Slashdot Mirror
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
SpaceAdmiral writes "The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: 'If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This is pretty close.'"
Pity we can't have the RIAA keeping the Mexicans out on the Southern border, and the Muslims out on the Northern border.
668: Neighbour of the Beast
firearm rights that has always been a gray area
"I don't pitch OpenSUSE Linux to my friends, i let Microsoft do it for me
The baby boomers are (were?) a bunch of dope-smoking draft dodgers that have run this country into the ground while their parents wonder why exactly it is that they fought World War II, since they just ended up living under authoritarianism anyway.
My grandad's generation smoked cigars. My dad's generation smoked cigarettes. My generation smoked pot.
Your generation smokes crack.
You have to have a draft in order to dodge that draft. Fifty thosand boomers DIDN'T dodge the draft and died in that godforsaken jungle for absolutely nothing. Unless you have served in the military (and yes, I did, during Vietnam, despite the fact that I was in no danger of being drafted) you have no right to criticise anyone for dodging the draft.
A generation didn't run the country into the ground, a class did. Your class (if you are rich) ran it into the ground with your selfish grubbing for money, with your exploitation of my friends my age and younger who do the actual work building roads, bridges, houses, cell phone towers, and everything else for you. The rich sent the jobs overseas, not the people who do the actual work. My generation isn't taking rights away, the rich of all adult generations who run things are.
Get your enemies straight, son. While you're fighting me, your masters are laughing at you. I'm not taking away any of your rights, I'm fighting to preserve them. You employer is fighting tooth and nail to get as much of everything as he can, including YOUR RIGHTS. And you dumbass kids do your damndest to help him!
World War Two was started by the same generation that fought World War One. People seem to forget that Hitler and Mussolini were of the same generation as Eisenhower and Truman and Patton. They wouldn't have had to fight that war if they hadn't tried to take over the world. What is your generation doing to fight authoritarianism? Mine got a war ended, protesting in person (and some dying in those protests) while yours bitches anonymously or semi-anonymously on messageboards. "The best generation?" IMO my Uncles' generation (my dad was a teenager in WWII, I was born at the end of the Korean war) was the WORST generation, not the greatest. They brought the world nuclear warfare, my generation brought it the World Wide Web.
If you could have seen what the world was like in the 1950s when I was a child, you would appreciate what my generation has done for you.
The one thing my generation did badly was raise you ignorant, hateful crackheads. I sincerely hope your generation does a better job of raising the next generation than mine did, because we really sucked at raising you.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
People on the fringe always say this crap: THE MEDIA IS BIASED! (because they don't cover our crazy view point). I'm sure you think that RGDP and CPI are bogus, but why? because Alex Jones's predicted apocalypse hasn't happened yet so the powers that be are obviously lying? Or maybe things aren't as bad as the fringe want you to believe. Alex Jones is a televangelist who hand picks his stats and his predictions are nothing more than fantasy infotainment, His idea of how government works applies more to civIV than real life. I have a millions stats from everywhere to back me up, of course they're all lies from the Fed