http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c216 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:43:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c216
It is similar to the situation of a soldier, who knows that he must do evil to do his job, and that the evil is not fully cancelled by the higher purpose of the war, even though that purpose greatly outweighs the evil that he does. He takes the guilt on himself and this is his service.

I don't think Ron Paul meant it this way, though.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c2 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:41:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c2
Detective Shannon Todd needs to be fired for incompetence.

Mistaking a phone for a gun = fail.
Not responding to what you believe to be a gun in an appropriate manner = fail.

Off topic:]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c439 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:38:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c439 "President Obama needs to realize that the only reason he is in office is because many consider him the lesser of two evils."

When the only candidates that have a chance of getting elected are Satan and Sauron, what does that say about the state of your nation?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c12 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:34:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c12
Winner!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c211 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:27:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c211
I have to say that yes, they have both made some mistakes, but they are one of the few in politics that have a decent track record of actually representing the interests of the PEOPLE instead of special interest groups.

To characterize them as lazy men of leisure is a gross mischaracterization.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c420 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:26:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c420
Two definition of doublethink from Wikipedia and 1984:

]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c396 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:25:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c396
We already have a guideline in the U.S. It's called the First Amendment.

What they're label as secret these days is doubly absurd.

It is no secret that every human has the same capacity for egregious error and moral turpitude. It has nothing to do with national security.

Opinion polls have nothing to do with national security.

Accountability as applied to our leaders has nothing to do with national security... with the exception of the fact that if we make accountability an impossibility, there is no national security.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c120 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:23:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c120 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c191 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:22:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c191 There is very little good in that Party and a World of Badness for the Common Man and most of all for the Nation as a whole.
Ron Paul is a sham.So is his son Rand Paul who Supports those Tax Loopholes like that ole Double Irish stuff, ETC.

Ron Paul even screws his own fans over.............LOL
At one time he wrote Bigot Anti-Semitic Stuff.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c251 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c251 need a college degree.

Unfortunately, most people are not that clever.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c376 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:10:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c376 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c184 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:09:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c184 Ricky D]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c172 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:09:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c172 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1107 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:07:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1107 They do not answer sensitive questions that would obliterate their weak trolling arguments.

The answer is an arbitrary combination of the following:
- They're getting paid to troll TD
- They're bored kids trolling for their amusement
- They hate TD/Mike passionately, so attack TD even if they know they're wrong.
- Believe in what they trot out, because.. well because they're just that fuckin' stupid]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/16293623190/district-attorney-major-tv-network-sued-over-stupid-reality-show.shtml#c164 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:03:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/16293623190/district-attorney-major-tv-network-sued-over-stupid-reality-show.shtml#c164
It's also been ruled that lawyers/etc can't work for free for a campaign doing their skilled work they charged $40+ dollars an hour to anyone else, as that's also 'gift' to the campaign.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c99 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:02:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c99
Cornyn, like you, has been severely duped or severely bought.

Nuts! These are dissemblings of large multinational invention thieves and their paid puppets.

]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c353 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:01:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c353 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c337 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:59:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c337 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c163 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:58:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c163 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c432 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:56:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c432