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  • On the post: Why Is US Government Giving A Pharma Giant Exclusive Rights To A Zika Vaccine Whose Development Was Paid For By The US Public?

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2017 @ 09:12am

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    Your comments are usually so good that this unnecessarily unproductive and crude one stands out.

    Please don't feel the need to pad your comment count.

  • On the post: Pakistan Sentences First Person To Death Over Social Media Posts

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2017 @ 09:09am

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    We would be able to get along just fine now if 'progressive' Britain and US hadn't overthrown Iran and turned it into a theocratic state. Back in the mid 1900's Iran was an extremely progressive democratic state with freedom of religion and gender equality on par with or better than many European nations that are now considered exemplary members of EU and NATO for rights. But the democratically elected government decided to stop letting Britain rob them with contracts signed at gunpoint and so the firm believers in democracy and self determination funded a revolution and installed a theocratic dictatorship in its place, but the important thing was that that dictatorship let them keep taking its oil without payment. And since then nothing bad has happened as a result of Iran being a theocratic dictatorship instead of the democratic beacon in the region so it all worked out in the end.

  • On the post: Pakistan Sentences First Person To Death Over Social Media Posts

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2017 @ 09:00am

    Re: Re: U.S. Moral High Ground?

    The problem is that the current white descendants of those abusers still receive the massive benefits that abuse generated. At the same time we refuse to offer restitution or take any action to improve life for the descendants of those displaced native tribes or slaves that have been systematically discriminated against to deny them opportunity. We may not have committed the original sin but we keep on perpetuating a whole damn lot of sin in order to deny that we are complicit in and benefit from that sin.

  • On the post: Pakistan Sentences First Person To Death Over Social Media Posts

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2017 @ 08:56am

    Re: Re: When you make Gollom's long-lost brother look sane...

    Islam is just as compatible with free speech and thought as Christianity. The reason that we don't have progressive Islamic nations with 'western' style values is that we (progressive westerners) keep overthrowing the middle eastern governments who are supporters of democracy and freedom of speech and religion (see Iran) because they insist that the rights and needs of their citizens should override the desires and profits of foreign countries. Instead we (glorious freedom loving westerners that we are) instate dictators who are willing to work with us (while secretly working to stab us in the back) as long as they can have the power and personally enrich themselves. Those dictators, when not religious zealots themselves, must control the (more impoverished) populace and turn to the religious zealots who maintain social order through fear and faith. And that brings us to the current clusterfuck in the middle east.

  • On the post: Pakistan Sentences First Person To Death Over Social Media Posts

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2017 @ 08:47am

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    That is quite the 'No True Scotsman' argument.

    Christianity as it has existed for the vast majority of its history and the direct predecessor to the Christianity of the present is the one that executed people rather than what you cite as the 'real' Christianity which hasn't existed for 1700 years. Beyond that, your history is so bad as to be laughable because whether or not the church opposed blasphemy executions 1700 years ago they gleefully endorsed them, and holy wars, over the next millennia and a half. Christianity has a long bloody history that has been largely halted in the last two centuries thanks to the rise of the secular state and democracies. When Islamic nations become democratic and then secular we should expect to see their equally bloody history slide to a halt as well.

  • On the post: California's Anti-SLAPP Law Saves Another News Publication From Bogus Lawsuit

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2017 @ 03:39pm

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    The key is that it makes the complainant responsible for the legal fees so that it doesn't cost $10,000 and letting them disrupt your organization during discovery before you get to the slam dunk dismissal.

  • On the post: Wyden Siren: Coats Is Answering A Different Question About Surveillance Of US Persons

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2017 @ 06:30pm

    Maybe I'm slow but I don't see what linguistic trickery was employed here. Can someone fill me in?

  • On the post: Court: State Not Justified In Seizing Grandmother's House After Her Son Sold $140 Of Marijuana

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2017 @ 01:01pm

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    Well you should have made sure you know who actually owned it when some smiling con man offered to sell it to you!

  • On the post: Should Tumblr Be Forced To Reveal 500 People Who Reblogged A Sex Tape?

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2017 @ 12:49pm

    Re: Re: And what did you expect?

    So a safe space for those opposed to safe spaces?

    The mind boggles.

  • On the post: Judge: Sure, These Bloggers Are A Bunch Of Jerks, But They're Not Engaged In Defamation

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2017 @ 06:21pm

    I'm not sure that this would have gotten knocked down by an anti-SLAPP law.

    There seems to be adequate claims regarding the vote rigging and 3 broken laws that it could succeed on its merits. That should have been sufficient to get it past the basic preliminary evaluation even in a state that had an anti-SLAPP law on the books. The fact that it failed to prove defamation doesn't necessarily mean that it would have been shot down without going to court with SLAPP protection.

  • On the post: RNC, Chamber Of Commerce Want Robocallers To Be Able To Spam Your Voicemail Without Your Phone Ringing

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 24 May, 2017 @ 12:36pm

    Re: how is this not considered a call?

    Also problematic is that many plans have a maximum number of voicemails that they will store at a time. Without paying extra I'm limited to 25 which is fine for me since I only get a couple a month anyways and clear them out within a day or two but if advertisers can clog my inbox up with their unwanted garbage I'm going to be at my cap almost 100% of the time and never able to receive actual messages.

  • On the post: FCC Guards 'Manhandle' Reporter Just For Asking Questions At Net Neutrality Vote

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 22 May, 2017 @ 02:47pm

    Should never have happened but a surprisingly good response, if lacking an apology, given that it did. Politicians and business folk should follow his example and avoid turning minor incidents into personal quagmires.

  • On the post: First Hearing In The Lawsuit Against Us, Along With Even More Filings

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 09 May, 2017 @ 09:37pm

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    I assure you that they don't have a 'fictional blog' - it is in fact quite real. As a matter of fact YOU are on that blog at this very moment - it is as if the power was always inside you and you just had to believe.

  • On the post: First Hearing In The Lawsuit Against Us, Along With Even More Filings

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 09 May, 2017 @ 09:34pm

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    That was roughly my thought too - though I re-read it twice to make sure I wasn't overlooking something key that made his legal strategy coherent. The idea that the idea that the court should adjudicate if a statement was a 'personal attack' without regard to whether or not it is true is ... novel.

    If by some gross miscarriage of justice takes place and Shiva wins this I look forward to the estate of Ted Bundy suing everyone since the history books have the NASTIEST personal attacks on him.

  • On the post: Trump Fires FBI Director Comey

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 09 May, 2017 @ 07:34pm

    Re: Big Whup. Not.

    Obama didn't fire Comey because it would have resulted in screams about political interference in the FBI's investigations from Republicans regardless of the fact that Comey violated the tradition of not commenting on investigations that found no underlying crime and explicit departmental policies on election period investigations. The idea that Trump fired Comey for 'screwing up' is patently (see keeping it relevant to Techdirt) absurd given that he has repeatedly praised Comey's election interference.

  • On the post: Trump Fires FBI Director Comey

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 09 May, 2017 @ 07:23pm

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    Incidentally, slightly before he was fired the FBI office released a letter explaining that Comey had lied during his testimony regarding Abedin forwarding classified emails.

    Specifically what ACTUALLY happened was that Abedin forwarded two email chains to Weiner for printing that were subsequently classified and her phone automatically backed up ten other classified email chains, a 'feature' that Abedin testified that she was unaware of and no evidence was found that her backups were ever accessed.

  • On the post: Want To Promote Breastfeeding? That's A Trade Barrier, Says US Trade Rep

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2017 @ 02:50pm

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    While there are people who do need to use formula, there is still no need to advertise it. Their doctors, lactation consultants, public health nurses, social workers, adoption agencies, and all the other people who are assisting those women should know about formula if somehow a parent manages to be so unaware of the world that they haven't heard of it before. Medically necessary products shouldn't be advertised because only people who need them should be using them and they should have the appropriate support systems to tell them about it rather than having a company try to create additional customers through advertising even though they are harming those new customers.

    See also: Why the U.S. drug system is fucked up.

  • On the post: Australia's Copyright Agency Keeps $11 Million Meant For Authors, Uses It To Fight Introduction Of Fair Use

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2017 @ 12:26pm

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    Did you consider reading the fucking article?

    It has the name and picture of the Copyright Agency chairman in the middle of the article and the name of the guy running it day to day which can be matched up with a picture with a trivial google search. I know you just wanted to sound tough on the internet but good god the level of lazy stupidity here is astounding when you've got access to a vast repository of knowledge at your fingertips and could have accessed it with the same amount of effort as your comment took.

  • On the post: Why Is Congress In Such A Rush To Strip The Library Of Congress Of Oversight Powers On The Copyright Office?

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2017 @ 12:24pm

    Re: Re: Re: contributions = priority

    It'll have to be a mini-golf course so that it at least plausible when he claims to have built it with his own hands.

  • On the post: No, The Wall St. Bull Sculptor Doesn't 'Have A Point'

    Daniel Audy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2017 @ 01:24pm

    Re: Re: Control

    I actually genuinely feel sorry for the poor artist. He has a fairly distinct style that you can recognize if you've seen Pepe and most people won't know that he doesn't support the movement that has appropriated his character and completely altered the association that character has. The irony is that he actually does have legal standing to sue over the use of Pepe but doesn't because he recognizes that it is an impossible battle that will get him nothing but scorn.

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