Money, money, money\ Must be funny\ In the rich man's world
-ABBA
Follow the money! If we want to know why they bizarrely insist that false is true (black is white, up is down, et al) then it's likely we need only go so far as to figure out who's paying them to spout such nonsense.
On the post: Shockingly Unshocking: Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA/PIPA Become Entertainment Industry Lobbyists
Code Monkey's Fix
If you've ever worked as a lobbyist, you may never work for the government.
If you've ever worked for the government, you may never work as/for/near/with a lobbying firm/agent/agency/et al.
Just a thought...
On the post: Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details...
Re: Amateurs...
On the post: Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details...
Re: Gotta wonder...
Judge: "Very well. No charges will be filed. Carry on, have a nice day."
Just another day, business as usual.
On the post: MPAA Tries Its Hand At Comedy With A Top 10 List In Favor Of Censoring The Internet
Re: Hrm.
Or, at least, I hope so.
On the post: Who Owns The Data Collected About You From Devices Inside Your Body?
Re: Hood key
On the post: New Report Debunks The 'Bandwidth Hog' Myth
Re: Brown Sugar
On the post: Belgian Anti-Piracy Group Threatens To Take ISPs To Court If They Don't Block The Pirate Bay; Pirate Bay Traffic From Belgium Increases
Random Thought... (I'm not Jack Handy)
Premise2: Tell 100 random strangers you downloaded/pirated a movie or some music. Watch as 99% shrug their shoulders and say "so what?"
QED: Piracy is not immoral or unethical. The majority doesn't care, so it's not wrong--just happens to be illegal.
(For comparison, see "smoking pot")
On the post: Swiss Government Says File Sharing Isn't A Big Deal; Artist Are Fine, Industry Should Adapt
Re: Well...
On the post: India Says Google & Facebook Should Prescreen All User Generated Content To Stop Jerks
Re: Web 3.0?
On the post: More People Realizing That The FBI's 'Big Wins' Are In Stopping Its Own Made Up Terror Plots
Re: Question:
To say the FBI was manufacturing terrorist threats outside the USA is silly, that's the CIA's job!
On the post: Dentist Who 'Invoiced' Patient For Negative Reviews, Getting Slammed On Yelp
Re: Or...
On the post: As SOPA/PIPA Still Loom, Techies Already Creating Workarounds
Re: Does China's Great Firewall work? -- Yes, largely.
On the post: Morality, Non-Zero Sum Games, Externalities & Why Someone Profiting Off Of Your Work Isn't A Bad Thing
Re: Re: Zero sum game
Good, not great.
Spoken with conviction.
Keep practicing.
Also, you got my vote for 'funny'
On the post: Morality, Non-Zero Sum Games, Externalities & Why Someone Profiting Off Of Your Work Isn't A Bad Thing
Re: Another bad example, now about GAP!
Ergo, to copy!
On the post: Morality, Non-Zero Sum Games, Externalities & Why Someone Profiting Off Of Your Work Isn't A Bad Thing
Re: Peace and Love
On the post: A Step By Step Debunking Of US Chamber Of Commerce's Dishonest Stats About 'Rogue Sites'
Re: And this ladies and gents is why
On the post: Court Effectively Pretends SOPA Already Exists; Orders Domains Seized, De-Linked From Search
Re: Anyone know where I can get a full text version of the list of web sites?
On the post: Questionable 'Consumer' Group Releases Most Misleading Report Imaginable, Falsely Claiming People Support SOPA
Must be funny...
On the post: May The Dolphin Be Unflogged: Paskistani Government Censors Texting
Re: I'll start...
On the post: Ray Bradbury Discovers The Internet Is Real After All; Publishers Force Him To Offer Ridiculously Overpriced Ebooks
Authors... sheesh!
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