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Comment: Re:Stand up, people! (Score 1) 439

by Scaba (#38633214) Attached to: SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows
You contact the subsidiaries in your country of SOPA-supporting American companies and tell them why you will no longer/never be using their services or purchasing their goods. Also contact their American parent company. Publicly post this information and point them to it. Encourage others to do the same. The only thing that will keep SOPA and PIPA from passing is by making a real dent in the profits of the companies who have rented American senators and congressmen to pass this law for them.

Comment: Re:Stand up, people! (Score 2) 439

by Scaba (#38631100) Attached to: SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows
Also, write to any of the corporate sponsors of the bill and tell them you are taking your business to a non-SOPA supporting competitor. This will be more effective if you actually have an account history with a company that they can see, and you actually do take your business elsewhere. And publicly post about it, and send them links to said postings. Enough of these complaints and it's quite likely said company will drop support for the bill. It worked with GoDaddy, it can work with others. This is also the only real way non-Americans who want SOPA stopped can have a voice in opposing it. American senators don't give a shit about the opinions of the other 95% of the world, but many US corporations have foreign subsidiaries and hitting their bottom line will also hit the US parent's bottom line.

Comment: Re:No one wants it? (Score 1) 392

by Scaba (#38218380) Attached to: Why Was Hypercard Killed?

I totally agree with you there, that's the main reason I've never done more than glance at Objective-C.

I doubt you've even glanced at it, else you'd realize it's not a proprietary language controlled and distributed by one company, but as open as C, upon which it is built. Used extensively by and controlled by are not the same thing. (Admittedly, NeXT tried to make the Obj-C front end proprietary, but Stallman sicced his hippy lawyers on them to make sure it stayed GPLed). And I think you're doing yourself a disservice by not exploring it a bit, at least enough to make informed comments in public about it. I immediately found it very expressive and flexible, akin to Python, though sometimes a bit verbose.

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