Also, it's trivially easy to arouse someone's sexual urges, and people who don't want to be tempted with those urges at every turn simply don't want to be constantly exposed to things that have that effect.
AMEN! I was driving down the street yesterday with my kids, and this woman walked by in a pair of SHORTS! In PUBLIC! Needless to say, I found myself aroused in spite of all my efforts to focus on God's glory in that moment of temptation. Any decent society would have stoned her to death for showing her ankle, but her whole LEG was showing. BOTH of them, actually! I now blindfold myself whenever I drive so that I can avoid the sight of these blasphemous sinners.
Speaking of "runs on Linux"... there aren't any spyware programs that run on linux yet, are there? Not that I'm, um, worried about my wife, um, seeing what I download when she's out of the house... just curious...
Even worse, there's absolutely nothing that will stop them, if they so choose.
Actually, we could stop them, easily. As Winston observes in Orwell's 1984, "if the Proles united, they would get rid of Big Brother like a bull shaking flies off of its back". But we won't. We're all afraid of something. When Ian Clarke created Freenet, did we unite in support of him? Mention Freenet on here and see how long it takes somebody to say "nobody's on Freenet except pedophiles. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." If we truly didn't want to be spied on, we wouldn't be, but the truth is that the vast majority of us (even on tin-foil-hat-dot here) do.
Tell me about it - most wives complain about their husbands watching too much football; my wife complains about the amount of time (and money) I spend on computer books. I can't imagine wasting any of my (rarer and rarer) spare time with a book that wasn't about computers.
On DAYS when we can't get our cars started, you agree to COME BY our houses in your CAR and pick us up. You will fully compensate US for any time lost DUE to being late to work.
On every third FRIDAY, you will report to our company CAFETERIA and cook and serve FOOD to us.
When we are low on MONEY, we will stand outside your house with a BLACKJACK, hit you over the HEAD with it, and take your WALLET.
We reserve full pillaging RIGHTS to your wife and ATTRACTIVE children.
You agree that you will not LISTEN to purchased CD.
Seems to me he was doing the RIAA a favor - at least a dozen would-be pirates must have logged on, seen these three movies and thought, "well, hell, this piracy thing may be free, but it's still overpriced. I'm going to blockbuster."
So somebody did get it... at first I thought I was being too oblique, but I figured if nobody got it I'd just be modded down. Looks like I got modded down anyway. Huh huh.
I've always wondered about that myself. Let's say they arrest you and say, "we know you have encrypted files on your computer. This file 'bzImage-2.6.3' is obviously encrypted because it doesn't open when we double-click on it. Give us the key or you'll go to jail." How can you prove that you're not using encryption?
3. Deny and involvement with manager's pet project.
4. Get fired for ever disagreeing with the overlords. Remember, your bosses boss, his boss, and his boss, all the way up, are all managers. They stick up for their own. Not you.
I thought the exact same thing - most people (with the surprisingly common exception of a lot of us computer nerds, myself included) seem to beleive that there's "good censorship" and "bad censorship"; censorship is good when it stops others from seeing something I don't like to see (or don't like my children to see, or wish didn't exist), and bad censorship when it's something I was taught in kindergarten shouldn't be censored.
I once found a collection of severed heads in a bosses desk drawer. All this time, I was thinking that he was a psychopath, but according to this quiz, it was something else.
So... if it turned out that those CD's were manufactured in a slave labor camp overseas, in gross violation of human rights, then would you consider it ok to conflate the two and pirate them?
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"Linus Torvalds to support offshoring of intellectual property development"
Doesn't that then imply that you're not?
Actually, I beleive that if you spend too much time here, you can actually lose that classification.
AMEN! I was driving down the street yesterday with my kids, and this woman walked by in a pair of SHORTS! In PUBLIC! Needless to say, I found myself aroused in spite of all my efforts to focus on God's glory in that moment of temptation. Any decent society would have stoned her to death for showing her ankle, but her whole LEG was showing. BOTH of them, actually! I now blindfold myself whenever I drive so that I can avoid the sight of these blasphemous sinners.
How do you know that his joke wasn't the first step on the road to the gas chambers for Alabamans, then? We won't know for another few years.
I have been taken a look at his grammar, and it's on par with his spelling.
Speaking of "runs on Linux"... there aren't any spyware programs that run on linux yet, are there? Not that I'm, um, worried about my wife, um, seeing what I download when she's out of the house... just curious...
Actually, we could stop them, easily. As Winston observes in Orwell's 1984, "if the Proles united, they would get rid of Big Brother like a bull shaking flies off of its back". But we won't. We're all afraid of something. When Ian Clarke created Freenet, did we unite in support of him? Mention Freenet on here and see how long it takes somebody to say "nobody's on Freenet except pedophiles. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." If we truly didn't want to be spied on, we wouldn't be, but the truth is that the vast majority of us (even on tin-foil-hat-dot here) do.
Tell me about it - most wives complain about their husbands watching too much football; my wife complains about the amount of time (and money) I spend on computer books. I can't imagine wasting any of my (rarer and rarer) spare time with a book that wasn't about computers.
Would you rather live in fear of terrorists, or your government? There's a lot more government than there are terrorists...
Additional items from the EULA:
Seems to me he was doing the RIAA a favor - at least a dozen would-be pirates must have logged on, seen these three movies and thought, "well, hell, this piracy thing may be free, but it's still overpriced. I'm going to blockbuster."
So somebody did get it... at first I thought I was being too oblique, but I figured if nobody got it I'd just be modded down. Looks like I got modded down anyway. Huh huh.
Huh huh... huh huh...
Yeah... hehe... hehe...
I've always wondered about that myself. Let's say they arrest you and say, "we know you have encrypted files on your computer. This file 'bzImage-2.6.3' is obviously encrypted because it doesn't open when we double-click on it. Give us the key or you'll go to jail." How can you prove that you're not using encryption?
I notice the article links back to Slashdot... I wonder is Slashdot is going to get BoingBoing'ed?
4. Get fired for ever disagreeing with the overlords. Remember, your bosses boss, his boss, and his boss, all the way up, are all managers. They stick up for their own. Not you.
I thought the exact same thing - most people (with the surprisingly common exception of a lot of us computer nerds, myself included) seem to beleive that there's "good censorship" and "bad censorship"; censorship is good when it stops others from seeing something I don't like to see (or don't like my children to see, or wish didn't exist), and bad censorship when it's something I was taught in kindergarten shouldn't be censored.
Well if you want "easy", you can just get out of your car and smash the thing with a baseball bat. Then go whatever speed you want.
The internet hasn't been free as in speech for a long time now. If only there were a Freenet...
Reviving a geek's marriage?
I'm curious how they defined "sedition". Here's the dictionary definition:
sedition
n : an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government.
So... did they say that the government were of an "inferior" race and therefore should be overthrown?
I once found a collection of severed heads in a bosses desk drawer. All this time, I was thinking that he was a psychopath, but according to this quiz, it was something else.
Hmmm... actually, my boss scores pretty low, but I scored myself a 70...
So... if it turned out that those CD's were manufactured in a slave labor camp overseas, in gross violation of human rights, then would you consider it ok to conflate the two and pirate them?