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  • On the post: TVEyes Hit With Incredibly Restrictive Permanent Injunction By Court

    opit ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 01:07pm

    Years ago Jurassic Pork made posts where the intro to 'news' articles on Faux was posted - complete with a label showing how coverage was perverted. This led to lawsuit and blog deletion - something I doubt he found amusing. His response honoured his former label : welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.ca/

  • On the post: Infographic Showing The Problem With Patents

    opit ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2012 @ 12:52am

    Re: Re: And who cares again ??

    If that's a choice,I pick "It is a way to tie down the smartest inventors the US has"
    Anthropologists have a field day with the destabilizing effects of change on slave empires...even Rome I expect


    The Roman Empire, ca. 1 - 300 C.E. (A.D.)

    (from page 8)
    The Roman Empire, ca. 1 - 300 C.E. (A.D.) I. Quick facts about the Roman Empire. ... No middle class, large slave population discouraged technological innovation.
    www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Suydam/Reln329/Empire..

    So what 'bugs' you is likely a feature.

  • On the post: PATRIOT Act Continues To Harm US Businesses: BAE Refuses To Use MS Cloud Over PATRIOT Act Fears

    opit ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2011 @ 07:33pm

    Habeas Corpus

    Since the US took a Canadian minor ( Arar ) and threw him into indefinite military detention after being blinded in a home invasion while the US Army was 'hunting terrorists' far from their home on charges later recanted by accusers... and subjected to torture...it's been a hard call to convince Canadian judges to release on extradition people they are required to guarantee Due Process as part of the release conditions.
    You even hear stories of how vans pulled by road tractors ( semis ) are X-rayed weekly.
    Likely you didn't realize foreign nationals are at an automatic disadvantage in a U.S. court even without the b.s. 'fight against a tactic'....which is not accomplished by pioneering ever greater examples of implementing it.
    I've stayed out of the prison to the south for several years now....and I grew up walking across the border almost as if it wasn't there.

  • On the post: Why President Obama Has The 'Jobs' Equation Backwards; Supporting Patent Reform That Limits Jobs

    opit ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2011 @ 03:34pm

    Re: if the government knew what it was doing

    What the government is doing is called Institutional Corruption. All one needs to do is reflect on things like the total hash of 'Iraqi Reconstruction'....which absorbed funds at a great rate and produced absolutely nothing of value. If you don't agree - check out Fallujah water pipeline project.
    Cheney's Halliburton made a 'killing' in Iraq of more than one variety with 'no bid' contracts not subject to fiscal review.
    Is this new ? Remember Gen. Armstrong Custer of the Indian wars ? He was in such bad odour in Washington that the Wild West looked like a better idea than the Capital. Why ? The President's brother was running rampant fraud in war contracts for the military....and he was silly enough to 'blow the whistle'.

  • On the post: Google Declares War On Content Farms, What's Demand Media To Do?

    opit ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 10:23pm

    Working with Google

    Time was when bloggers used human assisted search. These days that means online communities like Facebook.
    There's still a lot of fragmentation, even without allowing for the darkweb - or Java. I expect many have no real concept of how to Search until they hit YouTube.
    Dogpile or Info.com aggregate more returns than plain Google anyway, and when I use DeepSearch I get returns from my Diigo library plus other assorted info.
    Time was blogging was about where to find good content. Wikis, Twitter and RSS have only added more fuel to the fire.

  • On the post: Millennium Park Garden Deemed Not Copyrightable, Because Gardens Are Not Authored

    opit ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2011 @ 02:20pm

    patents and copyrighting of plants

    LOL This should shake up the legal eagles who are busy registering native/aboriginal cultured strains as corporate property. Norwegian archives are filling with seeds from all over to be preserved. And then there's Monsanto.
    I don't know how eager you are to get into the Rumsfeld WMD activity : NWO plans without a doubt, enabled by the USDA.
    Try this : no promises. It was changed to Monsanto HQ's URL at http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/corporate-farming.html!
    The World According to Monsanto - YouTube Video
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGddgHRQyg

  • On the post: Homeland Security Won't Even Admit Whether Or Not It Seized Mooo.com, Taking Down 84,000 Innocent Sites

    opit ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2011 @ 01:59pm

    Re : Dysfunctional Cycle

    "The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions"

    I recall the Bu$h/Cheney maladministration well. A favourite and comprehensive tactic was installing as administrators people with a religious agenda who persecuted whistleblowers and systematically destroyed any remnant of functioning bureaucracy by overloading staff with futile and contradictory makework and legislation : especially as in regards to environmental protection and infrastructure maintenance...and 'Security'. That's the catchword for Operation Clusterfuck...Father...oops...Homeland Insecurity.
    Check out Levees.org, born of outrage over the treatment of people in NOLA by denying access to a navy hospital ship, shootings by private contractors, defective water pumps and neglected levees...which require constant maintenance as they sink in mud...dredging of the ship channel which had gone on for decades.

    Crediting people with good intentions is just as silly as saying GWB - survivor of flying a widowmaker jet fighter - is stupid, 128 IQ and all.

    These are'facts not in evidence' : excuses promoting malice as stupidity. 'Great job, Brownie !'

  • On the post: How The US Response Turns 'Failed' Terrorist Attacks Into Successes

    opit ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2010 @ 06:29pm

    'Threat'

    "No one's trying to downplay the fact that some very angry individuals are trying to kill an awful lot of Americans (and others as well)."

    I will. The essence of what is being claimed about 'We'd better fight them over there to avoid fighting them over here' ignores who exactly is 'fighting them.'

    Let's start with the 2003 NIE from 16 American intelligence agencies that declared unanimously that invading Iraq would cause an increase in terrorism. We know what followed that, don't we ?
    Let's play a short and informative video clip from Dick Cheney explaining why the U.S. did NOT invade Iraq under George Bush Sr.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY
    BTW Any surfing around the topic 'Cheney' in YouTube is bound to help one lose illusions.
    Not that I don't bust a few myself.
    http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/12/2-december-beating-around-bush.html

  • On the post: The Revolution Will Be Distributed: Wikileaks, Anonymous And How Little The Old Guard Realizes What's Going On

    opit ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2010 @ 03:52pm

    Re: Re: time for the country known as 'internet' to be recognized

    "one where you can drown out those that disagree with you or otherwise disappear them"
    If you ever followed an internal board where disussion of 'disappearance' of members/blogs,etc. is discussed the idea of being silenced might not seem so outrageous. This from a guy who went from a blog with a Technorati reading of 207 to gonzo...shortly after Scholars & Rogues moved to their own site to prevent any such possibility.
    And the 101st Fighting Keyboarders have been spamming discussions for years. Check back on issues of Political Animal at Washington Monthly a few years back.
    They had to assign an employee as moderator !

  • On the post: Pentagon Demands Wikileaks 'Returns' Leaked Documents; Does It Not Know How Digital Documents Work?

    opit ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2010 @ 12:09pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Loose tongues

    Waterboarding is what Torquemada used in the Spanish Inquisition. It also was employed during Salem Witch Trials. I have read an analysis by a medical researcher/ instructor which detailed permanent damage to the body as a result by convulsions caused by such.
    The reason it is excused - and popular - is that the damage is internal and not seen on a person's skin.
    You might note how many times it has been employed against a single individual also. Stress positions, sensory deprivation, extremes of temperature, waterboarding...these are not things done to somebody for their entertainment...any more than kidnapping and detention without trial are considered proper protocol. None are acceptable in a court of law for one simple reason : they cause a person to say anything to get it to stop.

  • On the post: Pentagon Demands Wikileaks 'Returns' Leaked Documents; Does It Not Know How Digital Documents Work?

    opit ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2010 @ 10:24am

    'Enemies'

    Who,whom or what constitutes an 'enemy of the United States' anyway ? We're talking about an empire that takes up space in and interferes with literally hundreds of countries while persecuting signatories of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty when they act within their obligations. Iraq was and is occupied on that basis. After losing millions after the invasion alone - sanctions had quite a score too - Iraqis are being turned out of torture chambers without explanation, let alone apology. But Afghanistan - a British created 'country' of mountains dividing valleys where hundreds of languages are spoken by nomads - is a really rich vein for satire.
    How many remember that the U.S. declined to specify charges to the Taleban against a resident Saudi prince who they had been monitoring closely as he had been used to stir up hell while in the employ of the C.I.A. ?
    http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/08/5-aug-dire-warning.html

  • On the post: Pentagon Demands Wikileaks 'Returns' Leaked Documents; Does It Not Know How Digital Documents Work?

    opit ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2010 @ 10:09am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Funny...

    There's law...and then there's law that's enforced.
    Oh sure, an occasional fall guy can be sacrificed to the cause of making things look good, but Bush and Cheney should have been impeached for War Crimes and Treason - rather like George's grand-daddy Preston - and it didn't happen. Prosecution ? By whom ? Look at my Topical Index under 'Law' or search them your self. Military Commissions Act 2006
    Bilateral Immunity Agreements 2002 American Servicepersons Protection Act

  • On the post: Newspaper Publishes Totally Made Up List Of 'Disorders' Associated With Text Messaging

    opit ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2010 @ 03:16pm

    TM

    The way you're going on you'd think the topic was 'text massaging.' Where's the rating for 'whimsical' to cover daffynitions and punnery ?

  • On the post: Why Is UNESCO Supporting Locking Up Information?

    opit ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2010 @ 08:33pm

    UNESCO

    Don't any of you lot read 'conspiracy theories' ? When something patently doesn't make sense on the face of it...start looking behind the 'Mission Statement' and see what actual results of activities are. It's good science...and it's good detective work about Politics.
    http://conspiracyrealitytv.com/brief-history-of-the-uns-unesco-conspiracy-nwo-propaganda-conditioning-the-masses-in-preparation-for-one-world-government/
    That was one result of a search on parameters 'UNESCO and the NWO' Give it Hell !

  • On the post: Indian Scientists Refuse To Patent Tuberculosis Genome, Encourage Anyone To Make The Drugs

    opit ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2010 @ 08:57am

    Actually, some patents have been disallowed in court. Just because the neocons and/or neoliberals - fascists in either case - want their companies to feed at the public trough and monopolize content does not justify a corporate welfare state. Nor is it any surprise in a large world that there is some difficulty pulling it off.
    India in particular should know the problems with that. Tens of thousands of farmers have committed suicide after Monsanto patents wrecked their farming : ditto in Iraq due to them getting the benefits of Bremer's 100 Orders, and in Africa too.
    Then again, I followed corporate ' farming' ever since I read about what happened under Nelson Rockefeller's programs in Central and South America as far back as the 40's.
    WFT ? Right here.
    http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/corporate-farming.html

  • On the post: Japanese Newspaper Says: How Dare You Send Us Traffic!

    opit ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2010 @ 07:23am

    Restricting Access

    If they want to increase exclusivity...it will work.
    Think about it. I was so pissed that AP would reissue stuff that was already out there and try to charge for advertising their content that I went the other way : even though Google will place articles next to the sign - AP the UnEssential Network. Nor will I carry their content.
    Not that I consider much of it different from propaganda.
    They have a bad case of 'Unclear on the Concept' too.

  • On the post: Where's The Line In What Sorts Of Gov't Communications Need To Be Recorded?

    opit ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2010 @ 07:25am

    Recording conversations

    And who do we trust to make and keep these confidential records ? Government ? Bwahaha indeed !

  • On the post: Where's The Line In What Sorts Of Gov't Communications Need To Be Recorded?

    opit ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2010 @ 07:25am

    Recording conversations

    And who do we trust to make and keep these confidential records ? Government ? Bwahaha indeed !

  • On the post: Murdoch Says Fair Use Can Be Barred By Courts; Will Probably Remove Sites From Google

    opit ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2009 @ 01:27pm

    Blogging

    I thought I'd kick in here because I'm an anachronism today. I'm a blogger. Seriously. I find content online...and refer it forward to readers.
    See...social networking/bookmarking isn't dead. Some of us who came up behind the rush to Wikis still share finds with our friends. Special interest newsgroups are all over the place at Current TV, Care 2, Diigo...
    The multiplying of toys to find content has meant more than grist for newsreaders and aggregators : it means networking is becoming ever easier.
    And Google or whatever don't do what failed Marigold and changed Furl did : keep a cache of an article that works like the Internet Archive and holds it on an independent server.
    Google is addictive. It does not, however, work to stash editorials or whatever for posterity. Search results are time compressed and vary. Plus there is scuttlebutt around that the feds are playing with search parameters to aid obfuscation : hiding the truth.
    The truth is poison in politics. We've been having far too much fun with it.

  • On the post: Parent Makes Gamer Son Promise To Obey Geneva Conventions In Video Game

    opit ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2009 @ 03:21pm

    Geneva Conventions

    Upholding the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions were two basics of military training and culture. Once the draft dodgers under AWoL took over - not so much.
    You want more realism ? No fun at all.
    http://corry.ws/CorryBook-59.htm

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