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• On the post: McDonald’s Sued For Thwarting Third Party’s Solution To Its Broken Ice Cream Machine Problem

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2022 @ 06:56am

  Why oh Why has this gone on so long

  The "brother-in-law" clause?

• On the post: Drug Price Negotiation Is A Second-Best Fix. Here's What Will Really Work

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2021 @ 06:13pm

  Why not just invoke the "government gets the best price on commercial items" rule used by the Feds today in other areas?

• On the post: Cable Programming Blackouts Continue To Rise As Cord-Cutting Continues

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2019 @ 04:09am

  Who should pay on cable content

  I've always wondered why the cable companies aren't paid by the content provider for the carriage rather than vice versa as now. After all if the content provider broadcasts its product it has paid the govt for the bandwidth.

• On the post: The FTC's Settlement With Equifax Is Such A Joke, The FTC Is Now Begging You Not To Ask For A Cash Settlement

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2019 @ 07:16am

  Pool's for fines STINK

  In the future NO POOL to draw upon make it a per person fine: in this case, fine is $125 per person for ALL WHO WERE EFFECTED. 147,000,000 * $125 = $18.375 Billion

• On the post: AT&T Begins Trying To Screw Up HBO In Earnest

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 12:13pm

  Re: Old AT&T

  The current AT&T is nothing more than a re-named Cellular One, not the Bell system of your memory. And if you remember Cellular One wasn't the the fastest bit on the cell network either. The current "Cellular One" was the left-overs no-one wanted.

• On the post: Cubs, Nationals Launch Another Trademark Opposition Over A 'W' Logo

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2018 @ 07:35pm

  A "block" W -- take a look at Walgreens W

  This is Walgreens https://goo.gl/mhJHYr
  This is Nats https://goo.gl/x4G2qG
  
  You gotta be kidding with the block W being close !!!

• On the post: Wikimedia's Transparency Report: Guys, We're A Wiki, Don't Demand We Take Stuff Down

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2018 @ 05:19pm

  Forget it

  Let requester petition the EU court because you'll only consider an "erasure" if it comes from the court -- they passed the "law" let them enforce it. And if you get one, block the requester, i.e. forget them !

• On the post: For The Second Time In A Week, German Hate Speech Laws Results In Deletion Of Innocent Speech

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2018 @ 11:27am

  Need this for Trumpie

  Too bad we can't tape the crude, rude, and down-right MEAN mouth of our Prez. He's now expanded his meanness from Puerto Rico hurricane, to the Dreamers, onto the 17 year Salvadorian refugees, and now to "half" of the world. Guess his PR for his "base" was running low.

• On the post: Donald Trump Hires Charles Harder To Threaten Steve Bannon With A Lawsuit, Block Publication Of New Book

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 11:57am

  Those who don't know history ...

  ... or in this case, are mostly totally ignorant, will do a "Streisand" (big time).

• On the post: The Scale Of Moderating Facebook: It Turns Off 1 Million Accounts Every Single Day

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2017 @ 01:06pm

  Removing Accounts ...

  ... should have the same answer as Google's problem of removing "forget mes"
  and that is if a court decree or govt law "requires" such the court or govt should provide not just parameters but the EXACT account BY NAME or EXACT POST by URL in writing signed by THE JUDGE or an govt official.

• On the post: New EU Lawsuit Claims Google Failed To Forget 'Sensitive' Information, Such As Their 'Political Affiliation'

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 19 May, 2017 @ 05:49am

  Ask the court to decide and then wait ...

  ... for their detailed order on each and every request.
  
  Oh yes, the charge idea is also great.

• On the post: NYPD Finally Comes Up With A Body Camera Policy, And It's Terrible

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2017 @ 05:43pm

  Might as well save the $$$ to pay the court awards

• On the post: Comcast Now Trying To Claim That Delivering Just TV To Third-Party Set Top Boxes 'Not Feasible'

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 16 May, 2016 @ 07:04am

  Gosh, what original thoughts

  Same arguement AT&T (when it was Ma Bell, not the re-tred Cellular One) used about 3rd party Phone book covers -- calls wouldn't go thru, THE network would collapse, dogs and cats would live together.

• On the post: The Cable Industry Threatens To Sue If FCC Tries To Bring Competition To Cable Set Top Boxes

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2016 @ 08:27am

  Those who forget the past ...

  Remember the Ma Bell and MCI. You couldn't put a cover on you AT&T provided phone book and that was the only phone book.
  
  BTW today's AT&T is just a new name for that wonderfully remembered Cellular One.
  
  Why is Comcast allowed to buy media providers and be a carrier? Very conflict of interest, very.

• On the post: Chase Freezes Guy's Bank Account For Paying His Dogwalker For Walking Dash The Dog

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2016 @ 04:58pm

  Re: Stupid and bizarre

  This belongs to the "you can't make this stuff up" file.

• On the post: Yankees, Comcast Engage In Public Pissing Match Because They're Incapable Of Adult Negotiations

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2016 @ 04:21pm

  Cable/content payment biz model is backwards

  I've always wondering why the cable transport company (Cable) pays the content "generator" (CG) and not the other way around since the CG gets an audience they wouldn't otherwise have, and they (CG) gets the increased ad revenue.

• On the post: CBS Claims It Will Pull All Content Offline Unless It Can Be An Anti-Competitive Ass

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2015 @ 08:47am

  CBS bluster

  Does CBS still exist? When did they last have content anyone watched?

• On the post: Close Only Counts In Horseshoes, Hand Grenades… And (Apparently) Verizon's Fiber Optic Installs

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2015 @ 11:16am

  close ...

  Horseshoes, hand grenades, and sometimes dancing. The latter is what Verizon is doing and getting well paid for it.

• On the post: Time Warner Cable CEO: Cable TV Pricing Is So High Because We're The Mercedes Of Entertainment

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2015 @ 01:53pm

  They and Comcast the rest of this gang are more like a Yugo.

• On the post: Texas Attorney General Sues Self To Stop Self From Releasing Documents He Says Can't Be Released

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2015 @ 11:44am

  Texas

  You can't make this stuff up !

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