You'll need a big fucking gun to stop the little imps.

The sun never sets on the British Empire. ;)

If Syria has dropped off the internet due to the inaccessibility of the .sy domain, then, the internet is not routing around the damage.

It's pretty bloody obvious.

TOR would route around these issues with minimal effort. The internet as it is now known, is being controlled and censored. The internet as it was, is now TOR. Get with the times and stop posting rubbish that is 20 years out of date.

Censorship != Damage
The "non-TOR" internet does not route around damaged sections.
The "non-TOR" internet should be renamed to the stasi-net.

China blocks facebook with some success. Surely it's possible for other governments to only filter/block facebook ads. Even if its not 100% successful, it would be disruptive enough to facebooks revenue stream to encourage facebook to fall into line.

implement a global technocracy
that is all we need

use tor
cbf'd posting as anon-coward as even slashdot isn't anonymous...

It's intertwined with politics you ignorant tool.

There are levels of "illegality". Parking infringements differ vastly to mass murder.

But the reason why there's even anything called 'Copyright Infringement' is because there's a general notion that one can make a creative work that's value is in the concept rather than the physical embodiment.

You can follow that notion if you like. The notion I tend to follow isn't the promulgated one of compensation for conceptual thoughts. The original notion of copyright is buried in the history of the Vatican during the protestant reformation for control of the printing press and rapid dissemination of the Bible. Pesky protestants of the day were reading and putting their own spin on the Bible, this angered a corrupted Rome. To combat this loss of power, the corrupted officials (the Pope, et. al) introduced legislation to prohibit copying things (the Bible). The cried out how the poor scribes would loose their jobs, when the reality was that these corrupted officials would loose their jobs as the hoi polloi of the day might just be able to understand that the Bible wasn't all truth, but, in fact it was a poorly verified historical document.

Say what you will about it being theft, but, the true reason for copyright isn't to compensate the "owners" of Elvis' recordings. The true reason for the continuance of copyright is to ensure that certain corruptible officials maintain their lifestyle at the expense of the "hoi polloi".

I don't know why slashdotters have persisted for well over ten years

Maybe thats because the copyright system is both morally and intellectually corrupt, from it's birth to it's modern day construct. Slashdot is (or once was) an intellectual site, people with intelligence can see just how wrong the system is because, unlike the sheep, we can see just how wrong copyright is. The foundations of this well justified persistence most likely originate from these original slash-dotters.

Copying is not theft. Copying is not stealing. It is NOT the same thing.

Back in 1985 a man named Dowling was prosecuted for the Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property for selling infringing copies of Elvis records. U.S. Supreme Court in DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/473/207.html struck this down because copyright infringement is not theft. You have to deprive your victim of the item in order to steal it from them. Making copies doesn't deprive anyone of what is being copied, therefore its not theft.

The only newspaper information they hold are copies of today's papers.
There is no way I can go to the library and look-up yesterday's news, let alone the 1920s

This is because the Ministry of Truth has determined that two plus two always has and always will equal five.

Between 1985 and 1998 Apple made a reasonable effort at destroying itself without Steve Jobs.

Coal mining is completely different to seam gas extraction.
Coal mining removes the coal.
Seam gas extraction leaves the coal seam in-situ.
Seam gas extraction extracts water that is within the seam, this water contains gas, the gas is separated from the water.

The size of an exploration pad is nothing more than 30x30m, including all the equipment.
The size of a production drill pad for CSG extraction is nothing more than 2 basketball courts.

At least, this is how it works in my part of the world... and seriously, in Central Queensland (Australia) we have boat loads of the stuff.

Battlestar Galactica has a lot to answer for.
Referring to the "fracturing" of seams beneath the earth sounds much worse than it actually is when it is called "fracking".

The real question we should all be asking is: WHERE THE FRACK ARE YOU GOING TO GET ENERGY TO POWER YOUR NEW DIGITAL ECONOMY FROM?