#blocking

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#church #religion #stands #sun

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims. ↗

— Robert Iler

#avenue #being #being there #blocking #escape

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#begins #blocking #ends #his #man

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#exist #find #football #game #only

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#blocking #gulf #gulf war #humanitarian #iraqis

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#affordable #affordable health care #always #american #american economy