Use Your Rage For Good Not Evil

Heh.  John Oliver rocks.
http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/11042203.html

On Sunday night, he went on a 13-minute rant about net neutrality, ending with a plea to Internet commenters of the troll variety to "for once in your lives, focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction. Seize your moment, my lovely trolls!"

It appears they have. The FCC has received more than 45,000 comments on the net neutrality proposals since May 15. {...} Separately, the FCC says it's received 300,000 emails {...}, the next highest number of formal comments on an FCC measure is just under 2,000. {...} On the table is a proposal that opens the door for Internet service providers like Comcast and Time Warner to charge for "fast lanes" to the Internet {...}major tech companies like Google, Facebook and others have spoken out against this proposal, arguing for more protections for the Internet. More from Oliver:

"What's being proposed is so egregious that activists and corporations have been forced onto the same side. And you might wonder, if everyone is against this, how is it even possibly happening? ... The guy who used to run with the cable industry's lobbying arm is now tasked with the agency tasked with regulating it. That is the equivalent of needing a babysitter and hiring a dingo."

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Oliver's rant:  (Worth watching)

GOT Season 5 Book Departure Rumor

It's not in the book, but it sounds workable (and potentially more exciting.  Seriously, a siege was always going to be dead dull to watch (and could easily be handed over to pad out Brienne's plot for a little while).  Looking at where the books end (so far) and where the season ends, they'll have timeline coordination issues no matter what they do.  There's just precious little for some characters to do and a whole hell of a lot for others to do.)

With that said, I still wantJaime/Tyrion's aunt to show up).  Although, it may make more sense to let Uncle Kevan have that bit instead.

From Winteriscoming.net:

Season five casting is well under way, and it was only a matter of time before audition tapes began turning up.

The first audition to surface online this year is that of actress Tania Raymonde, reading for the role of Obara Sand. Obara is the eldest of Oberyn Martell’s daughters, known collectively as the Sand Snakes. According to the leaked casting call, the athletic Obara will be having a fight scene with a significant character.

The audition reading appears to be a scene between Obara and her sister Tyene. Tucked in details of the scene below the cut as they do contain spoilers.

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