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Comment Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. (Score 1) 258

Once you enter an area that requires a ticket or that is private property, you are no longer in a public venue for free unhampered expression; you are in an area for paying customers.

And when the goverment has finished selling just about all of the public land, train stations, bus stations you'll get to enjoy your lack of freedom to speak in those oh so not public places, you know, the ones where the public walk around and you have to use to access "public transport" yet it is private property...

Comment Re:You have that backwards (Score 1) 318

Another recent thing is the ability to find out people's information just from their name and country, in the past without all these linked networks it took a lot longer to find someone if you could even find them at all... So we had anonminity in a form then the Internet and other various data retention events came along and we lost anonminity, then we got it back in the form of posting Anonymously or with a name we have made up. Like I am doing right now.

Comment Re:Common Sense, anyone? (Score 5, Insightful) 788

It may be "common sense" to you, but I don't see how you don't realize what you just said is impossible - at least in the sense of providing the "best" healthcare for everyone. There are documented horrible failures of British and Canadian healthcare for instance - you are at the mercy of a bureaucracy in order to get treatment. Often the wait times are measured in months. There is a reason so many wealthy foreigners come to America for major procedures.

Just as with your ideas about taxing the rich, there are unintended consequences. Many doctors are quitting the profession because of 0bamacare.

Yeah cause I am sure some lapses in health care are much better than having no chance of having it all, give me a break.

Comment Food DVD (Score 1) 140

I'm sorry RIAA, MPAA ,whateverAA no one can afford your shit anymore, if you haven't looked out front your door lately a lot of people are barely able to afford their food let alone some shiney discs you sell. I mean the USA is in big trouble right now so is half of europe, if we have a choice we're going with dinner > DVD thank you very much, please just go and fade away you're no longer relevant anymore.

Comment I see what you did there (Score 1) 315

Funny how we have an article on how anonymity online is bad just after a certain group of people who happen to be all about anonymity attack goverments and certain news paper... After all we don't want people being anonymous then we can't go after them when they say things we don't like!

Comment And next.. (Score 1) 114

Next new airport security scanner, is going to feature automatic cavity searches don't forget to bend over. The sad part is that sentence doesn't even feel like a joke to me anymore when I see how many privacy violations and inhumane things goverments are putting their people through. It's just discusting I just finished reading this: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/32-signs-that-the-entire-world-is-being-transformed-into-a-futuristic-big-brother-prison-grid. Is there any hope left for this stupid planet?

Comment People still have books? (Score 0) 283

If only there was a what is a book option I haven't read anything in book form in ages, though that may change soon since I found a few things I like that are in that form. Almost all my reading is from a computer now and not anything resembling a book.

Comment Re:Why hasn't it clicked yet? (Score 3, Insightful) 219

When the industry starts giving people what they want - DRM-free stuff they can 'own' and use whichever way they like, at a reasonable price - then piracy will go down.

They don't want that though, the minute you have a prefect digital copy you don't have to keep buying the same shit everytime we get a new technology to play it, and they certainly don't want that at all ^^

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 1017

True, nice of you to take it to the extream, I guess I could take the whole controlling everyone to an extream too, though I really can't be bothered. I think I'll judge how free I am, and I don't see much freedom, I see control and intimidation, I see procedures that really don't do anything to keep people safe, just give the impression to those not knowing otherwise. No one asked for uncompromising freedom, what people want is some damn reasonable freedom, and I don't see it.

Comment Re:Don't Fly (Score 2) 1017

The "porno scanners"? Give me a break. You are so scared that somebody is going to see your naked body? Big whoop. What are you ashamed of? This is getting ridiculous.

Generally most people only like their docotor seeing them naked and not Dave who works wednesdays and fridays. Actually I agree lets all walk around the air port naked, I mean there's nothing to be ashamed of right? What's the worse that could happen to you? It's just people seeing you naked.

Comment Re:Another misleading summary (Score 1) 1017

The summary is typically misleading. She was not arrested for refusing to let her children be scanned. She was arrested for making a disturbance. Disturbing the peace, they call it.

Yeah she was making a disturbance cause she didn't want her child being touched by some stranger, it's a bit hard not to make a disturbance when doing that.

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