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The Worst Coders In Washington
spooky writes "The American Open Technology Consortium, 'a nonprofit organization of technologists who have joined together to educate lawmakers and regulators about technology -- especially in regards to The Internet' has compiled a list of the lawmakers responsible for eight bad internet laws. They say, 'These bad coders and their backers have done more damage to computing, the Internet and freedom than all the virus authors, spammers and crackers combined', Do you agree? Did they miss anyone?"
Well... how about a few thousand Windows programmers? :)
(an obvious choice, I know, but still true
Sorry to disappoint, but they're not talking about Redmond. ;-)
What? Washington DC? Where the heck's that?
Found them
Throw the bums out!
i find this ironic as hell:
Rep. Sonny Bono (R-CA 44th district) 1 bill $0.
someone from the music industry is blamed for sponsoring legislation from beyond the grave, and received $0 in funding for his work. even more funny, there are people on the list BELOW him!! politicians get less done that dead people... proves the old saying, if pro is the opposite of con, what is congress the opposite of?
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
How many did a double take after seeing "aotc" in the URL?
Just ask Al Gore to pull the plug.
:p
He did invent the internet, right?
Whenever you watch a movie in a theater you are committing a crime. You only paid for the right to view the movie once and yet you watch with TWO eyes. When my new bill passes you all will have to pay for each eye to view the movie or wear a mandatory eye patch. Keep in mind if you watched a pirated movie with both eyes open you will have committed the crime twice! In a "three strikes, you're out" state like california watching 2 pirated movies will count as 4 strikes and will require a life sentence. Seeing a pirated movie and also seeing its reflection will also count as four stikes. In the new empire the rule will be "don't make eye contact."
Yes, it's right here.
I don't know why they are complaining so much, I thought Episode 1 TPM was much worse.
Do they have Obfuscated Lawmaking Contests?
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
Personally, I believe that any politician that recieves these bribes should be made to wear a badge for each of the companies/groups that made a donation. Then you will always know where they are coming from.
"Senator Smith was brought to you this evening by AOL, suppliers of Internet access & pop music, and Shell Oil, screwing the Arabs so you can drive SUVs" ;-)