That Anonymous Coward's Second Techdirt Favorites Post Of The Week
OHAI Tourists!
pulls on orange vest
For those of you not shaking your heads in disbelief that I’m here
again, I’m That Anonymous Coward.
People mostly just call me TAC, my current claim to fame is appearing
in 4 sets of exhibits submitted to Federal Courts by Pretenda and its
agents, as well as suing to unmask me for intentional infliction of
butthurt… or something.
I coined the term Pretenda.
I am harsh, snarky, and pretty entertaining.
I am a legend in my own mind, and the stuff of nightmares for copyright
trolls.
Now if you’ll all take your seats here on the short bus, the tour can
begin, as soon as I get past this pesky club Mike put on the
wheel.
Hand me that canister… a little liquid nitrogen works wonders on
stuck locks.
Multitool please….
Now we connect wire 1 to wire 3 and… we’re off.
Palantir (named for that creepy orb from Lord of the Rings that lets you spy on hobbit beauty queens changing), got $196 Million in funding. Let’s ignore the absolute failure of the people behind it, and how they planned to use the tech to undermine Wikileaks for private customers. And they would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids in trendy masks. So a company, who has no problem creating fake information, is being funded to gather more ‘real’ information for the government or anyone else with a briefcase full of cash.
Oh everyone smile at the traffic camera, it’s gathering our images to
update your status on NSABook.
Given the errors most data aggregators have… you are probably
all George Takei.
Everyone smile and say Oh My!
Everyone wave at that nice policeman
hiding in that alley… being anonymous online is okay for him, but
everyone else should register themselves.
I wonder if he works for this guy.
I guess its open minded thinking like that, that leads to
stuff like this.
Ok everyone roll up the windows, this is a bad neighborhood. Those dark forbidding towers, the fire, the brimstone… Nope its not Mordor, one does not just tour Mordor… this is the Surveillance Suburb. DUMDUMDUMMMMM
I’d bother to narrate but this neighborhood is like the most insane HOA
ever.
Pouring money into companies, making us all less safe, with nothing to
show for it.
If you question them, you’re a freaking terrorist.
They scare everyone with ZOMG the terrorists will win, even as they do
way more harm.
Protecting
the cash cow is more important than people knowing the truth.
Ok this place depresses me… here let’s just do a doughnut in Rep. Rogers lawn…
BaBang
Whoops sorry that was a pretty big speed bump, oh wait no it’s just
EA’s latest fail.
Let’s pay a visit to my favorite place, the Copyright Troll
Cul-de-sac.
We should be safe, with the Government shutdown those nice men from ICE
are cooling their heels at home.
Just up here on the left, and this clicker I “found” opens the gates….
Given the amazing lengths some countries are going to appease the IP
cartels, well this is confusing.
And well this just seems to fly in the face of the horrible times they claim…
They have given up buying the laws they want, they just think they can say
it and make it law.
Yes it’s time to hit the wayback machine Peabody for background, as you should have learned last time I had the wheel… I go where I want, last tour I went offsite to Ars.
I was talking about this lawfirm, Steele
Hansmeier LLC and their boy wonder lawyer Brett
Gibbs.
They stood before a Judge and admitted they mislead the court in the
original complaint, that the discovery wasn’t enough to identify the
infringer and wanted the court to allow them access to pretty much
anything with a computer in it in the target’s house.
My crystal ball is that good, I saw what was happening and well popcorn
futures are way up as the comedy keeps coming.
It would be funny haha but the wheels of justice are slow, so its more
funny utoh.
See that battered McMansion? The one that looks like its been hit by
the wrecking ball a bunch of times, and somehow is still
standing? Prenda Prime, it’s pretty much Steele Hansmeier with
new siding.
HA.
I think the upcoming holidays might be a little chilly.
HA.
They ‘represent’ him, and their best answer is we think he’ll have a
good answer?
HA!
And the cash they owe, piles up higher.
I guess gaming the justice system will finally catch up with you.
The irony, it burns. How big does the lie have to be when
even a staunch copyright advocate calls you out?
What is this little dark alley… oh this is where the patent trolls are breeding.
Much like the copyright trolls they are filling peoples heads with dreams of imaginary dollars… that never seem to make it to their greedy hands.
It is almost like some people want these trolls to succeed and keep the world from moving forward.
They extract money from people who innovate so they can spend more money to keep themselves alive.
Heh, lemme flick on the high beams…. look at them run!
Ok it’s gross back here, let’s get out on the road…
FSCK someone got funding restored for ICE, everyone duck down while I
get us out of here.
STAY DOWN!
Well Mike can have those bullet holes filled with bondo…again…
I would be depressed about all of the NSA
coverage, except my paranoia apparently was well founded.
Looking at the few revelations so far, can people understand why
Occupy, LulzSec, & Anonymous scare the crap out of the powers
that be?
We had paramilitary action against citizens exercising their right to
protest.
Fun fact pepper spray is banned for use on soldiers in war because it
is chemical warfare, but hosing down citizens seems to be perfectly ok.
‘Merika – home of the meek and surveilled.
Maybe those they demonize most are the ones who are done being meek.
Maybe we should stop accepting what they tell us, as it’s clear
they have no problem lying to us, and educate ourselves about them.
Not everything they do is well received, but when people fight back it gets messy.
I guess CFAA is the digital firehose being turned on protestors.
And back to the parking lot…
Ohhh look! Everyone wave at the drones
we aren’t supposed to know about.
So we’ve watched our rights get stripped away.
We’ve all paid the tax on innovation, and gotten nothing but more bad laws.
If you question those rights we all think we still have, they call you names and start digging for dirt (or farm that job out).
Is anyone scared that the guy in the Guy Fawkes mask is making sense?
Republicans are red, Democrats are blue, the really sad thing is, neither side gives a fsck about you.
Oh hey, Mike did my $25,000 ever show up?
You can use part of it to have the tour bus fixed up.
And that was part of the week that was.
I remain,
TAC
We made them look at an ultrasound & that changed their mind. I move that we co-opt this plan and force members of Congress to look at morgue photos after every mass shooting.
I just wish more of them got listened to by the elected set. Instead they listen to the cosplaying screamers who help keep the stereotype of gun owners being insane idiots alive. And I will freely admit that the other side has a bunch of screaming morons too. The issue is so overwrought for no good reason other than lots of people being focused on "winning". (By which they mean the other side gets nothing they want at all)
Do wild animals not have enough problems already?? How the fsck are we supposed to get them on Crestor after eating all that fat??
Be glad I didn't link to the commercial for his manly men doing manly things that played a lot like 1980's skinamax gay porn
giggles it was a needed moment of levity in this hellscape of a timeline.
Except if some dumbass from DHS rolled up and tried to stop a Pride march over a random tweet... falls over laughing Why isn't this apple like this orange?? DHS agents are aware of the optics and well teh gays are loud and it would be on insta before he was out of the driveway, thats why they like to show up in the cover of night and light flags on fire to make their point. This dumbass took on a single person, flexed his mastery, was mocked, then got more butthurt that she showed the world exactly how fscking stupid he is. Sadly the odds of him being fired are like nil because the system needs cogs but I have a feeling the most dangerous thing he'll be managing for a while will be a coffee list.
"Third, incase of a homeland attack the immediate mobilisation of a counter militia is sped by an armed populace." I'm sorry I am just stuck with this mental image of very heavy good ole boys in their power chairs rolling down the highway to stop the invading hoard.
Never forget their ability to be completely against something & then decide it is no longer a problem as long as it benefits them. I remember years of 'Sharia Law will be forced on us' screaming, and I noted they were just worried someone would beat them to doing it first. No one has managed to give an answer to why abortion is banned that doesn't involve their morals, or their beliefs. But then they also have problems with all the religious crap about helping the sick & poor, & welcoming the stranger.
Tucker can't grow one, which is why he is tanning his balls.
o_O
"they knew she didn’t violate any criminal statutes" But she allegedly offended a Karen who kept bothering them so they ticketed her to appease Karen.
"The President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Budget of $52.2 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) invests in key DHS missions and reflects our commitment to protect the homeland at our borders, in cyberspace, and beyond." all that money and they are looking for someone venting their anger on twitter, meanwhile the cops are holding the doors open to allow the Proud Boys to harass a Drag Story Time. Homeland... Homelander... I see the resemblance.
"Dallas Public Integrity Unit" Dear Dallas residents, they have no integrity which is why this unit never did shit.
I did not throw him under the bus for lesser charges.
O M G becki... Even the agent is as confused as the GQP faithful... "In closing, please refrain from any harassing/threatening language when contacting any government agency." Twitter isn't the government dipshit.
I'm amazed that they managed to have 3 whole female officers to offer up in the 'but i have a black friend' defense. Remember men can be as exposed as they want, but women must be covered lest their feminine wiles over take the man & make him lose control & forcibly make her into his baby mama. Time is amazing... In Tokyo it's tomorrow, In Eurpoe its 5 hours ahead... And in the US its the 1950's and old white men get to be in charge.
Dearest Dipshit whom soon will be unemployed, There are about 300K tweets directing much more violence at actual targets you should maybe have looked into first. Thanks for confirming the reason we never see the cops around when the rioters are out is the same reason you never see Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus at the same concert. The first amendment is still a thing despite the wave of theocracy, and you just dun fucked yourself & any possible future you imagined. In the mean time Rep. Kinzinger has a long call log of loving christian patriots threatening to come get himself, his wife, his children... but you you saved us from a fucking tweet. "“Reminding everyone that Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth is allowed to preach that gay people should be ‘lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head.’ when people reported him to the police they said, ‘free speech,’” Walker wrote, replying to her original post." Can't spot a guy planning to shoot up a mosque over 6 months online but my god tweet in frustration and DHS is on the job.
Perhaps if we filed a lawsuit screaming that the incumbents were slowing down the word of the lord being shared SCOTUS would nationalize it & make it 10 gig up 10 gig down.
This person might be married to the person we really want to sue, so we sued them... but not the person we wanted to sue. I dunno, 3rd base.
Because the African Americans "benefited" its a plot against us. That in which a hack lawyer tries to hang a case on the removal of Confederate statues in the south and recast it as an attack on Italian Americans. Columbus did a thing, but it is not the only thing he did. While you might like to only focus on the finding that which was already found by others, it was not all sunshine and rainbows for the people he decided didn't own the land they lived on. No one is all good, no one is all bad (Well Trump but come on) and while you only want to focus on the good, the whole colonization and slavery thing doesn't seem good to others. With as mad as you are because the statue was removed, find the ability to see how someone seen as horrible by others for other actions having a prominent statue celebrating who they see as a horrible person. But this is only going to get better as they try to change the social studies program to turn slavery into involuntary relocation so kid's won't feel bad, because people long dead did really bad things a long time ago & this lead to bad things continuing but we are trying to work to fix them. George Carlin's routine about Shellshock goes here. About how they keep making words longer & remove all of the impact they should have.