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• On the post: Guardian Releases Video From That Time Its Editors Were Forced To Destroy A Laptop That Had Snowden Documents

  

  Alana ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2014 @ 10:34pm

  Re:

  This is the stupidest post I've read all day.
  
  "Forced" can be as simple as "A really goddamn credible threat from the fucking government to come in and fuck your shit up".

• On the post: Newcastle Might Win The S**** B*** Ad Championship With An Ad It Didn't Make And Can't Afford To Buy

  

  Alana ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 04:12pm

  Re: Trademark?

  WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT MY SUPPER BOWL IS IT THAT TASTY?

• On the post: Mike Taylor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Alana ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2014 @ 06:00pm

  Re: Re: SPYING is the main "business model" of the internet.

  (At least, not the Mike you're referring to.)

• On the post: Mike Taylor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Alana ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2014 @ 06:00pm

  Re: SPYING is the main "business model" of the internet.

  Mike didn't write the post, you idiot.

• On the post: MPAA & ICE Confirm They Interrogated A Guy For Wearing Google Glass During A Movie

  

  Alana ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2014 @ 09:26pm

  Re: Re:

  "911, what's your emergency?"
  "There's a school shooting."
  "Officers will be there within hours."
  "The guy's a pirate and uploaded a bunch of stuff."
  "Officers with machine guns, helicopters, riot gear and tear gas will be there within half an hour."

• On the post: Copyright Week: Fair Use Is Not An 'Exception' But The Rule

  

  Alana ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 06:34pm

  Re: Re: Many artists don't understand Fair Use/Transformative works

  "Let's say people are wrong. Then let's not go into details ro do anything to back up our claims."
  
  Troll argument.
  
  Dismissed.

• On the post: Copyright Week: Fair Use Is Not An 'Exception' But The Rule

  

  Alana ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 06:29pm

  Re: Re: "Copyright Week" is actually Piracy Week.

  People need to link to this every single time OOTB responds and just shut down any discussion with him further.

• On the post: USTR Refuses To Show Up For Senate Hearing On Fast Track

  

  Alana ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 05:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: If I was in the Senate...

  It wasn't there when I was on the page! I should have been faster to the punch.

• On the post: USTR Refuses To Show Up For Senate Hearing On Fast Track

  

  Alana ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 03:19pm

  Re: Re: If I was in the Senate...

  I was thinking out of a cannon and into the sun...

• On the post: NSA Collecting Hundreds Of Millions Of Text Messages Daily, Looking At 'Untargeted' Messages & Data

  

  Alana ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 03:10pm

  This is how the world ends.
  
  Not with a whimper.
  
  But with a smiley face.

• On the post: Detailed Study Suggests NSA Rarely Useful In Stopping Terrorism

  

  Alana ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 07:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Guess posting more interesting links is all I can do to protest this re-hash.

  Oh, okay. ... Still feels like a bit of a stretch.

• On the post: Detailed Study Suggests NSA Rarely Useful In Stopping Terrorism

  

  Alana ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 03:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: Guess posting more interesting links is all I can do to protest this re-hash.

  You have no reason to call OOTB "Cathy" other than "Oh they're acting like this THEY MUST be a girl".
  
  That's incredibly sexist, so I'm reporting any post made with this assertion. Period.

• On the post: RIAA's Boss Thinks He Knows Better Than Google How To Build A Search Engine

  

  Alana ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 03:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "Everything you wrote here is incorrect.
  
  I am going to say this and expect people to believe it while not actually saying a damn thing to back it up."
  
  Troll argument. Dismissed.

• On the post: The FDA Wants To Dig Through Everyone's Stuff In Order To 'Monitor Online Sentiment'

  

  Alana ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2014 @ 02:41pm

  So they want to know what people think of them but can't be bothered looking that up themselves.
  
  Instead of actually trying to communicate they want someone to dig up all the data for them.

• On the post: EA 'Embraces' SimCity Players: Releases Useless Modding Tools And Promises Supposedly Impossible 'Offline' Mode

  

  Alana ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2014 @ 01:30pm

  I'm surprised they aren't making Offline Mode a paid DLC.

• On the post: Little Evidence Of 'Infringement Risk' For 'Copyright Intensive' Companies

  

  Alana ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2014 @ 02:13pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  This implies that they already "compensate artists".

• On the post: Sen. Schumer Is Completely Wrong; Snowden Would Be Barred From Arguing His Case At Trial

  

  Alana ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2014 @ 12:08pm

  Re:

  And this is one of the reasons why the LBGT community still needs to push for rights of that oft-maligned "T" part.

• On the post: Blackberry Goes Back To Its Roots: Sues Ryan Seacrest For Patent Infringement

  

  Alana ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2014 @ 04:23pm

  I want to file a patent on suing for patents.

• On the post: Fearmonger Extraordinaire Rep. Peter King Accuses Sen. Rand Paul Of 'Fearmongering,' Says He Doesn't Deserve To Be A Senator

  

  Alana ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2014 @ 02:20pm

  Sounds like he takes his last name too literally.

• On the post: Liberals And Conservatives Switch Positions On NSA Surveillance Depending On If 'Their Guy' Is In Power

  

  Alana ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2014 @ 12:21pm

  Who is in power doesn't matter. Because they're all being bought out by the same people.

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