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Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA
boarder8925 writes "In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA: 'We're going to aggressively protect our intellectual property,' Obama said in his speech, 'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people [...] It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.'"
National Security folks. National Security. Gotta keep that GDP up for increased tax revenue. At least, so they think.
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Flamebait? Everything I said is true. Just because you don't like what I said doesn't mean it's a troll or flamebait.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
there could be made no better quotation at this time and point.
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You know, in every discussion about IP, some dork posts this quote. Not that it's a bad quote, but for God's sake, anyone who hasn't seen this by now must (a) be unable to read, (b) has been in a coma for the past ten years, or (c) has Alzheimer's, so they don't remember it. In any case, it is no longer interesting, informative, funny, or any other of the positive moderation accolades it has been given. Please everyone, when you see this quote posted for the billionth time, mark it down, not because it's inherently bad, but because it's getting dreadfully boring. I tend to think "-1 Redundant" would be appropriate.
That is all.
In 1910 there was 10% literacy???
Hint: If you're going to pull a number out of your backside try to go for something that at least sounds semi-reasonable to the average man.
I will say if you're the product of one "of the other things funded by government taxation" over the past century then you prove the parents point I'm sorry to say.
Also in the early 1800's (to go back two hundred years in case you can't count either) there was about 80-90% literacy and the average ten year old who spent three days a week at the local parish school getting rapped over the knuckles for not deciphering Shakespeare correctly was more literate, articulate and well versed in logic, debate and reason than the vast majority of individuals coming out of the public education system at present.
Sorry to bring a fact into your hazed pop-culture oriented distortion of history.
Whatever is necessary to advance your political religion right?