January 19, 2012
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Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum
“When you have their full attention in your grasp, their hearts and minds will follow.” – Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
The last few days the interwebz seemed to be abuzz with the SOPA & PIPA acts. Sites voluntarily blacked themselves out. Petitions were signed. Profile pictures were updated to reflect on the occasion.
In the middle of all this, a friend of mine was kind enough to point me to http://maddox.xmission.com/ A blog that brings up a very interesting point. Grab them by their full attention.
- Make sure the people who introduced the legislation don’t get elected.
- Boycott the companies pushing the bill.Further explanation, and fairly complete lists are given in the post. And really, if you feel that strongly about the matter, go there and read the blog already, will ya?
Comments (17)
I like Maddox. Have you read his old posts? LOL-worthy.
What’s the title of your entry translate to?
Spent 4 hours last night understanding the issue, finally. Yes, a sloppily worded bill with little chance of success in its intended goal; what else is new?
Pratchett Rulez, btw. I smile broadly the whole way through his books
@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength - ”When you have their full attention in your grasp, their hearts and minds will follow.”
@jsolberg - The sloppy bills, I can understand. But changing a picture in facebook? Enough people start loudly boycotting a company or a politician and they’ll come around. Pratchett… does indeed rule.
semper ubi sub ubi
Enda aku nemu macha utai ditulis nuan.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Good advice; I was always advised to wear clean underwear while driving, you know, in case of a horrible accident…
PIPA was designed by Senate Democrats so is automatically suspect. But 6 GOP Senators stopped the bill from proceeding further and Senator Ron Wyden (D., Oregon) threatened to filibuster the bill.
GOP Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R., Texas) had the DNS blocking provision stripped from the bill last week. LINK
For a bill to be ready for the President’s signature the Senate and House versions have to be reconciled into a final bill. And that is nowhere near happening.
@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength - It literally says, “Whose testicles you have, you have their heart and mind.”
@RestlessButterfly - O…K…? O_0
@jsolberg - If the accident is horrible enough, wouldn’t you need a change of underwear anyway?
@Lakakalo - The coroner will sort out the details.
Reminds me of a true story from Moscow, where folks went nuts one day buying ridiculously cheap shoes from a street-vendor, only to have the foot-wear dissolve in the rain within days. A week later police discovered, in a dumpster, a stash of empty shoe-boxes labeled “For Burial Use Only’.
@sometimestheycomebackanyway - Stop a ridiculous bill and you’ve stopped an idea for a year or so. Stop the people from proposing a ridiculous bill and you’ve stopped it for life.
@jsolberg - I wonder if they saw fit to put the testiculos, cardia et cerebellum in the same box.
@Lakakalo - Yup. That goes in first, then as many as fit of the following organs:
Enda, aku, nemu, macha, utai, ditulis, and/or nuan (left and right). We need those in the afterlife, whatever they are.
(Tell me if you know, so I won’t die stupid., as we say)
@jsolberg - I have no idea, man. Er… If I don’t know, why would you die stupid?
@Lakakalo - Of course, cuz I’m counting on you for a translation. Google ‘Auto-detect language’ just gives up, amidst embarrassed giggles. (‘die stupid’ is a Romanian expression, a voicing of extreme curiosity, and the fear of going to one’s reward not knowing something, but usually said in jest or as comic hyperbole)
Still, active inquiring minds wanna know, and the butterfly responsible seems to be a pupa on the issue. Plus I do get a point for Godfather’s ‘Always wear underwear’, possibly not his intention though.
@jsolberg - Allllllllrightiethen… according to Google
- Enda is Sweedish for “Only”
- Aku is Indonesian for “I”
- Nemu is Slovak for “It”
- Macha is a presumed goddess of ancient Ireland, associated with war, horses, sovereignty, and the sites of Armagh and Emain Macha in County Armagh?
- Utai is, apparently English word for “Utai”
- Ditulis is Indonesian for “Written”
- Nuan is Danish for “Nuanced”
The butterfly of curiosity struggles in it’s cocoon.
@Lakakalo - Yeah, now that you mention it, the Swedish/Slovak/Indonesian/Irish Danes around here say it all the time. Means something like “Can you tell me which bus goes directly to the Utai Embassy, I lost all my passports!”
I would be supportive on all of your articles and blogs because they are just upto the mark.
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