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• On the post: UK Bill: Nursery Staff Must Let Us Know When Toddlers Are At Risk For Becoming Terrorists

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2015 @ 06:36pm

  Just so darned easy

  And just how do we, "...identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism..."?
  
  Well, it's easy: Muslim!

• On the post: Neutrality Opponents Hope To Use Bickering Congress To Thwart FCC Neutrality Rules

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2014 @ 05:07pm

  Re:

  Finish Comcast Competition

• On the post: How The CIA's Torture Program Is Destroying The Key Foreign Power The US Had: The Moral High Ground

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2014 @ 09:44pm

  Re: Re: Hmmmm Lets See

  So, given that human beings pressed to the limit are prone to revenge, no matter the cost, what you're saying is: "Worry!"

• On the post: How The CIA's Torture Program Is Destroying The Key Foreign Power The US Had: The Moral High Ground

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2014 @ 05:18pm

  Re:

  Any citizen who was paying attention has known it for over a decade now.
  
  It's just that the other citizens were determined to bury their ass in the sand, then stick their head up their ass.

• On the post: Surprise: CIA-Appointed Panel Finds No Real Problem With CIA Spying On Senate

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2014 @ 03:01pm

  Oh, right

  What the hell do you mean, "Surprise"? I think the word you were looking for was, "Inevitable".

• On the post: Throwing Tax Breaks At AT&T And Verizon Shockingly Not Creating Promised Jobs, Investment

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2014 @ 02:25pm

  Great for the profits

  Those tax breaks, subsidies and such never, ever create jobs in any company or industry; or at least not at any rate less than $1 million per minimum wage job.
  
  The money is simply handed to the stockholders...if any of it gets past the executive bonuses.

• On the post: Italian Regulators Fine TripAdvisor For Not Sniffing Out Every Single Fake Review On The Site

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2014 @ 02:13pm

  The trouble with EU

  My first thought on reading this is, "What the hell happened to the EU?"
  
  It used to be U.S. government that was tromping all over the internet; now EU is carrying that torch.
  
  Then I realized (Duh!): The internet bigots have finally achieved regulatory capture in the EU.

• On the post: LAPD Body Cam Footage Can't Be FOIA'ed; Used In Court Cases Only

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2014 @ 08:41pm

  Doesn't matter anyway

  It really doesn't matter anyway. You know that if the video shows anything the cops really don't want seen, the "camera will be off" or, oops, "the recording got lost" or "accidentally deleted".
  
  It's my estimate that the number one cause of evidence loss or destruction today is government officials covering up their wrongdoing.

• On the post: Librarians Are Continuing To Defend Open Access To The Web As A Public Service

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2014 @ 11:51pm

  Our heroes

  In retrospect, it should have been obvious that the librarians would become champions of free ideas, since they've always lead out in resistance to censorship.
  
  Go, librarians!

• On the post: Bizarre Fight Commences Over Who 'Won' Latest Net Neutrality Comment Round

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2014 @ 04:51pm

  Enlist the NSA

  FCC (or any other government department having this problem) just needs to send a short missive to NSA for help:
  
  "We think a terrorist wrote one of these messages. And, um, while you're looking for that message, could you summarize the rest of them for us?"

• On the post: DailyDirt: Advertising Needs To Be More Considerate

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2014 @ 06:54pm

  Re: Re: Nazca lines

  Okay, I should have clarified that: I don't mean they don't deserve to be punished.
  
  But the news flood about this is extremely overdone. This is a page B-29 local interest article only, at best. Trying to make anything more of it only helps enemies of Greenpeace.

• On the post: Washington Post Shrugs Off Torture Because, You Know, It Polls Well

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2014 @ 06:43pm

  Polling, well...

  I bet Charles Manson would poll well, too, given the right poll. Washington Post should run a good poll for him, then hire him as one of their Lifestyle reporters.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Advertising Needs To Be More Considerate

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2014 @ 06:06pm

  Nazca lines

  The Greenpeace faux pas is seriously overblown.
  
  I am particularly disheartened that the "political opponents" are trying to make political points on this. Talk about the peak of hypocrisy: There is no group of people on this planet who care for anything (such as world landmarks) less than their pocketbook. If there were something valuable under those Nazca Lines, these are the same people who would plow them under faster than you can say "greed".
  
  So, okay, Greenpeace, definitely not the best thought out action. The landmark took some minor damage, a "ding", but it's not ruined completely.
  
  Stop worrying about this ding and instead worry about some dispassionate multinational digging there next week for road gravel.

• On the post: Newly-Released Documents Show NSA Claiming An Email Address Is A 'Facility,' Skirting Probable Cause Requirements

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2014 @ 10:03am

  This is a surprise?

  They would claim an email address was a "pumpkin", if that will get them past a requirement for probable cause.

• On the post: Court Ruling: EA's Anti-Piracy Software Is Patent Infringing

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 10:34pm

  My Papa say...

  My parents always told me, "It takes one to know one." I guess that's how EA knows pirates.

• On the post: 3 Silly Years Later, Chik-Fil-A Loses Trademark Dispute Over Kale

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 10:32pm

  Maybe it took that long to expound the difference between "leaf" and "feather".

• On the post: Netflix Patiently Explains To FCC Commissioner Pai That CDNs Are Perfectly Normal, Not Diabolical 'Fast Lanes'

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 04:24pm

  Waste of time

  Never try to explain technology to a post--it wastes your time and ...wastes your time.

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

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 11:32am

  Terminology

  No, you have to understand the terminology. If the government wants the knowledge out there, it's an "unofficial press release"; if the government wanted it to be secret, it's "high treason".

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

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 11:30am

  Terminology

• On the post: Profiting Massively From Torture: Designers Of CIA Torture Program Raked In $81 Million (And Are Still Getting Money)

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2014 @ 10:16pm

  The part I'm most not buying about this article is that these guys took in $81 million
  
  Their real expertise is demonstrated by their taking on this program with no prior qualification; their kiss-ass methods of convincing everyone how valuable they were ("Nothing" means "success"); their obvious salesmanship of their techniques, selling even what the CIA didn't want to buy; and their manipulation of government contracting schemes by obtaining a sole-source--also known as a "no-bid"--contract.
  
  They are experts at suckling the government teat, and little else, it looks to me. That being the case, I'm betting they sucked out much more than $81 million; that's just the over-the-table figure.

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