kbronsito: I submitted this with a better headline that got more votes than this one.

shut the f**k up

I thought my Coke tasted funny...

kbronsito: I submitted this with a better headline that got more votes than this one.

You got censored.

/have a nice day

mainstreet62: I'm sure their jokes are tainted with lead along with everything else.

Approximately 125-155 grains worth if the joke is bad enough...

China and the US see eye to eye on incarceration and free speech.

So what they are really saying is that SOPA will create jobs. Someone has to hired to monitor every single webpage for violations or at least develop the software that will be used to automatically delete posts with certain keywords. That's jobs created.

The Chinese are making fun of us? Everybody keep an eye on your Coke....

kbronsito: I submitted this with a better headline that got more votes than this one.

Congratulations. Here, have an invisible cookie. Also, you can't taste, smell, feel or eat it.

I was going to go with "well, yeah, copyright infringement is basically China's major industry, of course they're going to be caustic about attempts to prevent it" but that was actually fair clever.

So does that mean we'll get that CGI news team to comedify the whole ordeal?

degenerate-afro: So what they are really saying is that SOPA will create jobs. Someone has to hired to monitor every single webpage for violations or at least develop the software that will be used to automatically delete posts with certain keywords. That's jobs created.

Until there's no websites left to monitor.

Nevermind, already happened

You know, back in my day, if we wanted to see 3 giant black dudes running a train on a midget we had to go down to the adult bookstore and rent a worn-out VCR tape like good, God-fearing Christians. You kids today, with your facepads and your myphones - you just expect everything to be free, flying around the intertubes and available at your command. Bunch of damn spoiled whiners, if you ask me.

//I don't think I need to tell you to stay the hell away from my lawn.

StrangeQ: kbronsito: I submitted this with a better headline that got more votes than this one.

Congratulations. Here, have an invisible cookie. Also, you can't taste, smell, feel or eat it.

It sounds delicious. Can I have one?

12349876: degenerate-afro: So what they are really saying is that SOPA will create jobs. Someone has to hired to monitor every single webpage for violations or at least develop the software that will be used to automatically delete posts with certain keywords. That's jobs created.

Until there's no websites left to monitor.

After everyone moves back to newsgroups and BBS, then we'll have to monitor those too. Oh and don't forget about IRC. There will always be work in Big Brother's town.

degenerate-afro: So what they are really saying is that SOPA will create jobs. Someone has to hired to monitor every single webpage for violations or at least develop the software that will be used to automatically delete posts with certain keywords. That's jobs created.

Also, don't forget all the people that will be in jail because of SOPA/PIPA, they all will need to be replaced by someone else who hasn't uploaded something. Net job creation right there.
More prisons will be needed, which creates jobs, more prison guards will be needed, which would also create jobs.

If you want to make it in IT after 2012, you're better off as a lawyer than as a programmer.

/programmer

mod3072: You kids today, with your facepads and your myphones

Persona 4 reference?

12349876: degenerate-afro: So what they are really saying is that SOPA will create jobs. Someone has to hired to monitor every single webpage for violations or at least develop the software that will be used to automatically delete posts with certain keywords. That's jobs created.

Until there's no websites left to monitor.

Even better. We hire people to create websites with illicit content so that the government employees can shut them down.

Did I read that wrong, or is the Chinese version of Twitter named Weeaboo?

I hope Congress passes it and Obama vetoes it. This is a bipartisan issue and a smackdown with a quick stroke of a veto pen will help Obama run against a corrupt, do nothing Congress that everyone hates.

I just wish Dick Durbin would drop support. I have no idea how he could cosponsor something so horrible, but alot of folks I know in Chicago are furious that he cosponsored this thing.

CorporatePerson: I hope Congress passes it and Obama vetoes it. This is a bipartisan issue and a smackdown with a quick stroke of a veto pen will help Obama run against a corrupt, do nothing Congress that everyone hates.

I just wish Dick Durbin would drop support. I have no idea how he could cosponsor something so horrible, but alot of folks I know in Chicago are furious that he cosponsored this thing.

Not saying it's right but.... The GOP counter-ads write themselves here:

"OBAMA says that this is a 'DO-NOTHING' congressssssss (I imagine all GOP ads should involve snake-like hisses), but when a bill was put in front of him to create jobssss, protect your children, and help America, what did Obama do? He veto'ed it! Vote wingnut 2012!"

China pays thousands of people to spread pro-government propaganda on web forums.

The US doesn't have to pay anyone. That's the real difference.

CorporatePerson: I hope Congress passes it and Obama vetoes it. This is a bipartisan issue and a smackdown with a quick stroke of a veto pen will help Obama run against a corrupt, do nothing Congress that everyone hates.

I just wish Dick Durbin would drop support. I have no idea how he could cosponsor something so horrible, but alot of folks I know in Chicago are furious that he cosponsored this thing.

Congress will pass it, Obama will sign it but he'll pinky swear not to ever use it for evil, only good.

From a CNN article:
"Rep Lee Terry (R-Neb.), an original co-sponsor of SOPA, also said he had changed his view.

'Thank you for your concern about #SOPA. I have asked to have my name removed from the bill. However, the economic impact of IP theft is real and a solution is needed...'"

IP theft? What the f$ck does that even mean? Do these people have any idea what they're talking about?

What in The: From a CNN article:
"Rep Lee Terry (R-Neb.), an original co-sponsor of SOPA, also said he had changed his view.

'Thank you for your concern about #SOPA. I have asked to have my name removed from the bill. However, the economic impact of IP theft is real and a solution is needed...'"

IP theft? What the f$ck does that even mean? Do these people have any idea what they're talking about?

they're stealing numbers!!

On the subject of SOPA, there is another retarded piece of legislation working its way through congress.

Research Works Act, Guardian Article (new window)

The USA's main funding agency for health-related research is the National Institutes of Health, with a $30bn annual budget. The NIH has a public access policy that says taxpayer-funded research must be freely accessible online. This means that members of the public, having paid once to have the research done, don't have to pay for it again when they read it - a wholly reasonable policy, and one with enormous humanitarian implications because it means the results of medical research are made freely available around the world.

If passed, the Research Works Act (RWA) would prohibit the NIH's public access policy and anything similar enacted by other federal agencies, locking publicly funded research behind paywalls. The result would be an ethical disaster: preventable deaths in developing countries, and an incalculable loss for science in the USA and worldwide. The only winners would be publishing corporations such as Elsevier (£724m profits on revenues of £2b in 2010 - an astounding 36% of revenue taken as profit).

Since Elsevier's obscene additional profits would be drained from America to the company's base in the Netherlands if this bill were enacted, what kind of American politician would support it?

CorporatePerson: I hope Congress passes it and Obama vetoes it. This is a bipartisan issue and a smackdown with a quick stroke of a veto pen will help Obama run against a corrupt, do nothing Congress that everyone hates.

So you want him to waste a veto on something that'll be overridden in a hot second just to make more enemies in congress more or less for the hell of it?

You realize that campaigning isn't Obama's job, he has to actually work with these people if he wants to get anything done, right? As emotionally satisfying as it would be for him to turn into Theodore Roosevelt on steroids, I don't think intimidating the entire hemisphere into submission with the sheer mass of his balls is really a legitimate governing strategy for Obama's personality and style. I suspect he'll limit antagonizing his co-workers to times when he has some potential to gain other allies through the conflict.

Corrupt or not, Obama would rather extract actual useful policy out of our other elected officials and look like an appeaser than fail utterly to accomplish anything and look like a brave man. Frankly, that's one of the things I like about the guy.

What in The: IP theft? What the f$ck does that even mean?

Intellectual Property, not Internet Protocol.

What in The: From a CNN article:
"Rep Lee Terry (R-Neb.), an original co-sponsor of SOPA, also said he had changed his view.

'Thank you for your concern about #SOPA. I have asked to have my name removed from the bill. However, the economic impact of IP theft is real and a solution is needed...'"

IP theft? What the f$ck does that even mean? Do these people have any idea what they're talking about?

"Intellectual property theft." What about that is not clear?

Pants full of macaroni!!: I think you've hit upon what seems to be the ultimate goal of all this: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF ALL AMERICANS.

Oh please, don't exaggerate - they don't want to criminalize all Americans, only 99%.

Phoenix87ta: What in The: From a CNN article:
"Rep Lee Terry (R-Neb.), an original co-sponsor of SOPA, also said he had changed his view.

'Thank you for your concern about #SOPA. I have asked to have my name removed from the bill. However, the economic impact of IP theft is real and a solution is needed...'"

IP theft? What the f$ck does that even mean? Do these people have any idea what they're talking about?

"Intellectual property theft." What about that is not clear?

Ok Mr. Agro, I'll out myself as someone, who while on a computer, discussing internet regulation, initially read that as IP Theft. Maybe a little understanding for each other and we can stop bullying people for little ish and focus our energies collectively on the real villains.

/Bears
//or congress
///Maybe both

Cubicle Jockey: On the subject of SOPA, there is another retarded piece of legislation working its way through congress.

Research Works Act, Guardian Article (new window)

The USA's main funding agency for health-related research is the National Institutes of Health, with a $30bn annual budget. The NIH has a public access policy that says taxpayer-funded research must be freely accessible online. This means that members of the public, having paid once to have the research done, don't have to pay for it again when they read it - a wholly reasonable policy, and one with enormous humanitarian implications because it means the results of medical research are made freely available around the world.

If passed, the Research Works Act (RWA) would prohibit the NIH's public access policy and anything similar enacted by other federal agencies, locking publicly funded research behind paywalls. The result would be an ethical disaster: preventable deaths in developing countries, and an incalculable loss for science in the USA and worldwide. The only winners would be publishing corporations such as Elsevier (£724m profits on revenues of £2b in 2010 - an astounding 36% of revenue taken as profit).

Since Elsevier's obscene additional profits would be drained from America to the company's base in the Netherlands if this bill were enacted, what kind of American politician would support it?

Oddly enough, one of the sponsors of this bill is one of the main opponents of PIPA (Darrell Issa, R-CA).

*read that as IP (address) Theft... dunno why that got cut on Boobies.

Jim_Callahan: CorporatePerson: I hope Congress passes it and Obama vetoes it. This is a bipartisan issue and a smackdown with a quick stroke of a veto pen will help Obama run against a corrupt, do nothing Congress that everyone hates.

So you want him to waste a veto on something that'll be overridden in a hot second just to make more enemies in congress more or less for the hell of it?

You realize that campaigning isn't Obama's job, he has to actually work with these people if he wants to get anything done, right? As emotionally satisfying as it would be for him to turn into Theodore Roosevelt on steroids, I don't think intimidating the entire hemisphere into submission with the sheer mass of his balls is really a legitimate governing strategy for Obama's personality and style. I suspect he'll limit antagonizing his co-workers to times when he has some potential to gain other allies through the conflict.

Corrupt or not, Obama would rather extract actual useful policy out of our other elected officials and look like an appeaser than fail utterly to accomplish anything and look like a brave man. Frankly, that's one of the things I like about the guy.

Actually, Obama is taking a campaign hit from opposing SOPA/PIPA. Several of his large Hollywood donors apparently will not donate to him this go around due to his opposition.

Leo Bloom's Freakout: Phoenix87ta: What in The: From a CNN article:
"Rep Lee Terry (R-Neb.), an original co-sponsor of SOPA, also said he had changed his view.

'Thank you for your concern about #SOPA. I have asked to have my name removed from the bill. However, the economic impact of IP theft is real and a solution is needed...'"

IP theft? What the f$ck does that even mean? Do these people have any idea what they're talking about?

"Intellectual property theft." What about that is not clear?

Ok Mr. Agro, I'll out myself as someone, who while on a computer, discussing internet regulation, initially read that as IP Theft. Maybe a little understanding for each other and we can stop bullying people for little ish and focus our energies collectively on the real villains.

/Bears
//or congress
///Maybe both

Would this be a bad time to point out that you probably meant "aggro?"

Seriously though, I honestly didn't get what wasn't clear about that, and hadn't considered that IP was being read as "Internet Protocol," despite the fact that I work in IT.

Phoenix87ta: Would this be a bad time to point out that you probably meant "aggro?"

Seriously though, I honestly didn't get what wasn't clear about that, and hadn't considered that IP was being read as "Internet Protocol," despite the fact that I work in IT.

Aggro point duly noted. But ya, working in IT at my desk right now, first thing I think of when I see IP is the protocol. Pavlovian instinct for sure. I envy your untrained brain.

Hitler reacts to SOPA (new window)