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• On the post: Prosecutors Still Want To Charge Girl Who Sent Naked Photo Of Herself For Child Porn

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2010 @ 08:20pm

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  "That's exactly what's happening in this case. You just don't so happen to like the prosecutor's discretion. Too bad. When you get to be the prosecutor there, you can use your own discretion."
  
  Um yeah. The entire term implies that actual prosecutor could be an insane jackass.
  
  Because that's his discretion.
  
  So, it worked as well as you'd expect, if you were George Orwell. I think he's a basket case. He's basking in his glory. The system works as expected.

• On the post: The Value Of Free As Analyzed By The Pizza Industry

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 07:10pm

  Re: Re: Who the hell are these people?

  Well, they're missing out on some tasty cheese...

• On the post: Prosecutors Still Want To Charge Girl Who Sent Naked Photo Of Herself For Child Porn

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 07:04pm

  Re: Re:

  "Absurd... The prosecutor always has the power to interpret extenuating circumstances and choose not to prosecute the crime."
  
  The term you're looking for is 'prosecutoral discression.'
  
  This is a case that could use some.

• On the post: The Value Of Free As Analyzed By The Pizza Industry

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 06:45pm

  Who the hell are these people?

  I have to wonder how I got to be middle aged and the the people running shit have apparently never been to a Hickory Farms.

• On the post: OiNK Admin: Not Guilty

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 06:42pm

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  They had a product called HACKERS! THEY WERE ASKING FOR IT!!

• On the post: Justice Department Finds No Problems With Text Message Prices

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 05:25pm

  Well, yeah

  Text Messages are like fifteen dollar stamps. When you can't visit a different stationier for two years.
  
  Weird thing is, people using an iPhone then tend to use email instead which has a higher overhead

• On the post: Facebook Requires McAfee Scan If There's A Security Breach? Is This Security Or A Marketing Program?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2010 @ 06:48pm

  Re: marketing, pure and simple

  Yeah, that sounds about right.
  
  Exec 1: We're getting a lot of crap about viruses on our site.
  
  Exec 2: Hrm. How do we make this not our problem?
  
  etc.

• On the post: French Court Forcing Google To Remove Word 'Scam' From Google Suggest

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2010 @ 11:34am

  Re:

  Seriously. If I ran Google, the Belgian (am I remembering that right?) papers would not be indexed, and every instance of "French" would be preceded by a randomly generated adjective selected by those voted on by the community.
  
  tl;dr Frak 'em.

• On the post: Supreme Court Says No Cameras In The Courtroom

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2010 @ 09:27am

  Re: Re: Re: Cameras here!!! But not there!!! Over here is okay!!! Not over there!!!

  "Oh, open up all of the courtrooms to cameras so that everyone can watch."
  
  This isn't about opening all courtrooms, and it certainly isn't a gangland murder case. It's advocacy for/against a proposition. If you don't want to be associated with your advocacy, shut the hell up.

• On the post: NY Police Destroy Counterfeit Clothes Rather Than Giving Them To The Homeless

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2010 @ 09:51am

  Counterfeit?

  Easy peasy solution: Make a label (something like "DKFU") and sew it on all the 'infringing' clothing. Now it's clearly not a 'counterfeit.'
  
  Within a year, you'll be able to find knock-offs in the Village and all the hipsters will be wearing it.

• On the post: School District Considers 'Anti-Piracy' Education Campaign Based On Anti-Drug Education Campaigns

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2010 @ 07:35pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  "But are they t-shirts with pictures of pizza on them?"
  
  They could be.
  
  Oh yes, they COULD BE!!!

• On the post: School District Considers 'Anti-Piracy' Education Campaign Based On Anti-Drug Education Campaigns

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2010 @ 05:11pm

  Re:

  THIS IS HOW IT STARTS!
  
  You get them hooked on that first "free" song, and the next thing you know, they're buying T-shirts!
  
  LOOOOOOOTS OF T-SHIRTS!

• On the post: Connect With Fans + Reason To Buy; The Contest

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2010 @ 03:29pm

  Re: Thanks!

  I had this idea months ago. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
  
  Now, THAT is how you RtB in the USA.

• On the post: France's Three Strikes Enforcement Agency… Pirated A Font For Its Logo

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2010 @ 12:37pm

  Don't you get it?

  All this copyright hullabaloo doesn't apply to IMPORTANT people. They have us cowed, as befits our roll.
  
  Now excuse me, I have some slashfic to write. It might be worth turning into a fanfilm. I'll let you know how it goes.

• On the post: Well Respected VC Firm Comes Out In Favor Of Independent Invention Defense Against Patent Infringement Lawsuits

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2010 @ 12:11pm

  Isn't it implied?

  I mean, if two people (entities, whatever) come up with an idea in close proximity, isn't that 'obvious to someone skilled in the art' by definition?
  
  Maybe there should be a provisional patent status, where the rubberstamp guys just sit on a patent for a year and see if anyone else submits a similar application?
  
  It's not much better than the current system, but at least the PTO monkeys don't have to tax themselves any further than they aren't.

• On the post: Fair Use And Films: Does Running Everything By The Lawyers Really Improve Your Film?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2010 @ 11:27am

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  "If I post here "I think IMfamous Joe is a fool" and then tomorrow post a link in another thread that says "we were just discussing yesterday that Imfamous Joe is a fool",what I have done is promote my opinion to a "fact", when it is really still an opinion."
  
  Not really. What you've done is said, "I've already demonstrated that IMfamous is a fool, and, BTW, here's my evidence."
  
  It's imperfect, but that's pretty much how human beings roll.

• On the post: Explaining The Copyright Bubble… And Why Big Corporations Want To Keep ACTA Secret

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2010 @ 05:59pm

  Re: Bailout!

  This is the problem. It doesn't matter what the public thinks, it matters what a handful of legislators think.

• On the post: Viacom: Court Should Grant Summary Judgment Over YouTube, But It's A Secret Why

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2010 @ 04:48pm

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• On the post: Court Notices That The FCC Appears To Have No Legal Mandate To Enforce Net Neutrality

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2010 @ 04:36pm

  Re: Federal COMMUNICATIONS Commission

  "Doesn't FCC stand for Federal Communications Commission? I would say that if any body is going to regulate the internet, it would fall to the FCC. "
  
  See, this is why things like The Patriot Act get enacted.

• On the post: More Surveillance Can Make Us Less Safe

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2010 @ 04:34pm

  Re: Let me get this straight

  "So if we had less data to process that would somehow make use safer, the fact that we couldn't process everything we had was somehow dangerous?"
  
  Yes. That's it exactly.
  
  Tell me you're not allowed to vote. Please.

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