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  • On the post: To Pols Trying To Raise Money From Silicon Valley: Supporting SOPA/PIPA Probably Isn't Wise

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2012 @ 09:02am

    Re: Response from Feinstein on PROTECT IP

    I clicked there (see this) to "report Senator Lieberman as an idiot" and sent him a polite message (basically saying that you don't fix problems by censoring the Internet). I just got the response! I'm so excited.


    January 10, 2012
    Mr. Jeffrey Nonken
    (address redacted*)

    Dear Mr. Nonken:
    Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate the opportunity to know your opinions on the pressing issues facing our nation. Regrettably, due to the huge volume of mail that I receive, I am only able to research and address comments sent to me from Connecticut residents. If you are not from Connecticut, you may want to consider sending a message to the Senators from your state of residence. You can do so by visiting http://www.senate.gov for a link to the websites of each member of the United State Senate. If you are currently residing out of state, but are still a Connecticut resident or have a connection to Connecticut, please be certain to use your Connecticut address or indicate your Connecticut connection in the first paragraph of your email.
    I value having the benefit of your thoughtful concerns, since I do receive detailed weekly reports from my staff providing a sampling of comments from across the country on timely issues before Congress.
    Thank you again for sharing your views and concerns with me. I hope you will continue to visit my website at http://lieberman.senate.gov for updated news about my work on behalf of Connecticut and the nation. Please contact me if you have any additional questions or comments about our work in Congress.


    Sincerely,


    Joseph I. Lieberman UNITED STATES SENATOR
    JIL:JV

    Couldn't even be pissed to send a form letter about SOPA. He had to send me a form letter saying he couldn't afford to send me a form letter.

    *Though I'm sure you can find me with minimal research. I'm not exactly hiding.

  • On the post: Senator Joe Lieberman Follows Up His 'Report Blog As Terrorist' Letter By Asking Twitter To Block Pro-Taliban Feeds

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2012 @ 08:42am

    Re:

    Oops. Sorry for the double post. Perhaps we can thank Comcast?

  • On the post: Senator Joe Lieberman Follows Up His 'Report Blog As Terrorist' Letter By Asking Twitter To Block Pro-Taliban Feeds

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 06:47pm

    I clicked there to report Senator Lieberman as an idiot and sent him a polite message (basically saying that you don't fix problems by censoring the Internet). I just got the response! I'm so excited.


    January 10, 2012
    Mr. Jeffrey Nonken
    (address redacted)

    Dear Mr. Nonken:
    Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate the opportunity to know your opinions on the pressing issues facing our nation. Regrettably, due to the huge volume of mail that I receive, I am only able to research and address comments sent to me from Connecticut residents. If you are not from Connecticut, you may want to consider sending a message to the Senators from your state of residence. You can do so by visiting http://www.senate.gov for a link to the websites of each member of the United State Senate. If you are currently residing out of state, but are still a Connecticut resident or have a connection to Connecticut, please be certain to use your Connecticut address or indicate your Connecticut connection in the first paragraph of your email.
    I value having the benefit of your thoughtful concerns, since I do receive detailed weekly reports from my staff providing a sampling of comments from across the country on timely issues before Congress.
    Thank you again for sharing your views and concerns with me. I hope you will continue to visit my website at http://lieberman.senate.gov for updated news about my work on behalf of Connecticut and the nation. Please contact me if you have any additional questions or comments about our work in Congress.


    Sincerely,


    Joseph I. Lieberman UNITED STATES SENATOR
    JIL:JV


    Well, I did contact some of my Connecticut cousins as promised. No response. Of course, seeing as they're sentient lifeforms, they may be voting against their fine senator already. Then again, I don't actually know what their politics are like (though two of them did occupy Wall Street).

  • On the post: Senator Joe Lieberman Follows Up His 'Report Blog As Terrorist' Letter By Asking Twitter To Block Pro-Taliban Feeds

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 06:46pm

    I clicked there to report Senator Lieberman as an idiot and sent him a polite message (basically saying that you don't fix problems by censoring the Internet). I just got the response! I'm so excited.


    January 10, 2012
    Mr. Jeffrey Nonken
    (address redacted)

    Dear Mr. Nonken:
    Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate the opportunity to know your opinions on the pressing issues facing our nation. Regrettably, due to the huge volume of mail that I receive, I am only able to research and address comments sent to me from Connecticut residents. If you are not from Connecticut, you may want to consider sending a message to the Senators from your state of residence. You can do so by visiting http://www.senate.gov for a link to the websites of each member of the United State Senate. If you are currently residing out of state, but are still a Connecticut resident or have a connection to Connecticut, please be certain to use your Connecticut address or indicate your Connecticut connection in the first paragraph of your email.
    I value having the benefit of your thoughtful concerns, since I do receive detailed weekly reports from my staff providing a sampling of comments from across the country on timely issues before Congress.
    Thank you again for sharing your views and concerns with me. I hope you will continue to visit my website at http://lieberman.senate.gov for updated news about my work on behalf of Connecticut and the nation. Please contact me if you have any additional questions or comments about our work in Congress.


    Sincerely,


    Joseph I. Lieberman UNITED STATES SENATOR
    JIL:JV


    Well, I did contact some of my Connecticut cousins as promised. No response. Of course, seeing as they're sentient lifeforms, they may be voting against their fine senator already. Then again, I don't actually know what their politics are like (though two of them did occupy Wall Street).

  • On the post: Website Censored By Feds Takes Up Lamar Smith's Challenge: Here's Your 'Hypothetical'

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 05:21pm

    Pirate Mike just doesn't want to admit that these artists are stealing from the artists by sharing their works online for free! After all, you can't compete with free!

  • On the post: The TSA Posts Its 'Top Good Catches Of 2011' List, Not One Of Which Is An Actual Terrorist

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 05:00pm

    A few years ago they confiscated my father's nail clippers. (This type.)

    I'm not quite sure what terrorist act they thought an overweight, out-of-shape 80-year-old man was going to do with a pair of nail clippers. Maybe threaten to use his ninja skills to manicure the crew to death?

  • On the post: The TSA Posts Its 'Top Good Catches Of 2011' List, Not One Of Which Is An Actual Terrorist

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 04:51pm

    Re: Re: Re: Security Theatre

    I think if you press "funny" twice the second press cancels the first. Ditto insightful and report.

  • On the post: Lamar Smith's Head-In-Sand Approach To SOPA Critics Inspires 'Lamar Smith Can't Hear You' Anti-Campaign Poster

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 01:12pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No spoon

    The context appears to be a date. I consider it rude to ignore your date. You appear to be shifting the blame; fine, my hypothetical date is ignoring me because I'm a screaming bore. Oddly enough... it's still rude.

    Apparently it's a generational thing; your generation was obviously raised with very different social values from mine. Good news: I won't be asking you out on a date anytime soon.

    P.S. It works both ways. It would be just as rude for me to ignore my date. I'm not trying to claim it's all on her. Contrariwise, if I found that I couldn't stand her, I'd try to remain polite and simply end the date as early as I could.

  • On the post: Lamar Smith's Head-In-Sand Approach To SOPA Critics Inspires 'Lamar Smith Can't Hear You' Anti-Campaign Poster

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 12:30pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No spoon

    Yes and no. I consider that dinner companion to be rude.

    But maybe I'm just too old to appreciate a date who spends all her time paying attention to everything except me. Maybe it is a generational thing.

    Contrariwise, I don't have cable, don't watch broadcast, consider Fox to be an unreliable news source, and I own a smartphone and multiple computers.

  • On the post: Study Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters… Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 02:57pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    el_segfaulto, you must have been on vacation that day. Mike even wrote a post here.

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml

  • On the post: Study Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters… Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 02:55pm

    Re: Re:

    I can has world domination!

  • On the post: Study Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters… Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 02:54pm

    Plus 2 million for working a Prisoner reference in.

    "I am not a number! I am a free man!"

    "Hah hah hah hah hah!"

  • On the post: ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On The Back For Censoring The Web; Promises Much More To Come

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 12:03pm

    Re:

    Couldn't have said it better myself!

  • On the post: ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On The Back For Censoring The Web; Promises Much More To Come

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 12:03pm

    Re:

    "Dajaz1: Neither censored..."

    Their domain was seized for a year.

    "...nor due process denied..."

    Their domain was seized for a year with no warrant, no chance to challenge the action, and no charges filed.

    "Deportation: Perhaps people should provide their real name."

    Perhaps our law enforcement people should be required to check facts. Apparently you feel that we should deport anybody we don't like, on a whim, without due process. Oh right, you don't understand what due process is.

    PSA: it's a sign of blatant hypocrisy.

  • On the post: WB, HBO Continue To Suck At Economics; New Policies Encourage Piracy

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 11:34am

    Re: Alternative

    Indeed. We've been working for centuries to reduce time-to-market and shipping times, and to speed up manufacturing. Now that we can ship stuff around the world overnight, WB is adding artificial delays to the process, because they think that somehow what has hitherto increased profits can work backwards for them.

  • On the post: WB, HBO Continue To Suck At Economics; New Policies Encourage Piracy

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2012 @ 11:18am

    Re: Re:

    Our old motto: If That Doesn't Work, Try More Of The Same.

  • On the post: Huge Supporter Of Stronger Copyright Law, Grover Norquist, Backing Away From SOPA

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2012 @ 03:01pm

    Re: Wow...

    "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less." - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates*


    (* Howard Tayler changed the name because of a C&D letter. I refuse to use the new name. The old name was obviously a parody, but I guess there are no fair use exceptions in trademark law. I don't care, I think it's stupid.)

  • On the post: Why SOPA Would Be A Disaster For Scientific Publishing

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2012 @ 02:33pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    I think he needs a new one... the one he's got is either lost or damaged beyond repair.

  • On the post: MPAA Boss Chris Dodd Denies That Copyright Law Today Has Created Any Free Speech Issues

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2012 @ 02:29pm

    No, he's right. Nobody has suggested any such thing.

    Claimed outright, yes. Asserted. Accused. Blamed. Stated emphatically. Shouted. Screamed. Proclaimed, professed, protested, swore, averred, declared, insisted, predicated.

    But merely suggested? No, probably not.

  • On the post: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against eBay Because Of The Way Its Auctions Work

    Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2012 @ 12:36pm

    The stupid! It burns!

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