Kim Dotcom: MPAA / RIAA Corrupted the U.S. Government. In a submission to the U.S.
Copyright Tzar the MPAA and RIAA characterized Kim Dotcom and his colleagues as manipulative, "wealthy and arrogant. " According to the MegaUpload founder this language is a sign of weakness. "There is no need to sway public opinion because everyone can see how the MPAA and RIAA are corrupting the system by infiltrating their own people into key government positions," he says. Last Friday the MPAA and RIAA filed a joint submission with Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel. The two groups gave their recommendations for future IP enforcement policy and among other suggestions offered to help out with future international actions against “rogue sites” such as Megaupload. “In this case, the Justice Department and other federal agencies are now grappling with a set of wealthy and arrogant defendants who are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to sway public opinion against efforts to hold them accountable,” the groups wrote.
High Schooler Protests 'Slut-Shaming' Abstinence Assembly. By Tara Culp-Ressler "High Schooler Protests ‘Slut-Shaming’ Abstinence Assembly Despite Alleged Threats From Her Principal" High school senior Katelyn Campbell A West Virginia high school student is filing an injunction against her principal, who she claims is threatening to punish her for speaking out against a factually inaccurate abstinence assembly at her school.
Katelyn Campbell, who is the student body vice president at George Washington High School, alleges her principal threatened to call the college where she’s been accepted to report that she has “bad character.” The Hell of American Day Care. The Hell of American Day Care An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children.
Conservatives Think Racism Is Dead. Wrong. Fifty years after the March on Washington, no major faction in American life disagrees with Martin Luther King Jr. or the evil of state-sponsored racial apartheid.
The terms of the racial debate have shifted massively in liberals’ favor. The conservative stance on racial questions in 2013 is vastly more benign that it was in 1963. It is not, however, completely benign. National Review’s editorial today pithily summarizes the contemporary line of the conservative movement on civil rights. The civil-rights movement was wonderful. Last Exile. The story is set on the fictional world of Prester, where its inhabitants use aerial vehicles known as vanships as a means of transportation.
On this world which is divided in eternal conflict between the nations of Anatoray and Disith, sky couriers Claus Valca and Lavie Head must deliver a girl who holds the key to uniting the two factions. Although Prester itself is not a representation of Earth,[1] it features technology reminiscent of nineteenth-century Europe at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Many of its designs were also inspired by Germany's technological advances during the interwar period. Last Exile was well received in North America, and the series was licensed for the English language by Geneon Entertainment (then Pioneer Entertainment) in June 2003, two months after the first episode aired in Japan.
Funimation Entertainment began licensing the series after Geneon ceased production of its titles. Setting[edit] Plot[edit] Last Exile[edit] Production[edit] Art design[edit] Professor Layton. Professor Layton (レイトン教授, Reiton-kyōju?)
Is a puzzle adventure game[1] series for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS developed by Level-5. The series consists of six games plus a film. A crossover game titled Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney has also been released for the Nintendo 3DS. So, What’s It Going To Be? Robin Thicke "Blurred Lines" Sexy Boys Parody by Mod Carousel.
Celtic Music - Wolf Blood. Banning E3 booth babes isn’t good manners, it’s good business. The first thing I saw at E3 this year was a group of scantily clad ladies giving out energy drinks in front of the Los Angeles convention center.
There was another group of female models posing for pictures upon entering the building, and to the right was another pod of “booth babes” giving away T-shirts. Going up the escalators I was greeted by yet another leather-clad group of women pitching a war game. The amount of female flesh on display before you even enter the show floor was impressive, and impossible to miss. The message it sends is clear: This is a show for men, with advertising, promotions, and booth design aimed at grabbing male eyes. In a time when console makers and major publishers are struggling to connect products with gamers, this is a dangerously short sighted marketing strategy. Why this is a problem The Entertainment Software Association’s own data shows how large the female audience has become.
How to market based on your product, and not sex. GOP Senator Asks Why Border Security Can't Be More Like Disney World. By Rebecca Leber "GOP Senator Asks Why Border Security Can’t Be More Like Disney World" At the second Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the bipartisan immigration bill, Sen.
John Cornyn (R-TX) compared U.S. border security to Disney World. The current bill already includes a tracking exit system in the form of a “photo tool” that expands the existing E-Verify program. Biometric information also will be collected from the undocumented applying for provisional status. Relying on a foundation of falsehoods - The Maddow Blog. Late last week, Mitt Romney ran into a little trouble on one of his biggest vulnerabilities.
Campaigning in Ohio, the Republican said he’d seen a story that Jeep may be moving “all production to China.” Romney wasn’t telling the truth, as Chrysler itself made clear. U.S. Returns Seized Domains to Streaming Links Site (After 18 Months) The hugely popular sports streaming and download site Rojadirecta has won its battle with the U.S.
More than one and a half years after the feds took the domain names of the Spanish company the authorities have now dropped their lawsuit, meaning that the domains will soon be returned. Later today Rojadirecta will become available again on its .com domain, marking yet another shameful episode in the overbroad U.S. war on online copyright infringement. At the end of January last year the U.S. authorities kicked off yet another round of domain seizures, this time against sites connected with sports streaming. Someday's Dreamers. The incredible shrinking stimulus. President Obama's concessions to Republicans on taxes and Social Security have grabbed the headlines, but there's another big area where the White House has shifted considerably in the GOP's direction: direct stimulus to revive the short-term economy.
Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post In his original offer, Obama asked for $425 billion in stimulus through jobs measures and tax extenders, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, including $50 billion in infrastructure spending and other stimulus measures; mass mortgage refinancing to boost the housing market; $30 billion in unemployment extension; a $115 billion extension of the payroll tax holiday; and the extension of a host of business tax breaks known as extenders. The stimulus measures are intended to counteract the impact of a fiscal cliff that would put major austerity into effect immediately.
Volbeat ft. Sarah Blackwood - Lonesome Rider. Talib Kweli Stands His Ground. Temp Towns. I had missed this story at the time, but you need to read Michael Grabell’s Sidney Award-winning article on temporary work in modern America. Essentially, there’s an entire temporary work economy that has sprung up under our noses, even more so than I thought. Employers are simply refusing to hire workers in traditional arrangements any longer, offloading the risks of permanent employment onto employees and profiting richly. California Inmate Dies In Solitary Confinement During Hunger Strike. By Aviva Shen "California Inmate Dies In Solitary Confinement During Hunger Strike" A man being held in solitary confinement has died at one of the California state prisons where thousands of inmates are refusing food to protest the practice of indefinite solitary confinement.
Robert Bork Has Died: R.I.P. This Congress had just recently drafted and proposed to the States and had adopted an anti-poll tax amendment to the Constitution which this Congress carefully limited to federal elections so as to leave State poll taxes in place if States chose to have them. That seemed to me a little odd, therefore, that the Court would come along and mop up something that Congress did not bother to amend the Constitution to accomplish. Not did not bother; deliberately did not. The poll tax was familiar in American history and nobody ever thought it was unconstitutional unless it was racially discriminatory. Now, in Harper itself Justice Black--who was hardly a man who was insensitive to voting rights--Justice Harlan and Justice Stewart all dissented from the majority holding.
Justice Black said the Court was using the old natural law due process formula to write into the Constitution notions of what it thinks is good government policy. Roberts' recollection of 1996 - The Maddow Blog.