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• On the post: JD Salinger Sues Author For Writing A Sequel To 'The Catcher In The Rye'

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 12:17pm

  Hmm?

  Alternative question: given how many psychos, assassins and serial killers were found to have carried/owned "Catcher In The Rye", how has Jerome NOT been sued as the cause of those violent acts?
  
  How is "Cather" not yesterdays Marilyn Manson or GTA3?
  
  Oh, Jerome, now that you're back in the news, they're going to come for you...

• On the post: Disappointing: Obama Administration Won't Support Treaty For Helping Blind Get Digital Books

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Messiah

  Fair enough.
  
  Congeniality is fun...

• On the post: Disappointing: Obama Administration Won't Support Treaty For Helping Blind Get Digital Books

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 10:42am

  Re: Re: Re: The Messiah

  On the other hand, I also like Baen Books, so we have something in common! Yay!!!!

• On the post: Disappointing: Obama Administration Won't Support Treaty For Helping Blind Get Digital Books

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 10:40am

  Re: Re: Re: The Messiah

  "Tgeigs, you're still breathing. It's really more than you deserve."
  
  That's probably true.

• On the post: Another Court Ruling In Spain Finds Personal File Sharing To Be Legal

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 10:33am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Plus they're fairly certain you're a sheep-humping transvestite...

• On the post: Disappointing: Obama Administration Won't Support Treaty For Helping Blind Get Digital Books

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 09:11am

  Re: The Messiah

  "I thought Obama could help stop world hunger one stimulus "coupon" at a time, leap buildings without breaking a sweat and help the blind see"
  
  Well if Jesus would start pulling his weight around here and come back from his 2000 year break, he wouldn't have to.

• On the post: Disappointing: Obama Administration Won't Support Treaty For Helping Blind Get Digital Books

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 08:19am

  Re:

  "What could be more powerful than "do it for the blind children"?"
  
  Do it for the blind children's seeing eye puppy?
  
  Brought to you by Sarah Mcluaghlin and the world's most unwatchable commercial...

• On the post: Psion Gives Up Its Trademark Claim On 'Netbook'

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 06:26am

  Re: Really?

  Yeah, but with trademark, don't you have to have the product you're claiming trademark infringement on IN the marketplace?
  
  I might be wrong, I'm relatively ignorant on trademark.

• On the post: Another Court Ruling In Spain Finds Personal File Sharing To Be Legal

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 06:17am

  Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my file sharing. Prepare to die.

• On the post: No Smiling On Your Drivers License. It Makes Our Software Sad

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 06:12am

  Re: Re: Re: Uh....

  PSS, I'm just trying to make a few people laugh once in a while. I clearly have a funny-fail going...

• On the post: No Smiling On Your Drivers License. It Makes Our Software Sad

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2009 @ 06:44pm

  Re: Re: Uh....

  Listen, I've been to Virginia, and I can assure you that the wealth is NOT very common...

• On the post: No Smiling On Your Drivers License. It Makes Our Software Sad

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2009 @ 05:52pm

  Uh....

  "Arkansas, Indiana, Virginia, or Nevada are supposedly telling people they can no longer smile on their driver's license photos"
  
  In all honesty, have you been to any of those places? With the extremely unlikely but possible exception of Nevada, what the hell would any citizens of those states have to smile about anyway? I think it's actually a warning that anyone smiling is immediately considered suspicious...

• On the post: Do Morons In A Hurry Play Games On Their iPhones?

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2009 @ 02:56pm

  Mm hmm

  "Do Morons In A Hurry Play Games On Their iPhones?"
  
  ....Yes we do.

• On the post: Theater Ordered To Pay $10,000 For Searching Customers

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2009 @ 11:56am

  Re: Its about time

  "I would rather stay home and watch the games on my 70 inch HDTV. No a@$$ spilling beer on me and no idiot that saves up all year to go to home games."
  
  ....So you're a Cubs fan too, aren't you?

• On the post: Since When Is Driving With Infringing DVDs A Crime?

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2009 @ 06:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: possession is not a crime but...

  "If you're trying to deny that people are being held in Gitmo without charge than I think it is you who is making completely baseless statements. I'm not even going to bother to provide you with references to something which is so well known. What are you, some law enforcement propagandist troll?"
  
  While I don't necessarily agree w/its functionality and operation, the entire reason for the existence of Gitmo is/was that it WASN'T on US territory, and there WEREN'T US citizens there. Once you bring a prisoner into the States, they acquire all kinds of rights that the govt. didn't want them to have. Comparing them to the folks in the article seems a bit over the top.

• On the post: Newspaper Journalists Claiming TV Reporters Are 'Plagiarizing' The News

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Re: 5 Words Needed...

  I mean, okay, but...
  
  "1) Credit is given to the paper news reporter, thus providing credit for the person doing the real work."
  
  Example - serial killer A is caught by policeman X, who was interviewed by reporter B for a story researched and framed by producer Y, who had possible stories pre-filtered by assitants Q, R, and S, most of whom worked for news company Z, but the selling point of the story was the photograph of the dead body taken by freelance photographer C. I would argue that EVERYONE of the lettered entities above are the originator's and/or inspiration behind the "story", none moreso perhaps than serial killer A. Who gets credited? Where does it stop? Just the name of the paper? Because why shouldn't it be the rest? And what about the freelance photographer whose image ACTUALLY made the story popular, why doesn't he get a share of the credit?
  
  "2) Cover your behind from lawsuits due to shotty research. If you say "according to X", and X is a reputable source, then if X is actually wrong, you have no liability for what you had stated."
  
  Great, except that this would give news groups full license to repeat absolutely retarded "journalism" from really, really bad sources without liability. Of particular note is many hate group publications and tabloids and the like have EXTREMELY innocuous names. Take the Nat'l Star -- As originally reported by The Nat'l Star (and photographer C, etc. etc.), Oprah ate Steadman and than shat him into a bowl of fruit loops and at it. Here's an artists rendition of what that would've looked like...

• On the post: Newspapers Gather In Secret (With An Antitrust Lawyer) To Collude Over Paywalls

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 02:30pm

  Re:

  "Imagine how ignorant people would be if their only source of news was Techdirt."
  
  Even pretending for a moment that there weren't good news blogs that offer independently gathered information, I'll still take ignorant over purposefully misinformed, or do you think you actually get honest factual news from any major media source today?

• On the post: Since When Is Driving With Infringing DVDs A Crime?

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 01:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: possession is not a crime but...

  They can hold you for 48 hrs. w/o formally charging you, but they need a reason to detain in the first place...

• On the post: News Corp. Digital Boss Says Free Doesn't Work, Doesn't Bother To Explain How Pay Will Work

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 01:40pm

  "Digital Boss Says Free Doesn't Work"
  
  Well, I don't know who this lazy ass Free-guy is, but I would think it's up to the boss to fire him, no?

• On the post: News Corp. Digital Boss Says Free Doesn't Work, Doesn't Bother To Explain How Pay Will Work

  

  Tgeigs ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 01:35pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  "Pronunciation: 'valyoo"
  
  Huh, and here I've been pronouncing it "Val-way"...

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