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  • On the post: University of Oregon Slaps Student With Five Conduct Charges Over Four Words

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2014 @ 06:23am

    Re: Re: Re: Wow

    huh, waddya know, kind of like a private web site can set up its own ground rules and such, and -you know- asshats who bitch about being 'censored' don't have a leg to stand on...
    huh, thanks for clearing that up, whatevs...

  • On the post: Champion Of The People: Verizon Complains Exigent Circumstances Order Inadequate For Info Requested; Hands Over Info Anyway

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2014 @ 08:58am

    Re:

    i have run into this with my telephone provider:
    i had a situation where i had to prove i called a person on various dates (which i damn well had), BUT they (windstream) REFUSED to provide me with MY OWN DAMN PHONE RECORDS unless/until i got a subpoena ! ! !
    FOR MY OWN DAMN PHONE RECORDS ! ! !
    (this was a landline, btw)
    i had to escalate through numerous levels, send letters, threaten legal action, etc, until they relented and sent a partial list...
    fuckers, reason #1006932723 i despise them all...

  • On the post: Justice Dept. Official: We Could Get Lois Lerner's Emails From Backups, But It's Too Hard So Naaaaaah

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2014 @ 08:53am

    Re: Oh, the stories I could tell you about backups

    just as an aside, we have a semi-strict backup regimen where i work, but i'll be fucked if i understand what good it does us...
    on a couple of occasions, i have gone to them about 'oh, that subdirectory/file is missing, can we restore from backup?', or 'i need a previous version of this file, can we restore from backup?', and the answer is 'no, we can not'... ? ? ?
    apparently, the ONLY thing our 'backup' is good for, is if the whole building burns down, they can recreate the server's files...
    great:
    1. realistically WHAT are the odds of that ?
    2. 99% of the time, it is NOT a TOTAL disaster we are recovering from, but small disasters here and there...
    3. IF you can't get a previous file from your 'backup' system, it is not a backup system, but insurance...
    4. the daily backups are then MOSTLY, MOST of the time, a complete waste of time & resources; we could back up once a month or once a year for the sake of the server (data files are another matter, but we aren't able to get to those anyway, so WTF...)
    shrugs beyond my pay grade...

  • On the post: Putting Body Cameras On Cops Won't Fix Misconduct, But It's A Good Start

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2014 @ 09:31am

    Re: reasons not to record 24/7

    ok, well if the kops don't want that stuff recorded, they should stop doing it on duty...

  • On the post: Can We Create A Public Internet Space Where The First Amendment, Not Private Terms Of Service, Rules?

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2014 @ 05:56am

    Re:

    (parasitizing on your post)
    um, the answer is, 'no, you can not have an inertnet where 1st amendment concerns are paramount...

    all this 1984 shit isn't for play...
    as chickenshit as sheeple are, and as long as there is bread and circuses, the iron fist will stay in the velvet glove...

    ...but there will be an iron fist

  • On the post: Crime And Punishment? 33 Months In Jail For Filming And Uploading Fast & Furious 6

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2014 @ 05:46am

    Re: Re:

    "You can't bring up morality until we've settled on the morality of continuous extensions of copyright length so that that it now lasts two lifetimes..."

    but who will think of all the zombie creators who will not create because of copyright expiring ? ? ?

    (might have something to do with the undying taste for brains, too...)

  • On the post: Two SuperPACs Focused On Ending SuperPACs Release New TV Commercials

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 04:40pm

    Re: corporate and foreign affiliations ON THE BALLOT

    korporations are people, mein gut freund...
    in fact, giant korporations are BETTER than people:
    they are wealthy... (why go any further)
    they are immortal...
    they are immoral...
    they are unaccountable...
    they are winners...

    obviously, people are not people any more, verstehen sie das ? ? ?

  • On the post: Two SuperPACs Focused On Ending SuperPACs Release New TV Commercials

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 12:58pm

    Re: Wow

    crap!
    talk about strange bedfellows, i have to be with whatever here, i've just got one big 'meh' for the whole misguided effort...

    i just don't see us out-bribing the 1%...
    besides, it isn't JUST the campaign contributions (read: legalized bribery), it is the fact that they essentially control ALL the levers of power...
    you want to be a player, whose star are you going to hitch your wagon to, the 1% or the 99% ? ? ?
    c'mon...

  • On the post: The James Foley Beheading Video And How Americans Conceptualize Their Enemies

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 04:26pm

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

    vot ist ziss viss zeeze gah-mins ! ! !
    hee hee hee
    must be a quite logical and reasonable folk...
    ho ho ho
    oh, wait, i'm a lot germanic...
    ha ha ha
    but mostly aspie...
    ak ak ak

    i read helmet heads immediate response, and a handful of his others, and i am left not only unconvinced, but kind of stunned at the obtuseness...
    (not to mention more than a few tangential slights and ad homs, which he would normally otherwise excoriate in his adversaries...)
    something must have triggered his reflexive uber-patriotic response in this regard, because it otherwise belies his normal -i was going to say 'level-headedness', but that might just be the helmet talking- ratiocination which is more his forte...

    technically, did NOT say "US" in terms of who split up many of the countries involved in all sorts of ethnic, territorial, and tribal conflicts the world over...
    i said "WESTERN"...
    BUT, in modern times, either directly/indirectly led, or aided and abetted behind the scenes by uncle samuel and his little evil minions of doom in the MIC & the spooks...
    do you want me to go all smedley butler on you ?
    (go to archive dot org and search, he has about a 17 page booklet outlining his repentance at being a mercenary for Big Korps (oh shit! he used another inappropriate k ! ! ! i pee'ed myself a little !)
    same ole same ole, cuz...

    i'm not sure you are saying the stoopid terrorists should be bombing frenchies and brits exclusively, or something; but that is quite the odd 'argument'...

    WHO is the 900# gorilla on this planet ? ? ? c'mon, man...
    WHO is it who enforces THEIR hegemony on the planet ? ? ?
    WHO is it who has effective control of nearly all major national and international, public and private institutions which would be able to stop the k(!)rimes against humanity WE -OUR COUNTRY- HAS perpetrated for a LONG time ? ? ?

    HOW many military bases does al qaeda/hamas/isis/WHOEVER have ALL OVER THE PLANET ? ? ?
    HOW many million troops ? ? ?
    HOW many planes, aircraft carriers, drones, MRAPS, subs, ICBMs, satellites, howitzers, helicopters, fighters, bunker busters, and nukes do ALL THE TERRORISTS in the his story of the universe have ? ? ?
    maybe 1 / one hundred millionth of what twitchy, scared, defensive, offensive, paranoid, trigger-happy amerika has...
    maybe...
    but still the 900# gorilla is afraid of the caterpillars...

    lastly, i will say this: your major (only?) argument appears to be "some sect of violent moose limbs wrote/said/posted some psycho bullshit and so that means they really do (and WILL!) plant their tacky flag on our pretty, white, spotless, blameless, really, really totally kindhearted white house..."
    something like that...

    um, here's the thing, helmet hair, you can go back to our OFFICIAL, GOVERNMENTAL (see, i do know how to spel it), ELECTED LEADERS proclamations, speeches, sunday show blustering and posturing, and the most powerful country in the world is threatening the rest of the world in general, moose limb/oil countries in particular, and anyone who won't go along with our economic domination and extortion schemes...

    the 900# gorilla threatens to squish any/all caterpillars if they don't do EXACTLY as the gorillas wish, and you wonder why the caterpillars are afraid and hate you ? ? ?

    *heh, spel czech, fuck you very much, you useless squiggly red lining moron...

  • On the post: The James Foley Beheading Video And How Americans Conceptualize Their Enemies

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 07:37am

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

    WTF?
    are you aiming to prove the aphorism that those who refuse to pay attention to his story are condemned to repeat it ? ? ?

    1. gee, since you're all read up on these issues, please tell me WHEN all this shit started and WHO started it ? ? ?
    is it al qaeda or hamas or isis who IMPOSED THEIR state boundaries on US ? ? ? dividing areas of the world on THEIR SAY SO ? ? ? ...or was that the arrogant westeners who PURPOSEFULLY divided countries/tribes so they were at each other's throats and we could steal 'our' oil from them ? ? ?

    2. gee, remind me again, how many divisions al qaeda/hamas/isis/WHOEVER has landed on amerikan soil and occupied us whenever, where ever, however the fuck they feel like, for no reason except world domination and unrestrained greed... will you PLEASE FUCKING TELL ME THAT...

    3. goshies, it just breaks my heart how often other countries and terrorists like al qaeda/hamas/isis have undermined our country, thrown out/killed elected our leaders, subverted our laws, imposed their will upon us all, controlled our behavior as a state, fomented revolution against our 'legitimate' gummint, etc, etc, etc...

    oh, wait, that has NEVER HAPPENED; that's what WE DO TO EVERYONE ELSE, and the ingrates get mad at us for 'saving' them... some nerve, huh...

    4. when i go outside every day, i can't tell you terrified i am with all the drones of al qaeda/hamas/isis that circle overhead 24/7/365, dealing death to us from a cave in pakistan...

    oh, wait, that's US again...

    so let's summarize, shall we:
    unka sam (by definition, 'good') can bomb the world, take their shit, imprison/torture whoever we want, however we want, blow up HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS (but not, you know, beheading them with a knife, 'cause THAT is barbarous!), enforce draconian laws on them, ignore laws and treaties with NO CONSEQUENCES, be the arms dealer to the world, and it is the PEOPLE whose throats are under our hobnail boots that are to blame 'cause they beheaded a handful of white devils ? ? ?

    WTF ?

  • On the post: The James Foley Beheading Video And How Americans Conceptualize Their Enemies

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 07:16am

    Re: Re: Re: Big Stick

    so, you're admitting that you are a terrorist too ? ? ?
    good going, unka sammie would be proud of your jingoistic violence...
    now, WHAT -besides your pale skin and privileged position in society- separates you from the other terrorists you are excoriating ? ? ?

  • On the post: DailyDirt: I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up 2.0

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 06:47am

    Re:

    i will bet you dollars to donut holes, that 99 out of 100 uses of this will be mostly kids playing tricks on each other, NOT thieves getting a face full of pepper...

  • On the post: LAPD Officer Says Tragedies Could Be Prevented If Citizens Would Just Shut Up And Do What Cops Tell Them To

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 07:38am

    Re: He isn't the only one saying this

    so, smart guy, please tell me the voluminous instances of 'good' kops turning in their 'bad' kop buddies...

    yeah, i thought so: when 'good' kops ignore or cover up for bad kops, that makes them ALL BAD KOPS...

  • On the post: LAPD Officer Says Tragedies Could Be Prevented If Citizens Would Just Shut Up And Do What Cops Tell Them To

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 07:34am

    Re: LAPD Disclaimer

    no, i'm betting he is as 'good' a kop as we can get, and THAT is the damning aspect: the most educated, 'liberal', thoughtful, 'reasonable' kop who teaches other kops, is STILL a fucking arrogant, entitled pig at heart ! ! !
    that is the takeaway...

    of course, if he had just a teeny-tiny bit of self-awareness, he might wonder if HE -as a brown-skinned man- would be jacked up by all his 'buddies' (read: goons for the state) if he got crosswise with them... no doubt, he would defend their right to kick the shit out of him, since he was -you know- a 'threatening' brown-ish color...

  • On the post: Nintendo Goes Copyright On Woman Making Pokemon-Inspired Planters

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 06:02pm

    Re:

    bad luck ?

  • On the post: Nintendo Goes Copyright On Woman Making Pokemon-Inspired Planters

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 05:58pm

    Re: The Ancient Tortoise in a World of Hares

    i don't know a lot about nintendo, but i'm sure they are just as evil as nearly all giant korporations get...

    i'll admit to this: yes, i know what pokemon crap is, but never really paid any attention to it...
    IF YOU HAD NOT TOLD ME, i would NOT have recognized this as a pokemon thing...

    i would have just thought it was a fugly cat/animal/alien/? thing...

    HOWEVER, where i do think nintendo and most other giant korporations are unalterably eee-vil, is that they can NOT abide ANYONE making a penny off 'their' (OUR, that's OUR culture, WE made it popular, YOU -nintendo- are just along for the ride) characters/etc, EVEN IF -as you point out- there is no 'competing' products...

    an enterprising, creative nekkid ape, has a lightbulb moment, a serendipitous connection, a flash of intuition that takes something someone else has made, and puts in a different context that delights and surprises, and the 'owners' HAVE TO shit on it...
    (because !trademarks!)

    sad, bad, mad world...

    (oh, and FUCK YOU whatever, i don't care what the 'law' is, i care what 'morality' is...)

  • On the post: Facebook To Ruin Our Good Time With 'Satire' Disclaimer; The Onion Responds With Satire

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 02:40pm

    Re: Re: What is wrong with accurately labeling satire as such?

    um, was that satirical ? ? ?
    (only asking 'cause it was unmarked)

  • On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 07:05am

    Re: Re:

    i don't recall if it was mentioned here, or i saw it somewhere else, but they were recounting a ferguson kop incident from -as i recall- 2009...

    a black man was traveling on a local highway, got off at the ferguson exit by mistake, and it was raining so hard, he decided to sit in his car for a while until it slacked off...

    before he knew what hit him, one of ferguson's finest drags him out of his car and throws him the back of their cruiser and off to jail... apparently NO MENTION of why he was being treated like this... as it turns out, his name was SIMILAR to a person there was an outstanding warrant for their arrest, and when superkop ran the plates, assumed this was the perp, and went into robokop mode...

    they take him to the station -and if i recall correctly- KNOW that it is a case of mistaken identity, BUT STILL is arrested and insist he has to get in the cell, nigger...

    guy bitches about getting in an already occupied one-person cell with no other bed (3am in the morning), so they go full-pig on him, and get 4 or so to slam him into the cell/wall, and proceed to cuff him and beat the shit out of him...

    when they beat him so bad they have to take him to the hospital, they THEN arrest him for some bullshit 'defiling property' charge of the four 'peace officers', which amounted to them saying the perp had gotten blood on their uniforms...

    THEY BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM, then arrest him for getting blood on them... i believe that is the very definition of chutzpah...

    now, the topper is, the guy had enough balls to file suit after the fact (i bet only 1 out of a thousand dare to do so), and it came out in trial/testimony that the piggies actually admitted there was no blood on their unis...

    ...and OF COURSE they get away with that bullshit ! ! !
    THAT is the flavor of piggy in ferguson, well, EVERYWHERE...

  • On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 03:54am

    Re:

    THANK YOU: murderous behavior by mercenary goons of the state is not a big deal...

    a young black kid walking down the street with a air gun, or water gun, or cordless drill, or cell phone, or fucking nothing at all is an INFINITELY DANGEROUS threat to society and its completely understandable -perhaps regrettable- that he was blown up by pearl-clutching kops...

    but armed goons roaming the streets with weapons meant for war, threatening EVERYONE they are SUPPOSED to 'protect and serve' ? ? ?
    the new normal...
    whatever defends it, must be double plus good...

  • On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

    art guerrilla ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 03:47am

    Re:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    perhaps you will notice, there is no exception for: But excepting when we slide into a full-on police state and armed mercenaries just feel like cracking some skulls, because MOTHERFUCKIN' EAGLES, bitchez...

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