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quite a good hit rate on this one.

this is the area where ibrahims "same ole" doesnt ring true for me.. yes its same ole but never in human history has the ranting and raving of the elites about what they "want" us to be via the social engineering laws been so damn enforcable... and this just hilights how much mor...

Whenever I talk about wanting to move to the sticks and get some kind of ranch property, people think I mean I want to go all survivalist, when in reality I just want to live in a state with lax laws on what you can build on your property, build up a community, have access to roads and an internet ...

the right carries its loony cultural conservatives with dark ages views on war and family, the left its loony economic illiterates with with equally dubious social engineering plans. bugger the pandering to the base moderates are bad attitude... collect all the rino's and dino's under a proper centr...

man o man, you should fully understand the place before attempting such as this. so many euros die horrid in the australian bush, wrong assumptions, wrong gear, wrong wrong wrong... id only even consider doing this locally, in a place i know backwards... even moving to the other side of australia fo...

Also, the precedent that people are responsible for the actions of others is a terrible one to set. One day Typhoon could go to prison just for hosting this site. That's what Yukon Cornelius is defending. If they were going after the copyright violators themselves, rather than the service providers...

noddy One of the reasons I am involved in the political sphere is that I believe it's of paramount importance that in a society where there is no privacy, that there should be very, very, very few things that are actually illegal. This relates to your comment about wasting your youth. In my experie...

I don't see it that way. As we speak, Wake Forest is growing important bits in jars that have no rejection issues. Bikers used to call these " bolt ons"- you just undo the fasteners and swap the old one out for a new ( hot rodded?) part. There are so many things like that in the pipe- not...

Just to add to noddy's list of demands: copyrights have to you know...expire. There are so many things that should be in the public domain by now which keep getting pushed back to benefit people who've made lifetimes off of this stuff. (Check out Disney for example and the fight that Paul MacCartne...

land, gold and rum are traditional in australia but you could add energy now (oil,coal,gas et all) the thing with money is that nebulous and hard to quantify aspect... trust... which is why the absurdity of gold keeps coming back up... it has to be "trusted" by all countries across all cul...

You're forgetting something. As another website put it: " The funny thing is, the bills wouldn't even accomplish what they set out to do. You could still get to Pirate Bay or whatever by using their IP address. All SOPA and PIPA would do is put crazy amounts of power in the hands of a few. &qu...

enjoy.

yep... luckily we only have to deal with the next few decades of it, beyond that is someone elses problem as it always has been.

Actually, I had, at two different points. One rinzai, one Franciscan. However, there is no zen on the mountain but the zen you bring with you. A nuke is not a flint axe, and consciousness that evolves at a cybernetic pace is not flickerings on a cave wall. At some point, the tools change everything...

until they allow drinking and shagging im probably not welcome at a monestry and its moot anyway, they ran out of monks at our local one and it became a tourist trap.

i think most people do agree with you ibrahim and thats why im a pessimist.

nice summary. now onto the nitty gritty, how doth one define justice within this context... I thought quite simply. If you have a person, or persons, enjoying entitlements and privileges supported by others in circumstances where those privileges are either denied them or granted with a penalty - w...

This concern seems like part of living in human society generally, not a problem specific to the Internet, TV, or any other communications medium. thats exactly it ... pre internet and pre everything happening on the internet, this aspect of human society had local flavours and was only poorly enfo...

yeah...... freedom isn't free. It costs money....... There is a confusion between freedom and human rights, the two aren't exactly coequal. Basic contractual agreements and conventions because one is a human being and lives in a society that claims to be moral and under the rule of law is confuted ...

somewhere between the cliche;s you love so much are things that have been lost and i want back..somewhere along the line "progress" became ruthlessy enforced rather than encouraged.. i cant afford to go off the grid, that is only possible for the very rich or very poor in my country, i wil...

What are you guys worried about? The gubbermint seeing what websites you visit? I pity the NSA factotum grinding his teeth in boredom while reading my emails. its not so much "worry" .. its more that over the last few decades ive watched all sorts of things move from the "free and ch...

Under SOPA you could get 5 years in prison for uploading a video of Michael Jackson, that's 1 more year than the guy who killed him

they only stuffed up on this bill by concentrating on copyright which doesnt trigger a good kneejerk across enough sub cultures. in australia they focused on terrorists and druglords and pedophiles and anonymous bullies causing pretty teenage girls to suicide.. and it all passed with approval across...

Lol, man; people don't make a deal with the devil out of nowhere. Scratch got all the bennies. He may not ever come to collect. But eventually, you start cheering for him, even though you know it's wrong, just because you find yourself on the same side. I had one experience with credit back in 1993...

http://blog.curry.com/stories/2012/01/16/sopaIsARedHerring.html the TL;DR snapshot is that laws to control the dns servers are only needed if the dns servers dont comply with government demands - the dns root servers are complying with government demands so the law has become somewhat irrelevant. As...

Typhoon wrote:Japanese custom officials caught the men on their second attempt and sent them home after imposing fines. Later, one of the suspects allegedly orchestrated an unsuccessful bid to smuggle gold bars from Mongolia to Hong Kong using a similar method.

so.....is that a relapse or a prolapse.