I live in Australia, so I don't count in the US arguement, but Australia always kiss the US ass.. so what gets passed there will appear over here sooner or later. (we already have strict gun control (ie you can't have one) strict online porn and gambling regulations (ie you can't do either unless you are the government.) and our leaders just love imposing their own morality on us...
So, if it passes in the US, we will have it hear a couple of years later. I worry about that, because I kinda like my freedom, it pisses me off that all these countries go on about fighting for freedom, while they are the ones that decide what freedom actually entails... someone should tell the politions that they are either for freedom or not, there is no half measure... restricting what we can listen to, look at, do with our own money, run on our PC's etc etc is NOT freedom. I am hoping you yanks do something, because I can't do anything at your end, and if it goes through there. it'll be near impossible to stop here. regards Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Daryl Johnson Sent: Saturday, 26 October 2002 2:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates In which case remember that this is a world-wide mailing list and, despite the apparent belief of the US that what they want is the same for all of us, it's not. Go and fight out your political battles on an advocacy group. If you want to ask for support against DMCA or similar by all means lobby for AMERICAN voters but remember that the American political body doesn't give a shit about the opinions of non-voters ie the rest of the world, so it is a pointless request. Just my 2 euros worth. regards Daryl On Friday 25 October 2002 5:50 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 25 October 2002 12:49 pm, you wrote: > > hmpffff. > > > > I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list where (besides > > some outbreaks of mostly interesting OT threads) such political > > _nonsense_ has nothing to search. > > > > Living in Europe I have neither the possibilities nor time, will or > > interest who in the States is the alledgedly bad guy. From an European > > point of view there is not much difference ... > > > > So just stop this sort of spamming that is just cheap propaganda. > > > > Udo > > I agree that this is a *linux* mailing list, but what is said in that post > is very important. Some lawmakers here in the US -are- trying to pass > really stupid laws that concern Linux and open-source, so I think its > relevant. > > Just my 2 cents worth... :-) -- "You must learn to run your kayak by a sort of ju-jitsu. You must learn to tell what the river will do to you, and given those parameters see how you can live with it. You must absorb its force and convert it to your users as best you can. Even with the quickness and agility of a kayak, you are not faster than the river, nor stronger, and you can beat it only by understanding it." -- Strung, Curtis and Perry, _Whitewater_
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