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• On the post: Intelligence Community Feels It Might Be Time To Start Stuffing Surveillance Gear Into People’s Pants

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2023 @ 03:15pm

  "There ain't never a catch, all you got to do is snatch—"

  cops taking their pants off before abusing people’s rights

  Cops aren't in the habit of dropping their drawers before they abuse people. They walk up to the rolled-down car window, rip open that Velcro fly—krriiiiisshh— Pray to not hear the sound.

• On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Poised To Sell Off Music, Movie Catalogs Because Megamergers Are Stupid And Pointless

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2023 @ 08:43pm

  In cyberspace, no one cares if you scream

  mega corps like Blue Sun, Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell, etc. ruling over everyone and being omnipotent while the reality is they would really be drowning in debt and run by incompetent morons

  Unfortunately for most people, our present-day megacorporations are "run by incompetent morons" while also "ruling over everyone." Our so-called meritocracy rewards the crassy and ignores merit.

• On the post: Fallout From Nintendo’s ‘Zelda’ Freak-Out Continues, Including Nintendo Self-Harm

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 13 May, 2023 @ 02:33am

  [phone rings]

  The screenshots were coming from inside the company!

• On the post: The First Amendment Needs To Protect Everyone (Even Homophobic Web Designers) To Protect Anyone

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2022 @ 03:44pm

  key fact

  Key, actual fact, the overwhelming majority of people actually transphobic are those of the Abraham myths.

  That doesn’t imply causality, Mr Factual Accuracy. If it is true, then it is true merely because those of the Abrahamic myths are the majority of the world’s total population. Thus, the formula “the majority of people who are ____ are people of the Abrahamic myths” will remain true for a most assertions (if they are unrelated to the myth system of one’s parent culture; of course “the majority of Hindus are people of the Abrahamic myths” would be false ). For example, “the majority of trans people are people of the Abrahamic myths” is most probably true.

• On the post: The First Amendment Needs To Protect Everyone (Even Homophobic Web Designers) To Protect Anyone

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2022 @ 09:58am

  wronged ‘em boyo

  the morons here spew hate and venom if you like to have sex with other men and are not squarely in line with Lenin

  You have your ideologies backwards. It is the fascists who are intolerant of homosexuals. We socialists view LGBTQ+ and all people as one common family of man, who deserve equal rights, respect, and love.

• On the post: Dumb Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown Will Arrive In US Early Next Year

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2022 @ 08:51am

  rolling out this thoughtful approach more broadly

  After listening to consumer feedback, we are going to offer the ability for borrowers to transfer their Netflix profile into their own account

  After listening to my mowerless neighbor who borrows my lawn mower, I am going to offer him the ability to use his own lawn mower.

  and for sharers to manage their devices more easily and to create subaccounts (“extra member”), if they want to pay for family or friends

  Using subaccounts will make management less easy. Now is the time for fat cats to foot the little guy's bill!

  We’ve landed on a thoughtful approach to monetize account sharing

  If you're approaching monetization, then you shan't land on anything thoughtful. On the contrary, to root about for ideas by which you might squeeze money from other people is to be as a shiteating animal who delightedly roots about for faeces.

• On the post: Magistrate Judge To Tesla Buyer Suckered Into Paying Extra For ‘Full Self-Driving’ That Isn’t Full Self-Driving: Next Time Read The Fine Print

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2022 @ 05:36am

  ambi-what?

  Are you suggesting there’s some room for ambiguity in the term “full self-driving”?

  There is no ambiguity in the term "full self-driving car." It is a full car which drives itself. Maybe they meant fully self-driving car since "self-driving" is adjectival, thus if one means that the self-driving is full, then one uses the adverbial form of full which is fully. As Elton Musk is most probably Musky.

• On the post: The 1st Amendment Wins The Inaugural Techdirt Legal Misunderstanding March Madness

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2022 @ 02:50pm

  the real meaning

  I had 2nd Amendment going all the way.

• On the post: Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2021 @ 12:40pm

  Greetings, from the President of the…

  The following terms and marks are trademarks of the United States of America and may not be used without permission:
  United States™

  Is this a good point at which to note that our* neighbor to the south is officially the United States of Mexico? *for better or for worse, I am a resident and citizen of the USA

• On the post: Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2021 @ 12:35pm

  “a lot of people” with little brainpower

  when it [comes crashing down], a lot of people are certainly going to be hurting inside.

  You assume that these people are rational, realistic, and capable of accurate self-reflection. Alas, for they are not.

• On the post: CIA, NSA Block Ads Network-Wide To Protect Agencies. Ron Wyden Says Rest Of Gov't Should Do The Same.

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2021 @ 08:58am

  advertising is immoral and ought to be illegal

  All advertising is odious, and always has been—as Charles Baudelaire described in the mid-19th-century: "The immense nausea of advertisements." (Intimate Journals, XLIV)

  The poet was correct. To see or hear ads is to instantly feel queasy. Advertising is the pollution of the public sphere by those who love money.

  All advertising ought to be banned and forbidden. Never allowed under any circumstances.

  Even if such laws would be difficult to define and enforce, let us end this pox upon mankind.

• On the post: GOP Hollowly Threatens To 'Shut Down' Telecom Companies For Cooperating With Legal January 6 Inquiries

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2021 @ 11:53am

  WASHINGTON, DC—At a press conference today, a group of Republican Senators announced that California had fallen into the Pacific Ocean.

  "The state of California has crumbled into the sea," said Sen Mike Lee (R-UT).

  Democratic members of Congress said that such a topographical event had not taken place.

  "California is still there," said Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

  Capitol analysts have said that they expect this clash of ideas to continue into the foreseeable future, with no clear resolution in sight.

• On the post: The End Of Ownership: How Big Companies Are Trying To Turn Everyone Into Renters

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2021 @ 09:09pm

  the Oxford Dictionary is THE Dictionary.

  The Oxford is great but Merriam-Webster is the unrivaled authority on the American English lexicon.

• On the post: Republicans Using Incredibly Sketchy And Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' To Dupe People Into Donating Way More Than Intended

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2021 @ 10:54pm

  Re: 'I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!'

  I struggle to find much sympathy to offer While you find that it requires no struggle to blame the victims?

• On the post: Republicans Using Incredibly Sketchy And Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' To Dupe People Into Donating Way More Than Intended

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2021 @ 11:20pm

  NRCC

  Let us not conflate the National Republican Congressional Committee with any serious body in the republic. The NRCC is yet another fly-by-night scam operation whose principals have the goals of: (1) meeting the bare-minimum legal requirements for qualifying, with the IRS, as a tax-exempt 527 organization, and (2) absconding with 90% (or whatever non-persecutable maximum percentage) of the money they collect.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: NASA Footage Taken Down By YouTube Moderation (2012)

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2021 @ 11:05pm

  A reasonable price

  Is overblocking -- including public domain works -- a reasonable price to pay to avoid infringement?

  Don’t we already have an answer to this question, in the realm of justice in public policy?

  “It is better for one hundred guilty people to go free, than for one innocent person to be punished.”

  Perhaps I fail to ken fine details of the intersection between a moral and a financial “price to pay,” but one of those two nodes dwarfs the other unto insignificance.

• On the post: Game Publishers: If Your DRM, Anti-Cheat Software Does Creepy Installs, Warn Your Customers First

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2021 @ 10:45pm

  privy, see

  We take information privacy seriously at WFS

  ...the privacy of WFS information—so we say nothing to you about our unethical planting of our unethical software.

• On the post: Copyright Trolling/SEO Scam, Changing The Photo Credits On Wikimedia Commons

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2020 @ 02:46am

  to fix it

  A great deal of the world wide web’s problems are due to money being exchanged for the direction of visitors to websites.

  The practice must be banned. Link aggregation sites are a pox on the internet. Websites should rely on their own merits to draw whatever organic traffic they are worthy to attract. It would clean up massive portions of the web, to make mandatory the cessation of paying third parties for the sake of directing visitors to certain websites. It would also ease a transition to much greater transparency.

  Aggregator sites, of all types, are unnecessary duplication, and their proliferation does not serve the common interest. Duplication is always wasteful. Ideally, a central authority would regulate all markets, and eliminate the production inferior goods, both physical and virtual. “Economic competition” and the “right of a person to make a bad decision” be damned.

• On the post: Republicans, Who Have Made Sure The Federal Election Commission Can't Do Anything, File A Complaint About Twitter's Moderation Practices

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2020 @ 05:52am

  Re: Rebuilding will take decades

  nor can we equip them with the...critical thinking skills enough to know their own best interests

  Educated workers draw higher wages, so amoral capitalists wreck our institutions of learning. Obsessed with money, and their default move is to exploit other people. Probably devoid of any sense of fairness. Remember Brett Kavanaugh throwing a tantrum and saying if he was denied a seat on the US Supreme Court, then that would be an injustice of seismic historical proportions? Twisted and weird beyond my ability to comprehend.

• On the post: Josh Hawley Is A Lying Demagogue Who Has Built A Fake Fantasy World About 'Evil Big Tech'

  

  catsmoke ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2020 @ 11:00pm

  full court?

  consumers (thanks to the press) will genuinely view this as a "discount,"

  An ironic statement, since TechDirt is “the press” and it is doing the exact opposite of what it predicts “the press” will do.

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