i wrote this irc bill of rights, cause im so sick of irc. dedicated to staci, who was despondent. irc bill of rights: 1) an absolute right of association ensures anyone the right to associate with anyone else, at any channel or combination of channels at any time 2) anyone who can manage to get ops has the right to keep those ops under any circumstances on any channel, unless someone takes them away 3) anyone may join any public channel, any secret channel, and any private channel unless additional modes happen to disallow it 4) anyone may bring a bot to any channel, to endure the darwinian challenges thereof 5) bots have no rights whatsoever 6) anyone who disagrees with what a person has to say, no matter how controversial, as long as it is within the 'community standards' of the channel, has the right to place that person on one or more forms of /ignore 7) anyone who failed to observe right #6 has the right to use /exit before they use /kick 8) tattlemail should be run through a Zippy the Pinhead filter before it is sent out. admins have the right to Zippyfy replies. 9) op beggars have the right to be kicked without mercy 10) [attributed to staci] you have the right to be sexually harrassed