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  • On the post: MA Teen Arrested And Held Without Bail For Posting Supposed 'Terrorist Threat' On Facebook

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 03 May, 2013 @ 01:35pm

    Not to be completely off topic...

    but what is the deal lately with people misusing defused/diffused? And yes, I know it's not Tim misusing it, it's the blotter. Probably should include a [sic] though.

    Administration working hand in hand with the Methuen Police Department, diffused the situation maintaining the best possible professional attitude.
    So they spread the situation out? Sound like that would make it worse!

    I'm not sure if I've just started noticing it, or if people have been doing it to try and avoid using the term "defused" since it's somewhat associated with bombs (Note: I am not threatening to bomb anything by including the word "bomb" in my post.)(Note 2: Same thing about the other 2 uses in the first note.)

    It's slowly approaching lose/loose levels of annoyance.

  • On the post: Key Players In Prenda Lawsuits Also Involved In Questionable 'Class Action' Objections

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 05:06pm

    Govern yourself accordingly.

    I think I've just found my new favorite way to tell my kids to behave.

  • On the post: Cablevision Files Antitrust Suit Against Viacom For Forced Bundling Of Crappy TV Channels

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2013 @ 04:37pm

    Sadly...

    Given the tripe that passes for programming MTV, I actually prefer MTV Hits (which *gasp* plays music videos most of the time) and VH1 Classic (because I have a minor addiction to old episodes of Pop-Up Video) to MTV or even MTV2, the channel created to play videos 24/7 when MTV gave it up...that turned into MTV Jr.

  • On the post: The Next eBook Evolution: Pay As You Read eBooks

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 06:52am

    Re:

    Speed reader? I see you hiding there, Loch Ness Monster...

  • On the post: Company Behind Adam & Eve Discovers Quickly That Courts Are Now Hip To Copyright Trolling

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 01:53pm

    "Mile High" Law Office

    While I'm sure this is a reference to doing business in Colorado, for the rest of the country it seems like this probably wasn't the best choice of business names...especially if one is going to litigate for a porn company.

    Or perhaps it's the perfect name and that was the plan all along...

  • On the post: Opera About Walt Disney Refused Permission To Use Disney Images

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 01:23pm

    Probably a stupid question but...

    It portrays Disney as a megalomaniac with McCarthyite, racist and misogynist tendencies

    If the play is already not portraying Disney in the greatest of lights, would it not make sense to then use pariodied, exaggerated versions of the characters in question? Leave them unnamed, so you don't have to worry about actually using the words "Mickey Mouse." It's been done before in a South Park episode.

    Or would that be too much of a risk that somebody with more money would decide to challenge parody use?

  • On the post: NYTimes Columnist Proves That Among Billions Of Tweets Some People Say Stuff You Don't Care About

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2012 @ 07:07pm

    Why leave it?

    I guess my question to the NYT would be why even leave the article up? It's not like there was a mistake in reporting on the story or some fact slip up, or that the story was super relevant to anything going on. It was a fluff piece that was, for all intents and purposes, totally made up. Dump it. Especially if they knew in advance and posted it anyway.

    I hope if they paid Cohen for the piece they politely (and forcefully) asked for their money back.

  • On the post: German Company Wants To Protect Its Use Of The '@' Sign: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 02:24pm

    Fun (and not really relevant) Fact

    The German word for the symbol @ is "die Klammeraffe", which roughly translates to "spider-monkey" or "bracket-monkey."

  • On the post: The Internet Didn't 'Kill' Carly Rae Jepsen's Career

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2012 @ 10:41am

    Re: I get knocked down...

    I find that Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" tends to do a good job of drowning out just about any horrid song stuck in your head.

    Now, the question of whether that's a good thing a bad thing is somewhat up for debate...

  • On the post: GoDaddy Receives Patent On 'Announcing A Domain Name Registration On A Social Website'

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 05:55am

    Holy Crap

    Really? They must hire some "special" folk at the patent office if they granted a patent on "announcing x on social medium y." I'd have to assume something like wedding announcements in a newspaper would be prior art, but maybe not since they're not domain name registrations and not "on the internet." Totally different, I guess.

    Good grief.

  • On the post: New Minister Of Culture In Brazil Brings Hope Of Return To Earlier Enlightened Copyright Policy

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2012 @ 06:00am

    Re:

    Oh Brazil, that poor, poor third world country. It's time 'Murica stepped in to help them out of the dark ages of rampant freedom.

    /s

  • On the post: GOP Platform May Include Internet Freedom Language… But Also Wants Crackdown On Internet Porn

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 09:42am

    Re:

    Obviously, as an elected representative with the responsibility to make laws, what better way to understand the greatly-in-need-of-being-legislated moral degradations facing society than to experience them first hand?

    What kind of representative would they be if they tried to outlaw giant boobs in your face without having first had said giant boobs in their face?

  • On the post: This T-Shirt Has Been Seized

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 12:37pm

    Re: Kind of Like the Shirt

    As (somewhat) common as the language is today, it would be kind of rough for the little kids and would probably not be acceptable for casual Friday. Though I admit, I am grossly tempted to pick one up anyway.

    Perhaps a future/alternate version could replace "Motherfucking" with "[REDACTED]", or just an asterisked version of the word?

  • On the post: Police Ticketing Informal Rideshare Participants Based On No Law, But To Protect Port Authority Revenue

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 02:03pm

    I guess my question would be is there any recourse after going to court to get the ticket dismissed? As someone else pointed out, you're out whatever your costs for that day were just to fight a ticket you shouldn't have gotten in the first place. If you win, can you counter-sue for harassment or something? Not that I'm a big proponent of encouraging lawsuits, but maybe getting slapped back harder a few times would make someone in power wake up and look for a solution.

    Sadly, said solution would probably be to make it actually be illegal, raise the fine tenfold, and give any agent who gives out a ticket a $10K bonus for a job well done.

  • On the post: Hollywood Bending Over Backwards To Appease China

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 01:38pm

    Homefront

    Wait, changing China to North Korea now makes this a movie version of the video game "Homefront," right?

    So does that mean Hollywood gets sued? Or maybe they can market it as not a remake? I mean, come on, nobody really played that game anyway.

    Genius!

  • On the post: Rolling Stone Highlights FBI's Fascination With Staging Its Own Terrorist Plots… While Ignoring Real Threats

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 06:08pm

    Re: Re:

    I read it that way too the first time. This is one of those instances where punctuation really comes in handy.

    I'm assuming (ass, u, me, etc.) the line was intended to read:

    To paraphrase George W(ashington)., "God and the [C]onstituition give us liberty, arms in the hands of the people are the teeth."

    BTW, in the course of verifying it was Washington and not another George W, it appears the quote the paraphrase comes from is fake. Also there's no mention of God in any of the variations, so not sure where that came from. But enjoy some free enlightenment.

    Remember kids, punctuation is important.

    "Time to eat, kids!" vs "Time to eat kids!"

  • On the post: Disney Refused Invitation From Senator Feinstein To Meet With Tech Companies Over PIPA/SOPA

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 12:26pm

    Re:

    My best guess is this article from NPR (or at least one like it):

    http://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/145382877/wikipedia-editors-question-sites-24-hour-blackout

    I don't believe it says anything about Wikipedia losing editors, just that some of the editors question if Wikipedia is losing neutrality by participating in the blackout.

    Although really, it's kind of hard to be neutral when one side is basically getting permission to shut down your entire site (or at least large chunks of it) because somebody may have posted something that somebody didn't like.

  • On the post: Revolving Door: Sixteen Former Judiciary Committee Staff Are Lobbying Congress Concerning SOPA

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2011 @ 02:17pm

    Re: Re: Re: S M E A R

    "...he rarely if even [sic] intentionally breaks the law."

    But isn't that one of the (many) major problems with SOPA/PIPA? Intent doesn't matter. Hell, guilt doesn't seem to matter, so why would intent.

  • On the post: Insurers Suggest Podium & Stage Collapse Tragedies Are The Inevitable Result Of File Sharing?

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2011 @ 11:46am

    Re:

    My French skills are a bit rusty (and I know it's being nitpicky), but last I checked (and no offense since the original had the same error) "70" translates roughly to "seventy", not eighty.

  • On the post: Could The Supreme Court Invalidate Software Patents?

    Not That Chris ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 02:56pm

    Re: Re:

    Or perhaps John Cusack?

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