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Author Topic: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA  (Read 43705 times)

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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #255 on: February 24, 2012, 07:32:13 am »

Aqizzar, fear the limitless power of HTML 5. At least I think that's what's happening.

Also, Yahoo? Why Yahoo?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #256 on: February 24, 2012, 10:34:59 am »

Well, now this is interesting.  I'm trying to go to 4chan on a lark, and while I can see the frontpage, and see the Latest Posts changing so I know people can access it, trying to go to any board gives me a failed connection.  "Boards.4chan.org" does not exist, says a Yahoo-powered page branded "COMODO: Creating Trust Online" which I have never seen before.  And the address bar includes some ominous tagging bits like "secured" and "intercept".

However, it appears to be a bit intermittent - sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't, every few minutes or so.  And my Tor browser (Vidalia) can access it regardless.  I have a very strong suspicion that I am somehow being blocked from viewing 4chan.  How interesting.

Perhaps your browser was hijacked?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #257 on: February 24, 2012, 03:19:27 pm »

I hope the FBI isn't trying to do to 4chan what they did to Megaupload. There will be chaos if they do.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #258 on: February 24, 2012, 03:21:12 pm »

I hope the FBI isn't trying to do to 4chan what they did to Megaupload.
Wouldn't surprise me if they were.

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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #259 on: February 24, 2012, 03:42:51 pm »

To me, the FBI is just a bunch of jealous spoilsports.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #260 on: February 24, 2012, 06:51:46 pm »

Loads fine for me.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #261 on: February 24, 2012, 07:05:33 pm »

Aqizzar, fear the limitless power of HTML 5. At least I think that's what's happening.

Also, Yahoo? Why Yahoo?

Umm yeah... I've seen a couple alarmingly worded headlines, but haven't got around to actually looking into it yet.

So what's the deal with HTML 5 supposedly introducing a bunch of "DRM-like" features?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #262 on: February 24, 2012, 07:44:41 pm »

now, I'm no good with this, is an approval rating of 50% good, bad or meh?

Well imagine you're one of the most important people in the world, and it's your job to make decisions every day that directly effect the lives of hundreds of millions and sometimes even billions of people... and half or more of those people think you're doing a bad job.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #263 on: February 24, 2012, 10:09:17 pm »

Well, Obama isn't so bad when you consider the fact that any of the people who are going to run against him are the kind of people that would pass ACTA and SOPA in a heartbeat.

Like I have said before IRL, the only reason I would vote Obama is if everyone running against him was worse.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #264 on: February 24, 2012, 10:11:14 pm »

Most voting choices these days seem to involve lesser evils.




Wait, 'these days'?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #265 on: February 24, 2012, 10:12:34 pm »

My response to the question wasn't meant to have any election relevance.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #266 on: February 24, 2012, 10:18:15 pm »

Eh, to be honest, someone who manages to please anywhere near half of the people surveyed are happy with him, he's doing a pretty good dance. Not a good job, per se, but a good job of convincing people he's doing a good job.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #267 on: February 24, 2012, 10:25:14 pm »

Well, when you consider that there is no group in America that is 50% or more of the population it sounds okay to me.

Actually I think white people are still 50+%. So there is that I guess.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #268 on: February 25, 2012, 05:30:53 am »

Look at the statistics of when Obama won. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

Only 53% of the voting population (69.5 million) voted for him. 

All that hope and change and people wanting to be a part of history for a little over half of the vote. 
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #269 on: February 25, 2012, 11:36:43 am »

I found some stats on presidential approval rating over the past 60 years. And here's more, with disapproval ratings, too.

From those graphs and numbers, it looks like Obama's actually been one of the more consistent presidents we've had. Granted, he hasn't been in for the whole four years, yet, but he's weighed in from 65% at the beginning of his term to 45% near the 2010 mark. Compare that to other presidents, who could drop 30 to 40 points in the course of one term, or fluctuate like a mad man.

He is following the trend that most modern presidents follow (With Clinton being the exception), in that his approval rating is lower than it was when he first took office. Other presidents had wars and such to bolster and deflate them, too, and Obama's only been dealing with the after effects of war and some minor conflicts.

Looking at the end of the Wall Street Journal graph, it looks like his rating has actually gone up during the whole ACTA/SOPA debacle (Probably because of the Bin Laden deal). I think the problem is that there just isn't enough noise to either make him back off. My biggest worry is that if someone else gets elected this year he'll just turns around and keep supporting it, despite all of the Republican candidates opposing SOPA. Obama opposed SOPA, too.

It looks like the newest polls have Obama fairly low on the approval/disapproval scale, though. Only the New York Times and CBS News have the approval rating significantly above the disapproval rating in the past few months (And that's the most recent). Everyone else has it about even, or the disapproval slightly above the approval.


Most voting choices these days seem to involve lesser evils.

I've felt the same way since forever. I've always wanted a serious Independent Party candidate - Someone who's smart enough not to jump on anything one party throws into the air and actually make some good, down-to-earth decisions for the folks. The system is geared towards people who lean one way or another, making it hard for someone who isn't conservative or liberal 'enough' to have a serious chance of winning. That's another thread, though...
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