SOPA/PIPA!!!

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Bullfrog117

**ADDENDUM 1/11/12**

WordPress has broken their *personal* vow of political silence to speak up about this issue here! And I’m slacking for having not visited Stop American Censorship yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it!!!

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**ADDENDUM 12/30/11**

Oh wait, sorry that’s the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA wants to give Congress the authority to create a new enforcement agency that police’s the Internet looking for copyright violations and giving them the authority to shutdown sites like YouTube and Facebook for “having a vauge definition of piracy” as it were. O.o

Really Congress? Really? I mean sure it’s job creation, but who really wants the job of policing the Internet? Besides that job is reserved for XKCD stick figures who can’t budge from their computers because “someone on the Internet is wrong!”

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SOPA is a bill by Congress (those lovable, out-of-touch coots) that wants to change the face of the Internet all so a few big companies don’t have to fight so hard against piracy. But like anytime Congress write specific technologies into legislation, they are out of touch and have no idea what they’re talking about. The way *I* understand the effects of this bill is that they want to remove all hostnames from websites so that the only way to connect to a site is by typing in the direct IP address.

GoDaddy supported SOPA for quite a while until last week when public pressure made them switch (even if just in words). So *today (December 29th, 2011)* is the first-ever Leave GoDaddy Day!

I’d vote that you come to DreamHost (and not just because I work there).

DreamHost’s Position and Promo Code! - Twitter update with link

DreamHost’s Promo Code “SOPAROPA” will take $50 off of a shared hosting plan when pre-paid for one year. It will also include four free domregs (their choice of net, com, org, info only) for the life of the hosting plan.

Normal hosting is $119.40 for 1 year + 1 annual domain registration credit of $9.95.

And now some links all about this crazy mess.

Who Supports SOPA and Why – Gizmodo.com

December 29th is Leave GoDaddy Day – Gizmodo.com

Ditch GoDaddy’s SOPA Loving Butt – LifeHacker.com

Wikipedia no longer supports GoDaddy – Twitter Status Update

GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA – Too Little Too Late – TechCrunch.com

GoDaddy Caves – GoDaddy.com

A Non-Frivolous Lawsuit Against Amazon? Windows 7 Announcements? Apple Redoes Album Covers?

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Bullfrog117

Kindle Users Sue Amazon Over Deleted Orwell Book – News and Analysis by PC Magazine
At first I thought this was a frivolous lawsuit, but the more I think about it, it’s really important. Amazon may have refunded their money, but they very much did violate the users right to the device by reaching in and deleting the content…I mean the whole point of owning a device is so you can download content and keep it until YOU decide to get rid of it…not the company that created the device…

Microsoft Unveils Win7 Family Pack, Upgrade Pricing – News and Analysis by PC Magazine
I still think there’s too many versions of Windows, leading to confusion extraordinaire…

Apple, Labels Stir Up Deluxe, Digital Cocktail – News and Analysis by PC Magazine
Intriguing…most intriguing…

FCC Demands Data on Blocked Google Voice Apps – News and Analysis by PC Magazine
Interesting…but I can’t trust the government to JUST solve this issue…I would expect them to insist that they can do a better job regulating it….I mean I think AT&T is just being a b!tch regarding Google’s applications, but I don’t want the government taking over AT&T and doing a worse job!

Microsoft Yahoo merger – The Denver Post
HA!

History’s ‘WWII in HD’ trailer –The Live Feed
OOOO!! PRETTY!!!!!

Jeff Dunham: ‘Funny as a Block of F–king Wood’–The Live Feed
Jeff Dunham gets his own Comedy Central TV show and TV critics cry foul? Wha?

Windows 7 Media Center Will Support Netflix – News and Analysis by PC Magazine
Yay! Now if only I could make enough money to afford Netflix again!

MySpace Mail Rolls Out With Vanity URL E-Mail – News and Analysis by PC Magazine
MySpace continues to try being relevant.

Responses, Responses, Responses

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Bullfrog117

I did a lot of critical thinking today and wanted to share it!

The Towers live on … in movies & television, that is

Jim asks us what we think about the Towers popping up in media.

I think it is garbage to digitally remove ANYTHING from a film, whether it be to replace guns with walkie-talkies or remove buildings that are no longer standing in order to be politically correct. A film, just like a picture or any other kind of archival media, is a slice of space and time that is a precious representation of history. To edit it is to attempt to rewrite history…and THAT is sacrilegious.

And in Disney’s case, to keep something from publication for political reasons is even MORE sacrilegious….I wish Disney would release the ABC docudrama “The Path To 9/11″. It was a brilliant miniseries that evenhandedly dealt blame on both sides of the political aisle, but Bill Clinton didn’t like it so it was censored. But that’s me on a soapbox.

Sure I get a little lump in my throat when I see the twin towers. But we’re never going to forget, so why pretend to by editing media?

Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=339760&blogID=432201915&indicate=1

My friend Rebecca re-posted a liberal blog entry deriding Sarah Palin for wanting to drill for oil in America (and a host of other things).

There’s a lot tackled in this article, but I respond to the thrust of the article at the moment.

Why is it an either/or choice on global warming and humanity’s impact on it? All I hear from liberals is that we can’t drill our way out of this. Um…yes we can. And we can do it far less invasively than we have in the past. Sure it’s not perfect (I’ll be the first to line up and help clean up birds after an oil spill), but it extracts us from daily negotiations with people who’s god told them TO KILL US! But the real truth is, no matter how much money we invest in alternative fuel sources (ethanol is a REALLY stupid idea by the way), it’s not going to complete remove the need for petroleum in this country for at least 20 years. Hybrid cars still need gas…

So I just take issue with the writer’s insistence that drilling is ALL bad. I disagree.