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• On the post: Congressman's Office Gets High School Student Suspended For Expressing His Displeasure With Congress

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 01:43pm

  Re: Re: Re: Dishing it out?

  Yeah, but "audio". You can maybe assume now.

• On the post: Telecom Lobbyists: We'll Fight State Efforts To Protect Net Neutrality For A 'United And Connected Future'

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 01:09pm

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  Has anyone seen a rabbit? I'm missing a rabbit. It's fairly large, fluffy but not overly so, it's mostly white with big brown spots including one over the left eye. It also has conspicuously large teeth. He's my best beaver hunter but is easily distracted by troll poop.

• On the post: Appeals Court Has No Problem With Cops Using E911 Services To Perform Warrantless, Real-Time Tracking

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 07:19pm

  I gotta say, I really don't understand how this could possibly be permissible. Remotely enabling a real-time tracking device by law enforcement is now considered fair game? Five judges to two?
  
  We have to be missing some key parts of a story here. I mean... real-time tracking switched on, switched on remotely, for another person's device, on another person via direct intervention by law enforcement and that without a warrant. What am I missing?
  
  It's weird. The older I get the more respect I loose. This is rapidly devolving into a free country for enforcers. Above the law. And not just any law but some imaginary law just for lawmen that seems to have superseded the founding document underlying the rule of law for the country. It's fantastic I tell you, fantastic.
  
  Please say appealing to a higher court is an option here. Because.. Well because.

• On the post: Telecom Lobbyists: We'll Fight State Efforts To Protect Net Neutrality For A 'United And Connected Future'

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 09:18am

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  Well, not to nitpick, but I actually want regulated and legislated separation of content and delivery as well as last mile utility. NN is simply a band-aid on a gushing chest wound that wouldn't even need to exist were it that we had real competition.
  
  This breed of blending pipes and content is, effectively, a band of ruffians serving only themselves collectively bent on a hostile takeover of the internet.

• On the post: Telecom Lobbyists: We'll Fight State Efforts To Protect Net Neutrality For A 'United And Connected Future'

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 09:05am

  Re: Re: Re:

  What!? No. I hunt beaver with rabbits. Hungry rabbits.

• On the post: Telecom Lobbyists: We'll Fight State Efforts To Protect Net Neutrality For A 'United And Connected Future'

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 07:52am

  Re:

  Hunting beaver with lawn darts. As accurate an adventure as your comment.

• On the post: 9th Circuit Appeals Court Recognizes That DMCA Repeat Infringer Policies Must Be Flexible

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 02:39pm

  Re: Re: I've said all along that sites have some minimal duty to police.

  It knows. It's just a mindfuck bandit that can't get past robbing itself.

• On the post: House Staples Extraterritorial Search Permissions Onto 2,232-Page Budget Bill; Passes It

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 01:42pm

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  The United States is a top exporter of freedom. The United States will simply export more freedom to the, uh, undecided country. That's what freedom exporters do.

• On the post: House Staples Extraterritorial Search Permissions Onto 2,232-Page Budget Bill; Passes It

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 01:24pm

  Re: #isitok

  I read it as permission to search for ET. I wish it was permission to search for ET.

• On the post: 9th Circuit Appeals Court Recognizes That DMCA Repeat Infringer Policies Must Be Flexible

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 02:34pm

  We all know a reasonable period of time is, oh, about 120 years so it would seem that any reasonable disconnect policy should reasonably be of equally reasonable proportions.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says It's Okay To Copyright An Entire Style Of Music

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2018 @ 12:57pm

  Re: You worry too much. Millions of other songs clearly not similar.

  I love how you make me feel.
  
  I just wish all these puppies would come back to life so I can kill them again.

• On the post: EU's Mandatory Copyright Content Filter Is The Zombie That Just Never Dies

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2018 @ 07:51pm

  Re: Re: So you're okay, "Rapnel", if majority vote away your rights?

  Close but not quite. I refer, of course, to the unnatural perversion of what is and what is not a right to copy. You seem to resemble exactly what you defend, a perversion. A perversion magnified well beyond reasonable bounds and scope. You defy the reasonable space that would maintain a proper fitment and acceptance into, of and for the humanity that surrounds and nurtures. You represent and defend something that is well passed indefensible. And, further, you represent a direct and hostile intrusion into much more than your precious moral right to prevent. You represent the hostile greed of majority power by proxy.

• On the post: EU's Mandatory Copyright Content Filter Is The Zombie That Just Never Dies

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2018 @ 02:22pm

  I'm sorry but copyright is completely fucking broken.
  
  To put the rights of few above the rights of many is folly. Literally few. Literally folly.

• On the post: Internet Wins, And The Need To Appreciate What We've Got Before It's Gone

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2018 @ 12:14pm

  Re: Re: Tip: don't consume products from "Entertainments Industry"!

  Actually, I believe the relevant addiction here are "those mindless "entertainments"" having an extremely unhealthy addiction to their entitlement. Tell me we'd be filtering anything other than spam and malware without these guys paving the way over your rights with their entitlement. To say nothing about forcing everyone around them to do their work for them.

• On the post: Cop Hits Woman's Car At 94 MPH, Killing Her Infant. Police Arrest Woman For Negligent Homicide.

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2018 @ 04:41pm

  Holy fucking shit.
  
  Imagine that we were all treated as equal as off-duty police. Can you imagine? No, me neither.

• On the post: Terrified Of Losing In Court, ISPs (With Senator John Kennedy's Help) Push Hard For A Fake Net Neutrality Law

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2018 @ 07:55pm

  Re: All furniture is not a chair

  So CSPs then? I'm not really down with furniture categorization if only because one person's chair is another person's cougar handler but I can really get behind Cunt Service Providers if only because they've been behind us for so long now.

• On the post: Terrified Of Losing In Court, ISPs (With Senator John Kennedy's Help) Push Hard For A Fake Net Neutrality Law

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2018 @ 07:08am

  This can only escalate and get shittier and shittier for the connectees, actual people.
  
  The level of pure, unadulterated asshatery is about one tick away from infuriating.
  
  Only the purest of self-serving intentions can produce this level of fuckery.
  
  As if the Internet provide only entertainment.
  
  Utility. There is no other more accurate description or categorization applicable. Like, at all.
  
  Appliances, meaning Twitter, Google or whatever are just that; a selection of end-user choices that can be selectively selected (emphasis on choices, like my selection of an electric coffee maker)
  
  A blatant reach for a death-grip on controlling and molding development and progress - brought to all of us directly from the interests that want nothing more than a guaranteed bloated portion of your money.

• On the post: Five Senators Agree: Search Engines Should Censor Drug Information

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 10:33am

  Burn all of the books.
  It's the only way.

• On the post: County Gov't Tries To Dodge Liability In Jailhouse Deaths By Intimidating The Journalist Who Exposed Them

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2018 @ 02:23pm

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  Damn, this is one fat, well-fed, troll mofo. What do you guys think about butterflies?
  
  The king of the happy hypocrite troll warriors says that you're prejudiced and assumptive .. and you should feel bad.
  
  Can't everyone
  Understand
  Not to feed this
  Troll quite so much?
  
  ( !! + 1 )

• On the post: FBI Director Still Won't Say Which Encryption Experts Are Advising Him On His Bizarre Approach To Encryption

  

  Rapnel ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2018 @ 11:15am

  The entire premise is so fatally flawed on so many levels that it seems no different to me than the flat earth "argument".
  
  A refusal to believe in reality does not a new reality make.
  
  So, fuck math and science, I guess.

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