Mr Castle may be giving to us straight. Obscurity, as large as it looms, probably isn't an artist's greatest enemy. Their biggest enemy would be the IP lawyers.
Can anybody confirm my research that Charter Communications is not in on the Six Strikes deal? I'm planning on switching my internet over to them, just on principle.
I spent some time looking into Paul's & Rand Paul's history, the newsletters and David Duke.
I'm not seeing any evidence of Paul himself being a white supremacist. Maybe I'm just not finding the really bad bits.
Even if that's all true, though, and you take the very worst interpretation of all the evidence presented, I rather seriously doubt that his voting record and libertarian philosophy are some curtain that he's going to throw back at some point to reveal sudden world domination by the KKK.
I like Paul's foreign policy. I like his domestic policy of small federal government. I like the ways he says he's going to accomplish his goals. If he became president, and if he did then suddenly support some obviously racist policy or other, the backlash would be so sudden and so severe, he'd think he'd been teleported out of DC.
As it is, though, I don't hear anyone else even pretending to advocate libertarian philosophies, so I'm still for Paul.
I already do that kind of preferential purchasing for myself. I'm trying to fit this kind of boycott into a package that doesn't require a lot of parsing by the person I'm trying to sell it to, so that I can tack it to a stack of articles that the internet should be mad about and say "Please Do This".
Unfortunately, the **AAs aren't really directly consumer connected, so it's hard to know easily enough what to protest. The SOPA protest worked because there were some people who put together some tools that made it possible to protest with near-zero effort. I think if we can do that for other issues, then we can win more of these fights.
Allow me to clarify : I already did some searches. I found a list of companies who supported SOPA and... not much else.
I'm trying to figure out where to aim a boycott to actually hurt the MPAA or RIAA. Is there anything, other than just not seeing any movies or not buying any music? Not everything is MAFIAA, and there's not a lot of point in a shotgun-style boycott.
If I knew who to boycott, I'd be pushing it to friends and strangers every single dang day.
Ok. How? Which things are MPAA / RIAA? Is there a list somewhere? I've tried to figure out out to effectively boycott these people, and I'm not finding anything.
Isolationism and non-interventionism are pretty seriously different positions.
Paul still advocates a high degree of diplomatic involvement in global issues, just not the gonzo military involvement that's bankrupting us and making us enemies.
That's a spectacular idea. They could work with AT&T to develop a suite of search plans.
50 Searches $10*
100 Searches $18*
2000 Searches $65*
Unlimited** Searches $65
Family Plan $135
*Plus $0.35 per search above your plan
**5000 Searches, Top 20 Sites only
Family Plan includes 500 searches, and additional search at the rate of $0.25 each, and includes no*** porn.
***We accept no liability for porn found in a family plan search. Se our definition of porn at brokenlink.con.
(In all cases, you agree not to let anyone under the age of 18 use our search service.)
Those are definitely options that the public doesn't have now. They'll love it!
Not shared walls! The criminals could just rent their own buildings and that would be like having invisible criminals! We need to have an Homeland Security listening post between each building.
Not shared walls! The criminals could just rent their own buildings and that would be like having invisible criminals! We need to have an Homeland Security listening post between each building.
Not shared walls! The criminals could just rent their own buildings and that would be lik having invisible criminals! We need to have an Homeland Security listening post between each building.
True. However, lynch mobs are best prevented by giving the people an acceptable set of rules to live under.
Otherwise you get childish little things like the Boston Tea Party. Tends to happen when the people in power are too detatched to even understand the problem.
Re: Re: Re: Opacity (as Idwal)
I'm curious, because if I was going to pick something objectionable out of the Bible, I'd expect Job to be pretty far down the list.
The Enemy (as Idwal)
Those guys loom like it's their job. Oh wait...
Re: Re: Re: i'm sure some morons would actually try it too (as Idwal)
Re: Re: (as Idwal)
Charter Communications (as Idwal)
Re: Re: Ron Paul
I'm not seeing any evidence of Paul himself being a white supremacist. Maybe I'm just not finding the really bad bits.
Even if that's all true, though, and you take the very worst interpretation of all the evidence presented, I rather seriously doubt that his voting record and libertarian philosophy are some curtain that he's going to throw back at some point to reveal sudden world domination by the KKK.
I like Paul's foreign policy. I like his domestic policy of small federal government. I like the ways he says he's going to accomplish his goals. If he became president, and if he did then suddenly support some obviously racist policy or other, the backlash would be so sudden and so severe, he'd think he'd been teleported out of DC.
As it is, though, I don't hear anyone else even pretending to advocate libertarian philosophies, so I'm still for Paul.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If you are easily disturbed do not read this comment.
Unfortunately, the **AAs aren't really directly consumer connected, so it's hard to know easily enough what to protest. The SOPA protest worked because there were some people who put together some tools that made it possible to protest with near-zero effort. I think if we can do that for other issues, then we can win more of these fights.
Re: Re: Re: Re: If you are easily disturbed do not read this comment. (as Idwal)
Allow me to clarify : I already did some searches. I found a list of companies who supported SOPA and... not much else.
I'm trying to figure out where to aim a boycott to actually hurt the MPAA or RIAA. Is there anything, other than just not seeing any movies or not buying any music? Not everything is MAFIAA, and there's not a lot of point in a shotgun-style boycott.
If I knew who to boycott, I'd be pushing it to friends and strangers every single dang day.
Re: Re: If you are easily disturbed do not read this comment. (as Idwal)
Re: Re: Ron Paul (as Idwal)
Paul still advocates a high degree of diplomatic involvement in global issues, just not the gonzo military involvement that's bankrupting us and making us enemies.
Re: Re: Ron Paul (as Idwal)
He's a little nuts on a couple of things, but by and large he seems to be the sanest on a whole host of issues.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as Idwal)
This whole conversation is hilarious.
Re: Re: (as Idwal)
Re: Re: He says it all right here (as Idwal)
Re: Re: Re: (as Idwal)
Re: Re: (as Idwal)
50 Searches $10*
100 Searches $18*
2000 Searches $65*
Unlimited** Searches $65
Family Plan $135
*Plus $0.35 per search above your plan
**5000 Searches, Top 20 Sites only
Family Plan includes 500 searches, and additional search at the rate of $0.25 each, and includes no*** porn.
***We accept no liability for porn found in a family plan search. Se our definition of porn at brokenlink.con.
(In all cases, you agree not to let anyone under the age of 18 use our search service.)
Those are definitely options that the public doesn't have now. They'll love it!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as Idwal)
Unless you want invisible criminals...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as Idwal)
Unless you want invisible criminals...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as Idwal)
Unless you want invisible criminals...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Compromise... (as Idwal)
Otherwise you get childish little things like the Boston Tea Party. Tends to happen when the people in power are too detatched to even understand the problem.
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