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[Leafsnail]

I guess it's kindof worth having the vote but it's not really a surprise or a good thing that no-one wanted to vote against the "keep the evil foreigners away from our internet bill".  Considering how many were in favour of SOPA and the like it seems more like a victory for xenophobia than open internet.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

This isn't xenophobia fueled any way you cut it. At the most cynical, this is keeping Russia and China's power blocs from gaining more power over the internet. It isn't that they're foreigners, it's that they are against US interests.

And SOPA failed hard. The only reason it had as much support as it did was because of lobbyists pushing it. Congress got to see the public backlash from such things, though. I doubt they'll repeat that mistake with as much vigor.

Ultimately, this helps the free internet even if it was not entirely motivated by the desire to protect it, and I consider that a victory.

[Flying Dice]

Exactly. I for one am more than willing to avoid misanthropic snarking about something which ended about as well as anything in politics can.

Incidentally, I was reminded of something wonderful today.

[Zrk2]

YYZ makes me pleased.

[Hanslanda]

397-0.
Heck yeah, House.

This. As a country, we agree. DON'T TOUCH OUR FUCKING INTERNET.

[Itnetlolor]

Air Buccaneers has been greenlit. TO THE SKIES, YE MATEYS!!

[Rose]

397-0.
Heck yeah, House.

This. As a country, we agree. DON'T TOUCH OUR FUCKING INTERNET.

Unless, like, you're bribing us heavily.

[Hanslanda]

397-0.
Heck yeah, House.

This. As a country, we agree. DON'T TOUCH OUR FUCKING INTERNET.

Unless, like, you're bribing us heavily.

>.>
<.<
Listen man, I've got two hundred kilos of coke in the container. Just take this forty thousand dollars and look away.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Finally done with the paper that's due tomorrow morning.

[Zrk2]

Finally done with the paper that's due tomorrow morning.

Give me a topic and let's see if I can still shit out theses.

[Bauglir]

I just stared at the sky in Skyrim for a couple of minutes. So pretty...

If I didn't live in a city, I'd go look at the real thing. Even if it does lack the cartoonish exaggeration of some features, such as the twinkling you can't see in a still image >_________>

[Tellemurius]

Finally done with the paper that's due tomorrow morning.

Give me a topic and let's see if I can still shit out theses.

6 page argument of the taxation of the United States, go

[Siquo]

Timed it: from the school of my kid, to sitting behind my desk at work with a cup of coffee: 7 minutes. And that includes cycling through snow.

I love my new office. Going to be hard on the waistline, though... Just lost my only source of exercise.

[10ebbor10]

I just stared at the sky in Skyrim for a couple of minutes. So pretty...

If I didn't live in a city, I'd go look at the real thing. Even if it does lack the cartoonish exaggeration of some features, such as the twinkling you can't see in a still image >_________>

To be fair, the real thing rarely looks that nice. Milky way is just another monochrome cloud. (Unless you go into areas where it's really dark). Even then, I doubt there's purple.

[Mech#4]

Maybe not, but there is things like auroras and in really dark places you can see heaps of stars. Further out in space there's the pillars of creation.