Isn't Filesharing A Socialist Activity?

[Switeck]

He said it best:

Originally posted by JPaul@23 May 2003 - 09:16
Well that seems to be that then.

File sharing is not socialist. It is not political in any way.

It's chaps getting stuff they want that they either can't find, cant afford, or just cant be arsed paying for.

Everything else is just so much smoke and mirrors.

[RealitY]

Originally posted by mijj+23 May 2003 - 14:07--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mijj @ 23 May 2003 - 14:07)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--REALITY@22 May 2003 - 17:22
You RETARD, I&#39;m being sarcastic...
Hope you are as well...

Gee&#33;

I guess that makes you a retard too, huh?

[/b][/quote]
Thats based on the idea that I called you RETARDED because you may have been being sarcastic, which is false. Thus if you were being sarcastic, I would not consider you to be RETARDED, thus by your RETARDED analogy I wouldn&#39;t be RETARDED either. Though it seems you were taking my comments seriously, and not being sarcastic, thus making us not the same, so then by your own analogy you are by deffinition RETARDED and I am not...

RETARD


This was all based on you trying to analyze my opinions based on a sarcastic comment I made in humor, apperently you were RETARDADLY confused. You said "poor REALITY" and then went on to say that I feel guilty blah blah... which was inaccurate as I stated. Apperently you needed an example to vent and chose me, without using your RETARDED brain...

RETARD

[RealitY]

Originally posted by mijj@23 May 2003 - 14:22

Yup, everything in the world is the fault of the big bad USA. Where have I heard that diatribe before? Hell, most of the 3rd world was 3rd world even before the USA existed.

... there&#39;s no need to exagurate, OlderThanDirt. We know the US is responsible for the criminal behaviour of the US. Slavery exported to the third world is one of the crimes. You&#39;re happy with that as long as you can blame someone else, but a lot of people aren&#39;t happy with that. So - there&#39;s no need to come out all petulant and outraged.

Smile - and the world will smile with you&#33; Hug a kitten, OlderThanDirt, you&#39;ll feel better for it.

And for every one of those countries we&#39;ve (ahem) exploited, let me just say this. For every resource we&#39;ve appropriated from a 3rd world country, there was someone in that country willing to sell it to us.

... oh&#33; I guess that&#39;s an admission by OlderThanDirt that the US is oppressing the third world for profit. The weasily getout being they asked the US to do it to them. (Is the US above manipulating local politics for the benefit of the US? hmmmm - I wonder what OlderThanDirt would say if he were still here amongst us? God bless his tormented soul. )

Do you have some SICK need to twist the words of others and fill in blanks that are not there so you can vent, or are we all just bad guys to you, maybe you have issues with you father or an unhappy childhood, or maybe your boss at work treats you like shit, I dunno.

I am very sorry to say you are a poor addition to this forum, since you find time to vent on those here based on statements not even made but that you have assumed.

[Rat Faced]

The place for this type of debate is in the Lounge now..............


Cant think why anyone would want to blame Corporate USA for anything.

I mean why would anyone blame an entity that will do anything to improve "The Bottom Line".......



But why are people concentrating on USA for this criticism, apart from the obvious fact that over 1/2 worlds GDP are in the USA. Other non-US companies are just as bad.

Anyone heard of BP?

They are responsible for a lot of deaths in certain countries.......

[OlderThanDirt]

JPaul wrote:

The place for this type of debate is in the Lounge now..............

Amen. The "Isn&#39;t Filesharing A Socialist Activity?" thread has apparently been resolved to everyone&#39;s satisfaction. Perhaps it&#39;s time to move this entire topic to the Lounge. Or (grin), maybe the forum crew could create a new area ... called Graveyard ... where topics that fall from grace languish "frozen" (allowing no new posts) as an example of much ado about nothing, hehe.

Anyone heard of BP?

Have you ever heard the Genesis song, "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight?"

Lyrics excerpt:

Follow on &#33; With a twist of the world we go
Follow on &#33; Till the gold is cold
Dancing out with the moonlit knight
Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout.

Guess who the "Knights of the Green Shield" are (grin)?

[echidna]

why do americans from south of canada get so paranoid every time someone mentions politics
i figure that the netherlands has more to do with the filesharing situation than the USA
i just don&#39;t see any other situation where affluent people in the west share things like Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, which is supposed to be &#036;3999 [US], which is a freakin lot to share, are available over kazaa
when IBM buys up stock to let it rust in guarded dumps to keep the market for new hardware fresh, this is a radical action

[echidna]

Originally posted by REALITY@23 May 2003 - 03:22

1. I Share
2. I Feel No Guilt
3. I Have Many Reasons
4. I Am Not In Denial
5. It Is Against The Law
6. We Are All Mostly Thieves By Law

i can&#39;t do anything about the first 4 issues & you may be OlderThanDirt but get with the program G
your on the internet now, who&#39;s law? where? what enforcement? what treaties?

your not in kansas anymore toto
certain persons in the USA need to realise that swinging a mammoth cudgel doesn&#39;t make the whole world theirs
different places have different laws for different reasons
the internet isn&#39;t a place so there are no laws. only systems.

[clocker]

your on the internet now, who&#39;s law? where? what enforcement? what treaties?

Google search... you&#39;ll find lots...

your not in kansas anymore toto

True

certain persons in the USA need to realise that swinging a mammoth cudgel doesn&#39;t make the whole world theirs

Historically false

different places have different laws for different reasons

Yup.

the internet isn&#39;t a place so there are no laws. only systems.

Flawed logic...were that true, Internet kiddie porn would be legal.

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Rat Faced@24 May 2003 - 11:31
The place for this type of debate is in the Lounge now..............

RF

Do us a favour, make sure it is in the Stunningly Condescending Room, it&#39;s decended into Mutual Intellectual Masturbation now.

In fact this one hasn&#39;t even gone that way. It&#39;s just cheap point scoring and debating technique.

We chaps in the lounge just like trivial or stupid subjects and having a laugh at each others expense. This is a wee bit too vitriolic.

[echidna]

Originally posted by JPaul+25 May 2003 - 07:32--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JPaul @ 25 May 2003 - 07:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Rat Faced@24 May 2003 - 11:31
The place for this type of debate is in the Lounge now..............

RF

Do us a favour, make sure it is in the Stunningly Condescending Room, it&#39;s descended into Mutual Intellectual Masturbation now.

In fact this one hasn&#39;t even gone that way. It&#39;s just cheap point scoring and debating technique.

We chaps in the lounge just like trivial or stupid subjects and having a laugh at each others expense. This is a wee bit too vitriolic. [/b][/quote]
if people could post on topic for 5 minutes maybe, this topic could&#39;ve had half a chance
instead people with little opinion and many disparaging remarks turned it into cheap point scoring
mutual masturbation is far more fulfilling than this [you should find out what you&#39;re missing if this equates to masturbation for you]
if your speed is stupid and trivial then you should learn to but out, and allow people to discuss the topics of their choice

the downfall of this topic has everything to do with how it was pursued on the board and little to do with with the topic as it was set out