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• On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2011 @ 02:23pm

  Re:

  and here I thought John Mitchel was dead.

• On the post: Sony CEO Howard Stringer: Month-long Hackathon Merely A 'Hiccup'

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 10:37am

  Re: Re: I laughed.

  But who's credit cards are they using?

• On the post: Should Young People Have Their Votes Count More?

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 17 May, 2011 @ 11:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Here's a novel idea

  Also some states allow early voting so you can vote for 2 weeks before an election.

• On the post: Another 'Exception'? Jonathan Coulton Making Half A Million A Year With No Record Label

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 17 May, 2011 @ 09:48am

  Exception

  I have to point out that under the labels the bands that made it were also an exception. Otherwise everyone who started a band would have had their music published.

• On the post: Congressman Complains That iPads Are Killing Jobs In The Paper Industry

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2011 @ 12:14pm

  Re: Re:

  It sure is amazing what a real free market can do.

• On the post: Dumbest Lawsuit Ever? HuffPo Sued By Bloggers Who Agreed To Work For Free… But Now Claim They Were Slaves

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2011 @ 02:39pm

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  If a freelance writer is totally unknown, who is going to pay them to write? (By the way, how much did you get paid for your post?)

• On the post: Newspaper Tells Reporters Not To Engage With Community

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 06:25pm

  Bias as an excuse.

  There are some things that are just wrong. The idea behind being unbiased seems to mean that somehow you point out advantages to wrong actions or that you present ideas that are patently absurd(Obama is not a natural born citizen)even after they are disproven.

• On the post: Newspaper Tells Reporters Not To Engage With Community

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 06:19pm

  Re: Robots

  Who programs the robots?

• On the post: On NYT Paywall, Citigroup says 'Good Buy'; Techdirt says 'Hello!?!'

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2011 @ 10:04am

  Re: Paywall sponsorship

  I also got this offer. It may be that they are selling the option of sponsering free access to companies. Our local childrens' museums have free nights brought to you by Target or Kraft.

• On the post: Am I Violating The DMCA By Visiting The NYTimes With NoScript Enabled?

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2011 @ 01:13pm

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  As a matter of fact they are selling t-shirts. http://www.nytstore.com/Front-Page-New-York-Times-T-Shirt_p_5846.html Just not very effectively since you obiviously don't know they are doing it. Perhaps if they were better at promoting it they would not need a paywall.

• On the post: Why The NY Times Paywall Business Model Is Doomed to Fail (Numbers)

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2011 @ 08:06am

  Previous Paywall

  What I haven't seen anyway is an explanation of why this attempt at a paywall will work. Their pervious attempt failed. I have not seen any analysis of why this paywall should be more successful. In all their publicity they make not mention of their pervious attempt at all. Are they afraid that since they gave up after 2 years people will just wait them out again?

• On the post: School District Claims Copyright To Pull Controversial School Board Meeting Clip From YouTube

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 03:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: I'm not surprised...

  I lived in Evanston had both my kids go to those schools and spent a lot of time in the schools and don't even like the school administration. They are jerk, but equal opportunity about it.

• On the post: School District Claims Copyright To Pull Controversial School Board Meeting Clip From YouTube

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 02:00pm

  Re: I'm not surprised...

  Actually there are a fair number of African American home owners on the West side of Evanston in the area around the high school. In terms of the African American kids being treated like "dogshit" unless you have some proof of that you are wrong.

• On the post: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 08:03am

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  No patents on intellectual properties or business methodologies. Any patent must be accompanied by a working model.

• On the post: If The Whole World Knows A False Statement Was Made About You… Why Still Sue For Defamation?

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2011 @ 12:57pm

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  Not even close. I am betting she will win because in fact the whole world may not have heard the retraction. Simply because it is proven that a statement someone made about you is a lie does not mean they are not libel for damages it causes you.

• On the post: Homeland Security Seizes Another 18 Domain Names, With No Adversarial Hearings Or Due Process

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2011 @ 09:49am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I prefer sand to where yours is buried.

• On the post: Lobbyists Forge Letters To Pretend There's A 'Grassroots' Interest In Derivatives Reform

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2011 @ 02:24pm

  No Rules

  No regulation at all means the institutions with the most power gets a carte blanche to do whatever they want. None of us has ever lived in a situation like that. Even if you do not totally understand what you are regulating you can get enough information to figure out if you are totally screwing someone over.

• On the post: Once Again, If You Don't Offer Authorized Versions Of Released Content, Don't Be Surprised If People Get Unauthorized Copies

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2011 @ 01:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  In addition to radio there were things called tape recorders so you could record the music off the air. It degraded somewhat but it was useful enough.

• On the post: Europeans Continue To Push For 'Right To Be Forgotten'; Claim Americans 'Fetishize' Free Speech

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2011 @ 01:43pm

  Credit Bureaus

  Websites should have to enforce a right to be forgotten when the Credit Bureaus do. Ever try and get information corrected there?

• On the post: Al Jazeera Offers Up Egypt Coverage To Anyone Who Wants To Use It Under Creative Commons License

  

  jjmsan ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2011 @ 01:08pm

  Re: Re:

  and that would be different from the velvet glove of the christian world takeover how?

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