JJJoseph 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (100) comment rss

  • On the post: Syrian Activist Arrested By Secret Police Merely For Having Livestreaming App Installed On His Phone

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2012 @ 12:54pm

    Re: Re:

    @Jay:"What we're seeing is the last remnants of a government looking to crush opposition. Unfortunately, democratic countries haven't come in to help bring up a middle class."

    So how are we supposed to help an emerging Syrian "middle-class" of Al-Quaeda criminal terrorists? Why are you even thinking of helping these criminals? Do you have any idea of how to help the Syrian Christians who are about to be slaughtered by these "middle class" savages?

  • On the post: Dead Authors' Estates Preventing Even The Slightest Revisions To Works

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2012 @ 07:23pm

    Re: tolerance

    @Gwiz:"Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most religions include "tolerance" as a part of their teachings?"

    The short answer: "No!" Maybe Christianity, but no others. (Consider yourself "corrected")

  • On the post: Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 01:23pm

    Re: Re: Pussy retards

    Then they're even more retarded than I thought. How could they NOT see that making an ?ss of themselves in a church is like asking for trouble?

  • On the post: Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2012 @ 07:32pm

    Pussy retards

    Does anybody really care about these social retards? Acting out in a church for political reasons is about as dumb a move as any pussies could make. maybe 2 years in the slammer will give them time to think about the meaning of life.

  • On the post: Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2012 @ 07:22pm

    Re: It has nothing to do with a free speach

    @Anonymous Coward:"Someone can get three years of jail time for doing similar show in Germany."

    Canada, too.

  • On the post: Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2012 @ 02:27pm

    Re: Re:

    @DCX2:" But I don't think it's right for them to serve two years in prison."

    They'd get that - and maybe more - in Canada. It's a criminal offence to make a disturbance in a church in Canada.

  • On the post: Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2012 @ 02:24pm

    Re: asylum

    @Anonymous Coward:"If I was them, I would leave the country immediately and ask for asylum in another country."

    Don't try for asylum in Canada! The Pussies would end up behind bars in Canada, too. What they did is a criminal offence here.

  • On the post: Russia Confirms To The World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Pussy Riot Gets Two Years In Jail

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2012 @ 02:20pm

    Re: Religion is a bitch

    @Travis:"you gotta love it more when your country's politics are heavily influenced by a Church"

    Most countries have the same offence in law. In Canada, for instance, it's a criminal code offense to make a disturbance in a church. Canadians manage to live with it. The Pussy Rioters would end up in jail in Canada, too. No big deal.

  • On the post: YouTube Wants You To Comment Under Your Real Name

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 09:28pm

    Troll ID

    It's interesting that Google/YouTube is taking this direction because Google (and YouTube) have the worst comments and the worst communities, of any online enterprise. There's simply no comparison with Facebook or Yahoo! Or TechDirt. They're not even on the same planet.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Blue-Green Or Green-Blue Crayons?

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 10:57pm

    Re: Re: Poster colors

    @Michael Ho:"do poster printers charge marketing agencies by the amount of colors they use"

    Film studios don't do posters any more, but they used to charge more for red. Hence the palette was limited. Coca-cola didn't do movie posters.

  • On the post: NZ Judge In Dotcom Extradition Case Speaks Out Against TPP & US Copyright Extremism

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 02:10pm

    Region codes

    Sometimes there's an obvious workaround that is so obvious that it's a puzzle that nobody has noticed. Region-restricted DVDs are as common as dirt, and region-free DVD players can be purchased in Chinatown for only $59 to play your British or Australian DVDs. So what happens when region-restricted DVD players are banned? You just pop them into your BluRay player which is region-free.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Blue-Green Or Green-Blue Crayons?

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 01:49pm

    Poster colors

    The predominance of some colors in movie posters is no surprise to painters. Some colors are way more expensive than others. Red ink, for example, is horrendously expensive, so poster printers avoid it if at all possible.

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

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2012 @ 01:01pm

    rising ocean levels

    @Oblate:"Haven't you heard of the problem of rising ocean levels?"

    There is no problem of "rising ocean levels". It's only a postulate from the eco-boffins. It's being pushed by The Maldives as a scheme to get free money from the UN.

  • On the post: Lord Finesse's Lawyers Now Using Copyright To Stifle Dan Bull's Criticism Of His Lawsuit Against Mac Miller

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 09:37pm

    Re: Fair Use

    Anonymous Coward:"If Dan Bull stole the music, he violated copyright, plain and simple...Now, he may want to try to claim fair use, but clearly this isn't parody, but rather rapping an opinion, which is not the same thing."

    But he didn't steal it. He changed it to a different end. Fair use is not just parody, it also consists of altering a work to repurpose it. This is exactly what Mac Miller did. It's clearly fair use.

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

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 03:54pm

    What radioactive waste?

    This entire issue is really a non-problem since there are heavy-water reactors run nicely on NON-enriched uranium, and can also recycle nuclear waste easily. One such design is the CANDU reactor from Candu Energy in Canada. There's 29 CANDUs running peacefully around the world.

  • On the post: Kim Dotcom Offers To Come To The US, If DOJ Releases Funds For Legal Defense

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 02:15pm

    Re: challenging a financial seizure

    You're hopelessly naive! DoJ can seize and keep anything by alleging RICO or "dishonest services". They're totally unprincipled and corrupt. Conrad Black is still trying to get his assets back even after being acquitted by the SCOTUS.

  • On the post: Kim Dotcom Offers To Come To The US, If DOJ Releases Funds For Legal Defense

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 10:26pm

    If Kim thinks this is a good idea . . .

    If Kim thinks this is a good idea, he'd better invite Conrad Black for lunch. Conrad ran into the DoJ and they ambushed him with an "honest services" fraud charge and an "obstruction of justice" charge. DoJ can convict anybody on these open-ended charges, and Black was jailed for 6 years. The America federal justice system is so corrupt that DoJ can lock up anybody they set their sights on. There's no escape. Black won his appeals, yet they still locked him up.

  • On the post: NYTimes OpEd Explains Why Infringement Isn't Theft

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 07:37pm

    topless infringing

    Infringing is clearly not theft as theft is known in the common law. It's more like peeping on the topless lady next door who is parading around with her windows open. Everytime you look at her, she becomes less desirable. It's naughty, but it's not theft.

  • On the post: NYTimes OpEd Explains Why Infringement Isn't Theft

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 05:46pm

    copyright

    I've just patented a new language system which uses an English language plug-in in which the concepts are separate from the words. It appears to be identical to the version which you all seem to be using, so you're all going to have to pay big-time. This forum is a flagrant example of intellectual property theft. I've made note of all your names and you'll be hearing from my attorneys.

  • On the post: Cleveland Bus System Joins Over 100 Others In Being Sued For Patent Infringement For Notifying People If A Bus Is Running Late

    JJJoseph ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 12:59pm

    Next Bus arrival time

    @wvhillbilly:"Getting rid of patent trolls would be very simple if you could just get congress to pass a law saying, if you don't practice the patent, you can't enforce it."

    The NextBus system is widely used all over the world. It's likely what readers are reporting when they've seen the system here or there. NextBus are not "patent trolls" but an established, economical, and widely used GPS/wireless transit information system.