you really should register as a lobbyist if you are going to keep going.

[sarcasm]As should every American who expresses political speech.[/sarcasm]

I don’t know why you were thinking it was a done issue. He clearly states that it was still going to be discussed.

We still have plenty more to say about SOPA, and there will still be lots of posts about SOPA (especially as the bill continues through this process), but hopefully we’ll be going back to a more balanced schedule, with stories on lots of other topics as well…

Ha ha! Isn’t that always the case? The person pointing out a misspelling more often than not misspells something in the same post. Although to be fair, Mike doesn’t have a taxpayer paid aide to proof read his posts.

Times are tough when the military and police are shopping for hardware online LoL

Surely other representatives see so much of this think-of-the-children/troops/etc. garbage that they don’t fall for it, do they? Don’t representatives get tired of other reps insulting their intelligence?

They specially go looking for body armor replacement. Surprisingly I learned that body armor has expiration dates they don’t last forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Skin_(body_armor)

Dear congress,

How many more jobs would be created if entertainment businesses invested in technology of distribution instead of legal waste for anti-distribution.

The military that needlessly invaded Iraq and murdered a million people to get Iraq’s oil? That’s already the 2nd casualty of that war, the first being Truth.

Mike, YOU’VE already fallen for the lowest and oldest trick in the book: start a war and accuse anyone against it of siding with the enemy.

Until you recognize that the real “regulatory capture” has been by the military-industrial complex, you’re just full of it, another neo-con or at best their dupe.

This is why congress needs to pass an anti online bullying law, to curtail bullies like you.

They should try ebay, I hear they have some good deals.

“Well said by a lobbyist.”

Well said by an idiot.
If Mike were a lobbyist, he’d be getting paid, like the shills you work with, boy.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

“military-industrial complex”?

Never has a poster possessed a more accurate nom-du-net than out_of_the_blue.

Few, if any, of his posts have any relationship to the discussion at hand.

yeah, SOPA and the Iraqi war are related because SOPA would have stopped the Iraqi war by magic. Yes, magic, because the bill would have magically prevented the invasion in the first place. the whole invasion was because saddam had weapons of mass destruction and when we looked for those weapons we couldn’t find them. but the reason we couldn’t find them was because those weapons were secretly counterfeit and so our troops couldn’t find any real weapons and thought the counterfeits were just toys. has sopa passed before, saddam would have never got a hold of counterfeit weapons and we would have never attacked iraq. so, yeah, we need to pass this bill to prevent more wars from happening and consequently save our troops. yeah, pass sopa.

Whoosh!

Or I guess everyone spells it whoosh. Sorry.

Um. Sorry, but it’s already very much against the law to sell counterfeit military goods. SOPA changes nothing there, and certainly won’t deter anyone. This is just the ultimate cynical ploy by some Congressional Representatives who appear to have no shame at all, trampling on the good name of our military to pass a bailout bill for Hollywood.

More lies FUDboy? Did you Read Title II, Section 204? I don’t know why you think enhanced sentencing for anyone introducing counterfeit goods into the military supply chain doesn’t strengthen protection- other than it not suiting your own disinformation campaign.

On the other news, the Homeless of America Association (HOAA) expressed their full support for SOPA in their press release yesterday. Their spoke person, Joe, said that infringed materials hurts them badly.

“We have to withstand cold in some knock off jackets and garments, which are too thin. We already have to live in card boxes made in China. Why can people understand, we need the real deal. Infringement made it unprofitable for the designers to release their stuff, or producers to manufacture. The reduced sales depressed the economy so John Q Public think twice before throwing his stuff away or giving it to donation. So we implore the public, please think of us before downloading those songs or posting links to [download] the latest movies.”

Oh sentencing enhancements! well that should keep anyone from selling or buying counterfeit military goods. As we all know the only reason people would try to sell bogus goods to the military is because the sentence was too light, because we all know with a strict enough punishment you can stop any crime, just like rape and murder which are gone now due to strict penalties.

This is just embarrassing.

everyone knows lobbyist dont care about troops.

and to quote one serviceman i know: they just want to use us.

It’s usually b/c some counterfeit good was inserted into the supply chain somewhere long before it made it to the military.

Big contractor buys stuff from smaller contractor, who buys stuff from X supplier, who gets his stuff from someone else. Every component has parts that have gone through multiple companies. The person directly selling to the government probably has zero idea anything was up as the issue arose long before he touched the goods.

Being online has absolutely zero to do with it.

Want to support our troops?

I thought Washington D.C. decided they were well off enough to pay for there own private health care.

Frag’em.

Awww…that wasn’t nice. After all, the government is creating soooo many part time jobs that you can pay taxes on but not receive unemployment when you get your constructive dismissal so they can hire more people and get more checks from Unky Sam.

Wait, that’s not completely true, politicians are supporting business’ to hire full timers as well, just not that they turn around and fire them all before they’ve worked a year and a half to hire a whole bunch more full timers and get a whole bunch more checks.

But that’s OK because said companies donate a lot of money to their political campaigns. That’s Patriotic. So what have we done for congress lately?

Shame on us for talking about our rights.

Maybe a better way of saying this would be: contrary to Mike’s assertion that “it’s already very much against the law to sell counterfeit military goods. SOPA changes nothing there, and certainly won’t deter anyone,” SOPA in fact would change the law with respect to counterfeit military goods. It would allow for greater penalties against those who sell them. So that particular statement of Mike’s is not actually correct. Perhaps what he meant was just the second half of his staement – that SOPA’s changes won’t deter military counterfeits. He may have a point. If, say, 5 years in prison won’t deter you, then 6 or 7 may not deter you either. On the other hand, if there’s a specific enhancement for people who deal in counterfeit military goods, maybe it would make a difference in some marginal cases.

Regardless of whether one can take issue with that one part of Mike’s statement, the military counterfeits aspects is a pretty weak argument for adopting SOPA wholesale. There’s already a similar, standalone military counterfeits bill in the Senate, so if Congress cares about that issue, they already have a vehicle to deal with it, without adopting SOPA.

I know with 100% certainty that the government contracting will be unaffected by SOPA and counterfeit components will continue to find their way into the government procurement process regardless to how many sentencing enhancements are included in Title II, section 204. I suspect even those electronic systems operated by GAO and the services will be exempt from SOPA, so the $500 counterfeit hammers we are forced to buy will still be there on the GAO website for us, regardless to what SOPA does.

There’s no requirement for transaction to be electronic for enhanced sentences for introduction of counterfeits into military supply chain. Try reading.

That’d be easy enough (relatively). Just link the current e-voting machines and mobile phones to the same servers. Or just let any computer with internet access be used as well. On election day, schools and libraries reserve some of their computers for those who want to vote. Just have a polling person there to verify their ID.

If soldiers want to buy replacement gear, they know what to get and who to buy it from. The compare notes on this sort of stuff. It’s not like they go cruising for some guys selling stuff out of the back of a truck or the electronic equivalent.

It’s total bogus nonsense.

Besides: if you want to protect consumers then enforce consumer protection laws. This copyright nonsense has nothing to do with protecting consumers of any sort.