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Loz

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  1. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    Ohhh, it's a *Socialist* republic. You didn't specify that. That's sure to increase the flagging popularity of the republican movement... :))
  2. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    You do realise that, even if Liz had the crown removed tomorrow and had all the crown estate taken from her, she would still be stinking rich. She owns Balmoral Castle personally for a start.
  3. Loz

    Euro 2012

    - Cruyffs Holland? Nahh, Manchester United.
  4. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    You're right - the Czar would have had your head swinging from a bridge by now.
  5. Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz, get a grip. Pirate Bay is not Google. Pirate Bay was set up by a few fat city boys with the > intent to stick it to the man. It doesn't have any objective but to destroy copyright through > multiple relentless infractions. They have stated that fact themselves. I don't deny they are anti-copyright, but they are still a search engine, albeit a specialised one. They do not have any copyrighted files and they do not share any copyrighted files. You seem to be avoiding my example, though, actually, a better comparison would be to arrest someone holding a banner saying 'Buy Your Dodgy DVDs from Fred" but not the newsagent having the same card up in his window (as, of course, like both Google and PB, neither actually owns any dodgy DVDs themselves). Because that, in essence, is what you are defending. Your argument seems to now be because one is wearing a 'Smash Copyright!' t-shirt and the other isn't, rather than what each party is actually doing. (And, in case you've not worked it out, to use Google for finding torrents, append "filetype:torrent" to the end of your search. Oooh look, pretty much the same results as PB.)
  6. I know 123-reg and their ilk try to make things easier, but if you are OK with the technicalities of html and ftp and the like, then I thoroughly recommend Orchard Hosting. Not the biggest set up, but very friendly and responsive - they sorted out a problem for me with a PHP configuration at 2am in the morning when I raised a ticket. Decent prices, too - ?2.50 a month for their smallest package. If you are coming from 123-reg you might want to check you own your domain name (especially if it was 'free') and that you can transfer it.
  7. Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- [snip] > So you're right - copyright infringement is not theft, it's BIGGER than that. I didn't say it was bigger or smaller - I just said it was not 'theft', which you seem to be in loud agreement with. I never said it was against the law. I just object to the deliberate misuse of 'theft' and 'stealing' in order to scare people. > "Both are search engines - are you actually arguing that point? I can find a torrent for a > movie on either site. And, actually, Google is the better of the two for that task." > > This is what I mean by pathetic wheedling. > > You're actually trying to claim equality on a technicality. 'Yes your honour, he's a legitimate > businessman because one of the watches on his arm was his poor dead mother's'. No - I am claiming that both search engines can be used to find illegal torrents. That's hardly a technicality and you seem to be avoiding that fact for some reason. You seem to want to excuse this behaviour for Google, bizarrely, but not Pirate Bay. It's sort of like complaining about the bloke who sells dodgy DVDs from a stall at the local market, yet defending the newsagent opposite doing the same thing on account he sells lots of other stuff as well.
  8. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > > > But I'm open to suggestions. > > Jordan's tits?.. I think you missed the 'overwhelming popularity' bit. Pippa Middleton's arse I may have conceded, but that's really just another branch of the current royal family, isn't it?
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    Jubilee Weekend

    the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do people still live with the Falsehood that we need a Monarch? You don't *need* one, but I'm struggling to come up with a better alternative for a post that has pretty much zero real political power, but generates an enormous amount of publicity for the UK and just proved it's overwhelming popularity over the last four days. But I'm open to suggestions.
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    Jubilee Weekend

    RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clearly the royalties (awful word) he made way back when, would not allow him to "survive", what > with inflation and all. He made 'royalties' from God Save the Queen?? 'Republicanities', shurely? :))
  11. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    Ah, yes... 1977 - writing punk songs against the Queen and the establishment 2012 - advertising butter. They all come around in the end, don't they?
  12. Why did they project the French flag onto the palace during the fireworks?
  13. Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pirate Bay is Google? No it's not. Both are search engines - are you actually arguing that point? I can find a torrent for a movie on either site. And, actually, Google is the better of the two for that task. > Stopping copyright theft is censorship? Not it's not (this one is particularly cretinous) Not what I said. I said copyright infringement is not theft in the eyes of the law. Which it's not. Stopping access to a site which cannot be shut down legally is censorship. > Shutting down access to an overseas facilitator of copyright theft is the same as opening eveyone's mail? No it's not. No, again. Putting into place the mechanism for shutting down certain *legal* sites (as Pirate Bay is a legal site) on the internet is an invitation for mission creep to start banning other legal sites (cf the Anti Terrorism Act and the interesting ways that has been used and misused over the years).
  14. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    This weekend has been such a success. It's so good to see all the republicans and anti-monarchists having such an awful time.
  15. TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > *if you are interested, it was professional baking, college edition Professional barking, shurley?
  16. I think it's great. I want one!
  17. The Orvillecopter! http://www.f-b.no/polopoly_fs/katt-1.7383632!/image/3387923165.jpg_gen/derivatives/derivative_article_980/3387923165.jpg
  18. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    woodrot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > more idiots > > http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60680000/jpg > /_60680351_unionjackbowlerhat.jpg > > http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02238/ > BRITAIN-QUEEN_2238082k.jpg Somehow I suspect you lie awake at night worrying that someone, somewhere is enjoying themselves.
  19. DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is true Loz. The Pirate bay is simply a P2P facility. It's not even that. It's just a search engine for p2p. Shutting PB down is no more sensible than shutting down Google - which incidentally gives much the same information as PB regarding torrents. But I don't see any move for the UK government to block Google.
  20. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    Well at least you wrapped her in cling film to keep her fresh.
  21. Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Ah, but I wouldn't care if the Pirate Bay was > (physically) shut down, but blocking it at network > level is the thin end of the wedge of network > censorship mission creep as far as I'm concerned. > Today we don't like copyright, tomorrow we don't > like porn, the day after we don't like ... " > > As in: > > I wouldn't mind if terrorist orgainsations were physically shut down, but blocking mail order > weaponry is the thin of the wedge. Today we don't like semtex, tomorrow we don't like anthrax, the > day after we don't like Kay's catalogue... No not at all. It's more like, I wouldn't mind if terrorist organisations were physically shut down, but intercepting, opening, reading and inspecting each and every letter and parcel that is dispatched in the UK on the basis of anti-terrorism is the thin edge of the wedge. Today it might be anti-terrorism, but tomorrow it might be things someone morally disagrees with but haven't got around to framing a law for yet. See the problem is that the Pirate Bay does not do anything criminally illegal. It does not host any illegal material. Therefore it cannot be physically shut down. This is a very dubious use of the law.
  22. Loz

    Jubilee Weekend

    RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it my imagination, or are people on here > becoming more and more unhinged..? You want to pop over the the Guradian site and see some of the mouth-frothing comments on there. The 'republicanism is not dead' article is a particularly wonderful collection of thoughts from rationally challenged..
  23. I think someone should that the people behind the 'Downloading is Stealing' ads that annoy you before the start of DVD's to the advertising authorities. It's a lie. Copyright infringement is not theft or stealing in the eyes of the law.
  24. Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely - and you wouldn't see me complaining about a loss of freedom if the opportunity was > shut down. > > The conversation regarding Pirate Bay was about the 'righteousness' of copyright thieves who claim > that they're in the right. Ah, but I wouldn't care if the Pirate Bay was (physically) shut down, but blocking it at network level is the thin end of the wedge of network censorship mission creep as far as I'm concerned. Today we don't like copyright, tomorrow we don't like porn, the day after we don't like ... Of course, blocking it at network level is also difficult to the point of technically impossible, but still.
  25. Aw... hell... bugger... damn. I am finding myself on the same side as UDT in a debate. I feel dirty.
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