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• On the post: This Week's Bad Photoshopping Lesson Comes From Scientology

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 10:46am

  Re: Re: L. Ron Hubbard

  What does Christ have to do with it?

• On the post: The Value Of Kickstarter: Connecting With Fans On-The-Fly

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 06:47am

  Re:

  Have you been talking to Rick Santorum? You seem to think that the mere existence of gay marriage will mean that no one will any longer desire a hetero marriage. Because when DOMA was struck down the other day, untold millions of formerly straight people smacked their foreheads, exclaimed "I could've had a V8!", and ran out to find a same-sex partner -- and now, no more American babies, right?

• On the post: Ecuador Using Copyright To Try To Take Down Leaked Documents About Its Surveillance Practices

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 06:56am

  Ew. Daddy I do NOT want a boat like this.

• On the post: Pandora's Fed Up With The Lies The RIAA Has Been Spreading About It: Presents Some Facts

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 11:10am

  Re: Pandora is great advertising

  It's been years since I used Pandora, but at the time they were already doing this. A fixed number of specific songs would appear in my playlist ever hour, not allowing me to skip them because of some licensing agreement. This is why I ultimately abandoned it, but like you, nearly every artist whose music I've bought in the last 8 years is someone I found on Pandora.

• On the post: Pandora's Fed Up With The Lies The RIAA Has Been Spreading About It: Presents Some Facts

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 11:01am

  Re:

  High-Five to whoever gave first word! I was just attempting to do the same! :D

• On the post: EU Court Of Justice Advocate General: No Right To Be Forgotten; Google Not Responsible For What It Finds

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 06:38am

  Re: Google's Schmidt calls for 'DELETE from INTERWEBS' button

  Why is this comment flagged??? I can't imagine what anyone has found objectionable about it.

• On the post: EU Court Of Justice Advocate General: No Right To Be Forgotten; Google Not Responsible For What It Finds

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 06:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Google's Schmidt calls for 'DELETE from INTERWEBS' button

  For a taste of true horror, try the comment threads at Yahoo or HuffPost.

• On the post: Shameful: Other Journalists Now A Part Of Ridiculous Smear Campaign Against Glenn Greenwald

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 06:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  This is what I don't get: why do you feel that your religion entitles you to any disposition whatever toward someone else's marriage?

• On the post: Adobe's New Subscription Service Goes Live And Is Cracked In Less Than 24 Hours

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Ooh, thanks for this. Gotta try it when I get home.

• On the post: Obama Administration Has Declared War On Whistleblowers, Describes Leaks As 'Aiding The Enemy'

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2013 @ 01:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: So...

  "running the country into the ground"
  
  I guess you're too young to remember five years ago.

• On the post: Latest Stupid DRM Idea: Ebooks With Corrupted Texts That Vary By Customer

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 06:12am

  Re:

  It will certainly simplify Winston Smith's job.

• On the post: RIAA Lobbyists Turn Anti-Pandora Desperation Level Up To 11

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 12:30pm

  "Apples to Orangutans" is my Talking Heads cover band.

• On the post: Study: Gamers Better, Faster At Interpreting Visual Input

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 06:26am

  jibe, not jive

  You wrote http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jive
  but you meant http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jibe

• On the post: President Obama's Weak Defense Of NSA Spying On Charlie Rose

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2013 @ 01:54pm

  Re: With apologies to "The Sound of Music"

  +1000 Internets

• On the post: The Next Time Someone Says Twitter Is Killing Deep Thinking With Short Quick Messages, Show Them This

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2013 @ 07:20am

  Re: Re:

  That's all well and good, but it addresses none of the concerns expressed in the quotes you so blithely dismiss:
  
  

  • the art of letter-writing and the death of the art of conversation
    
  • degradation of the quality of writing in general
    
  • an abundance of people who write badly
    
  • the perpetual acceleration of modern life
    
  • lack of leisure time
    
  • diminishing attention spans
    
  • shallow education
    
  • ascendancy of sensationalist journalism

  
  
  To me, at least, it's abundantly clear that each of these concerns voiced approximately a century ago was well warranted.

• On the post: The Next Time Someone Says Twitter Is Killing Deep Thinking With Short Quick Messages, Show Them This

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2013 @ 07:05am

  Re: Amusing

  Do you mean that some of the quotes are obviously wrong and these can fit into a tweet? Or do you mean that all of the quotes are obviously wrong and that some can fit into a tweet?
  
  Either way - would you mind demonstrating the wrongness?

• On the post: The Next Time Someone Says Twitter Is Killing Deep Thinking With Short Quick Messages, Show Them This

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2013 @ 07:01am

  Re: Re: Re:

  "We"? There is no one alive today who was a contemporary of Einstein. Most of the work for which he is famous today was published over a century ago.

• On the post: President Obama's Weak Defense Of NSA Spying On Charlie Rose

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2013 @ 08:55am

  Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run-away freight train. Why are you so popular?

• On the post: Steve Wozniak Speaks Out Against NSA Spying: This Is Not My America

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2013 @ 09:05am

  Re: Re: To know vs not to know

  From dear old WikiP:

  Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Nazis ? often referred to as "playing the Hitler card". The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics, or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the fallacist's fallacy.

• On the post: 'Gears Of War' Designer: Used Games Must Be Killed So Unsustainable Development Can Live

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2013 @ 06:28am

  Re: Used Games

  The used game market does not begin and end with GameStop. There's eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist, etc. etc.
  
  If you were willing to part with a game for $10, what do you care what the buyer does with it? Let them sell it for a dime or $100, it should be nothing to you if you got your $10.

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