Fox News is pro SOPA. Wikipedia could go offline forever and it would not make a difference. Making the SOPA bill matter to the proletariat would involve Google and Facebook going offline.

We cannot afford any of this. By 2025 the middle class will have been finished off, and thus the tax base will have been erased, and we will have openly accepted our Third World status. The first words spoken on Mars will have to be translated into English for us as we shiver in our boxes amidst burning trash in America's favelas.

The FAA battle is about union busting, a mainstay of your Teabagger buddies. I guess expecting public employees to work for free is the logical next step in the minds of Teabaggers.

If every FAA employee not getting paid would cease reporting to work and seek other employment, the matter would be resolved much faster.

The Big Telcos would mind.

Just try to using something like this in a municipal capacity and watch it get shut down by an army of lawyers.

Because they are both men?

What state would that be?

There will never be a "tipping point" in the lay-down-and-take-it nation. The pornoscanning and groping of children by $12/hr public employees is here to stay. The gov't has already made its own case for doing so by invoking "terrorism." "Terrorism" as a means of control still really resonates with the Fox News/Teabag/security-statist ignoranti who otherwise claim to hate the the gov't.

Dear Republicans:
There is no incandescent light bulb ban.

New and improved.

As a society, we are willing to overlook a few rapes for the pretense of safety. And the thefts of our electronics can be thought of as perks for low-wage workers.

The average driver will never see this on the road. It's a rich person's toy.

That might be the dumbest post I have read here in that past six months. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout

You cannot go one week without updating a fucking blog? Does that seem normal to you? Jesus Christ. I guarantee you that you are not so important that the online community cannot abide not hearing from you for one week.

The law does not specify intent. Also, there is a big different between harassing someone via the telephone (direct, person-to-person) and, say, posting a pic on your own website or social networking page. So it's open season on any image that your_group_here does not like. If you are a Southern Baptist/evangelical/teabagger/whatever, that image could be of just about anything--a mosque, Catholic icons, cap from Southpark, or even simply Obama.

You might not have heard of the Arab Spring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring). It has dictators the world over scrambling to lock down the Internet in their countries and thus is the reason this thread exists.