Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: the Olson Timezone Database Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:31:17 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <29525412.829.1329427877041.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcr5> References: <32374033.306.1329328297350.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcwl10> <8v9pj755fmgdndtutvug90akelm9u0k1p1@4ax.com> <4773091.731.1329420248862.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbeo1> NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.164.137.214 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1329427877 14221 127.0.0.1 (16 Feb 2012 21:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:31:17 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.164.137.214; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12069 David Lamb wrote: > Lew wrote: > > I thought Anonymous were in *favor* of free speech. > > Not quite, if I recall correctly the essence of the few articles I've > read about them. Anonymous has participated in big-news stuff like > hacking and DDOS attacks, especially on corporate and government > organizations that interfere with speech they want to protect. IIRC they > originated on 4chan as a group that did all kinds of smaller stuff like > tracking down Boxy and threatening her in order to get her to remove her > YouTube videos. So, people they decide are stupid and/or evil don't seem > to be accorded the right to free speech. How ironic that stupid and evil people like Anonymous would have the arrogance to set themselves up as arbiters of stupid and evil. Their hypocrisy is objective evidence for my assessment of those jackasses. They're just another band of crooks hiding their malfeasance behind bogus high-falutin' rhetoric that attempts to spray perfume over the stench of their necrotic souls. -- Lew