people to use Ubuntu for... no good reason makes little sense.
In other news, I wonder if this will force Microsoft to continue to support WinXP. It's pretty well known that Dell has a lot of pull with Redmond -- it's said that their objections about the "No XP for YOU!" nonsense that Microsoft tried when Vista came out is one of the major reasons Microsoft backed down, wonder if this will change much.
Oh, you wanted pictures, too. Okay. How about this one? The big banner says it all.
The people who have the most to fear from this are the politicians. After all, if the FBI can snoop it, guess what will inevitably follow? One word: Net-Watergate. Your political enemies won't cave in to your demands on that anti-terrorism bill? Threaten to expose that they visited hot-young-underage-nymphos-with-bags-over-their-heads-and-bushy-underarm-hair.com on twelve separate occasions in the last year.
Yikes.
Or just claim they did. Remember, anything digital can be faked.
The problem is with the outputs. If you output 100% gasoline, you just pour it into your car and go. If it is a mixture of only 50% gasoline, you have to refine it and remove impurities. That process might be prohibitively costly. Why wouldn't they just do that stuff at the pump?
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(Assuming you're from the United States, my apologies if I am in error.)
So, the Westboro types never kill?
Never?
Never ever?
I think you need to re-examine the definition of bigot. My point is, was, and will be that you're making claims out of the entire religion of Islam because of a relatively small number of extremists.
Not just boarding schools - US prisons have become indoctrination centres for Islam. So you get some guy who goes to jail for his 5th armed robbery, serves a couple years, and finds Islam. He then goes back to the ghetto and knocks up a couple more baby momma's, thereby producing more cannon-fodder for the mujahadeen. And you as a taxpayer get to fund the entire process from start to finish.
Don't ever let anyone say the islamists are stupid.... But there's absolutely no problem at all if the same criminal finds God, leaves prison, goes straight, gets a job, raises a family...
Which is exactly what you're describing, except instead of "God" it's "Allah" (which is another word for "God")...
It's only bad if it's not "our" god. Sad.
Besides, calling suicide bomber "jihadists" merely "Islamic Radicals" is like insinuating that all Christians are like the GodHatesFags guy. A disgusting oversimplification that insults all people involved. I put that in quotes because as many people seem to forget, America is a secular nation. That means that Islam is as much a part of the US as Christianity, Wicca, Buddhism, and countless other beliefs -- all equally valid and equally worthy of our respect and protection. turkey was also a secular nation. its in the constitution. islamists have got ahold of the government through majority vote after multiplying in numbers. now they are trying to change the constitution. And as a Democracy, that is their right as the majority party. Your point?
It's all pretty damned scary from looking in from outside the bubble.
Seriously, "our" brand of fanaticism is no worse, no better, than "theirs" -- "their" PR departments just don't have control of the media like "ours". (Note that inside "their" bubble, it's the exact reverse -- that's why you don't hear about Al Sadir or whatever his name is being run out of town.)
"They" decry the "great Satan" and leave pipe bombs near roads, "we" hide pipe bombs in Abortion Clinics' parking lots and post the home addresses and pictures of doctor's children.
No difference, except for the level of desperation.
I put that in quotes because as many people seem to forget, America is a secular nation. That means that Islam is as much a part of the US as Christianity, Wicca, Buddhism, and countless other beliefs -- all equally valid and equally worthy of our respect and protection.
You're right, Theists are SCARY.
Wait till the people making these videos get in charge... you haven't begun to see censorship yet. Yes, yes, because we all believe that some random stone-age twits who got lucky are going to somehow stage a coup. Get real, you pathetic fear-monger.
linux => linuces
I think I prefer the incorrect Linuxen, if only because I can then imagine giant penguins being used as cattle.
I would include a sound effect (i.e., Mooooo~) here, but I have no idea what kinda sound effect Penguins do. Perhaps...
SEGFAUUUUUUUUT~~~~
Quite a few poor people (logging on through libraries -- as required by that nice new law Bush requiring libraries to install filters) and students have to go through this censorship software, and those demographics typically vote heavily Democratic. Having a pretty major Progressive News Site as well as several major Democratic Politician sites blocked right before an election could have been crippling.
This is ignoring the rather chilling idea of a Republican government (at the time) requiring libraries to install software made by right wing corporations that seemed to (at the time) be leaning towards blocking any and all left wing online websites of note.
Not only that, the block at that time was spreading between the various censorship software companies -- and since these aren't "learning filters" and don't use heuristics, someone had to be adding them to the lists.
Brilliant way to troll, it must be said.
Anyway, someone had to have added Wikileaks to the site, and obviously those keywords are wrong -- there's no hate speech on the site, it's not "historical revisionism", and "extreme" is one of those catch-all bullshit words they use to block anything they don't agree with. Of course, having delt with this crap for a long while now, I've noticed a habit of them doing so -- BoingBoing is on a perma-block for "Nudity" after publishing an article critical of their methods, for example. They also block any news site that critiques them, as "Anonymizer/Translator"s.
Interesting, my workplace uses the Smartfilter censorship software to keep us from, you know, doing our jobs, and just noticed this gem:
You cannot access the following Web address:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikinews_suppressed_Wikipedia_pornography_investigation
The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Hate Speech, Historical Revisionism, Extreme
You can:
Use your browser's Back button or enter a different Web address to continue.
The powers of be must HATE that site. I don't think the Historial Revisionism thing even exists on Smartfilter's official list of categories to censor.
What are they going to do, walk around with surveys asking anyone they think might commit crime if they decided not to because of the cameras?
The only way it could be better is if he had to admit guilt to even get the lawsuit information -- but hey, lets face it, not everyone can be as efficient as the US Government.
Is this better or worse than requiring a CD in the drive to play?
Oh, you'll still have to do that, too. What, you thought because they had ONE annoying thing they'd stop the old annoying thing?
Anyway, with Spore's "Massively Singleplayer" stuff, who *isn't* going to have it online when you play it?
Site owners can sue too. That is, unless when you sign up for hosting you agree that your site can be taken down for any reason. Except that the DMCA is specifically worded to screw Google and other hosting companies over if they don't take a "Shutdown Site Now, Think Later" position. I.e., if the DMCA complaints turn out to be true, and Google didn't shutdown first and think later, Google becomes liable for everything.
Brilliantly worded bit of kit there. It's like an anti-terrorism law that states "If you don't make a citizen's arrest, and it turns out that random Arabic/Mexican/Just-Not-White-Enough chap really is evil, you're liable for anything he does cause you COULD have stopped him."
Absolutely stupid idea, but hey, it's ""Intellectual Property" Law", leave your brain at the door.
Supposedly GTA4 has/had a Lawyer that, when faced with the main character gunning him down, screams out that Guns don't kill people, Video Games do, and that violent video games are what's making the main character kill him. Thompson *already* threatened to sue him over it.Just a thought.
That reminds me, didn't he have an agreement wherein they don't crush him like a bug for libel and he stops mentioning them and their games, at all, forever?
We KNOW he's breaking the law, but who's going to be the one who stands up to throw the first stone? So far, no one's doing it.
If they really think that people are so completely unable to distinguish games from reality then they should understand that it means that people are so stupid that they can't be educated to stop drinking and driving anyway. ... Remembering that MADD was founded and is mostly made up of parents who lost their children to drunk drivers. A bit of anger in their message is understandable.
This: Drunk driving is not a game, and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable. that's ok. I agree with that. Hell, I agree with Jack Thompson when he says stuff like "Hay guys, maybe 8 year olds shouldn't play GTA4". (Sprinkle with batshit and curse words to taste.)
THIS however: MADD also is asking Rockstar Games to consider removing GTA IV from distribution 'out of respect for the millions of victims/survivors of drunk driving.' goes well past "Angry ex-parents who have a point" to "Angry ex-parents who are woefully uninformed as to what they're asking."
They go 60's camp. You are a super villains side kick, dressed in fluro spandex you have to try to dominate your city before the other super villain gangs do, all the while evading police and the occasional vigilante dressed in a leotard with a really cool utility belt.
I would buy that in a heartbeat, there's not enough supervillain games out there.A sandboxy Batman game would also be pretty good.
I would also buy "Grand Theft Auto: Mushroom Kingdom", a self-parody with Wario running around outrunning Toadstool cops and the like.
Selling a computer with XP past the Microsoft cutoff date is pretty irresponsible. At least Ubuntu has community support, whereas XP will have no support? Is it really Dell's place to oversee microsoft's business decisions? Because no one wants Ubuntu, they want XP.
Sorry to be so blunt, but there it is. Dell sells Ubuntu, but it is still a niche, and suggesting that Dell just drop XP altogether to try and force people to use Ubuntu for... no good reason makes little sense.
In other news, I wonder if this will force Microsoft to continue to support WinXP. It's pretty well known that Dell has a lot of pull with Redmond -- it's said that their objections about the "No XP for YOU!" nonsense that Microsoft tried when Vista came out is one of the major reasons Microsoft backed down, wonder if this will change much.
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Oh, you wanted pictures, too. Okay. How about this one? The big banner says it all.
The people who have the most to fear from this are the politicians. After all, if the FBI can snoop it, guess what will inevitably follow? One word: Net-Watergate. Your political enemies won't cave in to your demands on that anti-terrorism bill? Threaten to expose that they visited hot-young-underage-nymphos-with-bags-over-their-heads-and-bushy-underarm-hair.com on twelve separate occasions in the last year.
Yikes.
Or just claim they did. Remember, anything digital can be faked.Why wouldn't they just do that stuff at the pump?