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  • On the post: Procedural Error By Law Enforcement Means Restraining Order On Kim Dotcom 'Null And Void'

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 02:45pm

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    The point is that their system stored only one copy of the file, even though there was multiple pointers to it. As soon as they got the DMCA notice, they should have disable access to the file, not just blocking the single link. At that point, they would know that the other links are infringing.

    They were told about the link and they removed the link as per the DMCA notice. Any other links they could find and have removed.

    So why are you only acting as if this is somehow a criminal offense?

  • On the post: Procedural Error By Law Enforcement Means Restraining Order On Kim Dotcom 'Null And Void'

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 02:43pm

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    Because he didn't get rich off piracy. He got rich off of providing a convenient service that over 150 million people used legitimately.

  • On the post: Procedural Error By Law Enforcement Means Restraining Order On Kim Dotcom 'Null And Void'

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 02:41pm

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    It helps that the banks have lobbied Obama's administration for years behind the scenes to get the money with no strings attached. Now they're bilking the US taxpayer for billions in public view.

  • On the post: Senators Tell The Obama Administration To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The Patriot Act

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 12:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A couple of thoughts on this...

    People did vote for him. There's been a number of stories about how there's election fraud against him. The Iowa caucus is even more egregious. They gave it to Romney even though he has NO grassroots support behind him.

    And yes, he's an Libertarian that is part of the right wing. He still values individual freedom and choice, but I believe he'd be horrible in other fields.

  • On the post: Senators Tell The Obama Administration To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The Patriot Act

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 12:23pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Further evidence that today Politicians are pretty much the same.

    We're picking 538 electors where 40% of them don't have to follow through with what their constituents (ie the people) don't want.

    People win states, not people, leading to situations such as Mitt Romney, who have more delegates, but people absolutely hate him.

    And the electoral college has a 5% failure rating as evidenced from the Cowardly above.

    But rather than show all of the issues with the Electoral college, I'll point you to a video that is less than 5 minutes long and can explain the problem with it much better and with pictures in how to win the presidential election with only 22% of the vote:

    Link

  • On the post: Senators Tell The Obama Administration To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The Patriot Act

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 12:19pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Further evidence that today Politicians are pretty much the same.


    I think the biggest reason the parties can get away with presenting us with such useless and moronic candidates is our news world.

    Again, the news world for the most part is absolutely usurped. Their interests coincide with the government in keeping the populace downtrodden. Sure, this sounds conspiratorial, but look at Fox News objectively for a second and you'll see what their main strategy is. Class warfare. The war on dissent goes unabated except to those paying attention. Just think how no one paid attention to SOPA save for Judge Napolitano in the mainstream while the battle waged on silently in the background. People WANT to know more but they can't get their news from the MSM. So they've turned to places like CurrenTV and RT that show the lies MSNBC, Fox, and ABC love to tell.

    . I have seen no one bring up Santorium's thoughts on interracial marriage, or his comments saying that letting gay sex be legal is equivalent bestiality and incest. If people actually challenged these candidates and didn't let them get away with talking out of their ass it wouldn't take long to see how unfit all of them are to represent our country.

    I would suggest looking at The Young Turks or Keith Olbermann because they do so on a daily basis.

    So it is not just the fact that one that gets elected is more concerned with special interests then the people. The special interests shape the race, the talking points, our views of the candidates and corrupt the process from start to finish.

    Very true but I award this awful race to Michael Steele for his fine work in wanting to shake up the election process. Not only has this shown all of the problems of the four candidates, it's also shown how utterly horrible they are when compared with Obama. And I'm not a fan of Obama either. He should have someone running against him that the majority agree upon whether it's Rocky Anderson or Gary Johnson.

    Such is the problem of a process that's as archaic and unnecessary as CDs to teenagers in the age of mp3s.

    The sad thing is the vast majority of people know they are all crooks and liars but for some reason they are content to pick their favorite assclown from the set of assclowns that lie to us, pander to the crowd, and speak from their ass every four years and consider that a free and open election.

    No, they don't know how to change the system and create better alternatives. Further, you have the Republican party trying to disparage the vote to win more seats in the House and maintain control. Poll taxes have been used to keep the Republicans in power for a long time. The drug war, our judicial system, damn near everything you can think of that seems to target minorities seem to have one thing in mind. Keep people from voting and changing the system. Such is the world of the US that still insidiously hides racism in its actions so that it can win a "game". That's the scariest part about this.

  • On the post: A Terrifying Look Into The NSA's Ability To Capture And Analyze Pretty Much Every Communication

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 12:02pm

    Re: How do you separate government from the interess of the 1% these days?

    The money is only one aspect. Granted, it's a very large aspect because of Citizens United, but still, it's not the only problem here.

    The basic fundamental difference is that we've needed electoral reform in order to have a government that supports a majority instead of minority rule.

    Once you elect better candidates from various parties, you can undo all of the damage that a two party system has wrought:

    More attention to civil liberties
    More attention to better education methods
    Better working conditions
    More job opportunities in various fields
    More people focused on maintaining a watch on the government to ensure its interests are those of the people, not the richest among us.

    Until electoral reform occurs, we'll always have a two party system that has been usurped by special interests and unwilling to do anything but ensure that its ultimate victory lies in destroying anyone that gets in its way.

  • On the post: A Terrifying Look Into The NSA's Ability To Capture And Analyze Pretty Much Every Communication

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 10:53am

    Re: Re: I can only say two words...

    This isn't even taxes...

    There's no way that a budget of that size is just middle class taxes. I've been looking into civil asset forfeiture and I'm pretty sure that the properties seized equate to a LOT of money that is given to the federal government to budget. Further, I wouldn't doubt that people like Mitt Romney (the extremely rich) use their vast funds to finance an operation like this.

    This isn't even a police state. With the proliferation of HR 347, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, special interest politicians, lack of judicial oversight, and an outright war on dissent, this is one step away from a totalitarian regime.

    There's so many problems to talk about that it's impossible to know where to start!

  • On the post: A Terrifying Look Into The NSA's Ability To Capture And Analyze Pretty Much Every Communication

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 10:34am

    I can only say two words...

    Holy shit...

  • On the post: Senators Tell The Obama Administration To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The Patriot Act

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 10:04am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Further evidence that today Politicians are pretty much the same.

    Our electoral college and primary system is to blame for that.

    And I truly believe that Ron Paul is getting screwed out of the nomination. They decided beforehand that they would pick Romney even though Paul has the best shot against Obama. But he won't play ball on Iraq and he won't play ball on civil liberties.

    No, this isn't a Paul boost. He'll still have his own problems, but Romney is damaged goods. He won't be able to defeat the president and Obama cruises to a great finish for another election.

    In order to really change the two party system, you'd have to abolish the Electoral College, change all elections to the alternative vote, then work on electoral reform in each state. Until then, we'll have constant problems with our elected officials ignoring the people for special interests.

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 03:20am

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    I'm not wasting good retorts on someone who's only endeavor is to troll a website when he has nothing of merit to begin with.

    Keep trying, vapor man. Maybe one day you'll get a clue on how to debate. Something sorely lacking in your bullshit right now.

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 09:57pm

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    No, it's because you're full of it. Let's keep it simple. You have no analysis except the one out of your ass.

    You're just a blowhard that's trying profusely to sound intelligent and failing miserably.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 07:28pm

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    If you want to start down that road, explain why the MPAA had so much clout with keeping their movies in foreign theaters and suppressing foreign movie content

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 04:52pm

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    I'm not Mike. He responded to you earlier. Otherwise, your cryptic bullshit and "legal" analysis is full of holes when scrutinized.

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 04:48pm

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    So you can't look at blue text while getting the vapors. Awesome

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 01:28pm

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    So no, a single drug might not cost 800 million to make, but there might have been a couple of hundred million in this one, and a few hundred million spent on other research that went nowhere, or medication developed and tested and NOT approved.

    And that's all well and good but most of the development and research is done by smaller companies than say... Pfizer, who spends more on advertising their wares.

    Until you can explain why the GAO has stated how patents stifle innovation, I'm wary to trust your belief that higher prices = better societal research.

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 01:23pm

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    Amen. My reasoning comes from Stephen Kinsella's discussion. He noted that for one small time, Sweden didn't have a patent system.

    And innovation flourished. People spent more time on inventions than huddling into an office to try to prove they needed a patent.

    I bet if you actually took away the notion that copyright produced more works (when it clearly hinders the market through confusing contract law and economic good sense) you would have even more content created than what is being produced now.

    That way, we can get into the real problems of industry... Namely how the NSA is about to start spying on us in Sep 2012 and how Google is selling us out on that info.

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 01:17pm

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    Your comments here and elsewhere have changed in tenor significantly, and now appear to be the norm directed to anyone and everyone who happens to say something that upsets your ideological apple-cart.

    Nope but your comments have always been very much arrogant and focused on ridicule. I'm just calling you out for being full of it as always.

    I have no idea what your relationship, if any, is with the pharmaceutical industry. Based upon your comments I assume it is quite limited. Perhaps you should work within that industry and gather first hand data at the source.

    No shit I don't work in the industry. You glide right by someone talking to you, as always, to make some miniscule point about how they need first hand information, when they have the same information right in front of you. I highly doubt you've looked at the data or you would have posted it. I highly doubt that you looked at the economic advantages of a patent, instead opting for your cryptographic bullshit on how your comments are so much better than others.

    How about backing that up with some facts, then your argument has validity. Until then, you're still full of shit.

  • On the post: Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2012 @ 10:21am

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    So you're still full of shit even though there's been many articles on this site and abroad showing how profiteering from a patent monopoly leads to very high prices on drugs that are used to save lives.

    The Cost of new drugs is vastly overrated.

    And it seems particularly insidious that the FDA bans drugs that have been on the market for decades because a company wants a monopoly.

    Then you have the premmie drub Makena that shot up from $10 to $1500 for no reason other than a monopoly was granted.

    Your anecdotal bullshit is unfounded and not true, as always. How about coming back with some actual research instead of "trust me, this is true" when obviously it's not?

  • On the post: NCAA Goes Backwards On Streaming The Basketball Tournament

    Jay ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2012 @ 02:07pm

    Why do I have this image of a Helmeted Vader doing spins and jukes as Palpatine sends bolts for slacking off at work?

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