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• On the post: Who Pays When The DEA Destroys Your Vehicle And Kills Your Employee During A Botched Sting? Hint: Not The DEA

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 01 May, 2015 @ 02:00pm

  They need to add a "cold" button for comments like this...

• On the post: Seattle PD Hires Coder Who Demanded It Hand Over Every Video Produced By Its Body Cameras

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 04:34am

  Re: 22.xx

  I'm not so sure about this guy's skillset. So far the only thing he's shown is he knows how to be a thorn in the side of the Seattle PD.

• On the post: Designer Still Pursuing Bogus Takedown Of Periodic Table Of HTML Elements; Has No Idea How Copyright Works

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2015 @ 01:15pm

  Re: Re:

  But the order, it's all about the order of the elements!
  
  Oh, and don't forget the colors that are exact ripoffs (if you are color blind).
  
  /s

• On the post: EFF Helps Bust Bogus Patent That Was Being Used To Shake Down Podcasters

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2015 @ 08:42am

  Re: reading it will kill you

  I read the judge lines in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn... which I guess would be fitting since most of these patent troll cases seem to occur in East Texas.

• On the post: How The US Post Office Killed Innovative Digital Mail Because It Disrupted Junk Mailers

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 09:28am

  Protecting who from what

  I don't quite buy that this is just protectionism for some incumbent junk mailer businesses. Perhaps the Postmaster General is actually just trying to protect the Postal Service in general. If the 400 Junk Mailers are the bulk of mail sent through the USPS, then knowingly bringing in a technology that disrupts and destroys that business possibly destroys the USPS itself. The USPS has been said to be struggling because of the move to digital over the past 20 years, so taking away the junk mailers brings us down to what... the birthday and holiday cards peoples' grandmas send because they are too old to just write 'Happy Birthday!!! :)' on Facebook? To keep that giant operation going will create rate hikes and then it will cost granny $45 to send that card.
  
  Also, if people start realizing their letters are being scanned and sent to people digitally, why pay for postage at all and just start sending those people the letters in digital form (and cut out the postmen/middlemen) like many companies are already trying to do.

• On the post: Botch A Drug Raid? No Problem, Just Seal The Warrant, Citizen Complaint And Gag Order Itself

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 07:22pm

  When did search warrants become search and destroy warrants? Wrong house... understandable, everyone gets confused when going to a tri-plex for the first time. Hand-cuffed and left on the floor... well maybe the guy was physically fit and the out of shape cops were intimidated. But to trash the house and break all of his stuff just because they aren't finding what you are looking for? They aren't cops, they are thugs tossing the place.

• On the post: Obama Says James Clapper 'Should Have Been More Careful' In How He Lied To Congress

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2014 @ 01:47pm

  They don't want to let Snowden 'win'... in the meantime, they continue to prove that the American people have 'lost' in this whole thing.
  
  'Lost' our freedoms, 'lost' our faith that our elected officials are competent and at all trustworthy, and 'lost' hope that any of it is going to change any time soon.
  
  Can we screw everything up and somehow all keep our jobs? 'Yes we can!'