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• On the post: European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 12:04pm

  Hope this is a sign

  That even bought and paid for officials are starting to worry about the long term implications of laws, agreements, and treaties.

• On the post: Public Interest Groups Speak Out About Next Week's Secret Meeting In Hollywood To Negotiate TPP (Think International SOPA)

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 11:59am

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  So this is what its gonna come down to, passing laws under the rader, before the public has a chance to review the affects of the law and able to form an honest opinion on it.

  
  Nothing new here. The difference is that with the internet it is just getting harder for them to hide it.
  
  Which is why there is more and more attention on cracking down on the internet. Of course in the name of stopping all kinds of bad things from happening like they always do.
  
  

  Our Liberty and Freedom were not seized from us but eroded away one tiny law at a time

• On the post: Public Interest Groups Speak Out About Next Week's Secret Meeting In Hollywood To Negotiate TPP (Think International SOPA)

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 11:50am

  Re:

  Your right the name "Trans-Pacific Partnership" is so descriptive.

• On the post: Public Interest Groups Speak Out About Next Week's Secret Meeting In Hollywood To Negotiate TPP (Think International SOPA)

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 11:06am

  DAMN THE INTERNET!@!!!#!@#!$

  In this day and age of the internet how the heck are we suppose to hold our backroom meetings without people knowing about them??????
  
  We can't get anything done in secret anymore!!!!
  
  Ban the INTERNET!!!

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:49am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I agree but lets all hope that it doesn't as many years for this resentment to cause movement.

• On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:40am

  Re: Re:

  I just want to amend something to my comment. I only agree with that part I posted. In the rest of the article their are some very UN-PC (read: bigoted, racist) statements I don't agree with.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:25am

  Re: Here's the funny thing

  A point you missed. (Agree with you though) It wasn't those SOPA supporter owned distribution channels that created the Anti-SOPA feeling because they wouldn't. The 'net allowed facts with and without spin to be read by all.

• On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:19am

  Re:

  Look even as much as I don't like Obama he is no where near the first President say one thing and do another.
  
  So why are you surprised?

• On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:13am

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  CRISES ? A PATH TO TOTALITARIAN RULE
  
  By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.
  
  Most crises, other than natural, are the inventions of devious minds, they are the tools that have been ? and will always be ? used to seize power, to circumvent laws, to institute control, and to enable undesirable change. A crisis simply means that some person or a group of people has either created or simulated circumstances to influence some event or to promote a desired activity. Adolph Hitler was a master at creating crises, he promoted a series of such that enabled him to establish a fascist despotic rule over a nation and its people, to institute wars upon sovereign nations, to seize territory, to encourage genocide, and to force his will upon a major portion of the world.
  
  In our own society environmentalists manufacture crises to abridge self-determination, to limit personal prerogatives, and to curtail various lawful activities and technical advances of which they autocratically disapprove. These may be identified by a display of obsessive-compulsive behavior when in the presence of chainsaws, bulldozers and construction equipment; they are only at ease while hugging a tree or in the presence of snail darters
  
  Social do-gooders devise crises of various sort to force their personal, often totally selfish and stupid, desires upon their neighbors, upon those who are culturally different, upon the children of families other than their own, and upon businesses and industries who produce and sell products that they personally deem undesirable or inappropriate. The notable feature of them is that their noses are extraordinarily long, an anomaly born of sticking them into the business of others.
  
  And now we come to the most pestilent, the most dangerous, the most consistent, and the most fearsome perpetuator of false crises ? the U.S. government. Most everything that the educated morons of our government carry out ? on both the administrative and bureaucratic levels ? is born of a crisis predicated upon simulated circumstances. That monstrous boondoggle Obamacare is a case in point.
  
  http://anationbeguiled.com/?p=1529

• On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:08am

  Please face forward...

  do not turn your head to either side and keep walking straight. Focus on the point of light you see in front of you. This is the only way you will remain safe. Ignore all sounds you may hear as they have nothing of importance to say or that you need to concern yourself with. We will keep you safe and get you to your next goal safe, but only if you follow our directions
  
  This is what I imagine is being whispered in to the politicians ears as the MPAA/RIAA lead them to the end of the cliff

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 09:56am

  Re: Re: Re: 2700 page bill

  They will never pass laws that can be easily read and understood by anyone without a law degree (like the Constitution) because if they start doing that then they would be out of a job.
  
  
  They believe they can negate Obsolescence through Obfuscation. (Say that out-loud one time fast)

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 09:44am

  Re:

  Who is John Galt?

• On the post: The Norwegian Music-Streaming Experience Shows Why Tough Anti-Piracy Laws Are Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 09:35am

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  No, I am beginning to think it is because of something much scarier. I think it is because the rhetoric has risen to that level of absoluteness.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 09:29am

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  After reading it through I agree with you. Basically what he is saying it that we are playing wack-a-mole. We defeat SOPA and then next year we get something else but this time they try to be sneakier. (They have does this before) Maybe break the large law in to small pieces that they pass as 1 line in 2700 page bill.

• On the post: The Norwegian Music-Streaming Experience Shows Why Tough Anti-Piracy Laws Are Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 09:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Anti-Piracy laws unnecessary?

  I can see that but it was even past the extreme level of rhetoric they would engage in. I hope.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 09:00am

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  See my quote above from the movie a Bug's Life. It fits what you are saying.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 08:56am

  Re: Shows very clearly how they think.

  Here is another one:

  Hopper: Let this be a lesson to all you ants! Ideas are very dangerous things! You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this Earth to serve us!
  
  Flik: You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year they somehow manage to pick food for themselves *and* you. So-so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's *you* who need *us*! We're a lot stronger than you say we are... And you know it, don't you?

  
  
  I just don't think they know it yet.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: It Wasn't Silicon Valley Or Google That Stopped SOPA/PIPA, It Was The Internet

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 08:53am

  Shows very clearly how they think.

  See when you are so entrenched in the methods and ways of dying, long tail businesses you can only see it from that view.
  
  You see Google as the bad guy because you can't see the little guy as anything but a minor nuisance. In the old way of thinking it's get big or die and therefore only the big matter.
  
  To prove my point I give you an inspirational quote from "A Bug's Life" the movie:
  

  You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life! It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line. That's why we're going back! Does anybody else wanna stay?

• On the post: The Norwegian Music-Streaming Experience Shows Why Tough Anti-Piracy Laws Are Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 08:37am

  Re: Re: Anti-Piracy laws unnecessary?

  Read my other comments. It was meant to be an over-the-top representation of what they would say in answer to the column.
  
  Does no one see sarcasm anymore?

• On the post: The Norwegian Music-Streaming Experience Shows Why Tough Anti-Piracy Laws Are Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 08:31am

  Re: Re: Anti-Piracy laws unnecessary?

  I don't get it. How could my comment be taken as anything but a serious comment? Mega-Content sure believes it is true. So therefore since they believe then it must be true.

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