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LAWLESS PRESIDENT - bypasses Congress signs ACTA
About: » obama signs global internet treaty worse than sopa alex jones' infowars: there's a war on for your mind!
How can the Senate be forced to ratify a treaty?  It's not a treaty.
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Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.

A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.

...  this alone should be grounds for impeachement!
What do you folks think of this after your silly SOPA protest, eh?
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by MR on [group UnhackTheBrain] at 2012-01-27 08:38:54 [permalink 15788]
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Whose Opininions Are YOURS? Which Ones?
About: online etymology dictionary - opinion
     This is a morning dump from a couple of days ago - I'm still mulling it over.
Ever consider that ALL your opinions were manufactured by somebody else? This is certainly true of my opinions.  They come from your friends, mothers & fathers & siblings, Main $tream Media, workmates & playmates; teachers & professors; actors & actresses; books & now the Internet (wikipedia & dictionaries of all kinds); Advertisements & movies; gossip & rumor; so-called scientific studies; supermarket tabloids; churches, synagogues, mosques & temples etc.  Question:  Do you have an identity or a personality without your opinions?
     Try this on for size: 
  • Try to think about what you think is an original opinion & trace it back to how you got to the opinion.
  • Think of a few of your major opinions & trace them back to how they showed up for you.
  • Try to create a brand new original opinion & see what happens!
  • Remember that this item may also be part of some opinion you have in the future

 (thanks to SodaHead for the pic)

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by MR on [group UnhackTheBrain] at 2012-01-24 09:31:02, changed 2012-01-26 15:41:02 [permalink 15782]
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For future use


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by C on [group choy] at 2012-01-26 01:04:29 [permalink 15787]
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Robin Hood, Bozo Approved
About: zoom to album

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seems to be on topic

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by seth on [group funnypages] at 2011-11-07 09:35:14, changed 2012-01-25 19:33:21 [permalink 15610]
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SOTU 2012 - Campaign Stop
About: State of the Union Speech 2012 Concordance
<<===(**) Official video
The traditional State of the Union speech for 2012 was held last night. Some say it was the usual laundry list of policy & "new" things & things to spend money on.  My opinion was it was the major thrust of Obama's campaign strategy for the forthcoming 286 days till Nov 6 presidential election. FYI, I have trapped the text into a concordance (see about link) for easier search knowing all the words used throughout.  The most disturbing stuff I found was:
(search for selflessness in the concordance): ... These achievements are a testament to the courage, selflessness, and teamwork of America's Armed Forces. At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They're not consumed with personal ambition. They don't obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together. Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example.
...  For me I rather think of a synergy of individuals than teams set forth through government bureaucracy. Most dictatorships like The Third Reich & the Soviet Union & Communist China transformed their countries with the precept that the individual didn't count & service to the state was all there is.  Our founders wrote The US Constitution to limit what government could do NOT otherwise!  I don't think of myself as "in service" to the federal government.  I already served my country in the Armed Forces. 

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by MR on [group mark] at 2012-01-25 12:36:51, changed 2012-01-25 14:31:31 [permalink 15786]
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Yo DUDE! DUDE! (for use later)
 (You're High on POT)
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by MR on [group mark] at 2012-01-24 14:46:04, changed 2012-01-24 14:47:28 [permalink 15785]
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