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  • On the post: Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'

    dakre18 ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2015 @ 08:43am

    Bottom Lobby

    So if he's not the top lobbyist or a lobbyist, then what would you call him?

    I like Chief Squirrel Executive, since he must have a short attention span with so much lobbying and not count as a lobbyist.

    Or maybe we could call him "Licorice" (Lobbyist In Charge Of Reliably Injecting Campaign Endowment), but that's just to give him an abbreviation that makes him sound weird.

  • On the post: Newsday Editor: Carve Hate Speech Out Of First Amendment, Hold Websites Responsible If Users Post Hate Speech

    dakre18 ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2015 @ 10:50am

    What is next?

    So let’s go with her idea and strip out hate speech from the first amendment. Suddenly you are being arrested for an article you wrote about how hate speech should be stripped out because of some hateful people.

    I say that because politicians are either going to add loopholes or leave them in, so others can use it to their advantage. Then claim it was hate speech because it was hateful towards white supremacists. It may not get that bad, but people don't care until they are on the other end of the story. It's sad how many people, companies, and the government agencies don't think of long-term consequences for their actions. Maybe everyone has a severe case of ADD?

  • On the post: The Ridiculous Redactions The DOJ Required To Try To Hide The Details Of Its Google Gag Order

    dakre18 ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2015 @ 12:12pm

    So that's why they got hacked, the government agencies are incompetent (which we all already knew). China probably got a hold of their post-it notes when they threw out the trash, because they forgot to redact some obvious words.

  • On the post: Court Rejects Pennsylvania's Ridiculous Law That Takes Away First Amendment For Convicts

    dakre18 ( profile ), 04 May, 2015 @ 02:05pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Heh, i agree about the "Write to your congressman" remark. I've tried that, then get a response from an intern, who failed to remove the note to clean it up before sending it out. All they gave me in return was "well he's for it so :p" and the note was "In regard to China. (Suzanne: this is a letter our Tulsa intern wrote. Can you insert the proper language and then workflow back to me? Thanks!!!)" No idea what the in regard to china was about, and it was at the end in red text with the note.

    Gotta love how much they care...

  • On the post: Latest Pointless Moral Panic: Minecraft Is Ruining Our Children

    dakre18 ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2015 @ 12:54pm

    That's always amusing, yet annoying, to see people who talk about a subject they have no experience with. On the internet it's trolling, in real life it's politics.

  • On the post: Can You Sue For Copyright Infringement Before It's Actually Happened?

    dakre18 ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2015 @ 08:59am

    I anticipate

    I'm anticipating that large companies are going to screw me over, so let me sue all of them for anticipated punitive damages.

    If I had to guess 1 company, I'd probably go with AT&T, since they are my ISP and are constantly trying to screw someone over.

  • On the post: Fighting Toddler 'Porn Addiction,' UK Lawmakers Demand Porn Sites Include Age Checks Or Face Closure

    dakre18 ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2015 @ 10:45am

    Parental Controls

    It's amusing to see what politicians come up with as a "fix" instead of tackling the actual problem. Parents are suppose to be responsible for what their kids do on any device or computer. So why not educate parents on parental controls (in the UK it will be a law i'm sure), which is a better idea and harder to bypass (depending on the software).

    There's parental controls for smartphones too, but the issue is that parents need to learn what tools they have for keeping their kids safe online and/or keep them off of bad sites.

    I will admit, these things can be a pain, but if you have a kid, they aren't going to make your life easy anyways. It's like with anything else, the more effort you put into it, the better the results.