Hmmmmm.......somebody missed the point. I'm thinking the guy is saying that the net is a good launch pad for free expression. An alternative? Perhaps if this country's government actually abided by the constitution? I guess if you only take things at face value you're going to miss the actual meaning of things. I wouldn't be so eager to get down on my knees and thank "those soul-sucking companies and researchers working on government grants at government-funded universities and research labs.", its not like the congressmen and senators were having bake sales to make it happen, or the corporations weren't making money off of it. Greed begets greed, but on occasion something else happens, the net for example, I say don't let them corrupt it.
Fact is that the constitution does apply today. It was purposely written to be general enough to apply despite new technology, social climate, or boobs such as yourself calling it outdated. And as for your comment about guns....
The general population was granted the right to bear arms in order to keep our government in check. If you can't understand freedom and peace through strength and vigilance, then as a favor to the rest of humanity I ask that you don't breed.
You don't think your ISP could be required to either issue or check for an internet license? Give me a break. Consider how many ways you can get into the net, and then consider how many lakes and streams there are near you. Then think about the availability of places to fish in comparison to how many places you can dial up to the net without a username or password
You are a slave. Do you think for a moment that you can ever really say or do what you want? You can't dream without fear of punishment, even if it is your own hypodermic guilt making you look to religion, drugs or suicide as an escape. Modern expression in TV, movies and music is without any stimulants. It is numb and safe, easy to sell, easy to digest and easy to forget. It's not really even suitable for kindergartners or the mentally handicapped. We are treated like soulless sub-animal house pets until we are old enough to drive or buy cigarettes. When we become consumers they pretend to give us an opinion. We are constantly shoveled milky mounds of unchallenging, moronic impotence disguised as entertainment, but really only designed to lower our standards and make us passive and content on being dumbed down. Why do we watch the things they give us on MTV or Jenny Jones or the 11 0clock news? We have been conditioned to have low expectations and our standards have become less than primitive. The illiterate apes that beat your ass in highschool for being a "fag" now sell you tuneless testosterone anthems of misogyny and pretend to be outsiders to a world that they were born to wear their ADIDASS-FILGERING uniforms in.
And we buy it up, helplessly.
Even Christ wouldn't kill himself for this pitiful America that hides under "christian values," and exonerates criminals when they remind the newsman that they too, beLIEve in god.
The networks, record companies and movie studios are all afraid of what we have the power to become.
Unlike them we have nothing to lose, and that's what makes us pure.
It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of Horus. It is time for a new standard, a new canvas, and a new artist. We must forget this wasted generation and amputate it before the mind rots away with it. Paint it, record it, write it down before they kill you with their slow poisonous stupidity. Make yourself heard.
This Internet is your middle finger to the universe, don't let them break it.
Fuck their world. Let's make our own.
The third and final Beast Marilyn Manson
This IS the people's internet. I see commercialism as just as threatening as government regulation. I'm not downplaying what the gov't is trying to do, I see both of them as horrible threats to the internet as we know it. I wonder how long it'll be until the internet is reduced to an online shopping mall with/.'ers forced into forming the underground internet intelligencia. I also wonder how long it'll be until all content is monitored, filtered, and and approved by the governments of the world. Remember, this administration works incrementally, this is only one in a long list of steps towards gaining complete control over what you hear and what you see. Either it will be a forum for political parties to float out new ideas on how to steal your privacy, rights, liberties and freedoms, or it will become worse than television with commercials popping up in browser windows selling viagra, propecia, or compaq computers (all are for the hairless soft...take that as you will). Either way, it will cease to be our internet, it will become a tool for others to make money, gain political power, or both...but no longer will it be a sanctuary for free thinking and new ideas.
Very good point...why do you think they're trying to get rid of all guns? Sure, they're only working on assault rifles and such now....but they're well on their way...incrementalism at its worst. BTW, since they're "addressing unlawful conduct" do you think they'll include purjury and obstruction of justice? I'm glad I didn't vote for this dork.
You're exactly right, as far as this administration is concerned, the more laws the better. Take a good look at the man's political career...its what happens when you mix communist goals with facist tactics. The net is one of the trickier things to deal with, on one hand a lot of the content is objectionable, but on the other hand, the teeny boppers, neglected housewives and chat addicts won't stand for one of their favorite sites accidentally being shut down (Tax me into poverty and ruin the educational system for my kids, just don't take away my yahoo! horoscopes). Case in point: just try to keep me from checking/..
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Hmmmmm.......somebody missed the point. I'm thinking the guy is saying that the net is a good launch pad for free expression. An alternative? Perhaps if this country's government actually abided by the constitution? I guess if you only take things at face value you're going to miss the actual meaning of things. I wouldn't be so eager to get down on my knees and thank "those soul-sucking companies and researchers working on government grants at government-funded universities and research labs.", its not like the congressmen and senators were having bake sales to make it happen, or the corporations weren't making money off of it. Greed begets greed, but on occasion something else happens, the net for example, I say don't let them corrupt it.
Fact is that the constitution does apply today. It was purposely written to be general enough to apply despite new technology, social climate, or boobs such as yourself calling it outdated.
And as for your comment about guns....
The general population was granted the right to bear arms in order to keep our government in check. If you can't understand freedom and peace through strength and vigilance, then as a favor to the rest of humanity I ask that you don't breed.
You don't think your ISP could be required to either issue or check for an internet license? Give me a break. Consider how many ways you can get into the net, and then consider how many lakes and streams there are near you. Then think about the availability of places to fish in comparison to how many places you can dial up to the net without a username or password
You are a slave. Do you think for a moment that you can ever really say or do what you want? You can't dream without fear of punishment, even if it is your own hypodermic guilt making you look to religion, drugs or suicide as an escape. Modern expression in TV, movies and music is without any stimulants. It is numb and safe, easy to sell, easy to digest and easy to forget. It's not really even suitable for kindergartners or the mentally handicapped. We are treated like soulless sub-animal house pets until we are old enough to drive or buy cigarettes. When we become consumers they pretend to give us an opinion. We are constantly shoveled milky mounds of unchallenging, moronic impotence disguised as entertainment, but really only designed to lower our standards and make us passive and content on being dumbed down. Why do we watch the things they give us on MTV or Jenny Jones or the 11 0clock news? We have been conditioned to have low expectations and our standards have become less than primitive. The illiterate apes that beat your ass in highschool for being a "fag" now sell you tuneless testosterone anthems of misogyny and pretend to be outsiders to a world that they were born to wear their ADIDASS-FILGERING uniforms in.
/.'ers forced into forming the underground internet intelligencia. I also wonder how long it'll be until all content is monitored, filtered, and and approved by the governments of the world. Remember, this administration works incrementally, this is only one in a long list of steps towards gaining complete control over what you hear and what you see. Either it will be a forum for political parties to float out new ideas on how to steal your privacy, rights, liberties and freedoms, or it will become worse than television with commercials popping up in browser windows selling viagra, propecia, or compaq computers (all are for the hairless soft...take that as you will). Either way, it will cease to be our internet, it will become a tool for others to make money, gain political power, or both...but no longer will it be a sanctuary for free thinking and new ideas.
And we buy it up, helplessly.
Even Christ wouldn't kill himself for this pitiful
America that hides under "christian values," and
exonerates criminals when they remind the
newsman that they too, beLIEve in god.
The networks, record companies and movie studios
are all afraid of what we have the power to become.
Unlike them we have nothing to lose, and that's what makes us pure.
It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of Horus. It is time for a new standard, a new canvas, and a new artist. We must forget this wasted generation and amputate it before the mind rots away with it. Paint it, record it, write it down before they kill you with their slow poisonous stupidity. Make yourself heard.
This Internet is your middle finger to the universe, don't let them break it.
Fuck their world.
Let's make our own.
The third and final Beast
Marilyn Manson
This IS the people's internet. I see commercialism as just as threatening as government regulation. I'm not downplaying what the gov't is trying to do, I see both of them as horrible threats to the internet as we know it. I wonder how long it'll be until the internet is reduced to an online shopping mall with
Very good point...why do you think they're trying to get rid of all guns? Sure, they're only working on assault rifles and such now....but they're well on their way...incrementalism at its worst. BTW, since they're "addressing unlawful conduct" do you think they'll include purjury and obstruction of justice? I'm glad I didn't vote for this dork.
You're exactly right, as far as this administration is concerned, the more laws the better. Take a good look at the man's political career...its what happens when you mix communist goals with facist tactics. The net is one of the trickier things to deal with, on one hand a lot of the content is objectionable, but on the other hand, the teeny boppers, neglected housewives and chat addicts won't stand for one of their favorite sites accidentally being shut down (Tax me into poverty and ruin the educational system for my kids, just don't take away my yahoo! horoscopes). Case in point: just try to keep me from checking /..