But let's keep arguing about how Islamist terrorist videos deserve hosting space on a private website just because we don't like Joe Lieberman (nobody likes him, so what?).
Who said I did or did not like Joe Lieberman? I don't really know enough about Joe Lieberman to determine whether or not I like him.
A privately-owned website can, of course, do whatever they want. Google owns YouTube and they get exclusive say over what does and does not appear on YouTube.
But if Google is extolling the virtues of not being evil, well, I believe that freedom of speech is a fundamental freedom and those that would quash it are, by definition, being evil.
I'm not quite sure I understand the tactic here. Best Buy and Circuit City - last I remember - don't sell Macintosh PCs or Linux/UNIX PCs. Therefore, the person would be in the store to shop for PC's loaded with Windows.
They're not extolling the virtues of Windows, they're extolling the virtues of Windows Vista. Many people are convinced that Vista sucks and want to stick with XP. Microsoft doesn't want that to happen.
Retail shops try to screw you with that stuff. I've had them try and sell me warranties on RAM that comes with a lifetime manufacturers warranty, and hard drives that come with a 3 year manufacturers warranty, but they pitch a less comprehensive warranty for a decent fee.
Actually it sort of depends on what it is. Buy a pair of headphones from Radio Shack and the warranty they'll sell you pretty much gives you free replacements for 3 years. It's $20, but well worth for it those who tear through headphones like there's no tomorrow.
Also, I like Sprint's service plan for cellphones, which is like $7/month ($84/year) per phone. If your phone breaks, gets lost or stolen, even if if you drop it in the toilet, they'll give you a new (reconditioned) phone for the cost of the deductible, which is like $50. A very good deal for someone with a $300 or more cellphone who get a new one about once a year (most people).
All of the information you ever wanted to know about making bombs -- from low-order to high-order explosives and even nuclear devices can found at any collegiate library.
Not justifying the abortion clinic attacks, just suggesting that the actions were at least targeted at preventing what they consider a wrong, while the terrorists we are fighting are NOT targeted at preventing a wrong (I'd suggest that their attacks on our troops aren't terrorism, just asymmetrical warfare, our troops are a valid military target, for that reason I'm hard pressed to classify the hit on the Pentagon as a terrorist attack since it's a military target)... they may have a goal that they believe in, but their methodology is simply evil.
Actually, yes, the terrorists are preventing a wrong, at least in their own minds.
In their minds, we, the United States, along with our allies, are occupying their Holy Lands of Jerusalem and the surrounding area. From what they believe, Israel is a puppet of the U.S. government. To some extent, that might actually be true -- we have, in fact, supplied and trained their military, and we did lobby for the creation and international recognition of Israel as an indepdendent state following World War II.
As far as these Islamic terrorists are concerned, we are enemies of their God, no different than how the abortion doctors are viewed as enemies of YOUR God.
It is all the same, if you'd sit back and look at it objectively.
I agree with you and my question for those who might disagree with you is this:
How is this different from what Google did in China at the behest of the Chinese government?
"Oh w-w-w-ait! Th-th-th-that's different!"
Sorry. No, it's not.
Censorship is censorship. Just because you don't agree with something someone says doesn't make it not censorship to silence them and it doesn't make it right.
Yeah, right... I wonder if they are going to ban christian terrorist videos - bombing family planning clinics, killing doctors, gruesome abortion footage, etc.
Oh, no, of course not! Those acts are committed in the name of GOD! They wouldn't want to go against the Holy Living GOD!
According to whose ethics? The classic example being abortion -- some feel that abortion is not wrong, others feel abortion is wrong. And please no one start a debate about abortion -- it's a very polarizing subject (and irrelevant to the topic at hand). But that's why it's such a good example.
I'm sorry, but the law cannot be about 'right' and 'wrong'. These are relative terms that mean different things to different people.
At work we have a lot of Japanese partners on site. When I brought my Macbook Pro into a meeting one day, they all gathered around it asking all kinds of questions. Maybe it was just curiosity but they really seemed interested.
Well, like I said, they are gadget freaks. That very much includes laptops.
Two facts I know about Japanese culture, having worked with Japanese people from Japan, personally:
1) In general, the Japanese mobile market has a wider availability of much more bleeding edge technology than just about anywhere else in the world. This is because the Japanese, in general, are gadget freaks. Imagine if Joe Sixpack in America were as much of a gadget freak as your typical Slashdot crowd, and now you will instantly understand why Japanese tech is light years ahead of anything available in the West, including iPhone.
2) Sorry to say guys, but the Japanese love Windows and Microsoft. Their very favorite application is Microsoft Excel. So if it ain't Windows, in general, they don't buy it.
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Ekiga doesn't run well on Windows, though. At least not yet.
Yeah, I hear that program really Excels. Why, people are just dying to get Access to it! Imagine the Power....Point....errr...nevermind.
Or, they could pick a different number. They could do OS-9...errrr...uhhhh...OS/2, welllll...noooo....
uhhhh.... maybe they could think circular! Like OS/360! Yeah! 360 degrees of OS fun! Oh, wait was that the Nazgul again?
So I take it you've never actually seen HP-UX?
Uh, try the Book of Revelations. Also, I hear some cat named Nostradamus wrote stuff in the 12th century or something like that.
you weren't trolled as bad as fyodor
I'm not sure anyone has been trolled as bad fyodor.
If you spend more time on Slashdot than with your newlywed wife, I'd say you probably need some serious counseling. Like, right now.
Oh, and in case you missed it, Slashdot did, at one time have a story about ponies. ;) OMG PONIES!!!!
But he never explicitly forbid 2
There 10 types of people in this world. Those understand binary, and those who do not.
But let's keep arguing about how Islamist terrorist videos deserve hosting space on a private website just because we don't like Joe Lieberman (nobody likes him, so what?).
Who said I did or did not like Joe Lieberman? I don't really know enough about Joe Lieberman to determine whether or not I like him.
A privately-owned website can, of course, do whatever they want. Google owns YouTube and they get exclusive say over what does and does not appear on YouTube.
But if Google is extolling the virtues of not being evil, well, I believe that freedom of speech is a fundamental freedom and those that would quash it are, by definition, being evil.
I'm not quite sure I understand the tactic here. Best Buy and Circuit City - last I remember - don't sell Macintosh PCs or Linux/UNIX PCs. Therefore, the person would be in the store to shop for PC's loaded with Windows.
They're not extolling the virtues of Windows, they're extolling the virtues of Windows Vista. Many people are convinced that Vista sucks and want to stick with XP. Microsoft doesn't want that to happen.
Retail shops try to screw you with that stuff. I've had them try and sell me warranties on RAM that comes with a lifetime manufacturers warranty, and hard drives that come with a 3 year manufacturers warranty, but they pitch a less comprehensive warranty for a decent fee.
Actually it sort of depends on what it is. Buy a pair of headphones from Radio Shack and the warranty they'll sell you pretty much gives you free replacements for 3 years. It's $20, but well worth for it those who tear through headphones like there's no tomorrow.
Also, I like Sprint's service plan for cellphones, which is like $7/month ($84/year) per phone. If your phone breaks, gets lost or stolen, even if if you drop it in the toilet, they'll give you a new (reconditioned) phone for the cost of the deductible, which is like $50. A very good deal for someone with a $300 or more cellphone who get a new one about once a year (most people).
Try reading any of the Templar novels by Jack Whyte. Also recommended is The Religion by Tim Willocks.
Maybe some people don't look at the world this way, but clearly Mssrs. Whyte and Willocks do. :)
Why?
All of the information you ever wanted to know about making bombs -- from low-order to high-order explosives and even nuclear devices can found at any collegiate library.
Not justifying the abortion clinic attacks, just suggesting that the actions were at least targeted at preventing what they consider a wrong, while the terrorists we are fighting are NOT targeted at preventing a wrong (I'd suggest that their attacks on our troops aren't terrorism, just asymmetrical warfare, our troops are a valid military target, for that reason I'm hard pressed to classify the hit on the Pentagon as a terrorist attack since it's a military target)... they may have a goal that they believe in, but their methodology is simply evil.
Actually, yes, the terrorists are preventing a wrong, at least in their own minds.
In their minds, we, the United States, along with our allies, are occupying their Holy Lands of Jerusalem and the surrounding area. From what they believe, Israel is a puppet of the U.S. government. To some extent, that might actually be true -- we have, in fact, supplied and trained their military, and we did lobby for the creation and international recognition of Israel as an indepdendent state following World War II.
As far as these Islamic terrorists are concerned, we are enemies of their God, no different than how the abortion doctors are viewed as enemies of YOUR God.
It is all the same, if you'd sit back and look at it objectively.
I agree with you and my question for those who might disagree with you is this:
How is this different from what Google did in China at the behest of the Chinese government?
"Oh w-w-w-ait! Th-th-th-that's different!"
Sorry. No, it's not.
Censorship is censorship. Just because you don't agree with something someone says doesn't make it not censorship to silence them and it doesn't make it right.
(that is if there weren't already so many out there)
Yeah, right... I wonder if they are going to ban christian terrorist videos - bombing family planning clinics, killing doctors, gruesome abortion footage, etc.
Oh, no, of course not! Those acts are committed in the name of GOD! They wouldn't want to go against the Holy Living GOD!
*ack* *gag* *spit*
Ick. That tasted bad.
No, they'll just be using their routers. Packets for terrorist training videos, per RFC 3514, will have their evil bit set.
No, you're not wrong. 'Privacy mode' just sets all those flags in one fell swoop.
Privacy Mode is such a non-story, it's not even funny. I could have written an extension to do just this in about five minutes.
Of course they don't want to hire you then.
Huh. Given some people I've met in my professional career, I'd swear the complete opposite was true! ;)
You don't think this is my real name do you?
No, this is the name of my mortal enemy
Fscker! Don't think can't I find out your REAL name!
-- Colin Smith
is it right or wrong?
According to whose ethics? The classic example being abortion -- some feel that abortion is not wrong, others feel abortion is wrong. And please no one start a debate about abortion -- it's a very polarizing subject (and irrelevant to the topic at hand). But that's why it's such a good example.
I'm sorry, but the law cannot be about 'right' and 'wrong'. These are relative terms that mean different things to different people.
You can't necessarily sue for anything. An attorney can even be liable for bringing a frivolous case to court.
And, in fact, attorneys can and have been disbarred from bringing frivolous claims to court.
At work we have a lot of Japanese partners on site. When I brought my Macbook Pro into a meeting one day, they all gathered around it asking all kinds of questions. Maybe it was just curiosity but they really seemed interested.
Well, like I said, they are gadget freaks. That very much includes laptops.
Two facts I know about Japanese culture, having worked with Japanese people from Japan, personally:
1) In general, the Japanese mobile market has a wider availability of much more bleeding edge technology than just about anywhere else in the world. This is because the Japanese, in general, are gadget freaks. Imagine if Joe Sixpack in America were as much of a gadget freak as your typical Slashdot crowd, and now you will instantly understand why Japanese tech is light years ahead of anything available in the West, including iPhone.
2) Sorry to say guys, but the Japanese love Windows and Microsoft. Their very favorite application is Microsoft Excel. So if it ain't Windows, in general, they don't buy it.