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• On the post: Congressman Appoints Himself Censor, Removes Painting Critical Of Cops From Congressional Halls

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 07:17am

  Re:

  actually, since we proles are ALL painted with the same broadbrush, why shouldn't piggies get the same treatment ? ? ?
  besides, if the 1-10% of 'good' piggies WOULD DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS and root out the 90-99% bad piggies, then we wouldn't have these issues, would we ? ? ?
  yeah, that is going to happen...

• On the post: Backpage Kills Adult Ads On The Same Day Supreme Court Backed Its Legal Protections, Due To Grandstanding Senators

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 09:34am

  this is great...

  ...with every boneheaded, counterproductive move, the gummint makes the Dark web that much more attractive and widely used...
  pretty soon, won't have to worry about anyone doing 'bad' shit on the intertubes, cause everyone will be on the Dark web...

• On the post: Congressman Appoints Himself Censor, Removes Painting Critical Of Cops From Congressional Halls

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 05:26am

  well, day-am...

  ...i needs me a tee shirt of that, now...
  Techdirtia ? you on that ? ? ?
  
  tiresome to refute the paramilitary pigs who squeal when even a sidelong glance goes their way...
  newsflash to the capo dei capi: you are on the wrong side of logic, the wrong side of morality, and the wrong side of his story; that is why you have a difficult time recruiting sociopaths...
  hardly news to bitch das piggies are 'protecting and serving' the interests of the 1%, not the 99%; but it has become plainer now the velvet glove has come off the iron fist of Empire...
  the abuse has escalated such that you can't even count on your white privilege to protect you from police riots... when even pwecious white slaves of Empire are getting jacked up, *now* police abuse is a thing...

• On the post: Ex-MI6 Boss: When It Comes To Voting, Pencil And Paper Are 'Much More Secure' Than Electronic Systems

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2017 @ 05:12pm

  Re: Re: Re: Seems like pen and paper would be better.

  1. seriously, thank you for your observations/contribution...
     2. Scrutineer ! ! ! is that for real ? do you get a badge ? i want to be a Scrutineer ! ! !
     (still get bonus points if it is a neologism, good one...)

• On the post: Ex-MI6 Boss: When It Comes To Voting, Pencil And Paper Are 'Much More Secure' Than Electronic Systems

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2017 @ 01:23pm

  been bitching about voting systems...

  ...for decades:
  paper ballots
  hand counted
  locally reported
  
  also, ranked choice voting will eventually -if not immediately- overturn the rethug/dem'rat duopoly of the one Korporate Money Party...
  it is not that open source s/w and h/w could not be used to design a secure, AUDITABLE, and transparent computer-based voting system, it is just that under the current incarnation of Empire, that will NOT HAPPEN...
  of course, there are a ton of ancillary issues to address beyond the actual vote mechanism, but unless that is secured, all the rest is meaningless...

• On the post: Facebook Censors Art Historian's Photo Of Neptune's Statue-Penis

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2017 @ 05:59am

  as a sidebar, was watvhing some youtube clips on funny/weird tee shirt text, and it had a LOT of asians who sported ALL kinds of nasty stuff beyond mere 'fucks' and 'shits', stuff like a list of english derogatory slang for various ethnic/'racial' groups (spic, kike, nigger, etc), and a number of weird malapropisms which made no sense...
  wonder how many who wore those, understood what the text meant... a LOT were on very young kids, too...
  i presume these are cheap/free tee shirts and that they have no idea what the text means...
  wonder how many english speakers are wearing tee shirts with chinese/etc words on them which are awful statements they dont have a clue about...

• On the post: Now Italy Wants To Make 'Fake News' Illegal

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 04:02am

  the velvet glove...

  ...is coming off the iron fist of Empire...
  it will only ratchet to total oppression, it don't go the other way...
  power never devolves voluntarily, now what to do ? ? ?
  surely, voting for ______ will do the trick...
  surely...

• On the post: Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Now Under FBI Investigation For His ADA Lawsuits

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 01 Jan, 2017 @ 08:37am

  Re:

  those guys were folk anti-heroes of sorts, prenda parasites ? not so much...

• On the post: Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Now Under FBI Investigation For His ADA Lawsuits

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 01 Jan, 2017 @ 08:41am

  hmmm, i wonder if...

  ...there would have been any sort of resolution to this tragic abuse of the law if it had not been reported on, shouted about, and kept current by way of the alternative/'fake' media ? ? ?
  i wonder...
  oh, wait, i forgot:
  PUUUUUUU-TINNNNNNN ! ! !

• On the post: Telegram Now Being Targeted By Politicians Because Terrorists (Also) Use It

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2016 @ 08:22am

  Re:

  thank you, a non cow, exactly the point i was going to make...
  we are not only THE munitions supplier to the world (if that wssn't deplorable enough on its face), BUT we also are DIRECTLY and indirectly responsible for the terrorists who buy them...
  ffs, we are a vertically integrated terrorist organization...
  we have met the terrorists, and it is us...
  (with apologies to pogo)

• On the post: Merry Christmas: Kamala Harris Files Brand New Criminal Charges Against Backpage Execs After Last Ones Were Tossed Out

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2016 @ 06:03am

  Re: Re: Qualified immunity and the ‘average moron lawyer in a hurry’ standard.

  1. to the poster above this one, the recitation of the system was fair enough, EXCEPT it merely ALLUDED to corruption, in that a perverse prosecutor/judge/officer of the kourt might -quixotically- act against the THEORETICAL limits of their powers in order to further their own personal agenda...
     HOWEVER, the SYSTEMIC corruption of The System is such that the 1% have infiltrated it, built and re-built it, and control it, such that the REAL, major corruption in crimes against The Constitution and the People are 'legalized' and made non-crimes for the 1%, but still retaining a bite for the 99% who dare do the same as the 1%...
     The System is SO slanted against the 99% and tilted to the 1%, that it is difficult to maintain any semblance of probative (wait a second, "probative" ? ? ? SERIOUSLY, spel czech, probative you're going to red-squiggle ? ? ? is this the stone-age version of spel czech ? ) truth-seeking, much less justice in such a system where the foregone conclusion being sought is that the 99% are scum and deserve jail, while the 1% are, um, angles (sic) and deserve, well, every-fucking-thing...
     2. as far as voters judging prosecutors for election based on number of convictions, etc... i would bet MOST (if not a yuuuge majority) of voters are similar to me: i could not name the local DA/prosecutors, unless by chance i happened to see a news report mentioning them the night before...
     MUCH LESS what his/her prosecution stats are, MUCH LESS compared to their 'competition'...
     for the most part, these guys get elected based on their blather and bluster, part of which almost certainly includes their stats picked and chosen to suit their agenda, but mostly seems to be from a couple high-profile cases they highlight to 'prove' how X (tough on crime/fights the illegal immigrants/stops abortion/anti-gay/hates drugs/whatever) they are compared to their wimpy adversary...
     usually it is a game of one-upmanship: "My weak opponent only wants to sentence everyone for every crime to the death penalty; what a cop-out, what a nanny-stater. No, mein gut freunds, er, my fellow 'merikans, we must not only apply the death penalty to the eee-vil perps, but their families and anyone within 3 degrees of separation to the vile monsters. They are all tainted ! ! !"
     similar to the judges, who get re-elected by 90-95% totals; and i bet 90-99% of the voters could not name ONE decision they either agreed with or disagreed with for that judge... (i know i can't) maybe one out of a hundred judge 'elections' have some controversy ginned up over some case where a teacher forced the kids to read huckleberry finn, or something (now) non-PC, and so the opposition to the judge turns it into a political football, but that is relatively rare...
     99% of the time, people are on auto-pilot and just vote to retain them... since i don't know anything about them, i assume they are all corrupt and always vote out all of The Bastards !... so far, i'm in the minority...
     3. minor point, 'only' (sigh) 3/5's of the states have the death penalty, with some not really pursuing them, if not 'boycotting' them...
     interesting how it is apparently NOT cruel and unusual to subject convicts to death by weird, ineffective drug cocktails as long as nobody complains about it being cruel and unusual...
     if not perverse...
     4. the story of justice perverted in spite of evidence to the contrary is hardly news... what IS the 'news', is that it isn't news...
     if a news story isn't reported by the korporate-kontrolled mediawhores, then it isn't really a story, now is it, citizen...
     end of story,
     end of problem...
     just where did you think this 'fake news' bullshit is heading ? ? ?
     in tech terms:
     no research, revelation, or reporting on s/w bugs allowed by 'unauthorized' sources ('unauthorized' meaning non-gummint controlled)
     therefore, as the REAL (non-fake) 'news' tells us:
     there are NO s/w bugs,
     there are NO security breaches,
     there were NO lost monies,
     there are NO problems,
     everything is fine,
     go about your daily lives,
     don't look up...

• On the post: Court Won't Grant Immunity To Officer Who Issued A 'Be On The Lookout' Order On Whistleblowing Cop

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2016 @ 06:22am

  Re: if only it were that simple

  yeah, but only an open-source, un-hackable, infallible robocop ! ! !
  hee hee hee
  ho ho ho
  ha ha ha
  ak ak ak

• On the post: City Passes Ordinance Mandating CCTV Surveillance By Businesses, Including Doctors And Lawyers Offices

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2016 @ 06:15am

  Re: Re: Re: "No problem, but first..."

  "That would require more bandwidth and video storage than the police could afford."
  
  you missed the really neat part, they get US to pay for our own imprisonment, TWO TIMES OVER ! ! !
  
  since we have been mandated to pay extortion money to the health parasite, er, insurance industry, what is to stop gummint goons from mandating for us to pay for THEIR security systems THEY will control ? ? ?
  (or anything else they feel like soaking us for...)
  
  welcome to the monkey house, and here's your soma...

• On the post: Butterball Sues Australian Wine Company Over Its 'Butterball' Chardonnay

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2016 @ 06:06am

  Re: Re: Re: Foot Shot

  sigh you are irredeemably stupid...
  it is NOT that i don't get the craven and chickenshit 'bidness policies' of risk AVERSE management; it is that IT PERPETUATES those self-same, self-made BAD decisions and precedents which lead to ignorance and cowardice among both the bidnesses and citizenry who adopt these risk AVERSE positions automatically with ZERO push back and ZERO revulsion against the unust status quo, merely obeisance and the payment of legalized extortion as a cost of bidness...
  see, that is EXACTLY why i say 'fuck you': you have gone belly up and given up; obeying Machine without a thought of EVER throwing a monkey wrench in the works, or EVER questioning 'the way things are'...
  you are an authoritarian speed bump on the road of life...

• On the post: Nintendo Opens Up New Front In War On Fans: ROM Mods

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2016 @ 04:41am

  Re: well

  oh, well that is eee-vil...
  ...or maybe not, just that someone has the upper hand for something that should be a nothingburger, but is made an issue by a ruthless transnational korporation who has all the rights, and you have NONE, you scummy citizen...
  so, yeah, nintendo hates us all...

• On the post: Butterball Sues Australian Wine Company Over Its 'Butterball' Chardonnay

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2016 @ 04:37am

  Re: Poor Research or Deliberate Reference?

  so, even though someone else's use of the name/whatever is NOT -on plain reading- a traducement, they should NOT use that name OUT OF FEAR that they original company will now introduce some bogus product in THAT realm to bully the newcomer off of that spot ? ? ?
  so, you think bullying is fine and are cheering for the bullies ? ? ?
  bully for you, bullshitter...

• On the post: Butterball Sues Australian Wine Company Over Its 'Butterball' Chardonnay

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2016 @ 04:35am

  Re: Foot Shot

  say what ? ? ?
  you are demonstrating EXACTLY what is wrong with the law and MOSTLY with the wrongheaded attitude of big trademark bullies: that someone HAS TO avoid ANY/ALL names that someone has for something somewhere EVEN IF THERE IS NOT TRADUCEMENT...
  YOUR way is one based on fear...
  stop shaking in your boots, kamper...

• On the post: House Oversight Committee Calls For Stingray Device Legislation

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2016 @ 04:27am

  oh, okay...

  a couple decades late, and no real action, but someone *might* think about closing the barn door (slightly) after all the horses are out...
  democracy at work for you, kampers...

• On the post: Google's Larry Page Got Bored Of Disrupting The Telecom Sector With Google Fiber

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2016 @ 08:04am

  Re: Google has something better coming

  yeah, but...
  i believe they specifically mentioned the wireless initiative, but -again, given their fickle nature- how long after they start that project, until it gets abandoned, sold off, whatever ? ? ?
  frankly, googs deserves NO 'TRUST' they will not do so, for the obvious reason they are a company who does whatever the fuck the big dick swingers want it to do; BUT ALSO, because they have shown their ass in this fashion repeatedly...
  finally, as a get-off-my-lawn statement: i would rather have a physical, fiber network in the ground, then an ephemeral wireless system entirely under the control of The They (tm) which can disappear, be filtered/blocked, or be rendered useless by any number of phenomenon which do not affect fiber in the ground...

• On the post: Google's Larry Page Got Bored Of Disrupting The Telecom Sector With Google Fiber

  

  art guerrilla ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2016 @ 07:58am

  Re: Re: The Rise And ...

  you insensitive clod ! ! !
  i have at least a dozen unfinished projects that i insist are not abandoned, simply ripening...

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