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European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the actaing-out-loud dept.

An anonymous reader writes "European Parliament today adopted Written Declaration 12/2010 which basically tells the Commission to all but drop the negotiations. From the article: 'Citizens from all around Europe helped to raise awareness about ACTA among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by collecting, one by one, more than 369 [of the MEPs'] signatures. With Written Declaration 12/20103, the European Parliament as a whole takes a firm position to oppose the un-democratic process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and its content harmful to fundamental freedoms and the Internet ecosystem.'"

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  1. All but ? by Pigeon451 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF does "all but drop" mean? If you look at it grammatically, it means "to do everything but drop", which is the opposite of what the submitter implied.

    /pedantic

  2. About to burn some karma, but... by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GOOGLE, YOU BUNCH OF FUDGEPACKERS.

    So, you started a few months by adding this retarded "custom google" front page and added an automatic background and changed the logo color scheme. I'm still dealing with that as I have not been able to figure out how to get the original google logo back. It's a gray embossed logo which is annoying, but at least I had a white background and the normal "standard" look that I have been accustomed to since ca. 2002...

    ...until today. So, again, fudgepackers have automatically changed something without prompting the user first. Google Instant??? So as soon as I type in the first letter into the search query box, it redirects me to another page with an autocompletion/guess mechanism turned on. I'm in the middle of typing something, and magically, everything changes. Really great use of my slow computer's resources to be re-rendering a page every 300ms, and I love having even more HTTP requests than before. Don't completely rewrite the UI if the original already does exactly what your user base does and your change offers marginal if any positive improvements. Simplicity? Google is the new Micro$haft. Bunch of morons.

    1. Re:About to burn some karma, but... by Scorch_Mechanic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So if a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many flapjacks does it take to shingle a doghouse?

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    2. Re:About to burn some karma, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dude, why aren't you using NoScript? Those who use it don't have these problems.

    3. Re:About to burn some karma, but... by lilomar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      None. Because there are no bones in ice-cream.

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  3. Re:About Fucking Time by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Really? You felt it necessary to mod me down to "0" simply because I said "EU" instead of Europe???

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