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  • On the post: Slick Dude Butt-Dials 911 On His Way To A Drug Deal, Is Promptly Arrested

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 08:24am

    Re:

    really...
    i live in a ruralish area, and if you have something stolen that is -approx- less than a car, forget about it...
    they sound annoyed you even call them with 'petty' shit like that, thanks for protecting and serving, donut-eaters...

    what i don't get is, WHY don't you fucking make a fucking report, piggie, then maybe -JUST MAYBE IF YOU DO YOUR FUCKING JOB INSTEAD OF SCARFING DONUTS AND COOPING- when you compile enough reports to have a pattern, you can bust some thieves who wipe out TONS OF PEOPLES 'stuff', but none of it on a case-by-case basis is 'valuable' enough for the piggies to get out of their recliners...

    occasionally, they will actually catch a thief by random chance (a salient quote comes to mind: even a blind pig will find an acorn once in a while), and -what a surprise!- they often find a garage or shed FILLED with TONS of stuff the thieves have been stealing/selling for YEARS...
    huh, who woulda thunk it...

    but the useless piggies haven't bothered, because it wasn't cars and expensive jewelery, but a teevee here, a bunch of tools there, an old trailer, an AC unit, whatever, but not really a -you know- 'sexy' crime and stuff...

    they have close to ZERO interest in actually solving the petty crimes that MOST PEOPLE experience MOST of the time: 99% of us aren't murdered/raped/beaten during our lives: but MOST of the crimes we are victims of is petty theft, which the kops don't give a shit about...

    the crimes that affect us the most, they care about the least...

  • On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 11:30am

    this is how stupid this is...

    ...I'm a medium eagles fan, BUT -until i got to the end of the article- i *thought* this was about the philadelphia eagles football team refusing to license their team fight song or something, which didn't make sense either...

    THAT is how far OUT OF MIND the eagles are as a band to me: irrelevant... and i say this with one of my ten cd's in my truck being a best of eagles...

    that, and don henley is a 'tard in wayfarers...

  • On the post: Snowden & Greenwald Reveal PM John Key Lied About Kiwi Mass Surveillance; Key Hits Back By Calling Greenwald 'A Loser'

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2014 @ 01:58pm

    Re: Re: Enough Is Enough!

    even sauron had only one all-seeing eye...

  • On the post: Analysis Of Volunteer's Metadata Stream Reveals His Life In Detail, Allows Passwords To Be Guessed

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2014 @ 08:48am

    Re: Re: Re:

    @ whatever
    1. you really are shitheel of a human bean...
    2. that nearly 100% of the 1% of the inertnet denizens who frequent this (or similar) sites and have an abiding interest in the subject may indeed 'know' that their metadata is vast and too easily hoovered, is one thing...
    3. for the VAST majority of inertnet users, yes, they may have some working theory that they are vulnerable, they may have some suspicions that The They (tm) don't have their best interests at heart, etc; but MOST are using the tubes without having a clue, because YOU DON'T HAVE TO...
    just like 90% of the people who drive cars might have some scant knowledge of how an internal combustion engine works, etc, they REALLY don't know shit about it unless/until someone educates them on how it works...
    AND, for the most part, THEY DON'T CARE: their car stops working, they call a mechanic; their tubes stop working, they call a nerd, they don't have to 'know' shit about it...
    4. did i mention you are a shitheel of human bean ? can't be emphasized enough...

  • On the post: DHS Wants To Expand 'See Something, Say Something' To Retailers Selling You Pressure Cookers

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 11:09am

    Re: See how fast this will grow...

    does DHS know that flour is not only an 'explosive precursor', it IS explosive all on its own...
    takes the right conditions, but then so do nearly all explosives...

  • On the post: Yahoo Threatened With A Secret $250,000 Per Day Fine If It Didn't Comply With NSA PRISM Demands

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 11:05am

    Re: stopped using email in 2002 for anything but site signups

    do you know what a keystroke logger is ? ? ?

    'all your base are belong to us...'

  • On the post: Yahoo Threatened With A Secret $250,000 Per Day Fine If It Didn't Comply With NSA PRISM Demands

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 11:02am

    Re: Re: Re: When the hammer falls...

    uh huh...
    you BREATHE a word of 'jury nullification' or ANYTHING remotely like that, and you will be struck from the pool in approximately 99% of the courtrooms in the country...

    EVEN THOUGH, not only is so-called 'jury nullification' COMPLETELY 'legal' (whatever that means anymore), but ABSOLUTELY the right and duty of citizens to invoke to stop or ameliorate over-zealous persecutors...

    IN SPITE of it not only being 'legal', BUT -i would aver- OUR HIGHEST DUTY to perform when 'the law is an ass', judges and DA's will NOT allow that kind of -you know- populist crap to go on in "THEIR" courtrooms...
    you may think or theorize that they are OUR courtrooms, but you would be wrong: they are the courts of the 1%, and all the officers of the court are functionaries of the 1%...

    you, dear citizen, ain't shit...

  • On the post: Seattle Cops Crowdsourcing Legal Battle Against DOJ-Imposed Excessive Force Remedies

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 10:25am

    Re:

    thank you, what i was going to say...

    civil servant tail wagging the citizen dog...

    entitled donut eaters strike again: as if WE EXIST to provide convenient punching bags when they are feeling stressed...
    damn those punching bags for not knowing their place ! !!

  • On the post: Google Shuts Down Stewart Baker's Faux Attempt To Delist Techdirt's Posts About Him

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 06:02am

    Re: For the benefit of all mankind

    excellent point...
    just reading a book on authoritarianism, and one of the things they talk about, is how fundie xtians and fundie moose limbs are pretty much EXACTLY the same type of people: control freak authoritarians...
    don't know if it is mostly ironic or sad that if the fundie xtian had been born in moose limb land, he would be a fundie moose limb, and vice versa...

  • On the post: Breweries Fight Over Trademark Of Hikers That Don't Look Alike

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 05:47am

    Re: Re: Re: Only Beer Worth Drinking.......

    this will not stand ! ! !
    beer is actually the cradle of civilization...
    (seriously)

    now, if you are saying most major brands of beer in amerika are useless flagons of piss-water, i can't disagree with that...

    further, if you are saying that so-called 'light' beers are not actually beer, but beer-flavored water, then i agree again...

    (unless you want me to insult you AND yo mama, don't offer me a so-called 'light' beer and say it is a 'beer'; it is not...)

    but if you are saying that the felicitous combination of hops, barley, yeast and water is not one of the best inventions of mankind, then you are sadly mistaken and i feel sorry for you...

  • On the post: DOJ Inspector General Says FBI Actively Preventing Him From Doing His Job

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 05:41am

    i will repeat this truism until my dying day...

    ANY and ALL secret institutions WILL be corrupted; it is not a matter of 'IF', it is a matter of 'when'...

    even our 'public' institutions are more secret than open...

    because, um, MOTHERFUCKIN' EAGLES, bitchez...

  • On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 12:39pm

    Re:

    i'll just reply to you, since boner's 'music is sacrament' statement is annoying, much like he is...

    no, music is NOT sacrament, i realize it has a LOT of meaning to a LOT of lives, but not necessarily everyone, and not necessarily as deeply as he thinks...

    when i'm sitting at my desk idly drumming a pattern, that is a form of music, it is not a sacrament, and it is not really a huge deal, but it IS a form of music that i enjoy...

    you, your wife, your kids, they sing a line or two, they hum a song, they dance around crazily and sing nonsense tunes, it is all still 'music', maybe not polished, maybe formless, maybe not professional caliber by any stretch, but it IS 'music'...

    AND, i would maintain that such personal music 'performances' are 100 times more valuable than music made by professionals for us to merely consume, NOT perform...

    i'm sorry, most musicians are NOT so special: ANY OF US with the time and inclination could do what 90%+ of them do; they are NOT all virtuosos and geniuses one step removed from mozart...
    they aren't sacred, they're technicians/artists with a specialized skill...

  • On the post: Dept. Of Law Enforcement Investigates Notorious 'Speed Trap' Town Whose Seven Officers Wrote Up More Than 11,000 Tickets Last Year

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 06:13pm

    Re: Re:

    in a real sense, i think the opposite is true here...
    waldo -as a lot of other 'truckstop' towns were(are)- was a fairly hopping place back in the day: it was on Hwy 301, which was THE main highway for a number of decades in that area of the state, and a pipeline for snowbirds, so it had a lot of motels, diners, tourist traps, etc... (still has some, but 90% of them rotting away)
    also was a semi-hub of transportation (still is to a minor extent) with a couple major highways and railroad intersecting there...
    now ? the interstates have bypassed that area, so not nearly as much traffic as historically...
    have a big truckstop, a popular flea market, and an amtrak 'station', and that's about it...

  • On the post: Dept. Of Law Enforcement Investigates Notorious 'Speed Trap' Town Whose Seven Officers Wrote Up More Than 11,000 Tickets Last Year

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 06:03pm

    Re:

    let me amplify what you said a little...
    used to be -a la dukes of hazzard- for simple speeding tickets, you could leave the city/county/park sheriff at their 'border', and they were not (supposed) to pursue you for that...
    but they changed florida law where ALL 'sworn officers' have the authority to pull you over for a traffic offense any where, any time, any place, in their jurisdiction or not, on duty, off duty, in their sleep, whatever...

  • On the post: Dept. Of Law Enforcement Investigates Notorious 'Speed Trap' Town Whose Seven Officers Wrote Up More Than 11,000 Tickets Last Year

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 10:04am

    Re:

    where's waldo ?
    not too far away...

    thing is, locals know they are a speed trap and drive judiciously through town; so its only stupid tourists etc who bear the brunt of it... well, a lot of local UF students probably get caught too, speeding through on their way home, or whatever...

    its a nothing of a town, and it would be (obviously) REAL easy to miss any one of the speed limit signs, not to mention the quick succession they come in, such that you can hardly react to one sign to slow down before you're right to the next one...

    but, yeah, this shit been going on for MORE THAN the 40 years i've been down here... i think they've had their wrists slapped a couple times in the past, too, but just happens all over again...

  • On the post: Baltimore Ravens Meet Streisand Effect After Trying To Play 'Hide The Tweet'

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 07:13am

    Re: Re: Re: drawing the line (in case you're not trolling)

    thank you for a little common sense...

    IF we are 'equal', then it should be no difference between whether a man hits a woman, a woman hits a man, a man hits a man, or a woman hits a woman... in other words, NO ONE SHOULD HIT ANYONE EVER, regardless of genders...
    BUT, that isn't how the world really sees things, and really works, is it ? ? ?

    as jon stewart said last night: WTF did you THINK happened when he knocked her out and dragged her out of the elevator ? ? ? IF it was egregious enough to kick him out of the league AFTER you saw the video, it was egregious enough to kick him out BEFORE you saw the video...

    further, if THE VICTIM does not want to press charges, etc (FOR WHATEVER REASONS SHE MAY HAVE), then i'm not sure The State is obliged to act otherwise, IN THIS CASE...

    i am nearly 100% certain the NFL/owners/goodell don't give a shit about ANYTHING but making money: they don't care if the players are murderers, rapists, nazis, etc; they don't care about violence against woman, drug usage, etc, EXCEPT IF it becomes a stink in the media, THEN they 'care'...

    when it slides under the radar, they ignore it; if it becomes public and a big deal, THEN they do the least they can get away with...

    as an aside, the posters who mention other players who were arrested/jailed for various crimes and should be banned from humanity, are simply compounding the problem: IF you don't believe in redemption/rehabilitation, then YOU are showing inhumanity EQUAL to the ones you excoriate...

    lastly, i'll say that the legions of (mostly) men who go off on rice and talk big about he should be beaten or castrated or whatever, are exhibiting THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOR, and are as big of hypocrites and morons as he is...

    judge not lest ye be judged, oh perfect nekkid apes...

  • On the post: White House And Senate Intelligence Committee Still Can't Agree On CIA Torture Report Redactions

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 04:05pm

    it could be worse...

    mainstream media 'discussion' will be driven by stories of redactions, etc, rather than the more harsh realization that we have become amoral agents of Empire who torture mostly brown, mostly moose limb, most of the world over, who mostly pose no existential threat to the us of a ...

    note: the 'story' of redactions is absolutely both a right and proper story for the mainstream media -and especially techdirtia- to cover, but it will done to the exclusion of the elephant-in-the-room story of WE TORTURE, WE ARE MONSTERS...

  • On the post: Comcast Using Packet Injection To Push Its Own Ads Via WiFi, Apparently Oblivious To Security Concerns

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 06:32am

    Re:

    (parasitizing off your post)

    here it is right here, PROOF POSITIVE that cable/media DO NOT give a shit about their PAYING CUSTOMERS: bugs on the screen...

    could someone PLEASE tell me what groundswell of consumer outcry has made it so The Bastards! take up MY TEE VEE SCREEN with their incessant 'bugs', popup ads, bullshit little animations, etc, etc, etc, that often take up a quarter of the bottom of the screen, WHILE THE SHOW IS GOING ON...

    oh, you mean there WASN'T a popular outcry to put MORE stupid fucking ad shit on MY SCREEN ? ? ? you mean they foist that shit on us because we don't have a fucking choice ? ? ?

    'cause -like most people- i WANT their idiotic distracting shit on MY SCREEN RUINING MY VIEWING EXPERIENCE...
    right ? ? ? grrrrrrr...

    why do i bet that when/if media execs ever go out in public, they NEVER identify themselves as such, or they would be strung up by irate customers for the stupid, greedy shit they subject us to all the time...

    oh, and to PROVE this has NOTHING to do with OUR benefit, WHEN would be the ONLY TIME these 'bugs' and shit would actually offer ANY benefit ? ? ? during commercials.. and when is the ONLY TIME you DON'T see bugs, etc ? during commercials...
    QE fucking D, bitchez...

  • On the post: 'Trusted Third Parties' Add One More Link In The Supply Chain Between Your Data And Government Requests

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 06:09am

    Re: I thought I couldn't be surprised

    forget orwell, we need to go right to kafka with this crap...

    wave buh bye to America, say hello to amerika...

  • On the post: Released Memos Justifying Warrantless Wiretapping Point To Limitless Executive Branch Authority

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 05:59am

    Re: Re:

    here where i point out the obvious which is always ignored: we ARE KILLING/MURDERING many thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions NOW under Empire, HOW MUCH WORSE COULD IT GET ? ? ?
    EXCEPT, instead of the 99% doing all the dying, it will be the 1% who get that privilege...
    i think i like that butcher's bill better...

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