"We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph!"
And I sit here, on election night, and see all of these time and effort that winds up being absolutely fucking wasted on litigation instead of innovation and say to myself only... "What if?"...
Que discrediting of the report because people just "feel" that it is wrong, and don't you "just know" that it is a nefarious plot!?
After all, nothing goes further in this world than the feelings of politicians... Especially when they "feel" the need to get re-elected or appease their lobbyists... You just have to enjoy the "feel" of a good back scratching...
I usually wait a few weeks after the game came out and check youtube for some let's play type videos and see what I think of the game and go from there. I bought Wolfenstein (2009) thanks to doing this, and I absolutely loved it.
"But how will studios compete without being able to produce $100 million dollar games, Pirate Knight! Without shitty studio games with loads of bugs and hordes of DRM and DLC, how can the studios expect to recoup their costs they spent on creating DRM and DLC instead of shipping a product that worked!?
...Maybe we just need to charge for bug fixes. Yeah, that's it! You have to pay for perfection, right!
Somebody write me up a patent! And trademark the sentence before the last! And let's extend copyright while we're at it, for the sake of the newly owned Mickey Mouse Star Wars franchise!"
(I realize after typing this joke post that it seems slightly tangential... But it truly is a commentary on thinking outside the box.)
It is amazing, for all the "time" the 24-hour networks have, they sure as hell don't seem to have any time to do in-depth reporting on hard hitting issues that require real journalism.
Instead let's show...
"LIVE car chases! LIVE weather reports! LIVE... cats and dogs! Awwww, isn't that cute? What, follow the money, that takes time and effort we don't have -- there's cats and dogs to film, for cripes sake!"
5 minutes worth of news for every 2 hours worth of commentary on the 24-hour news networks, IMO.
This was my first thought, as well. Plus, I've already had paranoid thoughts of "what happens if I am doing an absolutely legal thing when the lights change, but they snap my picture and give me a ticket anyway -- how can I fight it!?". I'm sure more people would rather pay their ticket than fight against the brick wall of abuse of authority (all in the name of "money", errr... I mean "protection"...).
On the post: Cybersecurity Bill Fails To Move Forward In The Senate (Again)
Blazing Saddles
*flash forward to after cloture vote failed*
"I didn't get a 'harrumph' out of that guy!"
*repeat the above, ad infinitum*
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On the post: University Reprimands Reporter For Livetweeting Basketball Game
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It's almost as bad as the "professional" video game reviewers...
On the post: 'Revenge Porn' Site Owners Escalate Their Failure, Going From Bogus DMCA Notices To Bogus Legal Threats
Slightly modified yet appropriate movie quote time...
On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure
So if Blizzard gets nailed for this, it will be the most back-asswards precedent EVER.
On the post: Maybe Internet Polls Aren't So Bad After All
lol
On the post: Harry Reid Wants To Try One More Time To Force Cybersecurity Bill Through Congress
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On the post: AT&T Admits That The Whole 'Spectrum Crunch' Argument It Made For Why It Needed T-Mobile Wasn't True
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On the post: $6.6 Million Ruling Against Lyrics Site, Once Again, Shows How Short Sighted Music Industry Is
This pisses me off.
1) Buy actual CD
2) Find out shitty insert has barely any liner notes or lyrics in it.
3) Look them up online
OR
1) Hear song on the radio
2) Look up phrase that catches my attention
3) Figure out song to check our more from said artist
But hey, if they want to keep fucking themselves, I'll just stick to the "rivers and the streams" that I'm used to...
On the post: End Of Bogus Trademark Lawsuits Over AdWords In Sight
Re: Ugh...
On the post: End Of Bogus Trademark Lawsuits Over AdWords In Sight
Ugh...
On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce
Re: Oh, I get it: content owners must stay in US and play fair...
On the post: Any Hint Of Evidence Based Copyright In The UK Seen As Nefarous Plot By Parliamentary Copyright Maximalists
Re: Unfortunately
After all, nothing goes further in this world than the feelings of politicians... Especially when they "feel" the need to get re-elected or appease their lobbyists... You just have to enjoy the "feel" of a good back scratching...
On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce
Wow...
1) grep the internet
2) don't filter the results
3) issue and affirm takedowns
4) ?????
5) piracy stopped
On the post: Making Sure Players Get The Best Experience Is More Important Than Worrying About How They Got The Game
Also...
On the post: How Being Very Transparent May Have Saved A 'Failed' Kickstarter Project
Nice...
...Maybe we just need to charge for bug fixes. Yeah, that's it! You have to pay for perfection, right!
Somebody write me up a patent! And trademark the sentence before the last! And let's extend copyright while we're at it, for the sake of the newly owned Mickey Mouse Star Wars franchise!"
(I realize after typing this joke post that it seems slightly tangential... But it truly is a commentary on thinking outside the box.)
On the post: CNN Counts Patents, Mistakes Them For Inventiveness
Re: Re: CNN Logic
Instead let's show...
"LIVE car chases! LIVE weather reports! LIVE... cats and dogs! Awwww, isn't that cute? What, follow the money, that takes time and effort we don't have -- there's cats and dogs to film, for cripes sake!"
5 minutes worth of news for every 2 hours worth of commentary on the 24-hour news networks, IMO.
On the post: Why DC And Silicon Valley Don't Mix Well
Re: Re: The mindset is just different
"HEY, I DIDN'T GET A HARUMPF OUT OF THAT GUY!"
On the post: The 'Final' Sony PS3 Hack
Well...
Apparently they like their hardware platform more than they care about their customer's data, lol.
On the post: Sticking It To The (Camera) Man: Inventor Develops License Plate Frame That Defeats Red Light Cameras
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