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• On the post: Just As Ecuador Grants Asylum To Assange, It Prepares To Extradite Blogger For Exposing Corruption

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 02:12pm

  benevolent gov't

  Kinda makes you wonder if there are any reasonable governments out there.

  
  Uhmm... No, it doesn't. Reasonable governments are like aliens. People say they're out there but I haven't seen any evidence of them.

• On the post: Just As Ecuador Grants Asylum To Assange, It Prepares To Extradite Blogger For Exposing Corruption

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 02:12pm

  benevolent gov't

  Kinda makes you wonder if there are any reasonable governments out there.

  
  Uhmm... No, it doesn't. Reasonable governments are like aliens. People say they're out there but I haven't seen any evidence of them.

• On the post: Just As Ecuador Grants Asylum To Assange, It Prepares To Extradite Blogger For Exposing Corruption

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 02:12pm

  benevolent gov't

  Kinda makes you wonder if there are any reasonable governments out there.

  
  Uhmm... No, it doesn't. Reasonable governments are like aliens. People say they're out there but I haven't seen any evidence of them.

• On the post: Beck Needs Your Help To Hear To His Next Release, An Album Of Sheet Music

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 06:38am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I'm 34 going on 18 and I still got that reference. How sad/groovy is that?

• On the post: Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube To Stifle Speech

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 10:59am

  Re:

  Woooshhhhh! Hear that? That is the sound of you missing the point. Not to mention not bothering to read the post to the end.

• On the post: Would US Education Be Better If We Replaced Algebra Requirements With Stats & Logic?

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 06:10am

  Personally, I think another solution here would be to strenthen the school science requirements and start teaching it earlier as they do in Russia, China, Japan, and some other countries. Teaching something like algebra at an earlier age (in former Soviet Union algebra was being taught starting at grade 4 (10-yr olds)) would be far more beneficial. Younger minds seem to be able to conceptually understand things much bettert than hormone-ravaged teenagers.

• On the post: Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down?

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 08:15am

  Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest?

  This is ridiculous. There's no conflict of interest here. The judge has expressed an opinion. It is understood that judges have personal opinions, in fact they happen to share them during trials and decisions all the time. The job consists of making impartially decisions regarding the legal merits of cases. If, as a matter of fact, judges opinions precluded them from executing their duty, people like Casey Anthony, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, and many others would be behind bars.

• On the post: The Swedish Experiment: Spotify Helps Recording Industry Make Lots Of Money

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 11:45am

  Sorry to burst the bubble...

  As great as things like Spotify are, the problem with wide adoption that I foresee concerns data transmission limitations. One of the perks people in Europe, and especially Scandinavia, enjoy are low mobile rates, including data. That means things can be streamed almost everywhere. With the high cost of data in US and even higher in Canada, not to mention the constant back and forth on UBB, adoption of the streaming service won't be as fast and wide as in other places.

• On the post: Rewind: Mexico Surprises Everyone, Signs ACTA

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 10:43am

  El Presidente nuevo

  Probably has something to do with the new president whose wife is a telenovela actress. And I'm sure he loves her enough (unless it's true that he also uses her as a punching bag) to arrange to have ACTA signed by using previous presidential appointee as the trigger man.

• On the post: Google Is To Pink Slime As Apples Are To Airplanes

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2012 @ 07:18am

  Diagnosis

  I've now read this paragraph a dozen times. And my only conclusion is the person who wrote it has never used Google[...]

  
  I've read that paragraph several times as well and my conclusion, considering how much sense he's making, is the person who wrote it is having a stroke.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Are Animals Getting Smarter?

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 05:34pm

  Raccoons are the next evolution of sentient life on Earth...

  I once got outsmarted by a raccoon... The furry fucker created a diversion and while I was checking out what was happening with my tent, he/she stole my bread and nearly ruined my dinner. I threw my axe at it. Missed. :-(

• On the post: Funnyjunk's Lawyer, Charles Carreon, Continues To Lash Out: Accuses Matt Inman Of 'Instigating Security Attacks'

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2012 @ 12:23pm

  Lawyers, eh?

  Insert a bad lawyer joke here. Oh, wait! There are no bad jokes about lawyers.

• On the post: Red Green Show Thrives Thanks To The Internet And A Whole Lot Of Duct Tape

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2012 @ 06:14am

  I'm a believer

  Wow... Red Green Show on Techdirt... There is a god! :-)

• On the post: Australian Gov't Chooses 'Consumer Advocate' For Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings: The Chairman Of The Copyright Council

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 01:24pm

  Wait, what?

  Uhm... this is kind of like having Scott Walker represent the interests of unionised labour during a secret meeting with the Koch brothers.

• On the post: UK Tabloid Known For Publishing Naked Photos Complains About The Harm Of Porn Online

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 07:58am

  "Nobody is addicted to porn. Just tell the truth: you're addicted to masturbating. Saying you're addicted to porn is like saying you're addicted to burning rolling papers."
  Trevor White, comedian.

• On the post: London 2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal For Cluelessness By Banning Video And Photo Uploads To Social Media During Games

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 11:10am

  Stupidity reigns

  Seriously, none of this is a big surprise although the people running London 2012 might be particularly clueless. I mean these are the folks who wanted Keith Moon to play at the ceremony. Ya know.. that Keith Moon... from The Who... the one that's been dead for 34 years...
  
  http://gulfnews.com/news/world/uk/london-2012-organisers-wanted-keith-moon-to-play-1.1011094

• On the post: Paramount's Post-SOPA 'Outreach' To Law Students About 'Content Theft' Still Shows An Out Of Touch Operation

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2012 @ 06:51am

  What about minors?

  I'm not sure where Lionsgate fits in the majors vs indie scale but they released this little movie recently called "The Hunger Games"? So far it grossed (in theaters only) almost 60 times it's budget. Plus they also made bunch of other films... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lionsgate_films)

• On the post: National Highway Transportation Safety Agency Says You Can Keep Your GPS — As Long As It's Completely Useless

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 10:27am

  New rule

  NHTSA-approved GPS devices will now come with the obligatory "Oops! Missed your turn!" voice advisory. So not to distract the driver of the vehicle, all the advisories will be put in a queue; they will sound continuously in a row once the car becomes immobile and until the queue is emptied.

• On the post: AMC Defies MPAA Bullies: Will Show Unrated Documentary To Kids With Permission Slips

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2012 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Re: I'm not much of a movie guy...

  Ditto...

• On the post: Why You Can't Have A Tacocopter Drone Deliver You A Taco For Lunch Today

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2012 @ 12:00pm

  Think of the children!

  But... but... the children! Think of the children! How will they learn about life if theu won't be able to deliver pizzas anymore???

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