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• On the post: After Leading The Attack On Investigative Journalism, President Obama Whines About A Lack Of Investigative Journalism

  

  JWW ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2016 @ 02:15pm

  If wishes were horses...

  I love all the comments that give Obama a pass on being a horrible President with respect to whistleblowers. People who love him politically cannot wrap their head around the fact that he would deliberately do something "bad" so they come up with all these crappy excuses that are pretty much exactly like a five year old pointing and yelling "but Georgie did it first!!"

• On the post: General Wesley Clark: Some WWII-Style Internment Camps Are Just The Thing We Need To Fight Domestic Radicalization

  

  JWW ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2015 @ 11:31am

  Damned GOP

  When are these damned GOP politicians gonna learn that this isn't acceptable?
  
  Oh, wait, what is that Wesley Clarks a Democrat? That can't be right, progressives would never advocate for these things.

• On the post: DOJ Inspector General Tells Congress That FBI Isn't Letting His Office Do Its Job… Again

  

  JWW ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2015 @ 05:33am

  It makes more sense

  It makes more sense if you always realize that the truth is 180 degrees opposite from what the administration is saying.

• On the post: Keurig Competitor Offers Free Hack Workaround For Keurig's Absurd Java Bean DRM

  

  JWW ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2015 @ 09:27am

  Takes me back

  Damn, this take me back to when you'd use a paper punch to notch out a tab on the floppy disk so the other side could be used.

• On the post: France Announces Plans To Hold The Internet Responsible For Terrorism

  

  JWW ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2015 @ 11:53am

  Wow

  Wow, they totally missed the point of that rally they had a few weeks ago.
  
  Free Speech means you have the right to insult. Period.
  
  Politically, I likely disagree very strongly with most stances the Charlie Hebdo magazine takes. But they have the RIGHT TO SAY THEM!
  
  When we are unable to speak we are controlled, when we are controlled we are not free.
  
  France is doing just what the Charlie Hebdo ATTACKERS want them to do.

• On the post: Die Another Eh: What Does It Mean Now That James Bond Is In The Public Domain In Canada?

  

  JWW ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2015 @ 12:56pm

  Yeah, but

  If they do make Canadian Bond films the Queen can still take it out on them, since she is still their Monarch.

• On the post: Irony Alert: DOJ Leaked To Press Decision Not To Force Reporter James Risen To Reveal Who Leaked Info To Him

  

  JWW ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 06:41am

  Careful

  The DOJ better be careful, by doing this they might just create an irony singularity.

• On the post: The Homicide No One Committed: Eric Garner's Death At The Hands Of An NYPD Officer No-Billed By Grand Jury

  

  JWW ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2014 @ 01:46pm

  Re: Ferguson is not a civil rights case, NY is a civil rights case

  As a libertarian, I strongly believe that selling property that you have previously legally purchased should never be a crime. Those laws are just protection for established businesses.
  
  Killing someone over that kind of law is an abject horror.

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:17am

  Re: Not partisan

  Yeah, thats another irony in this.
  
  Obama wants this but the man HE SELECTED to decide this doesn't.

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:16am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I have my ideological lines too, but....
  
  I work on the internet, I get my entertainment over the internet, I utilize the internet daily for untold things.
  
  If there is ONE issue that I could possibly be compelled to be a single issue voter on, it is internet freedom.

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:13am

  Re: Re:

  Republicans really need to wrap their head around the statement
  
  "even a broken clock is right twice a day"
  
  This is one of those two times Obama is right.

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:12am

  Re:

  Heh, I occasionally watch Fox News.
  
  And
  
  The people on that panel are seriously wrong.
  
  Have I restored any of your hope?

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:10am

  Re: Just think

  All the more reason for Republicans to pick this up and run with it.

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:09am

  Re: If you like your movie provider, you can keep it

  This is what I don't get. Republicans should be rushing to support Obama on this. This is their chance to get some bipartisanship credit AND stick it to Hollywood (mark my words, there are Hollywood folks making Obamas phone ring off the hook to try to back him down on this).
  
  But the stupid Republicans fawn over Hollywood hoping to get some scraps from them.
  
  This time you can do the same thing Obama is advocating AND support the actual "folks" who don't want their Netflix to start moving at the speed of molasses. Thats the whole rub here an the angle.
  
  Minus common carrier the screws will be turned on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, until those services either become too expensive or too slow to be of use to people. This it the argument, this is the reason.
  
  Republicans, get on the right side of this dammit!

• On the post: Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

  

  JWW ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 09:04am

  Re: Re: Obamacare for the Internet?

  There is no way in hell Cruz wins the nomination.

• On the post: Surprise: President Obama Calls For Real Net Neutrality

  

  JWW ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2014 @ 09:03am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yep. He claims to not control the FCC. But the next step for him is to call head of the FCC and advocate for Common Carrier.
  
  I do not for the life of me understand how the hell Republicans are getting this wrong. One of the biggest opponents to net neutrality is Hollywood. Hollywood fucking hates Republicans. Here's there chance to poke Hollywood in the eye with a sharp stick and also point out that Obama said it was a good idea too.

• On the post: Computer Scientists, Legal Experts Explain To Supreme Court Why APIs Are Not Copyrightable

  

  JWW ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2014 @ 09:09am

  Actually

  While thinking about this I came up with a idea about how to relate to this.
  
  API's are like recipes for how to get things done by calling API functions on computers. Recipes are printed in a cookbook and people who want to use the recipe can cook the dish that is described. Companies that publish cookbooks NEVER EVER sue people for cooking the dishes that are listed in the cookbook. I mean what would the point be? The cookbook would be useless. Just like APIs would be useless if using them was a punishable copyright offense.
  
  Therefore, I think what the supreme court should do is declare that yes, API's are copyrightable, BUT using API's is an exercise in FAIR USE and cannot be punished.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  JWW ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2014 @ 01:12pm

  So true

  Yep one thing that Jonas Salk did by not patenting the vaccine was insure that everyone would remember his name as the man who took out polio.
  
  Everyone that is except for silerscarcat.

• On the post: If GOP Takes Senate Next Week, Expect The CIA Torture Report To Disappear

  

  JWW ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2014 @ 11:32am

  Re: Disappearing report...

  And I would also note that if the report disappeared, Obama would applaud the action.
  
  Finally we would have bipartasianship!

• On the post: Mobile Providers: No One Has Complained* About Our Service, So Net Neutrality Shouldn't Apply To Us

  

  JWW ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2014 @ 01:51pm

  Hmmmmmm

  They must be missing the store in my town. Every time I go in there I complain about the bandwidth caps.

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