You have the right to speak regardless of which medium you choose to exercise this right.

The common misconception is that the constitution grants rights to the people. The notion of liberty is that rights are innate.

Unless you are trolling, I think you have misread both posts.

Correct, it means you cannot be denied access to a printing press, radio transmitter, or TV transmitter should you wish to exercise your right to free speech. Only when your speech is determined by a court under due process of law to harm the rights of others can that speech be eliminated.

Liberty is the result of this process in terms of any action. For example, you have the right to kill. The result of you exercising this right may result in a charge of murder or manslaughter. Because you have a right to due process, it may be found in court that you acted in defense of yourself, your family or your community and that you are not guilty (or never were guilty) of any crime. That is liberty.

You have the right to copy other people's work. The result of you exercising this right may result in a charge of copyright infringement. Because you have a right to due process, a court may find that your use of the work was in the greater interests of the community (fair use) and as such you are not guilty (or never were guilty) of a crime. That is liberty.

Politicians and extermists will try and pervert the meaning of the word liberty, but in a nutshell it is the freedom to act under the rule of law; and is something precious few populations have. Being restrained from any act -- be it speech, homicide or copying a piece of art -- without due process or with the presumption of guilt is not liberty. If you have it, you need to fight for it.

I think you have struck on key issue... Politicians don't like the idea of a free Internet, they just don't fully understand why right now. The answer is pretty simple, people engaging with each other via social media leads to a population less tolerant of soundbytes and rhetoric. As society becomes more involved in the issues, it demands greater accountability. An activist is born when a personal connection is made to an issue. I for one view SOPA and PIPA as a personal affront to my liberty and will not be satisfied by a hearty speech or weasel words of justification or apology. I want Congress to reject the notion that the US Government has the authority to eliminate free speech anywhere in the world without due process. Especially given that the approval rating for Congress is hovering around 11%, meaning they do not have a mandate to act "for the people" in any case. It remains to be seen if the President is going to act responsibly and veto these bills or kowtow to Congress like he did with by signing in the NDAA -- another liberty smasher that he passed into law while the world was celebrating New Year's eve. The TV channels may not be interested, but politicians can't escape the scrutiny of an entire population via the Internet... at least until they make social media nonviable by enacting something like SOPA, of course.

Spoken like a true politician.

It is a supreme falsehood that a government's responsibilities and resources must grow. Bureaucracies like the FDA may be immune to democracy, but the politicians who seek to grow them are not.

What is worse than idiot puppets like Ahmadinejad is the religious hypocrisy that empowers them. Just look at the war-mongering drivel such religions are based on: Qur’an 47:4?, Deuteronomy 20:10-17, Qur’an 9:5, Numbers 31:17-18.

The price $1100 seems about average for cables that transmit 1100100% of the digital signal (where radix=2)

According to Shannon, cables that transmit more or less than the intended signal should be avoided.

"Debate continues on whether using the War Powers Resolution is effective as a means of assuring congressional participation in decisions that might get the United States involved in a significant military conflict."

I read the War Powers Resolution is also effective as a means of assuring congressional participation in Internet censorship .

Time for the voting public to purge this misguided house of government of all its privilege and narcissism.

TFA labels RichRelevance as a "retail analysis company" giving the reader the impression that the statistics arise from an impartial survey of global consumer behavior such as provided by organisations like Forrester Research. RichRelevance is neither independent nor impartial. It is a company that provides e-commerce, advertising and marketing services to "retailing partners sites" and by this very nature cannot cited as an authoritative or reliable source.

As mentioned in a previous post, the geeks have spoken.

I read the War Powers Resolution is also effective as a means of assuring congressional participation in Internet censorship .

Time for the voting public to purge this misguided house of government of all its privilege and narcissism.

They are indeed an ICANN accredited registrar but they also remain an eNom reseller as well. http://davezan.com/does-enom-own-namecheap.html. It is apparent from their emails that in my case they decided to transfer my domains through eNom. Either that or they provided me with a four year old transfer authorization notification.

"From: Namecheap.com info@transfer-approval.com Attention: Universe II Re: Transfer of UNIVERSEII.COM eNom, Inc. has received a request from Universe II on 22 Dec 2011 to become the new registrar of record."

Either way it's fine with me. My only criteria is that they are not Godaddy!

Also not affiliated with any registrar or reseller; just a happy new Namecheap customer.

I can happily confirm that all of my godaddy domains have been successfully transferred to namecheap (eNom) without any noticable downtime. The geeks have spoken.