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Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire
litui writes "Michael Geist assesses the problems with new copyright legislation presented today. In short, it looks like unless it's heavily contested, Canadians are in for a worse piece of law than the DMCA." CBC News' story quotes one critic, Scott Brison, who warns that enforcing the anti-circumvention clauses of this legislation would turn Canada into a police state — which, considering the pervasive eavesdropping it would take to make sure that people aren't enjoying their rights to fair use (or "fair dealing") of hardware or media, seems like a fair prediction.
I pride myself on my exactitude. As you'll see from this letter, I provide copious detail and try to be as precise as possible when describing the ways in which Fox News is not afraid to use violence, ruse, shot and shell, poison, or the dagger to shred the basic compact between the people and their government. It may help if I begin my discussion by relating an innocuous story in order to illustrate my point: A few days ago I was arguing with a particularly nugatory pipsqueak who was insisting that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. I tried to convince this venom-spouting degenerate that some day, in the far, far future, Fox News will realize that capricious, pestiferous grizzlers have exerted care always to use high-sounding words like "incontrovertibleness" to hide Fox News's plans to damage the self esteem and physical health of millions of young men and women. This realization will sink in slowly but surely and will be accompanied by a comprehension of how I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Fox News's principles. Videlicet, they disarm us morally, make us rootless and defenseless, and then destroy us. And that's saying nothing about how his philippics are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of moral relativism.
I have to laugh when Fox News says that he is cunctipotent. Where in the world did he get that idea? Not only does that idea contain absolutely no substance whatsoever but he is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens drag Fox News in front of a tribunal and try him for his crimes against humanity. Responsible citizens really do not prevent us from getting in touch with our feelings.
I imagine that it has been said that Fox News cares for us in the same way that fleas care about dogs. I, in turn, warrant that Fox News's maudlin preoccupation with barbarism, usually sicklied over with such nonsense words as "anthrohopobiological", would make sense if a person's honor were determined strictly by his or her ability to cast the world into nuclear holocaust. As that's not the case, we can conclude only that Fox News has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. You are, I'm sure, well aware that even Fox News's least testy chums supplement their already-generous incomes by selling contraband on the black market. But did you know that Fox News loves the truth only as long as it doesn't conflict with his teachings?
Fox News explicitly seeks out situations where his intolerant behavior will be tolerated, condoned, and admired. The same holds true for the most devious ingrates I've ever seen. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that he believes that everyone and everything discriminates against him -- including the writing on the bathroom stalls. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself, but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by Fox News and his damnable cringers. It's precisely because his calumnies represent an inseparable mixture of reason and human madness, but always in such a way that only the madness can become reality and never the reason, that his contrivances are built on lies and they depend on make-believe for their continuation. From a purely technical point of view, whenever there's an argument about Fox News's devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that like other irrational, scurrilous wheeler-dealers, Fox News has a finely honed ability to misdirect our efforts into fighting each other rather than into understanding the nature and endurance of lawless alcoholism. That should settle the argument pretty quickly.
You'd think that someone would have done something by now to thwart Fox News's plans to terrorize our youngsters. Unfortunately, most people are quite happy to "go along to get along" and are rather reluctant to help people see his de
How is the above comment in any way redundant?
Political torture and murder is not funny http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=581079&cid=23757591
They also don't understand our government thinks it is OK to manipulate the media with government employees.
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