I disagree. there is no agreement between me and the content provider that I watch ads. the agreement is between the content provider and the ad provider. if I choose to block ads that is my choice, just like on TV. I have the right to consume less at the same price.
so we get rid of the free market and capitalism. they're artificial constructs, and unlike the amount of oil left can easily be chucked out the window as ittelevant.
no, they're weeding out people with poor english skills. like kids from belgium, france or another country that DARED choosing another language for their national language than english.
by mentioning the date, or mentioning something about information being subject to change over time. normal encyclopedias have the same problem, it's just that there are less changes. the versions come slower.
you don't have to. in the city I live, there's a heerestraat, a heereweg, a heereplein, a verlengde heereweg. (all street names, meaning approximately: lord's street, lord's road, lord's plaza, lengthened lord's road). no company I know of buy property on heerestraat 2, heereplein 2, etc.
the web is no different: you only need 1 adress, the rest is pure choice. your choice.
I call bullshit. you're not allowed to kill someone with a hammer, but that doesn't make you less free. in fact, it makes you MORE free because it disallows others to kill you with a hammer.
we need speed limits, because drivers will not adjust to slower roadusers voluntarily. most drivers think 50 km/h is slow. it's not. run as fast as you can into a brick wall, headfirst. that was well below 50 km/h, and very painful (possibly lethal).
yes, both accounts should be free of censorship. which does not mean you can just surf to any old page you want on company or school time without punishment.
allow the user to choose himself, give him the power to filter. the difference is that the person affected can influence what is filtered, with censorship you cannot do this.
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I disagree. there is no agreement between me and the content provider that I watch ads. the agreement is between the content provider and the ad provider. if I choose to block ads that is my choice, just like on TV. I have the right to consume less at the same price.
that's a very messy way to kill a man...
Superman? Indian!
he run faster than speeding train. where is only place where you can run faster than speeding train? India!
so we get rid of the free market and capitalism. they're artificial constructs, and unlike the amount of oil left can easily be chucked out the window as ittelevant.
murder someone. take one of these.
no, they're weeding out people with poor english skills. like kids from belgium, france or another country that DARED choosing another language for their national language than english.
ok then. let's have a party.
at least state the unit. most people think celsius when seeing degrees and temperature.
by mentioning the date, or mentioning something about information being subject to change over time. normal encyclopedias have the same problem, it's just that there are less changes. the versions come slower.
anyone who has excel can use this knowledge to make a choice: do I continue to use excel, or do I use something else? the guy did nothing criminal.
you don't have to. in the city I live, there's a heerestraat, a heereweg, a heereplein, a verlengde heereweg. (all street names, meaning approximately: lord's street, lord's road, lord's plaza, lengthened lord's road). no company I know of buy property on heerestraat 2, heereplein 2, etc.
the web is no different: you only need 1 adress, the rest is pure choice. your choice.
hopefully it will lead to less advertising, so money put into marketing can be put to actual productive use.
I call bullshit. you're not allowed to kill someone with a hammer, but that doesn't make you less free. in fact, it makes you MORE free because it disallows others to kill you with a hammer.
we need speed limits, because drivers will not adjust to slower roadusers voluntarily. most drivers think 50 km/h is slow. it's not. run as fast as you can into a brick wall, headfirst. that was well below 50 km/h, and very painful (possibly lethal).
ID is not a theory, it's a hypothesis.
frankly, I dont feel like this whole discussion.
hmm.. interesting... might get one and mod it for IR photography...
>It would be a bad precident for all if the court were to force the company to show the source code.
why? I'd say it would be a very good precedent, forcing company secrets into the open. what better way to spread knowledge and information?
yes, both accounts should be free of censorship. which does not mean you can just surf to any old page you want on company or school time without punishment.
allow the user to choose himself, give him the power to filter. the difference is that the person affected can influence what is filtered, with censorship you cannot do this.
there is no legitimate use for censoring software. it's only use is censorschip. it is used as it is supposed to be.
it's not in the hands of the public, it's in the hands of companies. that's hardly public.
yeah, I have one. it's in dutch, so it will probably not tell you much...
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http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/nl/thuiskop
all of it. I'm dutch.
to download and burn DVDs. works fine, is a lot cheaper and is legal.
the reader already pays for reading, so ads are not necessary. internet access is not free.
>Many slashdotters think its really kewl to block ads, but ads pay for the sites you are viewing, ads pay for slashdot
/. and the advertiser. leave me out of it, I have nothing to do with it.
that's an agreement between