21st November 2004, 5:53 PM
But stupid! Honestly, isn't this trampelling on SOME right we have? They make it clear that we already HAD the rights this bill gives us anyway. I think this is one of those unenumerated rights we as citizens totally have. Seriously, it's not piracy so much that threatens them (and yes, that IS wrong) so much as they themselves threaten them. Maybe if they stopped making terrible movies, music, television, and stuff like that people would actually be interested in purchasing that stuff. Maybe making actual GOOD stuff instead of following the cliche action movie/romantic comedy formulas 20 times a season in the theaters, creating 5 rap/"pop" songs for playback over and over for months at a time, and the constant barrage of reality shows almost every network is currently involved in (Discovery and TLC no longer support intelligence, but rather support you watching bike makers yell at each other for no good reason with not a hint of anything approaching intelligence to be found, thank all that is good for the Science channel which hasn't sunk down to that level yet). Oh, and listen up Sci-Fi and Lifetime. Making a movie a week is NOT something to be proud of. Consider the time constraints you MUST be under to do that and the actual quality of those recycled plots. Sorry, no more government conspiracy with aliens/powerful woman who stays with the man who beats her even though her male boss is beating her for doing that movies for you, start making REAL entertainment. And news, PLEASE stop caring about being entertaining! History channel, which in and of itself has started a slow decay (read: the completely lacking in any sort of fact checking "Conspiracy" series on that channel, I feel sorry for a channel otherwise good to suffer from such a show as that), happened to do a very revealing interview with a big name news host from long ago who happened to say what I have said, but with more clout, that the news organizations should have some frickin' dignity and realize their job isn't to entertain people, it's to inform them! If REAL news happens to be boring, well big deal! It's the truth and the truth in general doens't take story form!
All in all, try plucking the frickin' ALTERNATE PLANE OF TREES from your eye before brushing that bit of sawdust off our faces!
All in all, try plucking the frickin' ALTERNATE PLANE OF TREES from your eye before brushing that bit of sawdust off our faces!
"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)