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• On the post: All That's Left Of Nortel? Patents For The Trolls

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2010 @ 09:01pm

  Fuck you, Towel Head.

• On the post: Times Online Says Competitors Will Go Out Of Business Without A Paywall

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 25 May, 2010 @ 07:36pm

  Getting what I pay for ...

  Ok, so after I give Murdock my dollar, what do I use to line the bottom of my bird cage? It's the only real value I see in newspapers of today. The city of Dallas has one newspaper... one ... haha. It's as big a neocon bubba as are the majority of my fellow Texans. The Republicans scream "liberal press" when anyone dares contradict them. Yet every newspaper in Texas regularly endorses the Republican slate. Texas used to be Mississippi with better roads. Now our only good roads are tollways, built by Republicans by their brothers in law. Newspapers can stick it up their ***, I'll never give them a nickel.

• On the post: Amanda Palmer And OK Go Get Together To Celebrate Being Dropped From Their Record Labels

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 25 May, 2010 @ 11:37am

  Profound ....

  Anything to be first, huh? To hell with relevance, just comment first. Cute remark. Asinine, but catchy.

• On the post: TSA Admits That Body Scan Machines Can Record Images

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2010 @ 07:37pm

  sexually liberal

  I performed cunnilingus once ... It made me want to rape and kill.

• On the post: Lindsay Lohan Sues E*Trade For $100 Million; Says Baby Was Based On Her

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2010 @ 12:29pm

  The beat goes on...

  Years ago the cartoonist Al Capp (Lil Abner) introduced a new character, a folk singer, who rode around in a limo to sing about poverty and hunger. He named her Joanie Phony. Joan Baez, in righteous indignation, sued him. I recall that he apologized on the Johnny Carson show, saying he was indeed sorry that Miss Baez believed she might be Joanie Phony. She looked like an idiot.

• On the post: Japanese Collection Society Wants To Charge You For Tweeting Lyrics

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2010 @ 03:55pm

  JAPS

  They eat our whales because they think it will make their tiny penises bigger. What do you expect? We stopped too soon in 1945.

• On the post: Court Denies Innocent Infringement Defense To Teen For Sharing Music

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2010 @ 02:49pm

  How do they do it?

  I'm not overly naive, usually, but Limewire says it's all anonymous. So how the hell does the AA know what me and a guy in Detroit are doing? Also, do they move against a criminal file sharer immediately or do they wait until he racks up enough downloads to increase their revenues substantially?

• On the post: Proposal In Italy Would Require Gov't Authorization To Upload Any Video

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2010 @ 01:00pm

  You are all missing the big picture ...

  The question is: "Do the trains run on time?"

• On the post: Point Out A Potential Photoshopping Of A Demi Moore Picture, And She Has Her Lawyers Send Out The Nastygrams

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2009 @ 11:39am

  Who?

  Who the hell is Demi Moore? Ashton Whosits is a vague memory from an old tv show. Let's move on, people, nothing to see here ... Where's My Car, Dude? ... Where's My Career, Dude?

• On the post: Is Google Going Too Far In Latest Advertising Bans?

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2009 @ 03:24pm

  Level playing fields

  I violated no terms of service whatsoever. When my site at www.NewWorldEssays.com was banned from advertising I asked the ad exec why. He said it was 'immoral' to write essays for students. So I asked who made Google the keeper of public morals, but I got nowhere. Later I would see some of my much bigger competitors' ads on Google. I would call and complain. Each time I was thanked for bringing it go their attention, but they did nothing about it. Apparently Google's idea of morality is directly linked to the number of clicks your website can generate. Today I advertise on 3rd rate search engines while my huge competitors are free to violate the morals of American youth via Google. Is this a great country or what?

• On the post: Facebook Photos Coming Back To Haunt Users In Surprising Ways

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2009 @ 07:56pm

  Right to Privacy

  I'm pretty much rabid about right to privacy, as well as government intrusion into my quietly desperate life ... but I think that anyone stupid enough to post such things on their own site deserve the flak they get. Natural selection will settle it all eventually anyway.

• On the post: Libel Tourism Case Dismissed Because Little Evidence Of UK Visitors Seeing The Article

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2009 @ 09:12pm

  UK

  I think everyone in the UK should be put on an island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

• On the post: Sarah Palin Joins Al Gore In Not Realizing That Everyone's A Reporter These Days

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2009 @ 01:28pm

  That time of the month ...

  I can see the moon from my house ... wheeee ... I guess that makes me an Astronaut. Ummm ... mention whose name?

• On the post: Grammar Nazis: Useful Language Experts, Or Elitist Snobs?

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2009 @ 11:10am

  It's all about clarity ...

  "Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!" ... Mrs. Malaprop

• On the post: Kansas City Courts Overwhelmed By People Protesting Redlight Camera Tickets

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2009 @ 11:52pm

  Jam up the courts ...

  If everyone pleads not guilty, refuses to pay anything and demands a jury trial the courts will implode under the weight of it.

• On the post: Beginning Ruby Author: Publisher Wouldn't Let Me Give eBook For Free… So Pirate My Book (Sorta)

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 12:05pm

  theft of books

  In 1971 Abbey Hoffman (of the 1968 Chicago Police Department Riots) wrote a book with the unusual title of "Steal This Book" which discussed living free. Many of his readers took his advice and stole it, certainly. But many more paid for it. He got publicity for a book that I would not have ever heard of by so doing. Point is ... the writer we are discussing today is doing the same thing. I've never heard of him, you've never heard of him, but now his name is all over my monitor screen. OK People!! come to www.NewWorldEssays.com and steal my essays!!! NOW !!! Actually its a nice ploy. Thanks to Abbey for thinking of it.

• On the post: Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against No Longer Anonymous Commenter… After Commenter Was Revealed

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2009 @ 06:32pm

  HUH?

  He wanted me to watch the program, but I had seen the news already. so wassa problem?

• On the post: Good Old Fashioned Rant On Overbearing Copyright Holders

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2009 @ 07:53am

  Hirst an artist?

  Hirst is no more an artist than was Pollack, Warhol, Bacon, Rothko, and the rest of that ilk. Picasso said it best, that he had never been an artist, but rather was an entertainer, who understood his times. Maybe Hirst is going for the Streisand Effect. Either way, its a sad joke.

• On the post: Cash4Gold Sues Consumerist, Complaints Board Over Reports On Cash4Gold Practices

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2009 @ 12:02pm

  My Site, Coming Soon

  My new site, opening soon, will be www.cash4preciousgemstones.com Send me your diamonds and emeralds, and I'll send you cash. Is this a great country or what?

• On the post: Can There Be A Fair File Sharing Trial When The Language Is All Biased?

  

  Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 12:24pm

  co-opting the language

  The Right Wing Evangelical Christian Republicans (see how nice I'm being) have smeared the Democrats, (who seem too dazed to realize they're getting their heads handed to them on a platter) for years, and have made the words Liberal Democrat a catch phrase which many people now tend to accept as truth. They have made Family Values synonymous with their party, which is the funniest thing I've heard in politics since Lyndon's classic remark about Gerald Ford and chewing gum.
  I noticed that in the first Gulf War the enemy shot nasty vile missiles called SCUDS at us, but we only retaliated with our All American missiles, called PATRIOTS... It has to do with framing, and with petitio principii. It is propaganda. Intelligent people see through it, but since it continues, I must assume that Bubba does not.

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