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The Stop Online Piracy Act, watch the video follow the links and become enraged.
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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2011-12-20 00:03:26 UTC  |  Edited by: VKhaun Vex
Solstice Project wrote:
Wooohooo one step closer to the police state.


You missed the point entirely.

The police are not involved. It gives corporations the right to go after people and their sites directly.

Lets use cars....

Imagine you're driving down the highway at 20mph over the speed limit. Instead of a cop pulling you over, someone from Toyota forces the DMV to tell them who you are, then has them take your license, and if lots of people speed they make the government shut down that road.



EDIT---
Okay I'm not really happy with that analogy and it's probably not neccesary... Point being, this is the opposite of a police state. This is putting a leash on our government and handing it to corporate America. But there I go with analogies again. Have to stop that...

Charges Twilight fans with Ka-bar -Surfin's PlunderBunny LIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEE PIIIEEEECCCCEEE!!!!!!! -Taedrin Using relativity to irrational numbers is smart -rodyas I no longer believe we landed on the moon. -Atticus Fynch
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#22 - 2011-12-20 03:46:31 UTC
VKhaun Vex wrote:
Solstice Project wrote:
Wooohooo one step closer to the police state.


You missed the point entirely.

The police are not involved. It gives corporations the right to go after people and their sites directly.

Lets use cars....

Imagine you're driving down the highway at 20mph over the speed limit. Instead of a cop pulling you over, someone from Toyota forces the DMV to tell them who you are, then has them take your license, and if lots of people speed they make the government shut down that road.



EDIT---
Okay I'm not really happy with that analogy and it's probably not neccesary... Point being, this is the opposite of a police state. This is putting a leash on our government and handing it to corporate America. But there I go with analogies again. Have to stop that...



Here ya go

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Mirima Thurander
#23 - 2011-12-20 05:13:55 UTC
WOW that link makes me wish someone would just burn down my hole government, no wonder nothing ever changes around here.


that link should be front page news and posted everywhere

All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#24 - 2011-12-20 05:47:17 UTC  |  Edited by: VKhaun Vex
The people who lead a business tend to know a lot about that business.

SURPRISE

I hate lobbyists, and I definitely agree there's too much corporate control in our country, but it's not quite as dismal as they would have you believe. Conflict of interest is certainly real, but if we assumed everyone who'd ever worked for anyone was conspiring to rob us blind we'd have no one to work with. Asking a former member of a major company for advice, is preferable to guessing. The important thing is to pick a leader you trust to evaluate people.

Ron Paul IMHO, but Obama wasn't bad (even Herzog's chart agrees.).

Charges Twilight fans with Ka-bar -Surfin's PlunderBunny LIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEE PIIIEEEECCCCEEE!!!!!!! -Taedrin Using relativity to irrational numbers is smart -rodyas I no longer believe we landed on the moon. -Atticus Fynch
Arno Gunnarr
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2011-12-20 17:09:22 UTC
I've actually met the man who created this bill, Lamar Smith. He's just one of those over-zealous, moral crusading, self-righteous asshats. Out of 700,000 people in his district, a very small percentage actually vote.

I love Texas but we have a large sum of dumbasses as politicians.

It's why I always vote Libertarian.

Nooblet
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#26 - 2011-12-21 19:07:12 UTC
Femaref
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#27 - 2011-12-21 20:45:19 UTC
Spr09 wrote:
ugh, i hate this as much as i hated ACTA trying to get passed.

does anyone know ACTA go passed or died? i kinda lost track.



Got silently passed. At least in germany.
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