Did I get the date wrong?
I saw Google was wearing a black S.O.P.A protest bar, but Cheezburger seemed functional to me??
Maybe they verified that Obama is going to veto this and rescinded it?
I'm off to work on a longer prose book to see if I can challenge myself into completing.
I haven't sat down lately and typed anything over 60,000 words. I mean typed that out continuously. But for the form I'm writing in, I'm told 80,000 words is better.
So let's see.
I want to complete a first draft in a month and I know I'm going to make mad cuts later, so I might as well shoot for 3,000 words a day.
I guess I'm doing my own NaNoWriMo in a different month.
Typical me, typical me, typical me.
I could niggle and try to get the word count 2,0000 and something a day but why bother.
I realized I spend too much time talking on my blog when these words could be better employed coming out as prose (or even non fiction).
So let's see.
The idea for the book was one of those that came in a dream.
I hope it's tenable. Because sometimes something works great in a dream, but as soon as the fingers hit the keyboard it melts like cotton candy in the rain.
If not, it will just become something else.
I'm not big on plot anyway. Most of my favorite books have very nebulous plots. There are a few glowing exceptions.
OPPOSE S.O.P.A.! Call your Congressperson (my reasioning for this is given in a previous post.)
But don't worry. If Obama's really gonna veto this thing it should be fine.
Don't tell me this thing could get the 2/3rds of Congress to override the veto.
Puh-leez.
I guess that was the point of Obama coming out beforehand, rather than after.
To spare everyone that awkward contretemps.
And let's hope there's Democrat party loyalty there.
This is all the work of disgusting lobbyists anyway.
I do believe the Cheezburger LOL that shows "whom you're stealing from" with all the crusty old white men...like fucking Rupert Evil Murdoch.
The Mania Of The Moment
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Just tried Cheezburger and a pop-up about SOPA came up, blocking the page. They need to fix the pop-up, though; I couldn't scroll down to read the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteThe LOLcats must be in charge of site maintenance. Poor kitties. Hard to type when you don't have fingers.
Amy, it must have just gone over. Or else something's wrong with my connection and I can still get in. Maybe people with accounts can see their accounts but not use them. Not sure.
ReplyDeleteI was VERY impressed with Tumblr's handling of this. They had a very well-informed, cogent message come up, and then an OPTION to join the boycott by not using the service today. And I opted, no, let me through, and then a default pop-up came up wisely advocating that you call your Congress people and let them know you oppose (SOPA)--if you do after reading the preceding pop-up--and a means of giving you the number and everything.
That was super-organized.
That young dude is sharp.
Lee was shocked to see Cheezburger mentioned in his newspaper at work.
I think he thinks it's some blog I imagined or something lol.
I tried to explain to him Cheezburger's clout before, and the 375 million hits, the Alex rating, etc. but I think he still thinks it's one of my Blogger buddies from the poetry world. Okay, maybe the newspaper made him understand the internet actually has real clout.
Fucking lobbyists. That's all this is. Why can't we have lobbyists for things like fucking human rights and poverty. Oh yeah, that's right. Because lobbyists make millions of dollars and are human parasites on Congress. And because Congress is (clearly bipartisanly) venal.
I loved it when Ben Huh played hardball. Little Go Daddy wanted to get in that lobbyist bed, and Ben said he feel free, we'll pull 1,000 domains tomorrow afternoon.
L O fucking L.
They turned their asses right around.
Don't threaten our fucking kittehs!
You will lose, Congress!
I've written my Senators and Congressman.
DeleteIn my state (Massachusetts), Sen. Scott Brown [R] has come out against SOPA/PIPA; Sen. John Kerry [D] and *all* of the Mass. members of the House of Representatives have not made their positions known.
Anyone from Massachusetts reading this, please contact Senator Kerry and your representative to make your position known.
Everyone else, please contact your politicians as well! The Senate is scheduled to vote on PIPA first. Find out whether your Senators have taken a position on PIPA (and if so, what) here: http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act_Senate_whip_count
Thanks, Amy!
ReplyDeleteHappy we feel the same way about this. (I'd still like you even if we didn't see eye to eye on this ;-))
Because I think the idea it's ostensibly promoting (intellectual property rights) is a fair one.
But I'm convinced it's just the wrong way to go about this--and it's a lobbyists' wet dream--would be a Major Coup for their super-rich (I wanted to say "criminally rich"--well, I guess I just did) interest groups.
Or should I say "interest moguls?"
Glad Brown is against it.
I think Obama came out against it to try to rally some of his party back over to the other side on this stupid bill.
It's so transparently the work of lobbyists. And so transparently about going over to the Dark Side (and members of both parties doing this) to get those big favors of being assigned to the real powers, the subcommittees, and achieve that wet dream of Congressional seniority.
From which, allegedly, anything is possible.
Although mostly it just means the permission to reach a power position you probably didn't deserve.
But you knew how to play the game.
So now take your shot and wreck our world in your particular flavor of crazy.
That's how I look at American politics.
One big fucking boys club mostly. Even though some of the boys have tits.
And I'm not just talking Barney Frank.
Although his are Mamie Van Doren scale.
To evoke some tits from before even my time.
http://theoriesofconspiracy.com/2011/11/list-of-major-companies-supporting-sopa.htm
ReplyDeleteList of major companies supporting SOPA. Boycott!
Thanks, Amy.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I couldn't read them all. But I scanned it. I saw Walmart lol. WallyWhores!
I think I will boycott everyone on this list.
Because it's so easy to do.
Since I don't have any money anyway.
But I'll pretend it's a boycott.
It will be fun.
(Except for WallyWhores....I still need to shop there.)
Depressing to see Harley-Davidson on the list. I guess this means they are old farts who are out of touch and no longer cool....
ReplyDeleteOh, forgot to mention--there is an Android app that scans bar codes and lets you know if a product is sold by a company that supports SOPA (or is even connected to a company that supports SOPA). There is also a Chrome add-on that tells you if you are browsing a site that supports SOPA.
ReplyDeleteWow. That's very cool.
ReplyDeleteHarley-Davidson is in my (relative) backyard.
As you say, HD is ultimately owned by someone who has a vested interest.
I saw a funny thing on Tumblr.
The dude who introduced the bill...his website...the very announcement there with its bragodoccio?......it's backed by an image that...wait for it...someone ferreted out he did not secure the copyright for before posting.
They posted the entire original image below his post with the text laid over the image, which blocks a lot of the details out so it's not easily recognizable but makes a good "backdrop" for his text.
Too fuckin funny.
is probably owned*
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