Debating how to stop online piracy
I tried to read the joint submission linked in that article... But I couldn't get through Part I. It was too painful.
If only I had known online movie piracy would take my job at the manufacturing plant... Yeah, sure... We were building diesel train engine parts... But the creative community organizations have "proof" that movie piracy cost America jobs outside of the copyright holder businesses... I mean yeah... Had I actually committed online movie piracy, I could have saved myself $12 a piece for those movies that really should never have been released... But had others paid for them instead, I would have gotten a raise and everything!
And for those with faulty sarcasm meters, the previous paragraph was nearly all sarcasm. Everything besides losing my job (no sympathies, please) and being able to save $12 on crap like AVP: Requiem. (I think they named it that since it marked the end of the franchise...)
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Trey and Matt cop Terrorist threat?
Not realy...they just got some criticism that they were offending Muslims...and got worried they might be targeted with violence. Isnt any one prepared to take one for the team?
Intel not supporting USB 3.0 until 2011
I wonder what this is about...
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And vhere do you tink you are go-ink? Vhere are your papers? Let me see your papers! Arizona finds value in the policies of 1936 Europe...
UK Government Apparently Pays for Magic...
...because this one is pure snake oil.
UK Government Apparently Pays for Magic...
...because this one is pure snake oil.
You'll never escape my grasp... ya know... unless you... ya know... give me a processor error.
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Looks like the Downfall parodies have ended
This pisses me off.
“We find them offensive,” said Foxman of the videos. “We feel that they trivialize not only the Holocaust but World War II. Hitler is not a cartoon character.”
Wrong. Hitler is a cartoon character. The best way to keep someone from being taken seriously is to make them a caricature of themselves. If you give people like Hitler validity, you give them credibility, and people will start to listen to them. By making Adolf Hitler into a parody of himself, as well as a parody of evil, he is robbed of any legitimacy.
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Taking the ultimate high ground
It's part of an early reconnaissance system to warn us if the Goa'uld decide to attack.
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And vhere do you tink you are go-ink? Vhere are your papers? Let me see your papers! Arizona finds value in the policies of 1936 Europe...
I know it's a bit extreme to say, but...
Shit like this makes me ashamed to be an American. Isn't this supposed to be the land of the free?
Wasn't there an old George Carlin routine about collecting "Stuff"?Tell me about it and no one wants to come to our garage sale and take this crap away. I mean we are selling VCR tapes for 10 cents here ;)
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Yes (Youtube video).Wasn't there an old George Carlin routine about collecting "Stuff"?Tell me about it and no one wants to come to our garage sale and take this crap away. I mean we are selling VCR tapes for 10 cents here ;)
I miss the young Carlin.
Obama's National Security Advisor should, perhaps, not quit his day job in lieu of that stand-up comedy career.
Yeah, that was hella stupid.
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Obama's National Security Advisor should, perhaps, not quit his day job in lieu of that stand-up comedy career.Yeah, that was hella stupid.
Still, the amount of self-righteous scorn h's receiving for it seems unnecessary.
Here is a good one...
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No More Toy Prize? Now Happy Meals are just OK Meals
Strangely, I can't remember a single toy from a Happy Meal when I was a kid; and I have no memory of happily eating my meal while playing with that new awesome gewgaw. This despite the fact that my family lived and breathed McDonald's.
I do remember going to Burger King specifically to buy the Star Wars drinking glasses; this is way back-back in the long-ago of the 80s. It was a big deal because no-one in my family liked Burger King (so I whined and begged until they found that more distasteful than a Jr. Whopper®).
Gov't OKs 1st US offshore wind farm, off Mass.
Don't you love NIMBY environmentalism?