Have to agree.
The point of freedom of the press is not to protect journalists, but to protect the right of EVERY INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN, from you to me to al'Qerry to the Shrub, to speak his or her views.
The site is blatantly pro-Republican, to the point that its owner won't even vote for a libertarian or constitution party candidate if the Republican is even farther to the left than the Democrat.
Mwahahaha. You obviously don't read him very often. He critizes congressional Republicans more than Michael Moore does. Because he holds them to a higher standard.
I think that, while public projection of opinion was limited to the corporate-owned print and television media, keeping 'big money' out of the arena would have been a good thing. When you can just buy up all the ad space on TV, or in a newspaper, you can drown out the other guy.
But you can't do that on the internet. Blogs, by their very nature, are completely independant of that money. You can give money to bloggers who support you, sure, but it doesn't do anything to stop or stifle those who oppose you.
As A J Liebling once put it, "Freedom of the Press is limited to those who own one." The internet hands them out with every connection. You're reading one right now, that CmdrTaco has been kind enough to share with us.
One day, a fellow was running a network survey and found that he couldn't determine the physical location of one of the servers. So he went out and traced down the network cable.
The machine was eventually discovered...
In the closet where it had been walled up four years ago during renovations.
Shut up, Doof. Your idiotic friends in the Glass iNserted Anally Always had very very little to do with shutting down 4chan. It was about money, plain and simple.
what is it with people conflating fascism, stalinism and (the comparatively *extremely* tame) current US rights restrictions as if they were all the same?
It's really very simple.
They want to paint the current administration, the US in general, and the basic principles of independance, freedom, liberty, and respect for humanity, that the US was founded on, with as black a brush as possible, so that they can get their traitorous party into power and surrender our sovereignty to the likes of France and Libya.
Click here for more excellent reading on the topic, or here.
Apart from some first year psychology college students, America doesn't have a Left. "Liberals" are considered center in the rest of the world. So, it's unfair to compare the American left with with socialist dictatorships.
That's not America's problem. That's the "rest of the world"'s problem.
Maybe when the spoiled teenage brats who are running EUnuchistan realize that Daddy's taken the car keys and gone home, they'll grow up a bit.
I think the best line of the entire series was where Sorbo proves his character is not Picard...
Tyr: "I say we kill them all."
Hunt: "Sounds like a good idea to me."
If you look at the way the sales work -- really closely -- you'll notice that they're selling full seasons for only a bit more than, say, your Babylon 5 or X-Files seasons, just without the convenient box.
A Doctor Who season ran for, typically, 22 half-hour episodes.
These would be divided into 4-6 serial stories, typically 3-6 episodes each.
It is these individual stories, not "single episodes", that are being sold on DVD at the $22-25 price point. So a full season is around $100-120 US.
The first few books are available as free downloads right off Baen's website, if you want to take a quick look before laying out for this one and the CD...
Absolutely. As said friend, I'd like to apologize for dragging THK into that piece of drek. The bots -sucked-, none of them was able to do any real damage to any of the others, and we both spent most of the show rooting for one of the others to set the fur-covered bunnybot on fire. It's just pathetic.
Only for Gnutella users who are seeking out and downloading pirated - illegal - material.
In other words, only two groups of people will be harmed:
1) The people seeking to steal songs from the RIAA
2) The RIAA proxies seeking to steal connectivity from the ISP's customers.
People downloading legally-shared material will just say "Oh, some idiot's got another copy of the new Britney Effing Spears album. Jackass." and go on with what they were doing.
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Have to agree. The point of freedom of the press is not to protect journalists, but to protect the right of EVERY INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN, from you to me to al'Qerry to the Shrub, to speak his or her views. The site is blatantly pro-Republican, to the point that its owner won't even vote for a libertarian or constitution party candidate if the Republican is even farther to the left than the Democrat. Mwahahaha. You obviously don't read him very often. He critizes congressional Republicans more than Michael Moore does. Because he holds them to a higher standard.
I think that, while public projection of opinion was limited to the corporate-owned print and television media, keeping 'big money' out of the arena would have been a good thing. When you can just buy up all the ad space on TV, or in a newspaper, you can drown out the other guy.
But you can't do that on the internet. Blogs, by their very nature, are completely independant of that money. You can give money to bloggers who support you, sure, but it doesn't do anything to stop or stifle those who oppose you.
As A J Liebling once put it, "Freedom of the Press is limited to those who own one." The internet hands them out with every connection. You're reading one right now, that CmdrTaco has been kind enough to share with us.
GO USE YOURS.
At a local hospital, we had several Sun servers.
One day, a fellow was running a network survey and found that he couldn't determine the physical location of one of the servers. So he went out and traced down the network cable.
The machine was eventually discovered...
In the closet where it had been walled up four years ago during renovations.
Still working perfectly.
Shut up, Doof. Your idiotic friends in the Glass iNserted Anally Always had very very little to do with shutting down 4chan. It was about money, plain and simple.
And exactly what rights have we given up since 9/11?
Let's see...
Right of Free Speech? Still there. Dimmed slightly by "Campaign Finance Reform", but still present.
Freedom of Assembly? Not hindered at all.
Freedom of the Press? Not hindered in the slightest.
Freedom of Religion? Well, there's a fairly large number of leftie losers who want to ban Christianity, but aside from that, no losses.
Right to keep and bear arms? Constantly under attack, but not by the current administration.
Right to vote? No problems there.
Right to not have soldiers quartered in our homes? Nope. They're all over in Iraq and Germany and Korea.
Right to not be subject to unreasonable search and seizure? Hasn't dimmed in the slightest.
Right to a trial by jury, to be protected from double-jeopardy, to not be forced to testify against yourself? Still there.
So, Max, just which rights have we given up?
Well, yours would certainly get -1 flamebait...
It's really very simple.
They want to paint the current administration, the US in general, and the basic principles of independance, freedom, liberty, and respect for humanity, that the US was founded on, with as black a brush as possible, so that they can get their traitorous party into power and surrender our sovereignty to the likes of France and Libya.
Click here for more excellent reading on the topic, or here.
Apart from some first year psychology college students, America doesn't have a Left. "Liberals" are considered center in the rest of the world. So, it's unfair to compare the American left with with socialist dictatorships. That's not America's problem. That's the "rest of the world"'s problem. Maybe when the spoiled teenage brats who are running EUnuchistan realize that Daddy's taken the car keys and gone home, they'll grow up a bit.
I think the best line of the entire series was where Sorbo proves his character is not Picard... Tyr: "I say we kill them all." Hunt: "Sounds like a good idea to me."
If you look at the way the sales work -- really closely -- you'll notice that they're selling full seasons for only a bit more than, say, your Babylon 5 or X-Files seasons, just without the convenient box.
A Doctor Who season ran for, typically, 22 half-hour episodes.
These would be divided into 4-6 serial stories, typically 3-6 episodes each.
It is these individual stories, not "single episodes", that are being sold on DVD at the $22-25 price point. So a full season is around $100-120 US.
The first few books are available as free downloads right off Baen's website, if you want to take a quick look before laying out for this one and the CD...
Absolutely. As said friend, I'd like to apologize for dragging THK into that piece of drek. The bots -sucked-, none of them was able to do any real damage to any of the others, and we both spent most of the show rooting for one of the others to set the fur-covered bunnybot on fire. It's just pathetic.
Only for Gnutella users who are seeking out and downloading pirated - illegal - material. In other words, only two groups of people will be harmed: 1) The people seeking to steal songs from the RIAA 2) The RIAA proxies seeking to steal connectivity from the ISP's customers. People downloading legally-shared material will just say "Oh, some idiot's got another copy of the new Britney Effing Spears album. Jackass." and go on with what they were doing.