Joakal

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by Joakal 15y ago
That's understandable. There was a bail and thus, the charged person has limited freedom again. However, by attempting to order someone with an Internet proficiency to avoid the Internet is impossible due to electronics, wirless, government
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I apologise. I was explaining that I did not like being misrepresented by others. I would have been less defensive to a request to clarify my posts. As for it being a human right from precedent, it's already recognised in some European coun
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The prosecution took it that far and the judge does not understand the implications of Internet as a necessity. I even highlighted that it restricts many needs to function as a member of society. The reality is that there are electronics th
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> Paying bills online and reading about politics are not human rights either. There are alternatives available for any task he's expected to do as a member of society. I'm sorry, but Internet access is the human right. You're putting hu
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Internet access is a fundamental right since it's quickly becoming a necessity. It is also quite common for the courts to disregard asinine restrictions. If he used electricity to infringe on copyright, are they going to turn off his electr
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So how is he going to pay online-only bills? Are the courts going to give him taxpayer money for late fees? Or it's his own fault for not predicting his arrest? Can he read about politics as part of his duty as a voter? Due to Internet as a
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They're a centralised company, not a de-centralised group of people all over the world like The Pirate Bay among others.
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The judge violated human right of Internet access. Regardless, they should be disbarred and mistrial called until a replacement judge with technical competence to preside can be found. You'll understand that this right is inalienable if you
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Reddit has something similar with these: http://reddit.com/r/netsec (Check related subreddits)
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While not sports related; this is one example of an genetic algorithm that improves with discarding failures: http://www.boxcar2d.com/index.html
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> The other major ISPs, such as iiNet and Internode, have no intention of implementing the filter, and in fact actively and successfully fight government interference in court. They may be expensive in some aspects, but they have a duop
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There's mandatory Internet censorship in Australia, in a sense that it's funded by the government and users have no choice except to leave. It's a form of making censored Internet subscriptions cheaper than Internet Freedom subscriptions th
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Already, there are huge queues for Foxconn positions even if the work conditions are abysmal. The Chinese government won't like this as it could lead to famine issues all over again. I wonder how Foxconn is going to compensate for this, the
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It's not much of a paradox but something that capitalists said that globalisation allows a huge demand for workers in developing countries until the workers can demand developed world wages.
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Some more parts of the equation; deregulation, unemployment pressures, some job degrees aren't helpful, heavy cultural emphasis on degrees to be successful, culture of short-term thinking and lack of financial education.
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It doesn't stop there. USA has been known to curb Internet Freedom by threatening foreign governments in private despite their hypocritical attitude of condemning censorship regimes. You can see the list of governments whose policies is con
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UK has instant runoff voting for Upper House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting UK rejected alternative voting in 2011 for Lower House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot... So the winner take
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by Joakal 15y ago
Why would GoDaddy open themselves up for this liability without a court order? Registrant: Interlogy, LLC Registered through: Go Daddy Domain Name: JOTFORM.COM Domain servers in listed order: NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM NS2.SUSPEND
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I'm looking at pretty graphs that seem to indicate that excessive sentences in USA is standard. Amount of inmates per 100,000 is rising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... Crime rate per 100,000 is going down:
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Some places in the world, there's no exemption for non-commercial copyright infringement. A grandmother sending an old wedding picture (without a copyright release) to her grandchild is liable for up to $73,500 and 5 years of jail in Austra
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There is still democracy. Join the pirate party. You'll get materials, information, etc, to present to other people. If there's enough mass of people realising that the government and copyright cartels are bullshitting and using pirates as
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There's ways to develop dna, organs, bones, etc. The 'browser' somewhat exists; the minor 'javascript' quirks can be tested in some of the 'browsers'.
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Hi! Welcome to Hacker News, please add something more substantive than just reaffirming the post above yours. Posters like me want to actually read posts that are informative, insightful, etc. So we would unfortunately downvote posts like y
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Then talk to the opponent; unless there's de facto collusion, monopoly, etc?
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V was a product of government abuse from experimentation. After escaping, he decides to destroy the state in a cold calculated manner. There's no people involved except for the token character, which the author uses for the reader to unders
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"Somebody used our ip addresses." - RIAA's argument when their computers were linked to piracy.
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Take some notes of Freedom of Press for the Freedom of Internet. The counterarguments can be simpler than you think; Senator, would you prefer ineffectively blocking child pornography that paedophiles can work around or allowing children th
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What's hypocritical about that is that restricting the Internet will discourage creation and sharing of knowledge.
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What's worst is that some senators believes they have a right to regulate foreign countries with USA laws. Probably because they recently got an UK court to allow USA to extradite a webmaster for linking to infringing content.
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CNET supports SOPA in the sense their owner does [0]. CNET <- CBS Interactive [1]. CBS Interactive <- CBS [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_sup... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNET [2] https

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