Loserboy nerd, you want medicine you PAY for it. Any society that gives priority to simply plug holes that should not be there in the first place will simply turn backwards and fade away. Setting yourself higher goals makes it simpler to take on the other challenges. Skipping around on the Moon means technical challenges that foster technological progress. It means more scientists, more engineers, more skilled jobs that cannot be outsourced to Bumfuckay and will stay around for at least a couple of decades, and the indirect benefits of the research and development will find their way into the market, adding to the country's competitivity. Besides, the money spent by NOT going anywhere anymore is peanuts compared to the pork-barrel shit that's going on. If you're so determined to get medicine to the poor sick people, why don't you give away all the money you don't need to survive? Hey, that's a good idea: let's tax you to the point that you only have money to eat, pay the rent, and go to the movies once per year. The rest goes to the poor. Shit on your own face, my excrements are too precious for that.
You don't need to "topple the government". Destroy the financial, industrial and communication infrastructure and it will topple by itself. Enact selective assassination of CEOs, kill the key corporate personnel. If you destroy enough of the skilled people and equipment needed by the corporate world to function, it will collapse. You don't need to face off with the military and if you must, do it in the very areas that the economy badly needs.
Yes, because a COUPLE OF SEATS in the EU parliament will change things so much, especially when the majority is strongly pro-business and corporate-friendly. Face it, they could declare the PP illegal and disband it by law as it were a Nazi-like party and that would be the end of it.
Now, compare how some threats from Muslim extremists have put free expression in discussion in Denmark and you'll see why a knife to the throat is mightier than a signature on a piece of paper.
Put your pens away and break out your knives: it's going to get ugly soon.
What power? Until now "disgruntled netizens" have had absolutely zero effect: the conversion of the Internet into cable TV status is proceeding at full speed with no opposition. In the end, when all will have been said and done, "disgruntled netizens" will simply wring their hands and accept the new status quo because there will be nothing to be done.
"Capisci" is best said when standing above the prostrated and bloodied body of a cowering industry thug (copyright lawyer or such) while holding a tire iron, between one broken bone and the next.
Don't kid yourself. If you keep talking, they will win. In order to save the Internet as you know it, you need to kill them.
Loserboy nerd, I BUY my videogames. If they're too expensive, I wait until the price have come down. None of your grotty little pieces of buggy software is worth full price anyway and I can wait. Sometimes they come out as coverdisks on the game magazines I buy, 1 and a half years after it has come out.
Get a piece of rubber hose about 10 meters long (to compensate for the negative length of your prick), shove your pathetic dick into one end (and don't forget the silicon paste or it will slip out like a needle in a tunnel), the other end up your nose and piss up your braincase.
And if you work for Ubisoft with its shitty DRM, douse yourself with gasoline and light a match.
Where was the candelmakers' and horse carriage drivers' right to pay the rent and keep food on the table when electric light and cars came along? Progress moves on and don't kid yourself, if the industry could throw the old guy to the wolves and spare the expenses on him they would do it in a heartbeat.
I fight for the right to NOT be monitored on my online activities, to NOT be put on watchlists for "suspicious activities" (there have been civil rights battles to stop the police from doing that in the past, you know), to NOT be muscled to pay up and shut up when Big Money decides to help itself to lovely heaps of my dosh.
I fight for the right to private property: my computer, my console, the software I bought with my money IS MINE, not property of some industry cartel with me having a user license that can be changed at their whim with me having no choice but to go along with their wishes.
I fight for the right to speak my mind, to say what I want, on the Internet. I'm not interested in the industry mafia's imprimatur. Control of communication is mind control.
And no, I'm no leftist radical. I'm as conservative as I can be: I want to conserve MY RIGHTS - at gunpoint if necessary.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. Turn your oughts into shalls. I AM morally correct, since I believe individual freedom trumps Big Money's interests. I'll be enjoying my football match - tomorrow. Tonight is AD&D time, of course with REAL dungeons and REAL dragons because that's how real jocks play! What I'm typing away on? Jocks don't need to type: they stare at the webcam and the computer types for them, or else. And there's no swibble in my living room. What about yours?
You make good points but in the end it boils down to a simple fact: the populace is setting a trend, the technology is setting a trend, and for the first time in history the party that wants to maintain the status quo is actually succeeding.
They are turning the clock back, and moreover they've launched a fear-mongering campaign designed to scare the majority of people into compliance. It's like if in the beginning of the printed page era, printing presses had been banned, their possessions made into a crime and houses been subjected to periodical sweep searches for illegal equipment - all to keep the monks who copied books by hand into business.
If they succeed, it's over: the internet will become TV 2.0, and we'll be entering into an age of fear. Fear of doing the "wrong thing". Fear of being disconnected from a network on which our everyday lives will more and more depend, fear of being labelled as a "digital rights violator" and being denied employment, fear of simply thinking "wrong".
Moreover, privatization of justice must not be allowed to happen. It will become a rich source of revenue for greedy law firms who will blackmail citizens at will, knowing that they don't have enough money to fight but enough to pay up without a fuss.
And in the end, the connivence between government and industry must be broken at all costs. With one side holding the power to make even breathing illegal - and to ENFORCE such power - and the other wielding the economic power to buy any law they desider, the perfect tyranny is forming.
Wait until enough people are blackmailed by the copyright goons, and you'll see. I doubt the industry types will get any sympathy, however. After the financial crash, bankers had to dress as plain as possible for a while to avoid unpleasant confrontation on the streets, for instance. When they'll hear about some big media type or copyright lawyer being found floating facedown in a river or beaten into organ donor status, they'll be cheering.
One thing Big Money will never buy: sympathy. As for governments being good at handling such things, should I remind you that leftist terrorism in Europe during the '70s (fortunately) failed mainly because their own political base didn't support them?
By the way, just to make things clear: I'm not advocating violence to defend "copyright infringement". I'm advocating violence to protect the netizen's RIGHTS: the industry pushes monstruosities like ACTA through, bypassing the democratic process and putting the populace before a fait accompli. Our rights as citizens are being defecated upon.
Yeah. "Reason" and "Reverse subversion" worked so well for the Jews in WW2. They worked so well in occupied France. They're working wonderfully for Tibet. Oh, what wonders does "reason" for the Karen in Myanmar. I may have 2 brain cells to work together, but you have one sodium particle. All your brain cells won't do shit for you if they're turned into mush by a cop's baton. And weapons DO have a use - which is to even the odds.
I say your inane appeal to "reason" is just cowardice. You'd rather stay home all safe and warm typing away at your oh-so-mighty computer while in the real world someone with truckloads of money decides what to do with your precious interwebs.
I'd say they worked out pretty well, since their activity led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that put an end to British rule on Eire.;)
Or do you believe the Brits would have folded tents and run if the Irish had come to them begging for a little freedom pretty please? Those who have the power and know it, see absolutely no need to come to the negotiation table. Why should they? They can only lose. They must be forced to negotiate - or to capitulate - by the use of force.
Right now the media industry knows it has the power: it has the politicians in their pockets, it can bully entire states into changing their laws (see Sweden), it has the economic and legal power to blackmail and extort thousands of citizens with either the indifference or the complicity of the State.
To force them to negotiate or, better, to defeat them no amount of technological savvy can avail us. They have more assets that we have, and they can make any technical countermeasure illegal by simply buying a new law. Where does cryptography help you when you can be forced to reveal your passwords or go to jail? And it will become worse.
The only thing that can turn the tide now is to put fear into them: fear for their lives, fear for the lives of their families. Outlaws do not obey laws by definition, so no law bought by them will save their hide. We'll see if they value their money more than they value their lives.
They'll do it anyway eventually. At least let's have some of the perks of being a terr-ow-rist like, terrorizing them. If terrorists would really target the media industry mob and their lawyer goon, it would be too nice. Would they act so smug in their highrises and offices, knowing that at any time a bomb or bullet could end it all? Living in fear, 24/7? Never knowing if their kids will come back from school? Having to worry about their elderly parents, alone in their homes?
And that's only their bosses. What about the shareholders? Knowing that owning a share in Big Media is a death sentence, and wondering when it will be carried out? Who knows, you're walking in the street and all of a sudden a flash of pain in the side, or you're eating at a fancy restaurant and after a couple of bites you feel this numbness in the limbs and your head spins...
And the employees. You come home all alone when some threatening types surround you and they don't want your money, oh no...
Now, wouldn't it be sweet? Come on, admit it. There's no shame in that. It's just payback time.
Loserboy nerd, re-read my post: I'm talking about FIGHTING so that the Internet is not turned into a tool of oppression by Big Money and their government cronies. Imagine being afraid of speaking your mind, being afraid of buying anything online, being afraid to visit some sites or blogs labelled as "subversive" because they contain information that your govvy or some big corporation's shareholders do not like. This must be stopped at all costs, and anyone who pushes this control agenda must be severely dealt with.
The alternative is the Digital Panopticon. It's being build as we post on shitdot.
Exactly: there's far more at stake than P2P, and that's the ability to keep the internet a free place. Big Money doesn't want it, governments do not want it, so it WILL be wiped out and replaced with a corporate-friendly e-place where you will be able to say that all is well and watch commercials. Moreover, the internet can be turned into the most powerful of all Orwellian devices: keep the populace under automatic watch 24/7, keep an eye on what they say, what they buy, threaten to punish them if they commit thoughtcrime, threaten to take away what they have, and you have the perfect tyranny over them. You have essentially command over their minds, you make them so afraid to speak out for fear of the consequences of stating the wrong opinion that they'll be forced to think your way.
This is what it's at stake. It WILL happen. We will be all in thrall of the economical-political mob, forever. Or we act now.
Gandhi didn't "beat the Brits". The Brits saw that it was better for them to let him be and let go of India than antagonize the entire world opinion. Some decades earlier he would have been quietly disappeared. Nowadays he would be labelled an EEEVUL TERR-OW-RIST (GASP!) and be disappeared, deported or executed among the cheers of a pant-crapping populace. The media would be against him, so he would automatically lose.
And that's the situation now: the media will not come to your side, and should the Pirate Party manage to get some more seats, Big Money will simply buy the government into declaring the party illegal and to be dissolved by law. They have that power, and they're not afraid to use it. The politicians will never run away from the mighty industry: their billions are worth more than millions of citizens who can be safely ignored anyway. How did those protests against the war in Iraq go, by the way?
But try to jail an entire population, and they'll see.
Are you sure it wouldn't work? And morally disgusting - more so than the extortionist and illegal practices used by pigs like ACS:Law for instance? How do you fight the bad guys if you don't want to get your hands dirty?
Or maybe you're just making up an excuse not to fight, huh? Is that so, loserboy nerd? Then kiss your precious internet goodbye, because they'll be taking it. Lock, stock and barrel. They will OWN it, completely. They will own your very lives, in the end, because a great lot of your lives will depend on the internet and those who control it will be supreme masters over your lives.
So, either realize that it's high time to take the fight to the next level, or get used to the taste of jackboot. Seriously, do you think the partisans in occupied Europe got all fussy about moral high grounds so long as it helped put nazis six feet under?
Well, given how your rights are being violated by those industry thugs, and how your government will not protect you from the because they've been bought and paid for by the industry (which, by the way, is going to see megabucks in enforcing its own brand of private justice upon the netizens), isn't it high time to take the matter in your own hands?
Pass the word that for every user that is turned over to the industry mob, a price will be exacted: an office will be firebombed, an employee will be stabbed to death in a dark alley, an exec's family member will be kidnapped, tortured to death and the body never found. Have the message sent out that the streets are not safe anymore for these people. Yes, I know, you people in the UK have no firearms anymore but it only takes an IKEA steak knife to end someone's life and they would be begging for a bullet before the day's done.
If you really value "your rights online", understand one thing: those who want them taken away are powerful and will not stop at anything, they are winning and they know it; they see no resistance, they expect none. They are strangling the Internet by forcing the ISPs to cooperate through the use of their massive economic and legal power.
All you have against this is plain old violence. But you are cowardly geeks and will not do anything for fear of being pummeled.
What an irony if the loserboy nerds' playground, the Internet, will end up being saved by muscular, strong-willed jocks who will rip the industry goons' throats out and shit on their dead faces.
Loserboy nerd, if you couldn't take on those clowns after THREE YEARS of martial arts' training, you aren't worth your weight in shit. You couldn't fight then and cannot fight now because you are, have been and will always be, a loser by choice.
You do not loathe conflict because you're some way more "advanced" than the "neanderthals" you despise. You loathe conflict because you know that in any kind of conflict you would lose. You are weak, simple as that.
Oh, and you do not suffer from "mild Asperger's". That's one very rare condition that became a status symbol among loserboys the moment it appeared on wikishit. All of a sudden, all the loserboy nerds were "suffering from mild Asperger's" while, in reality, they are simply mentally deficient. Yes, that's what you loserboy nerds are: mentally deficient.
Conflict is a part of life and your oh-so-mighty computers will not save you from this fact.
Retired at 38? More of a loserboy. Evidently you weren't very good at what you did, despite your claims, and needed a way out. If you were any good or liked your job, you would have stayed while taking it easier.
You're a weak and unworthy amoeba. You know it to be true. Don't make up excuses for your lack of spine: I've seen my fair share of bullies and dealt with them accordingly, none bothered me afterwards.
Because I'm a jock and, unlike you, I revel in competition even if I admit bullies are unworthy opponents.
Loserboy nerd, that'a very notorious and long-ago debunked urban legend. You don't use pencils in freefall because the graphite rod can fragment and you don't want graphite fragments floating about and end up in your lungs and eyes or in the electrical equipment. Read the story on http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1 while I beat you up and shit on your face.
Typical loserboy thinking. Real men - jocks - are meant to be exactly where they want to be. It's the lowlife nerd who immediately surrenders without a fight because of his loser mentality, his inability to stand up to challenge. The jock accepts no limitations and does whatever he feels up to, the nerd stays in his basement trying to console himself with the erroneous thought that since he can't do it, nobody can. The real world says otherwise. Take your defeatist attitude to the bathroom where you furiously masturbate to kiddie porn while we shit on your face.
Since the US Armed Forces have already been defeated in Vietnam, Somalia and very soon Afghanistan, I say there are a lot of chances of sending them home packing on CONUS as well. Crime in the US is mainly the result of wide social disparities, much like in South America. In Europe until now such disparity was very reduced, but times are a-changing. Curious to note that Switzerland, with high gun ownership levels, is a very low-crime zone. The UK, by contrast, is the most violent country in Europe.
"More than we are today"? Why, do you seriously believe mankind has some untapped potential that is being held back by "religion"? Is that why Albania, the "world's first atheist society" so advanced? Is that why communist countries were so much advanced than anyone else? News for you, loserboy: humans are animals, nothing more. We're competitive, aggressive, predatory animals. We don't do things because we have some magnificent destiny to fulfill, but because there are gains in it. Believing or not believing in some imaginary entity does absolutely nothing to change this fact.
However, making ALL of mankind aware that this is the ONLY life they'll ever had, and that there's nothing else will not magically make the world better. Instead, the poor and dispossessed who often turn to religion for comfort will be deprived of even that solace, and realizing they have NOTHING to lose will rise up in arms to demand their share of the cake. This will lead to massive, worldwide bloodshed and the collapse of civilization in a beautiful orgy of violence.
The sooner it happens, the better. You'll see what happens when nothing holds us back, then, and wish it never happened. It will be good. It will be AWESOME.
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Loserboy nerd, you want medicine you PAY for it. Any society that gives priority to simply plug holes that should not be there in the first place will simply turn backwards and fade away. Setting yourself higher goals makes it simpler to take on the other challenges.
Skipping around on the Moon means technical challenges that foster technological progress. It means more scientists, more engineers, more skilled jobs that cannot be outsourced to Bumfuckay and will stay around for at least a couple of decades, and the indirect benefits of the research and development will find their way into the market, adding to the country's competitivity.
Besides, the money spent by NOT going anywhere anymore is peanuts compared to the pork-barrel shit that's going on. If you're so determined to get medicine to the poor sick people, why don't you give away all the money you don't need to survive? Hey, that's a good idea: let's tax you to the point that you only have money to eat, pay the rent, and go to the movies once per year. The rest goes to the poor.
Shit on your own face, my excrements are too precious for that.
You don't need to "topple the government". Destroy the financial, industrial and communication infrastructure and it will topple by itself. Enact selective assassination of CEOs, kill the key corporate personnel. If you destroy enough of the skilled people and equipment needed by the corporate world to function, it will collapse. You don't need to face off with the military and if you must, do it in the very areas that the economy badly needs.
Yes, because a COUPLE OF SEATS in the EU parliament will change things so much, especially when the majority is strongly pro-business and corporate-friendly. Face it, they could declare the PP illegal and disband it by law as it were a Nazi-like party and that would be the end of it.
Now, compare how some threats from Muslim extremists have put free expression in discussion in Denmark and you'll see why a knife to the throat is mightier than a signature on a piece of paper.
Put your pens away and break out your knives: it's going to get ugly soon.
What power? Until now "disgruntled netizens" have had absolutely zero effect: the conversion of the Internet into cable TV status is proceeding at full speed with no opposition. In the end, when all will have been said and done, "disgruntled netizens" will simply wring their hands and accept the new status quo because there will be nothing to be done.
If you want to act, act now.
"Capisci" is best said when standing above the prostrated and bloodied body of a cowering industry thug (copyright lawyer or such) while holding a tire iron, between one broken bone and the next.
Don't kid yourself. If you keep talking, they will win. In order to save the Internet as you know it, you need to kill them.
Loserboy nerd, I BUY my videogames. If they're too expensive, I wait until the price have come down. None of your grotty little pieces of buggy software is worth full price anyway and I can wait. Sometimes they come out as coverdisks on the game magazines I buy, 1 and a half years after it has come out.
Get a piece of rubber hose about 10 meters long (to compensate for the negative length of your prick), shove your pathetic dick into one end (and don't forget the silicon paste or it will slip out like a needle in a tunnel), the other end up your nose and piss up your braincase.
And if you work for Ubisoft with its shitty DRM, douse yourself with gasoline and light a match.
Where was the candelmakers' and horse carriage drivers' right to pay the rent and keep food on the table when electric light and cars came along? Progress moves on and don't kid yourself, if the industry could throw the old guy to the wolves and spare the expenses on him they would do it in a heartbeat.
I fight for the right to NOT be monitored on my online activities, to NOT be put on watchlists for "suspicious activities" (there have been civil rights battles to stop the police from doing that in the past, you know), to NOT be muscled to pay up and shut up when Big Money decides to help itself to lovely heaps of my dosh.
I fight for the right to private property: my computer, my console, the software I bought with my money IS MINE, not property of some industry cartel with me having a user license that can be changed at their whim with me having no choice but to go along with their wishes.
I fight for the right to speak my mind, to say what I want, on the Internet. I'm not interested in the industry mafia's imprimatur. Control of communication is mind control.
And no, I'm no leftist radical. I'm as conservative as I can be: I want to conserve MY RIGHTS - at gunpoint if necessary.
What about you?
Maybe, maybe, maybe. Turn your oughts into shalls. I AM morally correct, since I believe individual freedom trumps Big Money's interests.
I'll be enjoying my football match - tomorrow. Tonight is AD&D time, of course with REAL dungeons and REAL dragons because that's how real jocks play!
What I'm typing away on? Jocks don't need to type: they stare at the webcam and the computer types for them, or else. And there's no swibble in my living room. What about yours?
You make good points but in the end it boils down to a simple fact: the populace is setting a trend, the technology is setting a trend, and for the first time in history the party that wants to maintain the status quo is actually succeeding.
They are turning the clock back, and moreover they've launched a fear-mongering campaign designed to scare the majority of people into compliance. It's like if in the beginning of the printed page era, printing presses had been banned, their possessions made into a crime and houses been subjected to periodical sweep searches for illegal equipment - all to keep the monks who copied books by hand into business.
If they succeed, it's over: the internet will become TV 2.0, and we'll be entering into an age of fear. Fear of doing the "wrong thing". Fear of being disconnected from a network on which our everyday lives will more and more depend, fear of being labelled as a "digital rights violator" and being denied employment, fear of simply thinking "wrong".
Moreover, privatization of justice must not be allowed to happen. It will become a rich source of revenue for greedy law firms who will blackmail citizens at will, knowing that they don't have enough money to fight but enough to pay up without a fuss.
And in the end, the connivence between government and industry must be broken at all costs. With one side holding the power to make even breathing illegal - and to ENFORCE such power - and the other wielding the economic power to buy any law they desider, the perfect tyranny is forming.
It must be fought at *ANY* price.
Wait until enough people are blackmailed by the copyright goons, and you'll see. I doubt the industry types will get any sympathy, however. After the financial crash, bankers had to dress as plain as possible for a while to avoid unpleasant confrontation on the streets, for instance. When they'll hear about some big media type or copyright lawyer being found floating facedown in a river or beaten into organ donor status, they'll be cheering.
One thing Big Money will never buy: sympathy. As for governments being good at handling such things, should I remind you that leftist terrorism in Europe during the '70s (fortunately) failed mainly because their own political base didn't support them?
By the way, just to make things clear: I'm not advocating violence to defend "copyright infringement". I'm advocating violence to protect the netizen's RIGHTS: the industry pushes monstruosities like ACTA through, bypassing the democratic process and putting the populace before a fait accompli. Our rights as citizens are being defecated upon.
Time to defecate back, with some diarrhea.
Yeah. "Reason" and "Reverse subversion" worked so well for the Jews in WW2. They worked so well in occupied France. They're working wonderfully for Tibet. Oh, what wonders does "reason" for the Karen in Myanmar.
I may have 2 brain cells to work together, but you have one sodium particle. All your brain cells won't do shit for you if they're turned into mush by a cop's baton. And weapons DO have a use - which is to even the odds.
I say your inane appeal to "reason" is just cowardice. You'd rather stay home all safe and warm typing away at your oh-so-mighty computer while in the real world someone with truckloads of money decides what to do with your precious interwebs.
I'd say they worked out pretty well, since their activity led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that put an end to British rule on Eire. ;)
Or do you believe the Brits would have folded tents and run if the Irish had come to them begging for a little freedom pretty please? Those who have the power and know it, see absolutely no need to come to the negotiation table. Why should they? They can only lose. They must be forced to negotiate - or to capitulate - by the use of force.
Right now the media industry knows it has the power: it has the politicians in their pockets, it can bully entire states into changing their laws (see Sweden), it has the economic and legal power to blackmail and extort thousands of citizens with either the indifference or the complicity of the State.
To force them to negotiate or, better, to defeat them no amount of technological savvy can avail us. They have more assets that we have, and they can make any technical countermeasure illegal by simply buying a new law. Where does cryptography help you when you can be forced to reveal your passwords or go to jail? And it will become worse.
The only thing that can turn the tide now is to put fear into them: fear for their lives, fear for the lives of their families. Outlaws do not obey laws by definition, so no law bought by them will save their hide. We'll see if they value their money more than they value their lives.
They'll do it anyway eventually. At least let's have some of the perks of being a terr-ow-rist like, terrorizing them.
If terrorists would really target the media industry mob and their lawyer goon, it would be too nice. Would they act so smug in their highrises and offices, knowing that at any time a bomb or bullet could end it all? Living in fear, 24/7? Never knowing if their kids will come back from school? Having to worry about their elderly parents, alone in their homes?
And that's only their bosses. What about the shareholders? Knowing that owning a share in Big Media is a death sentence, and wondering when it will be carried out? Who knows, you're walking in the street and all of a sudden a flash of pain in the side, or you're eating at a fancy restaurant and after a couple of bites you feel this numbness in the limbs and your head spins...
And the employees. You come home all alone when some threatening types surround you and they don't want your money, oh no...
Now, wouldn't it be sweet? Come on, admit it. There's no shame in that. It's just payback time.
Loserboy nerd, re-read my post: I'm talking about FIGHTING so that the Internet is not turned into a tool of oppression by Big Money and their government cronies. Imagine being afraid of speaking your mind, being afraid of buying anything online, being afraid to visit some sites or blogs labelled as "subversive" because they contain information that your govvy or some big corporation's shareholders do not like. This must be stopped at all costs, and anyone who pushes this control agenda must be severely dealt with.
The alternative is the Digital Panopticon. It's being build as we post on shitdot.
Don't waste time with e-mail. Send a nice boompack to their snailmail address. Nothing says "capisce" like an employee with his hands blown off.
Exactly: there's far more at stake than P2P, and that's the ability to keep the internet a free place. Big Money doesn't want it, governments do not want it, so it WILL be wiped out and replaced with a corporate-friendly e-place where you will be able to say that all is well and watch commercials. Moreover, the internet can be turned into the most powerful of all Orwellian devices: keep the populace under automatic watch 24/7, keep an eye on what they say, what they buy, threaten to punish them if they commit thoughtcrime, threaten to take away what they have, and you have the perfect tyranny over them. You have essentially command over their minds, you make them so afraid to speak out for fear of the consequences of stating the wrong opinion that they'll be forced to think your way.
This is what it's at stake. It WILL happen. We will be all in thrall of the economical-political mob, forever. Or we act now.
Gandhi didn't "beat the Brits". The Brits saw that it was better for them to let him be and let go of India than antagonize the entire world opinion. Some decades earlier he would have been quietly disappeared. Nowadays he would be labelled an EEEVUL TERR-OW-RIST (GASP!) and be disappeared, deported or executed among the cheers of a pant-crapping populace. The media would be against him, so he would automatically lose.
And that's the situation now: the media will not come to your side, and should the Pirate Party manage to get some more seats, Big Money will simply buy the government into declaring the party illegal and to be dissolved by law. They have that power, and they're not afraid to use it. The politicians will never run away from the mighty industry: their billions are worth more than millions of citizens who can be safely ignored anyway. How did those protests against the war in Iraq go, by the way?
But try to jail an entire population, and they'll see.
Are you sure it wouldn't work? And morally disgusting - more so than the extortionist and illegal practices used by pigs like ACS:Law for instance? How do you fight the bad guys if you don't want to get your hands dirty?
Or maybe you're just making up an excuse not to fight, huh? Is that so, loserboy nerd? Then kiss your precious internet goodbye, because they'll be taking it. Lock, stock and barrel. They will OWN it, completely. They will own your very lives, in the end, because a great lot of your lives will depend on the internet and those who control it will be supreme masters over your lives.
So, either realize that it's high time to take the fight to the next level, or get used to the taste of jackboot.
Seriously, do you think the partisans in occupied Europe got all fussy about moral high grounds so long as it helped put nazis six feet under?
Fight or lose. Jocks fight. Nerds can only lose.
Well, given how your rights are being violated by those industry thugs, and how your government will not protect you from the because they've been bought and paid for by the industry (which, by the way, is going to see megabucks in enforcing its own brand of private justice upon the netizens), isn't it high time to take the matter in your own hands?
Pass the word that for every user that is turned over to the industry mob, a price will be exacted: an office will be firebombed, an employee will be stabbed to death in a dark alley, an exec's family member will be kidnapped, tortured to death and the body never found. Have the message sent out that the streets are not safe anymore for these people. Yes, I know, you people in the UK have no firearms anymore but it only takes an IKEA steak knife to end someone's life and they would be begging for a bullet before the day's done.
If you really value "your rights online", understand one thing: those who want them taken away are powerful and will not stop at anything, they are winning and they know it; they see no resistance, they expect none. They are strangling the Internet by forcing the ISPs to cooperate through the use of their massive economic and legal power.
All you have against this is plain old violence. But you are cowardly geeks and will not do anything for fear of being pummeled.
What an irony if the loserboy nerds' playground, the Internet, will end up being saved by muscular, strong-willed jocks who will rip the industry goons' throats out and shit on their dead faces.
Loserboy nerd, if you couldn't take on those clowns after THREE YEARS of martial arts' training, you aren't worth your weight in shit. You couldn't fight then and cannot fight now because you are, have been and will always be, a loser by choice.
You do not loathe conflict because you're some way more "advanced" than the "neanderthals" you despise. You loathe conflict because you know that in any kind of conflict you would lose. You are weak, simple as that.
Oh, and you do not suffer from "mild Asperger's". That's one very rare condition that became a status symbol among loserboys the moment it appeared on wikishit. All of a sudden, all the loserboy nerds were "suffering from mild Asperger's" while, in reality, they are simply mentally deficient. Yes, that's what you loserboy nerds are: mentally deficient.
Conflict is a part of life and your oh-so-mighty computers will not save you from this fact.
Retired at 38? More of a loserboy. Evidently you weren't very good at what you did, despite your claims, and needed a way out. If you were any good or liked your job, you would have stayed while taking it easier.
You're a weak and unworthy amoeba. You know it to be true. Don't make up excuses for your lack of spine: I've seen my fair share of bullies and dealt with them accordingly, none bothered me afterwards.
Because I'm a jock and, unlike you, I revel in competition even if I admit bullies are unworthy opponents.
Loserboy nerd, that'a very notorious and long-ago debunked urban legend. You don't use pencils in freefall because the graphite rod can fragment and you don't want graphite fragments floating about and end up in your lungs and eyes or in the electrical equipment. Read the story on http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1 while I beat you up and shit on your face.
Typical loserboy thinking. Real men - jocks - are meant to be exactly where they want to be. It's the lowlife nerd who immediately surrenders without a fight because of his loser mentality, his inability to stand up to challenge. The jock accepts no limitations and does whatever he feels up to, the nerd stays in his basement trying to console himself with the erroneous thought that since he can't do it, nobody can. The real world says otherwise.
Take your defeatist attitude to the bathroom where you furiously masturbate to kiddie porn while we shit on your face.
Since the US Armed Forces have already been defeated in Vietnam, Somalia and very soon Afghanistan, I say there are a lot of chances of sending them home packing on CONUS as well.
Crime in the US is mainly the result of wide social disparities, much like in South America. In Europe until now such disparity was very reduced, but times are a-changing.
Curious to note that Switzerland, with high gun ownership levels, is a very low-crime zone. The UK, by contrast, is the most violent country in Europe.
"More than we are today"? Why, do you seriously believe mankind has some untapped potential that is being held back by "religion"? Is that why Albania, the "world's first atheist society" so advanced? Is that why communist countries were so much advanced than anyone else?
News for you, loserboy: humans are animals, nothing more. We're competitive, aggressive, predatory animals. We don't do things because we have some magnificent destiny to fulfill, but because there are gains in it. Believing or not believing in some imaginary entity does absolutely nothing to change this fact.
However, making ALL of mankind aware that this is the ONLY life they'll ever had, and that there's nothing else will not magically make the world better. Instead, the poor and dispossessed who often turn to religion for comfort will be deprived of even that solace, and realizing they have NOTHING to lose will rise up in arms to demand their share of the cake. This will lead to massive, worldwide bloodshed and the collapse of civilization in a beautiful orgy of violence.
The sooner it happens, the better. You'll see what happens when nothing holds us back, then, and wish it never happened. It will be good. It will be AWESOME.
... On whom?