20th January 2012, 4:18 PM
I managed to catch one part of the republican debate last night, but what a part to catch. The CNN "news" person asks them what they think of SOPA, and then "full disclosures" the fact that CNN's parent company supports SOPA (the rest of the full disclosure was a full on endorsement of it complete with all the talking point about how we can't let thieves laugh... on into the night). The republican candidates each in turn backpedal as far away from SOPA as possible, except one who merely says SOPA is "too far" but "stealing is wrong". The funny thing is, the first 3 take time to give all the anti-SOPA talking points to rave applause from their base in the audience, with the 4th actually getting booed when he only partially backpedaled against it.
It was awesome.
It was awesome.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)