Reality Out of Sync

.....we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. --The Pirate Bay

..is in hand. I will not ever surrender. I will not ever give up money I worked hard to earn to a conglomerate who cheats those I wish to support. You may stop some of us, but you can’t stop us all. Never sit idly by as injustice runs amok, and your government gives away your rights to knowledge for profit. Remember Steamboat Willy! Remember the sequel to the Catcher in the Rye!

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Signed;

The Pirate Bay Crew – Always when needed.

Oh I don’t know what I was thinking when this got missed. ^_^ Enjoy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/us/24savana.html?_r=2&hp

It appears that we’re going to see at least one interesting ruling come to light when the case of Savana Redding actually gets decided upon. This girl was strip searched at her school (by two female employees) for being suspected of having prescription strength ibuprofen. I’m not real sure I’d be comfortable with my child being strip searched at a school without my being contacted and present. I’d prefer a law enforcement officer be present, along with myself. That’s just me.

Since I don’t have any older children (I’m a child myself hehe), I wonder what others think about it. Do you think it’s okay for a school to strip search your child looking for (of all damn things lol) Ibuprofen of any strength? Incidentally, she didn’t even have the pills to begin with, how is that for a kick in the groin? Jeez

I'd strip search that. *blinks*

It’s been noted by me on at least one occasion that I’m not a big fan of one company having all of my stuff. I am not a huge fan of Google having every aspect of my search history, or even thought I’ve ever written down in their database. They are an excellent search engine, and they do have some really interesting services; however, I try to minimize how much of my ‘Net soul I hand over to them. I wonder how much of it I could feasibly give to them and then to Grant and maintain my freedom. The two of them will eventually wipe one another out over the pieces and I’d be free. Good idea, prata, way to be smart!

One such family has apparently taken my idea of not having Google own them, and taken it to some new heights of intensity. I’m not sure how much anyone has heard of Street View, Google’s attempt to photograph the entire earth at eye level (interesting idea, maybe a little scary??), but the Borings apparently are quite afraid of the notion. You may have a gander at the results of their filing a lawsuit here. The premise is that the Google Street View vehicle which took the pictures of their home and drive (which they say was private property) had driven onto their property while taking the pictures. Of note, the Borings did not attempt to use the process already in place to have those images removed. They immediately began the lawsuit. That doesn’t sound like they did due diligence to me.

The Borings have appealed, but I doubt they will get very far. It’ll be interesting to see!