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| Is Access to the Web a Fundamental Right? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 8 2010, 02:04 PM (141 Views) | |
| QuirtEvans | Mar 8 2010, 02:04 PM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6261XQ20100308?type=technologyNews?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 8 2010, 03:06 PM Post #2 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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"Fundamental human right" is a ridiculous stretch but these days I would consider it a utility, like heat and water. |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 8 2010, 03:08 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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+1 |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Kincaid | Mar 8 2010, 03:25 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Eventually, the expanding concept of fundamental rights may expand that far. Obama, and many others, feel that health care is a fundamental right. Just like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Some day, rights will be expanded to cover food, shelter, clothing, transportation and employment. After that, I doubt that internet access comes far behind. Edited by Kincaid, Mar 8 2010, 03:25 PM.
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| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 8 2010, 03:32 PM Post #5 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I can see a potential benefit to taking the position that access to information is a right. Knowledge is power. People who have knowledge of something better are unlikely to stay satisfied with a substandard status quo. Take Iran for example. China. The internet scares their regimes to death. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 8 2010, 03:38 PM Post #6 |
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Cheers
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Of course. I remember reading an elegant treatment of the subject in one of Madison's letters to John Jay. |
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| George K | Mar 8 2010, 03:39 PM Post #7 |
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Finally
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Right after the paragraph on healthcare, right?
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 8 2010, 03:41 PM Post #8 |
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Cheers
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And before the paragraph about undeclared wars initiated by the executive branch. |
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| George K | Mar 8 2010, 03:42 PM Post #9 |
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Finally
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That's right. JFK and LBJ, obviously, didn't read that paragraph. Nor did Truman. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 8 2010, 03:46 PM Post #10 |
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Cheers
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You're misunderestimating the number of presidents who missed that bit. |
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| George K | Mar 8 2010, 03:48 PM Post #11 |
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Finally
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I know. By at least two. (honest question here, since you brought it up) Were there congressional authorizations on use of force in Korea and VietNam? Of course, they were funded, but were those actions explicitly voted on by Congress? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 8 2010, 03:49 PM Post #12 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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They had teh internetz? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 8 2010, 03:51 PM Post #13 |
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Cheers
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they weren't declared. THere was the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but that's not a declaration. Korea didn't have even that (hence the phrase 'police action') |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 8 2010, 03:51 PM Post #14 |
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Cheers
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I was being |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 8 2010, 03:57 PM Post #15 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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K. I thought maybe Al Gore invented a time machine and took it to them. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| George K | Mar 8 2010, 03:58 PM Post #16 |
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Finally
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Interesting. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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