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The govt is about to pass a bill that will enable censorship of the internet.
PLEASE HELP or the world-wide-web will be VERY different .
Check out arstechnica anti-SOPA reasoning :It’s the best reason i’ve read :
SOPA Resistance Day- By Ken Fisher
PLEASE STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP HERE
Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
REACTIONS TO THESE BILLS, “SOPA” H.R.3261 AND PIPA S. 978
See how the internet fought back: American Censorship Day in Numbers.
“The potential for abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we as citizens now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age … This is no time for politicians and industry lobbyists in Washington to be devising new Internet censorship mechanisms, adding new opportunities for abuse of corporate and government power over online speech.”
- Rebecca MacKinnon (New York Times)
“These bills were written by the content industry without any input from the technology industry. And they are trying to fast track them through congress and into law without any negotiation with the technology industry.”
- Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)
“SOPA, regrettably, represents a big step backward in Washington’s efforts to support the digital revolution, one of the only sectors of the economy that continues to grow.”
- Larry Downes (TechFreedom)
“When civil liberties organizations describe the bills as encouraging “American censorship,” a weighty charge, the legal analysis by Professor Tribe and I support that conclusion. At least, according to the American Supreme Court’s established First Amendment jurisprudence.”
- Marvin Ammori (& Laurence Tribe), Leading Constitution Scholars
“It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor. And best of all, it bypasses due legal process to do much of it.”
- James Allworth (Harvard Business School)
“The main “enforcement” mechanism in these bills is to put liability on third party service providers coming from the tech industry, undermining the safe harbors of the DMCA and the legal framework that has allowed tons of important internet platforms to evolve.”
- Mike Masnick (TechDirt)
“[SOPA would] overturn the long-accepted principles and practices [of the DMCA] in favor of a one-sided enforcement mechanism that is far more broad than existing law while not attempting to protect the rights of anyone accused of copyright infringement.”
- Gigi B. Sohn (President of Public Knowledge)
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.. There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.”
- Hillary Clinton (United States Secretary of State)
Or "how James frey Stole My Future husband" You see..when that shit book originally came out- and everyone was raving about (and buying) James Freys :
“ .. shattering, beautiful memoir, A Million Little Pieces,"Basically , i saw it as being personally dream- jacked Read More
the title means nothing. it just sorta combines the spackling of thoughts and stuff that flew through my life today.
So you should probably stop reading right now , unless you’re sooo bored that u think u can handle the crazy train im on this am – this post is going nowhere…but im doing an excercise of writing for twenty minutes a day..regardless of what i write. . so goodbye or buckle up and en-yoy.remember :you’ve been warned:
My Synchronicity study : is it real? or is it Hollywood?
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my own personal pergatory….
help
Iam stuck somewhere between my old version ‘fantasies’ and new, ..yet unrealized ,ones…hence: my own personal pergatory….
And by fantasies i mean what i wish for in my life ie:” i really want to be a fireman when i growup”…it referes to what i really ‘want’ for myself and /or can work towards .. and somewhere in the last few years a shit lot of who i thought i was and wished for has drastically shifted, seemingly without my verification….like if i find myself saying “oh i love chocolate, i want to own a chocolate factory oneday” , or,” i cant stand the cure ,they are queer.” i’m repeatedly noticing as the words tumble out, that i am , essentially, lying. Its force of habit in that its just a mode of reinforcing who i am, however teenage of a habit it seems ..its asserting indepence via opinion and taste..”oh you know allison creelman, she hates going to the movies, and wants to own a chocolate factory that never plays the cure”.. definitive statements that seem to have formed my vision for myself…and i did USED to love/loathe whatever it is im defining( or ranting about..)
till recently… Now alot of it doesnt even remotely resonate with me. case in point:
: i ALWAYs wanted tons of kids..never thought twice about it..and i used to feel terrible for older people who didnt have any…But i trully , at this point in my career as me, do not want to have a baby. not one or 3.
i just dont see it , it feels weird and foreign.When this shift happened and why, i havent a clue, but its very much true .
this may change but , for the time being im allgood with being auntie al.
i have dhlk, who is mostly a grownup now…and now there’s jack and max and a few other babies around that kwell any curiousity for me, for now.
Also, im not afraid of commiting to things or people anymore..i like to, in a general sense, have structure..somewhere to be, if u will.
it feells good to be / do what i say. i may be late for appointments and dates forever..but i like to structure some of my time ..it feels safer.(and this shift is big for me..bigger than the kid one)
another biggy:
i like working, but i don’t like my werk. i dont feel like its the thing i should be doing . at all. i like the tech side soooo much more than the design side. but it still all seems to leave me falling short..i dont have the inguienuity to thrive as designer…in that i am not specific enough in any one area of work.i am a problem solver for minor code tweeks…and as much as i do love this…creating routes around for broken things and applications…i m basically ..no
serious flash-as2 and oop ,little cocoa, underneath a little php, with just enough java script. all nestled into a new obsession with web standards and css possibilities… plus bonus (read:boring)abilities encoding video & setting up streaming servers to play it on…you need these little fixes , and everyone does…i m your person.but none of this is specific or definable, for me…see i cant seem to write a resume to save my life -or get me a job, for that matter. guess where this sort of skill base sounds kinda techy cool to ,say, my mom, but it leaves me in the postion of taking jobs to tweak broken websites, fix internet connections, setup email servers here..”fix ” the network here…re-encode some video a,ftp a bunch of stuff …or my personal fav:
just ‘whipping’ up a “quick” free flash site for friends ( nod to lono here, re earlier convo) .so its little piddly jobs or way bigger than i shoould say yes to , free jobs.
where does this leave me?
a little baffled as to why/ where/ how i ended up here…quite proud of the stuff i have self learn-ed but un satisfied.
i need input really.. i would love to hear suggestions. what am i missing , or overlooking, that will lead me down that golden path we are all supposed to find and follow?
help
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sunday went to dragonfly.
everything is weird i have a serious crush . LIKE HIGHSCHOOL.
kasabian is so good. so is new xx.
xxxx is hotter than most. no chin and all.
x writes good songs.
there will be other new music out in the new year, that will guarantee to blow everyone.i m very excited by little bits ive gotten to hear.
i would like to be dating right now , but only specific persons..not the ones that are offering up their services. damn.
would the hot ones(to me) puleessee get a clue and step up?
god its so frustrating.. be a dude. step up . sweep me off my feet.
im not putting any effort in till i get hit on -point blank. but then ill put in effort
what it looks like from here..on sundays
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i must say though.. this evenings dance moves seemed especially dazzling.
and the first set of ‘guest’ dancers were AWEsum.
a bit different than what we usually see…a little, shall we say, ‘tougher’?
more .. ‘melissa ethridge’ than your average sunday softcore dancer.
but they Just saddled on up there , rawkinHard around the band..yet,
focusing most of this down n dirty awesome-ness on ( of course) lead singer kevin Even my fellow canadian, avril lavigne’s guest spot , although super kickass and all… ..
didnt hold a candle to the less famous antics…such as..
say… the ultra-aggressive ‘dry humping’ of above forementioned lead singer by 4..5? 7?.. of the bands finest fans, during the always rowdy ‘like a virgin’ cover.
hmmmm.
None of these girls looked or acted much like virgins.
In fact , they looked well versed in how to hump ferreal……..
although, it sorta looked like kevin got hurt , but that could of been pleasurable pain,…..
i mean really..what do i know?
BUT…The bestest part by far, was the front row awesome-ness.
From start to finish these girls ruled in all their fascinating comehitherness. i need a camera to document. its trully spectacular.
*note:..i m not sure they are aware these guys are a cover band..?
touchy subject ahead:
ive been writing online since along time ago.
nothing noteworthy. just exhibisionist style ramblings about nothing.
some things have gotten me in shit, by mistakenly being read by the wrong eyes.
but…in general, over the long haul..its been therapy via purgeing my thoughts.
to no one on nothing.
but lateley ive made a rather large lifestyle choice that is seeming to be worth documenting on here..because getting clear unbiased objective thoughts on its effects is not possible.
You see.. i was sober ( abstinant from all mind altering thingyies) for over 6 years.
i m involved in a large community of sober people..all finding& helpingeachother to a way out of some lifestyle into a another.
usually one with deeper personal meaning , on all levels.
nothing hocusy pocusy..just how to live a life outside the trappings of selfcentered thinking.
it is a remarkable undescribable community that is filled with my friends and family.
over the last year i had a shift..not bad, just started to peice my own ideas and thoughts together for the first time as an adult, with self esteem…and came to some awesome and scary realizations for myself.;
i wasnt growing anymore..i had shut my openvalve and was spitting out dirty water overflow…nothing new coming in on the personal developement front.
i felt stagnant..so i tried to reasses..and do certain formulaic prescriptions.
no need to go over the process..as it was mostly an internal evolution that brought me to a galss of champagne at a moet party during fashion week.
nothing right?
well, with the way my life is setup and my relationships work..this glaass of moet altered things.
some were small tilts of alteration..others seem to be big old boulder toppling avalanche style alterations.
lots of nuances involved.things are changeing in my relationships , to say the least.
getting it?
i have lots of rad coolfriendships that i have made during my sober years..what i realized last year was…i had became a. the sober girl from canada..you know friends with xxx and xyx?
oh yeah the sober girl.
ahah.
this got me.
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met the elusive(to me) enigmatic to all..kevin/M ..albeit dont know if he quite got who i was,
or even recalled the emailing -as it was a few months ago…and in a rockstars life , thats many babes ago.&..The sea of babes is gi-normous for these guys.
W and friend showed up, as did Rene. I was high energy …mostly because i was in my pjs ,here all weekend.
need to get out more. .
i’m , unfortunately, bored senseless with present male company( note to self-NEVER LET HIM KNOW OF THIS SITE*)
when he tells me stuff..i cannot remember what hes saying as the words waffle out…………….
Hes not a bad guy , just not a good match.
I have flashes mid waffle of screaming “BOW TO YOUR SENSEI”..
or just calmingly standing from where we sit and walking off, without a word.
pretty indicitive – when someone u r ‘hanging’ out with instills fantasies such as these.
He doesnt like to talk , he says..but it seems its all he does, at me.
about himself. too well rounded and not funny enuff.
doesnt get my humour AT ALL.
you know when you are telling a story … like how your hassid neighbours kids saw you getting changed ..some self-effacing humour ..and he’s listening..and im telling all the funny bits.
as i had to friends earlier (who were peeing themselves, i mite add)
and i look at him staring blankly..like hes trying to grasp where im coming from or where im going..
its awfully uncomfortable.
and he “uhmms” at the tales end ~ and proceeds to tell me of how children are exposed to sexuality too early these days?????
Geeeeezzzzzzzzzzz louise.yeah guy. you and me should hang more.
or if there is teeny tiny mid sentance refrence to something he ‘feels’ passionate(loose use) about..he interjects to waffle sum more.
he bugs me.
