That's stupid. House is on Monday nights and they're showing reruns right now anyway.

Maybe my emails helped this time. Nah, somebody probably got some $$ to stop it. Briefly.

Don't feel so good, folks. This is just a ploy for the politicians to prolong the suspense in order to get a few more.....ahem......."donations" from the RIAA and Hollywood before they bring down the final crushing blow on America.

Only the ACLU can save our asses now.

Code_Archeologist: SOPA is not about piracy, it is about turning content back into a commodity to save the obsolete business models of the RIAA and MPAA.

No, it's about expanding the government's power to censor the Internet. It's modeled off of what's done in China, fer chrissakes.

Nadie_AZ: Fine. Just end the damn session. And since when is letting a tax cut expire considered 'raising taxes'?

Cuz Ol Turtlehead sez so.

Captain Steroid: Huh. For once, the partisan Washington gridlock might actually prove useful.

actually, it always works that way.

LemSkroob: Captain Steroid: Huh. For once, the partisan Washington gridlock might actually prove useful.

actually, it always works that way.

Not really, no. Mostly it only screws up things that should pass/we really need to pass. Things that should never, ever farking pass either sail through or get caught up briefly before dying a quiet death so that they can be resurrected quietly later.

Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

Cletus C.: Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

If it's that important to you I'll come and unplug your computer for you, free of charge.

I_Am_Weasel: patrick767: That's stupid. House is on Monday nights and they're showing reruns right now anyway.

They're watching episodes from the torrent download.

When you download reruns of "House" you are downloading lupus

A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

If it's that important to you I'll come and unplug your computer for you, free of charge.

You did that to my TV when the FCC started regulating television and a crystal sugar bowl went missing. So no thanks.

Weaver95: GAT_00: Nadie_AZ: When does this terrible session end? Besides 'not soon enough'?

Not any time soon since the House just killed the payroll tax extension, and Wyden says he's going to filibuster it to death in the Senate.

I just don't understand the GOP anymore. nothing they do makes any sense.

It makes sense if you view their MO as solely to funnel as much money as possible to the already hyper rich.

Cletus C.: A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

If it's that important to you I'll come and unplug your computer for you, free of charge.

You did that to my TV when the FCC started regulating television and a crystal sugar bowl went missing. So no thanks.

Weaver95: GAT_00: Nadie_AZ: When does this terrible session end? Besides 'not soon enough'?

Not any time soon since the House just killed the payroll tax extension, and Wyden says he's going to filibuster it to death in the Senate.

I just don't understand the GOP anymore. nothing they do makes any sense.

Seems pretty obvious to me. They're against anything Obama says or does.

Hell, I have think he said he'd sign SOPA just so the Republicans would consider not passing it.

This can be read as "put it aside until they can pass it in the dead of night with as few people as possible noticing."

The going rate for the US Congress these days is about $200,000. And Congress has already taken the bribe money from RIAA/MPAA/Comcast/Time Warner, so they are obliged to keep trying to get this passed. You can't just accept bribe lobbyist money and not deliver. That would be rude.

They will keep trying and keep trying to pass this. We need to stay vigilant and ready to take action (call/write/visit your congress person, notify anyone and everyone you know to do the same) every time they try to pass this.

Or better yet, vote every last one of these bums out of office, both D and R.

Dyslexic Frenchmen hate SOPA.

Code_Archeologist: nekom: I think it's cute that anyone still thinks that piracy can be stopped or even curbed.

SOPA is not about piracy, it is about turning content back into a commodity to save the obsolete business models of the RIAA and MPAA. SOPA does not require an entity to prove infringement for that entity to pursue a web site for damages; they simply have to show that the web site does not sufficiently protect the entity's intellectual property.



You can thank Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) for this. He's been pushing for an immediate vote on SOPA ever since COIN died. He has another bill in the works, H.R. 1981, that may as well be retitled H.R. 1984. It's a bill that would record and store the history of ALL Americans for 18 months with LEOs and lawyers getting unrestricted access. Worst of all, it's labeled the "Protecting Children from Internet Pornography Act" when it does no such thing.

Of course, Smith gets tons of contributions from the entertainment industry and law firms and has the backing of authoritarian LEO groups. The man is the enemy of the Internet.

I'm not understanding the Fark outrage at the SOPA thing.

A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

If it's that important to you I'll come and unplug your computer for you, free of charge.

You did that to my TV when the FCC started regulating television and a crystal sugar bowl went missing. So no thanks.

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Ok, so I have to threadjack a little bit and ask: "What is this meme?" I assume it refers to Tommy Lee Jones telling someone they're a moron... in some way, but I can't find the details online.

Also Cletus.. if that meme does NOT refer to frowning on something mind-bendingly stupid, please insert a more appropriate one in that general theme for your insinuation that SOPA is the same as FCC regulation of public broadcasting.

fritton: A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

If it's that important to you I'll come and unplug your computer for you, free of charge.

You did that to my TV when the FCC started regulating television and a crystal sugar bowl went missing. So no thanks.

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Ok, so I have to threadjack a little bit and ask: "What is this meme?" I assume it refers to Tommy Lee Jones telling someone they're a moron... in some way, but I can't find the details online.

Also Cletus.. if that meme does NOT refer to frowning on something mind-bendingly stupid, please insert a more appropriate one in that general theme for your insinuation that SOPA is the same as FCC regulation of public broadcasting.

fritton: Ok, so I have to threadjack a little bit and ask: "What is this meme?" I assume it refers to Tommy Lee Jones telling someone they're a moron... in some way, but I can't find the details online.

Search for "implied facepalm". But, yes, that is the gist. "You're too big of a goddamn idiot to even be worth facepalming for."

ciderczar: fritton: A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: A Dark Evil Omen: Cletus C.: Not many people here have intellectual property worth protecting, apparently.

If it's that important to you I'll come and unplug your computer for you, free of charge.

You did that to my TV when the FCC started regulating television and a crystal sugar bowl went missing. So no thanks.

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Ok, so I have to threadjack a little bit and ask: "What is this meme?" I assume it refers to Tommy Lee Jones telling someone they're a moron... in some way, but I can't find the details online.

Also Cletus.. if that meme does NOT refer to frowning on something mind-bendingly stupid, please insert a more appropriate one in that general theme for your insinuation that SOPA is the same as FCC regulation of public broadcasting.

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Damn you...

Goodfella: This can be read as "put it aside until they can pass it in the dead of night with as few people as possible noticing."

The going rate for the US Congress these days is about $200,000. And Congress has already taken the bribe money from RIAA/MPAA/Comcast/Time Warner, so they are obliged to keep trying to get this passed. You can't just accept bribe lobbyist money and not deliver. That would be rude.

They will keep trying and keep trying to pass this. We need to stay vigilant and ready to take action (call/write/visit your congress person, notify anyone and everyone you know to do the same) every time they try to pass this.

Or better yet, vote every last one of these bums out of office, both D and R.

And replace them with new candidates, who will need money to run their campaigns, which RIAA/MPAA et al will happily provide.

A Dark Evil Omen: fritton: Ok, so I have to threadjack a little bit and ask: "What is this meme?" I assume it refers to Tommy Lee Jones telling someone they're a moron... in some way, but I can't find the details online.

Search for "implied facepalm". But, yes, that is the gist. "You're too big of a goddamn idiot to even be worth facepalming for."

ahh, got it. Thanks much

AcneVulgaris: Or better yet, vote every last one of these bums out of office, both D and R.

And replace them with new candidates, who will need money to run their campaigns, which RIAA/MPAA et al will happily provide.

Then I guess we need to get the money out of politics, as well.

Reid will jam this through somehow.

SOPA is going to pass and it's going to change the internet forever. There won't be a message board left in a few years.

AcneVulgaris: Goodfella: This can be read as "put it aside until they can pass it in the dead of night with as few people as possible noticing."

The going rate for the US Congress these days is about $200,000. And Congress has already taken the bribe money from RIAA/MPAA/Comcast/Time Warner, so they are obliged to keep trying to get this passed. You can't just accept bribe lobbyist money and not deliver. That would be rude.

They will keep trying and keep trying to pass this. We need to stay vigilant and ready to take action (call/write/visit your congress person, notify anyone and everyone you know to do the same) every time they try to pass this.

Or better yet, vote every last one of these bums out of office, both D and R.

And replace them with new candidates, who will need money to run their campaigns, which RIAA/MPAA et al will happily provide.

Which is why we need to scrap the whole thing and start over.

Erebus1954: Reid will jam this through somehow.

A statement not uncommon at the Eagles Christmas feast.

Come on guys. I like the show too, but you really need to do your jobs. Get a TiVo.

fusillade762: Weaver95: GAT_00: Nadie_AZ: When does this terrible session end? Besides 'not soon enough'?

Not any time soon since the House just killed the payroll tax extension, and Wyden says he's going to filibuster it to death in the Senate.

I just don't understand the GOP anymore. nothing they do makes any sense.

It makes sense if you view their MO as solely to funnel as much money as possible to the already hyper rich.

Republicans and Democrats are playing good cop/bad cop. They have the same goal - screw the public as much as possible, and get re-elected

//so vote Democrat - because they pretend to feel your pain.

Weaver95: I just don't understand the GOP anymore. nothing they do makes any sense.

After the 2008 elections, a bunch of studies came out showing that thanks to birth rates and migration patterns, the GOP was dying and destined to become a regional party. The studies were a little premature, but essentially accurate. Oddly enough, when the country is becoming browner and more socially liberal, the path to perpetual success doesn't revolve around demonizing abortions and minorities.

Thanks to 2010, the GOP managed to stave things off for a decade or so, but short of a massive shift, the GOP as we know it is dead. So the people in power are basically looting the museum on the way out the door.

A Dark Evil Omen: Then I guess we need to get the money out of politics, as well.

You can't do that as long as money equals free speech. And as long as corporations have equal free speech standings as individuals, they will be able to use their huge bank accounts to influence politics.

It would be easier to get corporations out from the free speech umbrella than it would be to revoke the notion of money as speech. And the chances of the former happening are somewhere between zilch and naught.

Nuff Said McFarky: Code_Archeologist: nekom: I think it's cute that anyone still thinks that piracy can be stopped or even curbed.

SOPA is not about piracy, it is about turning content back into a commodity to save the obsolete business models of the RIAA and MPAA. SOPA does not require an entity to prove infringement for that entity to pursue a web site for damages; they simply have to show that the web site does not sufficiently protect the entity's intellectual property.

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You can thank Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) for this. He's been pushing for an immediate vote on SOPA ever since COIN died. He has another bill in the works, H.R. 1981, that may as well be retitled H.R. 1984. It's a bill that would record and store the history of ALL Americans for 18 months with LEOs and lawyers getting unrestricted access. Worst of all, it's labeled the "Protecting Children from Internet Pornography Act" when it does no such thing.

Of course, Smith gets tons of contributions from the entertainment industry and law firms and has the backing of authoritarian LEO groups. The man is the enemy of the Internet.

Won't somebody think of the children internet? Stuff like this is exactly why we need to get corporate money out of politics.

TV's Vinnie: Nadie_AZ: Fine. Just end the damn session. And since when is letting a tax cut expire considered 'raising taxes'?

Cuz Ol Turtlehead sez so.

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fritton: A Dark Evil Omen: fritton: Ok, so I have to threadjack a little bit and ask: "What is this meme?" I assume it refers to Tommy Lee Jones telling someone they're a moron... in some way, but I can't find the details online.

Search for "implied facepalm". But, yes, that is the gist. "You're too big of a goddamn idiot to even be worth facepalming for."

ahh, got it. Thanks much

Wait, what?