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| schestowitz | > Hi, Roy, | Jun 09 09:20 |
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| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | > They have a funny definition of legion there at the slashdot editorial | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | > staff these days. I like the tag 'gofuckyourself', that about sums up | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | > the 'problem' | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | > http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0137246/Silverlight-Developers-Rally-Against-Windows-8 | Jun 09 09:20 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 - Slashdot .::. Size~: 132.59 KB | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | yes, thanks. I saw this slashdot submission earlier and queued it for a future TR post. | Jun 09 09:20 |
| schestowitz | >> Here's what it looks like: | Jun 09 09:25 |
| schestowitz | Excellent, thank you. | Jun 09 09:25 |
| schestowitz | I think you repeated the "idiot" link (Anonymous several times before). By accident? Anyway, let's not use the word "idiot" as our haters will use that against us. | Jun 09 09:25 |
| schestowitz | Les Paul is so good on that guitar | Jun 09 09:37 |
| schestowitz | http://tinyogg.com/watch/R31dF/ | Jun 09 09:38 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: TinyOgg - Watch: Les Paul & Mary Ford How High the Moon .::. Size~: 5.42 KB | Jun 09 09:38 |
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| ender_33 | whats with the blank | Jun 09 16:03 |
| sebsebseb | Jun 09 16:27 | |
| sebsebseb | ender_33: | Jun 09 16:27 |
| sebsebseb | ender_33: | Jun 09 16:27 |
| sebsebseb | Jun 09 16:27 | |
| sebsebseb | ender_33: uhmm for fun :) | Jun 09 16:27 |
| ender_33 | silly | Jun 09 16:28 |
| sebsebseb | yep | Jun 09 16:28 |
| sebsebseb | a bit | Jun 09 16:28 |
| sebsebseb | :D | Jun 09 16:28 |
| ender_33 | http://www.osnews.com/story/24821/UN_Declares_Internet_Access_a_Human_Right | Jun 09 18:00 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: UN Declares Internet Access a Human Right .::. Size~: 29.55 KB | Jun 09 18:00 |
| ender_33 | alterior motive? yes: making sure every person is trackable | Jun 09 18:00 |
| schestowitz | Nice | Jun 09 18:37 |
| schestowitz | I'll dent an idea.. | Jun 09 18:37 |
| schestowitz | It would be rather nice if the UN defended a _censorship-free_, site-neutral, and surveillance-free Internet as a human right given recent trends. | Jun 09 18:37 |
| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/75823013 | Jun 09 18:38 |
| TechrightsBot | @Wayne Borean (wayneborean)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jun-11 12:46:46 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz My experience too. Never had another machine fail that way since dumping Windows. The #Windows #fanbois think I lie. | Jun 09 18:38 |
| schestowitz | They don't exist | Jun 09 18:38 |
| ender_33 | what doesnt exist | Jun 09 19:16 |
| schestowitz | Windows fanbois | Jun 09 19:20 |
| MinceR | i know at least one | Jun 09 19:36 |
| schestowitz | > Please edit what I give you as you feel appropriate. I feel justified in | Jun 09 20:04 |
| schestowitz | > calling members of the US Congress "idiots" individually and in aggregate | Jun 09 20:04 |
| schestowitz | > because of the terrible laws they pass. It is probably better to call the law | Jun 09 20:04 |
| schestowitz | > what it is rather than give attention to the soon to be embarrassed authors. | Jun 09 20:04 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 20:04 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks for noticing the repeated link. It got into my template. | Jun 09 20:04 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > I noticed the Tennessee link this morning when sending this last batch but | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > left it. I was in a hurry to get to work and because it would be good to | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > repeat the news about password sharing being criminalized. | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > The password news is astounding when you consider the larger picture. The | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > DMCA already outlaws liberation of non free devices as "circumvention". Now | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > they outlaw the only means of sharing on these nasty, non free devices. RMS | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > rightly pointed to his "Right to Read" essay because the legal prediction is | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > now complete. Pogson noticed the power grab that Microsoft's manipulation of | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > OEMs is. I see it as part of the same picture complained about here: | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000858.html | Jun 09 20:05 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Why PROTECT IP Web Censorship Will Fail - But Lead to Much Worse .::. Size~: 14.58 KB | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > US lawmakers are both naive and cynical at the same time. They are naive to | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > think they want or will ultimately wield the control they seek to establish | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > but they are too cynical to hear the objections. They systems they seek to | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > establish will be lawless, controlled in the dark by software owners. | Jun 09 20:05 |
| schestowitz | I was not objecting to the observation that these were "idiots", but I think it weakens the argument when one uses strange words and it's unwise to weaken oneself. | Jun 09 20:05 |
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| schestowitz | > I agree. It is probably better to call the law what it is rather than give | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > attention to the soon to be embarrassed authors. Idiot, however, is a good | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > word. | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > Idiot \Id"i*ot\ ([i^]d"[i^]*[o^]t), n. [F. idiot, L. idiota an | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. 'idiw`ths, | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > fr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar. See Idiom.] | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > 1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > holding a public office. [Obs.] | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > [1913 Webster] | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > 2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.] | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > [1913 Webster] | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > 3. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; | Jun 09 21:27 |
| schestowitz | > commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > natural fool. In a former classification of mentally | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > level of approximately 25 or less. | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > [1913 Webster +PJC] | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > Life . . . is a tale | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > Signifying nothing. --Shak. | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > [1913 Webster] | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > 4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach. | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils] | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > conduct with a dead-line. | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | > On Thursday, June 09, 2011, you wrote: | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | >> I was not objecting to the observation that these were "idiots", but I | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | >> think it weakens the argument when one uses strange words and it's | Jun 09 21:28 |
| schestowitz | >> unwise to weaken oneself. | Jun 09 21:28 |
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