What we have now are invasions of sovereign nations which happen to be chock full of resources and blind eyes turned to genocide elsewhere.
Iraq and Afghanistan are about to fall to the taliban (mission accomplished claims notwithstanding) so after more than ten years, trillions of pounds and millions of lives lost (yes, brown people count) we have precisely nothing to show for it.
Iraq was working better under Saddam than it is now, it's a joke (or would be if it hadn't cost so many lives)
How about we start putting our trillions into solving problems at home instead of attacking people elsewhere and let other nations govern themselves.
I'll leave you with this well known Einstein quote:
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Unfortunately after a billion years or so there'll be no humans left to see it, hopefully at some point we'll have moved some of our eggs elsewhere, perhaps with generation ships if Einstein was right and there's no other possibilities...
Indeed it's not but I'll take weakened for decades.
The GCHQ and the NSA have been running roughshod over the people for years, it's about time they were brought to account by whatever means it takes.
Can't believe there's even a question as to whether he, chelsea manning or ed snowden did the right thing, it's obvious they did. Governments are supposed to work for/with us, not sit there spying on us, it's like living under bloody chinese surveillance, we just didn't know it.
I have a right to walk the street without being assaulted.
Additionally I live in a relatively free country without laws against loitering.
Also, the mosquito that bothers me is on the side of a building at a junction of two roads, they do not own the roads, the footpath or indeed anything but the building.
The result of this is I'm cycling to a junction and am assaulted by an offensive sound drilling into my head, the sort of distraction I and others do NOT need before riding into traffic.
You want to give your basic rights away, fine, but keep your grubby fingers off mine.
Yeah, and I hope if the French do that, Yougle's action is to simply block their site in France.
The internet should not be subject to extortion by what is these days a minor country producing little of worth outside its own borders and it's not the first time either. Search engines can be prosecuted in France if they don't block access to Nazi content (Historical memorabilia included!) and let's not forget they were the first country to ban PGP.
They want to live in the stone age, fine, let them.
It matters and to suggest it doesn't just shows what a myopic moron you are. The islamists are taking over the asylum and they're a bit too close for my liking. This is a country that wants to get into the EU? I think they have a bit of work to do before that... Like providing basic rights to their citizens rather than operating a government that makes Argentina at its 30 year ago worst look positively angelic by comparison. Perhaps Mr Anonymous Coward would have a different view if he lived in a country rapidly going down the Thomas.
There are universities in my country offering degrees in Surfing (waves, not the internet) and The Beatles.
It's the end of civilisation as we know it.
Additionally, Ayn Rand is offering no useful solutions. It is in fact people with a very similar philosophy to objectivism who have dropped us right in it now.
Trying to ignore that a paper about the unavailability of scientific data is locked behind a paywall.
This is nothing new though, I do occasional conversion from ancient data formats, people need to pay better attention, imagine trying to read an 8" CP/M floppy today.
As libraries move to digital storage rather than the dead tree that's been fine for thousands of years they are inviting a catastrophe, possibly only one well aimed solar mass ejection from massive data loss.
It's nothing to do with porn and we all know it. Did you notice that filter also blocks "extreme political content"? Who decides what's too extreme? They're going to ask everyone over the next year to choose filtering or no filtering, how long do you think it'll be until it's presumed consent unless you specifically ask for no filtering? How long after that anyone who wants no filtering is subject to extra GCHQ monitoring as they're considered subversive?
Can someone please stop the country? I want to get off -.-
It's better than it used to be but it's still not going to win any speed awards. Does allow access to sites my arsehole government have blocked though.
Will only get worse now the great firewall is active (with auto opt-in for new customers), which btw doesn't just censor porn but also 'extreme political speech', I'd like to know who the fuck gets to determine what's extreme politics I can't view or not, personally I think it should be me, the government think otherwise.
Theft is defined (at least here) as taking someone's property with the intention of permanently depriving them of it.
Nobody has been deprived of anything, it's a copy, the originals still exist.
There might be/some/ argument that it's depriving the already super rich hollywood producers of their revenue but generally that assumes anyone who pirated something would have otherwise bought it which is certainly not the case. Most piracy is by children who don't have any money and could not have bought the content anyway.
There's also the rather thorny issue of determining which user of a particular IP address pirated the content, some people have open wifi networks, should they be responsible for the actions of others simply because they chose to be a good neighbour? I think not.
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There are no justifiable wars.
What we have now are invasions of sovereign nations which happen to be chock full of resources and blind eyes turned to genocide elsewhere.
Iraq and Afghanistan are about to fall to the taliban (mission accomplished claims notwithstanding) so after more than ten years, trillions of pounds and millions of lives lost (yes, brown people count) we have precisely nothing to show for it.
Iraq was working better under Saddam than it is now, it's a joke (or would be if it hadn't cost so many lives)
How about we start putting our trillions into solving problems at home instead of attacking people elsewhere and let other nations govern themselves.
I'll leave you with this well known Einstein quote:
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Aye, his blog is pretty damn excellent.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/
Unfortunately after a billion years or so there'll be no humans left to see it, hopefully at some point we'll have moved some of our eggs elsewhere, perhaps with generation ships if Einstein was right and there's no other possibilities...
We don't trust them so much these days...
The Con-Dem coalition has to be the worst government we've had in nearly 20 years and I was a Lib-Dem member!
The only thing that will prevent a labour landslide next time is them keeping that overgrown public schoolboy as leader.
I'm not sure if that makes it less outrageous or more...
Tough titties, your rights end at my head.
Who is John Galt?
nothing wrong with the e.e. cummings style, we're communicating online rather than writing a formal letter.
Then they should get a conscience when it comes for who they work for.
Indeed it's not but I'll take weakened for decades.
The GCHQ and the NSA have been running roughshod over the people for years, it's about time they were brought to account by whatever means it takes.
Can't believe there's even a question as to whether he, chelsea manning or ed snowden did the right thing, it's obvious they did. Governments are supposed to work for/with us, not sit there spying on us, it's like living under bloody chinese surveillance, we just didn't know it.
I have a right to walk the street without being assaulted.
Additionally I live in a relatively free country without laws against loitering.
Also, the mosquito that bothers me is on the side of a building at a junction of two roads, they do not own the roads, the footpath or indeed anything but the building.
The result of this is I'm cycling to a junction and am assaulted by an offensive sound drilling into my head, the sort of distraction I and others do NOT need before riding into traffic.
You want to give your basic rights away, fine, but keep your grubby fingers off mine.
We bow before our new robot overlords?
Whoever you vote for the government gets in.
It's a subsidy for smart people, that's obvious -.o;
Yeah, and I hope if the French do that, Yougle's action is to simply block their site in France.
The internet should not be subject to extortion by what is these days a minor country producing little of worth outside its own borders and it's not the first time either. Search engines can be prosecuted in France if they don't block access to Nazi content (Historical memorabilia included!) and let's not forget they were the first country to ban PGP.
They want to live in the stone age, fine, let them.
Oh yes, mechanical child abuse, what a good idea.
We have those abominations here and let me tell you, being over 25 or even over 35 is no guarantee you won't hear them.
Ban the mosquitoes, not the kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=2WNrx2jq184
It matters and to suggest it doesn't just shows what a myopic moron you are.
The islamists are taking over the asylum and they're a bit too close for my liking.
This is a country that wants to get into the EU? I think they have a bit of work to do before that... Like providing basic rights to their citizens rather than operating a government that makes Argentina at its 30 year ago worst look positively angelic by comparison.
Perhaps Mr Anonymous Coward would have a different view if he lived in a country rapidly going down the Thomas.
It's already happening I'm afraid.
There are universities in my country offering degrees in Surfing (waves, not the internet) and The Beatles.
It's the end of civilisation as we know it.
Additionally, Ayn Rand is offering no useful solutions. It is in fact people with a very similar philosophy to objectivism who have dropped us right in it now.
Because you inadvertently read the Grauniad instead
Trying to ignore that a paper about the unavailability of scientific data is locked behind a paywall.
This is nothing new though, I do occasional conversion from ancient data formats, people need to pay better attention, imagine trying to read an 8" CP/M floppy today.
As libraries move to digital storage rather than the dead tree that's been fine for thousands of years they are inviting a catastrophe, possibly only one well aimed solar mass ejection from massive data loss.
It's nothing to do with porn and we all know it.
Did you notice that filter also blocks "extreme political content"?
Who decides what's too extreme?
They're going to ask everyone over the next year to choose filtering or no filtering, how long do you think it'll be until it's presumed consent unless you specifically ask for no filtering? How long after that anyone who wants no filtering is subject to extra GCHQ monitoring as they're considered subversive?
Can someone please stop the country? I want to get off -.-
It's better than it used to be but it's still not going to win any speed awards. Does allow access to sites my arsehole government have blocked though.
Will only get worse now the great firewall is active (with auto opt-in for new customers), which btw doesn't just censor porn but also 'extreme political speech', I'd like to know who the fuck gets to determine what's extreme politics I can't view or not, personally I think it should be me, the government think otherwise.
It /isn't/ theft.
Theft is defined (at least here) as taking someone's property with the intention of permanently depriving them of it.
Nobody has been deprived of anything, it's a copy, the originals still exist.
There might be /some/ argument that it's depriving the already super rich hollywood producers of their revenue but generally that assumes anyone who pirated something would have otherwise bought it which is certainly not the case. Most piracy is by children who don't have any money and could not have bought the content anyway.
There's also the rather thorny issue of determining which user of a particular IP address pirated the content, some people have open wifi networks, should they be responsible for the actions of others simply because they chose to be a good neighbour? I think not.
CCFLs die because the electrolytics get cooked due to the heat.
So your 5gbp bulb fails due to a 20p component.
That's before you get into the spectrum the put out which makes photography under them a giant pain in the arse.
Hrm, another programming language...
Attempts have been made in the past to automate programming, it's never worked very well (or at all in some cases)
Still, look forward to seeing it, perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised.