> Microwaves are non-ionizing anyway, so the worst that will happen in that situation is that you get a little warm. Well, ok, if you're expose long enough you could probably boil all of the water in your body, but that would take a really long time.
STOP.
Correct. Microwaves are nonionizing.
Correct. The only damage you will take is in the form of localized heating of your body parts.
Incorrect. There is a risk. There are no nerve endings in many places that are highly susceptible to heat damage - places like your brain, the vitreous humor in your eyeballs, and internal organs. If there's a warped/open door, or if you've gone one step further and defeated the safety interlock to power up a magnetron externally, you could be (relatively) safe in location X,Y,Z, but six inches next to X,Y,Z, the big reflecting metal plate of your fridge, your stovetop, and the hole in the homebrew shielding you created have created a local "hot spot" node where localized heating is much more rapid.
Play with a magnetron if you like, but be aware that by the time you feel warmth, it may already be too late.
(As long as the door is intact, as long as the safety interlocks are intact, and as long as you're not afraid of damaging the oven and/or are prepared with a Class C extinguisher to deal with a small fire that manages to escape the confines of the oven, there's relatively low risk. I'd consider the "fry a $20 bill" and "spark a CD" experiments safe, but your mileage may vary.)
> It was a commercial, they were all made up parodies of the whole.com situation. Lots of companies tried selling lots of useless services on the Internet.
The best part of the commercial was the punchline.
The pets.com sock puppet lying in the dust. As the dust settled, the logo/slogan: "E*Trade: Invest Wisely."
> If you spend 5 years writing OSS for free and develop a portfolio you will certainly have a nice resume to show potential employers.
> > If you spend those same 5 years writing code for a company and you have performance reviews and promotions and raises your resume will look a LOT better.
False dichotomy.
Go to college, write F/OSS for four years.
Get an entry-level job, write F/OSS for a year or two on your own time.
Two years down the road - show your next employer a good track record on the job, as well as the ability to tackle projects on your own initiative.
> Guess how many shares you would have to buy to live off stock dividends? Millions. What kind of naive conservative are you (besides a dangerously stupid one?)
Millions of shares? You're off by two orders of magnitude.
To get a decent $24000/year, you're looking at about $500,000 of capital, or 10,000 shares. At that low an income level, you'll be paying very little federal tax on those dividends (thanks to the recent tax cuts). Best part -- because it's investment income, no 13% Socialist Insecurity taxes like the consultants have to pay on top of their federal income taxes! What MO earns and distributes to you as a function of your ownership in MO is yours, no one else's, and even the government is learning to keep its hands off it!
And all you need to continue earning that juicy 4-5% yield is for people to keep smoking and buying Kraft Dinner -- either domestically or abroad; MO's a multinational and if folks in the States stop smoking, they're more than willing to sell tobacco to the Chinese and Indians. Talk about a cash cow!
Are you seriously telling me that you're incapable of saving $500,000 over the course of your entire career? ($250,000 if you're married -- because your spouse's savings can be invested too).
There was another poster who asked how he was supposed to invest after paying his credit cards, after going into debt on a mortgage, new car, and child. But if they didn't have the capital to pay for their offspring's ongoing expenses, let alone its education, why did they breed in the first place?
That poster's idea of becoming a farmer, however, was a good one -- it's a lot of work, but you're self-sufficient in terms of being able to produce your own food, and if you grow good food, and whether you need government subsidies or not to make it viable, you can sell that food at a market premium to people with the cash to buy good food.
(I don't care whether it's corn-fed beef or grass-fed beef, it beats the hell out of sheep-brain-fed beef, both healthwise and flavor-wise!)
> It's "Free" for corporations and concentrations of wealth to do what they want, while it's chains and shackles for the rest of us, the laborers.
Excuse me? Did I miss something? What law prevents you from walking over to the nearest discount broker, plunking down some of your capital, and buying the shares of companies that benefit from free trade? You know, the ones that outsource the labor, the ones that set up their headquarters in countries with more sane taxation polices, and what-not?
Don't hate the capitalists -- grow a pair and become a capitalist!
> I definitely disagree with the
article writer's assumption that "fame" won't get you a job - in CS, employers want porfolios, and working on Open Source is a great way to get that experience before someone will pay you.
Absolutely.
Most code isn't free, and doesn't need to be. The article author makes it obvious by his own experience -- scratching an itch in the forms required by his father's business and turning 3 hours of paperwork into 15 minutes.
Quoth the author:
"You'll be a developer and, eventually, architect or project manager who produces software for money. That's your core skill and that's what you invested 6 years and more of your life into."
True. But what software will you produce?
The world doesn't need another MP3 player, word processor, P2P app, or DVD ripper. The world has those.
The world also doesn't need an application to integrate and tabulate daily trading volume, net margin requirement, and compliance reports from Bank of Fooblitzky's trading desk. The world has no use for that.
But Bank of Fooblitzky sure as hell does. And if your Free Software portfolio says that you're more likely to be able to write it than the n00b out of college with a degree and no portfolio, guess who gets hired by Bank of Fooblitzky.
Right. The guy who can code.
99% of the code on this planet is never seen outside the offices of the corporation for which it's written. Because it's useless to anyone but the company that needed it. That's a feature, not a bug.
Because it means you're useful to someone, even if the rest of the world has no use for what you code. Your employer needs your expertise, and that's what you're getting paid for.
> > Nice try, but women don't enjoy porn.
They've got this thing with emotional bonding and sensible family life. > > Nice try, but I know several women who do enjoy porn. You're just not getting to know the right women.
Or he's not showing them the right pr0n. (This is Slashdot, after all.)
> Perhaps negligence penalties of some sort? > >Send them to a mandatory computer training. IMO this should already be taught at schools, because in essence it's very simulare to
traffic education. I doubt we should count on laws to solve this, but on educating people (pretty much like burglary prevention campagnes)
I'd go one step further.
Asset forfeiture.
Give the cops a reason to track down people too stupid to correctly secure their machines, and people will secure their machines.
> I saw a guy playing Everquest for about an hour once. He was an experienced player at the game, but during the whole hour (I was bored; my other choice, besides watching him, was to listen to people yack about sports and junk), he didn't actually *accomplish* anything in the game. He killed some bad things and picked up a couple of items, then visited a city. Whoo. Sure made me wonder why he pays a monthly fee for this. I think you have to be into the whole RPG thing.
I think it's worse than that - you have to be into the whole MMORPG thing to put up with dreck like Evercrack.
RPGs are fun - Wizardry Gold, Ultima IV, and so on.
IF is fun - Infocom games are all about role-playing, after all, and by using words to describe mental states, can provide similarly immersive experiences.
MMORPGs are intrinsically un-fun. It's all about repeatedly pressing the same buttons to get the XP to get to the next level to... but there is no goal. Other than to keep paying your monthly subscription fee.
That fee could go into designing content to rival the best single-player RPGs, and adding it to the game every month.
But it doesn't. It's cheaper to keep the money and lengthen the treadmill -- because people like the guy you described are happy to grind mindlessly on the treadmill for days, weeks, months on end, and the MMORPG company can pocket the change. Why write a good story into a game if you can make the same amount of money by catering to a playerbase drooling fucknozzles who'll pay you not to write a story?
SOE's other masterpiece, Star Wars Galaxies, is the same formula as Evercrack with a Star Wars skin around it, and even longer grind cycle. Other MMORPGs are fundamentally the same at heart.
Players are finally waking up to this, and are demanding fun for their dollar. Which probably explains why more and more MMORPGs are failing or being cancelled before release. Thank God.
> People say that books are a dying medium, but perhaps some life remains with the success of
Harry Potter and perhaps the frequent coupling of Hollywood blockbusters with current novels.
> INVENTORY
You have:
- Turkey sandwich
- $8.00
- The latest Harry Potter Novel
> ENTER THEATER
You pay $8.00 and enter the theater. The concession stand is to the East. The screening room is to the North.
> N
You enter the screening room.
> WAIT
It becomes dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
You are hungry.
> WAIT
The trailers for coming attractions have started. It is no longer dark. (A nearby grue flees in terror.)
You are very hungry.
> WATCH THE SCREEN
Keanu Reaves is reading a Slashdot post that reads "People say that books are a dying medium, but perhaps some life remains with the success of Harry Potter and perhaps the frequent coupling of Hollywood blockbusters with current novels."
You are starving!
> PONDER THE FREQUENT COUPLING OF HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS WITH CURRENT NOVELS
You are disctracted by a trailer for Turkey Time for Harry! Order of the Gigli, featuring three hours of J-Lo and Ben Affleck repeatedly skullfucking the corpse of J.K. Rowling.
You are faint with hunger.
> EAT TURKEY SANDWICH
Not bloody likely.
*** You have died ***
Your score is +5, Funny. Would you like to play again, load a saved game, or quit?
> 2. It's Friday, August 20, 2004 at 4:30pm and you are watching Oprah. The sun explodes and (for sake of discussion) expands at the speed of light. At 4:31pm a commercial comes on and you get up to get a bag of Doritos. Fortunately for you, you've recently invented a space travel machine and your Doritos are in another Solar System. You immediately are worm-holed out of your living room. By 4:38, your television is toast, but you are fine.
How are you "fine"?
Best-case scenario is that the other solar system is Proxima Centauri.
And on Proxima, you're fine at 4:38. But unless it's gonna take you until December 2008 to get your Doritos, life's really gonna suck when you go back home to watch the rest of Oprah. (Why wouldn't you go back home after getting the Doritos? It's not like you have any reason to believe Sol exploded.)
On the other hand, compared to sitting around in Alpha Centauri to watch reruns of episodes featuring Y2K consultants desperately trying to restore their credibility, Al Gore on a debating stand, the 2000 election recounts, and 9/11... Well, maybe being vaporized at 4:39 when you get back to what was your living room is still an improvement.
On the third hand (handjobs from Centauri chicks rule), suppose you got distracted while in the kitchen (again I with the Centauri chicks). Four years spent munching on Doritos, getting three-fisted Centauri handjobs while you laugh at the reruns from early 2000 all the way up to the hilarious surprise finale of August 20, 2004 when all those Terran assholes, yes, even that bully in third grade and that skank who dumped you in college, fry! Well hey, that sounds pretty cool. Especially if there are Centauri chicks.
> The outermost layer (ignoring ash layers), the outer crust, is about.3 km of of heavy nuclei
(Fe-56) and free electrons near the surface and heavier nuclei deeper in, all at densities less than 4*10^11 g/cc. At greater densities, neutron drip begins. This forms the.6 km inner crust of heavy nuclei (Kr-118), a superfluid of free neutrons, and relativistic degenerate electrons. At still greater densities (>2*10^14 g/cc), all the nuclei have dissolved, and so the innermost 9.7 km truly is like one giant atomic nucleus with superfluid neutrons, superfluid superconducting protons, and relativistic degenerate electrons, though there may be more exotic particles like pions in the core at densities > 4*10^14 g/cc.
(Sound physics, eminently plausible)
...but I still can't help but say "And we thought tunelling through the ice on Europa was tough!"
I use science because it works. I like science because it describes a universe full of wonders that put theologians to shame.
Impossible Things I'd Like To Do:
1) Visit a neutron star.
2) Stand on the surface of a planet that was flung from the orbit of a red giant during a close pass by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Look up. Watch the star being devoured. Enjoy the gravitational lensing effects.
3) Go back in time and see what quasars looked like while they were forming.
When layoff time comes around, is it better to be:
...The invisible guy that comes in late, nobody knows what he does, and what are we paying him for anyways, the system's never crashed during the midnight backup cycle!
Or
The guy who's always here when things go to hell, even at 8:25 before anyone's had a cup of coffee, and yet he somehow manages to fix it before the 8:55 management meeting?
You have much to learn, PFY, before you can truly ascend to BOFHdom.
> 'We have never had vulnerabilities
exploited before the
patch was known'
"Bullshit" doesn't begin to do justice of the level of falsehood present here. We're talking about taking the very essence of falsity,
distilling it over the flames of ignorance, condensing it within intestinal walls
of monumentally bovine intellectual apathy and sponsoring a college kegger with the elixir-excremento
obtained therefrom.
> I'm running a website that has (jokingly) advocated screwing dead hookers, eating aborted fetuses, and killing off pop stars (oh what a grand world it would be).
> But I will say it was entertaining.. I learnt how far a protester could throw a stone, that some Neo Nazis don;t know which hand to salute with, and that pathetic little Amps cranked up to 11 distort the sound so much that you couldn't hear what the KKK had to say in the first place.
Someone else has already answered your question: Yes, these are precisely the sorts of people whose right to free speech the First Amendment was meant to protect.
Your own description of the event is the reason why that's a Good Thing.
Anyone who's actually met a Nazi or Klansman who was free to express its views, rapidly comes to the conclusion that these people are morons.
Without the First Amendment protecting their right to make jackasses of themselves, people might take them seriously, which would Suck.
> I'm a big fan of Portal of Evil, and they often have some very weird sites on there involving some little known fetish (women wearing headphones, etc)
For every weird fetish that can be imagined of described, there exists at least one adherent.
Proof is left as an exercise for the Internet.
I thought you were making that up. I doubted the law for a moment, and googled for...
women wearing headphone
I'm going to go smash my head repeatedly against a desk now. And I'm going to lock up my Sennheisers when I leave from work today. Just in case.
> Not strictly true, human rights are covered by the UN declaration of Human Rights, to which the UK is a signatory, which states: > Article 19. > Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. > >I would have thought that this would cover it.
Article 29(1):
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
You have obligations to the State, because the State alone is the source of your personality. A little weird and metaphysical, but whatever.
Article 29(2):
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
Yeah, that covers it. If your government decides that it doesn't like how you're going about exercising the privileges granted to you by Article 19, it has the power to kick your ass.
But if it doesn't, there's...
Article 29(3): These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.
What the fuck? What the fucking fuck fuck?
Suppose a US president asked Congress to pass an amendment to the United States Constitution that said "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United States". Would you ACLU-symps and UN-symps be OK with that too?
Hell, if the US tried something like that, even the ACLU might rethink its position on the Second Amendment.
Slashdot Mirror
STOP.
Correct. Microwaves are nonionizing.
Correct. The only damage you will take is in the form of localized heating of your body parts.
Incorrect. There is a risk. There are no nerve endings in many places that are highly susceptible to heat damage - places like your brain, the vitreous humor in your eyeballs, and internal organs. If there's a warped/open door, or if you've gone one step further and defeated the safety interlock to power up a magnetron externally, you could be (relatively) safe in location X,Y,Z, but six inches next to X,Y,Z, the big reflecting metal plate of your fridge, your stovetop, and the hole in the homebrew shielding you created have created a local "hot spot" node where localized heating is much more rapid.
Play with a magnetron if you like, but be aware that by the time you feel warmth, it may already be too late.
(As long as the door is intact, as long as the safety interlocks are intact, and as long as you're not afraid of damaging the oven and/or are prepared with a Class C extinguisher to deal with a small fire that manages to escape the confines of the oven, there's relatively low risk. I'd consider the "fry a $20 bill" and "spark a CD" experiments safe, but your mileage may vary.)
The best part of the commercial was the punchline.
The pets.com sock puppet lying in the dust. As the dust settled, the logo/slogan: "E*Trade: Invest Wisely."
For once, truth in advertising.
>
> If you spend those same 5 years writing code for a company and you have performance reviews and promotions and raises your resume will look a LOT better.
False dichotomy.
Go to college, write F/OSS for four years.
Get an entry-level job, write F/OSS for a year or two on your own time.
Two years down the road - show your next employer a good track record on the job, as well as the ability to tackle projects on your own initiative.
Win-win.
Millions of shares? You're off by two orders of magnitude.
Altria Group, aka Philip Morris yields a dividend of 4.73%, and a share costs around $50.00.
To get a decent $24000/year, you're looking at about $500,000 of capital, or 10,000 shares. At that low an income level, you'll be paying very little federal tax on those dividends (thanks to the recent tax cuts). Best part -- because it's investment income, no 13% Socialist Insecurity taxes like the consultants have to pay on top of their federal income taxes! What MO earns and distributes to you as a function of your ownership in MO is yours, no one else's, and even the government is learning to keep its hands off it!
And all you need to continue earning that juicy 4-5% yield is for people to keep smoking and buying Kraft Dinner -- either domestically or abroad; MO's a multinational and if folks in the States stop smoking, they're more than willing to sell tobacco to the Chinese and Indians. Talk about a cash cow!
Are you seriously telling me that you're incapable of saving $500,000 over the course of your entire career? ($250,000 if you're married -- because your spouse's savings can be invested too).
There was another poster who asked how he was supposed to invest after paying his credit cards, after going into debt on a mortgage, new car, and child. But if they didn't have the capital to pay for their offspring's ongoing expenses, let alone its education, why did they breed in the first place?
That poster's idea of becoming a farmer, however, was a good one -- it's a lot of work, but you're self-sufficient in terms of being able to produce your own food, and if you grow good food, and whether you need government subsidies or not to make it viable, you can sell that food at a market premium to people with the cash to buy good food.
(I don't care whether it's corn-fed beef or grass-fed beef, it beats the hell out of sheep-brain-fed beef, both healthwise and flavor-wise!)
Excuse me? Did I miss something? What law prevents you from walking over to the nearest discount broker, plunking down some of your capital, and buying the shares of companies that benefit from free trade? You know, the ones that outsource the labor, the ones that set up their headquarters in countries with more sane taxation polices, and what-not?
Don't hate the capitalists -- grow a pair and become a capitalist!
Well, for one thing, even if both philosophies end up with mass murder, at least the caveman is honest.
I fucking well hope not. The government takes enough of my earnings to support the consumption needs of moochers as it stands.
May I inquire as to where you put your money while you did have a job?
Absolutely.
Most code isn't free, and doesn't need to be. The article author makes it obvious by his own experience -- scratching an itch in the forms required by his father's business and turning 3 hours of paperwork into 15 minutes.
Quoth the author:
True. But what software will you produce?
The world doesn't need another MP3 player, word processor, P2P app, or DVD ripper. The world has those.
The world also doesn't need an application to integrate and tabulate daily trading volume, net margin requirement, and compliance reports from Bank of Fooblitzky's trading desk. The world has no use for that.
But Bank of Fooblitzky sure as hell does. And if your Free Software portfolio says that you're more likely to be able to write it than the n00b out of college with a degree and no portfolio, guess who gets hired by Bank of Fooblitzky.
Right. The guy who can code.
99% of the code on this planet is never seen outside the offices of the corporation for which it's written. Because it's useless to anyone but the company that needed it. That's a feature, not a bug.
Because it means you're useful to someone, even if the rest of the world has no use for what you code. Your employer needs your expertise, and that's what you're getting paid for.
>
> Nice try, but I know several women who do enjoy porn. You're just not getting to know the right women.
Or he's not showing them the right pr0n. (This is Slashdot, after all.)
>
> *shrug*
"Shrug"?!?!!
I fill potholes for two hours a day, and for the remaining six, I'm a barkeep at a tittie bar, you insensitive clod!
>
>Send them to a mandatory computer training. IMO this should already be taught at schools, because in essence it's very simulare to traffic education. I doubt we should count on laws to solve this, but on educating people (pretty much like burglary prevention campagnes)
I'd go one step further.
Asset forfeiture.
Give the cops a reason to track down people too stupid to correctly secure their machines, and people will secure their machines.
I think it's worse than that - you have to be into the whole MMORPG thing to put up with dreck like Evercrack.
RPGs are fun - Wizardry Gold, Ultima IV, and so on.
IF is fun - Infocom games are all about role-playing, after all, and by using words to describe mental states, can provide similarly immersive experiences.
MMORPGs are intrinsically un-fun. It's all about repeatedly pressing the same buttons to get the XP to get to the next level to... but there is no goal. Other than to keep paying your monthly subscription fee.
That fee could go into designing content to rival the best single-player RPGs, and adding it to the game every month.
But it doesn't. It's cheaper to keep the money and lengthen the treadmill -- because people like the guy you described are happy to grind mindlessly on the treadmill for days, weeks, months on end, and the MMORPG company can pocket the change. Why write a good story into a game if you can make the same amount of money by catering to a playerbase drooling fucknozzles who'll pay you not to write a story?
SOE's other masterpiece, Star Wars Galaxies, is the same formula as Evercrack with a Star Wars skin around it, and even longer grind cycle. Other MMORPGs are fundamentally the same at heart.
Players are finally waking up to this, and are demanding fun for their dollar. Which probably explains why more and more MMORPGs are failing or being cancelled before release. Thank God.
> INVENTORY
You have:
- Turkey sandwich
- $8.00
- The latest Harry Potter Novel
> ENTER THEATER
You pay $8.00 and enter the theater. The concession stand is to the East. The screening room is to the North.
> N
You enter the screening room.
> WAIT
It becomes dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
You are hungry.
> WAIT
The trailers for coming attractions have started. It is no longer dark. (A nearby grue flees in terror.)
You are very hungry.
> WATCH THE SCREEN
Keanu Reaves is reading a Slashdot post that reads "People say that books are a dying medium, but perhaps some life remains with the success of Harry Potter and perhaps the frequent coupling of Hollywood blockbusters with current novels."
You are starving!
> PONDER THE FREQUENT COUPLING OF HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS WITH CURRENT NOVELS
You are disctracted by a trailer for Turkey Time for Harry! Order of the Gigli, featuring three hours of J-Lo and Ben Affleck repeatedly skullfucking the corpse of J.K. Rowling.
You are faint with hunger.
> EAT TURKEY SANDWICH
Not bloody likely.
*** You have died ***
Your score is +5, Funny. Would you like to play again, load a saved game, or quit?
How are you "fine"?
Best-case scenario is that the other solar system is Proxima Centauri.
And on Proxima, you're fine at 4:38. But unless it's gonna take you until December 2008 to get your Doritos, life's really gonna suck when you go back home to watch the rest of Oprah. (Why wouldn't you go back home after getting the Doritos? It's not like you have any reason to believe Sol exploded.)
On the other hand, compared to sitting around in Alpha Centauri to watch reruns of episodes featuring Y2K consultants desperately trying to restore their credibility, Al Gore on a debating stand, the 2000 election recounts, and 9/11... Well, maybe being vaporized at 4:39 when you get back to what was your living room is still an improvement.
On the third hand (handjobs from Centauri chicks rule), suppose you got distracted while in the kitchen (again I with the Centauri chicks). Four years spent munching on Doritos, getting three-fisted Centauri handjobs while you laugh at the reruns from early 2000 all the way up to the hilarious surprise finale of August 20, 2004 when all those Terran assholes, yes, even that bully in third grade and that skank who dumped you in college, fry! Well hey, that sounds pretty cool. Especially if there are Centauri chicks.
There's a hell of a universe next door. Let's go.
(Sound physics, eminently plausible)
I use science because it works. I like science because it describes a universe full of wonders that put theologians to shame.
Impossible Things I'd Like To Do:
1) Visit a neutron star.
2) Stand on the surface of a planet that was flung from the orbit of a red giant during a close pass by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Look up. Watch the star being devoured. Enjoy the gravitational lensing effects.
3) Go back in time and see what quasars looked like while they were forming.
>
> Clippy OTOH should be smote.
No, no no. Neither of them puts the fucking lotion in the basket.
But I prefer a lead pipe to the hose. Because nothing satisfies like clubbing some moron to death with a lead pipe.
Productivity != Advancement
When layoff time comes around, is it better to be:
Or
The guy who's always here when things go to hell, even at 8:25 before anyone's had a cup of coffee, and yet he somehow manages to fix it before the 8:55 management meeting?
You have much to learn, PFY, before you can truly ascend to BOFHdom.
"Bullshit" doesn't begin to do justice of the level of falsehood present here. We're talking about taking the very essence of falsity, distilling it over the flames of ignorance, condensing it within intestinal walls of monumentally bovine intellectual apathy and sponsoring a college kegger with the elixir-excremento obtained therefrom.
Eat the rich, the poor are tough and stringy?
Man, I am so getting GTA VIII when it comes out!
Someone else has already answered your question: Yes, these are precisely the sorts of people whose right to free speech the First Amendment was meant to protect.
Your own description of the event is the reason why that's a Good Thing.
Anyone who's actually met a Nazi or Klansman who was free to express its views, rapidly comes to the conclusion that these people are morons.
Without the First Amendment protecting their right to make jackasses of themselves, people might take them seriously, which would Suck.
Note to self: Add line to last will and testament instructing the executor to hire strippers.
For every weird fetish that can be imagined of described, there exists at least one adherent. Proof is left as an exercise for the Internet.
I thought you were making that up. I doubted the law for a moment, and googled for... women wearing headphone
I'm going to go smash my head repeatedly against a desk now. And I'm going to lock up my Sennheisers when I leave from work today. Just in case.
> Article 19.
> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
>
>I would have thought that this would cover it.
You have obligations to the State, because the State alone is the source of your personality. A little weird and metaphysical, but whatever.
Yeah, that covers it. If your government decides that it doesn't like how you're going about exercising the privileges granted to you by Article 19, it has the power to kick your ass.
But if it doesn't, there's...
What the fuck? What the fucking fuck fuck?
Suppose a US president asked Congress to pass an amendment to the United States Constitution that said "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United States". Would you ACLU-symps and UN-symps be OK with that too?
Hell, if the US tried something like that, even the ACLU might rethink its position on the Second Amendment.
>
>Least we don't have to worry about these two groups banding together to make this legal.
Never underestimate the power of a FOX executive in search of a new reality TV show.