{"id":2161,"date":"2008-05-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/yknow-what-floors-me\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:57:15","slug":"yknow-what-floors-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/08\/yknow-what-floors-me\/","title":{"rendered":"y&#8217;know what floors me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slyck.com\/story1686_MPAA_Defeats_TorrentSpy\">Some judge awarded a 110 million dollar verdict to the MPAA against Torrentspy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bypassing the legality issues of linking to content, as opposed to hosting it yourself, why does this drive me mad?<\/p>\n<p>That number is based on a formula of 30k per &#8220;act of infringement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The White House offered Burma a little over 3 million dollars in aid, after a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.physicstoday.org\/newspicks\/2008\/05\/cyclone_nargis_and_myanmar_flo.html\">Cyclone Nargis<\/a> tore through , and killed north of 20k people.  Estimates suggest that number may end up north of 100k.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the worst, 100k, that means the life of the average person killed  in the cyclone is worth about 30$. By Condi Rice &#038; co&#8217;s estimation.<\/p>\n<p>The total aid we gave pays for about 3 minutes of the Iraq war, calculated  using <a href=\"http:\/\/zfacts.com\/p\/447.html\">total cumulative cost to date<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not some fucking hemped out bleeding heart hippy.  Those numbers are totally fucked &#8211; on a human level.  Part of the motivating effort used to spin the mobilization of US military forces abroad was an incident that killed somewhere south of 3% of the people who died in Burma.<\/p>\n<p>The best movie in the world is not worth 1000 times the life of the worst human on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Days like today make me want to burn it all down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some judge awarded a 110 million dollar verdict to the MPAA against Torrentspy. Bypassing the legality issues of linking to content, as opposed to hosting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-angry","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}