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White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites
An anonymous reader writes "While the Senate is still debating a bill that would force registrars and ISPs to block access to sites deemed 'infringing,' it appears that the White House's IP Czar is already holding meetings with ISPs, registrars and payment processors to start voluntarily blocking access to sites it doesn't like. Initially, they're focused on online pharmacies, but does anyone think it will only be limited to such sites? ICANN apparently has refused to attend the meetings, pointing out that they're 'inappropriate.' Doesn't it seem wrong for the US government to be pushing private companies to censor the Internet without due process?"
Pffffft. Bush claimed it first, by Executive Order. That's politics as usual for you. Frankly, I'm less surprised about this than I am that there are so many Republicans out there who think voting for their candidate will help. Far from it. Under President Bush, assassinations by Hellfire missile in crowded city streets was standard practice. Unless you complained then, complaining now has no credibility.
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We have been on a slow road to socialism for at least the last 100 years. Obama has kicked it in to high gear. Read the damn Constitution and Declaration of Independence and get back to me...
Rights are not granted by gods but by societies. According to the Bible, "God" gives you the right to beat your slaves as long as you don't kill them. And, also, "God" gives men but not women the right to speak in church, and gives women the right to force their rapists to marry them.
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There were 5, count them, 5 candidates who were registered on sufficient ballots to win the presidency. The fact that you are too fucking ignorant to be even dimly aware of what they show outside of CNN is utterly pathetic.
I voted for Thomas Jefferson.
I figure if you're going to vote for someone who has no realistic chance of winning, why not shoot for the stars? We KNOW TJ was a good leader, he helped create the country! The only thing the 5 candidates you're talking about had on him was that they're slightly more metabolically active than he is. I shouldn't have to choose between the "best of who is alive." And everyone knows all the politicians alive today are crooks and liars. We clearly need someone with years and years of experience, someone with the values that made this nation great, and someone who could not possibly be bought by special interest groups (since, as we know, he's deader than a doornail.)
Actually, here's the top 4 things that killed the most human beings :
1) socialism (at least 1 billion dead in genocides) (we call it communism, the murderers themselves called it socialism)
2) islam (at least 800 million dead in genocides, although, admittedly, in the "high" casualty counts they might even leapfrog socialism) (north africa was all-black in 600 AD, and India extended to "more or less" include baghdad, this was changed through centuries of constant genocides)
3) world-war 2 (assuming you don't count "national socialism" as socialis, which it is, of course)
4) the spanish flu
Pollution is so far down it's ridiculous. Of course that doesn't mean it'll necessarily stay that way. But for the moment, it's not causing much deaths. Some pollution even had positive effects : showering Africa (including many humans) in DDT actually doubled life expectancy.
Now, with the exception of islam (by comparison buddhism, a much older religion, barely gets to 1/20th the number of victims, at best, and christianity barely attains 1/100th), these numbers don't mean much. Note that 3 out of 4 causes of death are 20th century only. The reason is simple : only in the 20th century were there enough people to make really big numbers. Percentually, the spanish flu killed between 3% and 6% of people, compared to the plague's 30% up to 60% kill rate, but 30% only means 25 million (maybe 45), where the spanish flu's 3% represents 50 million people.
Of course, if a pandemic would occur 1/5th as bad as the plague today, it would immediately take first place. If we run out of oil tomorrow, that would probably take first place in a month or 2 (definitely after winter passes through once). In the 21st century, it doesn't take much to kill heaps of people (and kill the stupid illusions : advanced weapons are expensive, they cannot be used to kill really huge amounts of people. Sarin, atom bombs, nuclear radiation, ... they're useless. If people are going to start getting killed by the millions, they'll die from stabbing by knives at a much cheaper cost per dead body)
It saddens me that this has been modded as it has.
that's gotta be the worst red herring argument i've ever heard. If we're going to start stating things like that, lets go ahead and put democracy at the top since both the US and germany (as well as others) were democracies in world war 2; then we have all the other wars the US has fought as a democracy and all the other countries have fought as a democracy (including the roman empire). Next up i'd say christianity. Christianity cause the world to be in the dark ages for half a millennia plus the crusades and all the wars fought by countries in the name of (and against) the church. I could of course go on, but you get the point. To try and pin events in history strictly on idealism's is just a farce. Each event in history can only be attributed back to a large set of things that were going on at the time, take any one of them out and the even probably wouldn't have happened.