This is slashdot; the attribution was redundant. Most of us got it on the second line...
Not everyone read that book in English -- or at all, for that matter.
This is an English language forum, you can hardly complain about quoting English writers in English.
Also, if you are barely literate there is this handy invention called "google" where you can copy and paste quotes in and usually get an idea of the author straightaway.
HA,, they haven't even released information about the shooter and you know it was a right winger.
If he targetted a group of people because of religion or skin colour, he is a racist.. And racists are elitist, anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian,and therefore right wing by definition. This does not mean that all right wingers are racists, any more than that all right wingers have annexed the Sudetenland and invaded Poland.
Obviously, if it was a non-political act by a madman, that's a different issue.
The surest way to make a club desirable is to restrict its membership.
The club for "fanboy purchasers of overpriced consumer electronics" is not a particularly exclsive one. You just need to unplug your brain and hand over your wallet to the man in the shiny shop.
In a capitalist society, why should the creators of original work be the only ones not allowed to make any money from their labour?
Oh, and something like funding a movie through kickstarter is just returning to the concept of patronage, except that you're relying on thousands of people instead of just one.
If you want to criticise people for lack of ethics, you really need to start with the whole basis of capitalism, rather than pick on a few egregious examples. If the trunk is rotten, the fact that a few branches are diseased is irrelevant.
Yes, the problem is that we had the insane idea to grant ownership of information. That was the start of it. All of this is fallout from that original sin of censorship, greed, and falsification.
Love of money is the root of all evil. All the problems in the world stem back to that original sin of believing that you can grant ownership of property to someone.
Weird isn't it? The Porn industry is the only one that doesn't seem to attempt to write laws, but they're very quick to exploit them. Makes you wonder if Paramount Pictures is a subsidiary of Naughty America Inc or something, and the content producers are all owned by pornographers.
The porn industry has declined in profitability dramatically since the 1990s. Obviously this has nothing to do with people pirating porn, no doubt we're just watching less of it.
Can we please just vote for "No President" for the next four years?
Belgium had between June 2010 and November 2011 no functioning central government (only a managing administration without own majority in the parliament) - and the country still functioned. So yes, "no president" could be an interesting and working way of politicking.
Belgium doesn't have a vast military-industrial complex ready to spread "freedom and democracy" at the barrel of a gun if left unchecked.
Yes he did make a threat to kill as I read the tweet and told the athlete to report it to the police.
*Gasp* you mean you interfered with his inalienable right to free speech? The horror! They'll be executing people for wearing Union Jack underpants next.
If that were illegal, half of slashdot would be in prison. You wouldn't think aliterates would be on slashdot (obviously there are no illiterates here, but it seems few have ever finished reading a book more advanced than Cat in the Hat).
They've all managed to "read" Nineteen Eighty Four though, where by "read" of course I mean "watch on TV".
According to the Guardian, another (since deleted) tweet threatened Daley with drowning, but the law doesn't require threats of violence for an arrest to be made.
gee, ya think that maybe the death threat itself is what got the cops involved? just possibly?
Yeah, but that's just the evil left wing Guardian. I bet the Daily Fail has a more US-friendly spin on this Orwellian nightmare of political correctness gone mad.
Hitler got an Enabling Act passed to give him absolute power in the event of a minor emergency. He burned down the Reichstag and the rest is history.
Blair copied it.
I must have been in semi-coma for the last fifteen years because I really can't remember the bit abut the Houses of Parliament burning down and Blair emerging as the Fuhrer.
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This is slashdot; the attribution was redundant. Most of us got it on the second line...
Not everyone read that book in English -- or at all, for that matter.
This is an English language forum, you can hardly complain about quoting English writers in English.
Also, if you are barely literate there is this handy invention called "google" where you can copy and paste quotes in and usually get an idea of the author straightaway.
HA,, they haven't even released information about the shooter and you know it was a right winger.
If he targetted a group of people because of religion or skin colour, he is a racist.. And racists are elitist, anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian,and therefore right wing by definition. This does not mean that all right wingers are racists, any more than that all right wingers have annexed the Sudetenland and invaded Poland.
Obviously, if it was a non-political act by a madman, that's a different issue.
Well, if the I you mean a charismatic CEO/Founder with a cult following.
You mean Bill Gates of course.
At least Bill Gates doesn't go around taking handicapped parking spaces.
Being able to interact with the system with your finger - or fingers - is a big shift.
Yes, a big shift backwards into the land of Fisher Price.
The surest way to make a club desirable is to restrict its membership.
The club for "fanboy purchasers of overpriced consumer electronics" is not a particularly exclsive one. You just need to unplug your brain and hand over your wallet to the man in the shiny shop.
On the other hand Apple's marketing has been rather catchy
One person's "catchy" is another person's "twee, smug, cloying, self-satisfied pseudo-hipster brainwank".
Dust. You don't want martian dust stirred up by the rockets covering all of the mechanics once you have landed.
Couldn't they just pack a hoover and some feather dusters to cope with the dust menace?
If one of them catches and tries to eat it, it will be a case of the cat killing Curiosity.
* rimshot *
When I go $home, it's as if I'd never left.
So why bother leaving in the first place?
In a capitalist society, why should the creators of original work be the only ones not allowed to make any money from their labour?
Oh, and something like funding a movie through kickstarter is just returning to the concept of patronage, except that you're relying on thousands of people instead of just one.
You forgot to sign your post:
--Smug Slashdotter who is 35 years old but emotionally about 15
I don't think he forgto, more that he assumed it would be redundant statement of the entirely bleeding obvious.
If everyone knows everyone has porn, it ceases to be something you can use against anyone.
No, the point is that NOT everyone has porn. You (and I) may find it hard to believe, but a lot of people really do not like porn at all.
I'm female, you know? I have never read Fifty Shades of Grey nor do I plan to, nor do I like Twilight, either.
Christ, next you'll be saying you don't like pink puppy dogs or something.
submitted anonymously because I don't want anybody to see I wrote this.. especially the you-know-who
Talk about undermining your whole point.
I wouldn't mind. Everyone knows I'm a regular, old perv, it'd just earn me some street-cred.
How about if the titles read out in court included "Anal Schoolboys 3", "Joey the Goat Fucker" and "2 grannies, 1 Goatse"?
If you want to criticise people for lack of ethics, you really need to start with the whole basis of capitalism, rather than pick on a few egregious examples. If the trunk is rotten, the fact that a few branches are diseased is irrelevant.
Yes, the problem is that we had the insane idea to grant ownership of information. That was the start of it. All of this is fallout from that original sin of censorship, greed, and falsification.
Love of money is the root of all evil. All the problems in the world stem back to that original sin of believing that you can grant ownership of property to someone.
Weird isn't it? The Porn industry is the only one that doesn't seem to attempt to write laws, but they're very quick to exploit them. Makes you wonder if Paramount Pictures is a subsidiary of Naughty America Inc or something, and the content producers are all owned by pornographers.
The porn industry has declined in profitability dramatically since the 1990s. Obviously this has nothing to do with people pirating porn, no doubt we're just watching less of it.
Can we please just vote for "No President" for the next four years?
Belgium had between June 2010 and November 2011 no functioning central government (only a managing administration without own majority in the parliament) - and the country still functioned. So yes, "no president" could be an interesting and working way of politicking.
Belgium doesn't have a vast military-industrial complex ready to spread "freedom and democracy" at the barrel of a gun if left unchecked.
Yes he did make a threat to kill as I read the tweet and told the athlete to report it to the police.
*Gasp* you mean you interfered with his inalienable right to free speech? The horror! They'll be executing people for wearing Union Jack underpants next.
If that were illegal, half of slashdot would be in prison. You wouldn't think aliterates would be on slashdot (obviously there are no illiterates here, but it seems few have ever finished reading a book more advanced than Cat in the Hat).
They've all managed to "read" Nineteen Eighty Four though, where by "read" of course I mean "watch on TV".
Fucking hell. I don't know whether I'm proud or ashamed that in America it's not illegal to be an asshole.
. It's a bit like George W Bush finally proving that, indeed, anyone can become President.
exactly.
According to the Guardian, another (since deleted) tweet threatened Daley with drowning, but the law doesn't require threats of violence for an arrest to be made.
gee, ya think that maybe the death threat itself is what got the cops involved? just possibly?
Yeah, but that's just the evil left wing Guardian. I bet the Daily Fail has a more US-friendly spin on this Orwellian nightmare of political correctness gone mad.
Also, doesn't the indecent or obscene part effectively and unambiguously outlaw basically any form of cybersex?
You need to look at the second paragraph of the act:
A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—
So two lovers having cybersex wouldn't be guilty since they aren't trying to annoy each other.
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
Hitler got an Enabling Act passed to give him absolute power in the event of a minor emergency. He burned down the Reichstag and the rest is history.
Blair copied it.
I must have been in semi-coma for the last fifteen years because I really can't remember the bit abut the Houses of Parliament burning down and Blair emerging as the Fuhrer.