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• On the post: NYPD Officer Takes Cash From Man During Stop-And-Frisk; Pepper Sprays Him When He Asks To Have It Returned

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2014 @ 01:22am

  Re: Re:

  Which interestingly was very similar advice I got growing up in Texas whenever we visited Mexico...

• On the post: Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random Pedestrians

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 01:10pm

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  Felony Interference with an Officials Negligent Discharge?
  
  Pretty sure that's a Federal thing under the Lewinski Act of 1998

• On the post: Feds Claim Phone Data It Scooped Up Doesn't Include Location Data, And Also [REDACTED]

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2013 @ 03:17pm

  Re: So, even if the NSA found a terrorist in the data they're collecting...

  Not entirely true, even without any location data you know all the TMobile numbers had to have been in one of the 3 place in the whole GD country where they get service...

• On the post: How Unlocking Your Phone May Now Be A Crime: $500,000 Fines And 5 Years In Prison For First Offense

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2013 @ 02:19pm

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  Actually the builders themselves are WAY ahead of you.
  
  http://www.zimmreed.com/Property-Transfer-Fees/34430/
  
  I hate when reality nut punches a good analogy...

• On the post: Yes, You've Got Something To Hide

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2013 @ 11:37am

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  > Wanna get a hooker to relax? Lawsuit.
  
  That suggests that maybe it shouldn't be a crime. Or should be regulated, taxed, licensed and with health checks. Eliminate street walkers offering this service.
  
  Not according to the Gun Debate logic... the reasonable action would be to outlaw marriage.

• On the post: NRA's Plan: If We Blame Video Games & Movies For Sandy Hook Massacre, Perhaps People Will Stop Blaming Guns

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2012 @ 10:40am

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  But dealing with stuff like that is hard...
  
  And anyway the press pic standing on the steps of Congress with the DSM-IV don't make you look nearly as tough.

• On the post: Intellectual Ventures Claims It's Misunderstood: It's Really Just Trying To Help Everyone Sift Through And Find Good Patents

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2012 @ 07:54am

  "they asked the company to give them any evidence of individual inventors helped along by IV"
  
  I'm not an inventor but IV, the TSA and Prenda Law have helped me immensely. I couldn't have hoped as much on my own that the Mayans were right...

• On the post: Another Politician Boards The Bandwagon: Sen. Rockefeller Blames Violent Games And Television For Newtown Tragedy

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2012 @ 12:03pm

  Re: Hate These Guys

  So basically your point is you're on board with pissing away the rights of the rest of us just as long as it's the ones you don't use?
  
  I'm gonna go ahead and try to keep ahold of all of them even if it means I keep having to hear about a couple of crap punk bands no one's ever heard of or likely cares about.
  
  SOMETHING IN ALL CAPS TO SHOW HOW MAD I AM (WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS)!!!

• On the post: London Police To Set Up Special Copyright Crime Police Force

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2012 @ 11:24am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Here here! Artists are people too...

  yawn... Here in the colonies we've been doing the bad law thing for decades.
  
  Wake me up when they hit the 21st century and start with their classified interpretations and secret courts...

• On the post: A Couple Videos About Our Crazy Patent System

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2012 @ 02:48pm

  Re: Re: Re: Fine, make some distinctions.

  Gosh, that's a great point since teams are never made up of natural persons.
  
  More importantly, even if they were there's no way you could assign a patent to multiple names. (I mean, for heaven's sake there's only one small section on the form)

• On the post: French Hadopi Scheme Gutted; Other Bad Ideas To Be Introduced Instead

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2012 @ 01:58pm

  [Lescure] strongly suggests that the graduated response will be abandoned
  
  While those dirty pirates might steal anything in French culture not nailed down at least they can never take their nation pride in giving up and retreating...

• On the post: Don't Promise $1 Million For Your Lost Laptop Via YouTube & Twitter If You're Not Prepared To Pay

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2012 @ 07:42am

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  The only way Leslie could of gotten out of this was to somehow prove that Augstein never knew about the reward in the first place.
  
  Or possibly buy an NHL team, that seems to work too.

• On the post: Obama Signs 'Whistleblower Protection Act' The Same Day That Whistleblower Bradley Manning Is In Court

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 02:25pm

  Re:

  Now twice as good as single standards....

• On the post: Scientist Refused Permission To Call Hominids 'Hobbits', Even Though Word First Used In Print In 1895 — And Not By Tolkien

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2012 @ 12:56pm

  Often as the scientific community gathers new information about a species items are discovered that require it be renamed...
  
  Should we all start marking up our textbook to change Homo floresiensis to something more accurate like Homo tolkienheirsarejackassesis?
  
  Just a thought...

• On the post: Charles Carreon Still Dishing Out Threats & Intimidation… While Hiding From Court Summons

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2012 @ 02:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Wait a second: weren't you claiming Megaupload can't be served?

  You'll still need a tray....

• On the post: Apparently If You Explain Many Ways That Artists Can Make Money Outside Of Copyright, You're Against Artists Getting Paid

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2012 @ 11:56am

  "Is telling someone that jumping of a bridge is not a good way to fly mean that we're against people flying?"
  
  No but it likely could be construed as felony interference with the business model of doctors fixing broken bones of amateur super heros.

• On the post: The MPAA's Problem In A Nutshell: Views Relationship With The Public As One Way

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 11:53am

  Re:

  Don't try to church it up son...

• On the post: How Do You Know If A TSA Agent Stole An iPad? There's An App For That

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 11:33am

  Re: nice example of a bare faced lie

  hmmm....
  
  C-SPAN is pretty much on the air broadcasting 24/7 here.

• On the post: California Governor Vetoes Bill Barring Gov't From Turning Off Mobile Phone Service

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 08:27am

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  You say that now, but wait until you're trapped in a collapsed coal mine and your only hope of escape is shutting down all the cell towers so that the genius engineer with a flaky pacemaker can get close enough to use his secret scanner to pick up the radiation from the tritium in your watch...
  
  Who's gonna have pie on their face then?

• On the post: DHS Boss, In Charge Of Cybersecurity, Doesn't Use Email Or Any Online Services

  

  Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 12:02pm

  Re: Let's get Janet some email!

  Well that was certainly quite a bit more business appropriate than the one I came up with....

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