Somehow this starts sounding like a bad Tom Cruise movie :)
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bill Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/12/2014 6:56 AM, js wrote: > >> one thing you have not mentioned are any back doors put in proprietary >> operating systems by the orders of the US government. while it may not >> be relevant to many, it is relevant to some people [and i'm talking >> about whistle blowers or human rights activists instead of child porn >> merchants]. >> > > No offense, but I don't feel one is different from another. As soon as we > start to say that /some/ speech is "good" and /some/ speech is not, we lose. > > After all, a photograph of a naked child lying dead in a ditch at My Lai > could be interpreted as "child porn" - and Robert Mapplethorpe's > photographs of partially naked children could be (and was) interpreted as > having redeeming social merit. > > Porn, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and the question is if > we, as a society, should allow our government to examine what people > /might/ say, before they say it. > > My $0.02. YMMV. > > Bill > > -- > Bill Horne > William Warren Consulting > http://www.william-warren.com/ > 339-364-8487 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- ><> ... Jack "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
