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• On the post: 'Radical' Publisher Claims Copyright On Free Collection Of Marx And Engels Works; Orders Them Taken Down

  

  dolz ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 12:56pm

  It's official

  Copyright maximalists are irony impaired.

• On the post: Can Anyone Name A Programmer Still Getting Paid For Code He Wrote In 1962?

  

  dolz ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 10:50am

  Re: Re: Oh, there are some...

  No! Some start up companies did that, but most companies don't. I've never gotten a dime for code I wrote after the paycheck that covered the week it was done. Most of that code I wrote was used for years, again without me being given a cut of the action. I didn't expect to be payed forever for the work I did and anyone who does is a self entitled prick.

• On the post: Tom Lehrer, Culture And Copyright After Death

  

  dolz ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 12:37pm

  Re: Realistic Attitude

  Oh I don't know about that. "Poisoning Pigeons In the Park", "Be Prepared", and "The Masochism Tango", among others are timeless.

• On the post: Tom Lehrer, Culture And Copyright After Death

  

  dolz ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 12:30pm

  Re: Re:

  You're correct, but the "The Elements" is an improvement on a "Major-General's Song".

• On the post: Travesty: Supreme Court (And Senate) Deny SCOTUSblog A Press Pass

  

  dolz ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2014 @ 03:36pm

  I'm sorry to say I wasn't aware of SCOTUSblog before this article. I have now added it to my daily readering list. Before they continue this the SCOTUS might want to review Streisand v Unwanted Publicity.

• On the post: FBI Abruptly Walks Out On Senate Briefing After Being Asked How 'Insider Threat' Program Avoids Whistleblowers

  

  dolz ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 11:19am

  Again

  Seems like the agent at the hearing should have been charged with contempt of congress, like that will ever happen. More and more the relationship between congress and the intelligence services they are suppose to control looks like the relationship between an abused spouse and their abuser.

• On the post: Midwestern Town Of 7,000 Approves Military Surplus Armored Personnel Carrier For Its 12-Member Police Force

  

  dolz ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 11:28am

  Next!

  After we've equipment all our police departments like invading forces to keep the Military Industrial Complex profitable, what's next. Giving mall cops RPGs?

• On the post: Former NSA Official Thinks A Blog Containing Nothing But His Own Tweets Is 'Defamatory'

  

  dolz ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2014 @ 01:35pm

  Re:

  I guess he wouldn't complain if it was a pretty new defamation site. Lets face it care bears are tacky.

• On the post: YouTube Gives UK Gov't Broad Powers To Censor Videos It Doesn't Like, Even If They're Legal [Update: Or Not]

  

  dolz ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2014 @ 02:34pm

  Re:

  They're not doing evil. They're just whistling, kicking at the dirt, and looking the other way whle others do evil with their toys.

• On the post: Italian Officials Claim American Gun Ad Featuring Michelangelo's David Is 'Illegal'

  

  dolz ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2014 @ 10:13am

  And now

  What we need now is a draw David Mohammad day.

• On the post: NSA Defender Rep. Mike Pompeo Attacks SXSW With Ignorant Misleading Diatribe For Having Ed Snowden Speak

  

  dolz ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2014 @ 11:42am

  Re: Checked a mirror lately?

  The second line should have read:
  
  The current congressional oath was enacted in 1884.

• On the post: NSA Defender Rep. Mike Pompeo Attacks SXSW With Ignorant Misleading Diatribe For Having Ed Snowden Speak

  

  dolz ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2014 @ 11:41am

  Checked a mirror lately?

  "Mr. Snowden is both a traitor and a common criminal."
  
  The current oath was enacted in 1884.
  
  I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
  
  Helping an organization that is actively undermining at least the Fourth Admenment to the US Constitution is a violation of this oath. That would make it a domestic enemy. So who's the real traitor here? We all know you have no clothes on under that flag you wear and defile all the time.

• On the post: Police Chief Testifies Against Legalizing Marijuana With Parody Newspaper Article

  

  dolz ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2014 @ 08:56am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Two supposed deaths in Germany

  You do know that nicotine is a mind altering drug also, right?

• On the post: Horrific Appeals Court Ruling Says Actress Has Copyright Interest In 'Innocence Of Muslims,' Orders YouTube To Delete Every Copy

  

  dolz ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2014 @ 01:57pm

  Excellent

  Once copyright has finally paralyzed any creative endeavor maybe, just maybe even the entertainment idustries will agree it needs to be fixed.

• On the post: New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations'

  

  dolz ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2014 @ 03:07pm

  I had trouble believing they were that stupid

  What did Prenda do te tick these people off?

• On the post: Austin Begins To Show Us What Broadband Competition Was Supposed To Look Like

  

  dolz ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2014 @ 07:50am

  Google is going to the wrong cities

  If they realy want to have an impact they should deploy in the Washington DC metro area. Once our ha ha ha ? excuse me, representatives get use to it and then go home (please stay there) and have to deal with the normal "service", they might address the situation.

• On the post: Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphone Battery And Attempts To Get YouTube To Pull The Incriminating Video

  

  dolz ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2014 @ 01:31pm

  Re: Re: Could photographer have avoided arrest by not cursing?

  I don't think the cursing or had there been a lack of it would have made a difference. Rojas (he doesn't deserve the title of Officer) was looking to provoke a confrontation. The way he walked up to Mr. Thomas and stuck his camera in Mr. Thomas's face was an attempt at intimidation. Rojas wasn't going to back off until he intimidated or provoked Mr. Thomas in to something he thought he could justify. Rojas was looking for a fight and when he didn't get one he manufactured one.
  
  However; I do wish Mr. Thomas had refrained from cursing so no one could use it as an excuse for Rojas behaviour.

• On the post: DHS Suffers Moment Of Clarity, Shuts Down Plans To Build A Nationwide License Plate Database

  

  dolz ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2014 @ 01:39pm

  Re: Re:

  Hey! KOAS was better organized, less corrupt, and a lot more effective than these clowns.

• On the post: Grand Jury Somehow Fails To Indict Man Who Shot Deputy During No-Knock, Pre-Dawn Raid For Capital Murder

  

  dolz ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2014 @ 10:17am

  George Orwell was a slacker

  "However, there is not enough evidence that Mr. Magee knew that day that Peace Officers were entering his home."
  
  A swat team is now called "Peace Officers"?

• On the post: Rand Paul Files Lawsuit Against The NSA While Peter King Questions His Party's Loyalty To The Surveillance State

  

  dolz ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2014 @ 06:36pm

  Rep. King, can I be a Republican?

  ?And let's just say as Republicans ... do we really want people in our party somehow saying they don?t know whether he is a patriot or not? ... Who actually put him in the same classification as the director of national intelligence??
  
  I agree with this. There no way that Snowden should be in the same classification as that treasonist anti-American James Clapper.

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