The amazing thing here is that this mess that the USTR and President Obama are in right now over TPP was easily avoidable. Rather than negotiating in secret, and only sharing drafts with a select group of deep industry insiders, they easily could have and should have opened the discussion up publicly. The USTR should have released its own negotiating drafts from the very beginning, so that the public and Congress could weigh in while the process was ongoing. That way, there would be no surprises and no concerns. Instead, they kept the public and Congress out of it entirely -- putting extra special precautions against the public or Congress from finding out what was going on, so that we know the final product will have massive problems. And now they want Congress to just say "Sure, we trust you got it right"? Really? The USTR screwed this one up badly, and it's good to see Congress pushing back on this blatant attempt to usurp Congress' own powers.
Sounds like you are still operating under the assumption we live with a government that works for the people, We dont.
If you didnt realize it yet, The system is gaming the public. Both sides are an illusion to think you have choice when you have very little. Width draw your support from it and it will crumble under its own weight. Dont give it any more recognition. and start focusing on people and efforts that are more community driven.
Our Current form of government is a byproduct of big business interests not serving the public interests, so yes Big Business run a muck is the main problem.
I emailed the EFF today and got a response back from them. They are in a meeting at this very moment to talk about what we can do to stop Congress from asking ISP's and Registrars from block sites they deem inappropriate. We cannot allow congress to censor sites regardless of the reason. If we allow them to do it for one supposed legitimate reason, they will just use it for other non-legitimate reasons down the road. The real motive, my guess is to suppress free speech.
As a software engineer, I would like to be paid too as long as my code resides in a commercial application as long as the application is used (10-50 years...). After all, it's my design, my implementation, my work.
Thats would be all good and fine if you lived on a planet by yourself, the fact is you live with other people. The work you do helps people and money is a byproduct of that. The people decide weather or not you get compensated for your work, any time you want to control if and when you get paid you are abusing your position. People pick up on that and will no longer value your work. Too many people have mis-placed ideas of their value. Its not what you get from what you do, its what you do for other people and the world decides how to help you in return, dont try to take that power away from the public, it just bad karma on your part for doing so.
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Sounds like you are still operating under the assumption we live with a government that works for the people, We dont.
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If you didnt realize it yet, The system is gaming the public. Both sides are an illusion to think you have choice when you have very little. Width draw your support from it and it will crumble under its own weight. Dont give it any more recognition. and start focusing on people and efforts that are more community driven.
Re: Re: It's not about reporters. Focus on NSA -- and Google.
Our Current form of government is a byproduct of big business interests not serving the public interests, so yes Big Business run a muck is the main problem.
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And he has been right every time.
We need to put a stop to this
I emailed the EFF today and got a response back from them. They are in a meeting at this very moment to talk about what we can do to stop Congress from asking ISP's and Registrars from block sites they deem inappropriate. We cannot allow congress to censor sites regardless of the reason. If we allow them to do it for one supposed legitimate reason, they will just use it for other non-legitimate reasons down the road. The real motive, my guess is to suppress free speech.
Re: Fair Play For Software Engineers & stuff
As a software engineer, I would like to be paid too as long as my code resides in a commercial application as long as the application is used (10-50 years...). After all, it's my design, my implementation, my work.
Thats would be all good and fine if you lived on a planet by yourself, the fact is you live with other people. The work you do helps people and money is a byproduct of that. The people decide weather or not you get compensated for your work, any time you want to control if and when you get paid you are abusing your position. People pick up on that and will no longer value your work. Too many people have mis-placed ideas of their value. Its not what you get from what you do, its what you do for other people and the world decides how to help you in return, dont try to take that power away from the public, it just bad karma on your part for doing so.