academic freedom

A phrase used by College Republicans to declare their right to say and write stupid things in class and still get good grades.

I wrote all about the Iraqi - al-Qaeda connection for my term paper and got a D! The professor is a LIBERAL! What happened to academic freedom?

by SmStudent April 16, 2008

Freedom

Freedom is an oxymoron when used by any President of the USA; it's what the USA takes of people in order to secure its own 'Freedom' in wars such as Iraq. The act of securing the American people's freedom actively endangers their freedom further while destroying that of others; this leads to the need to further secure Americans' freedom and hence a cycle is created which will ultimately end in the destruction of the earth. Pre 'War on Terror' the Truman Doctrine ensured the 'freedom' of peoples threatened by communism.

Iraq was invaded to secure American freedom.

by RTR's Synical Satire July 7, 2007

freedom

Freedom from tyranny would be great if only the tyrants would all kill themselves then maybe we could experience it.

In America,freedom doesn't exist.Freedom is dead and every single day it dies a little bit more.

by I hate liberals December 28, 2005

freedom of speech

I'd like to provide you all with some text i've recieved in a journalism class. The entire first quarter of the year was spent on the first amendment. Our rights of the first one inlclude ONLY these: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and right to petition. For the freedom of speech part, there ARE some limits. Some legal limits. They are:

Clear and Present Danger
Fighting Words
Libel and Slander
Obscenity
Conflight with Other Legitimate Social Or Governmental Interests
Time, Place and Manner

So no, you dont have the legal right to say 'fuck you' on national television, or show your tits during a superbowl halftime show. I agree that we SHOULD be able to curse etc. as we feel, but there do need to be a few limits so that we dont abuse it. Just so everyone knows, the 5th one means that in times of crisis(war) the government can restrict it for security(idioticly). They can also place a gag order on the press during war and participants in a trial. I agree this is idiocy, but you have no constitutional right to tell someone to fuck themself on CSPAN.

Freedom Of Speech isnt as general as most people think

by Kevin November 9, 2004

Operation American Freedom

(n) November 2, 2004

The first objective of Operation American Freedom is to oust the Bush regime.

by fduck July 21, 2004

Freedom

Slavery. "Freedom is Slavery" is one of the Party slogans in the book 1984 by George Orwell. It is an example of ANTIETYMOPATHY.

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.

by Audimage August 30, 2006

FreeNode

An IRC network founded around 1999 by a guy named Rob Levin, who started with good intentions but became a money-loving whore after he learned he could get donations from people stupid enough to donate to the network. Eventually more people got sucked into this facade, and the network grew. After Rob Levin died, Christel Dahlskjaer took over and made things a little better (but not much). On the whole, the network is still run by power-hungry IRC operators who can't get jack shit done, as shown by the extreme backlog of GCF requests.

People who are insane enough to develop for FreeNode are notoriously bad coders who spend their days smoking meth. Almost paradoxically, FreeNode has closed-sourced many core utilities such as Idoru (though nobody wants the code anyway). The devs also are famous for forking ircd's into piles of useless garbage that only morons who know nothing about IRC would run.

Anyone who has a respectable project that wants a host for their channel should consider hosting it themselves or on OFTC, rather than use FreeNode's "services."

Ugh, I'm so sick of FreeNode. I'm moving to EfNet.

by OMGWTFLOLIDIED August 15, 2008