Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

[TVTyrant]

I still am having issues comprehending how anyone can control the internet.

Its impossible. They can try all they like, but the Internet will always be free.

[Warsaw]

Wrong. If ISPs just ban all IPs except those on the white list, they win. They can also monitor your access, and send police to any IP that attempts to access restricted material.

[Ryx]

Wrong. If ISPs just ban all IPs except those on the white list, they win. They can also monitor your access, and send police to any IP that attempts to access restricted material.

Get a new internet?

[Kornman00]

No comments on my Sheldon Cooper joke?

I laughed

[Phopojijo]

Pocket Veto.

By the way -- I'm Canadian so spare me for being "ignorant". Couldn't a "pocket veto" be signed by a later President? Or is it like Canada where after an election pending bills metaphorically die in a fire?

[Warsaw]

It dies. Congress would have to start it up again when they come back from vacation (!) and resubmit to the executive for signature.

Also, ignorance doesn't annoy me. People talking out of their ass while being obviously ignorant annoys me. Not trying to sound like I'm the one to decide, but you've been fine since you know the limits of your knowledge (which is actually quite good).

[Phopojijo]

Yeah I was being slightly sacrastic there, lol.

The joke was that it was over a relatively small point that I'm willing to guess the vast majority of common Americans don't even know... along with just about everything else we've discussed thus far.

[TeeKup]

I laughed

Show is too good. WHERE IS EP 12 OF SEASON 5 DAMNIT.

[Warsaw]

Yeah I was being slightly sacrastic there, lol.

The joke was that it was over a relatively small point that I'm willing to guess the vast majority of common Americans don't even know... along with just about everything else we've discussed thus far.

Yeah. But the real problem isn't that they don't know, it's that they don't care to know.

[DarkHalo003]

Yeah. But the real problem isn't that they don't know, it's that they don't care to know.

Unfortunately, the Pocket Veto can ONLY be used on the brink of a Congressional "vacation" simply because it can easily backfire. If Congress does not disperse before the duration of the President's overlook of the bill expires, then that bill becomes law. It's a very tricky situation that happened from (please correct me if I'm wrong here) the Jackson era considering he used it very effectively (and a shit ton as well).