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SOPA or how America hates the Internet.

Started by Grey Fox, November 18, 2011, 01:20:11 PM

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Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Neil

Quote from: Josephus on January 17, 2012, 02:06:12 PM
America's black communist president saves the internet :)
Which is what it would take.  Republicans have been looking forward to dismantling the internet and restricting the flow of information for years now.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

derspiess

Quote from: Valmy on January 17, 2012, 02:26:52 PM
My kid has a baseball he throws around the house  :cool:

Fortunately at 14 months he does not have much of an arm.

:D

My 8-month old girl likes sit in her high chair and drop things that make loud sounds.  Then when she sees the startled/annoyed look on my face she tilts her head to the side and smiles.  She's going to get away with murder :mellow:
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

Quote from: Neil on January 17, 2012, 03:07:28 PM
Which is what it would take.  Republicans have been looking forward to dismantling the internet and restricting the flow of information for years now.

I think that's mostly the old ones, who don't understand what the internet is.  But in this case it's bipartisan ignorance.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Razgovory

Quote from: derspiess on January 17, 2012, 03:46:28 PM
Quote from: Neil on January 17, 2012, 03:07:28 PM
Which is what it would take.  Republicans have been looking forward to dismantling the internet and restricting the flow of information for years now.

I think that's mostly the old ones, who don't understand what the internet is.  But in this case it's bipartisan ignorance.

They understand to well.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

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garbon

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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HisMajestyBOB

Quote from: Razgovory on January 17, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 17, 2012, 03:46:28 PM
Quote from: Neil on January 17, 2012, 03:07:28 PM
Which is what it would take.  Republicans have been looking forward to dismantling the internet and restricting the flow of information for years now.

I think that's mostly the old ones, who don't understand what the internet is.  But in this case it's bipartisan ignorance.

They understand to well.

They understand that the MPAA, et al, will donate lots of cash to their campaigns if they push through this bill. That's as much as they want to understand.
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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney


Monoriu

How many people will now support SOPA just to get back at wiki?

Razgovory

Quote from: Monoriu on January 18, 2012, 01:51:05 AM
How many people will now support SOPA just to get back at wiki?

Contrarians, and crazy people.  So probably some people on Languish, but not many else where.  If you wanted to get back at Wiki wouldn't you simply not use it?  The only people affected are those who use it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sophie Scholl

Sent an e-mail to my local Rep, Richard Hanna.  Combined my thoughts on the legislation plans with a general endorsement of what he's done so far.  I've been more pleased than disappointed I voted for him. :thumbsup:
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

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Razgovory

My current Rep thinks that Global warming is some kind of conspiracy or something. :(
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017