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  • On the post: Could The Ultimate Legacy Organization – The Vatican – Be Out In Front On Copyright?

    G Holister ( profile ), 10 May, 2011 @ 05:23am

    Re: 2000 Year Copy Maximalists

    Speaking only for myself, I hate the catholics no more than I hate any organisation that would force educational abuse on children with threats of eternal torture on the one hand, while covering up almost systemic levels of sexual abuse and defending the abusers on the other.

    Naive, indirect and thinly spread it may be, every catholic that doesn't speak out against it carries that guilt in my book.

    If you're not the type to hide from naughty language, you can see the perfect summation of my feelings for catholicism in Tim Minchin's Pope Song... popular song, that.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Placing Bets On Alternative Energy Technologies…

    G Holister ( profile ), 06 May, 2011 @ 05:18am

    Re: Landscape Pollution

    Yes, provided that the complaining party is able to accept and willing to admit that they're placing aesthetics over environmentalism. Fair enough, if that's their opinion - they're entitled to it, after all - but enough rationalisation already please, NIMBYs, you're not fooling anyone.

  • On the post: As Expected, Google's Changes Are Bleeding Demand Media & Other Content Farms

    G Holister ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 05:18am

    > Mahalo's Google traffic is down 78 percent

    Awww, and Jason's such a nice bloke too.

  • On the post: Music Is Collaborative: Jay-Z To Sugar Hill Gang To Al Jolson And Back Again

    G Holister ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 09:53am

    "one of the lyrics from Rapper's Delight copied a lyric from another rapper so directly that it includes that rapper's name in the lyric."

    What? Where? I've read the entire 10,000 word essay that is rapper's delight twice and can't see it - unless you're referring to 'grandmaster', in which case it will be you, not me, requiring an eye-rolling or two :)

  • On the post: Newspaper Tells Reporters Not To Engage With Community

    G Holister ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2011 @ 04:31am

    Re: Re: Re: Grade F

    It makes perfect sense, as long as you just waffle about it instead of making use of it? I see. Are you absolutely certain you're not getting it confused with religion?

  • On the post: Newspaper Tells Reporters Not To Engage With Community

    G Holister ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2011 @ 02:54am

    Re: Grade F

    I prefer Mike's take, grounded as it is in the more useful realm of pragmatism.

  • On the post: Nigerians Looking To Crack Down On Movie Piracy, Despite Thriving Nollywood Movie Industry

    G Holister ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 05:17am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Ditto. My reply was either 'playing along' or 'calling out'... delete as appropriate :)

  • On the post: Nigerians Looking To Crack Down On Movie Piracy, Despite Thriving Nollywood Movie Industry

    G Holister ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 04:31am

    Re:

    Can't happen? You are entitled to your own opinion, AC, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

  • On the post: In The End, Secret Hold On Whistleblower Protection Narrowed Down To Two Senators

    G Holister ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 07:10am

    What? Why the flying fuck would they stop now?

  • On the post: Bizarre UK Free Speech Ban Bars People From Telling Anyone — Including Elected Officials & Lawyers — About Potential Toxic Chemicals

    G Holister ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 07:36am

    Re:

    I regret to inform you that I was granted an injunction against injunctions of this nature just yesterday, and that in accordance with the terms of my injunction, your death is now mandated as restitution. I hope you enjoyed your time here, and that this unfortunate circumstance has not tainted your impression of our wonderfully sensible legal system.

    Lots of love,
    Lawyers.

  • On the post: Bizarre UK Free Speech Ban Bars People From Telling Anyone — Including Elected Officials & Lawyers — About Potential Toxic Chemicals

    G Holister ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 04:41am

    Re: Re:

    Can I interest you in a punch in the face?

    No? How about a kick in the bollocks, then?

    Still not interested? Well, hey, don't complain - you have a choice, and that choice is *the only thing that matters*. It's called democracy, you commie bastard!

  • On the post: Dating Site's Plans To Create Profiles By Scraping Social Networks: Publicity Stunt Or Just Dumb?

    G Holister ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2011 @ 04:35am

    Check their shoes - if the laces are tied then it's a publicity stunt. If, on the other hand, they haven't managed to figure out how to tie shoelaces, then they *might* just be dumb enough to think that it was a good idea.

  • On the post: Wishful Thinking: Hollywood Believes Next Generation Of Kids Will Pay For Content

    G Holister ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2010 @ 07:45am

    It could be a bluff... if they manage to get it spread as much as all those random figures they pull out of their arses, maybe, they think, it'll be accepted as true and people will try to live up to it. Who knows?

  • On the post: Group Claims Google Had 'Criminal Intent' In WiFi Data Collection

    G Holister ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2010 @ 06:37am

    > I WAS SCREAMING MY GROCERY LIST FROM MY FRONT YARD AND SOMEBODY DROVE BY AND HEARD IT! BREAKING AND ENTERING!!!

    I was reading the internets the other day, and heard about someone screaming their grocery list from their front yard when somebody drove past them with a device for detecting voices and recording their locations.

    The voice-detection people didn't realise that the device was also recording the voices, because somebody else set the device up a long time ago for a completely different purpose. Of course, I don't know that for sure, but I'm so attached to reality to that there can be no alternatives that I haven't yet considered, so I must be right. Even if I were wrong, at least I would just be wrong, and not at all pathetic and/or moronic. I know exactly what Dunning-Kruger is, and I don't suffer from it in the slightest.

    And so, I am now apoplectic with rage on behalf of this other person who has had their public announcement recorded - after all, it's not like it's something as trivial as the spokesman for a 1/6 of the planet's population actively covering up child abuse while blocking the prevention of 1000 deaths per day, or a company who scrimped on safety at the peak of their profits and in doing so fucked the livelihoods of millions of people at a total cost to them of 2 days profit.

    God I'm amazing at this 'life' thing, I should be king of the world or something. I should never be put to death in order to provide organs for transplant lists, because I'm much more valuable when I'm able to tell people what I think, and, when I finally give in to all the ladies hammering at my door, I'm even able to pass my genes on so that there'll be even more people who know as much as I do in the next generation.

    (Ed: I like 'the line' - I enjoy the whooshing sound it makes as I fly over it)

  • On the post: Group Claims Google Had 'Criminal Intent' In WiFi Data Collection

    G Holister ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2010 @ 06:34am

    > I WAS SCREAMING MY GROCERY LIST FROM MY FRONT YARD AND SOMEBODY DROVE BY AND HEARD IT! BREAKING AND ENTERING!!!

    I was reading the internets the other day, and heard about someone screaming their grocery list from their front yard when somebody drove past them with a device for detecting voices and recording their locations.

    The voice-detection people didn't realise that the device was also recording the voices, because somebody else set the device up a long time ago for a completely different purpose. Of course, I don't know that for sure, but I'm so attached to reality to that there can be no alternatives that I haven't yet considered, so I must be right. Even if I were wrong, at least I would just be wrong, and not at all pathetic and/or moronic. I know exactly what Dunning-Kruger is, and I don't suffer from it in the slightest.

    And so, I am now apoplectic with rage on behalf of this other person who has had their public announcement recorded - after all, it's not like it's something as trivial as the spokesman for a 1/6 of the planet's population actively covering up child abuse while blocking the prevention of 1000 deaths per day, or a company who scrimped on safety at the peak of their profits and in doing so fucked the livelihoods of millions of people at a total cost to them of 2 days profit.

    God I'm amazing at this 'life' thing, I should be king of the world or something. I should never be put to death in order to provide organs for transplant lists, because I'm much more valuable when I'm able to tell people what I think, and, when I finally give in to all the ladies hammering at my door, I'm even able to pass my genes on so that there'll be even more people who know as much as I do in the next generation.

    (Ed: I like 'the line' - I enjoy the whooshing sound it makes as I fly over it)

  • On the post: Michigan Politician Proposes Bill To Regulate Journalists So He Can Tell You Which Reporters To Trust

    G Holister ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2010 @ 07:29am

    The closest we have to this is still pretty good, IMHO - just look for citations/attributions and the liberal replacement of assertions with questions. If you see that lot, you're looking at the output of a legitimate journalist.