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• On the post: Judge Deems Facebook-Posting Rapper Cameron D'Ambrosio A 'Threat,' Denies Bail

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 08:12pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  He sounds like another total fuckwit. I love it when these guys get cuffed and tossed into the paddy wagon. Who cares what happens to him afterward.

• On the post: LulzSec Hacker Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty To CFAA Charge; Faces 10 Years

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 02:44pm

  Re: Re:

  He pleaded guilty to the charges, and he admits he did it. That looks pretty cut & dried to me.

• On the post: Iraqi Government Shutters Television Stations It Doesn't Like

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 10 May, 2013 @ 10:15pm

  Democracy? You're kidding!

  @Wally:"Saddam Hussein was not a true Muslim and his chosen denomination therein was used as a political front"
  
  Saddam, like Joe Stalin, had limited ability to control the disruptive Muslims in his midst. The only thing they understand is terminal brute force, and democracy means nothing to them. For sure, there is a better solution somewhere, but it hasn't emerged yet. The Muslims in Russia are still waging chaos and terror, and the Sunnis in Iraq are doing likewise. They don't do democracy. For now, an iron fist will have to do. Their TV stations must be smashed, and their mullahs put in chains. That's the best we can ever hope for.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Nuclear Power Won't Go Away

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 08:37am

  Reactor hysteria

  I never quite understand the volume of American hysteria over nuclear power. The problem of nuclear waste & weapons arises from the sale & use of cheap reactors. The Canadian CANDU reactors solve all the above problems, but they cost a little more. If a country is too cheap to include a percentage of CANDU reactors in their inventory, they'll have a nuclear waste disposal problem. Most of the noise is coming from marketing hysteria. It's a non-problem.

• On the post: The Lesson Of 3D TV: For 4K TV, The Key Is The Implementation

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2013 @ 08:23am

  VHS

  I feel so retarded reading this stuff because I'm still watching old Elvis Presley movies on VHS. Sometimes I watch Region 2 or 4 DVD movies on a laptop, but that's about as exciting as it gets around my house.

• On the post: Pakistan Briefly Raises Youtube Banhammer; Reinstates It Three Minutes Later

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2013 @ 08:21pm

  Banning everything

  Why am I not surprised when the Muslims shut down the internet? They've been doing this sort of thing for centuries, first banning deviant speech, then Christian & Jewish scrolls, then books, then satellite dishes. I'm surprised that they don't ban Dodge Caravans because they have a cross on the grill. No wonder Muslim nations are so poor and backward!

• On the post: Canadian Copyright Law Caps Statutory Damages At $5,000 Just As File Sharing Lawsuits Make Their Unwelcome Return

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:47am

  Re:

  btrussell, I've also paid the copyright tax (federal copyright levy) on each blank CD in my collection. They'll likely have to attempt to separate my legal, tax-paid downloads from everything else in my collection. Good luck with that!

• On the post: Canadian Copyright Law Caps Statutory Damages At $5,000 Just As File Sharing Lawsuits Make Their Unwelcome Return

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:31am

  Re:

  @AC:"Time to pay up freeloaders."
  
  Wait a minute. Like most Canadians, I paid the copyright levy (tax) on blank CDs and that gives every one of us permission to download. So you're saying we're freeloaders? How do you figure that?

• On the post: Canadian Copyright Law Caps Statutory Damages At $5,000 Just As File Sharing Lawsuits Make Their Unwelcome Return

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:20am

  Re: Proportional is fine with me!

  @silverscarcat:". . . you ALMOST made sense."
  
  Who's "you" Who are you talking to?

• On the post: New Zealand Government Admits That Order To Suppress Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom Only Such Order Issued In 10 Years

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:04am

  Re: Re: Idealist Mike seems to be discovering how world works.

  This is an interesting rant. But who are you talking to?

• On the post: Outdated European Copyright Levy System Descends Further Into Disarray

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2012 @ 06:22pm

  Re: Re:

  Who cares? Did you understand what Canada does? They protect the downloader from harassment by the music industry. You can quibble about the finer points if you like, but if it saves your clueless butt from being sued by the recording companies, you should be thankful.

• On the post: Outdated European Copyright Levy System Descends Further Into Disarray

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2012 @ 09:28am

  Re: These levies are [quite excellent]

  I wish printers/copiers were included! In Canada, cassettes & CDs are taxed which allows for free downloading of music. If DVDs/hard-drives were taxed, we could download movies freely. If printers/copiers were taxed, we could copy books freely. It's not perfect, but it spares us from random shakedowns and takedowns. Count me as a tax supporter - I really like media taxes and I'd like to see more of them.

• On the post: Outdated European Copyright Levy System Descends Further Into Disarray

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2012 @ 09:18am

  Re: Way Excellent CD tax

  Exactly, Jupiter! Canada has a similar CD tax that permits unrestricted music downloading. It's way excellent. The revenue gets divided up amongst the rights holders. We can download all the music we want from anywhere we choose. What's not to like about that? It's not perfect, but it's close to a good solution. At the very least, it protects citizens from shakedowns and takedowns.

• On the post: Obama Signs 'Whistleblower Protection Act' The Same Day That Whistleblower Bradley Manning Is In Court

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 08:39pm

  Re: Whistleblowers

  No, because I want to see those idiots to get what they deserve.

• On the post: Obama Signs 'Whistleblower Protection Act' The Same Day That Whistleblower Bradley Manning Is In Court

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 08:26pm

  Re: Re:

  "filthy little traitor", "a bullet in the brain"? Where'd that come from?

• On the post: Obama Signs 'Whistleblower Protection Act' The Same Day That Whistleblower Bradley Manning Is In Court

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 08:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Court Martial is not the same as Federal Court

  Manning had no idea if it was "illegal activity". He was completely clueless about the legality of what he was seeing and what he was doing.

• On the post: Obama Signs 'Whistleblower Protection Act' The Same Day That Whistleblower Bradley Manning Is In Court

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 04:49pm

  Re: Re: Re: Court Martial is not the same as Federal Court

  This is the point at which Manning should have hired a lawyer.

• On the post: DailyDirt: People Colored

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 02:32pm

  Red vs Blue?

  The commies will always be "the reds". Their flags are always red, and they self-identify as reds. Everywhere in the world, Conservative parties are blue, as in "blue blooded". So, yes, it is odd that the Republicans label themselves as the red party.

• On the post: Skype Accused Of Handing Out Private Info To Private Company

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 01:59pm

  Breaking the law?

  "I hope Skype gets fined into oblivion for breaking the law"
  
  And which law would that be?

• On the post: Why It's Almost Impossible To Get Punished For A Bogus DMCA Takedown

  

  JJJoseph ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2012 @ 09:08pm

  Re: Wasting the Jury's Time

  "If Judge Fogel can't bring himself to apply an unfair circuit precedent, then he should not try to dodge the issue by passing the buck to a jury"
  
  Why not? This is a perfectly good way to get some additional focus on an issue that needs attention. Good for Judge Fogel!

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