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• On the post: City Officials Tried To Force Wikimedia To Remove Truthful, But Unflattering, Content From Its Wiki Page

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:24am

  After reading the article it turns out that the "City" of Durham is in North Carolina.

• On the post: City Officials Tried To Force Wikimedia To Remove Truthful, But Unflattering, Content From Its Wiki Page

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 10:12am

  Vet your topics better

  Hey Tim, bad news. You've been played. Wikipedia has no article for Durham County in Indiana, and the list of counties in Indiana does not include a Durham. I know technically you're n,t a journalist but...

• On the post: Judge Says Student Can Sue School For Suspending Her After She Called A Fictional Cop A 'Pig'

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2018 @ 03:30pm

  Re: Re: You do NOT have the right "not to be offended"...

  Being a cop is a profession. You can stop being a cop. Stop equating badmouthing the cops with racial or orientation slurs. They are not the same.

• On the post: Court Shoots Down Cops Attempting To Prop Up Two Warrantless Searches With A Stack Of Lies

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2016 @ 04:46pm

  [citation required]

  Where, when, who, how?
  
  Would it really be that hard to provide some information that actually points to where this took place. I can guess that the court was Amarillo, but where did it take place? Who were the officers involved. You mention police officers through most of the article, but then in the court opinion they are suddenly DEA agents.
  
  What gives?

• On the post: Apple Might Be Forced To Reveal & Share iPhone Unlocking Code Widely

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2016 @ 12:25pm

  Isn't that the point?

  Isn't this what the whole fight is about? I'm not even a lawyer, and I realized the first time I read about this case how important it was that Apple simply refuse to do this (under any circumstances, including jail time for contempt of court). Once the phone evidence enters the courtroom, the entire process of unlocking the phone is subject to scrutiny. The precedence issue is secondary.

• On the post: NBC, Filthy Pirates, Sued Over Use Of Photographer's Work Without Permission

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2016 @ 03:17pm

  Rank hath its privileges

  That's one advantage of being the police. It puts you above the law.
  
  If NBC is the copyright police then they are above the law. Just ask any cop.

• On the post: Key Hepatitis C Patent Rejected In India, Clearing Way For Generic Treatment Costing A Thousand Times Less Than US Price

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2015 @ 09:53am

  what does a thousand times less mean? are you saying one-one-thousandth or .1% or are you saying that it is a thousand times more. when you multiply by a thousand things get bigger when you divide they get smaller.

• On the post: Leaked Emails Reveal MPAA Plans To Pay Elected Officials To Attack Google

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2014 @ 01:53pm

  iceberg

  if the mpaa can do this the ag's who else is doing it? big oil, car manufacturers, retail groups. mpaa is small fish (albeit with a big mouth) compared these other guys. who cares about mpaa, that's just entertainment (ok, there's a little free speech element thrown in there too), but these other groups have much more at stake and much deeper pockets (bp anyone?).

• On the post: The Many Motivations Of Movie Piracy (Notably Absent: 'I Want Everything For Free')

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2013 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re: Not "bad"

  not everyone hates trailers.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Birth Blogger Fight Goes Legal Over DMCA Abuse

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 02:12pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  i think we should ban assault copyright and high capacity copyright magazines. we should also look into the better mental health options for bloggers so this never happens again.

• On the post: Redditor Points Out The Flaws In SimCity's Online-Only DRM, Gets Banned By EA For His Troubles [UPDATED]

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 09:24am

  Re: Re: do sth?

  no, you can't say we "reserve the right" to do something and then say "just kidding". by saying that you "reserve the right" indicates that (a) you have thought of it and (b) you have every intention of doing it under some set of circumstances. otherwise, there would be no reason to reserve the right.

• On the post: Police Chief Deploys Officers With Assault Rifles To Stop & ID Everyone; Says Local Crime Stats Give Him Probable Cause

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2012 @ 08:51am

  time to vote

  i know that this seems extreme (it is!), and the people of the will feel the pain sooner than the mayor. in the end, however, the mayor will feel pain when he is up for reelection. this will be true especially after several lawsuits have drained the city coffers and they cannot afford to maintain the streets.

• On the post: Sega Goes Nuclear On YouTube Videos Of Old Shining Force Game

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 07:46am

  Re:

  i believe you have hit on the only way to respond to this kind of behavior. anything else only creates publicity for the company.

• On the post: If There Needs To Be An Investigation, It Should Be About Why The FBI Was Reading Certain Emails

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 09:41am

  irony

  but doesn't anyone find it ironic that the chief of the cia was brought down by another agency snooping into email?

• On the post: Biden Takes Part In MPAA Board Meeting; Suggests Studios Tell Paying Customers They're Thieves

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 10:00am

  just saying

  "in the second most powerful position in the world"
  
  seriously, with the exception of dick cheney who was pulling the strings on w, who really thinks the vice president has any power at all? true, the vice president is the second highest position in our government. however, the position of vice-president has only one very limited power and one not used very often at that.

• On the post: The Stupidity Of The 'Just Go Without' Argument

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 09:52am

  a lesson learned

  "If everyone just "does without," how does this improve the situation for either the content creator or the customers? Once you've taken the piracy out of it, all you've got left is a set of lousy options that do nothing for everyone involved. If rights holders are happier merely saddling up their high horse and riding to the nearest moral peak, so be it. Riding that horse won't make you any richer, though. All it does is further separate you from your potential income."
  
  maybe i'm a defeatist, but it seems clear that the lesson comes across loud and clear. you screw with the customers and they will go away. right now with all the pirating there is always that to blame. if people just ignore/boycott products that are priced wrong or come with unacceptable strings attache, the resulting lack of sales will send the message. right now they all can say, "but, but pirating!" the illusion of getting the pirates to pay up goes away and the legacy players might either learn or go away when they can't adapt.

• On the post: If The Government Needs To Step In To Help Your Business Model, You Shouldn't Be In Business

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 10:55am

  Re: Pure rubbish -- the government protects TechDirt's business model every day!

  when the government send in forces to quell violence, that is not protecting a business model. it's protecting human rights.

• On the post: Great Day For Canadian Copyright: Supreme Court Issues Five (Count 'Em) Rulings Supporting Fair Dealing And Fewer Tariffs

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 02:16pm

  Re:

  and they hate children and musicians.

• On the post: Multiple Hollywood Studios Making Movies About Julian Assange; How Many Will Pay Him For His Story?

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 03:35pm

  are you high mike?

  since when have you supported paying people for their "story" unless they wrote it. in fact, you are the one that regularly rants on about people who feel they deserve to be paid just because somebody made a story about their life.
  
  this level of inconsistency is becoming a problem, mike. i really like this site, but i'm starting to be unable to trust you to speak coherently because you are too busy trying to nitpick the xxaa's at any cost, including your integrity.

• On the post: US Copyright Office, MPAA Celebrate Handing Hollywood Stars Their Own Special Copyright Monopoly Powers

  

  cjstg ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 01:00pm

  the more the better

  let them lock up their "culture". do we really want it? personally i would rather watch someone like louis ck who understand what it means to create culture. free ideas get out and prosper, caged ideas wilt.

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