My writing to senators and MPs wasn't enough to stop it.
Still, it felt good to have some of them actually write back.

I moved the vid here due to a title typo. http://videosift.com/video/Canada-Gets-Mandatory-Minimum-Sentencing-and-More-Prisons
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Sad.
*promote

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Sad.
promote


My writing to senators and MPs wasn't enough to stop it.
Still, it felt good to have some of them actually write back.

I moved the vid here due to a title typo. http://videosift.com/video/Canada-Gets-Mandatory-Minimum-Sentencing-and-More-Prisons

Oh, I suck at it too, it's no shame - starcraft is freaking hard!
>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^gwiz665:
Did you play your placement matches? The thing is, when you play those five first matches, you get matched against players that are almost certainly better than you, so you get your ass handed to you. After that you get placed in what the system believes is a league where you'll do about 50-50, so it's relatively fair.
>> ^ChaosEngine:
I can honestly say sc2 is the only game I've watched more than played. I finished the sp campaign and then got annihilated in mp.
Every few months I end up watching a bunch of sc replays (when/will cheese fail is awesome) and resolve to give it a go again. Then I get my ass handed to me, again.
I'm an average player at most games, but sc2 just defeats me for some reason....


Oops, forgot to reply to this. Yes, I did. I'm just not very good at it
I'm ok with it though, I have to leave some awesomeness for the rest of humanity
Besides, I could see myself spending waaay too much time on it.

>> ^gwiz665:

Did you play your placement matches? The thing is, when you play those five first matches, you get matched against players that are almost certainly better than you, so you get your ass handed to you. After that you get placed in what the system believes is a league where you'll do about 50-50, so it's relatively fair.
>> ^ChaosEngine:
I can honestly say sc2 is the only game I've watched more than played. I finished the sp campaign and then got annihilated in mp.
Every few months I end up watching a bunch of sc replays (when/will cheese fail is awesome) and resolve to give it a go again. Then I get my ass handed to me, again.
I'm an average player at most games, but sc2 just defeats me for some reason....



Oops, forgot to reply to this. Yes, I did. I'm just not very good at it

I'm ok with it though, I have to leave some awesomeness for the rest of humanity
Besides, I could see myself spending waaay too much time on it.

Did you play your placement matches? The thing is, when you play those five first matches, you get matched against players that are almost certainly better than you, so you get your ass handed to you. After that you get placed in what the system believes is a league where you'll do about 50-50, so it's relatively fair.
>> ^ChaosEngine:

I can honestly say sc2 is the only game I've watched more than played. I finished the sp campaign and then got annihilated in mp.
Every few months I end up watching a bunch of sc replays (when/will cheese fail is awesome) and resolve to give it a go again. Then I get my ass handed to me, again.
I'm an average player at most games, but sc2 just defeats me for some reason....

I can honestly say sc2 is the only game I've watched more than played. I finished the sp campaign and then got annihilated in mp.

Every few months I end up watching a bunch of sc replays (when/will cheese fail is awesome) and resolve to give it a go again. Then I get my ass handed to me, again.

I'm an average player at most games, but sc2 just defeats me for some reason....

when banks are insolvent, they are forced to illegally put fake assets on their balance sheets. So, it's not unusual to see an insolvent bank commit fraud. Or in this case, put fraudulent assets on the balance sheet.

And I agree, the MP is nervous. *conspiracy

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>> ^bmacs27:

What they're probably acting on is the positive correlation between dollars spent enforcing copyright, and profit per publication. Does that suffice for you?

I don't buy that either, the data on litigation shows that it cost more than it brings in.

If you could show that litigation produces less pirating, again the data a few years ago showed the inverse correlation, then you might have something, but I want to see the data.

The entire MP/RIAA PR campaign against "piracy" is based on their claim that they are loosing money, which has not only not been demonstrated, but in fact appears to be the opposite of what is happening.

Copyright has become a broken social convention, because the copyright conglomerates have sought to extend it indefinitely, and to use strong arm tactics and dishonesty to enforce their power grab.

I'm in favor of a sane copyright system, but if we don't have one I can't really blame anybody for ignoring it.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^Peroxide:
Kathryn Marshall is married to Harper’s former manager of strategic planning.

Can you cite this? I'm really interested.


http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/2012/01/09/ndp-mp-nathan-cullen-slams-harper%E2%80%99s-witch-hunt-environmental-charities

as long as i'm not later portrayed by Ralph Macchio, i'm good yeah...

(for all the cheese in that movie, it's still got 2 or 3 incredibly memorable moments that had a hand in my try at guitar playing as a youth)


>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^pho3n1x:
I'd sell my soul to be able to play harp like that...

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