Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders

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These judges and politicians are retardlicans who have no business even THINKING about technical matters.  The ones who aren't morons, are bought out hoes.  Years ago I followed the Microsoft hearings via C-SPan, and the lies spewn from the industry (Ballmer, Micahel Dell, Alsop, etc) made me puke.  Then you had Orin Hatch, John Ashcroft, Strom Thurmond, Herb Kohl, Mike DeWine and others kissing Gates' butt and singing the praises of Windows (and monopolies).  This if nothing else, PROVES that scum rises and that Peter's Principle is correct.
 
This Hollings bill is just another phase of felch started by that jerk Jack "VCRs will destroy Hollywood" Valenti.

First it was the that damn DMCA.  Now this.  Fritz Hollings, you go to hell, you go to hell and you fry!
Normally I expect this from Republicans, not a lone Democrat.

 We need to contact our senators and our house reps and tell them to cut this crap out.  It's tantamount to mind control.  No old white guy is going to tell me what to write, nor what to run.  These old idiots don't even understand how a transistor works!  They have no business tackling this issue.

 But until campaign finance reform is done correctly (a total ban on non-personal giving) then our legislators will continue to be bought and sold.

Anyway, hopefully Patrick Leahy (Vermont) will torpedo this crap Hollings bill.

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For the guy who asked what Peter's Principle was (do a web search) it's a phenomenon where people get promoted to their maximum level of incompetence.

 If a guy is good at something, supposedly he's more likely to get promoted (after office politics).  And if he's good in his new position, he'll be promoted on and on.  Till he's put in a position that he does not excel in.  And because he's not good at it, he never get promoted out of there.   So he continues in that role, being inadequate and generally making everything worse, which in turn affects other things  that rely on his job.

 It's a generalized phenomenon that appplies to business, government, media, etc.

BTW if anybody doesn't know, the FLAT model for these forums is the one that seems to work best.  Otherwise you might "miss" postings.