No, I didn't say think about civil liberties - stop that. Think about the children. Keep thinking about them. No, don't think about checks and balances. Listen to me, just think about the children. There. Good man.
The most common form of social organization in games is the clan. Democracy emerged aboard pirate ships, where the crew elected the captain and the quartermaster. Why is democracy not useful in online games?
Someone needs to set up a site (and bookmarklets) that allows people to write notes about when their reviews are being censored. This would allow us to review the review site itself, and and therefore have an idea of how reliable its reviews are...
"150lb fleshbag" is probably rantingkitten being kind to him/herself. I am guessing rantingkitten has hardly ever walked much, less rock climbed, and is more like a 300lb lardsack.
They don't need my support. Anyway, all the dollars I spend on Chinese hardware gets recycled and invested in U.S. government bonds, without which, the U.S. would be bankrupt already.
This is like saying that a responsible citizen will never be able to replace a nation state, so we might as well give up. You, as an individual, or as an open source project, have a slim chance of replacing Google, or Amazon, or Salesforce. But, through an open source project, you can alter the rules of the game, and you CAN profoundly affect those big companies, how they operate, what work their employees do, what services they offer their customers, etc.
It is even worse than that. Imagine if it was also illegal to read about drugs and have information about drugs. I have no problem with the fact that having sex with children is illegal, but it is dangerous to civil liberties to make it illegal to have information about having sex with children. We cannot have democratic discourse without the exchange of information. Making information illegal is extremely problematic. In order to decide whether a string of information is child pornography requires examining that information. But, as civilians, it is illegal for us to look at that information. We can have "oversight" committees, but nonetheless, we are placing a huge amount of trust in the government and it is extremely dangerous. I don't like piracy and I don't like child pornography, but fascism and totalitarianism scare me much much more than piracy and child porn. The pirate party is actually about freedom, not really piracy or child porn.
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Won't this destroy Lexis and Westlaw's business model?
... think about the children? Thank you.
No, I didn't say think about civil liberties - stop that. Think about the children. Keep thinking about them. No, don't think about checks and balances. Listen to me, just think about the children. There. Good man.
Are there good artists who don't make art in their free time, or good musicians who don't make music in their free time?
The most common form of social organization in games is the clan. Democracy emerged aboard pirate ships, where the crew elected the captain and the quartermaster. Why is democracy not useful in online games?
... the scathing critique took the form of... AN ESSAY!!!
Someone needs to set up a site (and bookmarklets) that allows people to write notes about when their reviews are being censored. This would allow us to review the review site itself, and and therefore have an idea of how reliable its reviews are...
2 countries 1 cup.
> certainly most countries (not all) in continental Europe were more tolerant about sexual preference 50 years ago than most Americans today.
Indeed, the Germans INVENTED the fabulous pink triangle symbol that gays wear so proudly today!
Yes, if you do a new Person() with no constructor parameters, you get a white man. Fact.
But your posts on Slashdot still show you to be teh ghey
Including Xinhua and Pravda. Sorry Murdoch. If you manage to shut down the BBC and other Western sources of free news, I'll just read those.
Exactly: "I don't care 'about right of way'! My CAR could KILL you!!!!!"
Nice.
"150lb fleshbag" is probably rantingkitten being kind to him/herself. I am guessing rantingkitten has hardly ever walked much, less rock climbed, and is more like a 300lb lardsack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBeguUvuDzs
Yes, and you can perform database operations on that number 5 that's in one of your records. Whee.
A well-designed, "self-enforcing" system, even if it DOES require trust, still allows verification. The current system is unverifiable.
Like laws, good spelling cannot be enforced. We just need to punish him so he doesn't do it again. Mod points?
with real people, too.
They don't need my support. Anyway, all the dollars I spend on Chinese hardware gets recycled and invested in U.S. government bonds, without which, the U.S. would be bankrupt already.
Wow... deep...
Yo dawg, I heard you like thinking, so I put your brain in your brain so you can think while you think.
Now imagine how it would be if it were illegal to LOOK at alcohol, or pictures of alcohol.
This is like saying that a responsible citizen will never be able to replace a nation state, so we might as well give up. You, as an individual, or as an open source project, have a slim chance of replacing Google, or Amazon, or Salesforce. But, through an open source project, you can alter the rules of the game, and you CAN profoundly affect those big companies, how they operate, what work their employees do, what services they offer their customers, etc.
i agree. We're supposed to be on Web 2.0 now.
It is even worse than that. Imagine if it was also illegal to read about drugs and have information about drugs. I have no problem with the fact that having sex with children is illegal, but it is dangerous to civil liberties to make it illegal to have information about having sex with children. We cannot have democratic discourse without the exchange of information. Making information illegal is extremely problematic. In order to decide whether a string of information is child pornography requires examining that information. But, as civilians, it is illegal for us to look at that information. We can have "oversight" committees, but nonetheless, we are placing a huge amount of trust in the government and it is extremely dangerous. I don't like piracy and I don't like child pornography, but fascism and totalitarianism scare me much much more than piracy and child porn. The pirate party is actually about freedom, not really piracy or child porn.