There comes a point in every man's life that he wants to spit on his hands, hoist the Jolly Roger, and start slittin' throats. -- H.L.Mencken
Every kid since the first guy with a boat got his shat taken by a guy with another boat has grown up knowing that pirates are awesome. What's the down side to being called a pirate?
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 19 Jan 2012 @ 12:07am
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Meh, no kind of democracy works worth a damn; we just haven't come up with anything better. Well, I have but a lot of people would have issues with abolishing the Secret Service and allowing preemptive self defense as a valid defense in court if they were going to give us the shaft yet again.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 13 Jan 2012 @ 11:25am
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What "other guy"? They're all politicians and each and every last one of them would sell us out for under a buck. All you get to make a choice on is who they'll sell you out to and how much under a buck they'll do it for.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 12 Jan 2012 @ 9:38pm
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Have to agree with AP. Getting rid of Facebook and Google would be every bit as fascist as SOPA/PIPA. If their millions of users don't care that they're being tracked and sold as marketing information, who are you to tell them they're wrong?
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 12 Jan 2012 @ 8:56am
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More importantly, it would make a whopping lot of the people who are so vocally opposed to SOPA-type legislation ineligible to vote. That's some quality deviousness there.
WTF does this have to do with tech or IP issues, aside from adding on a very thin bit to an otherwise obvious proposal of "Give us the info we want so we can bust your balls"?
I'm not actually against the proposal but neither do I think we have any particular moral high ground from which to demand it. Is anyone over beer buying age actually stupid enough to buy into the whole Everything Must Be Open line of bullshit?
Thanks just the same but I'd rather enjoy my sausage than know all the nasty things that go into making it. At the very least it gives me a much more resilient digestive tract than people who only eat organic vegetables that had Phish played to them while they were being grown.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 31 Dec 2011 @ 12:00am
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Unfortunately it's not making it possible to get the majority of the people to care.
The guys up in Washington really should take a moment to think back on history though. We've already had one revolution over a government screwing the people over to line its own pockets.
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Donate the money you would have spent on big content's products to a non-profit specifically dedicated to opposing their insanity.
It would be a double-hit. Take money that they would have gotten and put it to work directly against them.
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Pirate = bad?
Every kid since the first guy with a boat got his shat taken by a guy with another boat has grown up knowing that pirates are awesome. What's the down side to being called a pirate?
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This is why...
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Cookie hater.
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Take away their right to participate in any way in politics like they were citizens. In return, stop taxing them like were citizens.
Granted that would require major tweaking to the tax code but it would also make the US a very attractive place to do business.
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Well, the **AA have shown us the way around that. Buy a law to legalise shooting someone for being an uncommonly stupid fuckwad.
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Seriously?
I'm not actually against the proposal but neither do I think we have any particular moral high ground from which to demand it. Is anyone over beer buying age actually stupid enough to buy into the whole Everything Must Be Open line of bullshit?
Thanks just the same but I'd rather enjoy my sausage than know all the nasty things that go into making it. At the very least it gives me a much more resilient digestive tract than people who only eat organic vegetables that had Phish played to them while they were being grown.
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The guys up in Washington really should take a moment to think back on history though. We've already had one revolution over a government screwing the people over to line its own pockets.
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