The idea is to *threaten* a sudden permanent mass exodus to see if they'll remove their support.
As it is, the moment facebook starts voluntarily handing out my private information without my sayso or a warrant, I will exit, and I will take everyone I can with me.
We need to be careful of thinking like that. That's their tactic. Scare -> Amend -> Pass -> Ratchet
This bill passes in any form, it's a dozen steps backward. Congress shouldn't get any credit for passing a terrible bill instead of a disasterous one. The Congresscritters who are willing to slay these legislative beasts, however, should get elected for life.
Are you seriously trying to call his comparison meritless by arguing that the administrator had mental superiority to a kid who didn't notice his shirt was on fire?
You do even better when you remove the mandatory attendance. Then all the ones who don't want to learn anything can leave and let the rest of us get on with it.
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.
Step 3
What are all these extra steps?
Step 3 is supposed to be PROFIT!!
At least, that's what the RIAA keeps telling me...
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Yeah. That was such a weird coincidence. I wonder why they did that.
Re: A petition directed at Facebook?
The idea is to *threaten* a sudden permanent mass exodus to see if they'll remove their support.
As it is, the moment facebook starts voluntarily handing out my private information without my sayso or a warrant, I will exit, and I will take everyone I can with me.
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Find their email address and sign them up for BestNetTech, Demand Progress, Access Now and EFF updates?
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We need to be careful of thinking like that. That's their tactic. Scare -> Amend -> Pass -> Ratchet
This bill passes in any form, it's a dozen steps backward. Congress shouldn't get any credit for passing a terrible bill instead of a disasterous one. The Congresscritters who are willing to slay these legislative beasts, however, should get elected for life.
Re: Re:
No, it's the Declaration of Independance that's a terrorist manifesto.
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But, if they grow backbones, then they might become...
GASP!
...Anonymous members!
Re: Re: idiots in charge always have been
Are you seriously trying to call his comparison meritless by arguing that the administrator had mental superiority to a kid who didn't notice his shirt was on fire?
Aiming a bit low, isn't it?
Re:
Can't we please do both?
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You do even better when you remove the mandatory attendance. Then all the ones who don't want to learn anything can leave and let the rest of us get on with it.
Re: New Idea
Didn't you just describe 4chan?
Re: Re: Three Stages of Political Thinking
What? All of them?
*panics*
Re: Re: Re: Opacity
What was it about Job that flicked off the lightswitch?
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
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.
Those guys loom like it's their job. Oh wait...
Re: Re: Re: i'm sure some morons would actually try it too
Said hoop also sends mall security a nude photo of you if you happen to have on you any object sold in the mall, but not a reciept.
Re: Re:
Quicker than *not* getting the product, of course.
Charter Communications
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.
Re: Re: Ron Paul
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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If you are easily disturbed do not read this comment.
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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: If you are easily disturbed do not read this comment.
Sorry, my post kinda does make me look retarded.
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.