use those lungs and get your liver in fighting trim
My Doctor said this too; that I should do something once a day that makes me out of breath, so I've taken up smoking.
(with thanks to Jo Brand)
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity
All that proves is that MegaUpload was providing value to people.
Making money hand over fist doesn't always mean you're providing value to people. The RIAA still makes money hand over fist. Do you think they provide a lot of value to people? You can make tons of money off of the Stock Market as a day trader, are you providing value to people? I'm not saying MegaUpload WASN'T providing a valuable service. I'm just saying MegaUpload making money is not an indicator they are providing value to anyone.
While I see what you're saying, people were choosing to pay Megaupload - no-one chose to pay the MPAA for their services.
Check your own government. The media cartels are trying to pass similar laws around the world. I know of the UK, Spain, and Australia off the top of my head, and probably other places.
The UK tried to pass similar laws in 2010, but it thankfully failed. Since then, there has been some ISP forced to block some sites. I assume to bring this back, the UK Government are waiting to see what the US does; hence the question of how to help.
I think we can start working on an world which isn't controlled by the US.
This is a US law that'll affect the rest of the world; so I FTFY.
Yeah this is kind of pointless, and frankly I'm kind of pissed off the wikipedia actually blocked their site outside the US. What's the point? I'm already aware of it, and I can't really contact my congressman. A clickthrough would have been fine and would have spread the word just as well.
Fortunately they didn't truely block the site. You can get around it with the bookmarklet on this page: http://concentriclivers.com/?p=I%20don't%20live%20in%20America%20and%20can't%20do%20anything%20about%20SOPA%20Wikipedia
Very handy! Thank you! =D
I see www.google.co.uk is also still standard as is www.google.co.za What a bunch of idiots - this WILL affect EVERYONE eventually. Makes me wonder if behind the facade, Google is more interested in commercial interests than actually taking a stand!
It is, but many people are already aware of it - especially because we've had the Digital Economy Act already tried to be thrust upon us.
While I completely agree with you, I can see why google.co.uk haven't affected people in the UK - as my original question said; what can we do about it? I've signed the petition, and can write to a foreign affairs department, but it's not going to have the same impact as it would from US citizens.
It's clear if the USA passes this law, it will be very difficult to stop it coming here too. But what can we do to help?
Steal a phone! Now you can get instaCash (tm) for it!
Yeah, this does seem a very easy for criminals to get rid of stolen phones easily. Still, there's plenty of other ways I suppose.
QOTD: I've heard about civil Engineers, but I've never met one.