On Thursday, April 26, 2012 09:33:39 PM Todd Lyons wrote: > It passed. It wasn't even close :-(
For those of us who didn't loudly tell our congresspeople why we didn't like it; we have no one to complain to but ourselves. For those of us who did: well, maybe it's time for a complete housecleaning. Personally I'd go for much better education compaigns; cyberspace is much too complicated to legislate as a knee-jerk reaction. On a lighter note, my understanding is that it passed the House but still needs to pass in the Senate before it goes to the President to be signed. On a heavier note: various reports in the press have said the President has promised to veto it, but it appears he has not. What appears to be true s that various advisors have said they'd advise him to veto it. The bill, with amendments, is actually complex enough so that I understand why the House felt they had to pass it (it passed with support from both parties, but had votes against it from both parties as well). Heck, as a hosting company owner, I can see why some hosters would want it passed as well. It's been a while since I read it in it's entirety, and I haven't read it since the amendments were recently tacked on. My bet is that housemembers didn't read it; they read reviews and summaries. Will it force some hosting companies out of business? Or to leave our shores? I honestly don't know. We already host in two other countries besides the US, but I honestly admit I don't know if as a US Citizen I must treat my offshore hosting as I do my US-based hosting. I also don't know if the law requires me to keep onerous data-retention (log- retention) requirements. If it does, then someone had better figure out how I (and others like me) can afford for those costs if/as incurred. In one of the 'Godfather' movies I remember the point made that those 'families' maintain their power at least partially by never telling anyone to do something they can't do; simply if they can't do it they won't, and that's the surest way to show them you really have no power at all. So if the government asks me to do something I literally can't do, then the government has to figure out what to do about their obvious lack of any power at all, when I don't do it simply because I can't. This has been a long post, and I understand it's not strictly on-topic for a Linux list, so I'll understand if it dies here. On a Linux-related note; it took me almost four hours to download Kubuntu 12.04 yesterday; I plan on trying it out over the weekend. Jeff -- Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
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