From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3cIm-00040i-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:22:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7CGJVjn019762; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:19:31 GMT Received: from smtp2.iway.na (smtp2.iway.na [196.44.136.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7CGB6ga032061 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:11:07 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by smtp2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IL4D2S00.E06 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:11:16 +0000 Received: from mx2.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by vscan.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IL4AC700.B16 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:12:07 +0100 Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.130.150]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IL4AC801.106 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:12:08 +0100 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.50) id 1E3c7U-0004NK-7n for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:10:56 +0100 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:10:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050812152257.7368e426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <42FCBD45.9050105@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <42FCBD45.9050105@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508121710.56215.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: b3a6d261-1d7a-4263-ad57-5a9654ea4da4 X-Archives-Hash: 0634e70999c2d7d65406d572d898fa3d On 12 August 2005 16:16, Holly Bostick wrote: > Neil Bothwick schreef: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:17:40 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Big Brother may be watching you, but you watch Big Brother-- that show > >>with the incredibly ironic name-- don't you? > > > > No way! > > > >>So who are 'you' (generic) > >>to talk about 'privacy'? Much less as a inalienable right, when it's > >>clear that this right can be happily bought and sold? > > > > The contestants are not really selling their privacy, just performing for > > pay. but even if they were, it is theirs' to give or sell, not ours to > > take. > > I thought that the whole point of an inalienable right was that it could > not be bought or sold (or given or taken, for that matter). Privacy isn't an unalienable right. You can install webcams all over your house or flat and let people pay to watch you. Actually, there is such a web site. ;-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list