"....dedicated to smacking the quacks, debunking the bunk, and shedding the light of critical thought and reason into the dark and scary world that is our every day lives."
"....dedicated to smacking the quacks, debunking the bunk, and shedding the light of critical thought and reason into the dark and scary world that is our every day lives."
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
(for other Adams' quotes)
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
A patriot is not someone who supports the president, a patriot is someone who supports the Constitution.
Being American is simple, but people like Bush and Rove and Cheney made
it complicated. Americans get shit done, and Americans don't argue when
their neighbor's house is on fire. We roll up our sleeves and we can do
great things. For better or worse now we need to do some great things.
We're lucky that now we have the leadership we need to get started.
"Your computer should listen to you, and not some coked up Hollywood fat cat thousands of miles away in Hollywood who decided what you can and can't do with a movie"
"The EFF exists, so that your decendents will have the right to know, regardless of where they are on this planet and that if one of them want to say something, he will be able to or she will be able to, and if somebody else wants to hear what that person said, they will be able to, its as simple as that.
"To take what is after all a government granted monoploy, that's intended to provide the minimum incentive necessary to produce the largest amount of work and bootstrap that into a right to control how devices are designed, how they're used, what you can do in the privacy of your own home, your own private use of and reuse of material, is bizarre and completely out of step with the historical contours of copyright law"
"DRM is technology that is used to make your computer take orders from someone other than you ....... The difference between a utopia and a distopia is whether we control the machines or the machines control us."