I also prefer being correct rather than winning an argument. Your initial tone (cool non-conformists bla bla) was what made me refer to "CONFORMIST COWARD ACT". Had you asked/properly posted, I would have properly replied.:)
Even wikipedia states that there is considerable loopholes in the act.
"Another counter-argument is that the USA PATRIOT Act has never been needed to manage demonstrators because the situation is usually handled by local police departments, and on rare occasion by the federal government using non-USA PATRIOT Act federal statutes."
I don't know, what if one day the FBI decides to us the Patriot act against demonstrators? How do you know they won't do that? I personally believe , that you cannot leave things so vague that the government is able to dictate the law on its own terms ( especially in things that are important for upholding democracy like street protests).
Thanks god they did not abolish the FISA. Now that would be a nightmare. But take a look at the restrictions that are weakened (google the act). How do you know that this sort of things won't be applied to you? Reading the act by itself won't give you to many details, but the point remains that FBI now have more power and can easily spy on you (section 215). I mean how far can you trust a government with someone like dubya in power ("you are with or against us" - what sort stupidity is that)? These restriction are why so many people "put up all this fuss" because they don't want the government to spy on them.
What makes you think that if we abolish the Patriot Act , you have to abolish the FISA? I mean where is that written (which section - I haven't read the vast majority of the Patriot act, only the parts that I knew were controversial). So your argument is flawed, the PATRIOT act provides the government with more power by obscuring the law.
The comes the argument about the effectiveness of the Patriot Act. Ok the government has more power to control individuals, how does that solve the root cause of terrorism (problems with American Foreign policy + poverty and unfair globalization - think about the developing world! Why even after all the "solve it all" market reform and so on promoted by IMF africa is in ruins (worse poverty than before) and even nations like China and India are only seeing marginal development). Do you understand that for all the power of your government you can't stop terrorism with military solutions, it has always worked and always will work. Communicate with world, slowly help spread democracy through student exchange programs. Help people liberate themselves. In 10 years the Iraqis would have got rid of Saddam by themselves, now they are only going to get more radical.
Ok, so if you don't give Padillo a proper trial, what stops the government from arresting you (without any explanation or trial) because you criticize their policies. Are you stupid enough to allow the government/president that spawns bullshit like "You are with us or against us" to decide whether it is right or wrong to arrest (without trial etc) a person?
They must have some evidence? Yeah? how do you know? American conservatives surprise me. You guys love talking about how you need your machine guns to protect yourself from the government and bla bla, but when it comes to the real crunch, you guys aren't willing to ignore bullshit rhetoric and limit your government from going over the top ("PATRIOT" ACT - lol). You always support the government.
Do you understand that the only way to win the war against terrorism doesn't involve military intelligence and things like that? You are only as strong as your weakest link. And that link is weak. Think about it, Bin Laden can easily pay of some dumb russian official and get enough material for a nice dirty nuke. I am sure that they won't have issues with getting it to one of your major cities.
If you want to win, you have to support moderate islam and give people in Alah Agbar land less reasons to bomb you. Making the economic aspects of globalization more fair would also be a good idea.
Something like 20K people die from something as simple as the common cold, yet I don't see conservatives rallying around/pressuring the government to fight poverty.
But of course, all my words will be in vain, afterall "I am not with you", so I must be against you.
Where in my post did I state that I wanted to get rid of corporations? I never said. I did say that I wanted some things changed in the present system. So whats your point? I just corporations to become more responsible and understanding. Because in the end, they exist to serve the public, not the other way round.
The government could cooperate with smaller companies allowing them to get involved in capital havey industries. Again, I never said get rid of the corporation, just change them to make them more regulated (self regulation could be used to avoid red-tape - but if they start to go over the limit you just put some really harsh regulation to keep the corporations in check) and accountable for all the damage they (indirect pollution etc).
A good example to show why getting rid of corporations could best be described throught the space industry.
Because the space industry is in its infant stages, just wait till the industry starts to mature. You can forget innovation, you'll have one or two huge space corporations banding together to create a monopoly. They will also be protected by the government as the USA's two man (identical) parties will get their campaign donations.
Now give me a large industry where this hasn't happened? At a certain stage corporations become inefficient and dangerous.
The reason I don't like corporation is that their owner's aren't responsible for shit. I can live with limited liability when it comes to finance, but I cannot stand when shareholders make millions and at the same time people die from their products. Furthermore, corporations should be made to pay for invisible costs. They should be responsible for all the environmental pollution that they inflict.
You chose a really bad example for the mining industry. What's so risky about it from a shareholders viewpoint? I don't get it? If you conducted proper research and paid of the right governmental official, you're cool.
Yes it is possible to think of them, but they need utopian-ist idealogies to work.
Typical bullshit thinking, Either you are for our capitalist system that will leave you without a job, without social security and with loads of junk products that you never wanted or you're a commie. For all you might think, there is a third way. You can easily build a system similar to Europe where the government sometimes actually tries to protect and help its citizens and they actually regulate corporations.
Its funny that a good friend also lives in Turkey and he doesn't think its so liberal.. But hey, he came there from Moscow, which is FAR from liberal, but you can do whatever you want.
Rather then considering fatwa a separate thing, consider it in a general context. I was simply using the fatwa as an example to demonstrate that Islam can very easily be exploited and manipulated to allow for stupidity. Doesn't really effect how muslims live at large? I think it does! The fact that the spiritual leader of one of the biggest Islamic countries issues a fatwa for writing a book that criticizes Islam sends a message to the western population that something is not exactly right about Islam. Especially considering the book in question.
OK these are common traits for all religions? Does that make those things any better? Does it change the world and Islamic countries more moderate? Does it stop islamic nation from being the most homophobic cultures on this planet? However, you wan to look at it, Islamic nations are the leaders in terms of limiting civil liberties and choice, period.
Just take a look at the link above and tell me if you notice any pattern (hint: the death penalty for homosexuality and islamic nations). Doesn't that strike you as strange? Forget the past and how other religions used to be, objectively look at islamic nations in the world today. Furthermore, did I ever say that all muslims do not follow humanistic values? Stop putting words in my mouth. I've told you in my second post that I don't believe that islam is evil, all I believe is that islam is easier to manipulate and at present islam is a bigger thread to civil liberties and civilization then other religions.
Nihilists of Russia? Who exactly? Social Revolutionaries at the end of th 19th century? They targeted government officials and Tsarist supporters... I don't approve of such actions, but there is a huge difference between that and modern islamic terrorism. I fail to remember any incidents where the SRs took children hostage and demanded that the Tsar step down. Their focus was bringing down the system and in general they did get normal people involved. Its not like the Tsarist system was nice, the Tsar was a nutcase. His stupidity and inflexibility allowed Lenin and company to come to power. Furthermore, you can't say atheist perfected terrorism as atheism is not an organization or cult. Its personal thing, one atheist might have one view of the world and another would have a different view.
Stalin was idolized to the point where he was a semi-god. A bunch of old farts writing a long boring fairy tale doesn't make a good either. If anything Stalin was real, all the other gods are just imaginary friends. If I wrote a book about invisible pink unicorns ruling the world, it would be just as relevant as the bible is.
I didn't sympathize with them. I thought they were full of shit. I thought "nice going guys, this why you will never get any support from the west - you guys just know how to dig your own grave." I agree with you that the USA is simply a lesser evil and they have their own set of problems (conservative christians and other assholes), but that doesn't make islam any better. Thats the point you fail to grasp.
Well then that wasn't what I wanted to state. What I wanted to state was that in times of conflict muslims are easily influenced to commit terrorism. Even outside conflicts base defects in Islam allow for completely stupidity. I mean, how can you issue a Fatwa? No normal religion in our time would involve itself in such stupidity.
You right in saying that previously Islam wasn't all that radical (although I don't agree with your statement that atheists involved themselves in terrorism? When? How? Communists don't count, they replaced jesus with Lenin/Stalin and most of the population still believed in god). But that doesn't really matter. What matters is that in the present context muslim radicals are going over the top. The way IRA uses and terrorism and the way muslim terrorist operate are completely different. Islamic terrorists have no consideration for human life and whats worse muslim moderates don't do shit about it. Remember all those dancing Palestinians after 9/11? Come on if radicalism is only a minority thing then why are whole streets full of people rejoicing over the deaths of other people?
Stop being an apologist for Islam. Whether you like it or not Islam promotes sexism, is homophobic, shortsighted and in general isn't very tolerant other people. Other religions could (or have been) be just as bad, but that doesn't make Islam any better. Until Islam allows for things such as Fatwa and does not integrate with the rest of the world (other religions/conclusions are not ok and no exceptions) I will not consider it to be a 'normal' organization.
Dude, you did not define the meaning of the word anti-hero. Mass culture did. Essentially you were brainwahsed into considering the anti-hero to mean 'bad guy'. In reality it means modern day hero, the average everyman. This has nothing to do with 'upish', this sort of thing is taught in high school. So its not 'l337' or anything. I mean you won't start triting the word the as 'teh' just because a lot of people do the same, would you?
You might not like what he is saying and the GP is a bit rash, but that's not enough to call his post dumb. Don't you find it insane that in this age we still have 800 million people suffering from malnutrition while CEOs are getting multi-million dollar pay packages? Don't you feel sorry for all the victims of poverty? I mean you can't just let a person die because of the free market.
And do you really believe that you can get rich fairly? I mean come on. The rich class essentially controls the government to suit their own needs.
Have some understanding for all the have-nots of the world. Isn't that what makes different from animals? That we can have compassion and ignore the free market to make people's lives better. I am not saying that we should all revert to communism, but a stronger social net with and more regulation (e.g. if someone dies due to greed (rushing a medicle product to soon, environmental polution) then shareholders go to prison) would be useful.
Thank you for complementing on my intelligence!
As you might have noticed I never implied that all conflicts I mentioned above justify the belief that all muslims are terrorists. For your information I actually support Palestinians and Chechens in their fight for freedom. My only problem is the methods that they use. For instance, why did the terrorist take children hostage in Beslan (don't forget that Beslan is a Christian state)? Why not take a bunch of military generals hostage? They deserve it a lot more. Same goes for Palestine, why the hell do they attack civilians (I mean two year old children - is that normal). Even in Yugoslavia, considerable amount of serbs were murdered (nowhere near to the number of muslims though).
All I was pointing out that some base defects in Islam make it very easy to use it for 'destroying all no believers'. The fact that every conflict involving muslims involves cowardly deliberate attacks on civilians just proves my point.
For your information (I am Ukrainian-Indian), I do know the approximate geographical difference between Kentucky and West virginia. But that's not the point. Most people in 'Checkizstani' tend to have not very good level of education because certain western corporations and the Russian government benefit from keeping corupt politicians in power (think Turkmenistan, if your burger-brain is capable of understanding where this nation is).
Secondly, there is nothing happening in West Virginia or Kentucky. Some important things are happening in Chechnya and as literate person you should inform yourself about this area.
Anyway, continue like this and you'll keep getting bombed and have you civil liberties restricted by dybya. Enjoy your own stupidity.
I don't support the view that all Muslim's are evil, but you got to admit that they are doing no where near enough to uphold their image in the west. How come major muslim clerics don't condemn terrorist attacks (liberals worldwide criticize dubya, neo-cons and other shitheads like Putin).
Most of the nations mentioned in your post are involved in conflicts due to muslim extremism. So it don't really hold up.
Russia - Chechnya
India - Pakistan + Pak terror groups
Ex-Yugoslavia - muslims involved again
Israel - why should Israel cooperate with Palestine if they keep bombing their citizens?
Your argument against oppression doesn't hold as well. While USA, Russia and NKorea are pretty messed up places they don't compare to places like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Again I am not against Islam as such, I am just pointing out that as such moderate muslims aren't doing shit to legitimiza themsleves as non-terrorist in front of the west (remember the dancing kids in Palestine after 9/11?).
Typical American view on 'conflicts that don't involve me'. While the terrorist acts committed by the Chechen rebels are certainly monstrous, you must consider that the Russian forces in Chechnya a re no better. Of course, systematic abuse by Russian forces doesn't get on to prime time TV, but that doesn't make it any less horrific. The real terrorists are the Russian forces and Russian society that is unable and/or unwilling to oppose the government and defy their bullshit propaganda.
There are no moral absolutes, everyone should build their own moral framework. You should be able to what ever you like as long as it doesn't hurt other people around and the environment we live in.
You can remove all the contect menu items if you want to. It takes less than 30 seconds. Those items are there to make things easier for you! You must dead lazy....
Without collage you can't achive shit, unless of course your rich enough to hire your own teachers. There are millions (billions?) with talent and ambitions, thats nothing unique
Of course! Do you think I am stupid or something? I am talking about government policy. I mean schools are there to provide education, but if you look at mine it will seems more like a club or something.
Is it really your money? How do I know that you didn't simply rip off your employees. That's the reason you should be paying taxes, because really that money isn't yours. Btw, I don't like the USSR and I don't think a 100% state controlled economy is a good thing.
Why do you need guns? Their only use is to kill, they have to normal uses whatsoever.There are other ways to protect your family and if you want to hunt, get a knife and show what a man you are (no emergency calls and blah blah, if a animal wounds you then you should be fucked, just like the animal would be).
Potential revenue and real loses are two very different things. Whether this happened or not is relevant. You cannot punish someone for something that he was planning to commit. You can only punish someone for copyright infringement if you can prove that other wise that person would have bought your content. How does the artist lose, if someone downloads their music (for free) which the person wouldn't have otherwise bought.
IP laws involve a lot of things, but they are interchanged. In terms of IP, content are ideas. The artists record their music using common ideas and they don't pay society anything for it. If they get a free ride, I get a free ride. If they don't like that, tough!
IMHO, there much more important things to teach your children than copyright infringement. I would rather teach my kids (if I have any - I am 16) about tolerance and protecting your rights from semi-literate conservatives then teaching them that they should try and protect corporate profits. Who cares if Britney Spears loses more money? I think explaining things like the fact that world hunger is a distribution problem not a production one is much more important.
Anyway good luck protecting corporations, I am sure they will help your children become independent people who won't cave in to marketing and so on...
copyright infringement is no where near plagiarism (not talking about laws here). Plagiarism is when you truly rip someone off. Copyright infringement is not necessarily a loss for the producer of the copyrighted content.
You still did not comment on my view that any content that is made uses ideas that belong to humanity in general and no one forces the makers of copyright to pay for them If I am forced to pay for ideas, they might as well pay society back for the ideas that they use (e.g. the english language).
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Even wikipedia states that there is considerable loopholes in the act.
"Another counter-argument is that the USA PATRIOT Act has never been needed to manage demonstrators because the situation is usually handled by local police departments, and on rare occasion by the federal government using non-USA PATRIOT Act federal statutes."
I don't know, what if one day the FBI decides to us the Patriot act against demonstrators? How do you know they won't do that? I personally believe , that you cannot leave things so vague that the government is able to dictate the law on its own terms ( especially in things that are important for upholding democracy like street protests).
Thanks god they did not abolish the FISA. Now that would be a nightmare. But take a look at the restrictions that are weakened (google the act). How do you know that this sort of things won't be applied to you? Reading the act by itself won't give you to many details, but the point remains that FBI now have more power and can easily spy on you (section 215). I mean how far can you trust a government with someone like dubya in power ("you are with or against us" - what sort stupidity is that)? These restriction are why so many people "put up all this fuss" because they don't want the government to spy on them.
What makes you think that if we abolish the Patriot Act , you have to abolish the FISA? I mean where is that written (which section - I haven't read the vast majority of the Patriot act, only the parts that I knew were controversial). So your argument is flawed, the PATRIOT act provides the government with more power by obscuring the law.
The comes the argument about the effectiveness of the Patriot Act. Ok the government has more power to control individuals, how does that solve the root cause of terrorism (problems with American Foreign policy + poverty and unfair globalization - think about the developing world! Why even after all the "solve it all" market reform and so on promoted by IMF africa is in ruins (worse poverty than before) and even nations like China and India are only seeing marginal development). Do you understand that for all the power of your government you can't stop terrorism with military solutions, it has always worked and always will work. Communicate with world, slowly help spread democracy through student exchange programs. Help people liberate themselves. In 10 years the Iraqis would have got rid of Saddam by themselves, now they are only going to get more radical.
Since you know how to read, would you be so kind as to point how the CONFORMIST COWARD ACT limits the FBI and CIA? Especially in sections 214/15.
In general could you provide some links (no forums, blogs and so on) as to where exactly you got your information from? :)
They must have some evidence? Yeah? how do you know? American conservatives surprise me. You guys love talking about how you need your machine guns to protect yourself from the government and bla bla, but when it comes to the real crunch, you guys aren't willing to ignore bullshit rhetoric and limit your government from going over the top ("PATRIOT" ACT - lol). You always support the government.
Do you understand that the only way to win the war against terrorism doesn't involve military intelligence and things like that? You are only as strong as your weakest link. And that link is weak. Think about it, Bin Laden can easily pay of some dumb russian official and get enough material for a nice dirty nuke. I am sure that they won't have issues with getting it to one of your major cities.
If you want to win, you have to support moderate islam and give people in Alah Agbar land less reasons to bomb you. Making the economic aspects of globalization more fair would also be a good idea.
Something like 20K people die from something as simple as the common cold, yet I don't see conservatives rallying around/pressuring the government to fight poverty.
But of course, all my words will be in vain, afterall "I am not with you", so I must be against you.
The government could cooperate with smaller companies allowing them to get involved in capital havey industries. Again, I never said get rid of the corporation, just change them to make them more regulated (self regulation could be used to avoid red-tape - but if they start to go over the limit you just put some really harsh regulation to keep the corporations in check) and accountable for all the damage they (indirect pollution etc).
Because the space industry is in its infant stages, just wait till the industry starts to mature. You can forget innovation, you'll have one or two huge space corporations banding together to create a monopoly. They will also be protected by the government as the USA's two man (identical) parties will get their campaign donations.
Now give me a large industry where this hasn't happened? At a certain stage corporations become inefficient and dangerous.
The reason I don't like corporation is that their owner's aren't responsible for shit. I can live with limited liability when it comes to finance, but I cannot stand when shareholders make millions and at the same time people die from their products. Furthermore, corporations should be made to pay for invisible costs. They should be responsible for all the environmental pollution that they inflict.
You chose a really bad example for the mining industry. What's so risky about it from a shareholders viewpoint? I don't get it? If you conducted proper research and paid of the right governmental official, you're cool.
Yes it is possible to think of them, but they need utopian-ist idealogies to work.
Typical bullshit thinking, Either you are for our capitalist system that will leave you without a job, without social security and with loads of junk products that you never wanted or you're a commie. For all you might think, there is a third way. You can easily build a system similar to Europe where the government sometimes actually tries to protect and help its citizens and they actually regulate corporations.
Its funny that a good friend also lives in Turkey and he doesn't think its so liberal.. But hey, he came there from Moscow, which is FAR from liberal, but you can do whatever you want.
Anyway thanks for the discussion!
OK these are common traits for all religions? Does that make those things any better? Does it change the world and Islamic countries more moderate? Does it stop islamic nation from being the most homophobic cultures on this planet? However, you wan to look at it, Islamic nations are the leaders in terms of limiting civil liberties and choice, period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_laws_of _the_world
Just take a look at the link above and tell me if you notice any pattern (hint: the death penalty for homosexuality and islamic nations). Doesn't that strike you as strange? Forget the past and how other religions used to be, objectively look at islamic nations in the world today. Furthermore, did I ever say that all muslims do not follow humanistic values? Stop putting words in my mouth. I've told you in my second post that I don't believe that islam is evil, all I believe is that islam is easier to manipulate and at present islam is a bigger thread to civil liberties and civilization then other religions.
Nihilists of Russia? Who exactly? Social Revolutionaries at the end of th 19th century? They targeted government officials and Tsarist supporters... I don't approve of such actions, but there is a huge difference between that and modern islamic terrorism. I fail to remember any incidents where the SRs took children hostage and demanded that the Tsar step down. Their focus was bringing down the system and in general they did get normal people involved. Its not like the Tsarist system was nice, the Tsar was a nutcase. His stupidity and inflexibility allowed Lenin and company to come to power. Furthermore, you can't say atheist perfected terrorism as atheism is not an organization or cult. Its personal thing, one atheist might have one view of the world and another would have a different view.
Stalin was idolized to the point where he was a semi-god. A bunch of old farts writing a long boring fairy tale doesn't make a good either. If anything Stalin was real, all the other gods are just imaginary friends. If I wrote a book about invisible pink unicorns ruling the world, it would be just as relevant as the bible is.
I didn't sympathize with them. I thought they were full of shit. I thought "nice going guys, this why you will never get any support from the west - you guys just know how to dig your own grave." I agree with you that the USA is simply a lesser evil and they have their own set of problems (conservative christians and other assholes), but that doesn't make islam any better. Thats the point you fail to grasp.
You right in saying that previously Islam wasn't all that radical (although I don't agree with your statement that atheists involved themselves in terrorism? When? How? Communists don't count, they replaced jesus with Lenin/Stalin and most of the population still believed in god). But that doesn't really matter. What matters is that in the present context muslim radicals are going over the top. The way IRA uses and terrorism and the way muslim terrorist operate are completely different. Islamic terrorists have no consideration for human life and whats worse muslim moderates don't do shit about it. Remember all those dancing Palestinians after 9/11? Come on if radicalism is only a minority thing then why are whole streets full of people rejoicing over the deaths of other people?
Stop being an apologist for Islam. Whether you like it or not Islam promotes sexism, is homophobic, shortsighted and in general isn't very tolerant other people. Other religions could (or have been) be just as bad, but that doesn't make Islam any better. Until Islam allows for things such as Fatwa and does not integrate with the rest of the world (other religions/conclusions are not ok and no exceptions) I will not consider it to be a 'normal' organization.
Dude, you did not define the meaning of the word anti-hero. Mass culture did. Essentially you were brainwahsed into considering the anti-hero to mean 'bad guy'. In reality it means modern day hero, the average everyman. This has nothing to do with 'upish', this sort of thing is taught in high school. So its not 'l337' or anything. I mean you won't start triting the word the as 'teh' just because a lot of people do the same, would you?
And do you really believe that you can get rich fairly? I mean come on. The rich class essentially controls the government to suit their own needs.
Have some understanding for all the have-nots of the world. Isn't that what makes different from animals? That we can have compassion and ignore the free market to make people's lives better. I am not saying that we should all revert to communism, but a stronger social net with and more regulation (e.g. if someone dies due to greed (rushing a medicle product to soon, environmental polution) then shareholders go to prison) would be useful.
Umm, that doesn't really work. Revolution tend to only make things worse and representatives only care about their spongers.
Thank you for complementing on my intelligence! As you might have noticed I never implied that all conflicts I mentioned above justify the belief that all muslims are terrorists. For your information I actually support Palestinians and Chechens in their fight for freedom. My only problem is the methods that they use. For instance, why did the terrorist take children hostage in Beslan (don't forget that Beslan is a Christian state)? Why not take a bunch of military generals hostage? They deserve it a lot more. Same goes for Palestine, why the hell do they attack civilians (I mean two year old children - is that normal). Even in Yugoslavia, considerable amount of serbs were murdered (nowhere near to the number of muslims though). All I was pointing out that some base defects in Islam make it very easy to use it for 'destroying all no believers'. The fact that every conflict involving muslims involves cowardly deliberate attacks on civilians just proves my point.
For your information (I am Ukrainian-Indian), I do know the approximate geographical difference between Kentucky and West virginia. But that's not the point. Most people in 'Checkizstani' tend to have not very good level of education because certain western corporations and the Russian government benefit from keeping corupt politicians in power (think Turkmenistan, if your burger-brain is capable of understanding where this nation is). Secondly, there is nothing happening in West Virginia or Kentucky. Some important things are happening in Chechnya and as literate person you should inform yourself about this area. Anyway, continue like this and you'll keep getting bombed and have you civil liberties restricted by dybya. Enjoy your own stupidity.
Most of the nations mentioned in your post are involved in conflicts due to muslim extremism. So it don't really hold up.
Russia - Chechnya
India - Pakistan + Pak terror groups
Ex-Yugoslavia - muslims involved again
Israel - why should Israel cooperate with Palestine if they keep bombing their citizens?
Your argument against oppression doesn't hold as well. While USA, Russia and NKorea are pretty messed up places they don't compare to places like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Again I am not against Islam as such, I am just pointing out that as such moderate muslims aren't doing shit to legitimiza themsleves as non-terrorist in front of the west (remember the dancing kids in Palestine after 9/11?).
http://www.fidh.org/europ/rapport/2002/che328a.pdf - a nice overview of Russian crimes in Chechnya.
P.S. Before posting, try understanding who/what you are talking about. Confusing Uzbekistan and Chechnya (and making up 'Checkizstan') is pathetic.
Could anyone give a basic introduction to static cachin, wikipedia doesn't seem to have an article on this topic. :)
Now, the satellite pictures from Moscow (Russia) are quite recent, maximum two or so years old. No way are they from 1997.
There are no moral absolutes, everyone should build their own moral framework. You should be able to what ever you like as long as it doesn't hurt other people around and the environment we live in.
You can remove all the contect menu items if you want to. It takes less than 30 seconds. Those items are there to make things easier for you! You must dead lazy....
Without collage you can't achive shit, unless of course your rich enough to hire your own teachers. There are millions (billions?) with talent and ambitions, thats nothing unique
Of course! Do you think I am stupid or something? I am talking about government policy. I mean schools are there to provide education, but if you look at mine it will seems more like a club or something.
What if your prayer offends me?After all, it is public. I mean more people died from chrisianity than from hitler, I don't see how it can't offend...
Why do you need guns? Their only use is to kill, they have to normal uses whatsoever .There are other ways to protect your family and if you want to hunt, get a knife and show what a man you are (no emergency calls and blah blah, if a animal wounds you then you should be fucked, just like the animal would be).
IP laws involve a lot of things, but they are interchanged. In terms of IP, content are ideas. The artists record their music using common ideas and they don't pay society anything for it. If they get a free ride, I get a free ride. If they don't like that, tough!
IMHO, there much more important things to teach your children than copyright infringement. I would rather teach my kids (if I have any - I am 16) about tolerance and protecting your rights from semi-literate conservatives then teaching them that they should try and protect corporate profits. Who cares if Britney Spears loses more money? I think explaining things like the fact that world hunger is a distribution problem not a production one is much more important.
Anyway good luck protecting corporations, I am sure they will help your children become independent people who won't cave in to marketing and so on...
You still did not comment on my view that any content that is made uses ideas that belong to humanity in general and no one forces the makers of copyright to pay for them If I am forced to pay for ideas, they might as well pay society back for the ideas that they use (e.g. the english language).