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hitrecordjoe:

#TDKR
I would post this even if I weren’t in it.

And to quote the YouTuber who uploaded it…

Christopher Nolan also created a great movie called The Prestige… http://www.akkurtevdeneve.com

The Pledge (Batman Begins): Shows you something ordinary, asks you to inspect it to see if it is normal. But of course it isn’t.

The Turn (The Dark Knight): Takes the ordinary something and makes it extraordinary. But making something extraordinary isn’t enough.

The Prestige: Takes the extraordinary and flips it on its head. That’s why there has to be a third act, the hardest part. The Dark Knight Rises.”

hitrecordjoe:

#TDKR
I would post this even if I weren’t in it.

And to quote the YouTuber who uploaded it…

Christopher Nolan also created a great movie called The Prestige… http://www.cilingirservisi.com

The Pledge (Batman Begins): Shows you something ordinary, asks you to inspect it to see if it is normal. But of course it isn’t.

The Turn (The Dark Knight): Takes the ordinary something and makes it extraordinary. But making something extraordinary isn’t enough.

The Prestige: Takes the extraordinary and flips it on its head. That’s why there has to be a third act, the hardest part. The Dark Knight Rises.”

SOPA: So how much does it cost to buy off America's Internet freedom?

wilwheaton:

According to a report by the Knight-Batten Award-winning nonprofit MAPLight, the 32 sponsors of the bill received just under $2 million in campaign contributions from the movie, music, and TV entertainment industries.

To put that in perspective, this weekend’s box office take for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (you can’t make this stuff up) took in $23 million in just one weekend. So, for less than a tenth of the take from Alvin and the Chipmunks, our congress-critters have let themselves be influenced by a historically and unendingly regressive group of trade organizations.

By the way, if you calculate up the contributions the tech industry has made to these same 32 “lawmakers,” you’ll find the total to be $524,977 — one fourth the amount contributed by the entertainment industry.

Despite all the cries from tech experts throughout the United States, Congress is still doing its best to pass SOPA. Is there a correlation? Are our elected representatives paying four times more attention to the entertainment industry compared to us in technology? You be the judge.

tl;dr: A handful of congress-critters (Lamar Smith, Joe Baca, Howard Berman, Marsha Blackburn, Mary Bono Mack, John Carter, Steven Chabot, John Conyers, Jim Cooper, Elton Gallegly, Robert Goodlatte, Tim Holden, Peter King, John Larson, Adam Schiff, Brad Sherman, Lee Terry, Melvin Watt, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, John Barrow, Steve Scalise, Ben Luján, Judy Chu, William Owens, Karen Bass, Ted Deutch, Ben Quayle, Tim Griffin, Dennis Ross, Alan Nunnelee, Thomas Marino, and Mark Amodei.) took an average of $524,977 each from lobbyists to sponsor SOPA. Even though the people they represent overwhelmingly oppose SOPA and don’t want it to become law, they’re still doing everything they can to pass it, against the wishes of their constituents — who they supposedly represent — because it’s what they were paid off to do. http://www.hiperaktifdizayn.com

This is yet another reason we need a revolution in America. We need to burn it to the ground and start over, eliminating corporate money and lobbyists from the political process entirely.

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