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I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but I had to actually look up the name of SOPA's founder (Lamar Smith). He should be facing heavy criticism right now, at least to the extent that SOPA-supporting companies are. It's as if his career isn't in any jeopardy at all over this.
I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but I had to actually look up the name of SOPA's founder (Lamar Smith). He should be facing heavy criticism right now, at least to the extent that SOPA-supporting companies are. It's as if his career isn't in any jeopardy at all over this.
Lamar Smith is a Texas Republican in a district that is 2/3 R -- any effort to unseat him would have to involve a primary challenge and thus speak to Republican primary voters.
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I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time. When I consider this, I have enough backlog of reading and (legitimately free, e.g. SICP and the like) online videos in my mental queue to do so. I might -- really -- be better off for doing so. I haven't formulated a well-worded proposal and scenario/approach to share, but I would suggest workin…
For music it is easy. There is so much free stuff around, netlabels, jamendo, etc. For reading there is so much out-of-copyright on archive.org and Gutenberg.
I would pay $100 to anyone that made a one-click (or close) auto transfer of domains from GoDaddy.
You could conceivably put together a Selenium script or something to automate the first part, but that would be really tricky. As it is, you just have to get an export of your domains (instructions in the repos) and run my script. Right now it supports DNSimple and Namecheap, but I'm almost done with Gandi support and might be adding others.
I would pay $100 to anyone that made a one-click (or close) auto transfer of domains from GoDaddy.
Silverlake was the firm behind the whole Skype compensation fiasco, which was basically a quick flip. KKR does dividend recaps where it issues debt and funnels money out of the company. The company, such as HCA or Dollar General, then has to fire people and raise prices on customers.
Do you think they'll do what's right for customers over the long term or try to extract every penny? That's why they'll flip flop on an issue like SOPA - no long term values. I moved my domains to namecheap a long time ago.
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I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time. I don't see why not. I haven't owned a TV in 18 months. I haven't bought a magazine in over five years. I probably haven't been to a movie theater in over five years either. A TV was useful when I was so sick that I needed passive mental stimulation to keep from going completely batshit insane wh…
Going to family at Christmas, it's gruelling to be in the same room as a TV pumping out commercials and other nonsense.
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> While it does demonstrate that we, [...] can have P&L impact as consumers in the B2B world, the real and massive culprits have been B2C companies. Influence on the P&L is great. Influence at the voting booth is one better, and somehow the tech community has to convince congress that the voting booth is in play. (Yes, P&L leads to political donations, which lead to reelection, but politicians are always playing the…
Politicians don't like distractions. If support for some legislation will end up causing distractions, especially during campaign season, they will take notice. The best distractions come from primary challenges directly attributable to their stances on issues, but even having hecklers show up to campaign events can work. The right has been using primary threats for a long time to keep politicians in line. I suspect…
If you can convince a politician that a sizeable percentage of influential people who are liable to donate money to a cause are for or a against a particular issue that that they are legislating on, preferably people who are from within his/her riding/ward/district and thus directly impact him/her.
Say, like well connected, high earning (mostly white, male) nerds. If you stop to think about the amount of power we are actually capable of wielding, it's actually really shocking that msft/goog/aapl etc seem to have really crappy lobbyists.
(As an aside, here for instance is a good Planet Money podcast on lobbying: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/01/141913370/the-tues... )
I would pay $100 to anyone that made a one-click (or close) auto transfer of domains from GoDaddy.
Transferring domains is fairly painless already, but one click transfer would be insanity. The few speedbumps that do exist when transferring exist to prevent domain name hijacking. If you could one-click transfer then domains would be completely unsafe against hijacking.