2011-12-13

liveonearth: (if you think I'm weird)
2011-12-13 01:53 pm

SOPA up this Thurs: are they really going to Censor the Internet?

I don't know much about this bill, but I ran across this today: 87% of Wikipedians despise the bill and support a Wikipedia Blackout to protest it. SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act, and it goes before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee this Thursday, December 15.

I can relate that at the public library in the town of my birth, if you type "finish it" the computer system changes your "sh it" to xxxx. Pain in the A$$. But I have a feeling that's not the kind of censorship that's coming down the pipe on this one. Can anyone give me a primer on what this law would really do? I'd appreciate it.
liveonearth: (Default)
2011-12-13 02:12 pm

QotD: Do Something

Somebody has to do something.
It's just incredibly pathetic
that it has to be us.

--Jerry Garcia


Walking is a man's best medicine
--Hippocrates


Both quotes swiped from this vid, entitled 23 and 1/2 hours. The author is a doctor who'd like to convince you that the best thing you can do for your health is limit your sitting and sleeping to 23.5 hours/day.