Can you imagine what the camera view from inside that beachball would look like?
Not to mention the fact that someone is going to get pissed at NASA for copying the shape of the "ball" and will slap some kind of MOMCA (material objects millenium copyright act) shit on them.
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excuse me, sir?
could you please direct me to this "dotslash" place? ive never heard of it before.
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and a sad state of affairs it is
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Don't you see?
When the government of a group of people start to apply pressure to that group of people, the people get angry. Stephen King once wrote that there is a breaking strain on all things, people included. When the pressure gets to be too great, those people shuck the load. Revolution. The government is replaced, and not necessarily by anything better, because after it has gotten to that point, people no longer are looking for better, they are just looking for different.
Taken from an earlier post:
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Here's a "simple" challenge for you. Send a single email to someone outside the USA, say for example in Europe, *knowing* that that email is NOT going through an FBI Carnivore box along its way.
"
The protection lies of course only in the legality of the methods by which the information was obtained. Entrapment and all that. If my personal letter is read on its way through the post office, what then? Does someone burn for that? I should think so, after all, prying into my personal life without my permission is essentially walking in the front door of my home and wandering around as i stand there protesting, taking pictures of this and that.
I would also like to postulate. Look around you. Do you see a single item in your home that you could not manually rip apart and document and then share with others? How is this any different from reverse-engineering? How do you learn how something is done (at any stage of your life) if you can't see it happening?
I fear the day when the net is "under control". The net is the last bastion of freedom. Everywhere else we are already slaves. Every one of us is probably a corporate tool, whether you have realized it or not. Check your clothing. Do you see a large logo emblazoned proudly across it? Advertising. And you paid them for it.
What do you do when the government has become the tool of corporations, and the corporations are under the control of a small group of the elite?
It is preposterous to say that "information wants to be free". Information is inanimate data, or no value except to those that care about it. This value is of course completely, utterly relative. Information has precisely zero value, and any value assigned is meaningless except to the person by which it was assigned.
As I look around me I see developing the great reaping of the crop sown way back when this country was founded. This country's roots have always been a joke, and I firmly believe that everyone knows this, they simply cannot envision a working alternative. Think of how this country began. Essentially, it began the same way it is now. A small, unelected group of slaveowners sated the ignorant masses with a document that was really just a lot of nonsense and given contradiction, full of tenets that made no sense then and make no sense now, but have stratified into unquestionable, immutable tradition. Government is like religion. Once set, it never changes. The crap we see shuffling around is the same exact crap that was shuffled around two hundred years ago. Government is, and was, a business, and has today become nothing more than an interest of large corporations.
I agree with what was said by another poster.
"Don't you think a better solution would be to work to develop a legal/government system that wouldn't be able to take away freedoms in the first place?"
This is the only workable solution. We have the numbers, after all, this is a democratic country (sort of), or at least i guarantee it would become one if suddenly one hundred million people showed up in our nation's capital demanding change. I have no doubt that the lyrics of Propagandhi's song "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes" will hold true eventually, but hopefully the US will last at least until a better alternative makes itself available. Until then, stop whining and complaining, go enact some legislation to take back your rights!
Forget hacking out solutions, hiding behind the ridiculous pretense of "information wants to be free" and do what you can within the confines of the existing legal system. The system may be screwed, but it can be set right. Once it is set right, then we can start the real work of taking back our liberty, taking multinationals to the woodshed, and generally making things work the way the majority of citizens obviously want them to be, but seem to be too confused to bring about.
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Who told you that movies make their money off the big screen? Didn't you ever see Spaceballs?
"Merchandising, merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!"
--Yogurt
Let's see you copy Spaceballs the lunchbox and distribute it to all your friends over the internet. No wonder Hollywood isn't bitching yet...
Goodnight all,
kaxman
Can you imagine what the camera view from inside that beachball would look like?
Not to mention the fact that someone is going to get pissed at NASA for copying the shape of the "ball" and will slap some kind of MOMCA (material objects millenium copyright act) shit on them.
Doh!
320x200 rez all-night starcraft LAN beatdowns.
ahhhhhh............
had to say it, tho no one will see it
night all
excuse me, sir? could you please direct me to this "dotslash" place? ive never heard of it before. =)
and a sad state of affairs it is
Don't you see?
When the government of a group of people start to apply pressure to that group of people, the people get angry. Stephen King once wrote that there is a breaking strain on all things, people included. When the pressure gets to be too great, those people shuck the load. Revolution. The government is replaced, and not necessarily by anything better, because after it has gotten to that point, people no longer are looking for better, they are just looking for different.
Taken from an earlier post:
"
Here's a "simple" challenge for you. Send a single email to someone outside the USA, say for example in Europe, *knowing* that that email is NOT going through an FBI Carnivore box along its way.
"
The protection lies of course only in the legality of the methods by which the information was obtained. Entrapment and all that. If my personal letter is read on its way through the post office, what then? Does someone burn for that? I should think so, after all, prying into my personal life without my permission is essentially walking in the front door of my home and wandering around as i stand there protesting, taking pictures of this and that.
I would also like to postulate. Look around you. Do you see a single item in your home that you could not manually rip apart and document and then share with others? How is this any different from reverse-engineering? How do you learn how something is done (at any stage of your life) if you can't see it happening?
I fear the day when the net is "under control". The net is the last bastion of freedom. Everywhere else we are already slaves. Every one of us is probably a corporate tool, whether you have realized it or not. Check your clothing. Do you see a large logo emblazoned proudly across it? Advertising. And you paid them for it.
What do you do when the government has become the tool of corporations, and the corporations are under the control of a small group of the elite?
It is preposterous to say that "information wants to be free". Information is inanimate data, or no value except to those that care about it. This value is of course completely, utterly relative. Information has precisely zero value, and any value assigned is meaningless except to the person by which it was assigned.
As I look around me I see developing the great reaping of the crop sown way back when this country was founded. This country's roots have always been a joke, and I firmly believe that everyone knows this, they simply cannot envision a working alternative. Think of how this country began. Essentially, it began the same way it is now. A small, unelected group of slaveowners sated the ignorant masses with a document that was really just a lot of nonsense and given contradiction, full of tenets that made no sense then and make no sense now, but have stratified into unquestionable, immutable tradition. Government is like religion. Once set, it never changes. The crap we see shuffling around is the same exact crap that was shuffled around two hundred years ago. Government is, and was, a business, and has today become nothing more than an interest of large corporations.
I agree with what was said by another poster.
"Don't you think a better solution would be to work to develop a legal/government system that wouldn't be able to take away freedoms in the first place?"
This is the only workable solution. We have the numbers, after all, this is a democratic country (sort of), or at least i guarantee it would become one if suddenly one hundred million people showed up in our nation's capital demanding change. I have no doubt that the lyrics of Propagandhi's song "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes" will hold true eventually, but hopefully the US will last at least until a better alternative makes itself available. Until then, stop whining and complaining, go enact some legislation to take back your rights!
Forget hacking out solutions, hiding behind the ridiculous pretense of "information wants to be free" and do what you can within the confines of the existing legal system. The system may be screwed, but it can be set right. Once it is set right, then we can start the real work of taking back our liberty, taking multinationals to the woodshed, and generally making things work the way the majority of citizens obviously want them to be, but seem to be too confused to bring about.
Jonathan Clarke