Why would I want to live in a world without evil? A world without evil would be boring as hell - no unrest, nothing to change, nothing to comment on, no need to work or think or even feel. It would be death.
Which, I think, is the ultimate truth - "heaven" is nothingness. It's a "world" free of evil - no thought, no feeling, no objective. Nothingness.
No thanks.
And I dunno why you think your country is a democracy, but I can assure this one isn't - it wasn't meant to be. The US ideally has laws that restrict behavior in a way that ensures minorities can live a life free of the tyranny of the majority. Of course, that was all much easier before the communications revolution made it so damn easy for washington and the corporations to flood the books with micromanagement legislation.
See, this is the fallacy that gun control advocates like to trot out. Unfortunately it ignores all reality.
Who is America's army? Children of wealthy people rarely volunteer. We do not have an army made up of wealthy officers and merchant class youths hoping to drag their family's class up a bit. There are a lot of middle class kids in the army, and a lot of kids that came from poverty stricken homes.
You'd really have to be a fool to believe those kids are going to turn those weapons against their own neighborhoods, families and homes when their "boss" is the one doing the oppressing. This is how civil wars begin.
What sort of gun control might you favor? Not trying to turn this into a slugfest and I'm not terribly zealous about the deal, I'm just wondering what sort of "gun control" would be embraced by someone who claims Libertarianism as his party. You do realize, don't you, the only thing really sustaining any balance at all in this country is the fact the poor people have guns, the rich people have guns, the religious people have guns... at a fundamental level the government has no choice but to fear the people - exactly the recipe for liberty as envisioned by our patriots.
By the way...
A libertarian is going to see that the Constitution provides for a separation of Church and State, and therefore a government entity (public schools) should not be teaching faith in a specific Christian ideology. Followers of Creationism are free to continue to believe what they want, are free to gather outside of schools.
Actually, dude, what you are espousing here is NOT a Libertarian stance on the issue but a Federalist one. The Constitution does NOT make any claims upon our education system - the NEA does that with Washington's political help. Ron Paul, for example, has made the NEA one of his higher priority targets in his speeches and appearances. And the Constitution makes clear that states are, to the extent not claimed under Federal rule, free to RULE THEMSELVES. Outside the present influence of money, there is nothing preventing states from, if the people of that state so choose, allowing prayer in school or theology classes or anything else of the sort.
See, this is the difference you're overlooking... it's in your own words.
This guy working on a non open platform was shut down...
Of course he was. It was a single point of failure in the chain. He didnt share his work with others, so he became an easy target. Had he opened that platform right off the mark then there would have been no point in the IRS targeting him. He likely would have saved himself considerable financial loss by not being so secretive.
How is the US gov't going to "shut down" open discussion hosted on multiple servers around the world? No matter any declared or undeclared "war" they can't even keep child porn off usenet, they're damn sure going to be powerless shutting down talk about model airplanes and electronic servo controllers.
It's no mistake at all - it's completely about control. We cannot have people sharing access to the internet willy-nilly and inviting anarchy! We must create a cultural norm that it is wrong to partake of things that may be offered free unless we ask for them first even if they are sitting in front of a sign that says "take one."
We cannot risk having pedophiles sneaking into our homes through the internets and raping our babies in their cribs and terrists communicating secret demolition plans through unsecured and anonymous communications channels! We must send the clear message now that no one dare connect to the internet without being clearly accountable for their dangerous data packets!
Federal law denies passports to many people based on (for example) whether they owe a state money for child support. This is going to get real interesting when those people become locked out of the legal system entirely because they can't get a passport and live in a state not participating in this grand new fascism. The fascism that has denied them their civil right to come and go becomes the fascism that denies them their civil rights entirely on a federal level... just because of financial obligations. So much for the fourteenth amendment.
Just a couple of years and we get a whole new class of people... legal, official, "dissidents."
But our Siberia will be a whole, whole lot warmer...
Actually, there's plenty of lossless stuff available on the net. There's newsgroups that cater to lossless recordings and websites (like Magnatune) that offer them for paid download. These are where I find lots of the stuff I enjoy. I like some modern western pop (like Pink, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) but for the most part I avoid it because I don't like the rules they play by. This isn't a big deal to me as there is a very big world of great music out there.
But note I didn't say I dont download MP3s - I said I won't PAY for them. An MP3 to me has zero value - you can never be certain how it was ripped and the sound quality most always is just not there.
It's inevitable I'm missing out on lots of good stuff. There's no way any human being could ever keep up with all the good music available in recordings - there's new stuff and there's a century of existing recordings, all available in some form or another. It would take several lifetimes to enjoy it all even just one time through.Life's just too short to obsess about such things.
If you add a capacitor? The tube itself is the capacitor - that's what the DAG coating (the black stuff on the outside) is for. That's why the tube holds a charge - because it's essentially a big leyden jar.
No, he didn't say that. I dont remember it that way, and the washington post doesnt either. We dont agree, but neither of us recall him saying what YOU just said.
You're completely wrong. The media does not ignore ANYTHING - the media plays an active role in sustaining the channels of control.
Duh. If they didn't, they'd become irrelevant - and thus powerless.
Watch the straw pole speeches today? Notice anything? Like... the "host" pimping every republican candidate except one? Mocking the most popular voice there?
Ron Paul is not ignored on mainstream media by accident. He's not there because even bad publicity can be good publicity, and no one knows this better than those in control of the channels of communication.
That's right, keep rationalizing, defending, excusing and otherwise pretending the problem isn't there. You're serving as fine example of just the sort of illness I was talking about...
Reporter: Isn't that freedom of speech?
Shrub: Then we need a little less free speech...
I saw the comment made. I heard it. Maybe I'm paraphrasing, but this was exactly the context.
Ben Franklin was right: you stupid fuckers will get exactly the government you deserve.
Yes, and lieing about a blowjob is just like lieing about going to war. We know this is true because every time a president gets a blowjob, it makes Mr. Biggelsworth angry. And when Mr. Biggelsworth gets angry, PEOPLE DIE!
I wish I could find video of it. I only remember seeing it on tv. It was outside and a reporter asked him about it. Apparently this was a line he used more than once, yet I have never found video of it. I didnt hear it second hand - I saw him make the comment - but I have no idea where to find it.
Look: the SOB said, BEFORE HE WAS EVEN ELECTED THE FIRST TIME, "what this country needs is a little less free speech."
He said this. Openly, in response to attack ads against him. He told everyone where he stood before he even had the chance to govern.
And then these IDIOTS elected him.
Twice.
So whose fault is it that the Constitution is a forgotten document? Our schools are failing us - have been for years. And that ain't shrub's fault. I cannot stand the guy - I personally think he is a traitor to the US Constitution. But it's not like no one knew where he stood. The fact he could even have been elected is a sign of deeper illness in our nation, and we serve no good by blaming everything upon the latest symptom of this disease.
Who cares? If the packages dont install properly or don't work, I don't care as a luser where the problem lies - whether it's a badly created package or a badly created packager is irrelevant as the end result is the same. All I know is I've tried many RPM based distributions and every one of them was a pain in the ass every time I wanted to add a piece of software. Maybe it was the terrible (nonexistent and/or incredibly poorly structured) support forums or a simple lack of focus on the types of apps I care about - all I know is things were often broke, hard to un-break and even when I had the cash in hand to solve the problem, getting a resolution was like trying to get answers from the fucking telephone company.
Is ubuntu popular because of the deb packager? Because RPM sucks? Because RPM based distros generally seem to lack any focus on supporting home desktop users? Is ubuntu well supported just because it's popular, or popular because it's well supported?
"Permission" is based on the notion that one may be infringing. These packages are hosted in places where such permission is generally NOT NEEDED because the laws are not the same as the US. How is this any differnt at all than Google or Yahoo working with the Chinese government to nail dissidents who have done nothing illegal under US law? Or the US LEA working in other nations to pressure those governments into arresting their own citizens for doing things that violate no local laws, but violate US law?
It's a big world out there, and as "consumers" we are constantly being played by those in power. Why should we be above exploiting these same channels of control when we are able?
Idiot, they aren't even close to being the same thing. The Klite codec pack is a collection of codecs wrapped in a fairly hostile windows installer - gstreamer is a multimedia API.
And again I will ask you: who the fuck cares what some eula says? Are the folks at divx somehow going to track you down and come knocking at your door because they somehow magically found out you (for whatever stupid reason) were running their codec under linux? Mplayer is infringing? Medibuntu? Who the hell is that? Who exactly might be "at risk?" The people who put together these free packages? The people who host them? The people who download them?
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Why would I want to live in a world without evil? A world without evil would be boring as hell - no unrest, nothing to change, nothing to comment on, no need to work or think or even feel. It would be death.
Which, I think, is the ultimate truth - "heaven" is nothingness. It's a "world" free of evil - no thought, no feeling, no objective. Nothingness.
No thanks.
And I dunno why you think your country is a democracy, but I can assure this one isn't - it wasn't meant to be. The US ideally has laws that restrict behavior in a way that ensures minorities can live a life free of the tyranny of the majority. Of course, that was all much easier before the communications revolution made it so damn easy for washington and the corporations to flood the books with micromanagement legislation.
So will the church lead by example? Religion is the biggest tax haven in this country.
Just one more hypocrisy from the church, I am wagering.
See, this is the fallacy that gun control advocates like to trot out. Unfortunately it ignores all reality.
Who is America's army? Children of wealthy people rarely volunteer. We do not have an army made up of wealthy officers and merchant class youths hoping to drag their family's class up a bit. There are a lot of middle class kids in the army, and a lot of kids that came from poverty stricken homes.
You'd really have to be a fool to believe those kids are going to turn those weapons against their own neighborhoods, families and homes when their "boss" is the one doing the oppressing. This is how civil wars begin.
What sort of gun control might you favor? Not trying to turn this into a slugfest and I'm not terribly zealous about the deal, I'm just wondering what sort of "gun control" would be embraced by someone who claims Libertarianism as his party. You do realize, don't you, the only thing really sustaining any balance at all in this country is the fact the poor people have guns, the rich people have guns, the religious people have guns... at a fundamental level the government has no choice but to fear the people - exactly the recipe for liberty as envisioned by our patriots.
By the way...
A libertarian is going to see that the Constitution provides for a separation of Church and State, and therefore a government entity (public schools) should not be teaching faith in a specific Christian ideology. Followers of Creationism are free to continue to believe what they want, are free to gather outside of schools.
Actually, dude, what you are espousing here is NOT a Libertarian stance on the issue but a Federalist one. The Constitution does NOT make any claims upon our education system - the NEA does that with Washington's political help. Ron Paul, for example, has made the NEA one of his higher priority targets in his speeches and appearances. And the Constitution makes clear that states are, to the extent not claimed under Federal rule, free to RULE THEMSELVES. Outside the present influence of money, there is nothing preventing states from, if the people of that state so choose, allowing prayer in school or theology classes or anything else of the sort.
Do you know any other tunes?
You're still not paying attention, are you?
I'm Iranian. Or French. Or Japanese. Or Indian. Or Russian.
Now, let's see you fine me for posting information about my model airplane to a newsgroup.
Uh huh. You mean like how the laws against kiddie porn keep that out of the newsgroups? And how the DMCA keeps people from getting access to DeCSS?
You're not paying attention, are you?
I can see it now: proxy up, folks... we're talking about model airplanes!
See, this is the difference you're overlooking... it's in your own words.
This guy working on a non open platform was shut down...
Of course he was. It was a single point of failure in the chain. He didnt share his work with others, so he became an easy target. Had he opened that platform right off the mark then there would have been no point in the IRS targeting him. He likely would have saved himself considerable financial loss by not being so secretive.
How is the US gov't going to "shut down" open discussion hosted on multiple servers around the world? No matter any declared or undeclared "war" they can't even keep child porn off usenet, they're damn sure going to be powerless shutting down talk about model airplanes and electronic servo controllers.
It's no mistake at all - it's completely about control. We cannot have people sharing access to the internet willy-nilly and inviting anarchy! We must create a cultural norm that it is wrong to partake of things that may be offered free unless we ask for them first even if they are sitting in front of a sign that says "take one."
We cannot risk having pedophiles sneaking into our homes through the internets and raping our babies in their cribs and terrists communicating secret demolition plans through unsecured and anonymous communications channels! We must send the clear message now that no one dare connect to the internet without being clearly accountable for their dangerous data packets!
You don't have to bomb the capital of every country that violates the basic human rights of its citizens to make a point. You just have to bomb one...
ROTFL.
"Everybody stand back or the nigger gets it!"
Federal law denies passports to many people based on (for example) whether they owe a state money for child support. This is going to get real interesting when those people become locked out of the legal system entirely because they can't get a passport and live in a state not participating in this grand new fascism. The fascism that has denied them their civil right to come and go becomes the fascism that denies them their civil rights entirely on a federal level... just because of financial obligations. So much for the fourteenth amendment.
Just a couple of years and we get a whole new class of people... legal, official, "dissidents."
But our Siberia will be a whole, whole lot warmer...
Actually, there's plenty of lossless stuff available on the net. There's newsgroups that cater to lossless recordings and websites (like Magnatune) that offer them for paid download. These are where I find lots of the stuff I enjoy. I like some modern western pop (like Pink, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) but for the most part I avoid it because I don't like the rules they play by. This isn't a big deal to me as there is a very big world of great music out there.
But note I didn't say I dont download MP3s - I said I won't PAY for them. An MP3 to me has zero value - you can never be certain how it was ripped and the sound quality most always is just not there.
It's inevitable I'm missing out on lots of good stuff. There's no way any human being could ever keep up with all the good music available in recordings - there's new stuff and there's a century of existing recordings, all available in some form or another. It would take several lifetimes to enjoy it all even just one time through.Life's just too short to obsess about such things.
If you add a capacitor? The tube itself is the capacitor - that's what the DAG coating (the black stuff on the outside) is for. That's why the tube holds a charge - because it's essentially a big leyden jar.
Seriously, the people who say they can tell the difference would never pull it off in a blind comparison.
Wanna bet?
Although I don't see what the issue is. I don't buy MP3s and I don't use MP3s for my own stuff. If they're not selling FLACs then I don't buy. Simple.
No, he didn't say that. I dont remember it that way, and the washington post doesnt either. We dont agree, but neither of us recall him saying what YOU just said.
I saw him say it. Did you?
You're completely wrong. The media does not ignore ANYTHING - the media plays an active role in sustaining the channels of control.
Duh. If they didn't, they'd become irrelevant - and thus powerless.
Watch the straw pole speeches today? Notice anything? Like... the "host" pimping every republican candidate except one? Mocking the most popular voice there?
Ron Paul is not ignored on mainstream media by accident. He's not there because even bad publicity can be good publicity, and no one knows this better than those in control of the channels of communication.
Copyright protections explicitly do not apply to parody.
Try actually reading the law before posting about this again... or heck, just go rent "Larry Flynt for President."
That's right, keep rationalizing, defending, excusing and otherwise pretending the problem isn't there. You're serving as fine example of just the sort of illness I was talking about...
Reporter: Isn't that freedom of speech?
Shrub: Then we need a little less free speech...
I saw the comment made. I heard it. Maybe I'm paraphrasing, but this was exactly the context.
Ben Franklin was right: you stupid fuckers will get exactly the government you deserve.
Yes, and lieing about a blowjob is just like lieing about going to war. We know this is true because every time a president gets a blowjob, it makes Mr. Biggelsworth angry. And when Mr. Biggelsworth gets angry, PEOPLE DIE!
If you do one good thing in 140 years, does that make you a good person?
I wish I could find video of it. I only remember seeing it on tv. It was outside and a reporter asked him about it. Apparently this was a line he used more than once, yet I have never found video of it. I didnt hear it second hand - I saw him make the comment - but I have no idea where to find it.
It does seem like Republican presidents have a talent for fucking up the country, doesn't it?
(Let's see how many reaganites that pisses off...)
Look: the SOB said, BEFORE HE WAS EVEN ELECTED THE FIRST TIME, "what this country needs is a little less free speech."
He said this. Openly, in response to attack ads against him. He told everyone where he stood before he even had the chance to govern.
And then these IDIOTS elected him.
Twice.
So whose fault is it that the Constitution is a forgotten document? Our schools are failing us - have been for years. And that ain't shrub's fault. I cannot stand the guy - I personally think he is a traitor to the US Constitution. But it's not like no one knew where he stood. The fact he could even have been elected is a sign of deeper illness in our nation, and we serve no good by blaming everything upon the latest symptom of this disease.
Who cares? If the packages dont install properly or don't work, I don't care as a luser where the problem lies - whether it's a badly created package or a badly created packager is irrelevant as the end result is the same. All I know is I've tried many RPM based distributions and every one of them was a pain in the ass every time I wanted to add a piece of software. Maybe it was the terrible (nonexistent and/or incredibly poorly structured) support forums or a simple lack of focus on the types of apps I care about - all I know is things were often broke, hard to un-break and even when I had the cash in hand to solve the problem, getting a resolution was like trying to get answers from the fucking telephone company.
Is ubuntu popular because of the deb packager? Because RPM sucks? Because RPM based distros generally seem to lack any focus on supporting home desktop users? Is ubuntu well supported just because it's popular, or popular because it's well supported?
Yes.
"Permission" is based on the notion that one may be infringing. These packages are hosted in places where such permission is generally NOT NEEDED because the laws are not the same as the US. How is this any differnt at all than Google or Yahoo working with the Chinese government to nail dissidents who have done nothing illegal under US law? Or the US LEA working in other nations to pressure those governments into arresting their own citizens for doing things that violate no local laws, but violate US law?
It's a big world out there, and as "consumers" we are constantly being played by those in power. Why should we be above exploiting these same channels of control when we are able?
K-Lite is similar to w32codecs and gstreamer.
Idiot, they aren't even close to being the same thing. The Klite codec pack is a collection of codecs wrapped in a fairly hostile windows installer - gstreamer is a multimedia API.
And again I will ask you: who the fuck cares what some eula says? Are the folks at divx somehow going to track you down and come knocking at your door because they somehow magically found out you (for whatever stupid reason) were running their codec under linux? Mplayer is infringing? Medibuntu? Who the hell is that? Who exactly might be "at risk?" The people who put together these free packages? The people who host them? The people who download them?