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• On the post: Secret Trials: UK Holds A Secret Terror Trial, As US Appeals Court Holds Secret Hearing In Terror Case

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2014 @ 06:09pm

  And now for the final nail

  The only thing left is the imposition of a Lettre de Cache. That's where Louis XVI signed the letter deeming you guilty and tossing you in the Bastille. Seems like we're getting pretty damn close to that now.

• On the post: Newegg Given The Go Ahead To Pursue 'Douche Bag' Patent Troll For Fees

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 09:29am

  One more reason the Egg Rocks!

• On the post: Florida Lawmakers Aim To Restore Childrens' Rights To Openly Carry Pop Tart 'Guns' On Campus

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 11:46am

  What if it was a canoli?

  ?First of all, it wasn?t a Pop-Tart,? she said. ?It was a breakfast pastry."
  
  Thank goodness it wasn't a canoli. They might have mistaken it for a rocket launcher and after labeling him a terrorist, thrown him in a cell at Guantanamo.
  
  Whew!

• On the post: US Patent Office Grants 'Photography Against A White Background' Patent To Amazon

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 08 May, 2014 @ 08:51am

  Aw shucks. Now I guess I'll have to either destroy all my five generations of family photos done with white backgrounds including my parents and great-grandparents wedding photos. Hey they were sepia on white. Am I safe there?
  
  Are we the dumbest people on the planet or do we simply allow stupid fools to run our lives, with imbecilic results?
  
  Einstein was a patent clerk in the Swiss patent office. I'll bet he would have said something akin to "Sind Sie ein F---ing Moron?' when asked to allow a patent on this.
  
  But then, what do I know.

• On the post: NYPD Officers Expect Public To Be Stupider Than They Are; Justify Shutting Down Recording With 'iPhones Are Guns' Claim

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 07 May, 2014 @ 06:33am

  Actually that's correct, but for the union quip.
  The citizens who pay those high prop. taxes definitely won't put up with stupid and uncivilized behavior. The union in those towns has made the unspoken tradeoff, increased pay, more citizen involvement, higher caliber of police civility and less confrontation.
  
  They express it to their union members as follows: You're getting better pay and benefits and the demands are greater. Deal with it or go elsewhere.
  
  Same can be said of the teacher's situation and other.

• On the post: NYPD Officers Expect Public To Be Stupider Than They Are; Justify Shutting Down Recording With 'iPhones Are Guns' Claim

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 06 May, 2014 @ 11:37am

  Re: Re: No surprise here

  Actually you don't; not to that extent. Head out to the NY suburbs and stupidity like that pretty much gets tossed off the force. The town's taxpayers would be very vocal. In the city there's a whole lot of insulation there. It's easier for that ignorance to exist for a longer period of time.

• On the post: NYPD Officers Expect Public To Be Stupider Than They Are; Justify Shutting Down Recording With 'iPhones Are Guns' Claim

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 06 May, 2014 @ 11:13am

  No surprise here

  For those Big Apple residents who remember a decade or so ago when the Bloomberg administration was negotiating with the NYPD for a salary contract and was so proud of itself for getting the starting salary to be unbelievably LOW, this comes as no surprise. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Want to hire cops for the salary you'd pay a baby-sitter? It's time for US citizens to consider the quality they really want in their government employees, hospital workers, teachers, etc. Dumb is really expensive in the long run. No surprises here. And, no, I'm not a government employee.

• On the post: Five Illinois Cops Are Caught Lying On The Stand When Defense Produces A Recording Contradicting Their Testimony

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2014 @ 07:54am

  Hello out there?

  Is there not one word missing here?
  
  P-E-R-J-U-R-Y
  
  Under oath?
  You lie?
  You're a cop?
  
  And you are not prosecuted?
  
  How cut and dried does this need to be?

• On the post: Pulitzers Make Rep. Peter King Mad

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2014 @ 05:05am

  No. Don't send him a copy of the 1st amendment. I don't think he'll read it. Instead send him a sweatshirt with the words '1st Amendment' in a large circle with a big oblique line through it. On the back in bright bold kelly green letters 'Hypocrite-in-Chief'. Who knows - he might actually wear it.

• On the post: Indiana Supreme Court Declares An Officer's Testimony Is More Reliable Than Video Evidence

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2014 @ 07:46am

  Surprised? Don't be. Isn't Indiana the state that at one point (1930's) thought about passing a law making pi = 3? Instead of 'easy as pie' they were looking for 'pi as easy'. Luckily someone explained the absurd ramifications of denying mathematical reality. I guess the lesson didn't stick. Oh well.

• On the post: Chilling Effects: Climate Change Deniers Have Scientific Paper Disappeared

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2014 @ 06:58am

  Gettin what we pay for

  Try this on for size:
  
  START-
  Defund public education.
  UNinvest in public schools.
  
  THEN (you get people who) -
  Believe Climate = Weather
  Believe Science = Faith & Opinion
  Don't believe Cause >> Effect
  
  GOTO START
  (and run the scenario again until we prove Darwin was correct by disappearing)

• On the post: Security Researchers Find RSA Even More Completely Compromised By The NSA Than Previously Thought

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 03:46pm

  Hmmm. Should I think twice the next time I bank online, or buy something online? RSA broken? Credit card encryption still valid? Did the NSA get to do what so many hackers failed to do? Bring down all monetary transactions on the internet? Remember the discussions decades ago about breaking the encryption? 64 bits then 128, then 256. Where exactly does that put us now?

• On the post: Sheriff's Dept. Charges Man With No Drugs With 'Intent To Distribute Counterfeit Controlled Substances'

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 03:13pm

  What's missing here? A lawyer taking a wrongful arrest case? Can it be that no enterprising legal eagle sees a totally winnable case here? I'm a bit confused.

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

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2014 @ 07:22am

  Shaming a gun manufacturer? Wow, That's a challenge.

• On the post: Most Transparent White House? No, NYT Exec Editor Says It's The Most Secretive

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 06:06am

  This keeps going back to the question of what's worse: A president who probably never read the constitution violating it daily, or a president who was a constitutional scholar replicating the actions of the former. There is NO excuse for the latter.

• On the post: Copyright Week: How Copyright Is Being Use To Destroy Property Rights

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 02:29pm

  This is nothing but a natural outgrowth of the digital age. In former industrial times goods were valuable and ownership of machinery was prized and protected. In this digital age information [think ones and zeros]is of far more value than mere tangible goods. It is only natural that the owners of those ones and zeros would do their utmost to tie them up, increase their value and go to outlandish lengths to protect them. Watch as inmates convicted of dealing in pot are increasingly let out of jails and the cells are filled with file [ones and zeros] downloaders. Copyright violators will inevitably become criminalized. Scary?

• On the post: South Carolina Senator Aims To Criminalize The Recording Of Criminal Activity

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 11:09am

  goodbye Shakespeare

  I guess no more Hamlet, Shakespeare, etc. Depictions of some pretty nasty s--t. What about all the C.S.I. dramas? What are they drinking down south?

• On the post: Leading VC: NSA's Activities Are 'Corroding Silicon Valley'

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2014 @ 05:12pm

  At that point we would have an actual broken internet. Almost inconceivable, yet truly worrisome.

• On the post: Leading VC: NSA's Activities Are 'Corroding Silicon Valley'

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2014 @ 02:50pm

  Think this is a problem? What if they finally manage to break RSA encryption? Who will bank online, buy online, or trade stocks online then? The whole internet economy (read 'BIG')is based on the belief that RSA is currently unbreakable.

• On the post: Over 90% Of The Most Innovative Products From The Past Few Decades Were NOT Patented

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 10:14am

  Re: Patents

  OOPS... meant 1836 !

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