Who’s Scamming Who Pt. 2
Published April 9th, 2011 | 
The other day, I blogged about a story in which Amazon and Google were being blamed for the proliferation of e-book piracy on the Internet. Today, I came across a story on PaidContent.org about Congress raking Google over the coals because of search results for piracy sites. Coincidentally, I also read in the newspaper this morning that Congress has voted to repeal the FCC’s net neutrality regulations.
Do you smell rotten fish?
Instead of going after these pirates (last time I checked, piracy was a federal crime) by investigating and building a case against them so that they can prosecute them, the government would rather censor the Internet so that users can’t search for certain websites (a move that will not stop piracy, only block access via the web). They would rather pass some bogus catch-all law that will control access to the Internet than do what needs to be done. At the same time, they want to give Internet Service Provider’s a free hand to control access to the Internet by disallowing any move towards net neutrality. See what’s going on here? Censorship, for one. Giving ISP’s a free pass to violate anti-trust, for another. And, government control of the Internet by proxy under the guise of protecting us from government control of the Internet. Do I sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist? Perhaps, but Congress is not looking out for us. We are being blinded, bled, kicked in the groin, fucked in the ass and dragged behind an RV strapped to a hitch bike rack
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Posted in Current Events, Happy Horseshit, New Media, Old Media, fiction, newspapers, random thoughtsThe Prophet of Dumbasses
Published March 26th, 2011 | This morning, I was reading the local paper while eating breakfast and came upon this story about a guy who’s going around telling everyone that the world will end on May 21, 2011 (well, technically, the rapture will take five months according to this Ramos character, but you get the idea). I almost choked on my bacon when I read that this idiot had given away his business, took his kids out of school and has been driving up and down the east coast spreading the news It’s one thing if he wants to believe this garbage, but does he have to pollute his children with it? Someone should call DYFS on his ass.
Does it even need to be said that this man is fucked in the head if he believes this nonsense? People have been predicting the end of the world for a very long time now, and it hasn’t happened yet. In fact, the same guy who came up with the May 21st date the Ramos has picked up on previously predicted that the world would end in 1994. I think Ramos is further proof that people are getting stupider. Seriously. I think it’s also quite amusing that the reporter who wrote the story is treating it like a seriously.
I wonder what Ramos will do when the world doesn’t end?
Publishers Betting Big on the IPad, but is it Smart?
Published November 27th, 2010 | Patricio Robles over at eConsultancy blog has an interesting post about why it’s a bad idea for print publishers to bet all their chips on the iPad.
