The Proletariat Congress

Sure, gathering together on Sunday with a bunch of people in order to pray and pay lip service to your God may make you feel like you’re doing something. That you’re offering something to the world. But, let’s face it, you aren’t. A Christian going to church to pray and attend service is as useful to the world as a screendoor on a submarine. It achieves about as much as me sitting around on my Atheistic ass, playing video games. The only difference is I know I’m being lazy. I know I’m not making a damn difference in the world, and I’m not afraid to admit that sitting on my ass playing video games is just that, doing shit all. Prayer merely deludes folks into think they’ve made a difference, when all it is, is just a venue for hypocrisy. You think you’ve made a difference because you kept some poor starving African child in your prayers, or you’ve prayed for someone to “get better”, or you pray for the end of the war. One of those “feel good” kind of things. In reality, you’ve made no difference and have wound up wasting your limited time on earth on something that in the end achieves nothing.

Two hands working will achieve more than a million hands praying.

We’re not finished with injunctions yet, Miller says

Not good enough. That’s all I have to say. It’s not bloody good enough! Send them back to Miller! Grow some back bone and stop giving members of the NDP a bad name by being a spineless twat. Not all of us support the current tactics. I hate the tactics being used. It will make the situation needlessly worse.

I believe in the right to strike, but if it prevents people from going about their business then I say, revoke the right. If you’re going to inconvenience other people then you shouldn’t be allowed to go ahead. Picket lines are fine, but not when people are forced to wait 15 minutes to dispose of garbage in the heat of summer. The longest way should be no longer than the longest traffic light in Toronto. 60 seconds should be the longest time anyone should have to wait.

Even then 60 seconds is too much. This is not right.

Stand up to these people. It is your duty and right. This right is given to you in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.

They can set up picket lines; we can set up counter-picket lines. We can have our own signs denouncing them. It won’t weakened their so-called position. They weakened it by being insufferable assholes who have refused to try and win over the public.

If the union was smart it would have tried to make the public its friend in this. They broke the first rule of any strike – don’t piss off the public.

Once in a blue moon, the perfect screen cap from one of your favourite shows comes along. With it, the perfect opportunity to mess with what the creators worked day and night to achieve. Equipped with just MSPaint and 5 minutes of boredom, how quickly a cartoonist’s work is turned on him.

BEFORE – The original image.

AFTER – 5 minutes later with MSPaint…

In a foolish, unguided move today, the Swedish court hearing the trial, at which the Pirate Bay was the star, it declare its founders to be guilty and sentenced them to one year in jail. All because the court held that the founders aided users in engaging in copyright infringement.

If that is the reasoning for this, then shut down the whole goddamn internet! Every link will invariably link to some kind of copyrighted material. I know I likely am linking to something that is copyright. I too am guilty. After all, I am linking to the Pirate Bay from the image above. After all, it’s just a link until you decide to actually take the material. A link is simply a link until you do something with the material.

Advertising is a kind of linking. It is just telling you what is there and where to find it. A link is just that. What the person does is their responsibility.

I believe in the internet and I will not give up just because some court somewhere has decided it wants to give into the whims of corporate bullies who apply collective, punitive punishment to their paying customer base in the form of DRM.

If the music and films being produced are such garbage that people won’t pay to see them, then perhaps the industry should take note and stop pumping out utter garbage en masse and start giving us quality again if they want to see people pay for the goods. I know I won’t pay for garbage. I would have no qualms with downloading it, but I would never pay for low quality garbage.

If prices weren’t so high and quality was a sure thing, filing sharing would go down. Too bad the industry is run by a bunch of moronic twats who have their collective head shove twenty thousand leagues up its ass to see this.