please define explicit. If you say 'shows genitals', you will catch medical sites, homepages of nudist colonies and others. those are not XXX. Your highschool teacher should have used a search-engine, instead of blindly walking to bakerstreet in the hopes that a baker is located there.
I actively encourage people to butt in when people are calling over a cellphone in bus or train. We know you're on the train, and you don't have to bloody shout it out for the world to hear. You have the bloody cellphone so you don't have to yell at eachother, so DON'T!
>You do not have a right to privacy, or even an expectation to a right to privacy, in a public place.
yes, you do have a right to privacy, even in public. If I go to a public toilet, I do not expect to be monitored, let alone photographed.
I am not required to identify myself, no matter who asks. And I can do just about anything in public space, as long as I dont violate any other laws (groupsex in yankee stadium would probably be public obscenity..)
And if you take a picture of me reading some mag on a streetcorner (which is not news) I can forbid you from publishing the photo.
Granted, the rights to privacy in full public view are less.. but you still have privacy.
why not just put the thing on eBay, and sell it to (e.g.) Kenia.. or any other not too rich country that doesn't have launch facilities/cash? it could be a nice boon to an emerging country..
what election day? I think I would have seen political posters of Wim Kok, and the 'socialistiese partij' (note spelling), who are against it. the world doesn't stop just because some country has elections today.
>the other nations of the world had their chance to become the economic and political leader in world affairs, and didn't get the job done (yet, at least).
how about people lying in their spam? (in my case, this is about 3 in 4 spams).
>From: spammer@foo.bar
>Subject: Make money fast
>I saw your webpage, and..
No you didn't... I'm pretty sure, since I dont have one. then there's ofcourse the old "lotsa money! (if you're american)", and the classic 'here... have some doodles in japanese/korean' which could fall in earlier mentioned categories but I cant read it so i dont really know. Good thing my autoreply is still the DeCSS source..
VPRO not only took all sony stuff offline, they took it off the air, and do not play ANY sony music anymore. They want to put their radio-programmes online in its entirety, not with parts cut out.
I would protest any company that thinks it has the right to look at what I have on my computer. they will need a searchwarrant, and I highly doubt they'll get one on the flimsy reason that I might be using pirated software. And RMS is welcome for a beer, but he is not getting any access to any of my boxen just to see whether I confoprm to the GPL.
there's ofcxourse the Ig-Nobel awards. this year a dutch guy won for a couple of porn-pics in an MRI machine, to determine the shape of the human penis during copulation. The guy is now trying to get a grant to determine the shape and size of the clitoris, which could benefit a lot of men..;)
i'll stop calling them parachutists when they stop using parachutes... Needless to say I will be impressed by the first skydiver to survive a 31km dive..
>If, as you say, it's the ignorant people who _don't_ vote, heaven help the US. It's smart voters are about to elect Bush...
the ignorant don't vote.
those who know a little bit about something vote for an ultra-rightwing party's candidate: bush or gore.
the people that actually know stuff AND are able to think about it make their own choice
but I could write a book called guinness sucks.. which is more along the lines of this situation. this isn't 2 similar products. for different products a whole lot more is possible.
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please define explicit. If you say 'shows genitals', you will catch medical sites, homepages of nudist colonies and others. those are not XXX. Your highschool teacher should have used a search-engine, instead of blindly walking to bakerstreet in the hopes that a baker is located there.
//rdj
I actively encourage people to butt in when people are calling over a cellphone in bus or train. We know you're on the train, and you don't have to bloody shout it out for the world to hear. You have the bloody cellphone so you don't have to yell at eachother, so DON'T!
//rdj
>You do not have a right to privacy, or even an expectation to a right to privacy, in a public place.
yes, you do have a right to privacy, even in public. If I go to a public toilet, I do not expect to be monitored, let alone photographed.
I am not required to identify myself, no matter who asks. And I can do just about anything in public space, as long as I dont violate any other laws (groupsex in yankee stadium would probably be public obscenity..)
And if you take a picture of me reading some mag on a streetcorner (which is not news) I can forbid you from publishing the photo.
Granted, the rights to privacy in full public view are less.. but you still have privacy.
//rdj
a criminal conspiracy without a crime is often put on paper, and called things like 'story', 'novel' or 'book'.
//rdj
why not just put the thing on eBay, and sell it to (e.g.) Kenia.. or any other not too rich country that doesn't have launch facilities/cash? it could be a nice boon to an emerging country..
Just an idea..
//rdj
what election day? I think I would have seen political posters of Wim Kok, and the 'socialistiese partij' (note spelling), who are against it. the world doesn't stop just because some country has elections today.
//rdj
>the other nations of the world had their chance to become the economic and political leader in world affairs, and didn't get the job done (yet, at least).
Been there, done that, lost it again..
//rdj, the flying dutchman
how about people lying in their spam? (in my case, this is about 3 in 4 spams).
..
>From: spammer@foo.bar
>Subject: Make money fast
>I saw your webpage, and
No you didn't... I'm pretty sure, since I dont have one. then there's ofcourse the old "lotsa money! (if you're american)", and the classic 'here... have some doodles in japanese/korean' which could fall in earlier mentioned categories but I cant read it so i dont really know. Good thing my autoreply is still the DeCSS source..
//rdj
VPRO not only took all sony stuff offline, they took it off the air, and do not play ANY sony music anymore. They want to put their radio-programmes online in its entirety, not with parts cut out.
//rdj
buma is complaining currently about napster.nl offering links to mp3s. send email to
pieter.haringsma@buma.nl to tell him what you think.. (politely).
//rdj
GNU is no problem. they will happily let the german government audit the source.
//rdj
I would protest any company that thinks it has the right to look at what I have on my computer. they will need a searchwarrant, and I highly doubt they'll get one on the flimsy reason that I might be using pirated software. And RMS is welcome for a beer, but he is not getting any access to any of my boxen just to see whether I confoprm to the GPL.
//rdj
nah.. it was a RTFA.. that'll teach me to read the article..
//rdj
My question for the future US pres, Mr. B. Parrot:
You have stated earlier that you will rationalize both e and pi. but what will you do with i ?
//rdj
only about 1 in 10 people...
//rdj
linux is, IMHO. this particular distro was not. Perhaps the next one though.. but who in their right mind markets a beta as a fully tested OS?
//rdj
there's ofcxourse the Ig-Nobel awards. this year a dutch guy won for a couple of porn-pics in an MRI machine, to determine the shape of the human penis during copulation. The guy is now trying to get a grant to determine the shape and size of the clitoris, which could benefit a lot of men.. ;)
//rdj
with corporations as colonists, shooting at us with heavy guns(lawsuits) for looking at them suspiciously.
//rdj
>And what would we say in place of "trick or treat"?
FUD or treat, ofcourse..
//rdj
i'll stop calling them parachutists when they stop using parachutes... Needless to say I will be impressed by the first skydiver to survive a 31km dive..
//rdj
>If, as you say, it's the ignorant people who _don't_ vote, heaven help the US. It's smart voters are about to elect Bush...
the ignorant don't vote.
those who know a little bit about something vote for an ultra-rightwing party's candidate: bush or gore.
the people that actually know stuff AND are able to think about it make their own choice
//rdj
but I could write a book called guinness sucks.. which is more along the lines of this situation. this isn't 2 similar products. for different products a whole lot more is possible.
//rdj
there's quite some stuff wrong with me.. but tell me.. does this look like a one-eyed elderly woman?
//rdj
so much for me using napster.. it'll probably once again be US only.. maybe canada.. bad news all around..
//rdj
if that looks like a skull, I look like a 89 yr old woman with 1 eye and 3 hairs.
//rdj