http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1239 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:38:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1239
"...I have a point about Mike..."

So, you want to make it personal, but don't like it getting personal?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1225 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1225
"These particular proposals are available publicly, so I don't really get the question."

Me too neither.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3773 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:13:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3773
Ensuring people of the same sex can kiss in public or get married is more important than ending the war on drugs.

How many people have been killed because they were gay? For all time.

How many people killed in the last ten years due to the war on drugs?

Priorities. What the hell is that? Shhhh! (Insert sport) game is about to start.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3126 Wed, 15 May 2013 15:27:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3126
Animals do it.

"More worrying is that you identify homosexuality as being a physical act, rather than the emotional and spiritual attachment that is actually what it's about, as it is with any healthy relationship."

Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender.

Let me know when I can legally have more than one wife here in Canada where we have had same sex marriages for some time now. Well, not that long, but long enough that they are already getting divorced.

Otherwise, how can you be married and be bi-sexual?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18341622994/cispa-sponsor-mike-rogers-may-go-to-lead-fbi.shtml#c213 Wed, 15 May 2013 07:48:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18341622994/cispa-sponsor-mike-rogers-may-go-to-lead-fbi.shtml#c213
Good luck!

Too many people want the shiny new thing and take loans to get it. They are afraid of losing even one shiny thing and will not rock the boat to preserve it.

It will need to get much worse before change comes about.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/01371723077/saudi-arabian-telco-asks-pro-privacy-researcher-to-help-them-spy-citizens-hilarity-then-seriousness-ensues.shtml#c176 Wed, 15 May 2013 07:41:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/01371723077/saudi-arabian-telco-asks-pro-privacy-researcher-to-help-them-spy-citizens-hilarity-then-seriousness-ensues.shtml#c176 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1460 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:51:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1460 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1451]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1451 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:49:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1451
Holy old sheep shit. I hope no one finds out I just planted some potato beans I had originally bought to eat.

Next up, General Motors declines licensing of off road use for THEIR four wheel drive trucks. "We did not invest billions of dollars for some redneck to get OUR truck stuck in the bog."]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1242 Tue, 14 May 2013 07:26:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml#c1242 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130511/02014623044/politicians-car-dealers-trying-to-make-it-illegal-to-buy-tesla-north-carolina.shtml#c816 Tue, 14 May 2013 06:40:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130511/02014623044/politicians-car-dealers-trying-to-make-it-illegal-to-buy-tesla-north-carolina.shtml#c816
Must have been a Monday.

"If I can sell this old heap for a couple of grand, I shall buy a new car!"]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/12410823035/john-steele-im-just-business-development-guy-who-has-nothing-to-do-with-these-lawsuits.shtml#c430 Mon, 13 May 2013 02:44:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/12410823035/john-steele-im-just-business-development-guy-who-has-nothing-to-do-with-these-lawsuits.shtml#c430

For his clients, it isn't.

When reading his statements, you need to try to guess on whose behalf he is speaking.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/11070923022/psa-to-parents-step-1-after-your-child-is-shot-is-not-checking-webmd.shtml#c1062 Sun, 12 May 2013 04:23:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/11070923022/psa-to-parents-step-1-after-your-child-is-shot-is-not-checking-webmd.shtml#c1062
Most likely looking for the "fn" key on her towers keyboard.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/16334523008/eric-holder-answers-question-about-kim-dotcom-prosecution.shtml#c1715 Sat, 11 May 2013 18:14:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/16334523008/eric-holder-answers-question-about-kim-dotcom-prosecution.shtml#c1715 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130509/18162523030/there-is-no-logic-to-argument-that-zach-braff-shouldnt-use-kickstarter.shtml#c1034 Sat, 11 May 2013 17:52:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130509/18162523030/there-is-no-logic-to-argument-that-zach-braff-shouldnt-use-kickstarter.shtml#c1034
You aren't off, he is.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130423/11095922808/oxycontin-art-evergreening.shtml#c592 Fri, 3 May 2013 17:18:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130423/11095922808/oxycontin-art-evergreening.shtml#c592
It has been a dangerous drug on the streets for fourteen years, yet just as that patent is set to expire, they all of a sudden have a new formula that makes it still safe to use? Yea, right.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/13095122892/frankencows-complete-misunderstanding-science.shtml#c1323 Fri, 3 May 2013 04:48:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/13095122892/frankencows-complete-misunderstanding-science.shtml#c1323 FTFY]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/14134922855/jaron-lanier-gobbledygook-economics.shtml#c2010 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:44:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/14134922855/jaron-lanier-gobbledygook-economics.shtml#c2010
Goodwill, for example, can increase wealth without an increase in profit. Any expenses to achieve the goodwill may reduce profits.

In this context, wealth is long-term while profits are short-term.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130426/23024222858/awesome-stuff-refining-wheel.shtml#c134 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:36:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130426/23024222858/awesome-stuff-refining-wheel.shtml#c134 "Awesome" stuff?

Like, couldn't we, like, find a like like word that was,like, less used than "like." That would, like, be, like, awesome like, man.

Or like at least like change it to like:

Ahh! Some stuff.


"No.7 Awesome

Are we stuck in the '80s?"
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-most-overused-words_7.html

http://www.squidoo.com/commonly-overused-words



Or should we like just go with like:
OMG! WTF! LOL!
That would be like QL.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/16513122731/if-everything-is-threat-then-nothing-is.shtml#c950 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:31:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/16513122731/if-everything-is-threat-then-nothing-is.shtml#c950 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130409/08525322632/did-stephen-colbert-president-bill-clinton-violate-cfaa.shtml#c977 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:30:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130409/08525322632/did-stephen-colbert-president-bill-clinton-violate-cfaa.shtml#c977