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• On the post: Press Speculates Batman Shooter Must Have Played Video Games; They're Right: He Loved Guitar Hero

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 11:53am

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  From:
  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1112703/-De-mythologizing-the-Wild-West-gun-laws-were-actually-stricter-then-than-now
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/did-the-wild-west-have-mo_b_956035.html
  
  "Yet this is all based on a widely shared misunderstanding of the Wild West. Frontier towns -- places like Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge -- actually had the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation.
  
  In fact, many of those same cities have far less burdensome gun control today then they did back in the 1800s.
  
  Guns were obviously widespread on the frontier. Out in the untamed wilderness, you needed a gun to be safe from bandits, natives, and wildlife. In the cities and towns of the West, however, the law often prohibited people from toting their guns around. A visitor arriving in Wichita, Kansas in 1873, the heart of the Wild West era, would have seen signs declaring, "Leave Your Revolvers At Police Headquarters, and Get a Check."
  
  A check? That's right. When you entered a frontier town, you were legally required to leave your guns at the stables on the outskirts of town or drop them off with the sheriff, who would give you a token in exchange. You checked your guns then like you'd check your overcoat today at a Boston restaurant in winter. Visitors were welcome, but their guns were not."

• On the post: Press Speculates Batman Shooter Must Have Played Video Games; They're Right: He Loved Guitar Hero

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 11:48am

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  In the "wild west", people weren't actually allowed to carry their guns openly into every bank, saloon, etc that they went to. In fact, a lot of shootouts were because cowboys (actual cow ranchers) who spent most of their time guarding their cattle waltzed in everywhere carrying guns pissing off every law enforcer around.

• On the post: Press Speculates Batman Shooter Must Have Played Video Games; They're Right: He Loved Guitar Hero

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 11:45am

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  They should just drop all the laws and just make one law that forbids criminals and only criminals from doing anything illegal.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 08:27am

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  "Good journalism", "journalistic standards" are stupid arguments to make. There are different kind of standards, and not all are equally important to everyone. Acting like any "well respected publication" has to follow some arbitrary standard set by some arbitrary person (why journalistic standards? why doesn't he need to follow "good engineering standards" or "good law school standards" or "good law enforcement standards" or "good software interoperativity standards"?).
  
  It's even more stupid to try to fit a publication into a niche because YOU want it there or YOU think it belongs there.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:52am

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  Surprise: there are different kind of blogs.
  
  There are news blogs.
  There are law blogs.
  There are opinion blogs.
  There are cooking blogs.
  There are Shakira fan club blogs.
  
  Not all blogs have the same standards. That doesn't make them more or less credible. And news blogs aren't inherently less credible than the paper versions because they have "blog" in it.
  
  Certainly Mike wasn't implying ALL blogs are credible, and definitely he wasn't saying that ALL blogs are news blogs. So no, it doesn't "go contrary" to anything (point the part in Mike's previous article where it says that a blog is automatically a credible news source).

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:45am

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  Journalism? Where? This is an opinion blog.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:41am

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  Obviously, the point is not that anticompetitive practices resulted in an injustice, nope, the "point" is that an outside authority was called to correct that injustice!
  
  Bias! Someone was called therefore BIAS! The wrong was righted, therefore BIAS!

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:06am

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  "Man murders woman"
  
  Man, you left out the part where they call the police!. That's so biased! This is just an attempt to further the anti-murder agenda by leaving important parts like that the police was called!

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:02am

  The Pirates should just have set up a disposable cutlery stand, and then have every other stand that gave free cutlery booted out of the festival for "unfair competition".

• On the post: Courts Losing Patience With Clearly Bogus Trademark Claims; Dismissing Them Early

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 06:36am

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  I read that as "hate meteor", and imagined a giant flaming rock hitting Earth and causing the extinction of all lawyers.

• On the post: Author Strips Naked To Protest Book Piracy; Probably Works As Well As Anything Else

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2012 @ 08:39am

  Wait, why didn't I hear about this?
  
  Oh right, because nobody watches that shitty show here.

• On the post: GEMA Hikes Venue Performance Royalties 500%, Threatens Germany's Underground Club Scene

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2012 @ 06:33am

  Re: Underground clubs-- isn't that just another way to say "tax cheat"?

  I see... so this GEMA thing is some sort of... BERLIN PAYWALL?

• On the post: Yet Another Study Shows You Can Compete With Piracy

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 01:23pm

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  Ironically, this AC seems in dire need of one (therapist, not rapists, Mr. Connery!)

• On the post: Apple Plays Cat And Mouse With In-App Purchase Hacker

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 11:18am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How come.....

  You mean, those three totally different people should go to Vegas together...

• On the post: Apple Plays Cat And Mouse With In-App Purchase Hacker

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 09:45am

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  Apparently he does. He pointed it out accurately.
  
  Wow, what are the chances, an Anonymous Coward just happens to have the same avatar as Wally and Sad Mac. Must be random.

• On the post: Couple Arrested For Dancing On NYC Subway Platform

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 09:18am

  Re:

  Oh-oh-oh-oh...
  
  Everybody was Kung Fu'ing dancers, those pigs were fast as lightning
  In fact it was a little bit fright'ning, but they were busted with expert timing
  
  There was funky policemen from funky Police Town
  They were chopping them up, they were chopping them down
  It's an ancient fascist art, and everybody knew their part
  From a feint into a slip, then I'm kicked in the hip
  
  Everybody was Kung Fu'ing dancers, those pigs were fast as lightning
  In fact it was a little bit fright'ning, but they were busted with expert timing
  
  There was funky Nabby Jones and little Johnny Law
  He said, here comes the big boss, let's get it on
  We took the cam and made a stand, started swaying with the band
  A sudden motion made me skip, now we're into a brandnew trip
  
  Everybody was Kung Fu'ing dancers, those pigs were fast as lightning
  In fact it was a little bit fright'ning, but they were busted with expert timing

• On the post: Apple Plays Cat And Mouse With In-App Purchase Hacker

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 08:21am

  Re: Re: How come.....

  Clearly you don't know how these avatars work.

• On the post: Meet The Internet Defense League (And Join It, Too)

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 11:21am

  Re: What about my freedom to create without being pirated?

  Hi bob,
  
  I guess what you're trying to say is that the IDL is the Ultimate Paywall.
  
  We know, we know. Hey, we should call it Big IDL.

• On the post: AT&T May Try To Charge FaceTime Users, Raising Net Neutrality Questions

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 06:27am

  I think all those "call ISP to enable service X (for a price)" are just a form of double-dipping.
  
  They already cap internet usage, they charge you for that internet usage. Someone used the water analogy already: charging you for water, but charging you extra if you use it to water your garden, and "enabling the service" of using it to flush the toilet.

• On the post: Lord Finesse Learning How The Streisand Effect Works: Tons Of People Re-Upload Dan Bull's Video

  

  The Groove Tiger ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 05:32pm

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  "That's right. You should sue people into behaving the way you want them to behave. Good on ya."
  
  FTFY

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