Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is demanding access to 135 computers and hard drives that were seized from his home in January, so the data can be used for his defense. Until then, he refuses to give up passwords to encrypted data stored on the machines.

DrJulianBashir · 2012-05-25T02:07:52.857270+00:00

Social disobedience is worthless if you're really just doing it to not only illegally, but unethically, make money.

droelf1213 · 2012-05-24T17:47:35.687438+00:00

Oh god, please don't bring the shitty TEXT IN IMAGES trend to this subreddit.

rwal · 2012-05-24T17:46:14.461809+00:00

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah. Not Google or Facebook or Twitter. Who are already, and legally, invading user privacy by tracking users all over the place to sell ads.

OverlordXenu · 1 day

I want that grain/noise in the develop preview! Zoomed in they seem to be the same, though.

DrJulianBashir · 1 day

Yes, we need someone blatantly profiting off of the works of others to facilitate social change!

mrlanious · 1 day

It's more that Readability and Instapaper do the same thing. It's just that Readability also takes $5 for itself and reimburses next to no one.

mrlanious · 2 days

And readability gave $0 back to the vast majority of content creators while raking in money that was supposedly going to go to said creators. Which do you think is more unethical?

mrlanious · 2 days

Readability is different. They took your $5/month, and said they'd pay it out to content providers who sign up. But not many did.

Exxec · 3 days

This is like, the least effective double exposure I've ever seen. And I love most double exposures.

AllIdoisWhine · 3 days

There are probably more scholarships that only white people can get than anything else. Go on the scholarship list websites, and look at them. There are tons for each European ethnicity, for activities dominated by whites, etc. etc.

adreamofhodor · 3 days

Oh hey Dan Savage go fuck yourself.

VillainousVagrant · 3 days

Shitheads hate being reminded they're shitheads, and humanity is so collectively stupid that people bandwagon constantly rather than think for themselves.

So, you have a bunch of average redditors who are probably not all that shitty being swayed by the shittiest shitheads (think rapists… seddit hates SRS) because they're sharting louder than SRSisters.

SeaCandiesTroy · 4 days

Go to community college for a couple years and transfer to UCONN or another school.

ATOMicrat · 4 days

Go to Stonington. It's awesome.

Edit: The Green Marble. Last time I was there, people were playing Magic while discussing starting a punk band and the barista talked about MLG and Starcraft at length.

chcknsoupdeluxe · 4 days

Middle East

There is no such thing as the "middle east." Take this from someone who specifically studies the "middle east" at length. (And Africa, America, and some other places.) Do you count all muslim countries? What about the ones in south-east Asia? What about Israel? Do you go as far south as Sudan? What about Afghanistan and Pakistan?

You keep mentioning population density, but I have no idea why.

High population density requires societal sophistication. You have to be able to feed people, deal with waste, keep them safe, etc. etc. to have high population density. Cities are difficult to keep together, let alone grow. It requires a lot of specialized roles (and knowledge), a stable government, a bureaucracy, etc.

The centers for learning were always close to Mecca and such. And in any case, those people aren't Africans in common vernacular, they're Arabs, who are from Asia.

Muslim north Africa was actually more important for the preservation of knowledge than the rest of the Islamic countries.

Also, Arabs are a pan-ethnic group. The ethnicities in the "middle east" are many, and complex.

as a whole was stuck in the stone age, both culturally and technologically.

This is just… false. Just like. Read a book about African history.

But then where are the cathedrals, the paintings, the written record?

Uh, what? There's a lot of really amazing, really old architecture all over Africa. There's a ton of written record. Not all of Africa was/is tribes. It's a massive continent.

Where is the legacy?

A lot of culture was destroyed by colonialism.

I'm studying Civil Engineering at university.

Take a history class on Africa or the middle east. Or a middle eastern politics class. Please. I like you, I remember you, but you're talking out your ass.

If you want a reading list, I could put one together.

yolk_ · 4 days

They cost next to nothing. Just get another one; it isn't worth your time.

secretagentpatches · 5 days

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This is you.

Fuck I hate this place. Every day I inch closer to deletion.

BeelzebubsBarrister · 5 days

Stereotyping and generalizations are A-OK when we progressive SRS types do it!

You do understand half the point of SRS, right? It's supposed to make people with privilege feel like how minorities (women, people of color, trans* people, etc.) feel on reddit. Taste of your own medicine. That's why they joke about cutting off foreskins. They don't actually want to cut off foreskins, they want to manipulate (or rather, flip) the script that oppressors use in the rest of reddit. Kind of like how /r/circlejerk/ would mock the rest of reddit using similar (or verbatim) post titles.

chcknsoupdeluxe · 5 days

You think Africa didn't have science or literature? Where the fuck do you think knowledge was saved during the Dark Ages? Oh, it couldn't have been Muslim North Africa!

And it's not like there were massive, wealthy, culturally diverse cities in West and Central Africa!

Oh, wait, both of those things are true. Sorry for the sarcasm!

(Also, indoor plumbing is from the 19th century or so. Colonialism started like, a couple hundred years or so before that.)

(Also also, to look to even more cultures [this might blow your mind], the Aztecs had a higher population density than any European city at the time of first contact. And probably a more sophisticated agricultural system.)

You're woefully ignorant of what the world was like pre-colonialism. If you're in college, or soon will be, I seriously suggest that you take a class or two on African and early American history (or a class on colonialism in general). Europe was not more culturally advanced than the other societies at the time (and probably greatly behind China, who everyone seems to forget about). This is a massive myth that has been created by the white dudes who have run the world for the past few hundred years.

Also, to make myself seem like less of an asshole (though I am a massive asshole, so it's ok if you don't like me), this all didn't really click for me until I started learning about early (pre-1800) American history, where there was a massive focus on cultural relativism. The Europeans were really, truly, not nearly as advanced as we like to think. They had gunpowder and guns. That's really pretty much it. Then they took over the rest of the world with said gunpowder and guns (and, in many cases, disease or political maneuvering [Africa is a great example of politiking; one of the reasons Africa was {and is} so fucked is that the Europeans did a fantastic job of pitting countries and tribes and so on against one another]) and preceded to culturally flourish because of all of the money they were, you know, exploiting out of the rest of the world.

Also also, did you play PoE way back when? Your username is familiar.

chcknsoupdeluxe · 5 days

Uh, are you serious? Before colonization, Africa—in many places north, south, east, and west—was as culturally advanced as Europe. There were cities with as much, or more, population and population density as european cities. Europeans had guns and smallpox. That's about the only major difference between Europe and the "uncivilized" world.

chcknsoupdeluxe · 8 days

You can't generalize an entire continents culture like that. And, African slaves saw the complete destruction of their culture in most cases. People who could speak the same language were kept apart, there was the trauma of the middle passage, etc.

chcknsoupdeluxe · 8 days

Systematic racism, institutional racism, poverty, etc.

chcknsoupdeluxe · 8 days

You know those hand-held stun guns? You can cause an erection with one of those.

Also, you can easily sodomize someone with a chair leg or something.

JorisL · 9 days

That's not really net neutrality, though, is it? I thought net neutrality was more about not discriminating against different types of traffic. Eg., not throttling bittorrent traffic.

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