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Fri Jul 03 15:44:13 UTC 2015 <kakobrekla> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33378778 << The Catholic Church wrote in comments submitted after the bill was proposed: "Should freedom of expression go so far as to mean that the identity of a person of faith can be freely insulted, then personal freedom - as individuals or groups - is undermined."
Wed Jul 01 19:27:31 UTC 2015 <midnightmagic> So? Opinion doesn't mean action; and it doesn't follow that I'd waste my time reporting, or even communicating with an inverted totalitarianist state, given the literal costs of doing so in terms of freedom and money.
Sat Jun 27 23:06:07 UTC 2015 <trinque> well, suppose for example someone hates freedom and steals deedbot.org from me
Fri Jun 26 16:22:34 UTC 2015 <decimation> "This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected commit- tee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extrav- agant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most im- portant liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves."
Mon Jun 15 04:19:20 UTC 2015 <trinque> wouldn't it be nice for a man to call a command a command, so you know what freedom you actually have
Thu Jun 11 00:07:57 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> and since we're talking art an' freedom, http://trilema.com/2014/the-soft-underbelly-of-hedonism-exposed/
Wed Jun 10 22:15:22 UTC 2015 <trinque> there's no freedom to define reality itself
Wed Jun 10 21:55:22 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> hint : you're well aware that eliberation is not necessarily the path to freedom. nuland's all about eliberations after all :D
Wed Jun 10 21:35:23 UTC 2015 <trinque> still chewing on that discussion of freedom
Wed Jun 10 19:42:37 UTC 2015 <lobbes> and meanwhile they're making theorems illegal << just keep running? debatable if that is true freedom, but arguably you wouldn't run out of places to run before end of life
Wed Jun 10 19:39:22 UTC 2015 <lobbes> still, you have the freedom to throw the crown off and sit on thumbs for a year
Wed Jun 10 19:30:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> horse's notion of freedom is "the ability to run where it will". nevertheless, absent a ground to push him up and an atmosphere to push him down, the horse's freedom's not quite what he imagined, but rather painful if short an affair.
Wed Jun 10 19:28:55 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> take the sexual metaphor. sure, sexual freedom would supperficially appear to be that situation where "the cunt;'s your own to do as you please". however, the cunt so liberated from a context wherein cocks make demands upon it is not in any sense something for you to do as you please, it's just a painful bit of bleeding garbage enbittering your existence.
Wed Jun 10 16:46:12 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 13-05-2015 05:12:34; decimation: heh there are amusing layers here > "In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later to be the President of the Confederate States of America) insisted that a Phrygian cap not be included on a Statue of Freedom, on the grounds that "American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave". "
Fri Jun 05 03:21:28 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> trinque: it arguably descends from u.s. hitler (fdr) 's phrase 'freedom from fear'
Fri Jun 05 03:19:24 UTC 2015 <trinque> "freedom from terrorism" is a particularly insidious concept
Wed Jun 03 07:43:59 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-06-2015#1152762 << this recipe, if taken voluntarily and out of a love of freedom, leads to pashtunistan. a great place to make actual friends, a horrible place to live. or get laid.
Wed Jun 03 02:40:51 UTC 2015 <decimation> 'you can't take away our freedom'
Mon Jun 01 18:55:38 UTC 2015 <*> trinque revels in this new watershed of freedom post-lapse of the patriot act
Tue May 26 15:40:21 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> freedom of derp.