Also, while many if not all people would agree that chinese censorship, imprisonment and torure of people is bad, it is an overwhelming urge of both the american goverment and those americans i've come across that they feel they should impose their morals, laws and standards on the rest of the world. On this planet we have autonomus countries, which interact through conversation, negotioation, and trade. If you disagree, boycott chinese products, talk with chinese people, and tell them what life could be like and let them decide, or try to negoritate with chinese government. But do not force western values on everyone else.
American digital rights managment also has no place in countries other than america. If the UK government decides to impose laws, they may do so, and have. It is their job to legislate and enforce laws on their citizens, not foreign powers. If a country decides not to impose DRM laws then they should not be forced to do so. Sony or whomever can decide not to sell products their, but that is their right. Just as it is ours to not buy those products if we wish.
you may think the second para is off topic, if you do then you didnt get the point.
OH dear, i'm 22 and we had a rotary phone in our spare room when i was little, and used to code in BASIC writing thing like
10 print "teacher smells"
20 for i = 1 to 1000 ()
30 goto 10
forgive that code, it's been a long while since i've done any BASIC..... bring back line numbers! (and yeah we were using pretty poor acorns at school where, for i = 1 to 1000 would actually give a pause in automation, no idea why it didnt parse that out when it compiled as it usually contained no code!
aaawwww the old days of 1990s
About half of my university lectures before noon in my first year were taken drunk, I actually found waking up drunk made me more likely to go, seems like a good idea when drunk to go out in the freezing cold and dark outside world. When sober you relise it's a bad plan and remember you can read the notes late.
Or was that just me?
Slashdot Mirror
Also, while many if not all people would agree that chinese censorship, imprisonment and torure of people is bad, it is an overwhelming urge of both the american goverment and those americans i've come across that they feel they should impose their morals, laws and standards on the rest of the world. On this planet we have autonomus countries, which interact through conversation, negotioation, and trade. If you disagree, boycott chinese products, talk with chinese people, and tell them what life could be like and let them decide, or try to negoritate with chinese government. But do not force western values on everyone else. American digital rights managment also has no place in countries other than america. If the UK government decides to impose laws, they may do so, and have. It is their job to legislate and enforce laws on their citizens, not foreign powers. If a country decides not to impose DRM laws then they should not be forced to do so. Sony or whomever can decide not to sell products their, but that is their right. Just as it is ours to not buy those products if we wish. you may think the second para is off topic, if you do then you didnt get the point.
OH dear, i'm 22 and we had a rotary phone in our spare room when i was little, and used to code in BASIC writing thing like 10 print "teacher smells" 20 for i = 1 to 1000 () 30 goto 10 forgive that code, it's been a long while since i've done any BASIC ..... bring back line numbers! (and yeah we were using pretty poor acorns at school where, for i = 1 to 1000 would actually give a pause in automation, no idea why it didnt parse that out when it compiled as it usually contained no code!
aaawwww the old days of 1990s
About half of my university lectures before noon in my first year were taken drunk, I actually found waking up drunk made me more likely to go, seems like a good idea when drunk to go out in the freezing cold and dark outside world. When sober you relise it's a bad plan and remember you can read the notes late. Or was that just me?