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• On the post: US Olympic Committee Forces 30 Year Old Philidelphia Gyro Restaraunt To Change Its Name

  

  Vog ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 07:36am

  Hey Mike - Just want to point out it should be Phil[a]delphia in the title.
  
  That said, we have a place around here with the same name, and I'd hate to see it get swatted by amalgamated twatwaffles...

• On the post: Jon Stewart Blasts Viacom For Stupid Blackout; Viacom Sheepishly Turns Web Streams Back On

  

  Vog ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2012 @ 02:03pm

  [Viacom] tried to make a joke of this a bit by pointing to Stewart's mocking and noting that "The Daily Show continues to exercise the creative and editorial freedom that makes it consistently great."
  
  Now if only they could apply this logic to... oh, I don't know, DMCA takedowns...

• On the post: Facebook Engineer Apologizes Via Reddit For Accidentally Blocking Imgur Across Facebook

  

  Vog ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2012 @ 10:45am

  Re:

  I'm an engineer, and I approve this message.

• On the post: OUYA: Android Based Game Console Takes Kickstarter And The World By Storm

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 06:01pm

  Ugh, I keep reading OUYA as OUIJA.
  
  Four buttons - YES, NO, HELLO, and GOODBYE

• On the post: Viacom Uses Fans As Hostages: Blocks Daily Show, Colbert Streams For Everyone To Spite DirecTV

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 05:57pm

  Re: disagree

  I know you feel strongly about this, but did you have to post three times using different aliases?

• On the post: Not So Hip 2 Da Game: 90s Rapper Sues Upstart Mac Miller For Doing What Rappers Do

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 05:54pm

  Re: Re:

  I didn't think something that was linked in the article would be that obscure, even if I thought my joke was that far off from the song lyrics.

• On the post: UN Wants To Host 'Patent' Summit To Deal With Smartphone Patent Thicket

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 04:18pm

  I think the ITU might want to give pat-downs at the door.

• On the post: Not So Hip 2 Da Game: 90s Rapper Sues Upstart Mac Miller For Doing What Rappers Do

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 04:16pm

  See, I am Pirate Mike and I'd like to say hello.
  
  To the new, to the free, the old and the wrong,
  the pirates and shill trolls.

• On the post: Viacom Uses Fans As Hostages: Blocks Daily Show, Colbert Streams For Everyone To Spite DirecTV

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 10:50am

  Re: Re:

  Amazing. Knocked it outta the park.

• On the post: Viacom Uses Fans As Hostages: Blocks Daily Show, Colbert Streams For Everyone To Spite DirecTV

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 08:14am

  Death.
  
  Throes.

• On the post: Are Books Printed With Disappearing Ink Really The Best Way To Make People Read Them?

  

  Vog ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 07:51am

  I'd say it's bullshit if it's not contributing to the work. You can't really say Agrippa was a bad idea.

• On the post: Multiple Hollywood Studios Making Movies About Julian Assange; How Many Will Pay Him For His Story?

  

  Vog ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 03:32pm

  If they don't pay him for it, I'll just pirate the movie. Turnabout is fair use -- er, play.

• On the post: India Moves Even More Of Its Healthcare Away From Western Pharma

  

  Vog ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 03:24pm

  Re: Re:

  No, $70,000 per year is the cost of the drug to the consumer. Did you read the linked article?

• On the post: Excerpt From Rob Reid's Year Zero; Plus A Chance To Win The Book

  

  Vog ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 03:10pm

  Re: Re:

  The iPhone trick isn't actually a trick -- just marketing.

• On the post: Excerpt From Rob Reid's Year Zero; Plus A Chance To Win The Book

  

  Vog ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 02:47pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I'm sure the zero data you used to make that "implication" offer pretty conclusive proof. Wink. Wink.

• On the post: Excerpt From Rob Reid's Year Zero; Plus A Chance To Win The Book

  

  Vog ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 02:44pm

  Although these aliens sound like the complete opposite of Vogons, I'd still recommend bringing a towel.

• On the post: Excerpt From Rob Reid's Year Zero; Plus A Chance To Win The Book

  

  Vog ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 02:37pm

  Re: I call the China defence!

  Copyright isn't a law, it's an God-given right. See - it says it right there in the Constitution.
  
  Now put your hand on this legal document and say the Pledge of Allegiance?.
  
  America.

• On the post: Excerpt From Rob Reid's Year Zero; Plus A Chance To Win The Book

  

  Vog ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 02:28pm

  A brief, gloomy silence followed. "Well, if that's the case," Carly finally said, "it'll be a lot harder than we thought to save your melodious asses."
  
  Save our asses? "From what?" It took every bit of self-control that I'd honed as a kid at the bottom of the testosterone pyramid to say this with professional calm.
  
  "Self-destruction," Frampton said grimly.
  
  "Yeah," Carly said, then mimed ironic quotation marks with chilling enthusiasm. "Self-destruction."

  
  Conspiracy theorists believe the Mayans predicted the end of the world will come December 2012, and Mayan historians offer another explanation: the occasion marked is one of transcendence and awakening.
  
  It looks like the aliens are offering the same option here: either we perish, or we realize how bad our current system of copyright law is.
  
  YOUR MOVE, CLARK.