Comments on: “Bad. Very Bad.”

By: Dana Gower

Dana Gower — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:20:45 +0000

This:

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:TkHfC2W8_FEJ:www.keionline.org/node/660+%22Kira+Alvarez,+Chief+Negotiator+and+Deputy+Assistant+U.S.+Trade+Representative+for+Intellectual+Property+Enforcement%22+at+(202)+395-4510&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

seems a lot more interesting. (I don’t know if you need all that — maybe just keionline.org) I still don’t get it, but it does seem worth looking at. If you put “Kira Alvarez, Chief Negotiator and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property Enforcement at (202) 395-4510″ into a search engine, you get some really interesting results.

By: Rob Robertson

Rob Robertson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:46:03 +0000

When I was a kid we had something we called, “The Twentieth Century”. Some of you may have heard of it. Collectivism in all its grotesque forms murdered millions, tens of millions, *hundreds* of millions, and over and over again the cry went up; “Never again!”. And then it happened again.

Take a look out your window and witness the unrelenting march towards global totalitarianism under the guise of ‘climate change’, or ‘economic stability’ or a hundred other threadbare excuses, and observe the destruction attendant, the barren wastelands created, the lives destroyed.

Perhaps my negative view stems from living in the fetid ‘democratic’ pit that is Eastern Massachusetts, but in all the years of sharing URLs and print-outs, books and arguments, I’ve not seen that long-hoped-for groundswell of understanding and a yearning for freedom; instead I see a world awash in a quadrillion dollars worth of vaporous ‘derivatives’, trillion-plus dollar deficits, ghost towns the size of Boston growing in Detroit,… and the parade of stupidity continues unabated in a million different ways.

Beck recently pointed to John Venlet’s lament about the futility of shooting sparrows, which I had beat by a decade.

It’s going to get weirder, kids. When C-Span finally zooms in on the zipper tab under the flap of skin at the base of Hillary’s neck, that’s when the fun begins. You watch and see.

By: Dana Gower

Dana Gower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:58:37 +0000

I’m about the most computer illiterate person you’ll ever meet, so I don’t understand any of this. This (below) was on the ustr.gov Web site. Has anybody read through it?

Negotiations on the ACTA began in June 2008. In preparation for those negotiations and since then USTR has reached out to the public for its views and to exchange information on several occasions. The release today of a summary of the ACTA is the most comprehensive joint effort to date of all of the participants in the negotiation to provide information on the ACTA to the public. The summary can be found on the USTR website at http://www.ustr.gov. Members of the public with questions about the summary or the status of the negotiations should contact Kira Alvarez, Chief Negotiator and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property Enforcement at (202) 395-4510.

By: Boyd Durkin

Boyd Durkin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:25:02 +0000

Will I be able to accuse every US Government office, politician, and official of copyright infringement and thus subject to the full force of all the nasty retarded penalties? If so, I guess I have my plan of action.

By: Mattocracy

Mattocracy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:04:07 +0000

Stopping the internet is like stopping the wind from blowing. You can put up a few walls here and there, but even mountains get worn down eventually.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:03:31 +0000

TV was never a free medium. The internet, until now, was.

What will start true civil unrest? I hope this.

By: MRK

MRK — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:36:29 +0000

Remember, remember the 5th of November…

By: J sub D

J sub D — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:08 +0000

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. [italics added]

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:13:23 +0000

Oh, yeah. In a way, the agreement (and keeping it secret) is about national security in the sense that government feels threatened by the internet. They want this to pass with as little fanfare as possible because they know the public could raise a shit storm which could potentially doom it before it’s finalized.

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:07:28 +0000

The internet is the most powerful communications tool ever invented by several orders of magnitude. It is, in fact, so powerful that it has the potential to unite virtually the entire population of a country, if not the world, against government almost over night.

That’s just not a weapon government can leave intact for public use. They have to gut it without seeming to be infringing on free speech rights. So, who better to partner with than the powerful entertainment lobby who has already been on a crusade to radically restrict what can and can’t be transmitted between users on the internet.

By: David

David — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:56:04 +0000

It really is the worst of of nation policies, and the most easily used to fuck the pubilc.

By: MDGuy

MDGuy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:24:34 +0000

Ah the rug of national security….is there anything that can’t be swept under you?