Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick. The RIAA just won't let it fucking lie will they. Now they want to pass the ACCOPS bill in the senate that would actually make file-swapping a jailable offence! Jailable offence! While criminals are free to rape, torture, mug, kill, murder, steal and rob, the Fed wants to send us to jail for swapping files! Get a fucking grip, people. The solution isn't to jail people. The solution is to make CDs that people want at a price that's right. Not CDs full of crap for 18 bucks where 90% of the money goes to the record company. The whole story is here.
The non-separation of the LDS church and Utah state.
Look - I understand that mormons think gays are somehow evil, subhumans. I understand that the LDS won't tolerate gays, doesn't like them and thus won't marry them. But for local government to overturn a supreme court ruling about gay marriage is taking it too far. This is religious persecution on a par with the dark ages. The church doesn't like gays, so it leans on its members in government to do everything possible to prevent them from having the basic rights afforded other couples who want to marry. In other words, the LDS church is forcing it's (wrong) opinion about the LGBT community on everyone, via state and local laws that it has had passed and enforced on its behalf. Why should non-religious people be forced to abide by the opinion of a religious cult that they have no affiliation with? Apart from anything else, the uber-conservatives in this state are always the first ones to bitch when something even slightly unconstitutional happens, yet here they are r...
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