Your senator is cool, where can I get one like him?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/20...tect-ip-act.ars

coming from illinois im proud to actually have some actual "kinda for the people sometimes" senators.

and its funny how many people here in salem/keizer are so pro republican and vote against the people that actually try to protect them from themselves. fucking politics.

whats more impressive is that google has a very big presence in oregon, and they seemingly like to accommodate whatever country they go to (they may put up a fight but still do what they must for the almighty dollar).

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Wed - Jun 1 2011 - 23:55:39

I will never understand the equation of "free market" to "corporate-controlled government". The past decade+ has been continually entrenching themselves so nobody can live without them, they can't go away. Laws that require every vehicle from cars to trains to airplanes to be insured, bond-rating requirements on airplanes so if one big bank takes a hit, it ripples through via the investment banking/insurance mega-corps and makes it illegal to use most of the planes in the country, plus having either a loan or legally-mandated insurance on your property be completely fucked by the instability of the organization.

This time they are trying to make a simple system of censorship so any website accused of piracy can be tied up in legal shit and shut down, plus legally cut off from all major payment processors and ad networks that they can't function. Huge waste of money over the need for power, mostly because the rich old-media owners and old politicians will never understand how the internet works.

Speaking of old idiots with computers...
A few months into the retail computer sales/repair job, I had a guy bring his computer in because he got a virus that locked him out of his computer. I asked him if he had any other problems, blah blah, he buys a new computer, I offer to recycle the old one, he agrees. Before I ran a password-removal utility, I hit enter and discovered that he had no password, and I now had my first laptop, which also happened to be full of information from a big investment bank, as well as powerpoint presentations of porn. Who the fuck gets porn in PowerPoint form? Well, uh, that guy.

how do you think people viewed porn before streaming on the internet

powerpoint duh