SOPA is pretty serious stuff. I don't think that a simple (but highly noticeable) change like the background color or pop-ups as suggested above and below would work. A complete shutdown is what is necessary. Change the main page to a notice about the bill, with links to more information and perhaps a listing of congressman or something. Shut down >all other services. If a site like Google did this, it would be very noticeable. No email. No transactions. No searches.
Speaking of Google, if they changed all of their ads to a SOPA notice, that would be pretty noticeable and would cover a vast section of the internet. Too bad nobody really notices ads.
You know, most of you don't actually seem to support either the Republicans or Democrats. You are aware that the whole point of a presidential campaign is to get awareness for whoever you support, right? These politicians from both parties did not get well-known and elected by themselves. The responsibility is on the voter as much as the candidate.
I believe that the gardens are probably going to be more a psychological feature than an actual engineering feature. Windowless buildings/rooms are really boring, and they make terrible places to spend a lot of your time.
I think that people who take things people say to their face to heart and have their feelings hurt are also being overly sensitive. Excluding provocation, you really shouldn't care what anyone says to or about you. Being insulted by anyone else to the point of emotional distress, especially by a total stranger or an anonymous stranger, is seriously one of those things you do to yourself.
What I'm trying to say is that people need to protect themselves by learning that some people are rude or insulting, and that you just need to ignore them.
I must admit that I'm a little scared by the recent precedent of prosecutors in the US and UK. Why should being insulting in a mostly-anonymous medium carry more of a fine or sentence than the more minor violent crimes?
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SOPA is pretty serious stuff. I don't think that a simple (but highly noticeable) change like the background color or pop-ups as suggested above and below would work. A complete shutdown is what is necessary. Change the main page to a notice about the bill, with links to more information and perhaps a listing of congressman or something. Shut down >all other services. If a site like Google did this, it would be very noticeable. No email. No transactions. No searches. Speaking of Google, if they changed all of their ads to a SOPA notice, that would be pretty noticeable and would cover a vast section of the internet. Too bad nobody really notices ads.
You know, most of you don't actually seem to support either the Republicans or Democrats. You are aware that the whole point of a presidential campaign is to get awareness for whoever you support, right? These politicians from both parties did not get well-known and elected by themselves. The responsibility is on the voter as much as the candidate.
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I believe that the gardens are probably going to be more a psychological feature than an actual engineering feature. Windowless buildings/rooms are really boring, and they make terrible places to spend a lot of your time.
I think that people who take things people say to their face to heart and have their feelings hurt are also being overly sensitive. Excluding provocation, you really shouldn't care what anyone says to or about you. Being insulted by anyone else to the point of emotional distress, especially by a total stranger or an anonymous stranger, is seriously one of those things you do to yourself. What I'm trying to say is that people need to protect themselves by learning that some people are rude or insulting, and that you just need to ignore them.
I must admit that I'm a little scared by the recent precedent of prosecutors in the US and UK. Why should being insulting in a mostly-anonymous medium carry more of a fine or sentence than the more minor violent crimes?
Turn off the lights! They're leaking electromagnetic radiation!
How is it dying? It's only grown since desktop Linux became viable. I've had Linux on my desktops for over three years now.