STOP SOPA NOW!!!!!

Think about your website....even if you don't have one, let's just say for now that you do....and a large portion of your users are Americans. They are allowed to post links and materials that go against the criteria of the Stop Online Piracy Act and then, since you "didn't do enough to stop it," your site winds up being blocked to American users.....Guess what that means? Your traffic plummets, your services get more expensive because you lost a large portion of your market which prompts the other users that are in other countries around the world (such as Russia, China, Japan, the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, etc) to slowly stop using your services because the prices increased. It means that you'd have to shut your site down. But why should you do that? Hmm? It's free enterprise, man! This law has the potential to shut down businesses that rely on the Internet because the American government would have the ability to block websites just because of either a few trolls or some people who want to be able to express what the feel or what they want to share but can't do it any other way.

This is why you must support this effort! >:O Petition the government, lobby Congress, do something to get them to WAKE THE FUCK UPso that they don't wind up screwing the country over even more than they already did! What is it, do they want to be China or something? If they want to be Chinese, why don't they just surrender the fuckin' country to fuckin' China?! It's tons easier, dammit!

Look, let's face it....there's a shitload of websites actually blacking themselves out in protest of SOPA and possibly PIPA.....this is the way that Congress is gonna kill the Internet! :O Really! I swear, half of the Internet's websites out there are gonna be down for a while....so that Congress has to decide which to kill: the bill or the Internet and markets that rely on it, especially in the entertainment industry. So.....help us out here, okay? We don't need this bullshit happening! We've got enough with the wars and everything, why add more to it?

I'm not sure which sites I wanna black out but for GOD'S SAKES......and everyone else's sanity, DON'T DO THIS TO US, CONGRESS!

In other news, I'll probably tell you more about my views of it when I do this radio show thing I'm trying to work on. X_x I'm hoping everyone listens in. Word of warning, I had set it to explicit, so I can curse freely without needing to censor myself. It's on BlogTalkRadio, for free, and I'm happy I could start one up....hopefully.

Hope you don't mind the annotations and stuff. I did put the wrong date in there: it's supposed to be the 21st, not 18th. Lol, just a mistake.

Anyways, working on a photoshoot, not getting kicked out (i have my apartment FINALLY....don't remember if I shared that with you guys yet....), aaaand other things. I'll let you know how it goes after the nukes of my world have hit and the fallout has settled.....

Chicago Public Radio--This American Life: "Ruining It for the Rest of Us"

I did it on the "Ruining it for the Rest of Us" episode because it sounded the most intriguing and somehow, i can relate: I feel like i was ruining it for the "rest of us" back in high school. So I can relate.

1: What do you think is the concept or question the episode focuses on? Is it a simply focus, or is the focus complicated and complex? How many smaller, branched-off, related questions are there? What are they?
The episode focuses on how one person can just ruin productivity, like one bad apple spoils the whole bunch that was for sale. And it is being seen in an experiment where a bunch of people work together in groups on a certain assignment but one person is the “bad apple” of the group and doesn’t help or contribute to the project. It also went over a very severe, serious case of “Bad Apple Syndrome” where a non-vaccinated child has contracted measles and started an outbreak, infecting people left and right all because the parents just chose not to vaccinate their child.

2: How was the "inquisitive spirit" of the speaker/searcher portrayed/demonstrated?
It was demonstrated by how each speaker started to explain each part of the story or experiment or something. Each speaker explored the topic they were talking about, and just went on and on, covering each aspect of the topic: how it started, the effects of the origin of whatever happened, etc. And the audio featured quite a bunch of interviews, exploring each and every side of the topic.

3: How -through what lenses/perspectives- is the concept or question considered/examined? How many viewpoints has this example been examined through? How can you see them (different voices/presenters/speakers/experiences)?
The concept is examined as though these people want to know EVERYTHING about the topic of a bad apple ruining the rest of them. It has been examined through both sides, mostly through the eyes of the concerned parents who chose not to vaccine their child(ren). And I can see the different viewpoints through the different voices and the different presenters.....

4:Does the episode examine multiple aspects of the topic/concept/questions? Do you feel that the writing was trying to make a case, or persuade, or simply explore the topic/concept/questions? Was it all told as a narrative, or were there some instances of hard data gathering?
The episode did examine multiple aspects of the topic and asked good questions about the issue. It provided a very clear example of a "bad apple" spoiling the rest, with the measles outbreak of so many years ago. And it was all told as a narrative that explores the topic, with some data gathering--not too hard data gathering, but enough to present the information and tell the stories.

God, I love this audio! And Mike Birbiglia was on there! Yay! I just saw him last week! He's awesome! I recommend seeing him!