It doesn't hurt me. And I have seen much worse, anyway. Still didn't hurt me, though, and I still have no place (or reason) to cry foul about that site's existence.
"Family first today announced a groundbreaking alliance with the EFF. One wonders how evil Hollywood must be for geeks and neo-cons to join forces to fight them. Yes, this probably is the end of the world. Jim Bob signing off... probably for the last time." *is seen running off the set.*
Your reasoning is bad. It's not like making a building they can't get into at all, more like forcing all buildings to use locks that are easy to open with the right goverment-owned key; at any time.
In a world where real tyranny is infecting real nations and people are at actual risk of oppression or worse, this kind of carping just nettles me. Sorry.
So... can't this "real tyranny" just be nations that put their bar higher for people to be "good sound minded people"? I see the same thing, just one that is less demanding. If at some point you don't have rights, there is no difference between you and this real tyranny you hate so much other then a few technicalities.
What if he got back up and stabbed him again? What if he jumped him from behind when he was stepping away? If someone JUST ATTACKED ME, I am going to put them out of commission as fast as I can. Same reason you always empty the clip...
So... basically, you are not person until 18? Or not a citizen until 18? Most 14 year old kids have more sense then half the idiots walking around, so your logic is in error.
If your "national security" depends on censorship (see "government restriction of information or speech)", then you do not deserve to be secure to start with. What matters more to you, your "freedom" or your "security"? You cannot have both.
I mean he tried to light his shoe on fire on a plane with a lighter. Yet even that bumbling moron managed to aquire explosives and get them on a plane. If he managed, why not the Florida guys eventually as well? Why should we not take someone seriously when they claim they want to blow up something no matter how inept they seem? Would you leave them wandering without supervision until they did manage to succeed?
The fact that ANYONE can blow up about ANYTHING is the real problem. If your security relys on the fact people give themselves away, you are screwed.
Real terrorists (if such even exist) will not talk about what they do. People saying "I hate that guy, I wish he'd go die" have no more likelihood to kill the person they are talking about then these people. In the end, it's only censorship to do anything to anyone for what they say... it does NOTHING to help anyone.
Small companies get hurt by this the most, but most people don't talk about this fact.
I call BS. Many game, movie and music companies need nothing more then to be known. Piracy allows them this with little overhead (compare the free word of mouth generated by piracy to the million dollar advertising used by large companies). In the later 2 cases, there is almost always going to be demand for legit copies, regardless of how many people pirate it (music tends to be low-fi and movies tend to be over compressed). In the case of games, more reason to bump up the multi-player. I have pirated games to find I liked them, then bought them to play online.
Piracy levels the playing field, allowing what is better to make more money, where what is overrated and over adverted crap loses. I see no problem.
So let me get this... you are saying we need to buy a mac, that costs x2 as much as a PC of the same power, so we can buy windows to install on it (that comes with almost every PC), giving us, what? A PC that costs x2 as much and is less powerful. But it is white and has an Apple logo; GOOD DEAL DUDE!
they think the risk of that and other similar unknown dangers are too high to risk.
Fearing the unknown without rhyme or reason... yeah, sounds like religion to me.
When you realize that many of the same people believe the Earth is under 10,000 years old and that there is no such thing as "macro evolution", you can understand how hopeless it can be to try to convince them their medical ideas are wrong.
Exactly. And these people shouldn't have children to start with, let alone allow them to make life and death decisions about them.
but when children enter the situation, this can become a very complicated issue.
Why? It's not complicated at all; if the parent doesn't like it, too bad. Not allowing it is nothing short of murder on religious grounds. Too many people die because of zealots every day.
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Get with it boi, "Open" is becoming the new "closed". What does this mean for OSS, that is really open?
They start talking. I give up.
It doesn't hurt me. And I have seen much worse, anyway. Still didn't hurt me, though, and I still have no place (or reason) to cry foul about that site's existence.
"Family first today announced a groundbreaking alliance with the EFF. One wonders how evil Hollywood must be for geeks and neo-cons to join forces to fight them. Yes, this probably is the end of the world. Jim Bob signing off... probably for the last time." *is seen running off the set.*
Your reasoning is bad. It's not like making a building they can't get into at all, more like forcing all buildings to use locks that are easy to open with the right goverment-owned key; at any time.
What if he got back up and stabbed him again? What if he jumped him from behind when he was stepping away? If someone JUST ATTACKED ME, I am going to put them out of commission as fast as I can. Same reason you always empty the clip...
So... basically, you are not person until 18? Or not a citizen until 18? Most 14 year old kids have more sense then half the idiots walking around, so your logic is in error.
If your "national security" depends on censorship (see "government restriction of information or speech)", then you do not deserve to be secure to start with. What matters more to you, your "freedom" or your "security"? You cannot have both.
Piracy levels the playing field, allowing what is better to make more money, where what is overrated and over adverted crap loses. I see no problem.
Maybe I watch too much TV... but I can sware I seen these before.
Well, yes, but the x2 wasn't exact to start with. It'd be close to x3 (without windows) in some cases.
DO NOT sit in the front row...
So let me get this... you are saying we need to buy a mac, that costs x2 as much as a PC of the same power, so we can buy windows to install on it (that comes with almost every PC), giving us, what? A PC that costs x2 as much and is less powerful. But it is white and has an Apple logo; GOOD DEAL DUDE!
Yes, Linux and BSD. Still more then apple has.
CRAP... I was counting on the fact someday I would stick a heatsink on my head and get the other 90% out...
Evolution doesn't seem to work in this world anymore... just look at the state of things. Morons in control, from sea to shitty sea...
Sadly most "morals" preached tell us to hate gay people and give money to a massive organization to allow them to gain more political power...