Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: the Olson Timezone Database Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:31:29 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <32374033.306.1329328297350.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcwl10> <8v9pj755fmgdndtutvug90akelm9u0k1p1@4ax.com> <4773091.731.1329420248862.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbeo1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="19340"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lCHq0oCtE4yNaZdHuK5ch" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:lJRoW8zvgqfgW87vGOGjxzLCBtU= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12091 On 2/16/2012 4:16 PM, David Lamb wrote: > On 16/02/2012 2:24 PM, 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. They even victimized the Scottish Organic Producers Association. (See if the penny fails to drop.) -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid