MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t simply unconstitutional, they are anticonstitutional. They would allow for the wholesale elimination of entire websites, domain names, and chunks of the DNS (the underlying structure of the whole Internet), based on nothing more than the “good faith” assertion by a single party that the website is infringing on a copyright of the complainant. The accused doesn’t even have to be aware that the complaint has been made.
The turducken is (finally) out of the oven!
Turducken is going in the oven!
Turducken!
My nephew using a box as a slide.
The Birth Control Solution
Family planning is crucial to solving poverty, climate change and other issues. And don’t worry: contraceptives don’t cause sex.
Police Brutality of the Day: Though this morning’s confrontation at Zuccotti Park was called off at the last minute when the park’s owner decided to postpone its clean-up project, police still managed to clash with Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrating their “victory.”
The above video allegedly shows an NYPD officer mounted on a scooter ramming into a crowd of demonstrators that spilled over from the sidewalk during the subsequent celebratory march.
One protester can be seen sprawled on the street after having his leg reportedly run over by the officer. Adding injury to injury, the cop can then be seen striking the wounded man before he is eventually hauled off.
Michael Tracey reported seeing a National Lawyers Guild member struck by a scooter, and CBS News reporter Miles Doran tweeted that his foot had similarly been run over by a police scooter, and that this was apparently a common occurrence at the scene.
At least 14 protesters were arrested during the march.
[nytimes / bloomberg / tylercoates.]
The whole world is watching.
Balloon Juice » Or just another country
Loudly, angrily, and repeatedly insisting — in the face of evidence to the contrary — that your country is THE BEST EVER IN THE WORLD SO SHUT UP does not make it so. Investing in education and actually putting the best interests of the People ahead of the Oligarchs would certainly be a big step toward *making* it exceptional, though.
(via wilwheaton)
