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• On the post: Perhaps Avoiding Links Is Really A Way To Get People Not To Read The Details Of The Studies You're Misrepresenting

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2010 @ 03:25am

  How to Suck at the Internet

  ^The title of Nick Carr's biography.
  
  If done properly, such as the links in articles here on TD, renamed links can be perfectly complementary to an article. Anyone who thinks otherwise should only ever write with a quill and feather.

• On the post: A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose… Until Police See It On CCTV, Say It's A Knife & Throw You In Jail For 3 Months

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2010 @ 08:45am

  Re:

  It's the UK. Don't they still use truncheons over there?

• On the post: A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose… Until Police See It On CCTV, Say It's A Knife & Throw You In Jail For 3 Months

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2010 @ 08:43am

  Re:

  three months and a trial?

• On the post: Australia Once Again Decides You Have No Freedom To Tinker With Your Gaming Console

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2010 @ 10:33pm

  Re:

  What about the "o" you left out of "choose"

• On the post: NY Times Comes Out In Favor Of Fixing Small Parts Of Copyright Law

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 07:49pm

  Re:

  If you extrapolate that paragraph to another popular situation covered hereat length on TechDirt: Sounds like the NY Times is, if somewhat unintentionally, morally against such claims by ACTA proponents that certain parts of ACTA will not affect US law, amongst anecdotal evidence that the "international obligations" contained within will in effect "lock" them in.

• On the post: Anonymous Mexican Blog Becomes Go To Source For Drug War Info, 'Pro' Journalists Upset

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2010 @ 03:19pm

  Oh wait. Is this an admission that bloggers are, infact, journalists and therefore covered under the same guidelines as journalists such as not being made to give up their sources?

• On the post: More And More People Seeing How Collection Societies Have Distorted Copyright

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2010 @ 11:27am

  So what's going to happen when the world finally gets sick of their (collection agencies, industry lobyists) crap and ditches their content in favor of cheaper (or free) content with more reasonable licensing terms?
  
  Who are they going to compain to because their artists works aren't being heard? The government? How exactly will they argue that one? Will they ask the government to then force venues to play their content so they can continue collecting revenue? Or will they then be forced to concede they were wrong to begin with and remove the barriers they have themselves put up in order to get their artists works to be consumed?

• On the post: Rupert Murdoch Suing The Sky Out Of Skype

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2010 @ 03:25pm

  Re: advertising.com

  Loose? Perhaps they should have had tighter control.

• On the post: Sub Pop Leaning Towards Giving Away The Infinite And Charging For The Scarce

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2010 @ 04:59am

  Re: Re: Re: Grunge Speak Anyone?

  Better than being broke and starving ;)

• On the post: Making A High Quality Film On The Cheap With A Digital SLR

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2010 @ 02:16am

  Re: House, M.D.

  Slightly incorrect. In fact it was the only the final episode of season 6 that was filmed entirely on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR.

• On the post: Lawyer For Mother Accused Of Killing Baby, Threatens Separate Lawsuit Over People Copying His Facebook Photos

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2010 @ 03:14am

  Every link below the homepage for BlinkOnCrime is a 404.

• On the post: Dear Warner Bros., It's Not 'Word Of Mouth' If You Have To Pay People To Promote Your Movies

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2010 @ 08:47pm

  Also, if I walk into a sandwich shop and purchase a sandwich and with the purchase, the clerk says, "Here is a card, if you buy 10 sandwiches and get the card stamped, the 11th is on the house. Here is some cards for your friends as well."
  
  If I hand those to my friends and say, "the sandwiches here are great, you should try them out and if you get 10 sandwiches, the 11th is free." is that not word of mouth? Of course it is!

  
  Didn't really do much towards proving your point there chum. The sandwich bar isn't paying you to recommend them to your friends. It's your choice to give them out. You get nothing extra from the sandwich bar whether you hand them out or not.

• On the post: Amanda Palmer Sells $15,000 Worth Of Music & Merch In Three Minutes

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2010 @ 05:57pm

  Re:

  Reading comprehension fail...
  
  The actual quote was
  
  

  The offering included a "pay what you want" for the music, but also a variety of other tiers.

  
  
  The $1000 of which you speak then quite obviously refers to one of the other teirs.
  
  Nice try though.

• On the post: BP Photoshopping Goes From Bad To Ridiculously Bad

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2010 @ 06:56am

  Re:

  Oh I so hope you didn't just Google that...

• On the post: 'Ya Dun Goofed': Evidence That Censorship Is Both Needed And Not Needed

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2010 @ 06:17pm

  (REMIX) Because I Back-Traced It! (You dun goofed up)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Np9hNSIWo
  
  Seriously this one is my favorite. Gangsta remix complete with auto-tune. You owe it to yourself to watch it. Pure gold! End of conversation!

• On the post: Whether You're BP Or A Petty Criminal, Photoshopping Yourself To Look Sympathetic Probably Isn't Wise

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2010 @ 05:01pm

  [08:49] Twitter: BP Public Relations(BPGlobalPR) -- Hey BP fans! Photoshop our command center and win prizes!* (*there are no prizes) http://ow.ly/2edfr - Use #BPphotoshop
  
  
  I can't wait to see the resulting meme pics LOL :D
  
  Oh wait, here's one... http://twitpic.com/2754ns

• On the post: Performance Rights Group Takes Down YouTube Video Of Auschwitz Survivor Dancing To 'I Will Survive' At Aushwitz

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2010 @ 06:20pm

  APRA?

  Oh joy, we have one too. Seriously i've never heard of this organisation before now. I am ashamed for my country.

• On the post: A Paywall… For Obituaries?

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2010 @ 04:16pm

  LMAO!

  I shall endeavour to inform my friends they can't all die at once, lest I miss some of their funerals. Seriously some people just fail at the internet.

• On the post: Will Arnold Schwarzenegger Also Ban Kids From Riding Terminator 2 Theme Park Ride?

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2010 @ 03:34am

  I am also a mass murderer...

  Frankly i'm far more concerned by people who play The Sims.

• On the post: Another UK Hairdresser Fined For Turning On Her Radio

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2010 @ 11:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Sigh...

  Yeah, on that note, I just went and had a look at that story to see what the fuss was about AND BOY does techdirt not play nice when people get into a nested conversation.
  
  After about 10 nested responses they just turn into one-word-per-line replys that take a couple of flicks with the scroll wheel to read. That's pretty poor site design.

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