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Thank you for your brave work on this issue, you are a true patriot. "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in p…

A major driver of U.S. costs that isn't discussed in the article is our parasite lawyer class, who drive up the cost of insurance for doctors and lead to widespread over-testing or…

Tesla are crony capitalists building a car that is worse for the environment (toxic battery, power waste across the grid, majority power from coal powerplants) than traditional com…

Actually, Authorize.net has a lot more to fear from Stripe. Can't wait to switch!

Classic Chris Dodd. Obvious outcomes -- like the 2008 financial crisis, which occurred on his watch as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee-- are "watershed" and heretofore "ne…

At least two of the legislators on his target list have renounced support for SOPA: Dennis A. Ross (R-FL) Lee Terry (R-NE)

Traditionally, Hollywood (run by angry liberals) and the Republican Party are hostile, so this shift is more of politics reverting to the mean. The main reason GOP members were on …

Yeah, MLK's family has been unusually greedy. They even used copyright to demand money during the building of the MLK Memorial! http://savannahnow.com/stories/102501/LOCmlkmemory.s…

Everything we need is already in the Constitution, in the First and Fourth Amendments of the Bill of Rights. We just have to defend our freedoms...through protest and through votes…

Also scroll down to check out the photos on the bottom of the page, awesome!

This is just a leadership commitment in the Republican House, the U.S. Senate (controlled by Democrats, and where overall support for SOPA/PIPA seems stronger) could still take up …

You cannot trademark or copyright a handbag, or other fashion design, in the United States. Your edge case doesn't exist.

The reviews on this are hilarious.

I had your gameplan, but in the late 1990s. Spent a couple years in China, struggled with a number of issues, including significant cultural and language barriers with the local pr…

The cable companies are losing subscribers for the first time in history. Every headwind matters to them. Just as important, getting the idea out there that Comcast is against a fr…

GoDaddy's leadership helped write SOPA, of course they dealt themselves into the bill!

I think Symfony2 may solve this issue for PHP.

The one way to ensure that all Congressmen are millionaires is to take away their pay. Honestly, the salary is already too small, they have to maintain a second residence in DC, wh…

The real scandal is the long pattern of corrupt political leadership of Birmingham. Birmingham was once an industrial capital, and in the middle of the last century was bigger than…

Same problem here. The admin site structure of the typical CMS is an abstraction that makes obvious sense to us developers, but not necessarily to the content managers. Inline is t…

There are some similar provisions in U.S. law, but they are easily circumvented by "consulting" rather than "lobbying." Additionally, the U.S. Constitution does not really permit b…

One or two drinks a day is shown to have health benefits in other studies.

I've heard that these drones are designed to land themselves if they lose communications and/or run low on fuel. Bad idea when flying over Iran.