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  • On the post: Amanda Knox Is Guilty… Of Making Newspapers Jump The Gun On Guilty Headlines

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 04:20pm

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    You got me there, but in the interest of trying to save face, I will now claim that meteorologists get the forecasts wrong, newspapers should just report those forecasts, and now I will no longer trust them to do that properly.

    If that doesn't work, can I derail the conversation by calling you names and of being a supporter of Mazburglar?

  • On the post: Supreme Court Won't Hear Case Saying That You Have No First Sale Rights With Software

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 04:00pm

    Re: Re: Bah, Mazburglar and his FUD

    I totally agree with you.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Won't Hear Case Saying That You Have No First Sale Rights With Software

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 02:30pm

    Bah, Mazburglar and his FUD

    I'm so sick of Mazburglar and his FUD. The Supreme Court didn't let this stand, they just refused to listen to hear the case, which means they aren't letting the ruling stand, which means that Vernor won.

    Wait...Uhm, let me try again after I remove the logic portion of my brain with some heavy blunt trauma.

  • On the post: Amanda Knox Is Guilty… Of Making Newspapers Jump The Gun On Guilty Headlines

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 01:44pm

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    A day or two late seems a bit long even. Either one of these papers could have waited 10 minutes and saved a lot of face. I'm glad they didn't though. Otherwise I might have trusted their other stories. Now I have no reason to trust them for anything. Neither of these papers can be trusted for even weather reports.

  • On the post: Amanda Knox Is Guilty… Of Making Newspapers Jump The Gun On Guilty Headlines

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 01:41pm

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    This is absolutely true. I might or might not have gone to The Sun or Daily Mail for this story first, but now that they've shown that they are willing to make up stuff just to be first, I won't go to them for any other story, whether they are first or not. Their attempt at being first for one story, has shown that they aren't trustworthy for any story.

    Being first might gain you viewers now, but being wrong loses you viewers for a long time. In this case, showing that you lie loses you viewers for ever.

  • On the post: Facebook Sued For Patent Infringement For Online Photo Albums

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 12:17pm

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    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I'm not speaking on Mike's behalf, but this is an example of the patent system working. The whole idea of the patent system was to make people pay one person/entity/group for coming up with something (increasing costs) or to not use that idea (holding back progress). That's what is going on here.

    Some will claim that patents were meant to "promote the progress", or to be an incentive for creation that would not otherwise get done, but after centuries of this garbage, we ought to be able to see that it does neither. By definition, patents hold back progress. Patents do nothing to spur creation, only to increase costs and/or slow down progress.

  • On the post: US Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling That Says Music Downloads Are Not Public Performances

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2011 @ 04:19pm

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    You didn't read the article did you? They did "let stand", it's just the standing is in the second circuit. All that other stuff you wrote was already talked about in the article. I guess reading it first would have kept you from getting a first post, though, so carry on.

  • On the post: TSA Force Breast Cancer Patient To Submit To Patdown, Refuse To Let Her Show ID Card About Implants

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2011 @ 03:57pm

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    You mean like Gary Johnson or Ron Paul?

  • On the post: Another NinjaVideo Admin Pleads Guilty, Expect The Rest To Do So Too

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2011 @ 11:37am

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    Yay! I love mad libs.

  • On the post: You Are A Mashup Of What You Let Into Your Life

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2011 @ 11:30am

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    Well, some do anyway.

  • On the post: Is Amazon's New Silk 'Cloud' Browser A Huge Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Waiting To Happen?

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 03:18pm

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    I'm torn on the money question. Amazon has a lot more money so winning a judgement against them means you'll actually get paid (because let's be honest, if the RIAA does get what it wants from Jammie Thomas, she'll never be able to pay them). At the same time, Amazon has a lot more money and is going to be much more willing to fight this than some poor schmoe.

  • On the post: University Police & Administration Freak Out Over Nathan Fillion Firefly Poster; Censor, Threaten Professor

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 12:14pm

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    God help them if they ever discover the cut up corpses in the biology department.

  • On the post: University Police & Administration Freak Out Over Nathan Fillion Firefly Poster; Censor, Threaten Professor

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 12:12pm

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    Not being a fan of the show (I've never seen it, so sue me), and having no other context than what is discussed here in the article, I'm pretty sure I got the gist. Had I not had the context here in the article, I'd have assumed it was a quote from somewhere and might have looked up where it's from. But whether I looked it up or not, I can vaguely get the gist that what it's saying is that the guy isn't a coward and will stand up and face his enemies.

    What I don't get out of it is somebody inciting violence. Courage, bravery, and/or boldness? Yes. But if inciting those are against the law, then we truly hopeless.

  • On the post: Does The NYPD Really Think That Shooting Photos/Videos Of Protests Is 'Disorderly Conduct?'

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 11:38am

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    With regards to protecting the people in this country, the press have become more important than the police. Think about the ridiculousness of that for a moment, and you'll realize how much trouble we're all in....
    This isn't too surprising to me, nor do I think the founding fathers would think this at all a bad thing. To the contrary, I think many of the founding fathers thought that was the way it was supposed to be. Combine these two things:

    1) Freedom of speech and of the press is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, right next to the right to bear arms, both of which were meant to keep the government afraid of the people. Limiting what the government can search of yours is only one amendment down, and the right not to incriminate yourself is just another right down from that.

    2) Benjamin Franklin's quote about liberty and security, in which he says that if you're willing to give up a little bit of the freedom of press, you'll not only be less secure, but you'll also have less freedoms.

    Given those two, I believe the founding fathers absolutely meant for the press to be what protected us. Keep in mind also, that in their day, they had no conception of some professional journalists being the press. To them, the press was simply the ability to publish. The first amendment protects freedom of speech and the press as two different ways for all citizens to express their ideas, not as speech rights given to everybody and some separate rights given to journalists.

  • On the post: Canadian Copyright Reform Authors Know The Law Outlaws Circumvention Even If No Infringement… But Don't Seem To Care

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 02:42am

    Given the propensity of copyright maximalists to claim that IP is indeed physical property, and their confusing of theft and infringement, my guess is they think that breaking these locks is equivalent to breaking and entering. That some people break the locks to commit infringement, they probably equate to burglary. Given that, I will now use this information to good effect in a strawman (can't you see I like to follow in their footsteps?) and I will now refer to Mike as the Burglar Mike. But in the interest of getting more IP confused, I'll infringe on McDonalds Hamburglar trademark and up the ante:

    Why do you hate freedom so much, Mazburglar?

  • On the post: OnStar Drops Plan To Monitor Non-Subscribers

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 02:31am

    Well that sucks

    Oh great. Now it's going to be really difficult for me to rejoin their service. And how am I supposed to get yet another scam warranty reminder without this?

  • On the post: Another Day, Another Story Of Police Lying… Only To Be Found Out Due To Video Of The Incident

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2011 @ 01:24pm

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    I'll second this. There might not be audio/video surveillance everywhere, but there is absolutely no reason why the police can't have audio/video surveillance on them at all times. If they can't provide the audio/video at a trial, then their word should have equal weight as the accused's word. If no other evidence can be shown, the accused should automatically be determined not guilty.

  • On the post: Bethesda Turns Down Quake Fight Over Scrolls Name; Takes Guaranteed Loss By Going To Court

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2011 @ 09:02am

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    Just in case...

  • On the post: Theaters On Prescreenings: Bring Your Firearms, But No Mobile Phones

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2011 @ 03:16pm

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    So when in the last 300 years have guns 'saved' American democracy?
    I hate to appear like I'm going after the low hanging fruit here, but how about the American Revolution? That happened less than 300 years ago.

    Also, asking whether or not guns have been used is missing the point. The founders of America, who had just recently used guns to overthrow their government, realized that someday the same thing might need to happen again. It's not a matter of has it happened (it has, btw, in the American Revolution), it's a matter of when will it happen again.

    Arguments can be made that peaceful revolutions can occur (see Gandhi), or that overbearing governments can be fixed without the need for guns. I'm a believer in the four boxes of liberty. If you can defend your liberty without resorting to guns, more power to you. But I don't see any reason to remove the final option just because others are more preferable.

  • On the post: Bethesda Turns Down Quake Fight Over Scrolls Name; Takes Guaranteed Loss By Going To Court

    Chosen Reject ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2011 @ 02:18pm

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    No, I like his definition of proved. I'm going to borrow it.

    By the way everyone, P actually is equal to NP. Now that I've proven that, I would like to start seeing speaking engagements and would appreciate someone volunteering to write my autobiography.

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