"So most likely the actual pirate here signed up for an ISP using her home address and name."
I was watching a show on pirates the other night. I just dont know if someone living in a hut in southeast asia would even have an ISP let alone get hold of someones address in the US to sign up to it with.
Also, judging by the way the dude who was making the show had to bail out of the village when the pirates decided they didnt want him there anymore i dont think that some whitebread US attorney would be dropping by to hand over a subpoena either.
Pirates kill about 90 people a year, they raid many vessels, they dont speak much english.
In conclusion, i am quite confused as to what a pirate would possibly be doing living in the US giving out fake addresses to avoid being sued for copyright infringement by a CD/Cassette distribution trade association.
It's nice that you finally decided organise your thoughts into a readable form.
A. You have no proof that Al Jazeera celebrates Bin Laden other than they report on him and you dont like that.
B. Glossing over the death of innocents? Again total and utter dishonesty, every single mass media outlet has done the same, don't ever pretend that is exclusive to Al Jazeera. Of course the most sickening thing is only about a year ago when they where reporting on the casualties the argument coming from you twats was "oh there hurting the war effort by singling in on the casualties to much", it's really quite sick how you can simply be so dishonest.
C. You believe that FOX, CNN, or the AP are in anyway reliable, decent media, an idea that is simply beyond a joke. If AJ are Bin Ladens mouth piece then those three are your administrations, which is just as bad. The BBC really should not be lumped in there either, because they are actually good.
D. You used the Bali nightclub bombing to further your argument, you then lied about the events after, your dishonesty is astounding.
E. In one breath you say its good that you can hear 'the otherside' in the next you state they are doing evil.
Now perhaps, just perhaps as a news outlet, they are reporting on things that are oh i dont know, relevant to their region? Maybe? Perhaps if 50 or 60% of middle easterners admire Bin Laden the that is something that a media outlet in the region is going to explore?
No you think they should just ignore their own issues and their own societies ideas and pump FOX NEWS WAR MASTER 2000 in because that is good solid unbiased non-evil media. Yeah right.
Oh dear, what the fuck was that? Typical muddled and confused reply from a frothing at the mouth RARA American, you have taken my post, which was about Al Jazeera just being a typical media outlet and turned it into some sort of bizzaro world rant, are you really that unable to think of anything except 'America vs The World'.
Nobody said anything about 'moral relatavism' i was talking about your claim that Al Jazeer are somehow this evil news outlet, perhaps they are not, perhaps it's you who are wrong, (that is rhetorical, you are indeed wrong).
Straighten your thoughts out, organise your facts and try again.
You didn't argue against a single point of my post, you simply broke out into a rant full of loaded scenarios, it's so bloody typical of you bastards you are so incredibly dishonest.
"You imply that you could just swap Al Jazeera for Fox (along with their audiences"
Typical, extending my argument then arguing against that, in fact your a twit.
I hear your type calling for the 'glassing' of the middle east all the bloody time, it is exactly the same as calling for 'death to the infidels'.
Dont talk to me about the Bali nightclub, whore. There was nobody 'dancing in the streets', nice moral fibre you have there making shit up to force your point.
You show your hypocrisy when you say you embrace freedom of speech, just not when you dont like it.
The rest has nothing to do with Al Jazeera, just your muddled ranting about all sorts of issues and countries rolled into one.
The worst thing of your entire rant is that the only point of argument that you offer is that Al Jazeer is bad because they treat Osama Bin Laden like a celebrity, that you an American living with the likes of Fox news and CNN, which do *exactly the same thing* can say that without throwing up shows how far from having any honesty you have.
Ever notice that the 'side' who are most afraid of the terrorists 'Oh protect me big government, do anything you want, oh please please please protect my life from those evil terrorists' have spent the last 20 years building this idea that *they* are rugged and manly and that those 'liberals' are some weak limp wristed pansies.
Like any pussy they talk big when there is no danger, but when it comes to the crunch where are they? Hiding behind their 'daddy'
Their facade is cracking, they are true cowards, and it's plain as day.
Replace the name 'Al Jazeera' with Fox News or CNN and your post is still perfectly valid, from an outsiders point of view they are exactly the same, with various whorish traits and blatent propoganda.
Perhaps you just dont like seeing things contrary to your view of the world.
"A network that treats the release of a new Bin Laden tape like some sort of surprise Super Bowl isn't entirely helping matters."
I'm not sure are you talking about the US Media or Al Jazeera?
"Not all flavors are rational or would even tolerate Al Jazeera's existence on soil they would rule, given the chance."
So they shouldn't give US interests any airtime? Being that the US is just itching to show it's commitment to 'Freedom'(tm) by doing whatever it can up to throwing around the idea of bombing Al Jazeera headquarters to silence them.
A read of there website shows a typical media outlet, you just dont like it because they hold there pro arab bias instead of your pro US bias, perhaps your wrong and their right? How would you know?
Yes, you would think that if CmdrTaco and co are going to whore themselves and the site out like this they could at least organise special prices and deals for their readers.
Then i guess its just easier to take the advertisers money and do nothing.
I just love the fanboys rushing out of the woodwork whenever there is *another* bloody HUGE hole found in windows.
"Oh it could happen to any OS", but doesn't "You should be using a virtual machine to browse the internet anyway", windows is *so* easy to use. "It's only because Windows is popular", broken, braindead 'features' being exploited has something to do popularity "All software is buggy", some software is much worse than others it would appear
In a few months we will be hearing from the same people how much better Windows is now all the probelms are fixed will and things like this will never happen again, that those 'lunix zealots just will never get over it, its not 1998 anymore l00Z3R$", that Windows is just as secure as anything, and on and on it goes...
I hope your not insinuating that Safari is vastly superior in any way to Konqueror. Using both ~6-8 hours a day makes me really really hope that is not what you're saying...
I have mod points and if that *is* what you're saying perhaps i should have hit you with -1 bloody spacecadet.
Now i will hit submit and enjoy looking at that freakin' little spinning coloured wheel as this OS locks up while Safari thinks about doing as it's told.
"People need privacy when they are doing things wrong, period."
So you have sex in public? Have all of your passwords, pin numbers and secrets hosted on a public website? Do your family and coworkers know the last time you visted a porn site or masturbated? Give me your address, you wont mind if i come over and rummage through your house, i suppose you dont have curtains and blinds on your windows either?
Yes the idea of privacy (keeping wankers like you the fuck out of my business) is just sooo quaint. Or maybe, just maybe, your just a bit retarded in your mental capacity, unable to fully think through what you are saying. I accept that inevitably, stupid people like you are going to try and force your idiocy upon everyone. Then normal, moderate people like me and the majority of other people here are going to suffer trying to stop you.
Oh yes, and nearly everyone votes where i live as it is compulsory and we still have privacy, we are also half way to having a repressive government, so you're wrong there as well.
Your just a new breed of busybody with a fetish for knowing everybody elses secrets, of course you guard yourself just as closely as everyone else despite your mindless rhetoric, prove me wrong, post your details or be known as a pathetic hypocrite.
"Third, do you know his reason was "emotional trauma" and not for instance real economic impacts "
Ahh refreshing, I always know i'm on an american website when an argument for economics is given more importance than mental and physical well being.
I am currently experiencing 'economic trauma' and much prefer it to the 'emotional trauma' i experienced 5 months ago when i was diagnosed with a heart condition and placed on a cocktail of drugs.
Not having a go at you, it just shouldn't be neccassary to make an economic argument to empathise with someone who has been wronged.
"If your plan is to indoctrinate the developing nations and poorer people through software - then you would be better off not bothering."
I dont think the recipients of the laptops would think so.
It's Apple & inevitably Microsoft who seek to do the indoctrination here, the project simply seeks to offer a tool free from the taint of eulas and legalese, why is that such a hard idea to grasp?
Shackling them to foreign proprietory tools would be imperialism in it's truest sense.
"still widely considered the most user-friendly operating system on the market today"
5-10% of the computing world constitutes widely considered? Interesting...
(Oh thats right everyone else is just mindless)
I have an imac, it's not that special, i just dont understand the fanaticism about macs around here.
My wife had extensive trouble learning to use OSX at a level that she can use windows, i too wrestled with it for a few months, it's no easier to learn than any other recent OS i've used.
They are laptops designed for low income and poor areas. The only complaint people have with Linux (besides the mindlessly typical 'its not what i'm used toooo' whines) is that it doesn't support 100% of hardware in existance. That is not a problem here.
Tried and true? OSX has 5-10% of market share, if it was oh so *dazzling* wouldn't it be making serious inroads by now? Oh yes those 'mindless masses' dont know what's good for them, that's the usual rebuttal for that argument isn't it?
And if OSX why not XP? Under the logic that is flowing here wouldn't giving them the mainstream OS would serve far them far better than a tiny niche OS that supports 0.1% of the hardware in the world?
Oh yes i *have* an imac and its no better or worse than my PC with KDE & w2k so spare me the retarded macs are more usuable because i say so drek.
Bring on the boringly familiar mac zealot responses.
Don't buy DRM'd CDs as they don't allow you to exercise fair-use.
If 'fair use' is a natural right then any entity that attempts to crush that is criminal.
Your attitude is lazy, here's some fun with it; don't like not being able to sit up the front of the bus, then dont ride on the bus.
Don't like the cancer from the toxic waste dump in your town, then leave.
Don't like to have the police perform secret searches on your home, don't buy a home, dont move into that town, state, country, etc.
Facile examples but they are along the same line of thinking. If an entity is actively stamping on peoples natural rights then that entities behaviour can be forcefully stopped by society, through the power of government, one of the things that government is supposed to exist for.
There seems to be some strange thought pattern here that nobody must let the idea even cross their mind that a corporations' behaviour may be wrong and that it is ok to put a stop to it through Government. Somehow a fairly large group of people have decided that corporations should have less responsibility to a country than the citizens that it is supposed to benefit do. That the only thing that lowly citizens should be 'allowed' to do is *absolutely nothing* (which is exactly what a 'boycott' is, total and utter inaction).
Undoubtably this thought process is a mutation of various anti-communist, anti-socialist and pro facist (in the true sense) ideologies coming to their logical end..
Your argument is also objectively pro virus/spyware and malware. Using your argument any virus or malware author, to be safe from prosecution simply has to show some form of EULA, something that has been joked about here often but dismissed as absurd. (You probably didn't make that connection in your rush to promote your ideology).
--Awaiting the flurry of half thought out responses misinterpreting my words.
Ack i thought you were going to have a reasonable discourse, the only thing i see here is you writing for the mods, this article is off the front page now you won't be modded up and appealing to the mods with your hollow touchy feely garbage isn't going to get you anywhere.
Your naivety is astounding, our entire defense strategy is based around an incursion from our nothern neighbour and to hold off any incursion until the US arrives. Its been public knowledge for the last 20 years how underequiped our defense forces are, we simply can't afford a large standing army.
I was speaking specifically of Indonesia, if you think that Indonesia as a country 'likes' Australia your again more than a little naive, if you forget we did lead a force to kick them out of East Timor 6 years ago. Australia is viewed as an outsider in SE Asia, your comment about Australia being better friends,etc,etc...doesn't match up to reality, there are more countries in Asia than Japan and China, your displaying your own ignorance while trying to find mine.
It's not my fault if reality is 'depressing' to you, i'm not anxious about anything, i understand how things are, things are the way they have always been, there is nothing special about this time that means we are immune from the perils humanity has always faced, whether it be from despotic governments here or next door.
The rest of your comment is more than a little patronising, you somehow have derived any entirely fictional character from my post but in reality dont know anything about me, what race i am where i'm from or where i've been, your just hoping the mods will found your drek insightful without thinking about it.
You sound like a reasonable person, yeah i know of the statistics they show Australia 'never' hd a gun problem, did you look at that graph 75% of all gun deaths are suicidies.
Do you inderstand that the majority of guns that existed in Australia in 1995 are still in the same place today? That only 750,000 guns where handed in when estimates are that there were between 2.5 and 5 million guns in this country in 1992.
For security of couse having an armed population increases our security, we are an island nation, in a part of the the world that isn't very friendly to us. Our armed forces have enough ammunition for three days of fullscale combat, a joke. The only protection we have is the weapons in peoples homes and garages (please dont deny the power of an insurgency after an invasion).
Dont be so quick to dismiss the fact that the same government, the same indiviuals, that bulldozed the gun control laws through has now implemented a police state, in every sense of the word.
Let me preface this by saying i dont own a gun and have never owned one, however.
" Unlike Americans, we don't believe guns are useful just because it's a gun. We acknowledge it's a lethal weapon which must be used with care. It is a priveledge, not a right."
Maybe you do but there is a fuckload of people who dont:
"GCA figures indicate there are over 300,000 illegal weapons still held in Australia -- representing a massive threat to the community. Gun Lobby estimates (as expressed by the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia in 1997 in their organ 'The Shooter's Journal') suggest that number could be closer to 1.3 million guns -- many presumably held by self-proclaimed 'law-abiding' shooters," Mr Marshall said.
I would say that is low, there is statistics from the early nineties to say that there was over 5 million guns in Aus in 1992, only ~750,000 were handed in.
Also please only speak for yourself mate, i know a *hell* of a lot of people who understand that it is *exactly* the same government, down to the same people who ripped the guns out of respectful citizens hands in 1996 that is now driving this country full steam ahead into an authoritarian police state, Americas' laws are childplay compared to what were passed here after 9/11, and the government (both sides) are not finished by a looong shot. Your kidding yourself if you look to the highcourt for help, (lol you looking to Queensland for help? Home of the recently departed emporer Bjelke Peterson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen) the courts showed whose side they are on years ago:
"Figures released by the Federal Opposition, and taken from annual
reports of the United States and Australian governments, show that in
the financial year ending in June 2001, more than 2150 warrants were
issued for phone taps in Australia, but only 1490 in the US. Taking into
account the population difference 284 million compared to just over 19
million Australias rate of phone interception was 20 times that of
the US."
Also just wondering if you have been in the western suburbs of Sydney lately? No shortage of hardware there, of course all in the hands of lebanese, vietnamese and anglo (bikie) gangs (as is the inevitable outcome of gun laws brought into a country that was (is) absolutely full of weapons).
I also know quite a few people who would never hand over their weapons no matter what laws the government passed. All from the old school, people who were alive and saw what 'civilised' governments will do to their citizens under the guise of 'national security', it seems the younger generation was never taught. Do you actually think that any future government will voluntarily repeal the last 40 years and layers and layers of legislation, regulations and expansion?
Don't be so sure about the 'peaceful doe' nature of your countrymen, many many Australians have an aversion to pomp, sentimentality and tearful patriotism but also have a deep seated distrust in their government.
Plus you seriously misrepresented the gun laws it's both semiautomatics and automatics that are unobtainable, the only weapon you can reasonably purchase now are some bolt action rifles after showing purpose, also if you own one you give police the power of entry into your home whenever they like, without a warrant (i guess a moot point these days).
I'll leave you with two quotes;
"I don't pretend for a moment that this decision can prevent the recurrence of tragedies in the future...". -- Prime Minister John Howard, The Australian, 11th May 1996, page 1
"It'll take a massacre in Tasmania before we get national gun laws." -- NSW Premier Barry Unsworth 1987
I live in Australia and have heard of most of the things on that list through our mainstream media.
I hardly think you can blame Europe or whatever for your own countries ignorant & impotent media coverage of the world.
Not to mention that for the last 40 years the American propoganda machine (hollywood & media) have been screaming to the western world that America is the 'leader of the free world' the 'freest and fairest country in the world' and 'better than your countries', etc,etc (of course before the internet most of the people i know thought that was just a fabricated attitude and the actual citizens of America would be more pragmatic about their position in the world, fuck were we wrong). So when the self proclaimed leader, the 'god of all countries', starts doing fucked up shit, then yeah people will talk about it.
Btw nice tactic associating the idea of press cencorship with socialism and European countries without actually saying it, learn that from your current political administration? The press is just as free to report on the government in France as it is in Australia, the US, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, Sweden and most of the other western coutries in the world.
It saddens me that you actually seem to believe the words you speak, the pooor US gets bullied so much in the big bad world, boohoo. Seriously, can't you see why the things are the way they are? If someone continually carries on about how they are the greatest person in the world, better than everyone else and makes disturbingly ignorant arguments about other people and why he is better than them, normal people will think that person is a wanker. See what i'm getting at? That person is the US for the last 40 years.
This line is probably the best:
"your country could be killing hundreds of innocents right now and no one would no"
You mean no one in the US right, because the US media wont give it air time? Please dont take this the wrong way but get it through your thick bloody head that there is people outside the US that *will* know, and that it's not other countries fault if *your* insipid whorish media won't give world news more air time.
Your entire argument is that because *you* don't hear about world issues that means every other country must be living under some jackboot of oppression. I should feel annoyed at such stupidity, but i've come to accept it as just typical American IgnoranceTM.
Slashdot Mirror
"So most likely the actual pirate here signed up for an ISP using her home address and name."
I was watching a show on pirates the other night. I just dont know if someone living in a hut in southeast asia would even have an ISP let alone get hold of someones address in the US to sign up to it with.
Also, judging by the way the dude who was making the show had to bail out of the village when the pirates decided they didnt want him there anymore i dont think that some whitebread US attorney would be dropping by to hand over a subpoena either.
Pirates kill about 90 people a year, they raid many vessels, they dont speak much english.
In conclusion, i am quite confused as to what a pirate would possibly be doing living in the US giving out fake addresses to avoid being sued for copyright infringement by a CD/Cassette distribution trade association.
The End.
It's nice that you finally decided organise your thoughts into a readable form.
A. You have no proof that Al Jazeera celebrates Bin Laden other than they report on him and you dont like that.
B. Glossing over the death of innocents? Again total and utter dishonesty, every single mass media outlet has done the same, don't ever pretend that is exclusive to Al Jazeera. Of course the most sickening thing is only about a year ago when they where reporting on the casualties the argument coming from you twats was "oh there hurting the war effort by singling in on the casualties to much", it's really quite sick how you can simply be so dishonest.
C. You believe that FOX, CNN, or the AP are in anyway reliable, decent media, an idea that is simply beyond a joke. If AJ are Bin Ladens mouth piece then those three are your administrations, which is just as bad. The BBC really should not be lumped in there either, because they are actually good.
D. You used the Bali nightclub bombing to further your argument, you then lied about the events after, your dishonesty is astounding.
E. In one breath you say its good that you can hear 'the otherside' in the next you state they are doing evil.
Now perhaps, just perhaps as a news outlet, they are reporting on things that are oh i dont know, relevant to their region? Maybe? Perhaps if 50 or 60% of middle easterners admire Bin Laden the that is something that a media outlet in the region is going to explore?
No you think they should just ignore their own issues and their own societies ideas and pump FOX NEWS WAR MASTER 2000 in because that is good solid unbiased non-evil media. Yeah right.
Oh dear, what the fuck was that? Typical muddled and confused reply from a frothing at the mouth RARA American, you have taken my post, which was about Al Jazeera just being a typical media outlet and turned it into some sort of bizzaro world rant, are you really that unable to think of anything except 'America vs The World'.
Nobody said anything about 'moral relatavism' i was talking about your claim that Al Jazeer are somehow this evil news outlet, perhaps they are not, perhaps it's you who are wrong, (that is rhetorical, you are indeed wrong).
Straighten your thoughts out, organise your facts and try again.
You didn't argue against a single point of my post, you simply broke out into a rant full of loaded scenarios, it's so bloody typical of you bastards you are so incredibly dishonest.
"You imply that you could just swap Al Jazeera for Fox (along with their audiences"
Typical, extending my argument then arguing against that, in fact your a twit.
I hear your type calling for the 'glassing' of the middle east all the bloody time, it is exactly the same as calling for 'death to the infidels'.
Dont talk to me about the Bali nightclub, whore. There was nobody 'dancing in the streets', nice moral fibre you have there making shit up to force your point.
You show your hypocrisy when you say you embrace freedom of speech, just not when you dont like it.
The rest has nothing to do with Al Jazeera, just your muddled ranting about all sorts of issues and countries rolled into one.
The worst thing of your entire rant is that the only point of argument that you offer is that Al Jazeer is bad because they treat Osama Bin Laden like a celebrity, that you an American living with the likes of Fox news and CNN, which do *exactly the same thing* can say that without throwing up shows how far from having any honesty you have.
Ever notice that the 'side' who are most afraid of the terrorists 'Oh protect me big government, do anything you want, oh please please please protect my life from those evil terrorists' have spent the last 20 years building this idea that *they* are rugged and manly and that those 'liberals' are some weak limp wristed pansies.
Like any pussy they talk big when there is no danger, but when it comes to the crunch where are they? Hiding behind their 'daddy'
Their facade is cracking, they are true cowards, and it's plain as day.
And you know this how?
Fox News, CNN or NBC?
Personally i think your just making shit up and hoping there is a bees dick of truth in your words somewhere.
Replace the name 'Al Jazeera' with Fox News or CNN and your post is still perfectly valid, from an outsiders point of view they are exactly the same, with various whorish traits and blatent propoganda.
Perhaps you just dont like seeing things contrary to your view of the world.
"A network that treats the release of a new Bin Laden tape like some sort of surprise Super Bowl isn't entirely helping matters."
I'm not sure are you talking about the US Media or Al Jazeera?
"Not all flavors are rational or would even tolerate Al Jazeera's existence on soil they would rule, given the chance."
So they shouldn't give US interests any airtime? Being that the US is just itching to show it's commitment to 'Freedom'(tm) by doing whatever it can up to throwing around the idea of bombing Al Jazeera headquarters to silence them.
A read of there website shows a typical media outlet, you just dont like it because they hold there pro arab bias instead of your pro US bias, perhaps your wrong and their right? How would you know?
Man, i feel for ya, did you forget what website you're on?
Prepare to cop 300 flaming hot nerdo replies for that little outpouring.
Yes, you would think that if CmdrTaco and co are going to whore themselves and the site out like this they could at least organise special prices and deals for their readers.
Then i guess its just easier to take the advertisers money and do nothing.
I just love the fanboys rushing out of the woodwork whenever there is *another* bloody HUGE hole found in windows.
"Oh it could happen to any OS", but doesn't
"You should be using a virtual machine to browse the internet anyway", windows is *so* easy to use.
"It's only because Windows is popular", broken, braindead 'features' being exploited has something to do popularity
"All software is buggy", some software is much worse than others it would appear
In a few months we will be hearing from the same people how much better Windows is now all the probelms are fixed will and things like this will never happen again, that those 'lunix zealots just will never get over it, its not 1998 anymore l00Z3R$", that Windows is just as secure as anything, and on and on it goes...
It's time for a new soundbite...
Windows, only usable if your time is worthless.
I hope your not insinuating that Safari is vastly superior in any way to Konqueror. Using both ~6-8 hours a day makes me really really hope that is not what you're saying...
I have mod points and if that *is* what you're saying perhaps i should have hit you with -1 bloody spacecadet.
Now i will hit submit and enjoy looking at that freakin' little spinning coloured wheel as this OS locks up while Safari thinks about doing as it's told.
"People need privacy when they are doing things wrong, period."
So you have sex in public? Have all of your passwords, pin numbers and secrets hosted on a public website? Do your family and coworkers know the last time you visted a porn site or masturbated? Give me your address, you wont mind if i come over and rummage through your house, i suppose you dont have curtains and blinds on your windows either?
Yes the idea of privacy (keeping wankers like you the fuck out of my business) is just sooo quaint. Or maybe, just maybe, your just a bit retarded in your mental capacity, unable to fully think through what you are saying. I accept that inevitably, stupid people like you are going to try and force your idiocy upon everyone. Then normal, moderate people like me and the majority of other people here are going to suffer trying to stop you.
Oh yes, and nearly everyone votes where i live as it is compulsory and we still have privacy, we are also half way to having a repressive government, so you're wrong there as well.
Your just a new breed of busybody with a fetish for knowing everybody elses secrets, of course you guard yourself just as closely as everyone else despite your mindless rhetoric, prove me wrong, post your details or be known as a pathetic hypocrite.
"Third, do you know his reason was "emotional trauma" and not for instance real economic impacts "
Ahh refreshing, I always know i'm on an american website when an argument for economics is given more importance than mental and physical well being.
I am currently experiencing 'economic trauma' and much prefer it to the 'emotional trauma' i experienced 5 months ago when i was diagnosed with a heart condition and placed on a cocktail of drugs.
Not having a go at you, it just shouldn't be neccassary to make an economic argument to empathise with someone who has been wronged.
Hmmm, long winded, strawman filled, misinformed post that is shamelessly pro Apple.
Mate you *ARE* a slashbot, get over yourself.
"If your plan is to indoctrinate the developing nations and poorer people through software - then you would be better off not bothering."
I dont think the recipients of the laptops would think so.
It's Apple & inevitably Microsoft who seek to do the indoctrination here, the project simply seeks to offer a tool free from the taint of eulas and legalese, why is that such a hard idea to grasp?
Shackling them to foreign proprietory tools would be imperialism in it's truest sense.
"still widely considered the most user-friendly operating system on the market today"
5-10% of the computing world constitutes widely considered? Interesting...
(Oh thats right everyone else is just mindless)
I have an imac, it's not that special, i just dont understand the fanaticism about macs around here.
My wife had extensive trouble learning to use OSX at a level that she can use windows, i too wrestled with it for a few months, it's no easier to learn than any other recent OS i've used.
This is like giving a telephone to someone, but...
Nope nothing like any of that at all.
Your analogies are among the worst i've seen here, i feel embarrassed for you.
These aren't desktop machines.
They are laptops designed for low income and poor areas. The only complaint people have with Linux (besides the mindlessly typical 'its not what i'm used toooo' whines) is that it doesn't support 100% of hardware in existance. That is not a problem here.
Tried and true? OSX has 5-10% of market share, if it was oh so *dazzling* wouldn't it be making serious inroads by now? Oh yes those 'mindless masses' dont know what's good for them, that's the usual rebuttal for that argument isn't it?
And if OSX why not XP? Under the logic that is flowing here wouldn't giving them the mainstream OS would serve far them far better than a tiny niche OS that supports 0.1% of the hardware in the world?
Oh yes i *have* an imac and its no better or worse than my PC with KDE & w2k so spare me the retarded macs are more usuable because i say so drek.
Bring on the boringly familiar mac zealot responses.
Don't buy DRM'd CDs as they don't allow you to exercise fair-use.
If 'fair use' is a natural right then any entity that attempts to crush that is criminal.
Your attitude is lazy, here's some fun with it; don't like not being able to sit up the front of the bus, then dont ride on the bus.
Don't like the cancer from the toxic waste dump in your town, then leave.
Don't like to have the police perform secret searches on your home, don't buy a home, dont move into that town, state, country, etc.
Facile examples but they are along the same line of thinking. If an entity is actively stamping on peoples natural rights then that entities behaviour can be forcefully stopped by society, through the power of government, one of the things that government is supposed to exist for.
There seems to be some strange thought pattern here that nobody must let the idea even cross their mind that a corporations' behaviour may be wrong and that it is ok to put a stop to it through Government. Somehow a fairly large group of people have decided that corporations should have less responsibility to a country than the citizens that it is supposed to benefit do. That the only thing that lowly citizens should be 'allowed' to do is *absolutely nothing* (which is exactly what a 'boycott' is, total and utter inaction).
Undoubtably this thought process is a mutation of various anti-communist, anti-socialist and pro facist (in the true sense) ideologies coming to their logical end..
Your argument is also objectively pro virus/spyware and malware. Using your argument any virus or malware author, to be safe from prosecution simply has to show some form of EULA, something that has been joked about here often but dismissed as absurd. (You probably didn't make that connection in your rush to promote your ideology).
--Awaiting the flurry of half thought out responses misinterpreting my words.
Add a fourth type to that list;
Australia, knows the people are to lazy to care.
(I weep for the future of personal liberty in this country)
Ack i thought you were going to have a reasonable discourse, the only thing i see here is you writing for the mods, this article is off the front page now you won't be modded up and appealing to the mods with your hollow touchy feely garbage isn't going to get you anywhere.
Your naivety is astounding, our entire defense strategy is based around an incursion from our nothern neighbour and to hold off any incursion until the US arrives. Its been public knowledge for the last 20 years how underequiped our defense forces are, we simply can't afford a large standing army.
I was speaking specifically of Indonesia, if you think that Indonesia as a country 'likes' Australia your again more than a little naive, if you forget we did lead a force to kick them out of East Timor 6 years ago. Australia is viewed as an outsider in SE Asia, your comment about Australia being better friends,etc,etc...doesn't match up to reality, there are more countries in Asia than Japan and China, your displaying your own ignorance while trying to find mine.
It's not my fault if reality is 'depressing' to you, i'm not anxious about anything, i understand how things are, things are the way they have always been, there is nothing special about this time that means we are immune from the perils humanity has always faced, whether it be from despotic governments here or next door.
The rest of your comment is more than a little patronising, you somehow have derived any entirely fictional character from my post but in reality dont know anything about me, what race i am where i'm from or where i've been, your just hoping the mods will found your drek insightful without thinking about it.
You sound like a reasonable person, yeah i know of the statistics they show Australia 'never' hd a gun problem, did you look at that graph 75% of all gun deaths are suicidies.
Do you inderstand that the majority of guns that existed in Australia in 1995 are still in the same place today? That only 750,000 guns where handed in when estimates are that there were between 2.5 and 5 million guns in this country in 1992.
For security of couse having an armed population increases our security, we are an island nation, in a part of the the world that isn't very friendly to us. Our armed forces have enough ammunition for three days of fullscale combat, a joke. The only protection we have is the weapons in peoples homes and garages (please dont deny the power of an insurgency after an invasion).
Dont be so quick to dismiss the fact that the same government, the same indiviuals, that bulldozed the gun control laws through has now implemented a police state, in every sense of the word.
Let me preface this by saying i dont own a gun and have never owned one, however.
" Unlike Americans, we don't believe guns are useful just because it's a gun. We acknowledge it's a lethal weapon which must be used with care. It is a priveledge, not a right."
Maybe you do but there is a fuckload of people who dont:
"GCA figures indicate there are over 300,000 illegal weapons still held in Australia -- representing a massive threat to the community. Gun Lobby estimates (as expressed by the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia in 1997 in their organ 'The Shooter's Journal') suggest that number could be closer to 1.3 million guns -- many presumably held by self-proclaimed 'law-abiding' shooters," Mr Marshall said.
I would say that is low, there is statistics from the early nineties to say that there was over 5 million guns in Aus in 1992, only ~750,000 were handed in.
Also please only speak for yourself mate, i know a *hell* of a lot of people who understand that it is *exactly* the same government, down to the same people who ripped the guns out of respectful citizens hands in 1996 that is now driving this country full steam ahead into an authoritarian police state, Americas' laws are childplay compared to what were passed here after 9/11, and the government (both sides) are not finished by a looong shot. Your kidding yourself if you look to the highcourt for help, (lol you looking to Queensland for help? Home of the recently departed emporer Bjelke Peterson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen) the courts showed whose side they are on years ago:
http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/000418.html
And a useful tidbit:
"Figures released by the Federal Opposition, and taken from annual
reports of the United States and Australian governments, show that in
the financial year ending in June 2001, more than 2150 warrants were
issued for phone taps in Australia, but only 1490 in the US. Taking into
account the population difference 284 million compared to just over 19
million Australias rate of phone interception was 20 times that of
the US."
Also just wondering if you have been in the western suburbs of Sydney lately? No shortage of hardware there, of course all in the hands of lebanese, vietnamese and anglo (bikie) gangs (as is the inevitable outcome of gun laws brought into a country that was (is) absolutely full of weapons).
I also know quite a few people who would never hand over their weapons no matter what laws the government passed. All from the old school, people who were alive and saw what 'civilised' governments will do to their citizens under the guise of 'national security', it seems the younger generation was never taught. Do you actually think that any future government will voluntarily repeal the last 40 years and layers and layers of legislation, regulations and expansion?
Don't be so sure about the 'peaceful doe' nature of your countrymen, many many Australians have an aversion to pomp, sentimentality and tearful patriotism but also have a deep seated distrust in their government.
Plus you seriously misrepresented the gun laws it's both semiautomatics and automatics that are unobtainable, the only weapon you can reasonably purchase now are some bolt action rifles after showing purpose, also if you own one you give police the power of entry into your home whenever they like, without a warrant (i guess a moot point these days).
I'll leave you with two quotes;
"I don't pretend for a moment that this decision can prevent the recurrence of tragedies in the future...".
-- Prime Minister John Howard, The Australian, 11th May 1996, page 1
"It'll take a massacre in Tasmania before we get national gun laws."
-- NSW Premier Barry Unsworth 1987
Were you wearing an onion on your belt?
I live in Australia and have heard of most of the things on that list through our mainstream media.
,etc (of course before the internet most of the people i know thought that was just a fabricated attitude and the actual citizens of America would be more pragmatic about their position in the world, fuck were we wrong). So when the self proclaimed leader, the 'god of all countries', starts doing fucked up shit, then yeah people will talk about it.
I hardly think you can blame Europe or whatever for your own countries ignorant & impotent media coverage of the world.
Not to mention that for the last 40 years the American propoganda machine (hollywood & media) have been screaming to the western world that America is the 'leader of the free world' the 'freest and fairest country in the world' and 'better than your countries', etc
Btw nice tactic associating the idea of press cencorship with socialism and European countries without actually saying it, learn that from your current political administration? The press is just as free to report on the government in France as it is in Australia, the US, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, Sweden and most of the other western coutries in the world.
It saddens me that you actually seem to believe the words you speak, the pooor US gets bullied so much in the big bad world, boohoo. Seriously, can't you see why the things are the way they are? If someone continually carries on about how they are the greatest person in the world, better than everyone else and makes disturbingly ignorant arguments about other people and why he is better than them, normal people will think that person is a wanker. See what i'm getting at? That person is the US for the last 40 years.
This line is probably the best:
"your country could be killing hundreds of innocents right now and no one would no"
You mean no one in the US right, because the US media wont give it air time? Please dont take this the wrong way but get it through your thick bloody head that there is people outside the US that *will* know, and that it's not other countries fault if *your* insipid whorish media won't give world news more air time.
Your entire argument is that because *you* don't hear about world issues that means every other country must be living under some jackboot of oppression. I should feel annoyed at such stupidity, but i've come to accept it as just typical American IgnoranceTM.
I've never had a problem.