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I’m supposed to ‘Go dark’ today in ‘Protest’. All the kewl kids are.
Well, I’ve never given a shit for anyones approval, and won’t now.
Doing this bullshit is like voting for Ron Paul or sleeping in a public park ten feet from where everyone is shitting on police cars. it sends a message. The message is, ‘I’m stupid, and bad at math”
Y’all let me know how this shit works out for you.
This is a game, folks. Wingnuthead is gonna shut SOPA/PIPA down so he can say “he’s for FREEDOM! Man!!!” and then all the dopesmoking 99 percenters will be up in arms for him. Is this not that transparent to EVERYONE?
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All the more reason to kill it before it gets to his desk. What if your wrong and he signs the law, and uses it to have your domain name revoked because a link on your site points to something that infringes some country’s copyright.
After 230 years, we still don’t have enough laws? Good thing we got that full-time congress working on stuff like this. Especially since they don’t have time to pass a budget.
More likely it’ll never make it to the President.
I recall that the Senate whosit* says it’s dead.
(* One of the people who can kill a bill in committee or prevent it going anywhere; can’t remember which one – and ironically, the site I read that on is blacked out for posturing, preventing me from researching the issue.)
(tl;dr version of the rest of this comment: It’s a stupid law that shouldn’t be passed as written, but it does NOT, in fact, “kill the internet”.)
What irks me more about all of it is how wrong so much of the front-page protests are; it’s like they never read the damned bill, just repeated rumors and propaganda from the usual suspects.*
I oppose it on prudential grounds, but as written it’s much more limited in practical effect than the hysterics want me to think.
I know this, because I read the damned thing.
Why, no, Mr. Internet guy, you can’t be sent to prison because you “posted a copyrighted picture”** on your blog.
Nor does SOPA actually allow, in its plain language for a site to be shut down “because a commenter posted a link”.
It’s absolutely fair to complain about its actual language, because it does have burdens it shouldn’t, and it does start a potential slippery slope to things vaguely like that – but it doesn’t do them, itself.
[* This means you, EFF.
** That’s already illegal – if you don’t take it down on a DMCA notice, you get … a fine – and even then only if you can’t show fair use.])
Congresscritter, the only occupation with anencephaly as a job requirement.
Ken: I’m just happy anyone else understands the term “Anencephaly”. Thak you.
Around the kids, we used the word “stem-boy” because they couldn’t pronounce anencephaly and we hadn’t gotten into the Classical languages that far yet.
What’s that “I am TJIC” thing in the top left corner, kewl rebel man?
“What’s that “I am TJIC†thing in the top left corner, kewl rebel man? ”
That would be “Showing support for someone who I like and whose work I enjoyed”. I would, of course, do the same for you.
Just like you’d go to a friend’s mom’s funeral; you console and support your friend, because that’s what friends do. You know your support won’t bring his mom back. Or even cure the cancer that killed her. But you support and console him regardless, because that’s what friends do.
Sort of like the actual movie. The slaves had already been routed, but they showed support for one another anyway.
…but thanks for playing; had I paid a big wad of cash to a bunch of professional snarks, I could not have gotten a more ringing endorsement of the veracity of my original post than your comment. A year after the fact, all the internet yapping, and Travis is still gunless and blogless.
For what it’s worth, “tjic” is on twitter, and appears to be alive and well. Don’t have a clue as to his current legal status (if any) IRT his blogging, and associated issues. Imagine he will let the world know what has happened when the time is right to do so.
As to “Anencephaly”…you know if the media needed to follow this malady, (as in describing most, if not all of the, 52% ‘ers out there) they would “re-brand it” to something much simpler, like “The Scarecrow’s Desease”.
The irony meter would officially peg when said “desease” was discussed on “The Dr. Oz Show”.
roflmao. Nice, Guy!
Ron Paul began thinking about the problems in America. First, he thought about our involvement in foreign wars and the loss of American lives overseas, and he cried a tear. Then, he thought about our loss of liberties at home, and he cried another tear. That’s why he’s called a second-tear candidate.