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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger_management
P.S. I don't think I'm going to buy the next-gen PS3 or 360 due to this anti-piracy bullshit (i.e., having to keep your console constantly connected to the Internet). I'm pretty sure it'll put stores like GameStop out of business.
Fuck 'em all. This is something fair use has not caught up to yet and it really needs to be addressed.
the good times keep on' rolling, and netflix continues to make horrible decisions
https://rt.com/usa/news/netflix-sopa-pac-lobby-618/
That article is pretty sensationalistic. Netflix formed a political action committee to protect its interests, but the article can't just be content reporting that and letting the reader draw his own conclusions.
I'm not saying Netflix has good or bad intentions, but whoever wrote this certainly didn't try to hide his own agenda.Quote:
Appropriately titled FLIXPAC, the just established-agency will be able to endorse politicians by way of stuffing their pockets, which in turn could influence even more congressmen to condone increasingly controversial bills that are being considered in the House and the Senate. . . .
Netflix, a long-time opponent of online piracy, will now be able to endorse elected officials by way of big-time contributions, with the PAC now approved to hand out up to $5,000 per election. . . Netflix is expected to . . . use more than just urging to influence lawmakers.
Yeah, I'mma hold off on canceling until I have some real evidence of Netflix supporting garbage like SOPA. But I will cancel if it comes to that.
Same.
I canceled my Netflix account before it was cool.
aww :(
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...superpac.shtml
I guess with the way big media tries to strongarm its views into laws it was kind of believable, eg; withhold licensing rights from netflix until they play ball, so they have a scapegoat of sorts when the poors bitch and moan about how big media controls the government
It's CISPA again. The bullshit bill has been reintroduced in the White House, according to The ECA. This version has no changes from the previous one.
Obama, please keep your promise on this bill. Veto it.
He passed the Monsanto Bill.
I figured it would be a (semi)annual thing for every time it got rejected
Take off and nuke my country from orbit, pls.
Oh well. Maybe this year!Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
Has he lost it yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Guys?Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Update: Nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I'm just waiting for more people to be ready to throw grenades and kill the police.
why don't you get on that, asshole? Why are you so eager to see others die? Do your own dirty work.
What if everyone else is waiting too?Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
Hopefully they've pulled the pins already.
Of the things to get upset about, this rates low on my totem pole.
You will not last in the apocalypse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I'd last longer than you.
What would you do without all your meds?
Go feral.
Can I have your wife when the apocalypse comes?
No yoshi, you can't send me yours in advance
God damn it.
You know I love you, but I'll see you and your kind dangling from the streetlights one day. <3Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
This seriously isn't getting the exposure that it did last time. Why is Google not doing anything? Why does the EFF only have this as a banner ad?
Continue telling everyone you can about it, explaining why it's a problem. Harass your government. Organize a protest (in before lol) Firebomb your local Comcast service center.
The internet is killing attention spans. People rally to the cause of the week and by the next week it's forgotten. Interweb outrage has made changes in the past, but pretty soon corporations and government will catch on and realize that all they have to to is ride out maybe a week or two of bad PR before people forget and move onto the next Big Thing.
The internet has power but its getting way too fucking fickle to do anything with that power. The fact that no one seems to give a shit about this bill this time around is proof.
I still give a shit.
That's more a problem with the system than anything. You read HR933, and tell me you can figure out what the fuck that one paragraph added at the last second is about. I read it and I know what the fuck it is, and I still couldn't decipher it. Most people voting on the bill were completely oblivious to it. Just more shit snuck into a popular piece of legislation under cover of night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
In any event, it's only in effect for 6 months, it's not really that scary of a piece of legislation. It just maintains the status quo for a few more months.
CISPA is a much bigger deal.
I guess complaining to your local governor is physically taxing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
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Originally Posted by Advocate
Are you saying the president signing a bill is mostly not his own doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
What, you expect the President to actually read those bills?
Well, no, what I mean is that the Monsanto Protection Act is a made up thing, a vague provision inside a much larger bill that, even after reading quite a bit about it, doesn't sound like the kind of hysterical bullshit people are making it out to be. The Monsanto Protection Act term was made up after the bill had already passed, and I wouldn't blame him or anyone else for reading it another way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick
The cynical part of my brain wants to believe that this is just horseshit drummed up to distract Facebook awareness activists from CISPA. It seems like a non-story, and maybe even a legit provision to protect farmers during a period of regulatory transition, which actually makes a lot of sense in a business where your product has to grow from the ground for 6 months. It's not some hysterical thing that means the federal government can't regulate GMO, it just means that farmers growing things that then suddenly undergo regulatory changes can petition for a limited time exception so they don't have to destroy their crops.