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  • On the post: Latest On EU Copyright Directive: No One's Happy With Article 13, So Maybe Let's Drop It?

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 11:50am

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  • On the post: Missouri's Newest Senator Apparently Can't Read The Law, Pushing For Greater Censorship

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 11:21am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: What parts of common law?

    In case anyone is still interested in this thread, here is a good reference on the history of the term "common law": http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C/CommonLaw.aspx

  • On the post: Missouri's Newest Senator Apparently Can't Read The Law, Pushing For Greater Censorship

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 10:17am

    Re: Re: Re: What parts of common law?

    Hmmm, in between the time I wrote that comment and now Wikipedia has removed the section I quoted.

  • On the post: Schlafly Family Loses Appeal To Block Schlafly Family Member's Brewery's Trademark Application

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 07:40am

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    Sometimes I wish I had the $100,000,001 to silence Techdirt for a year. Then Blue would think he "won" and go away forever. I find it very telling that Blue approaches civilized discourse as a win/lose scenario as opposed to a learning opportunity.

  • On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: We Finally Start Testing Responsive Design!

    Gwiz ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2018 @ 11:47am

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    Please tell us, O' Great Disseminator of Unwanted Knowledge, where to find your Holy Grail of a website, so us mere mortals can learn for ourselves how to please you.

  • On the post: Congress Using Lame Duck Session To Push Through Awful Plan To Politicize The Copyright Office

    Gwiz ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2018 @ 11:09am

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    Techdirt as always implies that the thieves of content, whether personal or commercial scale, have some sort of legitimate interest in this or any other copyright matter....
    You do realize that pretty much everyone is a copyright holder in the US, right? Please explain why only some copyright holders should have a say. Also, this is a public matter that impacts the public. Are you really saying something along the lines of: "You drink alcohol, so you should have no say concerning drunk driving laws."? Because if you are, that is simply plum dumb.

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

    Gwiz ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2018 @ 10:19am

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    Just to cover my own ass: I do not actually conclude that the above commentor is a pedophile. I have no knowledge either way and wouldn't presume to cast judgement without actual facts. I was using a form of the reductio ad absurdum argument to show how stupid their logic was and probably should have used a different example. Sometimes my annoyance with stupidity gets the better of me and I apologize for my lack of forethought on this one.

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

    Gwiz ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2018 @ 09:10am

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    WHICH IS IT? Techdirt won't say, so is LYING. And it's now caught in that dilemma, which is why Masnick can't even state WHETHER there is a Moderator doing as you imply, and I so conclude too.
    I've never seen you state whether you are or not a pedophile, so by your own dumb logic, you are obviously lying and I must conclude you are, in fact, a pedophile. Do you see how stupid your logic is here?

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

    Gwiz ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2018 @ 08:47am

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    Of course, to a rational mind, the question is whether it's "free speech" on avowed discussion board when some viewpoints are disadvantaged by "hidden" behind an added editorial warning and requiring another click.
    Your notion of free speech is skewed. You cannot force others to listen to you. If you don't like how this platform works, find some other place for your speech. Has it ever dawned on you that people might flag your comments, not because of the content, but because you have shown yourself over the years to be an absolute asshole who isn't really interested in civilized conversation?

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

    Gwiz ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2018 @ 08:33am

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    I now have evidence, see, that there's NO UPVOTES EVEN POSSIBLE.
    Evidence of what exactly? The only evidence I see is that the Techdirt community, as a group of like minded individuals, have exercised their rights to ignore you by consensus.  
    The up votes in hypothetical election are for the other candidate.
    We have the "other candidate" here too. If your comments were of any value here, you would be getting insightful or funny votes.  
    Besides that, the system is rigged in at least two ways: 1) No mere commentor knows whether there even any votes at all.
    So what? How would knowing if there are other votes change how I wish to vote?  
    2) Techdirt will never state whether an Administrator approves the hiding.
    I believe they have stated this (to you in fact) but I cannot find that comment. Personally I belive that the Techdirt staff have much more important things to do than to monitor and hide comments from a insignificant little ankle biter like you. Remember, Mike as made no bones about the fact that this site is a loss leader for his real business.

  • On the post: Missouri's Newest Senator Apparently Can't Read The Law, Pushing For Greater Censorship

    Gwiz ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2018 @ 01:53pm

    Re: Re: Re: What parts of common law?

    Just in case anyone new to Techdirt is reading this, I use the moniker "Blue" in reference to the person commenting above as "Doug Diggs" who used to use the moniker "out_of_the_blue" for the first couple of years they commented here. That person no longer uses out_of_the_blue (and now uses various lame, cutesy names) but they can still be identified by their writing style, certain turns of phrases, word usage, sentence structure and a weird fetish for the horizontal divider line.

  • On the post: Israeli Exploit Developer Caught Negotiating Spyware Sales With Saudi Government

    Gwiz ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2018 @ 07:17am

    Re: Re: "Do one thing and do it well"

    Yes, I've heard the arguments for systemd and I've since resigned myself to fact that it's a necessary evil going forward on Linux. I am just not all that comfortable with one program having that much control of critical functions on my system because it makes it a huge target for infiltration by black hat hackers or government agencies. A couple of security flaws have already been discovered in systemd.

  • On the post: Missouri's Newest Senator Apparently Can't Read The Law, Pushing For Greater Censorship

    Gwiz ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2018 @ 07:47pm

    Re: Re: What parts of common law?

    I believe that Blue uses the archaic, pre-20th century definition of the term "common law" which was:

    From the earliest times through the late 19th century, the dominant theory was that the common law was a pre-existent law or system of rules, a social standard of justice that existed in the habits, customs, and thoughts of the people. Under this older view, the legal profession considered it no part of a judge's duty to make new or change existing law, but only to expound and apply the old. Source
    It would be nice if he used the same, modern definition that the rest of us use, but I think he enjoys being misunderstood so he can make himself feel superior.

  • On the post: Missouri's Newest Senator Apparently Can't Read The Law, Pushing For Greater Censorship

    Gwiz ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2018 @ 12:16pm

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    Nothing in Section 230 empowers arbitrary corporate censorship.
    Since you love common law so much, what about the Right to Refuse Service? In the US, a private business can refuse service to anyone as long as the refusal isn't based on race, color, religion, or national origin. Once again, I invite you show me any law that states any business HAS to host your speech if they don't want to.  
    DOES REQUIRE "taken in good faith" (and by common law standards), which of course attacking political opponents could never be.
    Those "common law standards" you are talking about only means that the service provider belives that thier action is legal and within the terms of any contract between the parties. Not sure what "attacking political opponents" has to do with anything here.

  • On the post: FBI Faked Up A FedEx Website To Track Down A Scam Artist

    Gwiz ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2018 @ 09:11am

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    Now you are spewing whataboutisms. Aren't you the one who whines about "fanboys being off-topic"? Hypocrite.

  • On the post: Activists Make One Last Push To Restore Net Neutrality Via Congressional Review Act

    Gwiz ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2018 @ 08:32am

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    Pirates who refuse to recognize the value of hard work, naturally get angry when copyright holders pay and lobby for the laws we deserve.
    You do realize that we are ALL copyright holders, right? Anybody in the US who has ever written anything, taken a picture of something, drawn a doodle on napkin, etc. since 1978 is a copyright holder. Being a copyright holder isn't some sort of special social class that grants you extra privileges above others.  
    ...when Shiva is done with Masnick's pretty boy ass, so is this apologist site
    Lol. He didn't get very far the first time. He was almost laughed out of the courtroom. What makes you think the appeal will be different?

  • On the post: Activists Make One Last Push To Restore Net Neutrality Via Congressional Review Act

    Gwiz ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2018 @ 07:57am

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    I don't create accounts because I'm not justfying myself to Mikey's band of thieves. You want to track my messages to shout me down and undermine my crdibility. I refuse to give you satisfaction.
    TRANSLATION: I don't want to be held accountable for my own words! Wuss.

  • On the post: Court Tells Former NRA President The First Amendment Protects Far More Than Polite Speech

    Gwiz ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2018 @ 11:35am

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    Techdirt's notion of free speech is to protect yourselves from what don't want to see.
      That is Free Speech, you dolt. You're free to say what you want (as long as it's actually protected speech) and I'm free to ignore you.

  • On the post: Israeli Exploit Developer Caught Negotiating Spyware Sales With Saudi Government

    Gwiz ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2018 @ 08:02am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dont think this is the only one...

    I used to use the testing repository and did have some problems with Wine years ago. I prefer to do my upgrades manually (I'm old school, I guess lol). For awhile I didn't upgrade at all because I resisted the change to systemd as long as I could, not because it doesn't work, but because I really don't like the design philosophy behind it. systemd marked the beginning of the end for "Do one thing and do it well". Debian is now headed into the Microsoft land of "do a bunch of things mostly well".

  • On the post: Israeli Exploit Developer Caught Negotiating Spyware Sales With Saudi Government

    Gwiz ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2018 @ 06:39am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Dont think this is the only one...

    Free software on an antique is an all old alky / doper like you can afford.
    Lol. Love the uninformed insults. Very entertaining. Aren't you the one who claims that ad hominems detract from this site?  
    That's why you're a pirate, too.
    I am not a pirate, except for one day a year when I talk like one. If you are referring to illegal downloading, then you are also incorrect. What content (which is very little since I pay for HBO/SHOWTIME/CINEMAX on my Directv account) I do download/view these days is from PAID accounts.  
    But I'm even more right, and you can prove it to yourself: just TRY a modern Linux distro / GUI. They've gone backwards in last 10 years.
    Not sure what you are babbling about here, my Debian install IS the latest since I upgrade to the latest Debian distros when they are released. My laptop may be considered an "antique", but it works just fine for my purposes. Why fix something if it ain't broke?

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