Remember censorship is considered a fault by the internet and it automatically attempts to re-route the traffic.
No. This childish notion with no basis in reality needs to be shot down because it makes delusional people think the internet is some living, sentient entity that can automagically repair and heal itself. This is not reality. The internet is a communications network with strong decentralization features, but it lacks any cognitive abilities and is not a person or even an animal. It's a network of machines. If steps are not taken in meatspace to defend it, it will be subverted and bent to the will of the 1%, or whatever you want to call the Ruling Elite.
It also happens to be a paramilitary dictatorship where Starfleet rules supreme with no checks by the civilian authority, high ranking officers can stage coups and not be arrested, and their machinations never made public, where an admiral can order mass detention and blood testing of citizens, where Starfleet "friendly security personnel" can beam into your home at any moment or you can be beamed yourself in a small cell without warning. Yeah, definitely a nice place to be. Just the wet dream of some elitist imbeciles who masturbate at the mantra of "oh, if only we could force the world into being what we want it to be".
"V" is an imaginary character, written for a comic book (sorry, "graphic novel" is so effete, nothing wrong with comic books being called as such) and most closely associated with a mildly entertaining movie. This fictional character has vast means at his disposable, possesses almost superhuman skills and abilities and is way removed from what a real-life rebel is like. It only strikes the MPAA-fueled small imaginations of naive kids and retarded adults. It only serves to make a laughing stock of any starry-eyed ideals one decides to paint with that image.
You want to be taken seriously? Get an image that elicits fear in the hearts of your enemies. Pick something politically incorrect. Something that evokes images of slashed throats and burning bodies, not of packed movie halls.
Ah, and all that mobilizing serves absolutely nothing without a campaign conducted with purpose. See how far the "Seattle People" have gone. Nowhere.
There's a difference between language "evolving" and language being subverted. Words are weapons. If you attach meanings to a word that make anything related to it offensive or illegal, then you have silenced forever any discussion over the original theme. It was not an evolutionary shift that gave "hacker" negative connotations, it was a massive effort by the media. Hacker = criminal, hacker = criminal, hacker = criminal. Now it's ingrained in the minds of the majority. They tried again with internet = pedophiles, and they're still trying to do that. If you let your vocabulary be dictated by someone else, you're a slave. Moreover, you're a loserboy nerd on whose face we shit.
No, no, you have it wrong: pretty much everything is illegal unless you're part of the british Ruling Elite. Then you can do whatever pleases you and it's actually illegal for a peon to say otherwise. One law for the people, one law for the Masters. That's the way it is. Had one or more of those guys been a member of a financially and/or politically influent family, the judge would have simply stated "oh well, (rich) boys will be (rich) boys" and the case would have been dismissed. Can't piss off a possible future Downing Street resident you know. But for commoners there should be no pity! Feel the leash! Off with their heads! Rule Britannia! Bugger the gardener!
Thanks a bunch, limeys. Thanks for colonialism, hooliganism, and this. May your fucking island disappear under the Atlantic forever so that we can all piss into the waves that drank it.
20 years writing database apps? Even if you were not a geek (and hence a sub-human specimen), such a lengthy exposure to raw code will have irrevocably altered your genetic structure. What healthy tissue you may have had has now been infiltrated. You cannot go back - ever. Contemplate humanity from afar, from the depth of your basement dungeon, in the knowledge that you will never, ever be able to join it.
Those organized crimes aren't serious enough for SOCA? They sure are causing a lot more harm to the tax-payers.
Yes, but those who commit them are more likely to carbomb your offices, kidnap and murder your whole family, or torture you to death. SOCA doesn't want to risk that, you know. Maybe a little "capisce" could make them see the errors of their ways.
It has nothing to do with support. It was reasoned that humans could develop proper emotional responses if they were left to live beyond 120, so a limiting factor was built in.
More reasons to explore the solar system: put more people around it, so you can blow them up later. Killing talibans and pissing on their bodies in Afghanistan is lame, killing talibans and pissing on their bodies on Mimas, on the other hand...
... Are all you need. You simply notify the users that if you catch them using anything other than the browser, you'll use them pliers on their fingers. Then on their toes. Then on more delicate parts. Analog solution to a digital problem - remove the digits. With pliers.
It's like being followed by a hyena... No matter how long you keep your guard up or how many opportunities the hyena misses, you're going to lose eventually.
Not if you ambush the hyena, rip its throat apart with your teeth, devour the twitching body, paint your body with its blood, and use the hollowed out carcass as a sleeping bag.
Oddly enough you don't need to be President to destroy a restaurants reputation(or anything's reputation). Hell, you don't even need to be important. You just need to know important people, or be close enough to important people to do it.
Not even that, really. You only need to know where to buy live bait, and release some vermin in the place. Most joints need to have the kitchen visible from the dining area, so it's not that difficult to do the deed. Then call the public hygiene office or whatever, case closed.
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Remember censorship is considered a fault by the internet and it automatically attempts to re-route the traffic.
No. This childish notion with no basis in reality needs to be shot down because it makes delusional people think the internet is some living, sentient entity that can automagically repair and heal itself. This is not reality. The internet is a communications network with strong decentralization features, but it lacks any cognitive abilities and is not a person or even an animal. It's a network of machines. If steps are not taken in meatspace to defend it, it will be subverted and bent to the will of the 1%, or whatever you want to call the Ruling Elite.
It also happens to be a paramilitary dictatorship where Starfleet rules supreme with no checks by the civilian authority, high ranking officers can stage coups and not be arrested, and their machinations never made public, where an admiral can order mass detention and blood testing of citizens, where Starfleet "friendly security personnel" can beam into your home at any moment or you can be beamed yourself in a small cell without warning. Yeah, definitely a nice place to be. Just the wet dream of some elitist imbeciles who masturbate at the mantra of "oh, if only we could force the world into being what we want it to be".
You want to be taken seriously? Get an image that elicits fear in the hearts of your enemies. Pick something politically incorrect. Something that evokes images of slashed throats and burning bodies, not of packed movie halls.
Ah, and all that mobilizing serves absolutely nothing without a campaign conducted with purpose. See how far the "Seattle People" have gone. Nowhere.
There's a difference between language "evolving" and language being subverted. Words are weapons. If you attach meanings to a word that make anything related to it offensive or illegal, then you have silenced forever any discussion over the original theme. It was not an evolutionary shift that gave "hacker" negative connotations, it was a massive effort by the media. Hacker = criminal, hacker = criminal, hacker = criminal. Now it's ingrained in the minds of the majority. They tried again with internet = pedophiles, and they're still trying to do that. If you let your vocabulary be dictated by someone else, you're a slave. Moreover, you're a loserboy nerd on whose face we shit.
And that's why we can still say "nigger".
Is it that hard to understand that this kind of crap is even more useless than throwing rocks at government buildings?
The usefulness of this particular act depends on how big your stones are, or how fast you can throw them.
Come on guys, get it in gear and save some lives.
Do it yourself, loserboy, instead of asking someone else. Or are you afraid? Are you a sniveling coward?
It's a POLICE box, you loserboy. I'd be more worried about those angel statues all around.
No, no, you have it wrong: pretty much everything is illegal unless you're part of the british Ruling Elite. Then you can do whatever pleases you and it's actually illegal for a peon to say otherwise. One law for the people, one law for the Masters. That's the way it is. Had one or more of those guys been a member of a financially and/or politically influent family, the judge would have simply stated "oh well, (rich) boys will be (rich) boys" and the case would have been dismissed. Can't piss off a possible future Downing Street resident you know. But for commoners there should be no pity! Feel the leash! Off with their heads! Rule Britannia! Bugger the gardener!
Duct tape... Super glue... You're a bunch of sissies. A soldering iron and an industrial stapler are everything you need.
animals crawl into weird places
You should wipe your arse more thoroughly, then.
This is no Zaku, loserboy! No Zaku!
Thanks a bunch, limeys. Thanks for colonialism, hooliganism, and this. May your fucking island disappear under the Atlantic forever so that we can all piss into the waves that drank it.
20 years writing database apps? Even if you were not a geek (and hence a sub-human specimen), such a lengthy exposure to raw code will have irrevocably altered your genetic structure. What healthy tissue you may have had has now been infiltrated. You cannot go back - ever. Contemplate humanity from afar, from the depth of your basement dungeon, in the knowledge that you will never, ever be able to join it.
Those organized crimes aren't serious enough for SOCA? They sure are causing a lot more harm to the tax-payers.
Yes, but those who commit them are more likely to carbomb your offices, kidnap and murder your whole family, or torture you to death. SOCA doesn't want to risk that, you know. Maybe a little "capisce" could make them see the errors of their ways.
It has nothing to do with support. It was reasoned that humans could develop proper emotional responses if they were left to live beyond 120, so a limiting factor was built in.
Yes, it would mean their hit man is late.
More reasons to explore the solar system: put more people around it, so you can blow them up later. Killing talibans and pissing on their bodies in Afghanistan is lame, killing talibans and pissing on their bodies on Mimas, on the other hand...
... Are all you need. You simply notify the users that if you catch them using anything other than the browser, you'll use them pliers on their fingers. Then on their toes. Then on more delicate parts. Analog solution to a digital problem - remove the digits. With pliers.
Doesn't bother me. I travel in packs as well. I'll just surround them and pick them off one by one.
It's like being followed by a hyena... No matter how long you keep your guard up or how many opportunities the hyena misses, you're going to lose eventually.
Not if you ambush the hyena, rip its throat apart with your teeth, devour the twitching body, paint your body with its blood, and use the hollowed out carcass as a sleeping bag.
The Crusades were awesome. You don't have to take my word for it, ask the Saxon.
He's also mean to little ponies.
Oddly enough you don't need to be President to destroy a restaurants reputation(or anything's reputation). Hell, you don't even need to be important. You just need to know important people, or be close enough to important people to do it.
Not even that, really. You only need to know where to buy live bait, and release some vermin in the place. Most joints need to have the kitchen visible from the dining area, so it's not that difficult to do the deed. Then call the public hygiene office or whatever, case closed.
But surely the farce is strong with him.