Well folks, it looks like Hell has officially frozen over! Now, I like to lovingly pick on China a bit, but I’m actually pretty excited for them. Recently, the powers that be released a statement that they will be cracking down on pirated software, movies, music and knocked-off name brand products. This is huge! I mean, the joke is that China’s main export is bootleg dvds, but having an official policy to abolish it is an amazing step in the right direction! Maybe it’s because of foreign pressure or just the natural evolution of a nation, but it looks like a good move for the country. I guess this is just the beginning of a long line of political patches to hotfix some of the more prolific problems effecting many of the other countries (such as the ban on gold farming… err… attempted anyways).
So yeah, exciting stuff! Hopefully we can see some good coming out of this for all those IP holders who lose tons of money to pirating and counterfeiting. Then again, this might have some negative impacts due to the outlawing of the processes and thus, unemploying a potentially great number of people. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens, but if it all works out for the employees, then this will be a great move for the country in its growth and relation to it’s buddies. But I hope they don’t fix too many problems… gotta leave me a little something to make fun of! XD
Source: Variety
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I would make a commusm joke but i dont want to
offend anyone
I love chinease culture and the foos which is also why im excited for mists of pandara
what kind of communist doesn’t have a good sense of humor?! >)
All communists loved humor.
Too bad Stalin and Mayo exterminated them all.
The funniest thing about communism is what it actually is, and what people think it is.
The ideology is that people just share with each other and do not need any kind of governing to enforce that. So we don’t actually have any communist nations (unless I am ignorant of any, in which case I apologize) we have extremely socialistic governments (a dictatorship). Socialism is intended to be a transitional stage into communism, the government regulates until the people do it on their own. The problem is, dictators are surprisingly unwilling to relinquish control.
IMO, communism is only viable for really small nations, like delaware sized, where the dispersal is simpler than dealing with many millions.
In other news, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 played over the weekend so I finally saw them. Yes, I did only just now realize bad people cut my tail off; it’s tasty apparently?
yeah, that and a true democracy either. and basically, you can boil all governmental types down to just 1! I call it the “bunch of greedy a-holes” system of government.
this is true… but it’s not totally impossible! it would just take a VERY large central “resource delegation” organization to divvy it all up fairly… of course, that would never happen and my “bunch of greedy a-holes” thing starts to take effect… at its roots, it’s an interesting concept, but unfortunately the human element pretty much ruins any good that could have come of it.
ya know, I still have yet to see #3! very shameful, I know! >D
Anarchy - I mean true anarchy, not chaos or bullies dressed in the colors.
Anarchist really scare the bully boys and greedy shites - Occupy had them scared - they asked who their leader was and they said “nobody” and that had them poopin cinder-blocks.
Anarchism works through distributed responsibility and accountability. ie those around you are who keep you honest.
For geeks - think of it as the social version of a mesh network. Something needs to be done and those who can/have the time step up and get it done. Worked for barn raising and fire fighting in the past and should work to eliminate politicians and CEOs in the future.
anarchy is another one of those things that can’t really exist off paper. at some point, the human brain goes dumbtarded and decides it wants power, position, influence, or acclaim… which makes people fight to be higher in the pecking order. some Lord of the Flies stuff I tells you what.
Uhm yeah… I had this long winded joke about what I thought of the whole mess having to do with governments but I decided I would be better off taking Mark Twain’s sage advice… “It’s better to Seem like a dumb ass than it is to open your mouth and Prove it.”
Or there abouts… I Might have tweaked it just a Wee bit there. ;1
You could also go classical with ….. Man will truly be free when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest ….. or some such ….. in this day and age substitute Politician (Bureaucrats) and Corporatist (Banker/Lawyer/CEO)
ha! I love Twain! XD
oh man! baaazing! hmm… give that quote another few hundred years, Thrudd, and we can only imagine what the equivalents would be!