Stop Online Piracy Act

Bah to term limits. Wouldnt change anything except open up a revolving door and expose a fresh batch of greenhorns to the joys of institutional corruption on a regular basis.

The only whoescale reform that would change anything is public financing of campaigns. Exclusively. Barring that, there's a sure fire way to make sure these peoples' political careers are short, but nobody ever does it.

Congress' approval rating is something like 11%. Everyone hates Congress. But people like their Congressperson. Its the other guys that's the problem. So these pieces of shit keep going back.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Bah to term limits. Wouldnt change anything except open up a revolving door and expose a fresh batch of greenhorns to the joys of institutional corruption on a regular basis.

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Well a big part of the reason politicians are so beholden to people for money is not greed, it's the cost of campaigning. If you take away that need, you soften the motivation fueling the corruption.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Well a big part of the reason politicians are so beholden to people for money is not greed, it's the cost of campaigning. If you take away that need, you soften the motivation fueling the corruption.

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You still have the human motivation to get rich as possible before you die

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Originally Posted by dave is ok

You still have the human motivation to get rich as possible before you die

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But they also have a human motivation not to go to jail. If there's no campaign contributions, the shit is just a straight-up bribe, we have institutions in place to deal with that kind of thing.

Not that it doesn't happen, but we have ways of dealing with it at least.

pft, "jail"

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Nobody makes a long-ass post like you did without believing it. Stop pretending.

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But that long ass post started and ended with "I don't believe Yoshi's 'people without property have no rights' angle" - go ahead and look.

If anything, I was trying to separate his stance from Thief's notion that Yoshi's notion is Big Time Popular Republican Opinion. It's not - there's a difference between someone wanting to keep what they earn and choosing how its implemented, and Yoshi's derangement of letting no one without property having a vote.

Then again, all you had to do was read the beginning and end of that long-ass post to know I feel that way already. Stop pretending that it's anything else.

Did the internet die yet?

Are tits considered IP?

nah that useless committee is on break until next week or 2012 or something

where we'll really see this stupid legislation (and hopefully PIPA too, which is the scarier of the bunch because it appears to let the government "disappear" people acting as dissidents) burn in flames is on the senate floor

they already "disappear" people acting as dissidents

On topic.