Rules aren't all bad, but just because something is law doesn't make it good. I take issue with people who think it's a sin not to obey every law and rule set out for us.
There's a good reason that, before the internet, you had to be a certain age before getting access to this kind of material.
You're right, but you totally missed what that reason was even though you pretty much tripped over it in the previous paragraph. It's not the material that children need protection from; it's the dangerous places and people. Looking at porn on the Internet is perfectly safe. Nobody needs to be "protected" from it.
Not if the FBI gets there first. You think they won't pull the hard copies too? I happen to be going to the library this afternoon. I'm willing to bet the archives of this particular issue are "lost."
Believe it or not, some guns are even made specifically for killing people. Such guns are especially useful for killing burglars, bad cops, or the occasional evil dictator and his henchmen. Being able to kill these people is extremely important, and that's why we keep guns, and why we'll also kill anyone who tries to take them. The right to posess massive firepower is the one right that guarantees all others, and is the highest responsibility of every American citizen.
Of course, anyone who abuses this right and commits a crime with a firearm should suffer the highest punishment allowed by law; not for the crime itself, but for giving you pinkos another excuse for trying to take our guns. That's tantamount to treason!
This shit makes physically ill to the point where I want to start firebombing some of these companies.
The time for action is close at hand! Choose your targets carefully and don't let your anger skew your judgment. "It is necessary to distinguish clearly between sabotage, a revolutionary and highly effective method of warfare, and terrorism, a measure that is generally ineffective and indiscriminate in its results, since it often makes victims of innocent people and destroys a large number of lives that would be valuable to the revolution."
We need a truly kickass game to be developed exclusively for Linux. Even this wouldn't change the world overnight, but it would certainly start the snowball rolling.
Fact: Linux is never going to make inroads onto the desktop with all these stupid boring business apps. We need games, man, kickass games!
You didn't need to visit supply every morning to fetch that Hi-Pri report. You could have just pulled it up on the computer and surfed through a whopping 4 keystrokes to reconcile all AK0s and AK7s.
I won't be surprised if CDs and DVDs are replaced with media designed around DRM, and you know what? I won't care.
Neither would I. By then, the P2P networks will be full of legally redistributable music from independent artists. And I'll continue to buy home-burned discs from the local scene. Fuck the RIAA! Fuck capitalism! Muahahahaha!
One of the U.S. military's major problems is that it's fractured into a million different departments. If you think the redundancy between the services is bad, let me tell ya, the military's IT infrastructure is ten times worse.
In the last Marine squadron I was attached to, there were at least four separate IT departments I had to deal with to get my work done. First, there were the people that ran the NALCOMIS system, an ancient and extremely flaky database used for tracking aircraft maintenance. (Its existance and continued use is itself a great tale of woe and agony.) Second, there was the stupid supply computer system. NALCOMIS and the supply computers didn't talk to each other, so every morning I had to cross-reference two sets of printouts. Talk about a waste of time. Third, there was the Marine S-6 or whatever. I'm not sure what they did, other than sit in their office and play Counter-Strike. I think mostly they were responsible for reinstalling Win2K on the MALS officers' desktops after each round of Outlook viruses. And finally, there was NMCI, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, which was a bunch of civilians. They did the same thing as MALS S-6, but for the Navy officers' computers. I think they also took care of the base's uplink (our whopping partial T3). One time I needed to share some files with a coworker on the same computer. I had to have NMCI come over and log in their admin account, then explain to them how to share a folder...
If you're the type of person who gets annoyed when people use computers as a more efficient way of creating work for themselves, or if you get frustrated in an environment where you can't change anything and everyone just says, "that's the way it is"... don't even think of joining the military!
I've been downloading since they destroyed Napster. I want to make sure I have copies of all this music before it's gone. I'm afraid that the publishers are going to hoard all these great songs and they won't be accessible to future generations.
The way I look at it, I'm not doing anything wrong. The legitimate duration of copyrights is still 28 years. I'll grudgingly respect that limit if the government does as well. But until they do, I'll balance it out by saying it's 7 years or something like that.
Furthermore, anything they put in my head is mine. Anything played on the radio is public domain.
I didn't share any of my music until the RIAA launched this latest round of lawsuits. Now I share songs that were hard to find mostly bootlegs and unknowns, stuff that hardly sees the light of day as it is. The so-called "copyright holders" shouldn't have a problem with me distributing it. Probably will, but shouldn't.
Bah. Back in the day, cops could let people off with warnings or take delinquent kids home to their parents instead of to juvie. A few cries of discrimination (some justified, some not) ruined it for everyone, and now it's the offical job of police to be fucking assholes all the damn time.
The problem is, a lot of judges and juries still have have this attitude that "if you weren't a heinous criminal, you wouldn't be in my courtroom..."
You could say that Heinlein pioneered the babes-with-guns genre that is so popular in anime.
I don't think he ever portrayed being cute or crying under pressure as a weakness. If anything, his female characters are ideal role models for young female readers; you have your little cry, you clear your head, and you go out and kick some ass. Perhaps Heinlein was conscious, as I am, that the ability to experience and express the full spectrum of emotions is an advantage men should envy.
I'd say Starship Troopers is his single best work. It stands by itself, unlike some of the others which loosely form a series (though due to the time-travelling characters, the order isn't always clear!) ST isn't the usual sci-fi fare. The plot doesn't revolve around speculations on future technology or issues on the bleeding edge of social philosophy. Instead, it simply uses the future as a setting for a story about soldiers that could have taken place in any era. If you've ever been in the military, it hits home. If not, maybe it will open your eyes.
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Rules aren't all bad, but just because something is law doesn't make it good. I take issue with people who think it's a sin not to obey every law and rule set out for us.
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...or maybe men just find it less objectionable when women look at the things that turn them on. Kind of like how fags are icky but lesbians are A-OK!
You're right, but you totally missed what that reason was even though you pretty much tripped over it in the previous paragraph. It's not the material that children need protection from; it's the dangerous places and people. Looking at porn on the Internet is perfectly safe. Nobody needs to be "protected" from it.
So did the Third Reich. That doesn't make it right.
You can't let the law dicate your morals and ethics.
Not if the FBI gets there first. You think they won't pull the hard copies too? I happen to be going to the library this afternoon. I'm willing to bet the archives of this particular issue are "lost."
Nice try, but anyone who actually holds that opinion is most likely incapable of correctly spelling or using the word 'awry'.
Much like the delicious coca plant.
What are you talking about? Autopr0n rules!
I have a favorite saying: 'communism isn't a system of government, it's a way of life.'
Believe it or not, some guns are even made specifically for killing people. Such guns are especially useful for killing burglars, bad cops, or the occasional evil dictator and his henchmen. Being able to kill these people is extremely important, and that's why we keep guns, and why we'll also kill anyone who tries to take them. The right to posess massive firepower is the one right that guarantees all others, and is the highest responsibility of every American citizen.
Of course, anyone who abuses this right and commits a crime with a firearm should suffer the highest punishment allowed by law; not for the crime itself, but for giving you pinkos another excuse for trying to take our guns. That's tantamount to treason!
The time for action is close at hand! Choose your targets carefully and don't let your anger skew your judgment. "It is necessary to distinguish clearly between sabotage, a revolutionary and highly effective method of warfare, and terrorism, a measure that is generally ineffective and indiscriminate in its results, since it often makes victims of innocent people and destroys a large number of lives that would be valuable to the revolution."
Back to the 20th Century with you! Shoo!
...is a crack team of commandos to start hunting down spammers, dismembering them, taking pictures, and publishing them on the Internet as a warning.
Yes, I'm serious.
Fact: Linux is never going to make inroads onto the desktop with all these stupid boring business apps. We need games, man, kickass games!
Hey, I just did what they told me.
I won't be surprised if CDs and DVDs are replaced with media designed around DRM, and you know what? I won't care.
Neither would I. By then, the P2P networks will be full of legally redistributable music from independent artists. And I'll continue to buy home-burned discs from the local scene. Fuck the RIAA! Fuck capitalism! Muahahahaha!
In the last Marine squadron I was attached to, there were at least four separate IT departments I had to deal with to get my work done. First, there were the people that ran the NALCOMIS system, an ancient and extremely flaky database used for tracking aircraft maintenance. (Its existance and continued use is itself a great tale of woe and agony.) Second, there was the stupid supply computer system. NALCOMIS and the supply computers didn't talk to each other, so every morning I had to cross-reference two sets of printouts. Talk about a waste of time. Third, there was the Marine S-6 or whatever. I'm not sure what they did, other than sit in their office and play Counter-Strike. I think mostly they were responsible for reinstalling Win2K on the MALS officers' desktops after each round of Outlook viruses. And finally, there was NMCI, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, which was a bunch of civilians. They did the same thing as MALS S-6, but for the Navy officers' computers. I think they also took care of the base's uplink (our whopping partial T3). One time I needed to share some files with a coworker on the same computer. I had to have NMCI come over and log in their admin account, then explain to them how to share a folder...
If you're the type of person who gets annoyed when people use computers as a more efficient way of creating work for themselves, or if you get frustrated in an environment where you can't change anything and everyone just says, "that's the way it is"... don't even think of joining the military!
Not likely! If anything, they'll be a bit player on the sidelines of the IT industry, supporting their legacy systems.
The way I look at it, I'm not doing anything wrong. The legitimate duration of copyrights is still 28 years. I'll grudgingly respect that limit if the government does as well. But until they do, I'll balance it out by saying it's 7 years or something like that.
Furthermore, anything they put in my head is mine. Anything played on the radio is public domain.
I didn't share any of my music until the RIAA launched this latest round of lawsuits. Now I share songs that were hard to find mostly bootlegs and unknowns, stuff that hardly sees the light of day as it is. The so-called "copyright holders" shouldn't have a problem with me distributing it. Probably will, but shouldn't.
Bah. Back in the day, cops could let people off with warnings or take delinquent kids home to their parents instead of to juvie. A few cries of discrimination (some justified, some not) ruined it for everyone, and now it's the offical job of police to be fucking assholes all the damn time.
The problem is, a lot of judges and juries still have have this attitude that "if you weren't a heinous criminal, you wouldn't be in my courtroom..."
You could say that Heinlein pioneered the babes-with-guns genre that is so popular in anime. I don't think he ever portrayed being cute or crying under pressure as a weakness. If anything, his female characters are ideal role models for young female readers; you have your little cry, you clear your head, and you go out and kick some ass. Perhaps Heinlein was conscious, as I am, that the ability to experience and express the full spectrum of emotions is an advantage men should envy.
I'd say Starship Troopers is his single best work. It stands by itself, unlike some of the others which loosely form a series (though due to the time-travelling characters, the order isn't always clear!) ST isn't the usual sci-fi fare. The plot doesn't revolve around speculations on future technology or issues on the bleeding edge of social philosophy. Instead, it simply uses the future as a setting for a story about soldiers that could have taken place in any era. If you've ever been in the military, it hits home. If not, maybe it will open your eyes.
Call me when they reach $4.99.