There Goes the Internet

[franalexes]

The attempts to emasculate the unions here is a blatant attempt to centralize power. The conservatives preach smaller government but their adjenda shows their real intent is more powerful centralized government.

This is what I take exception to. In Maine, I've seen conservatives fight centralised power of the State and Federal oppression.
And it's not related to being democrat or republican. In local government in Maine, town level, wether you are democrat or republican has nothing to do with getting elected to local office. People that stand with the voice to tell the State ( central government) to go to hell, have a very strong chance of winning.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by franalexes

The attempts to emasculate the unions here is a blatant attempt to centralize power. The conservatives preach smaller government but their adjenda shows their real intent is more powerful centralized government.

This is what I take exception to. In Maine, I've seen conservatives fight centralised power of the State and Federal oppression.
And it's not related to being democrat or republican. In local government in Maine, town level, wether you are democrat or republican has nothing to do with getting elected to local office. People that stand with the voice to tell the State ( central government) to go to hell, have a very strong chance of winning.

Wow! Is everybody in Maine a feisty redhead? We need people like that here in California to help us get this mess straightened out. Jerry Brown can't do it alone.

[ila]

Originally Posted by randolph

...Jerry Brown can't do it...

That looks better.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by ila

That looks better.

California's economy is bigger than Canada's, Russia's, Australia's or Brazil's. So Jerry Brown is a pretty big fish and as California goes the rest of the world could go with it.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

Can you name me one centralized government that has been good for the world?
Lets see, Rome?, England?, Russia?, Germany?, Japan?, USA?

It's just war, war, war and oppression of the little guy.

There was a guy stealing computer equipment late at night in our lab. (The door was locked). So we put a security camera in our lab and caught him red handed stealing some video cards. He got a slap on the wrist because he was a union guy. Is that the kind of freedom for the little guy you want? Because everyone knows you don't even suggest that one of their people is a crook no matter what evidence you have.

[parr]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

There was a guy stealing computer equipment late at night in our lab. (The door was locked). So we put a security camera in our lab and caught him red handed stealing some video cards. He got a slap on the wrist because he was a union guy. Is that the kind of freedom for the little guy you want? Because everyone knows you don't even suggest that one of their people is a crook no matter what evidence you have.

It's called the revolving door of justice, don't you know that.

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

There was a guy stealing computer equipment late at night in our lab. (The door was locked). So we put a security camera in our lab and caught him red handed stealing some video cards. He got a slap on the wrist because he was a union guy. Is that the kind of freedom for the little guy you want? Because everyone knows you don't even suggest that one of their people is a crook no matter what evidence you have.

Tracy Coxx, defender of liberty and justice ... who never writes a word about the "slap on the wrist" (if even that much) given to the people who truly rob, pillage, and exploit on a grand scale.

How's this for a rewrite:

"There was a guy stealing people's pension Monday late at night. Everyone knows he did it ... him and his accomplices. He wasn't even given a slap on the wrist, because he's a Wall Street guy. In fact, he was given a multi-million dollar bonus. Is that the kind of freedom we want for this country? That an entire class of crooks walks free, no matter what evidence we have?"

[TracyCoxx]

Idiots from both parties are once again tampering with what they do not understand, specifically, the internet. This is not 'Sky is falling' talk. This is really happening and would dramatically change the internet.

Their intent with the SOPA and PIPA bills are to stop piracy, which is fine, but with a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel. This bill gives government and media corporations virtually unlimited power to shut down any site they suspect has pirated content - whether it's from site owners or from site users. This means website owners will severely restrict what you can post, blog about, etc to prevent their site from being shut down. Your liberties are at stake here.

Today is Blackout Wednesday. To raise awareness about these bills. The following sites are going dark:

Wikipedia
Reddit
Mozilla
WordPress.org
Cheezburger Network
MoveOn.org
Good Old Games
TwitPic
Minecraft
Free Press
Mojang
XDA Developers
Destructoid
Good.is

Thank you to these sites for taking a stand. Some sites like en.wikipedia.org are going totally dark. The tech protesters say that SOPA would render any site that included links, even if they were user-submitted, practically unoperable and liable to government take-down. Going dark is a dramatic but not entirely unrealistic warning of what the Internet could look like in a SOPA world.

Contact your idiots in Congress who think this is how they're supposed to represent their constituents.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is public enemy number one for sponsoring this bill. Others that we must vote out of office are:
Mark Amodei [R-NV2]
Joe Baca [D-CA43]
John Barrow [D-GA12]
Karen Bass [D-CA33]
Howard Berman [D-CA28]
Marsha Blackburn [R-TN7]
Mary Bono Mack [R-CA45]
John Carter [R-TX31]
Steven Chabot [R-OH1]
Judy Chu [D-CA32]
John Conyers [D-MI14]
Jim Cooper [D-TN5]
Ted Deutch [D-FL19]
Elton Gallegly [R-CA24]
Robert Goodlatte [R-VA6]
Tim Griffin [R-AR2]
Tim Holden [D-PA17]
Peter King [R-NY3]
John Larson [D-CT1]
Ben Luj?n [D-NM3]
Thomas Marino [R-PA10]
Alan Nunnelee [R-MS1]
William Owens [D-NY23]
Dennis Ross [R-FL12]
Steve Scalise [R-LA1]
Adam Schiff [D-CA29]
Brad Sherman [D-CA27]
Lee Terry [R-NE2]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL20]
Melvin Watt [D-NC12]

Write or call your congressmen to tell them if you vote for this bill you will not get my vote. And if one of the above assholes are in your district, just tell them where to stick it.

http://sopastrike.com/

[smc]

^ Okay, everyone, mark your calendars. Tracy Coxx and I agree on something, completely.

At the university where I teach, there is a group of us trying, trying, trying to get the university president to speak out against SOPA. It would be a major blow against SOPA, because this is one of the world's leading technology institutions.

[TracyCoxx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4j4bguYYk

And they made this video before Google changed its privacy policy

[Amy]

Originally Posted by franalexes

The attempts to emasculate the unions here is a blatant attempt to centralize power. The conservatives preach smaller government but their agenda shows their real intent is more powerful centralized government.

This, this, a million times this.

Most of the time, the only "smaller" government they seem to want is government small enough to fit inside a woman's uterus and make sure she doesn't get any choice in if she has children or not.

[randolph]

Something to think about.
Prosperity tends to strengthen and empower union activity. Do the Republicans really want that? Keep the economy weak and intimidate the working class while the rich continue to rake in the cash, that's the
republican way.