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  • On the post: Why Healthcare.gov Sucks? Because They Hired Political Cronies, Not Internet Native Companies To Build It

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2013 @ 03:05pm

    Govt is Non-Essentials over Essential

    Perfect example of the incompetent, arrogant NON-Essentials in Govt kicking the technically Essential to the curb.

    Healthcare.gov is glitchy, shoddy and unacceptable - the American Taxpayers should demand a refund.

    The DMV is an obvious Govt shit-storm, but the one that is disgraceful - NPR gets funded while soldiers killed in the line of duty and their widows get the shaft.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Holds Firm: The Government Cannot Be Sued For Violating Its Own Wiretapping Laws

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 05:29pm

    Re: Wolf meet Hen...

    Damn, AC beat me to the Wolf analogy.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Holds Firm: The Government Cannot Be Sued For Violating Its Own Wiretapping Laws

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 05:28pm

    Wolf meet Hen...

    I would have been surprised if the wolf guarding the hen house would have shot himself...

    Who's to stop the Govt from illegally spying on us?

    "William Binney, a former official with the National Security Agency, recently said that domestic surveillance in the U.S. has increased under President Obama, and trillions of phone calls, emails and other messages sent by U.S. citizens have been intercepted by the government."

    "In the closing lines of a documentary by Laura Poitas, Binney notes that just because 'we call ourselves a democracy, it doesn?t mean we will stay that way.' The real problem, he says, is that 'people may have nothing to say about it? we haven?t had anything to say so far.'?

  • On the post: South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2012 @ 03:12pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Capitalism vs Central Planning

    You aren't Required to buy Apple, unlike Obamacare.

    Govt policies create Monopolies by removing competition.
    Cable providers
    Utilities
    Obamacare

  • On the post: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Illinois' Eavesdropping Law As Likely Violating The First Amendment

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2012 @ 03:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: Absolutely Wrong

    Stalin and Mao killed 100+ Million in the name of Govt for "the greater good" moron.

  • On the post: BREIN Scores Another Victory, Making It Suck Even More To Be A Dutch Internet Company

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 04:42pm

    Data Dump

    I'm going to open an ISP in the Netherlands right after I finish opening my new science institute in Italy.

  • On the post: Is It Ethical For The American Bar Association To Claim Copyright On Its Ethics Opinions?

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2012 @ 11:53am

    Professional Unions

    ?We insist that the Professional Unionization of American (PUA) will enjoy freedom from prosecution for heavy handed tactics while insisting that Monopolies rule the culture.? - Overload Scumbag

    The TechDirt article posted by Joseph Weisenthal back in May of 2007 was full of foresight.

    ?As the share of our GDP that goes to things like healthcare and legal services continues to climb, the market will inevitably produce new technologies designed to automate the tasks of highly paid practitioners .?

    ?As such, groups like the AMA and the Bar will increasingly find themselves standing athwart these technologies, and other low-cost solutions in the interest of their membership, just as a union would in the face of similar conditions. Let me state at the outset that this basic idea isn't a new one. The famous economist Milton Friedman was hated by the AMA for arguing that the control it exerted over the medical industry was preventing patients from getting low-cost care.?

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070509/055646/professional-unions-labor-struggles-21st-century.shtml

  • On the post: Sad: 75 Year Old Explanation For Why Copyrights Are Bad… Locked Up Behind Paywall

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2012 @ 07:53pm

    JSTOR hypocracy

    1995
    JSTOR founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with a broad mission to help the academic community take advantage of advances in new technologies.

    1997
    JSTOR launches a pioneering shared online library of high quality digitized journal back issues to help academic institutions save costs associated with the preservation and storage of library materials and to improve access to scholarship.

    http://about.jstor.org/about

  • On the post: Partisan Piracy: Conservative Filmmakers Accuse Obama Supporters Of Uploading Their Film To Youtube

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 03:35pm

    Re: Re: Re: Just a sidenote

    Again Interesting, not believing in basing the media's journalistic reporting in fact.

  • On the post: Partisan Piracy: Conservative Filmmakers Accuse Obama Supporters Of Uploading Their Film To Youtube

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 03:23pm

    Re: Re: Re: Just a sidenote

    Interesting nitpicking, just like my grandmother.

    From Websters: Media - a singular or plural in construction : MASS MEDIA
    b plural : members of the mass media

  • On the post: Partisan Piracy: Conservative Filmmakers Accuse Obama Supporters Of Uploading Their Film To Youtube

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2012 @ 03:58pm

    Re: Just a sidenote

    The main reason this film was able to make a single $ is that the MSM Did NOT do their jobs in vetting Obama.

    Media's main purpose, which they have abandoned, is to apply healthy skepticism TO ALL to bring out the truth, just like scientists that use the scientific method.

  • On the post: Why Tragedies Result In Overreactions: 'Our Brains Aren't Very Good At Risk Analysis'

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2012 @ 08:22pm

    Overreaction Damage

    Which is worse?

    The (anti)Patriot Act

    OR

    2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with the indefinite detention bill embedded?

    http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/

  • On the post: California Bet 2% Of Its Budget On Facebook's Stock Price Remaining High

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2012 @ 03:04pm

    CalPERS is goin' down...

    The GASB is changing the way that States & Cities post their pension liabilities, making them officially show the unfunded liabilities on the books. Entities that have an incentive to pretend that these liabilities aren?t real liabilities are going to get a rude awakening ? see BK cities in CA.

    Kevin Williamson wrote ?GASBombed, The accounting-standards board is about to nuke state and local budgets ? and it?s about time.? May 15, 2012
    http://bit.ly/LlE3a2

    Excerpt from article:
    ?CalPERS, the gargantuan California public-sector pension system, managed to avoid making adequate pension contributions for years by convincing the state legislature (which was only too willing to be convinced) that the Dow would hit 25,000 in 2009. (It didn?t. And it also may not hit 28,000,000 by 2099, as CalPERS predicted.) The legislature used those numbers to justify an enormous increase in pension benefits for California?s public-sector parasites, at a theoretical cost of $0.00: ?No increase over current employer contributions is needed for these benefit improvements,? the fairy tale went. Those who want a stronger government whip hand over the investment industry should consider how governments act when they are investors.?

  • On the post: Patent Office Seeking Comments On How To Implement A 'First To File' Regime Instead Of 'First To Invent'

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 11:31am

    Work vs Leeching

    Mike is trying to save patents. He is pointing out that people who create AND are productive are being kicked to the curb for people who are not.

    Any dumbass can sit around and file some vaguely worded idea that some dumbass at the patent office will approve. To actually make ideas work is what takes the talent. There are hundreds of patents that exist only because they were filed first, they were not put into production AND work first.

  • On the post: Truth In Erroring: IETF Proposal Includes New 451 Censorship Error Code

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 10:01pm

    Life of ???

    I think it should be for the sake of the pirate cyber children, Splitter!

  • On the post: UK Government Wants To Give Itself Power To Change Copyright Law Without Full Parliamentary Scrutiny

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 09:45am

    Orwellian moves by UK

    George Orwell saw this and more to come by observing the men who ran governments with strong central power and unchecked authority.

    He held particular contempt for factions within the govt who were not answerable to the people and not subject to scrutiny or Parliamentary debate (Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Plenty & Ministry of Love).

    The UK is clearly moving down the 1984 path by using the likes of ?The Business Secretary? to propose ?to draw up any future laws affecting exceptions to copyright and rights in performances in the form of new regulations? & ??(new regulations) would not be subject to committee scrutiny or Parliamentary debate and may not even require to be voted on by each House.?
    http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/july/copyright-exception-law-could-be-changed-without-full-parliamentary-scrutiny/

  • On the post: Here's The Proposal The FCC Says Doesn't Exist To Move Network Diagnostics To Proprietary Servers

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 05:41pm

    Stolen Authority

    The FCC?s authority over the Internet is made up (by them) and should not be allowed to endure. The FCC appointed pinheads are accountable to no group of voters and should be forced to follow the previous federal court?s decision calling into question the FCC's authority for any regulation of the Internet.
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20004313-266.html

    Congress, our elected officials who are ?accountable? ;-) to the voters (see SOPA), are the de facto trustees of the Internet since it is WE THE PEOPLE?s Internet. I want to be able to call my Congressional offices and hold THEM accountable, I can?t do that with the FCC.

  • On the post: If You're In Silicon Valley, Come Talk With Rep. Jason Chaffetz About How We Prevent Another SOPA

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 21 May, 2012 @ 05:22pm

    Bill for the Users

    Why isn't there a push for a bill that would guard against the likes of SOPA? A Firewall Bill that promotes the anti-SOPA sentiment.

    Rep. Chaffetz sounds like the kind of guy that would a least get the bill some press, that's all it took for SOPA to get pulled.

  • On the post: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Illinois' Eavesdropping Law As Likely Violating The First Amendment

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 01:17pm

    Absolutely Wrong

    Being a big Governista lover has blinded you. You can?t think of a single right that is not given to you by Govt? That's sad.

    ?Because an "absolute right" is a very dangerous thing.? Reply ?I wouldn't say dangerous, I would say impossible.?

    Regardless if you believe in a Creator or not, why do you think an "absolute right" must be written? A Natural Right is an Absolute Right. A Legal Right is something that Govt can strip away if they see fit.

    Barring any violations by a person,
    Isn't the right to live an absolute right? Or can Govt just remove one?s life when they see fit as G. Bernard Shaw argued?
    Isn't the right to liberty an absolute right? Or can Govt lock up people up on a Robespierre whim?

    Balance that on your pin head.

  • On the post: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Illinois' Eavesdropping Law As Likely Violating The First Amendment

    Pwdrskir ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 12:42pm

    America's defense of Absolute Rights

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

    Regardless if you believe in a Creator or not, why do you think an "absolute right" has to be written? A Natural Right is an Absolute Right vs a Legal Right that Govt can strip away if they see fit.

    Isn't the right to live an absolute right?
    Isn't the right to liberty an absolute right?

    Your thinking process regarding rights is dangerous to others.

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