Why do you think they had to put that in the bill of rights? Controlling speech is how people are controlled by those who want to take advantage of them.
Modern governments tell us what not to say. Churches and church-controlled governments take it a step further telling people WHAT to say.

I couldn't agree more. I'm surprised that Franklin doesn't have a bigger following on Slashdot.
Franklin not only invented a lot of stuff, but he even invented the US which allowed people like Tesla, and Einstein to reach their full potential. (not our current highly unconstitutional system run by greedy corporate executives)

Maybe most geeks don't like him because he got laid too much. When he got to Paris, French women were throwing themselves at him. Not something that happens these days in the US where women prefer serial killers, and reality show douche bags.

Half of the internet can't figure out how to download a file. Why does it surprise me?

I'm sorry but I fail to see how depicting an image of a dude is the same as advocating the extermination of a people or copyright violations.
I think a better comparison would be the depiction of nudity in public in the US. Ashcroft even covered up lady justice because of her filthy boobs.

We have the same idol hang-ups as the Pakistanis and they're driven by retarded right wing extremist assholes. The constitution is intended to protect us from them, but it even fails to work in the US.

Just picture that the austerity measures taken by different European governments means that they will have completely dissatisfied government employees who will still have access to the same data that they had before.

The creative ways in which they use that power is a problem that will only get bigger.

For example, in Romania they have a system in which government employees feed information about pre-communist owners of buildings to their business partners so that they can buy the building rights from people who no longer live in Romania and who have no interest of going back but who still want to make a little bit of easy money. As a result most historic buildings and even parts of hospitals are being snatched up from under people who lived/worked there for the past 25-50 years and the scam artists are moving in.

"Monkey work" looks exactly as if monkeys have worked on it.
If you want a high quality product, the world is pretty flat as far as cost.

Are any combatants lawful? What the fuck does that even mean?

Funny to read that British people think of food in risk terms. As Americans, we just know that British food is boring and would choose the Somali food over it.
True story, when the mad cow disease come rolling in here, the sales of beef increased.

That is an iPod nano, not an iPod touch. Still pretty cool though.

It was really difficult to find which cars they allowed through in Vanity Fair for those who don't feel like reading the rest of the article about the most boring subjects on the planet: olympic sports, and London

"Near the end of the application process, an I.O.C. evaluation committee was permitted to visit London. Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s application. “Our nightmare was it would take forever to get to the venues,” Mills recalled. A bid-committee team planned the routes that I.O.C. members would travel around the city, and G.P.S. transmitters were planted in all of the I.O.C. members’ vehicles so they could be tracked. From the London Traffic Control Center, near Victoria Station, where hundreds of monitors display live feeds from London’s comprehensive CCTV surveillance system, each vehicle was followed, from camera to camera, “and when they came up to traffic lights,” Mills said, “we turned them green.”

Data plan markups are getting ridiculous though. All providers except for Spring have data caps on the iPhone. So yeah, AT&T has a history of shitty business practices which require SMS-type markups.

ie the AT&T phone which people paid many times over with lease fees, monopoly break-up. Small things.

He probably studied under Lobachevsky.

Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky

Importing porn to Germany from Pakistan is about the most suspicious thing anyone can do.

I wonder if this is just an attack by the Texas legislature on Amazon, who they are upset with for beating all local prices which are taxed a billion times over. (building tax, transportation tax, gas tax, sales tax, retails people salary tax, etc....)

Maybe the women you are testing. My wife and I quite enjoy diving with sharks.