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• On the post: US Innovation: Built On Copying And Permissionless Innovation

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2013 @ 01:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Post-innovation

  Then I guess there's nothing to do but choose the corporation whose colors best suit your complexion.

• On the post: US Innovation: Built On Copying And Permissionless Innovation

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2013 @ 11:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Post-innovation

  Not to another small group. To the people.

• On the post: Congresswoman Claims 'Fair Use' And 'Transparency' Are Just 'Buzz Terms'

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2013 @ 02:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: An incredible, ridiculous, and almost entirely fact-free article.

  In Soviet Russia, property owns you!

• On the post: Congresswoman Claims 'Fair Use' And 'Transparency' Are Just 'Buzz Terms'

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2013 @ 02:10pm

  Re: Re:

  The story isn't about bigotry. It's about global citizenship. I took "better" to mean "performing with a higher degree of mastery of the course materials".

• On the post: Your Tax Dollars At Work: How Commerce Dept. Spent $2.7 Million Cleaning Out Two Malware-Infected Computers

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 10:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Page 14, paragraph E.

• On the post: Because Some People Share A Lot Of Info On Facebook, We Should Admit We've Given Up All Privacy Rights?

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 08:20am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: The Illusion of Privacy

  Rich does not argue that it does.

• On the post: Because Some People Share A Lot Of Info On Facebook, We Should Admit We've Given Up All Privacy Rights?

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 08:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Tone of the Article?

  I think Rich makes abundantly clear his attitude toward the subject. The first clue is in the title with the use of the jaunty TV-trope phrase "Jumped The Shark". The evocation of a television audience turning away from an extravagant display which it no longer finds entertaining is deliberate. In his leading sentence, Rich characterizes Snowden's actions as a Hollywood chase scene. The first paragraph closes thus: "The public was not much interested in the leaks in the first place. It was already moving on to Paula Deen." The entirety of the article which follows should be read bearing in mind this metaphorical framing of news as sordid entertainment. Rich is not merely padding his word count.
  
  The objection that not everyone appears on reality TV is facile, limp, and evasive. Rich is examining the prevailing attitudes of our society. It is absurd to claim as a counter to Rich that Americans value their privacy when the polling clearly indicates otherwise. Rich predicts that gadget-hungry consumers will invite still more and still deeper invasions of their privacy. This is main theme of the piece: public apathy to government's snooping contrasted with an ever-expanding lust for exposure of any sort. Rich is like an astonished observer of a preposterous, grotesque spectacle; he shrugs in disbelief, but this is hardly the same as admonishing we should just take our lumps.

• On the post: The NSA Turns Everyone Into A 'Threat To National Security' By Instantly Classifying All Data It Scoops Up

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 06:34am

  Re: Is one amendment more important than the others?

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/19/1216784/-One-nation-under-surveillance

• On the post: Because Some People Share A Lot Of Info On Facebook, We Should Admit We've Given Up All Privacy Rights?

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 12:03pm

  Re: Tone of the Article?

  David, my interpretation of Rich's piece squares with yours. I think Mike has failed to discern Rich's sardonic tone, and most of the commentators here have made the same error. At the bottom of page three, for example, he makes the same observation that echoes Brian McFadden's cartoon of two weeks ago (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/19/1216784/-One-nation-under-surveillance): "Little short of a leak stating that the NSA is tracking gun ownership is likely to kindle public outrage."
  
  

  To argue that because some people choose to reveal some things, we should all just shut up about actual privacy violations by the government is ridiculous.

  Rich is not making this argument at all.

• On the post: NSA Recruiters Get Smacked Down By University Of Wisconsin Students

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 09:50am

  Re: Re: Spooks are liars. Here's Schmidt of Google LYING:

  Third, do you ever notice that NOBODY ever agrees with you, except for the other trolls?

  https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/bandwagon
  
  Actually, it's not true that nobody ever agrees with him but the other trolls. It happens once in a while, like a lunar eclipse or a planetary alignment.

• On the post: The Most Popular Posts Of 2013 So Far

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 06:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Subject

  Traffic != reading. About a hundred times a day my browser lands somewhere I didn't intend, and I immediately click away without reading anything. It seems to me that discussion should be factored into the equation as it shows that readers are engaged.

• On the post: The Most Popular Posts Of 2013 So Far

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 06:27am

  How are you measuring popularity?

  I can tell at a glance this list is wrong cause there's not a single Prenda story there.

• On the post: Texas Trooper Shoves 74-Year-Old Then Arrests Her For Felony Assault When She Hits Him With Her Purse

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 10:37pm

  Re: Re:

  ChrisB, it's obvious you didn't even watch the video.

• On the post: Texas Trooper Shoves 74-Year-Old Then Arrests Her For Felony Assault When She Hits Him With Her Purse

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 10:38am

  Re:

  I think what you're getting at is the suggestion that this guy's unnecessarily aggressive attitude is a posture adopted to conceal his own insecurity. Next time can you do it without the massively offensive homophobic slurs?

• On the post: Texas Trooper Shoves 74-Year-Old Then Arrests Her For Felony Assault When She Hits Him With Her Purse

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 07:29am

  Re: Re:

  What do you keep in your purse? Buckles??

• On the post: FISA Court Judges Aren't Happy That The Public Is Upset Secret Court Issuing Secret Rulings Allowing NSA To Spy On Them

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 06:48am

  Re:

  Four lines of strong commentary, then you devolve into a weird, off-topic rant against the makers of game consoles.

• On the post: Game Creator Finds That Knockoffs Can't Match His Awesome Game

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2013 @ 06:07am

  Re: By "cache", I guess you mean "cachet".

  If you can pull your lips away from the mirror, you will find answers to your questions here:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridiculous_Fishing

• On the post: Did Ed Snowden Actually Write His Latest 'Statement'?

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2013 @ 05:58am

  Re: This is going to sound like a cheap shot

  You're absolutely right. It does sound like a cheap shot.

• On the post: Internet Takes Smears Against Glenn Greenwald And Make It An Awesome Meme

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2013 @ 05:40pm

  Fantastic commentary by Chris Hayes about the hypocritical treatment of GG by the media
  
  http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/51362794#52336039

• On the post: Ecuador Pulls Ed Snowden's Travel Papers Because Julian Assange Thinks He's In Charge

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 06:45pm

  In spite of their admirable stance against US bullying, It looks more and more like Ecuador's not the place for Snowden - or any dissenter - to go.

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