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  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2018 @ 02:37am

    Re:

    Satire often takes the form if mimicking whoever you are mocking & amp it up to ridiculous levels. I'm a big fan of Tom Leher, the greatest satire singer ever. If you fail to see the mockery in his lyrics you you would conclude he hates blacks, he likes poisoning pigeons in the park, Praising Wernher von Braun for being a former Nazi who developed the rockets for the bombing of London, our military are all incompetent idiots, He loves hard core pornography, and many other horrendous viewpoints. Listening to his records you can hear the laughter from the audience so I don't think you could misunderstand but some automated bot would certainly flag him. Satirizing hate speech would have to contain some of that speech.

  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 09:05pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PaulT & Hugo S Cunningham

    Yeah, You're right. If I was going to start a nuclear war I would want more than 140 characters. If you want to know what Trump is tweeting, just watch Fox & Friends. He tweets about most things they say even before the show is over. Trump's approval ratings are dropping, but there are still millions of hard core supporters that will stay with him no matter how batshit crazy he gets.

  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 08:32am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PaulT & Hugo S Cunningham

    You must of misunderstood. I agree they can go anywhere but most will stay with the winner of the day. I fail to see the appeal of Twitter is. Every time I tried to express anything meaningful I'm out of characters when I'm barely started. Things get so spread around there, who can keep up with it. I've kept my friends on Facebook mostly to people I actually know. When I keep seeing a friend of a friend posting things I enjoy I will friend them. I don't needs thousands of followers. On Facebook I get a constant stream of friend requests from people I have no clue who they are or ever read one of their posts. They just get their rocks off on bragging how huge their lists are.

  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 06:17am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: PaulT & Hugo S Cunningham

    Like it or not, for now Facebook has a huge share of that type of social media. I had no problem with MySpace. Don't even know why Facebook managed to take over. How was it any better? All I know is most my friends quit using it & moved to Facebook. In a few years Facebook could be the Betamax & another giant will arise.

  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 04:50am

    Re: Re: PaulT & Hugo S Cunningham

    So where are Facebook users going to go? Resurrect the corpse of MySpace?

  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 04:44am

    Re: Rigorous enforcement good way to mobilize repeal of bad law

    Didn't think of that. That's actually a pretty good idea. Could mobilize a massive backlash.

  • On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 04:39am

    Rather than nuking accounts, why not just nuke service to Germany? I didn't think other countries could enforce any law on a US citizen.

  • On the post: Wireless Carriers Again Busted Collecting, Selling User Data Without Consent Or Opt Out Tools

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2017 @ 08:40am

    Another reason not to trust Windows 10

    So if these carriers can give you an "opt out" and go right on snooping? What if the 13 "privacy" screens in Windows 10 are just a facade and every extremely invasive default is still on (including your mike always being hot) and transmitting to Microsoft and god knows who else? I see nothing in the privacy agreement that lets you opt out of the part that you agree they can search your programs & private folders (looking for piracy?), read your emails & should they choose, rat you to law enforcement. That's why I am on Linux now took Windows 8.1 offline. I have some Windows programs I can't find replacements for. Some things are just easier to do in Windows. I know you can't never escape all snooping. It doesn't really bother me that I can buy an amp and when I go to Amazon the "items suggested for you" include speakers. I might want the speakers.
    http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2750361/microsoft-win-watch-report-police.html

  • On the post: Harvey Weinstein Tries Every Possible Response To Explosive NY Times Story

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2017 @ 01:29pm

    Lawyers are scumbags until you need one

    As my username says I'm an old geezer. In my youth I screwed up involving some recreational pharmaceutics and some stupid stuff I did while on them. Just misdemeanor crap, but that can still mean up to a year as a guest of the county. I didn't like the lawyer I hired much. He chewed my ass at everything I said. When my turn before the judge came and the prosecutor said "your honor, we would like this man to do some jail time to teach him a lesson" that lawyer gave the judge all the reasons I should get probation. I was glad I had done what he advised and was already in rehab and getting piss tested weekly. The judge hit me with a stiff fine but I got to go home. That was when I decided I kind of liked that asshole!

  • On the post: The Senate Is Close To Undermining The Internet By Pretending To 'Protect' The Children

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2017 @ 01:21pm

    I remember seeing a program years ago where a task force was monitoring Craig's list for underage girls. They already had warrants to ID the pimps and were busting them at the same time they were rescuing the kids. If you have ever watched To Catch a Predator you know how valuable these resources can be. These crimes against children are going to happen. These kind of laws will just make the bastards harder to catch.

  • On the post: Deputy Attorney General Trots Out All Sorts Of Silly Analogies About 'Intellectual Property'

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2017 @ 12:22pm

    Re: Re: Now here's what I couldn't get in after 10 tries:

    Glad to see you truly believe in free speech and make an effort to permit opposing views. Someone can post that is 100% head up their ass wrong, but as long as they are not in violation of terms you allow it! :)

  • On the post: Deputy Attorney General Trots Out All Sorts Of Silly Analogies About 'Intellectual Property'

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2017 @ 04:29pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Shouldn't flag a comment just because you dissagree

    Before I knew how the flagging was done I read a blocked post that was by a guy that usually wrote some pretty stupid drivel. This one was the exception. It not only was very insightful but I fully agreed with it. When I posted that the flag should be removed Mike replied that the staff has nothing to do with this process.

  • On the post: Deputy Attorney General Trots Out All Sorts Of Silly Analogies About 'Intellectual Property'

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2017 @ 02:12pm

    Re: Re: Shouldn't flag a comment just because you dissagree

    I wasn't aware of that, but I have replied to more than one post on an article saying some of the same ideas with no intention of spamming. I had just skimmed through the earlier posts. I clicked to show and at least it wasn't that numb nuts that keeps posting that Mike hates copyright.

  • On the post: Deputy Attorney General Trots Out All Sorts Of Silly Analogies About 'Intellectual Property'

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2017 @ 12:32pm

    Shouldn't flag a comment just because you dissagree

    While I didn't agree with any of this, the writer expressed his views coherently without being abusive. I thought this community promoted free speech. Many articles by the staff come out against efforts to stifle even offensive writings because well intentioned laws can backfire.

  • On the post: Why Protecting The Free Press Requires Protecting Trump's Tweets

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2017 @ 11:27am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    The electoral college made sense in colonial days. One reason it was put in place was there was so much inbreeding among royalty in the old world that a number of the old world monarchs were clearly insane. Don't know if it would have helped then since it didn't stop the nut case we have now even when he lost the popular vote.

  • On the post: Why Protecting The Free Press Requires Protecting Trump's Tweets

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2017 @ 11:16am

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    Senator Warren would have soundly kicked Trump's ass. This "inventor of email" is just as full of shit. Sounds like a publicity stunt. Maybe he thinks if he can also claim to be a congressional candidate that will help his bogus defamation suits.

  • On the post: Why Protecting The Free Press Requires Protecting Trump's Tweets

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2017 @ 01:20pm

    I don't think anything Trump tweets should be taken down. They are getting more bizarre all time and show his rapidly declining mental health. I don't want him impeached either. Pence or Paul Ryan could be worse. I just want him to be buried in so much scandal and lunacy that the republican agenda will be crippled. Don't you think a lot of republicans are aware we elected an idiot? At some point they will realize that if they ever want to be reelected they need to stop supporting him. Trump talks like he won by a landslide when he lost except for our archaic electoral system. If the democrats hadn't nominated a woman they should have known was widely hated Trump would have never stood a chance. If they wanted a female president, why not Elizabeth Warren?

  • On the post: New Cracking Group May Have Delivered Denuvo Its Death Blow

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2017 @ 04:05pm

    Re: Re: Key Generator: Possible Malware?

    "Er, and cracked game downloads haven't?"
    I guess you got me on that point!!

  • On the post: New Cracking Group May Have Delivered Denuvo Its Death Blow

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2017 @ 02:49pm

    Key Generator: Possible Malware?

    When it already an established that this DRM can be completely removed from games why would anyone even want to generate a key that is supposed to appear real? The most recent cracker to put out a DRM free game that had this protection revealed that the latest desperate attempts by Denuvo has ramped up the phoning home checks into millions in a matter of minutes. Supposing your key could pass, who would want the horribly degraded performance when they could just get it without DRM? Key generators have long been used to spread viruses and trojan horses. Why trust this one?

  • On the post: YouTuber Jailed In Singapore For Criticizing The Government Seeks Asylum In The US

    OldGeezer ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2016 @ 02:40pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    It's not someone's right to be granted asylum in this country. It's a special privilege we grant only in certain situations. To say there should be degrees in the law on porn from simple possession to sharing, selling, producing with no sexual acts, just how explicit the photos, I would have to agree. In the US it is not always illegal to photograph children nude within very strict limits. For the US to take a stand for someone persecuted just criticizing governments or religious reasons is what we are all about. Asylum is not a right. When someone is saying there is nothing wrong with child rape we have to consider the ramifications not only with our own people but internationally. People have been denied asylum over much more minor reasons. It's odd that the article failed to mention this. You can delete all the tweets you want but they will never be gone.

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