Sponsored Content




Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!



Recent Entries
Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022
Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me
Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups

NoVaMoMe 2024: 06/08/2024
Arlington, VA
Details to follow


Texas MoMe 2024: 10/18/2024-10/19/2024 Corsicana,TX
Contact Ben Had for info





















« Apple, Tree: Oliver Stone's Son Converts to Islam | Main | Top Headline Comments 2-15-12 »
February 14, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (2-14-2012)

Thanks to today's blog excitement tonight's ONT contain 29% fewer words.

State of the Internet 2012

Well we're still dealing with the DMCA which is primarily abused by businesses but most people lack the resources to fight back:

A study from Google indicated that 57% of all the claims it received were abuse by targeting a competing business, while 37% were simply not valid copyright claims. Dealing with these claims costs businesses working time and money, of course - probably more so than the infringing copyright would have cost the claimant anyway.

And then there's SOPA which despite its widespread unpopularity is merely on hold.

So basically the state of copyright protection vs. user rights is pretty much this:

steal_this_comic

And thanks to the Copyright Protection Act and further proposed laws it's unlikely that any work created after 1925 will ever be in the public domain.

625px-Copyright_term.svg_.png

So expect all the current online copyright issues to only get worse as the years go by.


General Government Debt as Percent of GDP by Country

Well we're still better off than Greece and certain African hellholes. So we got that going for us.

2108

Iowa-Hating U of I Professor Hiding Out, Shocked by Iowans' Reactions

And no doubt afraid of Iowahawk's sharp wit and the tiny club-fists of the Hawkeye hordes. It turns out that he had to really work hard to sell his Iowans in the Mist article:

"The story is going viral, so who knows where it'll stop. ... Ironically, I submitted this piece to AT LEAST 40 places before the Atlantic bit," Bloom wrote in an email to fellow UI professor Mark Blumberg. "I even agreed to cut it from 7,500 to 600 words for politico.com and after I did, they rejected it. Ha!"

In the article, Bloom described Iowa's Mississippi River towns as some of the scuzziest cities he's ever been to, and he depicted Iowa's rural residents as meth heads and "wasteoids" waiting to die.

2520077693321fab7ca62866bdd9131e

Forever Alone on Valentine's Day?

Well don't be too down - it could be a lot, lot worse. Plus you've got all your imaginary internet frenemies to play with here.

forever_alone_13

11 Months Later: Japan Then and Now

Some pretty amazing then and now photos of tsunami-damaged areas in Japan. You can tell a lot by whether a culture picks up trash and debris or just lets it sit around until covered up by natural forces.

article-2099811-11AF0567000005DC-584_966x1230

The Japan All-National Hole Digging Contest

Back when I was digging like a mole-man in our backyard little did my mother realize that I was just training for the Show:

Over a thousand people gathered on the outskirts of Tokyo, shovels and ladders in hand. Their goal: to dig their way to victory in the Japan All-National Hole Digging Competition, and claim the coveted Golden Shovel. The annual contest, now in its 12th year, drew 259 teams from around the country at the weekend to test their hole-digging prowess and claim awards for the deepest hole, the most creative hole and the most original costume worn during the digging.

Island Scandis So Inbred They Need a Website to Avoid Incest

Damn icebacks just can't keep themselves away from lutefisk and cousin-luvin':

Íslendingabók - meaning "book of Icelanders"-is an online incest avoidance search engine. Plug in your name and that of a potential mate, and the site searches a genealogical database to see how closely you're related. It's likely that you'll have some overlap many generations back-in which case you're probably safe from mutant children. But if you share great-grandparents, you might want to reconsider your Nordic hookup.

5p3ath

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. You know the way.

The Twitter - it's got electrolytes.

Tonight's post brought to you by John Wayne's passport:

tumblr_lvjim9QbJq1qaouuqo1_500

Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace.

digg this
posted by Maetenloch at 09:39 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
CharlieBrown'sDildo: "And eggs, of all things, are only up about 10-15%. ..."

William Hung: "> Speaking of mellifluous voices, can we get some ..."

"Perfessor" Squirrel: "Oh-oh-oh-yeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh! *my best approxim ..."

Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere [/i] [/b]: "[i]Goes to find clips of Lee Marvin speaking.... ..."

Lizzy[/i]: "> Speaking of mellifluous voices, can we get some ..."

Diogenes: "Speaking of mellifluous voices, can we get some lo ..."

Way, Way Downriver [/i][/b]: "@83 Both Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood were da ..."

L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too : "AAA: Gas Prices Continue to Climb in Pennsylvania ..."

Sam Kinison and Gilbert Gottfried: "Speaking of mellifluous voices, can we get some lo ..."

Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question: "Oh man. Clint Eastwood too! The original hottie. ..."

Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher: "252 Goes to find clips of Lee Marvin speaking.... ..."

Erebus-ex-killer whale: "I see that beautiful painting and think, " I need ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64