Kelly was quoted as telling the newspaper that he expected al-Qaida to kill Obama during his visit to Ireland in part because the country's police force is poorly armed. The article said Kelly would like to kill Obama himself but was too well-known to police here.
"Personally I would feel happy if Obama was killed. How could I not feel happy when a big enemy of Islam is gone?" Kelly was quoted as saying.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110512/D9N674D00.html
Nothing in what is reported there is illegal. In fact,
its commendable to want to relieve the socialist-king of his role in destroying civilization.
Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts
27 November 2010
Was thinking more about DVDs... a historical evolution of CDROM publication, which itself was due to bandwidth not being free.
Wikileaks can't send artifacts as it doesn't seem to want a fixed postal address (which of course has its own advantages and disadvantages) and the other information-channel (net bandwidth) is cheaper now.
(Though somehow they have a physical receiving address?)
Anderson's Eternity system may exist already, for documents of sufficient interest to keep around, particularly the controversial forbidden or dangerous content. And the mechanism this rides on is the net --now inseparable from civilization-- and file sharing of more recreational ('piracy') or utilitarian ('linux distro') content. That's all it took, no fees, not instantly robust, no central control, not even a declaration that this is going on, but filesharing is Eternity for documents worth keeping by sufficient numbers of people.
And this is helped by the Streisand Effect. If you post a DMCA complaint the document in question is no doubt replicated more.
Interestingly, pondering again, some documents become more valuable as historical artifacts after a period of being yesterday's news. The Ellsberg documents for instance, the Progressive HBomb issue.
email (the original killer app, a precursor to the web IMHO) then later Metallica lead to Eternity.
Hilarious. Going further back, a spreadsheet was a critical link (for business to push standalone computers), a calculator (for starting the microprocessor). And even the census ---to tally your subjects you need computers. The first --leading to the Hollerith card-- were used at the beginning of the last century by the USG.
It'll only get better; encrypted transport, perhaps content flowing that is not requested by the Pirate, but part of an indifferent Eternity, turned on by default, just a little donation to the Library, perhaps carrying redundant copies of stuff you care about, perhaps stuff others care about. Darknet is inevitable too. Rather, Darknets are inevitable.
All those cycles. All that bandwidth. Its one giant supercomputer, literally, with nodes powering up and down all the time, with a loosely coupled --but most distributed library in the history of mankind--
file system, bit torrent.
Its one thing to help fold a protein, look for SETI, whatever. But the bit torrent file system --seen as a distributed computation system-- goes beyond this. And seen as part of the Library, its a noble donation.
(And FWIW its compatible with running cycle-limited low-bandwidth background tasks like SETI@home..)
And what the heck, one can schedule it to use no bandwidth when you might be awake. Transparent symbiont.
Wikileaks can't send artifacts as it doesn't seem to want a fixed postal address (which of course has its own advantages and disadvantages) and the other information-channel (net bandwidth) is cheaper now.
(Though somehow they have a physical receiving address?)
Anderson's Eternity system may exist already, for documents of sufficient interest to keep around, particularly the controversial forbidden or dangerous content. And the mechanism this rides on is the net --now inseparable from civilization-- and file sharing of more recreational ('piracy') or utilitarian ('linux distro') content. That's all it took, no fees, not instantly robust, no central control, not even a declaration that this is going on, but filesharing is Eternity for documents worth keeping by sufficient numbers of people.
And this is helped by the Streisand Effect. If you post a DMCA complaint the document in question is no doubt replicated more.
Interestingly, pondering again, some documents become more valuable as historical artifacts after a period of being yesterday's news. The Ellsberg documents for instance, the Progressive HBomb issue.
email (the original killer app, a precursor to the web IMHO) then later Metallica lead to Eternity.
Hilarious. Going further back, a spreadsheet was a critical link (for business to push standalone computers), a calculator (for starting the microprocessor). And even the census ---to tally your subjects you need computers. The first --leading to the Hollerith card-- were used at the beginning of the last century by the USG.
It'll only get better; encrypted transport, perhaps content flowing that is not requested by the Pirate, but part of an indifferent Eternity, turned on by default, just a little donation to the Library, perhaps carrying redundant copies of stuff you care about, perhaps stuff others care about. Darknet is inevitable too. Rather, Darknets are inevitable.
All those cycles. All that bandwidth. Its one giant supercomputer, literally, with nodes powering up and down all the time, with a loosely coupled --but most distributed library in the history of mankind--
file system, bit torrent.
Its one thing to help fold a protein, look for SETI, whatever. But the bit torrent file system --seen as a distributed computation system-- goes beyond this. And seen as part of the Library, its a noble donation.
(And FWIW its compatible with running cycle-limited low-bandwidth background tasks like SETI@home..)
And what the heck, one can schedule it to use no bandwidth when you might be awake. Transparent symbiont.
14 May 2010
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100514/0044209421.shtml
Is It Illegal To Tell People How To Commit Suicide Online?
Well, here's a tricky First Amendment issue. Apparently, a guy in Minnesota has been arrested and charged with "assisting suicide" because he spent an awful lot of time on various "suicide" websites
And the exiters were not even in the US!
What part of freedom don't Minn get? And why do they think they have a say (and use of force)
about what people do with their bodies, or words?
11 February 2010
13 January 2010
Folks don't get it.
There is no such thing as hate speech. (You can use the noun hate
as an adjective, but then its hateful speech.)
Instead of ignoring it, some call for government censorship
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/Clinics/ipr/documents/PetforInquiry-HateSpeech.pdf
Which in the end looks like whining.
As if they or the government are the arbiters of fact, or argument,
what is divisive (or unifying) or humanizing or dehumanizing.
Personally I think catholicism, disdain for education, and breeding at 15 are dehumanizing.
There is no such thing as hate speech. (You can use the noun hate
as an adjective, but then its hateful speech.)
Instead of ignoring it, some call for government censorship
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/Clinics/ipr/documents/PetforInquiry-HateSpeech.pdf
Which in the end looks like whining.
As if they or the government are the arbiters of fact, or argument,
what is divisive (or unifying) or humanizing or dehumanizing.
Personally I think catholicism, disdain for education, and breeding at 15 are dehumanizing.
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