Con-Fu:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=608

"Stay Alert! Trust No One! Keep Your Laser Handy!"

How about if we rename the French Fries to freedom fries in honor of this courts achievements in defending the freedom of its citizens?

Many people know lots of things. People who have better knowledge about a thing then others will be able to dominate people with less knowledge since facts are on their side.

Regardless of how tainted onces beliefs are, facts are facts.

Wisdom, ethics, insight, knowing whats best for society, looking at stuff not from onces own field of expertise is not prevalent in crowds.

History is full of people who had knowledge, but lacked wisdom...

Now imagine you have pictures of being a little kid bathing (for extra fun: with your siblings). Showing those to your boy/girlfriend will get you convicted for owning and making available images of naked kids! Who would want to defend you despicable being for having those images around!

And the scary thing: If things continue in the direction they are going now, it is only a matter of time.

Oh, I do so wish that next election will let me mod the government "funny"...

Sign in, sneak out, wreak havoc - and prove you were at school when it happened. priceless!

Especially Ultima VI, but also Ultima VII had a vast world that can be explored freely. You can even harvest crops and bake bread if you like or drift across the sea in a raft...

I still fondly remember the exploration of Britannia and it took me at least a month to realize there was a storyline I could follow (I only had about 1 year of english at school at that time and game-information was heavily text-driven...)

At least where I live you have to pay to have radio. It is ~10$/month for radio. And the listener will be subject to advertisement, which does not make a service free - it just gets paid "round the corner"...

Unfortunately to get them on this technicality you would have to prove that they planned to import drugs or were part of a terrorist organization at the moment they filled out the form.

Of course this would imply a working justice system... But if the system doesn't care about the law anyway, why bother with the questions in the first place?

Nowadays where everything gets calculated into CO2 - how would the trees calculate in CO2 saved? Could they just sell CO2-certificates and give everyone a kindle2 for free?

(and is it able to light my chimney, as its name suggests?)

At least for germany this is not true. The cop is a witness and witnesses have to state their perceptions. So he will say "I heard ..." or "I saw ..." - but how this gets interpreted is up to the judge(s) only.

...that the new store will entertain a "plays for sure, no really!"-logo.

The private individuals looking to make a buck did so - and created the next batch of problems now known under the names of "Respirable Dust", "Smog", "Traffic Jam" and not to forget "Global Warming".

Did it occur to you or anyone else of your school of thought, that individuals looking for a quick buck /might/ be involved in something commonly defined as the 'tragedy of the commons' and thus might give horse manure for long term consequences of their doing as long as they personally make a fortune and do not have to pay for the consequences?

I for one would welcome a committee of busybodies (who are not actually lobbyists trying to make a quick buck by catering to particular interest groups) that actually takes the time to think about possible consequences of their doing before presenting solutions. Just for example, that would have circumvented that whole stupid bio-fuel-from-crop-pseudo-solution.

... or usenet or wherever todays kids get their moviez from...