Democracy and Idiocy

Rudotel

27 Jul 2010

Declaring iOS jailbreak legal today made the entire web shout “Freedom, at last, kill the dictator!”.

What everybody missed is that freedom from straps in a looping fighter jet is not necessarily a good thing, while the “dictator” might as well be the pilot.

How democratic do you think the developers are feeling right now? What about the musicians? Or the film makers? Or the ebook publishers?

Where did you guys hear the evolution could be democratic?!

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Humanoid Robots Will Build iPhones

Are the US still under a Supreme Court decision or not?

Lynch is dead

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