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• On the post: Please Stop Trying To Argue That Netflix Should Be More Like Traditional Cable TV

  

  Zos ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2014 @ 06:20pm

  that;s a weird take on it.
  
  i specifically pay for netflix for two reasons- 1. cartoons on tap for the kids that i don't have to download myself
  and
  2. random channel surfing, for content outside of what i've specifically gone and gotten and already added to my home media server.
  
  basically netflix IS my channel surfing randomness.

• On the post: India Developing Additional National Surveillance System; US Has No Moral High Ground To Protest

  

  Zos ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 06:31am

  Re: Re:

  or they just go kick down a league of legends players door and arrest him for terroristic threats

• On the post: Irony: Local Patriot Group Fear-Mongers 'Foreign Hordes' By Using Bioshock Graphic Satirizing Racist Assholes

  

  Zos ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 06:40am

  i caught one of these too

  http://imgur.com/PwCKtDI
  
  
  screenie from facebook, local libertarian candidate posted a picture of a banner from infinite "A man creates, a parasite asks "where's my share"
  
  no one in thread apparently had any idea why it was ironic to use bioshock to prove the libertarian cause.

• On the post: Chicago Sandwich Shop Emails Employees On Dec. 23rd To Say Merry Christmas And You're All Fired

  

  Zos ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2013 @ 05:26pm

  look, sometimes i really wish you'd just go ahead and give us a live target. it's late, i'm tired, i just need a facebook page to go shit on, while i wait for the kids to go to sleep so we can play santa,

• On the post: Viral Satire Over Student Suspended For Saying 'Merry Christmas' Leads To Real Problems For Elementary School

  

  Zos ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2013 @ 01:40pm

  national report is gold lately, i see people falling for them about once a week.

• On the post: Red Light Cameras On The Decline, As Everyone Realizes They Don't Make Roads Safer, They Just Make Money

  

  Zos ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2013 @ 06:12am

  and yet the drug war is entering it's 5th decade

• On the post: How Not To Deal With Plagiarism

  

  Zos ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2013 @ 10:00pm

  really, PNAS?

• On the post: The IRS And SEC Want To Snoop Through Your Email Without A Warrant; Don't Let Them

  

  Zos ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 11:50am

  Re: Re: Google DOES! -- So STOP IT!

  just to be safe, bury your computer.

• On the post: Judge In No Fly Case Explains To DOJ That It Can't Claim Publicly Released Info Is Secret

  

  Zos ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 10:47am

  Re: Re:

  kenichi are you reading the same story as the rest of us?

• On the post: Judge In No Fly Case Explains To DOJ That It Can't Claim Publicly Released Info Is Secret

  

  Zos ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 09:50am

  loving seeing the DHS get a curbstomping from an unimpressed judge. bets on how long till they force him to recuse himself from the case?

• On the post: Trademarks, Beer, Vampires, Zombies… And Lawyers

  

  Zos ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 05:19pm

  Re:

  yeah, i half expected whedon to be suing someone over vampire slayer..

• On the post: Lessons Learned From Adam Lanza's Video Game Obsession: Blame Dance Dance Revolution

  

  Zos ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2013 @ 10:06am

  if we're judging people by their video game collection, mines way more violent than his, thank Satan you can't see my porn collection.

• On the post: If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong,' You're Wrong

  

  Zos ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2013 @ 05:13pm

  Re: Re:

  oh, but he's not black, so he's got nothing to worry about.

• On the post: Eric Schmidt Claims Google Considered Moving Its Servers Out Of The US To Avoid The NSA

  

  Zos ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2013 @ 08:20am

  if i had any servers inside us control i'd have moved them back when the mega raids when down personally.

• On the post: Sandy Hook Video Game Prompts Everyone To Get Everything Wrong

  

  Zos ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 01:28pm

  Re: You do realize..

  how did i know the very first comment would go ahead and say "fuck the point of the post, let's beat this stupid fucking horse some more"
  accompanied by a wall of text that no one gives a shit about because yes, we do all realize that. and we're also pretty sure that people right this very moment AREN'T being massacred in australia, which is why the AU was referenced in the post, not bloody stupid fashion regulations like we get here in the wake of tragedies.

• On the post: UK Conservative Party Decides To Memory Hole Its YouTube Presence As Well

  

  Zos ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 09:42am

  Re: Well, who the hell cares? Weren't checking on them before!

  why don't you get a blog. and write about it? and stay there, marinating in your asshole juices.

• On the post: UK Gov't: David Miranda Might Be A Terrorist Because Journalism Can Be Terrorism; Also: We Had No Idea He Was A Journalist

  

  Zos ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2013 @ 12:01pm

  its a UK court, so i'm not exactly holding my breath. i expect a gag order any day, with chaps from mi-6 coming by to hang little censor boxes on my monitor shortly after.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Zos ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2013 @ 01:05pm

  Re:

  so..volunteering is slavery?

• On the post: NSA Officials Livid That White House Is Pretending It Didn't Know About Spying On Foreign Leaders

  

  Zos ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2013 @ 03:15pm

  Means and methods

  I have no problem believing this one tbh, sources, methods, means, identifiers, all that are stripped from intelligence reports, long before they reach brass. That's rock bottom basics.
  most likely no one outside of operations had any idea just how far things had gone, but that takes nothing away from culpability for the conditions that allowed the over reaches in the first place.

• On the post: Infamous Viral 'Goblin Toppler' Video Taken Down In Copyright Claim

  

  Zos ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2013 @ 05:05pm

  Re: Re: Video BAD

  thanks mike

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