SPEAK UP AND OPPOSE PIPA/SOPA !!!
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia main page, enter your zipcode, it links to email contact for your congressmen / representatives.

https://www.usps.com/
US Postal service website can provide your zipcode+4, if required.

This is what I sent to all concerned:

Anyone who agrees with what I said has my permission to copy/paste my message, if that encourages them to SEND AN EMAIL.


https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Google's main page links to this online PIPA/SOPA petition.

Love Google's mini protest.

Congress is transparently corrupt. They are pushing this legislation through only because their financial contributors have asked them to. It's legal bribery.

And it's bipartisan. Yay! :yelsick:

I contacted my representative and one senator, but now I'm having trouble loading the form for my second senator. I wonder if they are experiencing a heavy volume today.

For once the online petitions didn't ask me to declare that i'm a registered voter.

Fucking A.

This is done.

Did this yesterday. A very important issue, no matter which side of the political spectrum you sit on.

Too bad this can't go through the teenager facebook channels like Ali's friend's contest did.

It is Kero. It started last night and I've seen a whole bunch of my friends and their friends ... its happening.

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Same here. Besides the recent Packer loss, my facebook news feed hasn't blown up on a single issue like this for a while.

Ah. I quit FB, so I wasn't aware it has gone that viral.

The industry ignored the problem for years. Did virtually nothing to protect themselves. Law enforcement and other techniques to avert the problem are under utilized or sometimes ignored. So they want other innocent third parties to protect them.

A four man operation in St Petersburg Russia has routinely used internet scams (especially on Facebook) to steal $millions for consumer accounts. These four men are well known by name. The NY Times even published them. For years, Facebook has had a picture of one on their walls. Their St Petersburg office is described by the NY Times. These guys will even spend four months on vacations in places such as the south of France. And nothing happens to them. Where are routine solutions such as law enforcement?

These guys operate for the same reason why Hollywood would rather have third parties protect them.

Music industry's solution to piracy was to ignore it. To maintain an obsolete business model that only encouraged Napster. Even Apple had to drag this industry, kicking and screaming, into the new world.

What do badly managed industries do? What the American tire industry did to keep the radial tire out of America for almost 30 years. Run to government for protection for so long that most formally American tire manufacturers had to be sold to foreigners.

I emailed the Speaker of the House, who happens to be my congressman.

If I may, quote you, quoting me:

From the Hall of Fame. I thought of this last night. I find that it applies.

You may. That's why it's there, to *preserve* such things. You were right when you said it the first time, I was right to note it and record it, and you were right to repeat it.

Good job.

We rock. Anybody else is free to get in on this...

Well, flint is a type of rock...

NY Times
By BEN SISARIO
Published: January 19, 2012

Indictment Charges Megaupload Site With Piracy

huh.. looks like prosecution of pirates DOESN'T require sopa/pipa after all.

Now. Go prove your case in court.

The $175M number sounds like it's a real number that investigators got by actually looking at, you know, evidence. The $500M number sound like it was pulled out of someone's ass. Benford's law says that it's completely bullshit. Benford's law says that the $175M number is real.

Hey we're not opposing Pippa's butt, are we?

'cause I'm not against that. At least, not in the way I'd like to be.

No no Zen, Pipa/Sopa. They just don' wanna Pippa to ever soapa her butt.

I did not test this for truthiness, but, it's chock full of ironicalness.

Attachment 36880

hahahahaha

If Lamar Smith and Dick Cheney went hunting, then who would win?

The American People!

Cato claims the numbers expounded by SOPA's backers, and repeated by their whores in congress, are bullshit.

Basically, MPAA claims online piracy costs the U.S. economy $200-250 billion per year, and had killed 750,000 American jobs.

This article, in tracking down those claims, and checking with the GAO, show piracy...
1- Costs the US economy nothing, zip, zero.
2- Costs the Hollywood studios $445 million, which equals the gross for the last Alvin & The Chipmunks.
3- Costs zero US jobs, except maybe employment in copyright-intensive sectors (lawyers).

Also, implementation would cost the taxpayers $47 million a year, plus untold millions more in ISP compliance costs which would be passed on to the consumer.

Lack of necessary knowledge in Congress (state and Federal) is even why we changed daylight saving times that did nothing to decrease costs. And that cause increase costs. Such as equipment that now has the wrong time for three weeks every year.

Cited in another discussion was WiFi. About 50% of the states banned public WiFi by anyone but the incumbent communication companies. This law was made only to protect the big communication companies (Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, etc) from innovation by smaller companies (ie Earthlink). Why would any legislature do this? Their only information comes from expensive lobbyists.

Why has Google increased their Washington office from near zero to become their largest facilities outside of the Silicon Valley? Lobbying rather than basic technical knowledge is important when Congressmen are extremists rather than informed moderates. He who pays more to buy a Congressman learned long ago which ones are best purchased. With a Supreme Court who said this was good, even Google must now buy Congressmen.

The warranty on at least three members of the 9 members of the Supreme Court has expired.
Their initials are Scalia, Thomas, and TBA

How much would it cost to replace one ?
...and would there be progressive discounts for each additional replacement ?
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