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• On the post: Anonymous Leaks Some NSA Documents About PRISM

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 11:04am

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  Your command of the English language, it makes you're ass look retarded.

• On the post: Verizon: We Protect Our Customers' Data… Until The Government Asks For It

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 08:00am

  Re: Re: Who'e the bad guy?

  They most certainly did have a choice. They could have said "Get fucked and if you ever come to us with something like this again, we'll have the press on speed-dial."
  
  No way in hell would the government have been willing to risk airing its dirty laundry enough to prosecute.

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 12:10pm

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  Beg to differ. Last case law I saw on the subject said you most certainly could even in the face of a license saying you couldn't.

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 12:05pm

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  You sure about that? Last I checked, most PC games with a single-player mode still do not require online DRM and without that you very much can buy and sell games.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 08:23pm

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  For chemists, electronics engineers, and medical careers I agree. These are proper science and engineering fields and should remain as they are, more or less.
  
  Things that are not proper science or the application of it though? They're better taught in trade schools or learned on the job. Spending years and thousands of dollars on a degree for them is foolish beyond belief and does no good for anyone except the universities.
  
  The humanities? They're another discussion entirely; a fair number of their degrees have no career path whatsoever outside teaching them to the next batch of students.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 06:48pm

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  Oh but it is. The only thing a college gives you in the way of information that the great, wide Internet doesn't is a piece of paper.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 06:47pm

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  Easy, yes. Intelligent, no. You might just as well weed them out by eye color for most jobs.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 06:45pm

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  Some do but quite a lot of them pay better than you'd think. Plumber, electrician, and HVAC guys all make a hell of a lot more than I did at my first sysadmin job, as do most union jobs. For that matter, sysadmin isn't really helped by having a degree beyond basic coding ability and that can be picked up for free online.
  
  Most business positions have no need of what they had to learn for a business degree. Accountants and lawyers being pretty much the only exception.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 06:17pm

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  College is also entirely unnecessary for the vast majority of jobs. If you want a better baseline education, improve K-12 education and leave college for those it will actually benefit.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 05:51pm

  Re: $3K used to be what a college degree cost...

  I'm hoping it keeps on inflating and the government tries to keep pace. Healthcare alone is taking too long to throw us into a proper depression.

• On the post: CISPA Sponsor Mike Rogers May Go On To Lead The FBI

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Re: 12345

  What the shit?

• On the post: CISPA Sponsor Mike Rogers May Go On To Lead The FBI

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 01:34pm

  Re: 12345

  "...everybody in the car so come on let's ride, to the liquor store around the corner."
  
  Sage advice in these times.

• On the post: Disney Wants Trademark On Dia De Los Muertos To Sell You Fruit Snacks

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 08 May, 2013 @ 08:14am

  Re: Re: May be record time for a Techdirt anomaly fizzling.

  He doesn't hate it. He absolutely luuuurves it. Trolls need an audience for their hobby or it's just them pointlessly being a dick all by themselves.

• On the post: Iceland's Supreme Court Upholds Wikileaks Ruling, Orders Visa To Process Donations Again

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2013 @ 11:59pm

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  They would have already had that rude awakening if it weren't for this one holdup. We can't agree which of the bastards will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

• On the post: EA Shuts Down Social Media Games Without Refunding Money

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2013 @ 09:56am

  Re: Re: Common MMO problem...

  By the time their software goes out of copyright, everyone who even remembers that it existed will be long dead.

• On the post: Thousands Of People Tweet To Rep. Mike Rogers That They're Not 14, Not In Their Basement, And They Still Oppose CISPA

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2013 @ 05:26pm

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  Convince her the Congressional Way, pay her.

• On the post: Surprise: Rep. Bob Goodlatte Thinks The Justice Department Is Too Cozy With Hollywood

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2013 @ 11:19am

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  I'd say closer to 50 years. I don't think they're efficient enough to do it in 20.

• On the post: Justice Department Looking To Change The Law That Made It Impossible To Serve Megaupload

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2013 @ 10:24am

  Eh, I'm not particularly upset by this request. With a colo server or two, it's quite possible to commit any number of crimes within the borders of a nation that you've never been to physically and have no one acting as a representative in.
  
  Good on Dotcom for finding the loophole but, last I checked, we were big on paying attention to unintended consequences around here and leaving the law as it stands has plenty of them.
  
  There are plenty of unintended consequences to be had to saying all US laws apply to any company with any hardware located in the US too though. This mess needs some very careful wording to straighten out.

• On the post: Fox Sends Cease & Desist Letters To Firefly Fans Selling Jayne Hats, Because Money

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2013 @ 06:20am

  Yesterday via Twitter:
  @NathanFillion "@PirateKnits:Captain, looking to unload illegal hats. pic.twitter.com/fR1V0wJA9b" You got a job? We'll do it. Don't much care what it is

• On the post: No, Freak Gross Injuries Shouldn't Mean Media Outlets Can't Show Them

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2013 @ 01:51pm

  tl;dr Don't selv-censor because this kind of stuff should never be shown, self-censor because this is not the kind of stuff we want to be known for showing.

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