Re: [freenet-chat] Freedom of speech
AOL is well known for their censorship practices so I doubt that's going to be breaking news for anybody. In short, however, it is their message board and they are well within their rights to do whatever the hell they want with it. Friends don't let friends use AOL. --- Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freedom of speech? I recently posted a message on the AOL messageboard (UK). I suddenly became the victim of brutal censorship. I want everyone to know about AOL. The correspondence between me/them will be forthcoming if you desire. Sincerely, Stephen Bennett __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ___ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat
[freenet-chat] self description
--- krepta at juno.com wrote: > Tell me, guys, be honest. Knowing all that you know > about me, if you > were employers, would you hire me? Say the job is > an office or > secretarial job. Forget the heavy lifting stuff, > that isn't even in the > picture. Concentrate now. Would you hire me? Get a job that you can do from home/hospital by telecommuting. Learn programming and you're halfway there. Alternatively, write fiction for a living, become the next Stephen King (not that we need another one). The alternative, of course, is to sit around feeling sorry for yourself and doing nothing... __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
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--- krepta at juno.com wrote: > I can't do that, that would be dishonest. Even if I > didn't tell them, my > work would be affected very badly by my condition > and they would > eventualy find out and fire me. I don't want to be > a dishonest person, > at least not when it affects other people. Employers are not (legally) allowed to discriminate based on disability, provided that disability does not preclude doing a job in the first place. If you were applying for a job doing heavy lifting construction, then the fact that you have bad knees would be a valid reason for not hiring you, or firing you. Assuming that you are applying for jobs you actually feel you are capable of performing, there is no logical reason to include that information in an interview. Even if it does affect your job performance, provided you are still able to perform within acceptable parameters it is really none of their business. If you feel compelled to honesty, don't lie, but there is nothing in a job interview that requires you to paint a negative picture of yourself by disclosing your every shortcoming. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
[freenet-chat] The Coming Storm
I think you have a part in the next lord of the rings installment. --- Mark J Roberts wrote: __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] Interesting post on /.
--- Stefan Reich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: would you be willing to trade your personal privacy for maybe some further measure of security from terrorists? Would you grant the people running Carnivore greater rights into your life in order to perhaps prevent more events like this? Is the encryption export ban such a bad thing when stacked against 50,000 people's lives? Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Just as gun control usually only helps keep guns away from honest citizens, encryption control would only allow the government to monitor people who use standard encryption packages. You'd have to be a pretty stupid terrorist to use an encryption protocol that you knew the government had a back door to. When there are so many that don't have a back door available from your nearest encryption textbook, why use one that has a gaping hole in it. As somebody else pointed out, it's not even necessary to use encryption, when you can hide messages in pre-arranged code words. So to summarize, allowing the government to tap into my communications will only catch terrorists without any brains while significantly reducing my ability to have privacy from the government. Now if the hypothetical government monitoring could actually help catch terrorists then I'd be in more of a moral quandry. While the famous saying He who trades freedom for safety deserved neither comes to mind, lack of privacy isn't necessarily lack of freedom. I would probably still object just on the principle (I don't believe the government has any business poking into my business), I don't really want terrorists to be able to kill 5000 people in a fell swoop. __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] p2p = child-endangerment
--- Greg Wooledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lobbyist: Hello, Senator. I'd like to talk about piracy. Senator: You mean people who copy music and movies without paying for them? Lobbyist: Yes, that's right. We can't prosecute these people because of loopholes in the copyright laws. So we'd like you to pass some more laws that protect our business interests. Senator: But what about free speech? Lobbyist: May I remind you that the media companies constitute XX% of this country's gross national product, as well as YY% of our exports? And did you forget about all the help we gave you in your last campaign? Senator: Well gosh, that's right. My statement wasn't geared at their intent, more at the physical restrictions that would cause any interference to be impractical. Short of outlawing encryption, there is no way to eliminate peer to peer file sharing. As much as our politicians sell out to the entertainment industry, there's no way something like that would come to pass without being challenged immediately and successfully by half the lawyers in the nation. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] Re: p2p = child-endangerment
Check your premises. *Why* is it a problem for kids to have access to porn? How do you know our society wouldn't be better off if everybody grew up watching porn instead of horror movies? Why do assume parents should protect their children from sex? I frequently wonder about this myself. Even given our sometimes puritanical roots, it seems self-evident that sex is a fairly major factor of our existence. Given that children are basically sponges that absorb information at rates that make most adults seem shamefully slow, I fail to see how obsfucation and misinformation will really help them to prepare for what will inevitably be a significant part of their lives. At least I'll get to raise my kids not to be such censor prone prudes. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] for the record
--- Tavin Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:35:37PM -0700, Josh wrote: Borg ramblings deleted You need professional help. Nah, he'd be right at home at any Trek con :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] p2p = child-endangerment
--- Jeremy G Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that's the whole point of the report Mr. Largent and I are releasing today. He also said that in comparison, the debate over the V-Chip is trivial. There are still v-chip debates? Sheesh, great to see my tax dollars at work. I wonder what congress thinks it has a hope in hell of accomplishing against P2P porn, file sharing, etc. Silly luddites. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] Free Dmitry Sklyarov!
--- Roger Hayter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may not be popular to say so, but I am sure that America's oppression, torture and murder of anyone who opposes its political, military and economic hegemony is unlikely to be stopped except by the united military force of the peoples of the world. This may take some time to arrange. Believe it or not, some americans aren't too crazy about the way our government throws it's weight around (esp, the current administration). Those americans who have lived in other countries and read the real news, instead of the highly filtered versions that make it to the american papers realize that our country often acts like a spoiled bully trying to get it's way at the expense of others. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
Re: [freenet-chat] sex
--- Madonna Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to fuckyou. So does the government...Hey! you're not a fed are you? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
