all that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing
when asked in an irc channel populated primarily by people who belong to my local linux user group what predictions we had for 2006, and went on to say that he thought it would be bigger and better than any year before it.
i predicted that it would be the year that humanity the world over would prove once again to any god that exists that we should be wiped off the face of the planet for our actions, that the unstoppable march of digital rights management, the advancing lawmaking capability of various entertainment cartels would only grow and swell as they persuaded governments around the world that without suddenly restricting my right to use something i paid for was absolutely necessary for -- wait for it -- ...not their very existence, but for our own benefit.
he disagreed, of course, but i think we all know what is really going to happen.
i predicted that it would be the year that humanity the world over would prove once again to any god that exists that we should be wiped off the face of the planet for our actions, that the unstoppable march of digital rights management, the advancing lawmaking capability of various entertainment cartels would only grow and swell as they persuaded governments around the world that without suddenly restricting my right to use something i paid for was absolutely necessary for -- wait for it -- ...not their very existence, but for our own benefit.
he disagreed, of course, but i think we all know what is really going to happen.