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  • On the post: We'll Have To Wait For The Next Lawsuit To Find Out If A Web Crawler Can Enter Into A Contract

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2007 @ 08:52am

    contracts

    If i check the box that says i accept the terms of service on a website, it seems i have entered into a contract. if i program my bot to do the same isn't my bot then entering into a contract in my name?

  • On the post: Company With Checkered Past Tries To Claim Patent On Cell Phone Buttons

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2007 @ 06:47am

    what we know...

    Fuck you, towel head...(strong email to follow).

  • On the post: Is Annoying People The Best Way To Get Them To Drink Coors Light?

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2007 @ 10:11am

    hey Ayn

    you're saying that i'm a parasite because i get my work done by 5:00 each day? I doubt you pay half the taxes i do.. so fuck you, towel head....harsh email to follow.

  • On the post: Is It Plagiarism… Or Is It Wikipedia-Like Collaboration?

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2007 @ 01:30pm

    plagiarism

    i'm a freelance writer and in lean times i write college essays for the well-heeled under-achiever. much of my work is for theology students, and i write on the subject of ethics. they don't seem to see the irony. they are not supposed to pass my work off as their own, of course, but rather use my essay as a guide.. yes.. right.. wink wink, nudge nudge.. but sometimes i wonder where they get the money..its what i think of as expensive.

  • On the post: RIAA Gets Legislators To Threaten To Drop 'The Hammer' On Colleges and Universities

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2007 @ 10:39am

    simple problem..simple solution

    i dont listen to music. i couldnt care less what happens...but..why does no one call for a boycott? a simple 30 moratorium on the purchase of any new music...can't you guys go for a month listening to the old stuff? i suspect you might get their attention...it would cost them millions, i supect. hit the assholes in their fat wallets...

  • On the post: Patent Office Says File Sharing Is A National Security Risk

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2007 @ 07:58am

    the hall monitor...

    they are misanthropic and whale eaters...duh..i didnt imply that eating whales is what qualifies them as misanthropes. what a dildo...so they should channel this propensity for loathing other races, and do the world some good, by eating koreans... leaving our whales alone...who the hell made you the hall monitor? it was just a modest proposal...lighten up...

  • On the post: Patent Office Says File Sharing Is A National Security Risk

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2007 @ 07:43am

    hold the phone.....

    let me get this straight...the japs not only are eating our whales, to the tune of 1,000 a year, but they also have nuclear secrets? their constitution says they can't even have an army. what the hell are these misanthropic destroyers of marine mammals doing with nuclear secrets? let them eat north koreans. they aren't endangered and it would be a public service. maybe they could just eat each other, actually.

  • On the post: Connecticut AG Asserts Jurisdiction Over Any Web Site With Ads; Wants MySpace To Verify Users' Ages

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2007 @ 11:38am

    commerce?

    have you read the commerce clauses in the constituton? you dont even want to get politicians thinking about interstate commerce... with that in mind they can take over the net. read them some time.. it is frightening how they are interpreted.

  • On the post: Fines And Felony Charges For Letting Your Car Run On Restaurant Vegetable Oil?

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2007 @ 09:52am

    the tax man

    "if you try to drive i'll tax the street..try to walk, i'll tax your feet. try to sit, i'll tax your seat...yeah i'm the taxman....George Harrison

  • On the post: France Bans Citizen Journalists From Recording Violence: Because If It's Not Recorded We Can Pretend It Never Happened

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2007 @ 12:01pm

    winning a war?

    you must be thinking of the student riots last year. the kids took to the streets for weeks and france didn't even surrender to anyone...i guess you might call that a victory. their only one...however.

  • On the post: Why People Are Such Jerks Online

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2007 @ 08:34am

    where is dorpus?

    i looked up jerk on wikipedia. it has a picture of Dorpus. but he makes the rest of us look like intelligentsia...we all have our place in the universe. Dorpus has found his niche.

  • On the post: DRM Industry Gets Defensive Over Steve Jobs' Comments

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2007 @ 01:46pm

    musings...

    sounds like petitio principii to me......god, ive waited a long time to use that one.... hehe..

  • On the post: Daylight Savings Change Could Spell Doom For The World (Well, For An Hour, Anyway)

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2007 @ 10:41pm

    dorpus

    so..dorpus is from Alabama...hmm that explains a great deal.
    but now that i have your attention...i propose that since we can save daylight, why not go all out?.. save temperature...we raise the thermometer reading by ten degrees in late fall.....a freezing day in january becomes an almost balmy 42 degress. then come spring we subtract ten degrees.. the 98 degree july day would be lowered to a comfortable 88...im going to call Bush.

  • On the post: China Discovering The Futility Of Banning Internet Cafes

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2007 @ 08:35pm

    ah dorpus.. what an idiot

    it gave rise to a monied criminal class. how do u think the mobs got rich? duh. al capone, lanksey, schultz.. they ran illegal alcohol.
    we have done the same in this era with our ridiculous drug war. it has made billionaires of the drug kingpins.
    no one stopped drinking. they just paid the mob. what a moron. you cannot legislate morality.. and you shouldn't confuse sin with crime.

  • On the post: J.K. Rowling Forces E-Book Readers To Become Pirates

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2007 @ 06:42am

    forces them?

    how they hell are they FORCED? they can just buy the damn book this one time. sensational headline, guys........baskin- robbins came out with a new flavor..FORCING ME TO ADD FIVE POUNDS TO MY AMPLE ASS.. right..

  • On the post: Companies Pay Fines For Advertising In Adware… Still Not Clear How They Broke The Law

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2007 @ 06:24am

    what they did wrong

    i like to think of it as the equivelent of coming to my home and spray painting their name on my walls. what they did was abet the vandalizing of my property.
    they didnt spend that kind of money and not realize exactly what was going to be happening. they are as sleezy as the adware company. they deserve whatever punishment they get...
    but then, you can't actually fine a company..they simply raise prices to compensate. in essence the consumer pays the fine for them.

  • On the post: Copyright Is Not A Welfare System For Musicians

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2007 @ 06:01am

    the industry

    The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...HUNTER S. THOMPSON

  • On the post: More Casinos Realize They Can Blame Software Glitch And Not Pay Out Big Prizes

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2007 @ 10:38am

    casinos are regulated?

    do you believe in santa and the tooth fairy. too?

  • On the post: Making A Will With Quicken WillMaker Is Unauthorized Practice Of Law?

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2007 @ 07:29am

    100 years?

    It's taking 100 years to get the slimey bastards to put it into plain english? i think you made the point for us. the law is the written in gobbledygook because we allow lawyers to write it. get real.

  • On the post: Making A Will With Quicken WillMaker Is Unauthorized Practice Of Law?

    Charlie Potatoes ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2007 @ 07:22am

    sensational headline, mike

    Ok, you got me to take time out of my day to read how it's a crime to use quicken to make a will... unfortunately that isn't what your story is about.
    since i have no intention of opening an office and making wills using that software for hire, the article doesn't relate to me.
    i've seen similar headlines on the cover of national inquirer while i wait in line at the grocery store. somehow i expect better from TechDirt. oh well...fuck you towel heads.

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