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• On the post: DOJ Claims Judge Who Trashed 'Made Up Plot' Should Be Removed For Being 'Hostile' To The Gov't

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2014 @ 08:16am

  I don't know if Judge Otis Wright is biased, but he does seem to have a philosophical bent. Almost as if he believes in some nutty concept such as the separation of powers. As if it's his job to keep watch over and put limits on the executive branch. And we all know that's crazy, because the executive branch has to work with complete impunity to protect us from terrorists.

• On the post: Apparently Not Too Many People In Europe Care About Having Microsoft's Bing 'Forget' Them

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2014 @ 07:48am

  "I read on Bing that you're a child molester."
  
  "What's a 'Bing'?"

• On the post: That Time When People Thought Playing Chess Would Make You Violent

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 06:15am

  My mom was a teen in the 50s in the US. It was common for parents back then to blame polio on rock & roll concerts and hanging out at the beach.

• On the post: Don't Weep For The Past; Plan For The Future

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2014 @ 07:10am

  I used to love newspapers. I mean I loved them. I'd get to school or work and spend the first half an hour of my day reading. It was awesome. I'd save some for lunch, so I'd have something to read then.
  
  It was annoying at times. Signing up for a subscription was always a suspicious process, sort of like signing up for a gym membership. Why was it so shady and complicated?
  
  If you bought from a local machine, sometimes it'd be empty or wouldn't work. So you'd have to scurry around trying to find a paper.
  
  Sometimes there would be missing sections to the paper, which always pissed me off.
  
  Oh, and let's not forget the ads. Killing a tree to give me a ton of weekend ads I'll never look at just seemed so pointless. Even back when I was in love.
  
  But none of those mattered, because I was in love. Until the internet came out. Back in the 90s I realized I was reading in the paper the exact same stories I read the night before online. AP story after AP story.
  
  But I was in love, so it didn't matter. I still had local news, editorials, and the comics.
  
  But the local news and editorials departments shrank, to save money. And in all honesty, I only read two or three comics. So I started getting newspapers less and less. And eventually I had to face the fact, I no longer loved newspapers.
  
  But even worse, I didn't even have any fond memories of newspapers. You don't have fond memories of more difficult archaic ways. "Oh, I miss the days before microwave ovens when I'd spend 40 minutes warming up a frozen dinner." No, I don't.
  
  When something better comes along, I don't look back fondly, I look back and think, "How did I put up with that crap?" So yes, newspapers were crap. They were the best we had at the time. They didn't have the immediacy of radio or TV, but they had depth and substance. But that advantage died with the net. And good riddance. You won't be missed by me.

• On the post: Back To Normal: Nintendo's YouTube Plan Sounds Like A Big Bucket Of Terrible

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2014 @ 07:47am

  Trying to fit an antiquated system of copyright into a modern ecosystem + Greed = Big Bucket Of Terrible

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: Sherlock Holmes Is In The Public Domain

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2014 @ 01:25pm

  "and got the unfortunate honor of having Judge Richard Posner..."
  
  It must have been a sad day at the office when they found out that Posner was appointed.

• On the post: European Truck Industry Refuses To Adopt Safer, Cleaner, Cheaper Designs Soon In Order To Preserve 'Competitive Neutrality'

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2014 @ 01:43am

  "suppose one manufacturer would have better designs on the shelves and another not, wouldn't that be terribly unfair?"
  
  They don't really understand the intricacies of capitalism, do they?

• On the post: Judge Reminds Vexatious Human Being That Ideas — Even Techno-Dragons With Guns — Are Not Protected By Copyright

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2014 @ 06:49am

  I'm still waiting for the estate of Algis Budrys to sue over the movie 'Edge of Tomorrow' for "ripping off" his book 'Rouge Moon'. Which uses the idea of fighting, "dying", and then coming back for more fighting.

• On the post: Why Has Tom Cruise's Reputation Faltered? Pshh, Because Of The Internet, Of Course!

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 07:26am

  Re:

  I think she attempted to make an insightful point. But she failed for three reasons.
  
  First, she said this: "Except Cruise never jumps on a couch" and argues that he only "stepped" on a couch.
  
  Second, he did in fact jump on the couch. You cannot step on something with both feet at the same time. That's not stepping. That's jumping.
  
  Third, as pointed out by Tim and others, this was not Tom's downfall. His numerous discussions of Scientology were. So Amy's focusing on the jumping as the downfall is simply idiotic.

• On the post: Why Has Tom Cruise's Reputation Faltered? Pshh, Because Of The Internet, Of Course!

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 07:15am

  Re:

  Well I finally finished Amy's screed. Her point in an nutshell: Handling celebrities was easier when fans could be kept ignorant.
  
  When ignorance is your business model, you deserve to fail. Because information will find a way to get free. Ignorance might work for a while, but it simply cannot work forever.

• On the post: Why Has Tom Cruise's Reputation Faltered? Pshh, Because Of The Internet, Of Course!

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 07:09am

  I understand what Amy is trying to do. Like the myth that Will Smith said "Welcome to Earf" to the crashed alien in Independence Day. We can hear him say it, even though he actually and clearly said "earth."
  
  But check out the video here at 1:17. Did he step on a couch? No. He clearly jumped on a couch with both feet. You can't step with both feet at the same time. It's impossible.

• On the post: Creepypasta Feels Compelled To State That Its Stories Are Fiction & It's Not A Satanic Cult; Thanks Everyone…

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 01:25pm

  I'm glad I bought my kids a copy of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories trilogy before they were banned and burned.

• On the post: US Marshals Step In To Keep Florida Police Department's Stingray Documents Out Of The Hands Of The ACLU

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 12:02pm

  "*only to find out that no such records exist"
  
  I've worked in courts long enough to be utterly perplexed by this. I can imagine the files being sealed and made non-public. But actually allowing the files to be removed?! What's the legal basis for that?!

• On the post: The $120 Smartphone Patent Tax: Patent Royalties Cost More Than The Actual Hardware In Your Phone

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 30 May, 2014 @ 12:15pm

  Well, this just proves that innovation is worth more than execution.

• On the post: Google AdSense's Idiotic And Hypocritical Morality Police Force Us To Remove Ads On News Stories

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 11:48am

  "Strategically covered nudity" is the best example of doublespeak I've seen in a long time.

• On the post: State AG Tries To Order Removal Of Public Records From Journalist's Blog, Resulting In Records Being Posted Everywhere

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 10:13am

  "administrators printed out each email and then re-scanned them ? which meant Schick couldn't search them for keywords"
  
  That would also eliminate metadata such as IP addresses and sources and routes the emails took.

• On the post: Metropolitan Museum Of Art Claims Copyright Over Massive Trove Of Public Domain Works

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 09:33am

  I've said this before: photographs do not deserve copyright protection because photographers do not need the incentive of copyright.
  
  Brides and grooms will still hire wedding photographers. Moms will still make appointments at portrait studios. And photographers will still be paid to take pictures of public domain art.
  
  The second reason is that photographs, especially these, are not creative. They are merely digital representations of other works of art. There's nothing new other than the format, which is not sufficient to give an entirely new copyright protection. Because if that's true, every time I open a PDF in OpenOffice, I'm creating a new copyright. Which is simply asinine.

• On the post: Cable Industry's Own Numbers Show General Decline In Investment Over Past Seven Years

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 05:05pm

  There is a truism about small businesses. The "grandfather" started and grew the business. The "father" milked it. The "son" runs it into the ground.
  
  In relation to internet infrastructure, we're at the "son" stage right now.

• On the post: WIPO Boss Reappointed Until 2020, Despite Bogus Legal Threat Against Blogger

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 07:05am

  Re: Re: Re:

  It's not just folklore. It's a country's entire culture and sub-culture. It'd be like giving the US the right to sue other countries for misappropriating jazz, baseball, and cheerleaders. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
  
  How are we harmed if some school in Nigeria wants to have a cheerleading squad? Vice versa, how is Nigeria harmed if my kids wears a Bini mask for Halloween?
  
  Here's my thinking. The WIPO wants to force third world countries into accepting our IP laws. What advantage does that give those poorer countries? Nothing really. It just forces them to pay more and be sued for not paying. No advantage at all.
  
  However, what if the WIPO promised those countries cultural rights? Basically promising they could sue other nations or corporations for cultural appropriation. So if someone opens a chain of Bombay Bistros in the US, India could sue to stop it or for profits.
  
  It's a win/win for everyone but citizens. The IP maximalists get their view of the world imposed everywhere. And the poorer countries get to sell this to their people by saying they're protecting their cultures from western decadence, along with a tidy profit.

• On the post: Data Shows Homeland Security Is Lying When It Claims Intellectual Property Seizures Are About Health & Safety

  

  Ima Fish ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 09:21am

  A Guns N' Roses album leaked! Call the World Health Organization!

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