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  • On the post: Turkish President Erdogan Now Demands Injunction Against German Media Boss For Saying He Laughed At Anti-Erdogan Poem

    bugmenot ( profile ), 12 May, 2016 @ 12:08pm

    mocking the criminally insane erdogan !

    as per the subject....

    is it right to mock the criminally insane erdogan ! ;o)

    "JULY 7, 2015
    Mr. Erdoğan claimed that Muslim explorers reached the Moon more than 300 years before the beginning of the Appolo program, vowing to build a mosque “in the crater” where they landed.

    “It is alleged that the first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969,” Erdoğan said. “In fact, Muslim space explorers reached our satellite 334 years before that, in 1635."

  • On the post: Awesome Stuff: Print Different

    bugmenot ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2016 @ 07:20am

    Maybe they're channeling Rowan

    Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean.

  • On the post: Yosemite Changing The Names Of Popular Park Landmarks Following The Most Ridiculous Trademark Dispute Ever

    bugmenot ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2016 @ 07:11am

    Meanwhile, Minneapolis is starting to envy St. Louis

    http://www.startribune.com/judge-hears-vikings-wells-fargo-dispute-over-signs/365491871/

    The Vikings have asked [Judge Donovan] Frank to issue an emergency order to force Wells Fargo to cover signs on the rooftops of their two 17-story buildings adjacent to the new U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis.

    [Lawyer Kevin] Coan said monetary damages would not be enough to compensate the harm because the Vikings had a right to control the image of the area surrounding the stadium. The Vikings negotiated the sign agreement with Ryan Companies, the developer of the project, which includes a $300 million investment from Wells Fargo. The Vikings’ authority to negotiate and control the area surrounding the stadium flowed from the initial stadium legislation.

  • On the post: Even The Power Of The Dark Side Can't Save Disney & ESPN From Cord Cutting

    bugmenot ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2015 @ 08:28am

    From "Famous Last Words" Dept.

    "The floggings will continue until ESPN subscriber revenue grows!"
    -- Bob Iger, CEO Walt Disney Company

  • On the post: Details Of How The Paris Attacks Were Carried Out Show Little Effort By Attackers To Hide Themselves

    bugmenot ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2015 @ 05:30am

    Who wants to lose his job?

    The intelligence community have a hard time convincing the public that they are actually doing something productive.

  • On the post: Law Professor Pens Ridiculous, Nearly Fact-Free, Misleading Attack On The Most Important Law On The Internet

    bugmenot ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 05:32pm

    For those who think it so idiotic to hold platforms of search engines liable for other peoples' speech: those same companies also argue that third-party speech is their (the company's) speech, at least when the government comes in to regulate them.

    section 230 is premised on the idea that it isn't their speech; First Amendment arguments are premised on the fact that it is.

    http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2014/baidus-political-censorship-protected-first-amendment-raises-broader-issues

  • On the post: Senate Passes CISA, The Surveillance Bill Masquerading As A Cybersecurity Bill; Here's Who Sold Out Your Privacy

    bugmenot ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2015 @ 08:06am

    Re: Rand Paul

    Rand Paul voted to stop Cloture, and tried to amend the bill, which was the most important vote. Without enough votes to stop cloture, or amend the bill, the bill was positioned to go through regardless of his presence. He was unable to prepare for the debate in CO and vote on the final bill at the same time. Even if he had been there, the bill didn't allow filibustering after that vote.
    See his cloture roll-call here:
    http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00281

  • On the post: Comey Sells The 'Ferguson Effect,' Blames Spikes In Violent Crime On Citizens With Cameras

    bugmenot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2015 @ 07:13pm

    Re: Can't have it both ways...

    "Public Servant" is a euphemism..they are Government Servants..Cops exist to protect the State(Government), Enforce it's Laws and maintain General Order(If that order is arresting African-Americans for violating Jim Crow..they will do it). So lets get that straight..Cops exist to Serve and Protect the Government..Courts have already ruled that Cops have no duty to protect individuals. So when you ask the question about a person who works for a private business feel about a customer(or non-customer) going to a business on private property to record and heckle isn't the same as a Government Servant being heckled/recorded in on a Public Street/Public Area..don't forget Cops aren't the employees of Citizens..we aren't their customers..so they have no duty to treat us with respect the way a real business would that trying to attract customers.

  • On the post: CISA Moves Forward: These 83 Senators Just Voted To Expand Surveillance

    bugmenot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2015 @ 06:49pm

    Re:

    Democrats are full of bad ideas. Obamacare being one that comes to mind. Lewis Black is radical leftist

  • On the post: DOJ Claims Apple Should Be Forced To Decrypt iPhones Because Apple, Not Customers, 'Own' iOS

    bugmenot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2015 @ 06:53pm

    Government

    This is why i loathe Government and Law Enforcement

  • On the post: No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better

    bugmenot ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2015 @ 12:54am

    >There is no intelligence, artificial or not involved. It's >just a chatbot.

    You seem to fail to grasp the concept of the Turing Test. If something passes the test, it is intelligent, by definition.

    >The whole concept of the Turing Test itself is kind of a >joke.

    Yeah I'm sure you're much smarter than Turing, so your opinion is important. What about Einstein? Are his theories bunk because you say so?

  • On the post: Former Revenge Pornster Chance Trahan Reinvents Himself… As Shark Tank's Daymond John

    bugmenot ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2015 @ 09:00pm

    Don't miss his typo-riddled promotional video on YouTube.

  • On the post: Lenovo In Denial: Insists There's No Security Problem With Superfish — Which Is Very, Very Wrong.

    bugmenot ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 02:09am

    At no point was Superfish installed on *any* Thinkpad laptops. This affects *only* the low end consumer Ideapad division. Lenovo has stated this also. See this article: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-posts-superfish-removal-instructions-fails-acknowledge-severity-problem/

    Article above should be amended to correct this. What they've done is indefensible, but get the facts right.

  • On the post: The Miraculous Works Of The Criminal Justice System

    bugmenot ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 05:14pm

    Wouldn't having a jury of peers, fellow citizens, fix the problem.. real people presented with this ridiculous evidence would be able to come up with more sensible verdicts. The drawback of course would be in that forming a jury is time-consuming and probably costs extra money. Perhaps technology could be used for jury members to telecommute their presence at the court while being at home.

  • On the post: University of Oregon Slaps Student With Five Conduct Charges Over Four Words

    bugmenot ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2014 @ 06:58am

    Re: Wow

    Wow. I find your statement very offensive and I have reported you to the proper authorities. You shall be severely punished for offensive thought and speech.

  • On the post: Federal Law Ordering US Attorney General To Gather Data On Police Excessive Force Has Been Ignored For 20 Years

    bugmenot ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2014 @ 07:13am

    Re:

    "If the government wants us to obey the law, it should set a better example."

    My sig for 15 years.

  • On the post: UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity

    bugmenot ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 02:58am

    Anonymity in HMG

    No day goes by, or one reads a newspaper article which cites an anonymous government official. "A source close to the minister said..."
    We have to give up anonymity when reading a newspaper article, while they get quoted "speaking under condition of anonymity"?

    The Royal Institute of International Affairs, St. James's Square, London, also known as Chatham House, even has an anonimity rule.

    At a meeting held under the Chatham House Rule, anyone who comes to the meeting is free to use information from the discussion, but is not allowed ever to reveal the identity, employer or political party of the person making a comment. It is designed to increase openness of discussion of public policy and current affairs, as it allows people to express and discuss controversial opinions and arguments without suffering the risk of dismissal from their job, and with a clear separation from the opinion and the view of their employer.

    If Her Majesty's Government wants to abolish anonymity online, shouldn't it begin by abolishing anonymity within its own walls?

  • On the post: KlearGear Told To Pay $306,750 For Bogus Attempt To Shakedown Customer For Bad Review

    bugmenot ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 12:21am

    Search for KlearGear reviews? Why do that?

    Naaa, they'll just sign a "Forget about me Google" form and the bad reviews will magically go away. It'll be easy for them to sell to the next customer since there are no bad comments -- EVER.

    OMG: Why the EU courts didn't leave google alone and go after the actual source site? THEN if google doesn't update its index in a reasonable time (months, not seconds), THEN you go after google.

    It's just like fortune tellers and members of government: count or inflate the number of times you're right but completely ignore and discount the number times you're wrong. ("Oh, I misspoke; I mean you just didn't hear me correctly to start with. You should be more accurate with your reporting.")

  • On the post: No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better

    bugmenot ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2014 @ 11:21pm

    Online article critique of the Turing Test

    If anyone wants to read an in-depth critique on why the Turing test "is a poor test of intelligence, that it encourages trickery, not intelligent behaviour, and that many intelligent systems would fail this test":
    http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=d758abba&page=1&size=full&all=1

    It was found this way:

    '4. The "rules" of the Turing test always seem to change. Hell, Turing's original test was quite different anyway.'

    The link to the original test contains a link at the bottom to a 1996 criticism of the test:
    'Jason Hutchens... has written an excellent article on what's wrong with it, and with the Turing test in general. Essentially, Hutchens is making the case that the Turing Test is a poor test of intelligence, that it encourages trickery, not intelligent behaviour, and that many intelligent systems would fail this test.'

    The link gives a 404, then through the Internet Archive you find it's available from 2003 as a postscript file, which when using an online converter can be seen here:
    http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=d758abba&page=1&size=full&all=1

  • On the post: Judge Highlights Bogus Collusion By ASCAP, Publishers In Rejecting Their Attempt To Jack Up Pandora's Rates

    bugmenot ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2014 @ 07:06pm

    Re: I'm going to ask a stupid question...AGAIN.

    "Why are none of these people in jail ... four people involved have directly and intentionally perjured themselves in a court of law."

    Just like James Clapper, except that he's a more visible higher up in the system?


    HAAAAA HAAA HA Ha ha. You're funny. I would like to subscribe to your fantasy newsletter where laws are actually enforced.

    (techdirt.com/articles/20130701/12494623683/james-clapper-admits-he-lied-to-congress-even-his-excuse-is-misleading.shtml)

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