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“ The entertainment industry wants to retreat to the comfort of 1996. It was a good year for them. CDs were selling briskly, but no one had figured out how to rip them and turn them into MP3s yet. Music fans were still spending money to buy CD versions of music they owned on LP. DVDs had just been released, and movie fans were spending money to buy DVDs for movies they already owned on VHS. And most importantly, the laws regulating copyright and technology were almost entirely designed by the entertainment industry. They could write anydamnfoolthing and get it passed in Congress, by the UN, in the EU.
( Cory Doctorow (via azspot)
( Cory Doctorow (via azspot)
» "criminalizing political differences" - Google Search
291 results at the time of this search. Rorschach says hands up all those who can identify the real crime here. I mean, was a crime committed or not?
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“ A former Bush White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, said if a probe is opened up, “Barack Obama will regret this as one of the worst moments of his presidency, because it will set off a multi-year, extraordinarily divisive, all-consuming Washington scandal/controversy and everyone will end up looking bad.
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Obama triggers firestorm in CIA tactics case
Isn’t that what should’ve given the Republicans pause when they wanted to prosecute Bubba Clinton a while back? Lying about sex » Illegal torture? Greed must be really, really good cuz Republicans really need to have it all their way, all the damned time.
“ There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that [waterboarding] as torture otherwise we wouldn’t have tried and convicted Japanese for doing that same thing to Americans. I would also hope that he would not want to be associated with a technique which was invented in the Spanish Inquisition, was used by Pol Pot in one of the great eras of genocide in history and is being used on Burmese monks as we speak. America is a better nation than that.
( John McCain (via azspot)
( John McCain (via azspot)
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» 10 years later, the real story behind Columbine
“They weren’t goths or loners.” Just crazy Eddie Haskell types. Wshew?
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