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From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 6 Apr 2010 11:20


Andrew wrote:

> "David Segall" <david(a)address.invalid> wrote in message
> news:sqamr5hqs03umb25s1404epb55mrkf4t55(a)4ax.com...
>
>>"David L. Jones" <altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Conroy is totally wrong. The Internet is an entirely different beast to
>>>products you buy on the shelf.
>>>The act of banning a book or video game for instance does not affect
>>>anything else in any other way the way filtering the Internet can.
>>
>>I note you used "can" not "does" in that sentence. The Internet filter
>>is a simple list of banned web sites that delays your download by a
>>few microseconds. In contrast, submitting a film or book to the
>>censors delays its release by days or even weeks.
>>
>>>>Personally, I am against any censorship,
>>
>>I don't believe you. Would you really allow the screening of sadism or
>>bestiality in the 3:30pm to 6:00pm time slot on free to air TV?
>
>
> There is no such thing as "free TV". Someone has to paid to the TV station
> to operate. This someone would not get paid by advertisement if such things
> will be shown.

You don't understand. It is such a pleasure to impose your rules on
other people. Whatever those rules are, and whatever is the reasoning
behind those rules. It is rather naive to think that the good rules of
the game would fix human hardware problems.

VLV
From: keithr on 6 Apr 2010 18:32
Andrew wrote:
> "David Segall" <david(a)address.invalid> wrote in message
> news:sqamr5hqs03umb25s1404epb55mrkf4t55(a)4ax.com...
>> "David L. Jones" <altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Conroy is totally wrong. The Internet is an entirely different beast to
>>> products you buy on the shelf.
>>> The act of banning a book or video game for instance does not affect
>>> anything else in any other way the way filtering the Internet can.
>> I note you used "can" not "does" in that sentence. The Internet filter
>> is a simple list of banned web sites that delays your download by a
>> few microseconds. In contrast, submitting a film or book to the
>> censors delays its release by days or even weeks.
>>>> Personally, I am against any censorship,
>> I don't believe you. Would you really allow the screening of sadism or
>> bestiality in the 3:30pm to 6:00pm time slot on free to air TV?
>
> There is no such thing as "free TV". Someone has to paid to the TV station
> to operate. This someone would not get paid by advertisement if such things
> will be shown.
>
That is censorship, the only difference being the nature of the censor
From: whygee on 10 Apr 2010 00:56
Rich Grise wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:11:36 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:50:00 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
>>> That's very nicely said, Brent -- congratulations on following your dream!
>> Yeah, imagine being a lawyer or a banker and dying rich. What's the point?
> Yeah - he who dies with the most toys wins, right? ;-)
wins what ?

> Cheers!
> Rich
yg
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From: atec7 7 ""atec77 " on 11 Apr 2010 18:20
fritz wrote:


>> Well, we aren't confusing you with someone who talks about
>> electronics.
>
> No offence taken at all. I have a uni degree in the subject.
> I suspect that most of your seedy mates who post here are
> unqualified.
>
Ph dear
now you ARE scratching
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