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You know it is going to be one of those days when the first thing you see when you enter your workplace is a sign on the elevators stating in big letters:

ALL THE BATHROOMS ON ALL THE FLOORS ARE OUT OF ORDER

And to add insult to injury? It's the third day of your monthly period.
It's drizzling. Just above freezing, hence the drizziling. Gross outside.
And the nearest working bathroom is four to five blocks away and across two busy intersections.

It's probably too late for the US, but here it is for those who can do something..

Originally posted by cantarina1 at post

Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues

ACTA in a Nutshell –

What is ACTA?  ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.

Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”

What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.

Essential ACTA Resources - 

• Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet
• Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text
• Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history
• Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response
• Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video
• Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video

Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.

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[ETA - from me not the original posters: A caveat? Copyright Law gives me a head-ache. I find it confusing and I worked in the damn field for 6-7 years. And the ethics around it to be even more confusing. And I keep changing my mind regarding it. Personally? I think Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a violation and shouldn't have been done...but then again, maybe not. After all, is it a violation to just insert zombies into Austen's text? I don't know. The whole thing confuses me. And as much as it has always grated on my nerves that people make money reviewing and critiquing others works - as the Momster pointed out, isn't that what historians do? Isn't that a good thing? To which I responded...okay, I'm irritable and edgy and have been walking up and down the street all day long to go to the bathroom..I'm admittedly being a bit irrational about this. It's probably just annoyance that I too can't be lazily sitting on my duff making money off of meta. Actually it is a lot more work than that - you have to do marketing and shit. And who wants to do that?]

Sigh, I'll probably regret this post in the morning...

Doing the fannish history post has unfortunately brought back unpleasant memories ...we fought in fandom about dumb things on both lj and off. Seriously? Does it REALLY matter if your friend hates Joss Whedon or Spike or Angel or any of those characters with a passion? Isn't there another reason you liked them, (your friend not the characters)? If not, were you friends?

Fandom fights...mostly were about personality clashes. There were just a handful of people that I could not abide in fandom. They were usually the people who could not see a point of view other than their own no matter how many times you tried. Like arguing in a circle. Sort of like the Christian Right or the far Right and far Left in US politics. I'm RIGHT you are sooo very WRONG! You are clearly an idiot and let me start to educate you. And they'd be so SMUG about it. Let me paint the ways that you are wrong. (And sigh, I hate to admit this...but on some topics, such as same-sex marriage and gay rights, I'm just as didatic. I don't understand why people are against same-sex marriage. They have to be idiotic homophobes. There is just no other explanation! Damn it!)

See this is the problem with tv shows that are based on emotion. OR soap operas. The reason TV series like Supernatural, Buffy, Doctor Who (RT Davies - Who at any rate),
Daytime Soaps, Vamp Diaries, etc end up with such strong reactions is to a degree they are about emotion. They elicit strong emotions from the viewer, appeal to the non-rational mind, the gut. And we react to them from that part of ourselves.

I remember wanting to kill people online. Okay, maybe not kill, just kick them. ( Read more... )

This is a sort of apology, for being an emotional clod at times. Online. I know I piss people off. But they piss me off too. It seems to be the nature of human interaction, mutual pissing of each other off.