More than I should.
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baron_waste at “English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout”
From the Wikimedia Foundation
To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate – that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:
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Seriously, one of the articles I read talked about a nurse who had a $200 layaway for her four-year-old and random person paid off the last $70 she owed. Bloody hell, $130 is more than you need to spend on a four-year-old's Christmas even if she couldn't raise the last $70 - there was no reason she needed help buying her layaway. That $70 would have been much better spent buying toys for the Salvation Army's toy drive where there are volunteers who make sure the toys go where they are needed.
But I think this whole thing was started by K-Mart for publicity.
PS. There are probably people out there who wouldn't approve of the charities I give to, but for crying out loud. How do these people know they aren't throwing their money away?
- Mood:
annoyed
About Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice having sex. Because that's what
mosellegreen answered and now I can't think of anything else.
I considered doing NaNoWriMo for a full 30 seconds, too. I do have ticker envy sometimes, but my ticker would make me look pretty pathetic.
Anyway, this one seems to be different. I'm only on page 20, but it looks like D will be dealing with some of his own issues in this one. I'm actually looking forward to reading it.
And just for fun, here's an over-the-top purple-y description of D. This one introduces him as D after the purple-y fight scene.
"The wind had a fawning glow, for it had blown across the shadowy figure's face. Deep, dark eyes gleaming beneath the wide-brimmed traveler's had, the line of a nose that was sure to send tens of millions of artists into despair, lips that quietly brimmed with a will heavier than anyone would ever know-
The wind had a request. Tell me your name, it said." - from page 10
