Prisonplanet.com?  Police state news?  Wow.

 

One can only hope you made this post to check the gullibility of those reading it.
If not, and you actually fall for this type of drivel, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I will sell you for a small price.  

Phoon - Like I said in my opening post that I wasn't sure about the source. However this story is on other sites. I just linked to the first one that came up on Google.

Okay.. My 1st clue was the Alex Jones banner. I remember him from Austin Access propaganda (local access television). nuff said for me.

It's about time someone shut down the internet.

Yeppers....I'm so glad somebody came up with the idea and went after the power to do so....

I mean, just take a look at all the junk, paraphanalia and harmful stuff there is on this cursed net....all those educational sites with encyclopaedias/dictionaries/links to culture and literature: informative tech sites with all manner of information to better assist folk with managing their PC's, modern/high tech lives; the news sites that help us keep abreast of world events and modern marvels....and then there's all those skinning sites that allow people to alter their PC desktops from what God intended.

Let's not worry about the porn and constant popups; the banner ads that distact from what you really wanna see; the adware, spyware and malware/trojans & viruses; the false links that take us places we really don't wanna go; the spam, scammers and phisers trying to clean out your bank accounts....oh, and the keystroke loggers that tell 'big brother every move you make.....

These are of no consequence whatsoever, and I think the RIAA is spot on. Keeping us ignorant and taking us back to the 'dark ages' is the right way to go to prevent folk listening to internet music on their PERSONAL computers....and it'll be even better when they join forces with Sony to have all PC's installed with self-destruct CD ROMS, allowing just the installation of Windows....nothing more!!! Ha!!! that'll stop everyone playing their LEGIT bought music on their puters.....

It'll teach us for not going with the less than half-priced pirated editions with all the rootkits, DRM protections & phone home devices removed....for not going to the authorities and dobbing in anyone who 'might' be listening to 'illegal' music. It's the perfect strategy....the RIAA persecutes and punishes the innocent to force them into becoming informants. Not only does this reduce the RIAA's/MPAA's need for electronic surveillance technologies, it also allows them to fire all the (then unnecessary) foot soldiers and reassign the underlings' salaries to the corporate heirarchy/themselves. Shoot, it might even allow them to pull down their illegal music download entrapment site.

Isn't it marvellous, how, along with gov't, the corporate world is devising more and more ways to influence/control our personal lives...how greed has replaced necessity as the mother of invention. Instead of complaining, however, we should be grateful for the direction and guidance these people are providing us....this enforcing a fascist dictatorship within the music/film industries helps us make up our minds more easily by removing the ho-hum over our entertainment decisions.

Sorry for being so flippantly paranoid everyone....the dog ran off with and chewed up me tinfoil hat.

I get the point. Can someone lock this thread?

If not, and you actually fall for this type of drivel, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I will sell you for a small price

Bugger that...if he's that gullible you should be able to screw him out of serious moolah for even half a bridge....

More propaganda! And since there's alot of people who would believe any apocalyptic story around the corner, they help spread the word across the net. I can't even remember how many times some court claimed that the peer-to-peer sharings were about to get shut down, and that still has to happen.

Who knows, if the RIAA gets big enough, maybe they could try to include in the patriot act anyone downloading illegal stuff will be considered as a terrorist...if that's not alrady the case

Bugger that...if he's that gullible you should be able to screw him out of serious moolah for even half a bridge...

Thing is, Jafo, you'd have to get that serious moolah via a rent/time share basis, so you can similarly exploit other similarly gullible locals for a steady income stream ....on that half a bridge. The other half....well you put it on the stock market for foreigners looking to invest in a piece of the U.S.

When people are having so much fun at your expense? No way!

You da man Fuzzy...you da man! There's a wealth of budding stand-up comics here at WC (Kona included )....so glad you've decided NOT to nip their careers in the bud.

Who knows, if the RIAA gets big enough....

They'll own the US gov't, the UN, Sony Corp - and have the EU in their hip pocket so that nobody in Europe can listen to PC music. They'd ensure MS, Apple and Linux can't include a media player in any OS....and for good measure (added insurance) they'd legislate to have all OSes coded to prevent Winamp, Sonique and RealPlayer, etc, etc, being installed.

That might be fun to see.

That'd be right, Boss, have a bit of gratuitous fun at my expense....I thought this was supposed to be a pick on Kona segment. Well....next time I spot one of your typos, I'm gonna visit smiley xtra to find the most glaringly obvious typo error banner I can find and post it just for you....not once, but twice....and sprout OFF at the mouth all about it

Ya know what'll be next, don'tcha's? The RIAA will have subliminal messages encoded into ALL music: "I will ONLY Listen to pay-per-listen music sourced from the RIAA!" Of course people who like to fall asleep to music will be influenced/converted more easily, but eventually everyone would succumb and the RIAA would be able to charge exhorbitant prices to hear your fav songs....

Imagine it, $10 to hear Shirley Temple's rendition of "Good Ship Lollipop".....and $30 for "Tiptoe Thru the Tulips" by Tiny Tim. Bugger, if you're into Metallica or something really popular/modern, you're gonna be well n' truly stuffed without a rich uncle/huge bank account.

i sprouted a spout

Starkers, I was referring to the "sprout" part, not the typo. Is that Brussel Sprouts, Bean Sprouts? Maybe that's how you say it wherever you're from. It's always been "spout off at the mouth" here in California.

Orright then...thanks for the U.S. (Californian) interpretation.

Here in Oz (the U.K. too), sprouting off at the mouth is: to launch a verbal tirade against someone/some thing; to engage in extolling/promoting one's own virtues; to voice self-righteous & argumentative opinions; to knowingly overwhelm someone with techspeach they have no way of understanding....to engage in idle, mindless drivel just to hear the sound of one's own voice.

Oh, BTW Boss, I'm retracting the typo threat, okay....though I've found the perfect 'spouting off at the mouth' smiley instead.....

i sprouted a spout

Ah, now those were the days.....

A sprout came out of my spout?

The teapot has the only spout that's still working around here these days....sadly me percolator went into early retirement.