The Left Column

Politics for Poets

Black out the Internet?

Change the way DNS works?

What is the point of me making a stink about what the idiots in congress might try to do to the Internet. What Hollywood wants? More drugs. OK, I don't really know. But that seems to be what they want if you listen to the banter of so-called comedy movies these days. I actually enjoy a good seth Rogan movie when he's not out of character and trying to be super. Seth: you are super and we all love you so don't pretend to be something. You don't need to.

Wait a minute, Seth, on second thought: do a buddy movie with Joe Rogan. You can film it here in Massachusetts and I've even got a half a script for you if you want it. Oh, no. I'm shilling!

So let's not black out the internet. My content is what it is. I seek to violate no one. If I'm viewing images for my own purposes and saving ones that don't have copyrights on them are I not just saving bandwidth and am actually being green? That is the reason for caching. However when people set up a revenue stream and then suck into the storage of others, reaching into their cloud . . . and then create a business based upon stolen content then that needs to be stopped! But how do we do that?

Every little post, every seed that some place upon the Interwebs, those things exist despite the controlling-hand and their desire for ultimate rulership. The myth or, let me just say it, Conspriacy Theory of the situation is such that some believe that this new law is going to be the final snap of the key locking everyone in to a regressive world of Internuts and bolts muckified by the muckiest of mucky-mucks. They are out there and they want to run you and you can't stop them and you can run and the plane is chasing you through a corn field and these are your nightmares and they put them in you because you took too much B6 so your mind is running like a steam engine on high with the governor blown off of the thing and the throttle's stuck and the boiler is getting hotter -n - hotter and it's gonna bust . . .

But what ever those jack-a-nooners in Congrass do is what they will do. What they are bullied to do. So if they get it wrong and someone tries to declare sudden boss-level behaviors with evil demon poltical-vampire suddenly declaring he/she as god-head king like in N. Korea . . . as if that would happen here. And the armies of Silicon Valley are on the Californai bullet train heading south at full speed and the armies of LA , aka Holly-wierd, are on another train going in the other direction and it's all about California and how powerful they are and it's not about democracy or love or peace of rifle butts being used as a flower vase. No one was going to shoot the Hippy's. There was a re-write at the dream factory. There are no more nightmares. It's all good. Everyone really does hope for the best. The delusion of demon politics is just that. No one is trying to steal elections.

But we don't really know. In fact elections are fully cooked by the powerful. they set up the elaborate meth-headologies of how people vote and then they,themselves, pretending to be old innocent ladies in a leaugee (why they are not cross-gender I do not know), they oversea the cooking of the election. Oh, wait, that's yet another conspiracy theory.

so what is truth? What is fiction? Why does Hollywood need special protection? Why can't the government shut off malicious IP adresses when, clear, they are controlled by idiot hacker armies of cloned droad robot processes (and their very many HTTP connections). Oh, no, wait, more conspiragargle. Isn't there anything real anyway?

So now I've run out of time to do this. There isn't anything left. I have lead my dear readers into this philosophical barron shore-line in the gale place of the grand battle of the ubber-regulatoratti verses the no-we-got-it-all-and-we-aren't-sharing chorus of those who have built up empires on linked content. Maybe some of thse Hollywoozzies nneed a little shot in the arm from the giant venture money-whore cleptorations like Giggling all the way to the bank and Face-shcnook. The business model of both: anything good that anyone does we we have it and they will eventuall forget about it,die, or wahtever, and we will own it all. Muweee Hee hee.

oh how the active mind conjours! If they get it wrong they will fix it. So make a stink. Let them not force through a knee-jerk law that lets malicious fussy bullies have the ability to block out whole domains just based upon some small mistake link. Without courts. Without judges. Without any kind of warning. And during an election cycle? It just gives power to people who shouldn't have it.

But should government be allowed to set up and block whole domains and Internet adress blocks? You can do it for yourself by setting up a firewall. I would like to have a service where when I say, to me, block this nonsense. No more TCP packets from so-and-so university in so-and-so foriegn nation that is really really far away. If they want to ping me they get shot down at the router closest to them. End of the line. Then we don't have to fry the world by transmitting a globe away a stream of packets all the way around the world for a response that is going to be 'no'.

And also, if someone has valuble content, why can't they host it in a way with a new form of alterno-DNS where they really do have the control that they need for their content. They can recieve subscriptions for their content and they can be assured that it will only go where it is supposed to go and be viewed by those who have licensed it or paid for it. Most Internet content will not be like this. And the problem is that content can be relaid through a proxie to another place. adn maybe someone is using that university overseas to do some legitimate thing and I'm being a jerk by saying that they, these inquisitives, should be allowed to at least knock on my door.

And so, yes, I am all for people not stealing. And that people need to protect content. But I do not trust that they have really invented a special DNS, as Hollywood needs. And until they do, one that is only for content that costs money, then please, don't break everyone elses stuff just because you're a greed-head drug-adict content owner/venture money-whore based in Hollyvood. Oh, wait, more fantasy conspiracy crap. those hollywood people are all individuals and can't be stereo-typed. Didn't I learn anything in my divercity training awareness seminars?

OK, snark off!

I think I've blogged enough today.

Life goes on.

Jan 11, 2012

~ OK Now.

Have a cheer filled life!

January, February rain.
 
      I'm willing to bring it.
  But I'd like to take it out of the rain.
   and I'd like to stand in the light of the moon
      with you there too
   and hollar talk to the world
   how I feel about you
     and, in fact, I'm already doing that
       in my mind
   right out loud
     where no body else can hear!