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Under that logic. I'm ignorant of suicide because I never killed myself. Please, try to be reasonable when arguing.

The government would have the authority to demand that ISP's shut down their servers. Since I doubt you can surgically "cut" certain areas of the global network. It's basically, a veiled attempt to give themselves power to say "It's an emergency, turn off the internet" in the most general of terms. They guise this as protection, which I completely understand. We are so vulnerable that I can't come up with a metaphor. Our electrical grid, water systems among other things are basically defenseless. So protecting these things is perfectly accept. A country needs to protect itself but, not at the expense that the secretary of commerce can read every email or scrap of data belonging to a private company.

Since this bill is so vague and so broad in spectrum. Only an oblivious, and completely asinine, dumb ass would think this is a good idea. Sure, lets give the president unrestricted powers! Only so long as he claims there is an emergency. What? Politicians twisting words to achieve their agenda? No, that doesn't happen. You're thinking of some Hollywood movie. That sort of stuff doesn't happen in real life.

Don't forget to mention, that if you have a aneurysm and die from people asking the same question then it won't happen.

I think there should be some restriction but, I doubt the problem of what I'll call "Snipers" stealing picks won't be nearly as bad. Maybe one or two but, not the frenzy that it was when MoteMote was running. Maybe 50 posts could be the minimum. Just because a person is always on like some of us doesn't mean their any less entitled to play the same game. 50 posts seems to be enough to show some participation in FAKKU but, we can always debate that actual number.

Can anyone imagine if God was a programmer? By "God" I mean typical religion god, nothing specific. Wake up one day walk outside and the sky is HTML or some other code. Grass is poor resolution and blurry while animals are pixelated like an Atari game

Where is that quote from? It does have a certain grain of truth. Homeland security published a Lexicon recently pulled it back.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/05/homeland-pulled-back-extremism-dictionary/

Things like this make me wonder. If people who held peaceful protests against Taxes in April at the "Tea Parties" are considered extremists by homeland security. What to say that these powers couldn't be used to censor free speech in this country? Since "critical infrastructure" is never defined it could be anything related to the internet.

Hypothetically, if a president does something really unpopular lets say something along the lines of 9-11 turning out to be a cover up. People would be rioting in the streets over the lies we were told. Then the president could declare it an emergency of national security to shut down the internet to try and cut the fuel of the riots off. Hell, any large scale scandal that causes massive unrest could be used as an excuse.

Things like this are the reason why I think the government should be confined to a cage. Just like the founding fathers started us out as.

It's a joke off racist, sexist,etc This one was for species. Wasn't meant to be a great joke.

Anyways, Jacob apparently want tinkering or overhauling the code of the site and did something he shouldn't have. Which somehow managed to link every thread in the first page or two of every section to a single thread in the comic section.

NOooo don't believe the penguin. Speciesist...

You know that button that says "Do not press"? He pressed it. Nuff said.

please don't press the button again Jacob.

(Pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all)

It's you and me

I know it's my destiny

It's not really control in the traditional sense. At least that's not how I initially understood it. The powers given to the secretary of commerce seem like snooping without being bothered by laws. While giving the President the ability to just say "There is an emergency and this sector of the internet needs to be shut down or restricted". The vague language never really specifies anything as to what a emergency would be that would invoke these powers nor does it specify any details. Just anything they deem as a critical infrastructure would be placed under the presidents control without any review.

This concerns me over the fact that if the president is given these powers. As we all know "emergency powers" never really go away once they are enabled so today it's "critical infrastructure" then tomorrow it's "critical communications". That's a Pandora's box I would prefer stayed closed.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Bill-Grants-President-Unprecedented-Cyber-Security-Powers-504520/

Cybersecurity act of 09(.PDF)

Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure.


So should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Problems with the bill are the broad and vague language it also grants the Secretary of Commerce access to all relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.

This is in clear violation of what the Constitution promises us about privacy rights and this might violate the Constitutional protection against searches without cause.

Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation says "Once information is accessed, it can be used for whatever purpose, no matter the original reason for accessing something,".

People believe that the powers and scope will be trimmed down as it passes through congress. I personally, don't have that much faith in the elected officials. Especially, ones who are driving the country in the exact opposite way that I believe is best for everybody. Granting the president power to shut down avenues of information or even private sectors I believe is a step too far. This seems to have the feel of the warrant less wiretaps from the Bush era. As long as there is an "emergency" the president should be able to do anything he need despite those pesky laws.

MLK would be rolling over in his grave to realize how stupid some of his people have become.

The bearded one giveth and all was well, except the first link is broken champ.

Edit: To me, being a lolicon myself like Jacob I see the core issue as that drawings are not real people. No actual person is being harmed in the making of loli. Claiming that loli makes people pedophiles is like claiming that porn turns men into rapists. Take a look at the crime rates between Japan and the U.S. Go ahead, this will still be here here you get back

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Done? Good. Kind of surprising isn't it? America has one of the highest rates of sexual crimes in the world. This compared to Japan which is about 20th on the list. I believe out very own dante stated "Prevent people from acting out their urges in private, then you encourage them acting them out in public" Or something to that effect. The problem here is that repression of urges only causes people to act them out. So by banning lolicon you only cause those people who look at it who would normally never act on those urges no way to vent their sexual desires in a legal manner.

I dunno, I'm not really putting effort into this.

Jacob was in the bible. One of the many powers of his beard is that he doesn't age after reaching his "peak".

Which goes to prove that "you should never believe anything unless you've taken the time to verify it yourself".

Mines still in the top 10 and I thought we were everyone. I kind of feel sorry for Jacob for having such a popular name.

Oddly enough, Jacob is the first Jacob I've ever known.

I tend to eat cereal dry and from the box. I also tend to eat the whole box so nobody can eat from the same one (even I don't know where I've been).

Total opposite with the tough guy on the other end. Could probably palm my face like Sagat from Street Fighter.

I like keeping traditions alive.