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darkplanetar: this is worse than a fascist state...
will never buy a movie or other crappy copyrighted record industry ^%$, hope they go bankrupt
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hedwards: That's overstating it a bit isn't it? Plus, this is the US, ultimately, your local laws would apply.

That being said, the hit to creation of new movies and music would conceivably affect you.
no, it would not.
don;t like movies - also indie movies are appearing, there are lots in EU here.
Music, i can buy from artists site - hoping he'll get the money, if not i can also support the local band that i also can talk to them.

Just like the taxi companies make money - the taxi drivers are barely making a living, they have to play lots of stuff, rented stuff to the companies. Also the little artists don't make money but the big corps.
Post edited August 26, 2013 by darkplanetar
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hedwards: That's overstating it a bit isn't it? Plus, this is the US, ultimately, your local laws would apply.

That being said, the hit to creation of new movies and music would conceivably affect you.
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darkplanetar: no, it would not.
don;t like movies - also indie movies are appearing, there are lots in EU here.
Music, i can buy from artists site - hoping he'll get the money, if not i can also support the local band that i also can talk to them.

Just like the taxi companies make money - the taxi drivers are barely making a living, they have to play lots of stuff, rented stuff to the companies. Also the little artists don't make money but the big corps.
Gotcha, that's what I would have thought. I suppose this is more moral support then. Which is totally appreciated, even though you presumably can't vote over here.
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darkplanetar: no, it would not.
don;t like movies - also indie movies are appearing, there are lots in EU here.
Music, i can buy from artists site - hoping he'll get the money, if not i can also support the local band that i also can talk to them.

Just like the taxi companies make money - the taxi drivers are barely making a living, they have to play lots of stuff, rented stuff to the companies. Also the little artists don't make money but the big corps.
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hedwards: Gotcha, that's what I would have thought. I suppose this is more moral support then. Which is totally appreciated, even though you presumably can't vote over here.
:)
sorry no, i can't vote there
Guess I need to start building my bunker. Can a pirate internet signal reach me through two feet of lead-lined concrete?
They're just looking for new tenants of all the prisons, because they will not be able to hold our pot smoking citizens for a ridiculous war on drugs much longer. Once pot becomes legal, our prisons will be less than 25% full.
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jjsimp: They're just looking for new tenants of all the prisons, because they will not be able to hold our pot smoking citizens for a ridiculous war on drugs much longer. Once pot becomes legal, our prisons will be less than 25% full.
Prisons has become a buisness, and prisoners are the involintary customers.
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Darvond: Yes.

These are the same groups of people who want to elect an invisible pink unicorn, for example.
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Elmofongo: ???
Sorry. IPU is my pet name for most magical sky wiza--err, gods.
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Darvond: This is where I mumble buzzwords like, 'Division of regency', 'Federal Council', 'death to Congress', and 'Why can't the United Kingdom just take us back?'
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Elmofongo: You may also add, "Almost the whole human race will be arrested if this bill passes."
Dude.
Duuuuude.
How old are you?
No, seriously, you keep posting interesting / observant / thought-provojking things and at the same time keep making absurd conclusions that are characteristic of children.
Not "everyone will be arrested". "Anyone could be arrested". Yes, that's exactly the goal.

Time and again, when people post zomgohsoalarming news about breaches of privacy, Big Brother, and Anonymous, I keep saying, no, Big Brother has ADD, the chance to get busted by people who seriously use the morpheme cyber- is negligible. But the chance that someone will target you for parking your car at his fave spot, or glancing at his wife, or downvoting him on a forum is real. (But I'm in Russia, where people can lob a grenade into the elevator instead, so I don't feel personally threatened by all those fancy-shmancy civil rights infringements.)

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Elmofongo: Are these people so ignorant, narrow-minded, short-term thinking, less than human creatures not see how illogical this bill is?!
Ask Suzanne Mettler.

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Elmofongo: The only hope I have is once everyone dies, the new generation of people will rectify these peoples errors.
It's happening.
i'm pretty sure they'll be busy with another war with Syria, more geopolitical influences...
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Elmofongo: The only hope I have is once everyone dies, the new generation of people will rectify these peoples errors.
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Starmaker: It's happening.
Off-Topic and somewhat contorversial, because I don't know if you are for it or against it:

I hope for your country that a new generation of smart, like-minded, respect-for-your-fellow-human russians destroys this anti-gay law buisness in your country, because I am vehimently against any human rights abuse:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/01/world/europe/russia-gay-rights-controversy
Post edited August 26, 2013 by Elmofongo
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hedwards: By and large they ARE doing what the public wants.
I'm pretty sure that if the flyover states had more of a say in US foreign policy the world would be looking a lot more like Fallout right now.

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hedwards: The voters also seem to like conservative economic policy, even though it only serves to help a couple percent of the population, leads to higher crime and nearly took down the entire world's economy.
That might have something to do with the fact that they're given a choice between two more or less identical candidates. The only difference is that since their success with Dubya, the republicans have gone all out in trying to secure the retard vote. But in practice it amounts to the same kind of policies dressed up in different ways. The only thing that Obama has done differently is be slightly more pro-gay. Or, less anti-gay than your average US politician.
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Elmofongo: The only hope I have is once everyone dies, the new generation of people will rectify these peoples errors.
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Starmaker: It's happening.
I thought the same thing with pot legalization. After all the hippy generation of the 60's is in power right now and where is the rectification of that stupid law.
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Starmaker: It's happening.
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jjsimp: I thought the same thing with pot legalization. After all the hippy generation of the 60's is in power right now and where is the rectification of that stupid law.
And please let it be only Pot, because even though the drug wars are horrible, there is a reason why drugs like Heroin and Cocain is illigal.
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hedwards: By and large they ARE doing what the public wants.
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Navagon: I'm pretty sure that if the flyover states had more of a say in US foreign policy the world would be looking a lot more like Fallout right now.
And if I had some clout, our foreign policy would not be doling out money or aid to any countries that denounce us or the majority of it citizens want nothing but ill will toward our country. Yeah, I know in this day and age the vast majority of the world wants nothing but ill will towards us.
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Elmofongo: And please let it be only Pot, because even though the drug wars are horrible, there is a reason why drugs like Heroin and Cocain is illigal.
How much is the Netherlands falling apart? Aren't most drugs legal there? Prostitution is legal there. I don't think they are becoming a country of zombies or AIDS infected.
Post edited August 26, 2013 by jjsimp
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Navagon: I'm pretty sure that if the flyover states had more of a say in US foreign policy the world would be looking a lot more like Fallout right now.
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jjsimp: And if I had some clout, our foreign policy would not be doling out money or aid to any countries that denounce us or the majority of it citizens want nothing but ill will toward our country. Yeah, I know in this day and age the vast majority of the world wants nothing but ill will towards us.
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Elmofongo: And please let it be only Pot, because even though the drug wars are horrible, there is a reason why drugs like Heroin and Cocain is illigal.
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jjsimp: How much is the Netherlands falling apart? Aren't most drugs legal there? Prostitution is legal there. I don't think they are becoming a country of zombies or AIDS infected.
Even Heroin, which from I know is the drug the fucks people up more than anyother drug?

Also perhaps its because People of the Netherlands don't overdose on Drugs and uses it wisely. I am just assuming, until someone here from the Netherlands sheds some light on it, who knows.