The man is a bona-fide idiot

Post #48,997 by cwbrenn 8/11/02 2:03:17 PM Reply	The man is a bona-fide idiot Not that I disagree with all of his complaints, but when you sum up the totality of his argument you find that he's more interested in separating the European net from the American net than he is in correcting any of them. One the one hand, he's pissed that the US is using the DMCA to force other countries to comply with out idiotic patent laws, etc. Well, good, so am I. I think it's moronic. On the OTHER hand, he's pissed that Yahoo will not censor servers SITTING IN THE US just because Germany has a law that prohibits the sale of Nazi propaganda, and a German court told them to. FOR GOD'S SAKE... WHICH IS IT??? If the US shouldn't go around telling other countries to enforce their laws, then GERMANY SHOULDN'T EITHER. But I suppose, because Yahoo, is an AMERICAN country, and ALL AMERICANS ARE EVIL, STUPID, AND MORE EVIL AND MORE STUPID THAN THAT, it's ok for Germany to tell us what to do. CHRIST ON A CRUTCH, I HATE PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL TRIPE. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #49,003 by Ashton 8/11/02 4:01:37 PM Reply	There's only one solution for escaping massive inconsistency - leave the 'world of duality / duelling opposites / digital-think'. OK.. so suicide is so.. so.. ... egotisitically jejeune, ineffective and: you don't get to see how today's soap opera played out: tomorrow. Escape is possible though, but only internally - but then, that's where everything you think you know about: IS. No? ;-)
Post #49,015 by CRConrad 8/11/02 6:07:27 PM Reply	Actually, that case was with France, not Germany. HTH.
Post #49,018 by cwbrenn 8/11/02 7:05:37 PM Reply	Oh, that's right... well... I'm not quite ready to retract his "bona-fide idiot" status. What was the deal with Yahoo! and Germany? Any links? (goes to sift through Google) "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #49,019 by cwbrenn 8/11/02 7:12:01 PM Reply	The verdict in: Still an idiot, bona-fide Ok, I remember the germany thing now. Germany saw some web pages that detailed how to disrupt railway services by damaging rail tracks. The pages were posted by some kind of radical environmentalist group, and they had a Yahoo! personal web page account. Germany sued Yahoo! for hosting illegal content. Here's the good part: they sued Yahoo!'s German subsidiary, because they didn't think they could win in US Courts. Why is that the good part? Because that's one of the big ugly clauses in the DMCA that THE FUCKING MORON WAS GRIPING ABOUT EARLIER IN HIS ARTICLE. The DMCA allows a company to litigate in their "home state" (which presumably has passed the DMCA) instead of in the state where the offense occurred (which is what usually happens). I think I'm going to do a "Both Barrels" on this lovely piece of work. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #49,020 by cwbrenn 8/11/02 7:13:45 PM Reply	Aw, wait a minute... I think that's the UCITA, not the DMCA. Too... many... acronyms... GAH! Well, ok, I'm willing to drop the bona-fide. He's still an idiot. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #49,021 by tonytib 8/11/02 7:30:41 PM Reply	Well the Germans want to censor porn from other places IIRC it was the Bavarian region government, but I'm too busy (or lazy) to look it up. So maybe you can put the bona-fide back in. IMNSHO, he's either a total idiot or a troll, and in either case he's not worth responding, either on The Reg or here. Tony Who notes that there are plenty of things that could be better in every single country in the world
Post #49,354 by Mike 8/14/02 1:36:58 PM Reply	Excellent! -- William Shatner's Trousers --

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