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You have free speech...         


Author: Day Brown
Date: Jul 30, 2008 08:42

You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
The transnational corporate media talks to everyone else.
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Shrikeback
Date: Jul 30, 2008 11:00

On Jul 30, 8:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.

Who are you talking to?

Anyway, there's no such thing as "free" speech if your
definition of "free" is "no cost". Talking to yourself
costs you some breath, even if you subvocalize.
> The transnational corporate media talks to everyone else.

It costs them. The real point is that I get to choose who
talks to me.
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Day Brown
Date: Jul 30, 2008 20:25

Shrikeback@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 30, 8:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
>> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
>
> Who are you talking to?
A few of those here are capable of engaging in rational discourse
without rapidly being driven to ad hominum. A lot of it looks like
poorly programmed Turing machines. Clutter.
>
> Anyway, there's no such thing as "free" speech if your
> definition of "free" is "no cost". Talking to yourself
> costs you some breath, even if you subvocalize.
"Free" gets into the notion of what free will is. Can you have
free will without free speech?
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: lorad
Date: Jul 30, 2008 20:36

On Jul 30, 8:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
> The transnational corporate media talks to everyone else.

Well... the way the globalized new world order economy is collapsing..
pretty soon they will be talking to themselves too. No one will be
able to afford nor endure their vectored lies.
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Wordsmith
Date: Jul 30, 2008 20:49

On Jul 30, 9:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
> The transnational corporate media talks to everyone else.

True. Freedom of speech also means the freedom of
others to ignore you. Funny how that works.

W : (
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Shrikeback
Date: Jul 30, 2008 21:45

On Jul 30, 8:25 pm, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
> Shrikeb...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 8:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
>>> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
>
>> Who are you talking to?
>
> A few of those here are capable of engaging in rational discourse
> without rapidly being driven to ad hominum. A lot of it looks like
> poorly programmed Turing machines. Clutter.

Actually, my point was, are you just talking to yourself?
Obviously not. Yet the cost to you is almost as minimal
as talking to yourself. That is also why you see high
noise to signal ratio, i.e. clutter. With such a low
barrier to entry, there's bound to be crap.
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: BretCahill
Date: Jul 30, 2008 21:55

> �Give the people the speech they want
> to consume, and you'll make a buck, if the
> price is right.

Supponin' you ain't chargin' nuthin'?

Would they like that more or less?

After all everyone doesn't want to go on a NRA shootin' spree.

Bret Cahill
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Shrikeback
Date: Jul 30, 2008 22:52

On Jul 30, 9:55 pm, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:
>> Give the people the speech they want
>> to consume, and you'll make a buck, if the
>> price is right.
>
> Supponin' you ain't chargin' nuthin'?

Sometimes, even that is too expensive. Anyway,
you are expecting people to pay _attention_ at
least. When it comes to dry old proletarian
agitprop commercials showing the brave Chairman
Mao leading the charge to kill millions of rightard
bandits though, you may have to pay the
consumer.
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Day Brown
Date: Jul 30, 2008 23:22

lorad wrote:
> On Jul 30, 8:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
>> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
>> The transnational corporate media talks to everyone else.
>
> Well... the way the globalized new world order economy is collapsing..
> pretty soon they will be talking to themselves too. No one will be
> able to afford nor endure their vectored lies.
I'm not a prophet, but I am also concerned. My kitchen is cluttered with
produce and canning jars now because I'm addicted to food.

Part of the reason I've been ramping up the size of my garden relates to
your point, that lies can only be stretched so far before something snaps.

If you want the truth, you havta dig in the bone middens and garbage dumps.
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Re: You have free speech...         


Author: Day Brown
Date: Jul 30, 2008 23:24

Wordsmith wrote:
> On Jul 30, 9:42 am, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:
>> You get to talk to yourself for nothing.
>> The transnational corporate media talks to everyone else.
>
> True. Freedom of speech also means the freedom of
> others to ignore you. Funny how that works.
>
> W : (
Well, I dont really expect to have any impact here anyway. Its just a
mind game, no reason to get upset with any of it. My advice always does
better when I take it myself.
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