HAHAHA. You don't understand the difference between statutory regulations and criminal law. Go look up the difference between the two and come back and have an informed discussion. What are you 7 years old? -- insults are not necessary. Just become informed of how law works and then we can talk. Here is a hint. Who is the plaintiff in both, what is the burden of proof in both. Who is the injured party in both? How and why? Who brings action against the accused? I never said that when someone is being mugged, you should look away. This is about statutory infractions, not about crime. Understand the difference and we can talk.

I think you just proved my point with Snowden. Governments have too much control over people as it is; we don't need to give them more. I think we agree on that. Governments only have control when we want them to. My ancestors and state fought long and hard to throw off an oppressive government and take up the mantle of sovereignty ourselves.

I come from a neighborhood where people mind their own business, because it is their own. I like my privacy and to be left alone. My neighbors like the same thing. We all agree on that. I don't stick my nose in someone else's affairs because I don't want them sticking their nose in mine.

Tattling to the police is like running and crying to Mom. The last bastion of those who can't handle that other people do things they don't like and want to punish them with the highest power they can.

Just because you don't like stereotypes doesn't mean they aren't true and the little old Italian wash woman sticking her nose in other people's business is very well known around me. Italians, on a whole, like to butt into other people's business. It is their entertainment. I know, I have four, off the boat, still Italian citizen, resident aliens in my family. They are great people, but they love gossip and getting into other people's affairs.

Snitches. Hahaha. I wonder who vists @TrafficNaRcAntony when someone, umm, _Influential_ gets a parking ticket for a tweet sent by someone obviously standing in front of the "questionably" parked car long enough to send a good, focused picture.

We all know where snitches end up...

On a side note, wow, gotta love socialism. The state is more important than the individual to the point that the state out-sources their enforcement to the citizens. And the citizens do it! Gotta love the collectivism mindset. Tattle to mother government when they see something wrong, then codify the process through twitter.

You don't combat magazine capacity (ab)use by prohibition, you use education.

And anyway the side effect of prohibition will do far more harm to society then any magazine can.

There, I assume we agree now...

all get together and sit Shuttleworth in a room with Linus and lock the door for an hour after Linus has been forced to use Unity for a week? That would probably solve the problem. After what they did with Unity and then with the passing search terms out to the internet, I can't recommend Ubuntu, but through Ubuntu and MATE. They really screwed the pooch on that. They had the best chance at corporate desktop standardization but really lost it with forcing Unity on people. And yes, I have used it. It bites.

It will be discussed over and over, but this man did what countless generations before him dreamed about. We can never truly quantify the amount of change that has occurred because of his stepping on a celestial body. May he rest in peace and look back with pride on what has been accomplished because of what he was willing to dare. Remember, there is no tow service once you pass the ionosphere. There was no way to get back if they landed safely and had a problem. NASA delayed the video feed so that if something went wrong, it wasn't broadcast live on TV. They would just say that signal had been lost. He ignored these risks and put his life on the line.

Mr. Armstrong,
From all your fellow Eagle Scouts; Thank you.

Honestly. Look at the agreement between you and them. You are providing eyeballs for a product. When they believe they can track you beyond your eyeballs, there is an issue. You don't HAVE to look at billboards as you drive by them. Why do they think they can throw a GPS tracking device on your car as you drive by? All business transactions are based on equal standing. Especially contract law. You need to be on equal footing for contracts to be honored. That is why some jurisdictions don't see Shrink Wrap EULAs as valid and enforceable. You have no equal footing with something that you already purchased and cannot return, since the package was opened.

When the equation is equal again, you can walk back and deal as an equal, until it is an equal equation, the only way to win is to not play.

Kobayashi Maru

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what is for dinner.

Liberty is a well-armed lamb.

AdBlock Plus just give us lambs better arms.

Enlightenment. I held onto that window manager for years. I even used it with Fink for a while on an old Powerbook G3. It was simple and always worked. It was better than Gnome was at the time.

www.enlightenment.org

http://www.gilesorr.com/papers/otherwm2003/images/enlightenment.bluesteel.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_window_manager