If it were a common occurrence that people wandering outside after dark were killed by tigers, it would be called "normal", but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.
It's for their own good, after all. Lacking a natural predator to offset their present population explosion we're really looking at a total ecological collapse predicated by the invasive "lobbyist" species.
We just want to thin the herd--in the future we may find the lobbyist had a unique ecological niche and be S.O.L. because we caused them to go extinct.
Hey, secretly take away our freedoms and we'll just shrug and say "meh" but take away our most central method for getting movies/shows/games/porn/shopping and perhaps some knowledge and you'll find Americans up in arms, coming out of the woodwork, [insert somewhat time-worn aphorism here], etc.
"The bureaucracy is expanding to support the expanding bureaucracy."
-Oscar Wilde
I, for one, have trouble understanding how anybody in their right mind could possibly believe that more laws, more government, and more taxes is somehow a good thing.
On the post: Mapping Out The Revolving Door Between Gov't And Big Business In Venn Diagrams
Re: Paper Tigers?
On the post: Righthaven Tries New Strategy: Maybe If It Just Ignores Marc Randazza, He'll Go Away
Alt
Let's give 'em till mid January to be certain they're really playing dead.
On the post: Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother
Re: We must fight for our rights (to parttty)
It's for their own good, after all. Lacking a natural predator to offset their present population explosion we're really looking at a total ecological collapse predicated by the invasive "lobbyist" species.
On the post: Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother
Defensive
I hope they made her estate pay up!
/sarc
On the post: RIAA Whines That Google Won't Let It Program Google's Search Algorithm
Re: Rubber Ducky
On the post: MythBuster's Adam Savage: Why PROTECT IP & SOPA Could Destroy The Internet As We Know It
Re: Angry!
/seemed relevant in a tangent kinda way...
On the post: MythBuster's Adam Savage: Why PROTECT IP & SOPA Could Destroy The Internet As We Know It
Re: Signs
On the post: USTR Puts Out Its 'Rogue Sites' List... Can't Even Find 20
Re: Re: Re: Re:
On the post: USTR Puts Out Its 'Rogue Sites' List... Can't Even Find 20
Re: Re: Re:
{a href="link"}link{/a}
Pretend { is less than sign
and } is greater than sign
Standard html
On the post: Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
Re: Re: Re: Idea.
On the post: Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
Re: Re: Ye Aulde News!
On the post: Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
Re: Idea.
Let's just issue 'lobbyist hunting permits' which allow each hunter to bag no more than 5 lobbyists during hunting season.
On the post: Public Opposition Accelerates As Latest Anti-SOPA Petition Hits Goal In Two Days
Re: Go baby go!.
America, Fuck Yeah!
;-P
On the post: Veoh Still Perfectly Legal... But Also Still Dead Due To Bogus Copyright Lawsuit
Re: Re: Re:
;-P
On the post: Lamar Smith Says 'Just Joking...' About Tomorrow; SOPA Markup Postponed
Re: +1K
And with a link!
+1000 internets to you AC!
On the post: China Ramps Up Online Censorship Efforts As US Congress Gives Them Perfect Cover
Re: HR
Don't buy into too much of that crap.
On the post: Reuters Media Columnist Explains That SOPA/PIPA Are A 'Cure Worse Than The Disease'
Re: The B
On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts
Re:
Quite good, could be better. Spoken with belief.
On the post: Does Congress Even Realize That The Courts Appear To Think That SOPA Is Already In Force?
Re: FTFY
/FTFY
On the post: Invincible Killer Scorpions And Other DRM Hijinks
Re: Re: Re: Ambi
Wow, good catch. I totally missed that.
:-(
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