* Posts by Sebastien Derenoncourt

2 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Oct 2007

The New Order: When reading is a crime

Sebastien Derenoncourt
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Iran, Afganistan??? nope England

Most of the western world focuses a LOT of energy accusing, middle eastern, eastern Euro, Asian, African countries of trampling human rights, especially that of free expression.

Recent examples of horrible rights crimes, are the stories of the student on death row in Afghanistan for downloading and printing out feminist material; The man in Morocco put in Jail for making a fake Facebook profile of the crown prince; or the young Iranian man fearing for his life in Iran after his boyfriend and others where hung to death for their sexual orientation.

The funny thing is that there is nothing different with this situation and other similar rights abuses in England than those occurring in the "un-free" lands of the east.

(After all, in its silence -or at least focus on Amy- the society condones hooligans beating and killing young Goth couples or gay/lesbian people, etc)

There might be contextual distinctions, but their similarity is striking.

How dare they call themselves the enlightened west?

Then again in this "new" England its also acceptable that:

- There are security camera's watching your every move.

- You can be arrested for something appearing in youtube.

-There is an office which regulates acceptable speech, in advertising, and elsewhere.

-you can somehow be "un-citizened" by a court.

(How is this even possible? Didn't you renounce your past national allegiance to become english?)

Its pretty amazing how close this "new" England is to the one portrayed in "V for Vendetta" or "1984"; but its even more amazing how close it is from the very modern States it criticize for being authoritarian.

Well at least England does have Amy and Naomi... oh and Beck.

Apple's Leopard leaps into action

Sebastien Derenoncourt
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what is up with the fallacies?

What the Hell is a "Windows PC" designation for an x86 standard computer doing in an article on a Technology magazine?

I mean the NYtimes or some other mainstream paper sure, but this is THEREGISTER?

What you can't run Linux or Solaris or anything but windows on these machines?

Please oh please don't post garbage like this just because.

and then this line:

but observers have been quick to point out "un-substantiated flaw 1", "unsubstanciated flaw 2".

what is going on, when did you guys become the NYPOST, or DAILYNEWS?