Freedom of speech is mostly guaranteed in the US Constitution. However, I do not have to supply the forum for you to practice that speech. If I run a website or any other media forum (newspaper, etc), then I have the right to say what goes into that forum.
If I write a book, I'd probably have to go through dozens of publishers before being accepted. Certainly they're not forced to publish your work. Why should any other medium be any different?
I love being a software developer. Couldn't imagine doing anything else. But to be in a crowd of {hundreds/thousands} of overzealous geekoids spouting off their latest conquest is not my idea of a good time. It's not even in the top 1000.
Some of the most brilliant developers I know are mostly reserved about their skills and accomplishments. What discussions do go on, are mostly to aid other members of the development teams.
Somewhere along the way, athletes seems to have lost their way. The olympics of old were to see who was quicker, stronger and had the best fighting spirit. Now the entire sporting arena has been reduced to artifical one-ups-manship, through the use of drugs and soon to be genetic engineering.
Doesn't anyone see what is happening? Why doesn't Vince McMahon just take over the Olymics and be done with it? That's where it's heading anyway. A comical farce where actual skill is not the necessary ingredient for victory.
[...] CA appeals court has issued a ruling that says that typical messages posted to internet message boards can not be considered as libel or slander, as they inheritently are framed as opinions and not as statements of fact.
Now if only we can get him to declare a some sort of ruling on the karmic value of posts...
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Freedom of speech is mostly guaranteed in the US Constitution. However, I do not have to supply the forum for you to practice that speech. If I run a website or any other media forum (newspaper, etc), then I have the right to say what goes into that forum.
If I write a book, I'd probably have to go through dozens of publishers before being accepted. Certainly they're not forced to publish your work. Why should any other medium be any different?
I love being a software developer. Couldn't imagine doing anything else. But to be in a crowd of {hundreds/thousands} of overzealous geekoids spouting off their latest conquest is not my idea of a good time. It's not even in the top 1000.
Some of the most brilliant developers I know are mostly reserved about their skills and accomplishments. What discussions do go on, are mostly to aid other members of the development teams.
Somewhere along the way, athletes seems to have lost their way. The olympics of old were to see who was quicker, stronger and had the best fighting spirit. Now the entire sporting arena has been reduced to artifical one-ups-manship, through the use of drugs and soon to be genetic engineering.
Doesn't anyone see what is happening? Why doesn't Vince McMahon just take over the Olymics and be done with it? That's where it's heading anyway. A comical farce where actual skill is not the necessary ingredient for victory.
[...] CA appeals court has issued a ruling that says that typical messages posted to internet message boards can not be considered as libel or slander, as they inheritently are framed as opinions and not as statements of fact.
Now if only we can get him to declare a some sort of ruling on the karmic value of posts...