Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-03 Thread Lizard
At 07:49 PM 12/3/2000, Danny Yee wrote: Lizard wrote: Really? Doesn't the Berne convention override national laws? Probably, yes. Does that mean national copyright laws only apply to their own citizens/residents? What happens in the case of dual citizenship? And does place of publication

Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

2000-09-13 Thread Lizard
At 03:11 AM 9/13/00 -0400, Jodi Hoffman wrote: I knew there was a reason I printed out NAMBLA's website throughout the years. Maybe I should contact this child's parents as well as their attorney. Maybe you should do the same. Maybe you really are a member of NAMBLA. It certainly

Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

2000-09-13 Thread Lizard
At 10:56 AM 9/13/00 -0400, Jodi Hoffman wrote: Ah, the Lizard slinks to the support of child rapists and murderers. Nope, only to the support of those who advocate it, just like I support your right to free speech. I daresay you're much more dangerous to children than any NAMBLA

Re: Oracle's Smear Campaign Against The Independent Institute

2000-06-28 Thread Lizard
"Colin A. Reed" wrote: An independent research group that takes money from the people it's supposed to be researching is either accepting bribes or stupid, neither of which says anything good about their conclusions. Uhm..every non-profit group takes money from contributors...it's how they

Re: Drug-Info Censorship Bills Proliferating

2000-06-22 Thread Lizard
You know, my first thought was something like, "This anti-drug hysteria made a sick kind of sense in the 80s and early 90s, with soaring crime rates and a need to find something to blame. But with violent crime dropping, why does anyone care?" Then, of course, it hit me. As Rand and others have

Re: Tired of Internet Filters Refusing, Beaver College Bows ToPressure And Changes Name

2000-06-21 Thread Lizard
Tim May wrote: At 10:31 PM -0700 6/20/00, Lizard wrote: Libertarians don't interfere in the choices of others to buy useless gadgets or to believe foolish things. Where did you get the notion that "most libertarians" would advocate intervening in such matters? I do not k

Re: Tired of Internet Filters Refusing, Beaver College Bows ToPressure And Changes Name

2000-06-21 Thread Lizard
Tim May wrote: At 9:13 AM -0700 6/21/00, Lizard wrote: I do not know of any libertarian or right-anarchist who believes a capitalist society can exist without some means of demanding compensation for fraud. If you contract to buy apples and I sell you potatoes instead, there must be some

Re: Tired of Internet Filters Refusing, Beaver College Bows ToPressure And Changes Name

2000-06-20 Thread Lizard
At 6:10 PM -0700 6/20/00, Tim May wrote: At 4:54 PM -0700 6/20/00, Lizard wrote: Matthew Gaylor wrote: = Beaver College bows to pressure and changes name Author: Connie Langland State: PA, Country: United States URL: http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/06/13/city/BEAVER13

Re: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

2000-06-11 Thread Lizard
Microsoft is not interested in innovation or competition. If Bill Gates could get the DOJ to declare MS the sol legal OS in the US, he'd do so. BUT...nothing about capitalism says "Companies must love the thought of competition". It says "Companies must not be able to use force or fraud to

Re: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

2000-06-11 Thread Lizard
At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote: Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business. Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As CorporateBullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-07 Thread Lizard
International 'law' is as strong as the strongest nation that supports the law. The US will only obey such laws as it finds convenient. Deal with it, Euroeweenies.

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As CorporateBullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-07 Thread Lizard
At 10:19 PM -0700 4/7/00, Steve Schear wrote: At 10:30 AM 4/7/00 -0700, Lizard wrote: International 'law' is as strong as the strongest nation that supports the law. The US will only obey such laws as it finds convenient. Deal with it, Euroeweenies. Yes, and one has only to look at the hand

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate BullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-05 Thread Lizard
At 11:46 PM -0400 4/5/00, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Giving credit to a US president for political change in the USSR seems a little far fetched. So the American space program was not a result of Sputnik? Nations influence other nations all the time. The people of the USSR and Eastern

Re: Clinton Gore Vow To Fight The Establishment On Crypto (YeahRight)

2000-02-18 Thread Lizard
At 1:36 PM -0600 2/18/00, Harold A. Driscoll wrote: At 20:52 17-02-00 , Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Most people who work for governments are ordinary people and not the facist thugs of your bizare fantasies. Do ~ordinary people~ take their company helicopter and drop a home-made bomb on a

RE: Clinton Gore Vow To Fight The Establishment On Crypto (YeahRight)

2000-02-17 Thread Lizard
Clinton and Gore are not stupid. They knew that the crypto export ban would not keep crypto out of the hands of criminals. The eventual repeal of the ban has been obvious to practically everyone in Washington for years. Your faith in government is touching. The fact is, the crypto ban

Re: Clinton Gore Vow To Fight The Establishment On Crypto(YeahRight)

2000-02-17 Thread Lizard
At 9:52 PM -0500 2/17/00, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Your faith in government is touching. The fact is, the crypto ban will only be truly repealed when the NSA has quantum chips that can decode almost anything in realtime. The government does not care ONE SMEGGING BIT about

Re: FCF's Dean Lauds Congressional Privacy Caucus

2000-02-10 Thread Lizard
Can anyone tell me, precisely, why it is so very scary to imagine that somewhere in a corporate database is a notation that you like to buy Coca Cola? Corporations don't scare me -- they want me to be alive, free, and earning money so that I can buy their products. Corpses and prisoners make