Generally, the House of Representatives and the Senate each approves its own version of the bill, then, if necessary, work out a compromise between the two versions and pass that in both houses of Congress.
The dog and pony show of the Republican primary. While everyone was seething over SOPA, The GOP Establishment managed to get their anointed one, Mitt Romney, as their nominee, pretty much.
As that newspaper in South Carolina recently observed, there were only 2 adults running for the Republican nomination in any case, and one (Huntsman, the more adult) of them just dropped out of contention. So it's a pretty easy call to make, if you ask me--no conspiracy required.
If you keep in defense, this will keep coming with pipa, popa, schupa, schmugga, and eventually they will succeed. The only way to fix this issue, is to go on the offensive...
Agreed.
google, amazon, ebay et al - its their task. they need to start buying congressmen/senators, and start buying laws, now.
Can't we just shoot a few of them instead?:D But seriously--you suggest that the Good Corporate Behemoths ought to rescue us from the Bad Corporate Behemoths.
Alas, this presupposes that there is in fact any such thing as a Good Corporate Behemoth...
The problem with that argument is that many of these media publishers are manipulating the political system to retain copyright to content that ought to be in the public domain.
This is *exactly* what I keep trying to tell people, and they don't get it. Sometimes I can get some traction by mentioning the fact that, in many if not most American restaraunts, when you celebrate someone's birthday and they bring out the cake and the waitstaff sing... WTF? That's not the "Happy Birthday" song! And you explain that this is because the restaurant's afraid of getting sued into a smoking crater by the owner of the song's copyright, despite the fact that it's been around in one form or another for about 120 years, and for about 100 in the form customarily sung to people on their birthdays.
That is, as long as they're not celebrating it in a restaurant...
So, I would modify the principled stance: think about what you think ought to be copyrighted and respect those copyrights. Respecting unjust copyrights may be legally prudent, but certainly isn't a principled or moral position.
And you get to explain to your unhappy daughter why can't they sing me the REAL Happy Birthday Song, Daddy?!?!
Fortunately, that's one little pleasure I'm (hopefully) spared, since my daughter lives in Australia.
One of our local 'all news' radio stations has the same people who report the news doing ads. This shocked me, as it meant that their voice was for sale, and hence the news is also for sale.
I've spoken of this to several people, and have yet to discover anyone who shares my view. Most people figure that an ad by a well known person is more reliable than an ad from
I think a lot of it is actually time and staff/budgetary concerns. Keeping enough extra voices on staff to do it properly costs money, and keeping track of who's on what spot that airs when takes time.
At each of the stations I worked at, we had 4 full-timers (morning/news/midday/afternoon) and a part-timer or three who coverered evenings and weekends. The full-timers also did the commercial spots. (Sometimes you'd be lucky and have a part-timer who could voice a commercial or two from time to time. At one place, the evening slot was also a full-time position, and we actually had 5 full-time voices for commercials.) We'd try, for instance, to have me voice spots that ran mostly if not only during the morning show or midday (I did afternoon drive) and for the morning guy's spots to run during my shift and so on, but in a small operation like that, it wasn't always feasible.
Also, IIRC, at all of the stations I worked at (in small towns in the Southeast, 1990s) it was policy that we didn't do individual endorsements, and that we would try but could not always guarantee that a given announcer would be available to do a given customer's commercial.
Could be different now, could have been different even then in other parts of the country, but that's what I recollect. FWIW, I dd visit one of those stations recently for the first time in nearly 15 years, and found it pretty much the same now as when I worked there, except they have only 3 full-timers now and more automation/satellite than before.
...the guys here talk like wanna-be thugs. Even at an engineering school, I am subjected daily to "Yeah, but uh, y'know I was like... whaaaaaaat?" But that's a whole other topic. First, let's get rid of the word "like". I am convinced that this generation is so disaffected and removed from everything that nothing is real to them anymore. They don't want a cup of coffee; they ask "can I just get like, a cup of coffee?" They didn't go see the movie 3 times, they saw it "like, 3 times". Nothing is real or concrete to them.
So Blacksburg is finally catching up with the way we all talked in 1970s/80s Ohio?
In other words we who don't own a "..., ltd" front-end company through which we would interact with world are second-rate citizens from the very start. I wonder how such system could be perverted against itself for purpose of subversion, in spirit of GPL and Pastafarianism?
DEVO and The Church of the SubGenius are good places to start.
It's like I walk into Tibet and complain that there are no Chinese Tibetans or Communist Budhists...
This is sort of off-topic, but I had to chuckle at this, given that I happen to be wearing a pendant that features Chairman Mao on one side and the Buddha on the other, a gift from my prospective father-in-law (a veteran of the Chinese Civil War and a Party member in good standing), who gave it to me with the words, "I have always been and always will be a loyal soldier of our Chariman... But in China we also say that it is better not to carry all of the chicken's eggs to market in the same bucket."
(P.S. [Back on topic:] You're a racist moron. Please die in a fire.)
Much as I admire Hakeen Olajuwon (he's one of the few pro basketball players I've ever actually felt was worth paying much attention to), he is not germane to this discussion because he is not an American. So your post is basically a waste of time.
Quoth Wikipedia,
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olajuwon traveled from his home country [at age 17] to play for the University of Houston...
You and your happy trigger finger might also want to consider the fact that, in what's now the US Southwest, the Hispanics had already been living there for 200+ years before the norteamericanos came along and stole 1/3 of their country. Many of those folks still consider themselves to be mexicanos living under foreign occupation, and the current US-Mexican border to be an illegal line that outsiders have drawn across their country.
However in Sweden, we have now matured and female engineers are much preferred over men as they are considered more balanced, smarter and better educated. Head hunters give a 25-50% higher bonus for tips about female recruits and job ads almost always include the phrase "Female applicants preferred" or an equivalent.
I'm sorry, which Sweden would you be referring to? In the one where we live, my partner has TWO master's degrees in engineering (one in chemical, one in mechanical) and no-one wants to interview her, basically because she's (a) female and (b) Chinese.
...[L]aws allow corporations to do things that are effectively disallowed to individuals. The results of this include: the financial woes of recent times; copyright abuse; globalisation for corporation but not individuals (think: they buy where it is cheap in the world, but stop you doing so, eg by region encoding).
Bingo.
To say that treating corporations as persons is a problem, is to state only half of the problem.
The other half of the problem stems from treating corporations as a privileged class of persons.
...[L]aws allow corporations to do things that are effectively disallowed to individuals. The results of this include: the financial woes of recent times; copyright abuse; globalisation for corporation but not individuals (think: they buy where it is cheap in the world, but stop you doing so, eg by region encoding).
Bingo.
To say that treating corporations as persons is to state only half of the problem.
The other half of the problem stems from treating corporations as a privileged class of persons.
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Generally, the House of Representatives and the Senate each approves its own version of the bill, then, if necessary, work out a compromise between the two versions and pass that in both houses of Congress.
The dog and pony show of the Republican primary. While everyone was seething over SOPA, The GOP Establishment managed to get their anointed one, Mitt Romney, as their nominee, pretty much.
As that newspaper in South Carolina recently observed, there were only 2 adults running for the Republican nomination in any case, and one (Huntsman, the more adult) of them just dropped out of contention. So it's a pretty easy call to make, if you ask me--no conspiracy required.
If you keep in defense, this will keep coming with pipa, popa, schupa, schmugga, and eventually they will succeed. The only way to fix this issue, is to go on the offensive...
Agreed.
google, amazon, ebay et al - its their task. they need to start buying congressmen/senators, and start buying laws, now.
Can't we just shoot a few of them instead? :D But seriously--you suggest that the Good Corporate Behemoths ought to rescue us from the Bad Corporate Behemoths.
Alas, this presupposes that there is in fact any such thing as a Good Corporate Behemoth...
Don't your soldiers scream "FOR THE EMPRAH" already when they go into battle?
Used to, but that got dropped after Cheney left the White House.
How can a single representative kill the bill?
Because he's the House Majority Leader.
Why is a Jew in such a powerful position?
Because it's America, where even an Anonymous race-baiting Cracker such as your own fine self can get elected to Federal office.
*whooosh*
Skype doesn't work with my Princess telephone, either. Unfair as hell!
The problem with that argument is that many of these media publishers are manipulating the political system to retain copyright to content that ought to be in the public domain.
This is *exactly* what I keep trying to tell people, and they don't get it. Sometimes I can get some traction by mentioning the fact that, in many if not most American restaraunts, when you celebrate someone's birthday and they bring out the cake and the waitstaff sing... WTF? That's not the "Happy Birthday" song! And you explain that this is because the restaurant's afraid of getting sued into a smoking crater by the owner of the song's copyright, despite the fact that it's been around in one form or another for about 120 years, and for about 100 in the form customarily sung to people on their birthdays.
That is, as long as they're not celebrating it in a restaurant...
So, I would modify the principled stance: think about what you think ought to be copyrighted and respect those copyrights. Respecting unjust copyrights may be legally prudent, but certainly isn't a principled or moral position.
And you get to explain to your unhappy daughter why can't they sing me the REAL Happy Birthday Song, Daddy?!?!
Fortunately, that's one little pleasure I'm (hopefully) spared, since my daughter lives in Australia.
http://linuxpr.com/releases/2749.html is an indication that the people pulling the strings through Linux SARL are actually Suse......
No shit, Sherlock.
Y2K called and would like its press release back, please.
One of our local 'all news' radio stations has the same people who report the news doing ads. This shocked me, as it meant that their voice was for sale, and hence the news is also for sale.
I've spoken of this to several people, and have yet to discover anyone who shares my view. Most people figure that an ad by a well known person is more reliable than an ad from
I think a lot of it is actually time and staff/budgetary concerns. Keeping enough extra voices on staff to do it properly costs money, and keeping track of who's on what spot that airs when takes time.
At each of the stations I worked at, we had 4 full-timers (morning/news/midday/afternoon) and a part-timer or three who coverered evenings and weekends. The full-timers also did the commercial spots. (Sometimes you'd be lucky and have a part-timer who could voice a commercial or two from time to time. At one place, the evening slot was also a full-time position, and we actually had 5 full-time voices for commercials.) We'd try, for instance, to have me voice spots that ran mostly if not only during the morning show or midday (I did afternoon drive) and for the morning guy's spots to run during my shift and so on, but in a small operation like that, it wasn't always feasible.
Also, IIRC, at all of the stations I worked at (in small towns in the Southeast, 1990s) it was policy that we didn't do individual endorsements, and that we would try but could not always guarantee that a given announcer would be available to do a given customer's commercial.
Could be different now, could have been different even then in other parts of the country, but that's what I recollect. FWIW, I dd visit one of those stations recently for the first time in nearly 15 years, and found it pretty much the same now as when I worked there, except they have only 3 full-timers now and more automation/satellite than before.
And there's always the Pigasus option.
... it is clearly the pro-business/wealthy party who is sending both aides to K Street.
Yes, but *which* pro-business/wealthy party should one vote against?
Too bad two is plenty...
...the guys here talk like wanna-be thugs. Even at an engineering school, I am subjected daily to "Yeah, but uh, y'know I was like... whaaaaaaat?" But that's a whole other topic. First, let's get rid of the word "like". I am convinced that this generation is so disaffected and removed from everything that nothing is real to them anymore. They don't want a cup of coffee; they ask "can I just get like, a cup of coffee?" They didn't go see the movie 3 times, they saw it "like, 3 times". Nothing is real or concrete to them.
So Blacksburg is finally catching up with the way we all talked in 1970s/80s Ohio?
One of the cleverest trolls I've seen in quite some time.
In other words we who don't own a "..., ltd" front-end company through which we would interact with world are second-rate citizens from the very start. I wonder how such system could be perverted against itself for purpose of subversion, in spirit of GPL and Pastafarianism?
DEVO and The Church of the SubGenius are good places to start.
It's like I walk into Tibet and complain that there are no Chinese Tibetans or Communist Budhists...
This is sort of off-topic, but I had to chuckle at this, given that I happen to be wearing a pendant that features Chairman Mao on one side and the Buddha on the other, a gift from my prospective father-in-law (a veteran of the Chinese Civil War and a Party member in good standing), who gave it to me with the words, "I have always been and always will be a loyal soldier of our Chariman... But in China we also say that it is better not to carry all of the chicken's eggs to market in the same bucket."
(P.S. [Back on topic:] You're a racist moron. Please die in a fire.)
Much as I admire Hakeen Olajuwon (he's one of the few pro basketball players I've ever actually felt was worth paying much attention to), he is not germane to this discussion because he is not an American. So your post is basically a waste of time.
Quoth Wikipedia,
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olajuwon traveled from his home country [at age 17] to play for the University of Houston...
FWIW, I am also part Cherokee.
You and your happy trigger finger might also want to consider the fact that, in what's now the US Southwest, the Hispanics had already been living there for 200+ years before the norteamericanos came along and stole 1/3 of their country. Many of those folks still consider themselves to be mexicanos living under foreign occupation, and the current US-Mexican border to be an illegal line that outsiders have drawn across their country.
However in Sweden, we have now matured and female engineers are much preferred over men as they are considered more balanced, smarter and better educated. Head hunters give a 25-50% higher bonus for tips about female recruits and job ads almost always include the phrase "Female applicants preferred" or an equivalent.
I'm sorry, which Sweden would you be referring to? In the one where we live, my partner has TWO master's degrees in engineering (one in chemical, one in mechanical) and no-one wants to interview her, basically because she's (a) female and (b) Chinese.
Oops, I was bit too quick to click...
...[L]aws allow corporations to do things that are effectively disallowed to individuals. The results of this include: the financial woes of recent times; copyright abuse; globalisation for corporation but not individuals (think: they buy where it is cheap in the world, but stop you doing so, eg by region encoding).
Bingo.
To say that treating corporations as persons is a problem, is to state only half of the problem.
The other half of the problem stems from treating corporations as a privileged class of persons.
Gee, it got awfully quiet in here all of a sudden...
...[L]aws allow corporations to do things that are effectively disallowed to individuals. The results of this include: the financial woes of recent times; copyright abuse; globalisation for corporation but not individuals (think: they buy where it is cheap in the world, but stop you doing so, eg by region encoding).
Bingo.
To say that treating corporations as persons is to state only half of the problem.
The other half of the problem stems from treating corporations as a privileged class of persons.
What is your damage, anyway? Why all the obsessiveness and hysteria?
i cut Linux a break off the bat and only use a 3 year old distro CD, simulating what my customer would go through if they bought a Linux PC from me
Remind me never to buy a PC from you, then.
BTW, it's pretty obvious from your rantings that you think "Linux = Ubuntu".
As for my own experience with installing Linux--no need to repeat here what I've said before.
1995 called. It wants its troll back.
(the differences between the two main parties in the US are so small that they should be seen as the single party of the US).
What utter nonsense!
The Demoblicans are nothing like the Republicrats!