* Posts by headkase

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BBC claims angry iPlayer plugin mob 'conflated' open source term

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FAIL

Sorry you don't own a Dell computer.

Locking out other operating systems particularly when they are British Citizens and pay their TV tax is tandamount to saying: "Sorry you don't own a Dell computer, we won't serve you." With replacing Dell with Windows. Perhaps its just the immaturity of the market: I'm sure twenty years from now this will all be moot and we will all be using state-approved content delivery systems. Until then the BBC should recognize that inclusive rather than exclusive standards are the way to go. Do a simple Internet Protocol Address Lookup to make sure its a British Citizen and if so just serve the content. Perhaps a few people will slip through the iron grip of control but is it better to let a few slip through or deny legitimate Citizens the right to participate?

UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files

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Authority

I was raised to have a healthy disrespect for all authority. People are nothing more than animals and most of us are selfish, brutish, and petty at heart. My parents always told me that the world is full of crooks and thieves and that usually they wear suits. Politicians are a separate breed. To enter politics almost takes a psychosis in itself. You want to control how people live? Or do you delude yourself and posture that you are interested in belief and issues? Although distasteful as a necessary evil politics must have one line that cannot be crossed. The sanctity of the individual. Whatever you can gather and misuse about me from my environment and actions fine. Its a game and there are cops and robbers. But my mind is off limits. You may not compel me to divulge any of its contents. Those contents are my fears, virtues, dreams, hopes, aspirations, guilts, and identity. They are not and never will be yours without my consent. To cross this line demonstrates that we are no better than the enemy we purport to hate. We believe in self-determination, respect for all, tolerance, and following your heart. If we cross the line we are violating what makes us better. If we coerce an individual to justify their soul under threat of torture - even if that only means denial of freedom - then we might as well give up and become terrorists. I am an individual, you may not divide and extract a piece of my consciousness.