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  • On the post: James Boyle On: Strategies For The Digital Age: Beyond Mocking the Clueless

    timstevens ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2009 @ 09:34pm

    "What the hell is this? Is it a keg? Toxic waste?"

    They look like fresh urinal cakes.
    3 to a bag!

  • On the post: Has The Pirate Bay Lost Its Appeal… Or Should We Not Trust The NY Times?

    timstevens ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2009 @ 09:03pm

    C'mon, the NY Times wrong...again?

    Is this the same NY times with Krugman the foaming Bush inquisitionalist and Nobel Laureate, Dowd the permanently single, yet still hot for an old broad columnist-babe and Rich, the hate everything old white-dude curmudgeon?

    To think that the NY times, which coincidentally is virtually bankrupt (lousy business plan) would get a story completely wrong.

    So, if your product (news and information) is suspect, why would anyone believe their spin, er reporting?

  • On the post: Some Quotes Of Note: Politicians Damning New Technologies/Cultural Artifacts

    timstevens ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2009 @ 08:55pm

    Wexler hopes to be important...some day

    When I lived in Florida, Wexler was trying to be one of the "up and coming democrats to watch." Problem was he was always clobbered by either his TV opponent or his own stupidity.

    Case in point was when he appeared on the Colbert Report and was quickly shown to be a fool. Remember the "fun things with cocaine and prostitutes gag?" Good 'ol Wexler!

    Just as young males make the case for not allowing any teenager to drive a car, Wexler is a good example of why congressmen need "spokes-holes" and "handlers." Always trying to shove their foot into their mouth and then their head up their butt.

  • On the post: Boston Police Still Calling Random Light-Up Devices 'Hoax' Bombs

    timstevens ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2007 @ 06:56pm

    Boston's "finest" - a bunch of boobs

    "Hoax device?" WTF is that?

    Let's just admit that the Boston PD don't collectively possess enough gray matter to differentiate between "problem" and "no-problem" situations. So rather than admit it, they simply demonstrate their stupidity again and again and again...

  • On the post: Why The Rest Of Tech Industry May Not Be Happy About The EU/Microsoft Decision

    timstevens ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2007 @ 06:41pm

    if microsoft was a muslim company...

    if MS was a "muslim" company, the eurodweebs would have done absolutely nothing.

  • On the post: Why The Rest Of Tech Industry May Not Be Happy About The EU/Microsoft Decision

    timstevens ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2007 @ 06:40pm

    if microsoft was a muslim company...

    if MS was a "muslim" company, the eurodweebs would have done absolutely nothing.

  • On the post: Early Time Change Costs Kid 12 Days In Jail

    timstevens ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2007 @ 08:10pm

    I smell lawsuit

    To quote the race pimps, it's time to "name and shame."

    Find the nameless "school officials" name them publicly have them explain their stupidity, demand an apology and them fire their sorry asses for incompetence. Of course, sue the school district as it has deep pockets.

  • On the post: UK Judge Rules That Selling Consumers Cheaper CDs Is Illegal

    timstevens ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2007 @ 02:39pm

    MPAA, RIAA etc want you to shell out money to buy their crappy product when and where they want you to.

    Moreover, they feel you don't own the thing you purchased. You have only rented a license which they can then void whenever and wherever they so choose.

    Now, you are not allowed (according to this mono-browed, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging idiot of a judge) to resell a CD.

  • On the post: France Bans Citizen Journalists From Recording Violence: Because If It's Not Recorded We Can Pretend It Never Happened

    timstevens ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2007 @ 08:10pm

    Re: Wait a minute!

    Are you saying that the US media has....lied? Say it ain't so!

    The US media has a simple agenda:

    [1] Bush/Conservatism/Capitalism/Entrepreneurism is bad so provide evidence.
    [2] Liberalism/Socialism/Environmentalism/protected-group-ism etc is good so provide evidence
    [3] Evidence contrary to [1] and [2] is either ignored or misreported
    [4] Randomly report some non-US event either accurately or inaccurately depending upon some unknown algorithm to provide balance.
    [5] Never admit that journalists are experts in nothing and pretend they are knowledgeable in all things upon which they report.

    BTW Segolene Royal is hot and Hillary Clinton is definitely not.
    But, I'd rather have an ugly socialist scank as leader than a hot one as I can hate a scank easier than I can hate a hottie.

  • On the post: Movie Theaters Are Just Now Figuring Out That They Need To Be More Responsive To Demand?

    timstevens ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2007 @ 07:55pm

    cell phones, crying babies and agressive teens

    Thanks to cell phones, the family which insists that Jr be allowed to yell and scream during the show, the belligerent teens who threaten to "come down there and cut you homes" or to "kick my cracker a$$" and a 5 dollar bag of popcorn with the obligatory 4 dollar drink to go with that 10 dollar ticket and the sticky dry soda puddle under my seat and the smell of Cletus and the stench of his 4 day old work shirt is a perfect finish to a movie which is 10 minutes of commercials and opening credits, 7 minutes of closing credits nobody watches but is union mandated leaving maybe 60-70 minutes of social commentary but was billed as an action flick.

    Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with bit torrent and foreign films which the RIAA/MPAA thugs will not care if I watch.

  • On the post: Forget Fixing E-Voting Machines; Why Not Just Jump All The Way To Internet Voting?

    timstevens ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2006 @ 08:04pm

    make it easy for the lazy to vote...

    facilitate voting for the lazy. why not? we already have illegals voting, felons voting, retards voting, dead voting and defeatocrats voting multiple times.

  • On the post: The Importance Of Zero In Destroying The Scarcity Myth Of Economics

    timstevens ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2006 @ 03:18pm

    nothing is free

    hat tip: Walter Williams PhD George Mason University, Distinguished Professor of Economics: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2006/11/08/common_sense_economics The second element is there's nothing that's free. Politicians talk about "free education," "free medicine" or "free housing," but that's nonsense. Resources are required to produce each of them. Of course, some people received these goods at a zero price, but that doesn't mean they didn't cost someone, usually a taxpayer, something. So, to quote the good doctor, nothing is free - not even "free" digital goods.

  • On the post: Introducing Backdoors To VoIP Networks Makes Them More Secure?

    timstevens ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2006 @ 04:19pm

    point to point encryption

    Looks like a new business model will be to provide point to point encryption for all users. The government may be allowed to spy on us, but nothing in the Constitution requires citizens to communicate in a written or spoken human understandable language.

  • On the post: Reinventing The Moviegoing Experience

    timstevens ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2006 @ 03:02pm

    why movie going sux

    [1] Screaming, uncontrolled children
    [2] The parents who refuse to control those kids
    [3] The cell phone user
    [4] The big-mouth plot ruiner
    [5] The noisy eater
    [6] The A-hole who sits in front of you in an otherwise empty theatre.

  • On the post: VeriChip VeriEasy To Clone, Researchers Say

    timstevens ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2006 @ 10:51am

    Annalee Newitz (hot nerd girl with chip) and Jonathan Westhues (smart nerd guy with cloner) are just the types that VeriChip should fear. They have no agenda other than exposing the dishonesty and incompetence of VeriChip.

    To quote Jonathan (see Johnathan's analysis http://cq.cx/verichip.pl), "The Verichip is a repurposed dog tag; there is no reason (counterfeit housepets?) why it would have been designed with any security features, and in fact it was not."

    Of course when VeriChip responded saying "...it hasn't reviewed the evidence..." it sounds just like the FTC and FCC when there is a massive loss of personal data (a la the recent Veterans data loss via laptop): "...there is no evidence to suggest that anyone's persona data was compomised..." Wonderful. Either someone is too good to get caught or the responsible parties are too slow to know how to do anything about it.

    TS

  • On the post: You Don't Design An iPod Killer By Committee

    timstevens ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2006 @ 04:10pm

    more socialist gobblygook

    i have no interest in discovering music with the rest of the community any more than I was seeking some heavenly experience when searchin the net. I didn't need XP and I sure don't need another lame attempt to experience anything especially music. I just want to hear it not live it.

    on another note, microsoft is notorious for bloatware. i wonder if i will have to reboot my microsoft XPod a few times per day and I also wonder if it will hve some windows-derivative running under the hood.

    count me out. I have no interest in buying a copy of something which already works great.

    TS

  • On the post: Congrats Congress: You've Succeeded In Keeping Gambling Execs Out

    timstevens ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2006 @ 04:00pm

    do as I say and not as I do

    congress (it doesn't deserve a capital 'C') wants to outlaw internet gambling but allow horse racing, Vegas gambling, bingo, and of course, state lotteries. such hyprocracy.