U.S. Government controlling open source software

[Noruas]

Well as Arabs say, Sex with women is illegal until after slave-marriage. So what they do is do man to man anal, and then say its not sex because its not reproductive, so having sex with other men is okay!

OF course i don't know exactly what the sodomy case in texas is, but one could argue that oral is not sex, until one classifies what sex is, who knows.

[Caydr]

This is nothing more than run of the mill political posturing, it's nothing to get excited about and won't have any actual effect on anything.

Let's say Sourceforge blocks the affected countries. There's not a person alive who can compile source code but doesn't know how to bypass a simple IP ban.

So what else are they going to do, make you agree to terms of service? Require every open-source project to include a region checking mechanism?

You can't preach about how open-source is free and full of rainbows and unicorns and then claim that a single country can "control" it somehow just by saying so.

Besides, those countries suck ass and places like North Korea don't even allow people to have internet connections to begin with.

[Caydr]

Here, a little reminder picture for those who can't tell apart their left from their right:


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It's funny, I look at this and say, "This has to have been made by a lefty, it makes everyone on the right look like self-serving douchebags."

Then I remember every conversation I've had with a conservative, every news piece I've seen about the tea party, and all the right-wing election promises that people actually cheered for.

Oh, and Arizona. Oh... Arizona. Making Canadians proud to not be in Arizona.

[Pxtl]

This is nothing more than run of the mill political posturing, it's nothing to get excited about and won't have any actual effect on anything.

Speaking of which, aren't we Canadians excited that Harper is bringing over the DMCA for us?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... al-economy

[Caydr]

They've been shot down before, hopefully we'll get lucky once more. We managed to somehow avoid that Bell clusterape short while ago, maybe we just have more technology-minded citizens or something.

[bobthedinosaur]

Good news every one! http://www.eff.org/issues/acta

[Forboding Angel]

Here, a little reminder picture for those who can't tell apart their left from their right:


Click to enlarge

It's funny, I look at this and say, "This has to have been made by a lefty, it makes everyone on the right look like self-serving douchebags."

Then I remember every conversation I've had with a conservative, every news piece I've seen about the tea party, and all the right-wing election promises that people actually cheered for.

Oh, and Arizona. Oh... Arizona. Making Canadians proud to not be in Arizona.

So much of that image is BS on both sides of it.

There are VERY distinct differences between Liberals and Democrats, just as there are VERY distinct differences between conservatives and republicans.

[Neddie]

Not the least of which being thus; in American vernacular, Liberal and Conservative refer to political perspectives generally pejoratively - while Democrat and Republican refer to party affiliations and are generally self-applied labels. Indeed, American Liberalism is most like European Left Liberalism, while American Conservatism is closer to European Right Liberalism than European Traditionalism/Conservatism.