Here’s a bit of free advice: if you want to push overweening and censorious legislation like SOPA, make sure before you do so you aren’t going to later be caught using copyrighted photos without attribution on your campaign website.
That is, hide your own sins before you look to pre-emptively punish everyone else’s. You petty tyrants.
God, how I’ve grown to hate legislators.
That Jesus guy had much to say about this sort of activity.
Smith would be a good one for the Tea Party to make an example of
pour l’encouragement des autres.
Really, who needs ’em. Good thing the courts and the EPA are making them irrelevant more and more every day.
I was looking for a quote from one of the founding fathers I thought I remembered, warning about government exempting themselves from the laws they pass, but I was unsuccessful. I did find these interesting quotes though…
OT: Silly Mom! Kidney transplants are for real people, not your
retard daughterLebensunwertes Leben kid.Mo’ betta Madison:
me too I hate them more than canned asparagus
Sexual harassment: Today’s Salem witch trials
(Herman Cain had too much class to respond)
Off Topic: But you might have a short declarative sentence for this question…
Sarah Palin just said if she were in SC she would vote for Newt.
Canned asparagus is like canned spinach, only it makes your pee stink.
Canned asparagus is bad bad bad. My mom once tried to sneak canned okra past us. Not a chance.
Video of Sarah Palin on Hannity, says if she were in SC she would vote for Newt…
I’m not quite sure how Jeff feels about this EBL but I think you are self-linking a bit much. At least leave the links whole so we can see if you’re pointing to your blog.
I had the same thought as motionview. (A few times.)
You seem very affable, EBL Maybe you’re not aware of the etiquette. Better to just join the conversation and link your best posts when they’re relevant.
The exact quote paints a slightly different picture.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, eh?
Congress should not be allowed anywhere near DNS.
No one should. DNS is sacred. Who in the hell do they think they are?
Damn fools haven’t the faintest idea how the Internet works. They don’t know the difference between a router and a rutabaga, much less the complexities and centrality of DNS.
This pisses me off like you can’t imagine. How dare they put their filthy little paws on something they can’t even begin to fathom!
Stupid moneyed interests. I get intellectual property rights. I buy my MP3 files. I Netflix instead of bitstream. But they’re going about this all wrong: the tools exist to identify a domain owner in seconds, and they can go ahead and go after the pirates that way. Or they can use technological innovation to prevent ripping disks and suchlike.
But no, the free, easy-to-use ARIN Whois tool must necessarily be trumped by the tools we hired to represent us.
EBL is a funny cow with a hairstyle me I heart the fashionista cows
someone has to
I just thought you would dig those links so I provided them.
No Sarah’s endorsement is not ringing. But she made her point. And while an endorsement of Santorum would have been better, an endorsement of Newt keeps the race going.
And than you Happyfeet for commenting on my hair. It is my best feature.
It’s cool, EBL. No problems.
We’ve been outbid Di.
Our elected representatives don’t know how to keep their damn hands off of anything. They don’t ask themselves, “Why should we do this?” They ask themselves, “Why shouldn’t we do this?” and you can bet they cannot think of a reason not to frel with anything.
Lamppost. Rope. Some assembly required.
So what does a bill like SOPA cost the rent seekers. 10-20-30 million? And we wonder why DC is broken.
What gets me is that they really don’t understand what they’re dealing with. The hardcore pirates have the tools and resources to quickly set up a parallel, shadow network that doesn’t rely on DNS. It wasn’t so long ago that we saw separate public and private networks working in parallel, until the September That Never Ended gave us the truly Interconnected Network that we have today.
SOPA, at its core, is just gun control for the digital age. The government will make sure that it controls who and what gets disseminated among the law-abiding citizenry, while the outlaws (and the OUTLAW!s, I should hope) ignore the legal strictures and continue doing what they want.
We’ve seen where this road leads. When the laws are widely perceived as unjust and arbitrary, the citizens lose respect for the law, the lawmakers, and the law enforcers. The result is Greece, if you’re lucky, or Venezuela, if you’re not.
The result is Greece, if you’re lucky, or Venezuela, if you’re not.
Or the Congo, on a really bad day.
Our elected representatives don’t know how to keep their damn hands off of anything.
GET YOUR FILTHY PAWS OFF MY INTERNET, YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!
Love how little of that I had to change to make it relevant.
I’m not really happy with Mike Lee’s statement on PIPA:
Because that implies that he WOULD vote for the bill in some form.
Not good enough, Senator. Not good enough.
A sensible point from the always level-headed Glenn Reynolds:
Reynolds seems to have some sort of classical liberal infection there. He should get that looked into, before someone else has it looked into for him.
My fax-o-rama for the day (emphases original):
Sorry for not giving you named credit for the quote, cranky. I’ll take the 3am knock on the door this time around.
I don’t need named credit. I just wish I had worded it better.
This is good news: http://t.co/fqnZLTL0
Hatch withdrew his co-sponsorship, but he did say “it’s not ready for prime time.”
Cripes, Orrin, just kill it with fire. Hands off!
I’m aiming for the second or third coming of Robin Hood, myself. The answer wasn’t to knock off King John, or even the Sheriff; the answer was to make the typical man-at-arms and tax collector thoroughly aware that leaving people alone enhanced life expectancy. They don’t have enough cops or troops to guard all of them.
And then this happened.