Agree completely! I mean, how many people are employed by Amazon, Google, eBay, Netflix, etc.? Those fly-by-night companies will be gone before we know it.
Culture does not exist in a vacuum. How about those dirty pirate rock 'n rollers who are still pirating power chords without paying up licensing fees? Or those damned poets who pirate the rhyming schemes? And don't even get me started on those software engineers who blatantly pirate the core concepts of computing like the UI or rounded icons without paying Xerox and Apple, respectively.
Responding to someone, such as yourself, with reason, tact, and a well-thought-out argument would be an exercise in futility and to be perfectly frank you're not worth my time. I figured making you aware of your industry's very real mortality would be more scathing than anything else.
Wrong. Fear-mongering would sound like: "If we push this bill through, the terrorists would use it to Americans all while continuing their agenda to create child pornography while with the homosexuals in their dastardly agenda."
It really seems like these twits watch too many Hollywood movies. Using Rockefeller's example, it would be easier for a gangly nerd and a stereotypically badass black-American to take down an alien mothership using a Macbook than it would for hackers to get into an isolated network such as an air traffic control system.
It is truly pathetic that we have people completely ignorant of the technologies that they are seeking to control. The fact that they are using the boogeyman of teh terrorists to push it through should be all the proof the average American needs to vote these octogenarians out of office.
That sounds a lot like something a terrorist/commie-nazi/child pornograhper would say. Why are you trying to protect those who want to destroy our awesomely great country with your quaint ideas of due process?
I moved all of my sites belonging to a startup that I've been working for to another outside of the United States. The datacenter we used to use was in the same city, now we have to deal with increased latency and a plethora of other small issues. The issue was that we didn't want to be vulnerable to a competitor with a similar business model.
Yeah...SOPA will create jobs and keep businesses in the U.S.
I know this is probably going to go right over your head, but some people actually create for the joy of creation. It's what art used to be about before it was coopted by people like you. My time is valuable, I charge $60/hr for general consulting and $100/hr for data recovery and penetration testing. I still manage to contribute time and code to a variety of open-source projects. I do it, not to get paid, but because I want to give something back to society. Even if I weren't getting paid in my 9-5 job or my consulting gigs I would still give back to the open-source community because it is the right thing to do.
Money obsessed psuedo-artists make me sick. If the end result of the "digital revolution" is that the fake artists get real jobs and leave art to those who love creating, then I say we call their bluff.
When I was in high school I used to work in file mines. It was brutal, back-breaking work. I couldn't imagine what it's like now with the popularity of iTunes.
Ironically I use Google for many things, but not for search. Instant search infuriates me (the fact that it's on by default and persistence is saved in a cookie), so I alternate now between blekko.com and duckduckgo.com. A good example of competitors offering a better product.
Here's a fun fact. Not every poor person is lazy, and not every rich person is a hard worker. People in the class of Mitt Romney will never have to work a day in their lives, they can put their daddy's money in the bank and buy a small island nation off of the interest. It's a damned travesty when he pays a lower income tax rate (13.9%) than the vast majority of middle-class United Statsians living paycheck to paycheck.
As a United Statsian I completely share your outrage. I truly hope that the rest of the world realizes that our government stopped being a voice of its people decades ago. We have given far too much power to soulless corporations and are now reaping the harvest. Every four years we are given a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, neither of which will ever (or could ever) enact any meaningful change. I can't apologize for anybody other than myself, but I am sorry that this kind of heavy-handed behavior is being conducted in my name.
You mean Illuminati don't you? I have it all figured out! Dark Helmet, Marcus Carab and Hephaestus are all part of a shadowy underground organization whose goal is to control all of us. I've had my tin-foil hat fall off a number of times whilst reading their hilarious comments. This in turn allows the CIA to resume sending in the mind-control rays from the Koch brothers forcing me to buy more Coca-Cola which in turn has the dreaded compound "Chemical X" turning me from a mild-mannered software developer into a super-soldier.
To the triad mentioned above and to the puppetmaster Masnick I say, I will not be a part of your genetically engineered army!
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It is truly pathetic that we have people completely ignorant of the technologies that they are seeking to control. The fact that they are using the boogeyman of teh terrorists to push it through should be all the proof the average American needs to vote these octogenarians out of office.
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Yeah...SOPA will create jobs and keep businesses in the U.S.
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Money obsessed psuedo-artists make me sick. If the end result of the "digital revolution" is that the fake artists get real jobs and leave art to those who love creating, then I say we call their bluff.
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To the triad mentioned above and to the puppetmaster Masnick I say, I will not be a part of your genetically engineered army!
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