I hate censorship

[GinRei]

I mean, why do they even bother passing a law like that? :x

Because until the ruling comes, they can use the law.

[Callid]

I mean, why do they even bother passing a law like that? :x

Because until the ruling comes, they can use the law.

That is true, assuming the president (yes, Germany has a president!) signs it without asking the BVG first. Which, with the law violating GG 13 that clearly, isn't really all that likely. But yeah, if he does sign it and it is only successfully challenged later, they can use it in between - though I'm not quite sure why they'd want to do that. It's a highly sensitive topic (there's a reason CDU and SPD made a very swift 180°-turn on ACTA when protests started), and the last time it came up (i.e. ACTA), the Pirates got over 10% in polls. Oh, and the federal election is in four months... :x
I mean, if they had passed it a year from now, I could guess that was the reason, but now? That's a very risky gamble.

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The president has the right refuse to sign a law that's unconstitutional. In fact, there's some arguing that he mustn't sign an unconstitutional one. He could also sign it, but voice public concerns (these laws tend to not be enforced until confirmed by the BVG). Also, the opposition can (with 25%) directly request the BVG to examine a law at any time.

[kkslider5552000]

I'll be honest, I completely forgot about this thread until now.

[mangaluva]

CISPA's bouncing around right now, isn't it? I'm kind of expecting it to go the same way as ACTA and SOPA. It's invasive and unnecessary.

[Conan-chandesune]

CISPA's bouncing around right now, isn't it? I'm kind of expecting it to go the same way as ACTA and SOPA. It's invasive and unnecessary.

Exactly. The govt. can stop as many cyber-attacks as they want, (except the ones they themselves authorize). There is absolutely no need for it.

Edit 1: Check this out.
http://torrentfreak.com/united-states-f ... se-130505/

It states that

“When a person located abroad violates the laws of the United States, that person may be held criminally liable despite the fact that the person has never set foot in the United States.”

AKA every person and company in the world should comply with U.S. law. WTF?

[mangaluva]

CISPA's bouncing around right now, isn't it? I'm kind of expecting it to go the same way as ACTA and SOPA. It's invasive and unnecessary.

Exactly. The govt. can stop as many cyber-attacks as they want, (except the ones they themselves authorize). There is absolutely no need for it.

Edit 1: Check this out.
http://torrentfreak.com/united-states-f ... se-130505/

It states that

“When a person located abroad violates the laws of the United States, that person may be held criminally liable despite the fact that the person has never set foot in the United States.”

AKA every person and company in the world should comply with U.S. law. WTF?

Oh USA, your delusion that the world worships you and is dying to bow to your laws is adorable.

[Conan-chandesune]

Oh USA, your delusion that the world worships you and is dying to bow to your laws is adorable.

It would be to me too, if it didnt sound so desperate of them.

[Conan-chandesune]

http://torrentfreak.com/jail-terms-for- ... es-130512/

Think.

[sstimson]

Sorry about using this old topic, and I might get censored but still a few points

1)Telling someone not to do something, is a not a good idea if you truly do not want that done

If this is true for kids, it is true for most people

from Things to stop saying to your kids

Current research shows that some of the most commonly used and seemingly positive phrases we use with kids are actually quite destructive. Despite our good intentions, these statements teach children to stop trusting their internal guidance system, to become deceptive, to do as little as possible, and to give up when things get hard.

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“Stop it right now, or else!”

Threatening a child is almost never a good idea. First of all, you’re teaching them a skill you don’t really want them to have: the ability to use brute force or superior cunning to get what they want, even when the other person isn’t willing to cooperate. Secondly, you’re putting yourself in an awkward position in which you either have to follow through on your threats—exacting a punishment you threatened in the heat of your anger—or you can back down, teaching your child that your threats are meaningless. Either way, you’re not getting the result you want and you’re damaging your connection with your child.

While it can be difficult to resist the urge to threaten, try sharing vulnerably and redirecting to something more appropriate instead.“It’s NOT OK to hit your brother. I’m worried that he will get hurt, or he’ll retaliate and hurt you. If you’d like something to hit, you may hit a pillow, the couch or the bed.” By offering an alternative that is safer yet still allows the child to express her feelings you’re validating her emotions even as you set a clear boundary for her behavior. This will ultimately lead to better self-control and emotional wellbeing for your child.

From Getting People to do what you want

2. Established Behavior

The other way that you can use the Benjamin Franklin Effect is to establish behaviors between you and another person.

Remember, if you can get someone to do a thing once they’ll be a lot more likely to do it again.

Once you establish a certain pattern of behavior it becomes increasingly hard to break the more you do it.

This is also true for social dynamics.

Think of it this way:

The Benjamin Franklin Effect is a lot more effective when you use it on people that you don’t hang around too much, because with these people you have already established a strong social dynamic.

from Hard truth that will make you a better person

#1. Everything Inside You Will Fight Improvement

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The human mind is a miracle, and you will never see it spring more beautifully into action than when it is fighting against evidence that it needs to change. Your psyche is equipped with layer after layer of defense mechanisms designed to shoot down anything that might keep things from staying exactly where they are -- ask any addict.

So even now, some of you reading this are feeling your brain bombard you with knee-jerk reasons to reject it. From experience, I can say that these seem to come in the form of ...

*Intentionally Interpreting Any Criticism as an Insult

"Who is he to call me lazy and worthless! A good person would never talk to me like this! He wrote this whole thing just to feel superior to me and to make me feel bad about my life! I'm going to think up my own insult to even the score!"

*Focusing on the Messenger to Avoid Hearing the Message

"Who is THIS guy to tell ME how to live? Oh, like he's so high and mighty! It's just some dumb writer on the Internet! I'm going to go dig up something on him that reassures me that he's stupid, and that everything he's saying is stupid! This guy is so pretentious, it makes me puke! I watched his old rap video on YouTube and thought his rhymes sucked!"

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"When you get to where I am in life, you feel free to give me advice! Until then, you're nothing but meat and guesses."

*Focusing on the Tone to Avoid Hearing the Content

"I'm going to dig through here until I find a joke that is offensive when taken out of context, and then talk and think only about that! I've heard that a single offensive word can render an entire book invisible!"

*Revising Your Own History

"Things aren't so bad! I know that I was threatening suicide last month, but I'm feeling better now! It's entirely possible that if I just keep doing exactly what I'm doing, eventually things will work out! I'll get my big break, and if I keep doing favors for that pretty girl, eventually she'll come around!"

*Pretending That Any Self-Improvement Would Somehow Be Selling Out Your True Self

"Oh, so I guess I'm supposed to get rid of all of my manga and instead go to the gym for six hours a day and get a spray tan like those Jersey Shore douchebags? Because THAT IS THE ONLY OTHER OPTION."

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"Way to leave 'the hood' behind, asshole. New house or not, you'll always be white trash!"

And so on. Remember, misery is comfortable. It's why so many people prefer it. Happiness takes effort.

Also, courage. It's incredibly comforting to know that as long as you don't create anything in your life, then nobody can attack the thing you created.

It's so much easier to just sit back and criticize other people's creations. This movie is stupid. That couple's kids are brats. That other couple's relationship is a mess. That rich guy is shallow. This restaurant sucks. This Internet writer is an asshole. I'd better leave a mean comment demanding that the website fire him. See, I created something.

Oh, wait, did I forget to mention that part? Yeah, whatever you try to build or create -- be it a poem, or a new skill, or a new relationship -- you will find yourself immediately surrounded by non-creators who trash it. Maybe not to your face, but they'll do it. Your drunk friends do not want you to get sober. Your fat friends do not want you to start a fitness regimen. Your jobless friends do not want to see you embark on a career.

Just remember, they're only expressing their own fear, since trashing other people's work is another excuse to do nothing. "Why should I create anything when the things other people create suck? I would totally have written a novel by now, but I'm going to wait for something good, I don't want to write the next Twilight!" As long as they never produce anything, their work will forever be perfect and beyond reproach. Or if they do produce something, they'll make sure they do it with detached irony. They'll make it intentionally bad to make it clear to everyone else that this isn't their real effort. Their real effort would have been amazing. Not like the shit you made.

Read our article comments -- when they get nasty, it's always from the same angle: Cracked needs to fire this columnist. This asshole needs to stop writing. Don't make any more videos. It always boils down to "Stop creating. This is different from what I would have made, and the attention you're getting is making me feel bad about myself."

Don't be that person. If you are that person, don't be that person any more. This is what's making people hate you. This is what's making you hate yourself.

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What are you going to do with it? Hunt witches or kick off the Olympics?

So how about this: one year. The end of 2014, that's our deadline. Or a year from whenever you read this. While other people are telling you "Let's make a New Year's resolution to lose 15 pounds this year!" I'm going to say let's pledge to do hyping anything -- add any skill, any improvement to your human tool set, and get good enough at it to impress people. Don't ask me what -- hell, pick something at random if you don't know. Take a class in karate, or ballroom dancing, or pottery. Learn to bake. Build a birdhouse. Learn massage. Learn a programming language. Film a porno. Adopt a superhero persona and fight crime. Start a YouTube vlog. Write for Cracked.

But the key is, I don't want you to focus on something great that you're going to make happen to you ("I'm going to find a girlfriend, I'm going to make lots of money ..."). I want you to purely focus on giving yourself a skill that would make you ever so slightly more interesting and valuable to other people.

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"Holy shit, by learning Spanish, I just gained the ability to speak to 400 million people I previously couldn't."

"I don't have the money to take a cooking class." Then hyping Google "how to cook." They've even filtered out the porn now, it's easier than ever. Damn it, you have to kill those excuses. Or they will kill you.

If you want to make note of your project in the forum thread or the comments and check in this time next year, knock yourself out. I'll be curious to see if even one person actually does this, but if so we'll look back, not just on whether or not we actually followed through, but why. You have nothing to lose, and the world needs you. Here's a video of a corgi rolling down some stairs.

Dave is the executive editor of Cracked.com and the best-selling author of This Book is Full of Spiders, a ludicrous tale of horror that contains a 50-page preview of his upcoming novel in the paperback edition.

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