Monday Session with Bishop

STOP ACTA & TPP

Stop ACTA & TPP! - Never use trade agreements to mess with the Internet!

They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them with our STOP SOPA/PIPA protests. But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP. If we can't stop these backroom deals, the internet's future belongs to SOPA's backers. DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SPREAD THE WORD, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, YELL FROM THE STREET CORNERS, ALL OF IT! You can start by using the form below to send a message. Get more detail from KILLACTA.org

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA's vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve 'a commercial scale' (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior ('aiding and abetting' art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the 'ACTA Committee' to 'propose amendments to [ACTA]' without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it's impossible to know what you're voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

Monday Session with Bishop

November 17, 2008

Well, Bishop doesn't have class, which means his name was thrown into the hat a couple more times! Noon to 3 on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield, Bishop will be live, streaming world wide at WMAY dot com.

A new flick out called Zach and Miriam Make a Porno shows the desperation people can have when funds are low and bills pile up. What would you do for money? Times are tight and money is hard to come by. With the Holiday season just around the corner, have you thought about getting a second or maybe a third job?

This guy ate 100 minnows and took a kick in the junk for 20 dollars!

A survey was released recently of the ugliest buildings from around the world, what do you think they are? We'll go through them, we will also find out what the ugliest buildings in Springfield are. View some of the architecture HERE .... Vote for what you think is the ugliest building in Springfield HERE.

Also, odd-ball news, video of the day, and what was the worst Christmas gift you have ever received ... or given?!?