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• On the post: Researchers Find Vulnerability That Enables Accounting Fraud, PwC Decides The Best Response Is A Legal Threat

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2016 @ 04:11am

  Excuse me...

  But I have to download some accounting software for my "multibillion dollar business..."
  
  >_

• On the post: Spain Considers Making Digital Copyright Law Worse: Pleasing The US Again?

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2013 @ 06:39am

  It looks like the lobbyists upped their firepower when TPB decided to go sailing with the Spanish armada...
  
  I'm guessing that officials in Norway are going to propose extending digital "rights" soon...

• On the post: Kickstarter-Funded Movie Wins Oscar For Best Documentary

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 07:30am

  Poor, silly Mike...
  
  This is a documentary, so it's not "real" content creation! It's merely an expropriation of OTHER people's content!
  
  Everyone knows that there is no real artistry behind making a documentary. After all, how many Oscars go to films depicting historical events!

• On the post: Journalists Have No Obligation To Cover A Story About You The Way You Want Them To Cover It

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 07:21am

  As an aside, the website for the LA Superior Court is horrifically bad and nearly impossible to navigate.

  
  
  As an aside, that's not a bug, that's a feature.
  
  Respectfully,
  -- PACER

• On the post: IP Address Snapshots Not Sufficient Evidence To File Infringement Suit; Prenda Lawyer Faces Sanctions

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2013 @ 07:37am

  Wow.

  I feel like the entire American public just won the Game Named After an Exceptionally Large Item of Dinnerware.
  
  Or at least California, for setting this precedent.
  
  All in all, at least San Fran can claim SOME victory this year...

• On the post: Another Future Clash: How Will The Law Deal With Autonomous Vehicles

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2013 @ 09:35am

  Hmmn...

  I don't think that autonomous vehicles are "disruptive" in the way you think they are - who would they put out of business? Essentially, drivers or human beings. And the reduction in drivers won't lead to an overall reduction in humans. We like procreation too much for that to happen...
  
  The only businesses contingent upon human drivers are Trucking/Delivery and Taxi services. Now, it is entirely possible that a stink would be raised by cabbies and truckers, but there's an important caveat:
  
  1) Operating an 18 wheeler is vastly different than operating a car.
  2) Those vehicles would STILL require a human present anyhow in case of failure. For the cabs, you would need a person to prevent car-jacking and fare skipping.
  
  In the end, I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode where Homer becomes a trucker. He discovers there's an autopilot for the truck, so at one point he relaxes on the hood of the vehicle travelling at 60 miles an hour.
  
  All this does is free up human capital, so it's much more like the fast food conveyor belt than, say, the music making computer...

• On the post: EU Commission Wants More Copyright Licensing, But Not Creative Commons Or Fair Use

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2013 @ 10:44am

  We want to deliver something...

  We have to do something, or else...
  
  I won't be able to afford that new Lambo I've been eyeing. They promised the license plate would read MPAA-BTCH!

• On the post: Sen. Charles Grassley: An Unregulated Video Game Market Is A Dangerous Thing

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2013 @ 11:39am

  Alcohol taxation

  From the federal standpoint, alcohol is taxed at the point of production based upon how much is produced. Since it's supply side taxation, the cost DOES get passed on to the consumer, but it's effect isn't entirely noticeable - like subsidies and taxes for gas.
  
  Currently, the tax on beer is $18 per 31 gallon barrel for each barrel produced annually in a run of 2,000,000 or more.
  For less than that, you pay $7 per barrel up to 60,000 barrels and $18 per barrel after that.
  Overall, it comes out to something like $0.05 a 12 oz. bottle is federal tax.
  
  I'm unfamiliar with the exact tax schedule for distillation or winemaking, but it's dependent upon alcohol content. Wine runs around $0.21 per bottle and distilled liquors run over $2.
  
  Here's a link with details for the interested:
  http://www.ttb.gov/tax_audit/atftaxes.shtml

• On the post: TuneCore Fires Last Remaining Founder, Gets Into Ridiculously Petty Fight With Jeff Price

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2013 @ 06:53am

  Meanwhile, in the TuneCore Boardroom

  "... Thank God they're all finally gone! These masks were getting unbearably hot!"
  
  And each board member removes their mask to reveal... Chris Dodd!

• On the post: Apple Trademarks Apple Store Interior Design

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2013 @ 06:27am

  Hmmmn... Glass front... minimalist... long table with stools... and a wall mounted video display...
  
  So... every modernist design bar with a TV is now infringing on Apple's "trade dress?"

• On the post: DailyDirt: Like Water Off A Duck's Back…

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 05:48am

  hmmmn...

  Am I the only one who thinks it's cool than something omniPHOBIC of water an oil is being used to obviate the need to use something omniPHILLIC of water and oil (soap)?
  
  Metamaterial engineering is AWESOME.

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 05:21am

  History repeating itself...

  Anyone else think it's kinda weird that Antigua & Barbuda are turning into the Pirate capitals of the Atlantic...
  
  ... Again?

• On the post: The International Olympic Committee Has Already Staked A Trademark Claim On The Number '2014'

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 06:17am

  DANG IT!

  including (but good god, certainly not limited to) chemicals, pharmaceuticals, metals/alloys, machines, tools, scientific equipment, surgical instruments, lighting, heating, vehicles, firearms, musical instruments, furniture, ropes, tarps, string, textiles, toys, coffee, fresh fruits and vegetables, beer, other alcoholic beverages, tobacco, insurance, conferences and seminars, design and development of computer programs, restaurant services, asbestos and security.

  
  
  Damn. Now I have to figure out a different number to market my new invention: a surgical grade, titanium, liquor firing gun with an attached micro/telescope (for precision in the operating room AND on the battle field).
  
  Sigh.
  
  Clearly, people might get confused between the Beer Boomstick 2014 and an Alpine skiing event.
  Understandable, really.

• On the post: 'Defendant' In Prenda Law Case Reveals He Agreed To Take A Dive

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2013 @ 06:56am

  I'm totally serious about this...

  There is no WAY they could be this willfully incompetent.
  
  Prenda HAS to be an Andy Kaufman-eque (the proto-Borat) prank on the entire legal system to force them into preemptively shutting down all future copyright trolls.

• On the post: Copyright Is Becoming Guilt By Accusation

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 09:07am

  We seriously need to start filing take down notices against large (c) companies.
  Get them kicked off of Youtube every time they post a nwe song or music video by claiming the melodic line or visuals are too similar to your dancing baby video or some other bull.
  
  It's just as legitimate as their tactics,
  
  Anyone up for initiating "death by a thousand takedowns?"

• On the post: Steve Jobs Used Patents Like A Mob Boss: Threatened To Sue Palm Over Patents If It Poached Any Apple Employees

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 01:08pm

  "That's a nice portfolio you got there... Hate to see anything happen to it..."
  
  Will the threats involve finding the lead patent lawyer's head in bed? If so, there might be an upside to all of this...

• On the post: Prenda's Latest Trick: Pretend There Are NO Defendants So No One Can Object

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 12:33pm

  Alternate reality? Maybe...

  This whole thing seems so poorly contrived and obviously fake.
  
  I'm wondering if, at the end of the day, the curtain will pull back to reveal Prenda as a firm intentionally set up to troll the legal system into setting precedent AGAINST litigation trolls.
  
  In other words, wouldn't it be freaky if Prenda was just operating as a legislative "double agent" attempting to pull the rug out from under other copyright trolls?

• On the post: Journalists Cheering On Censorship Is A Form Of Hate Speech

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2013 @ 09:38am

  My newest printout

  "If the power of simple speech can galvanize people into action, why can't it also calm the storm, educate the ignorant, and convince the world of the wrongness of bad ideas? How can someone believe that only hate speech has power, but speech pushing back against it is powerless?"
  
  I found this so inspiring in this age of internet accelerated virtriol that immediately printed this out to post next to my monitor.
  
  When the fight against darkness seems hopeless, I now have a source for inspiration.
  
  Thank you.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Bullet The Blue

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 08:10pm

  Re: maybe we should just refer to colors by their wavelengths

  By definition, you can't have shades within a single wavelength. :-) sorry.
  The closest you can get is chroma.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Diamonds, Diamonds Everywhere

  

  Isaac Kotlicky ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2012 @ 03:00am

  really? wow, some of you people...

  For starters, density is highly dependent on the temperature of the material and it's phase. For all of you people talking about carbon rich steel, note that an object ORBITING CLOSE TO A STAR is likely to be molten if it is comprised of metal, and therefore significantly LESS DENSE than one made of diamond.
  Even of it were orbiting further out, planetary mechanics would suggest that the core is generally molten, which, again, reduces the density significantly. Except diamonds don't melt, and carbonaceous steel does. Graphite wouldn't be stable that close to an active star, either.
  Read the damn articles. You're giving Anonymous a bad name.

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