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• On the post: Lawsuit: An Officer's BS Claims About 'Odor Of Marijuana' Led To 14 SWAT Team Members Pointing Guns At Our Kids

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2019 @ 05:12am

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  Beer in the US does too have a taste! Granted, that taste is horse piss, but it still has taste!

  Also remember that a lot of beer in the US is imported, so stating that all beer in the US is bad is casting a negative light on beer from other countries.

• On the post: Hong Kong Court Hands Down Protest-Targeting Order Banning Online Content That 'Incites Violence'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2019 @ 06:15am

  Re: Re: ???

  But that's the wrong direction. The Brits couldn't leave Hong Kong fast enough right before it got turned back over to the Chinese. Even people only tangentially related tried to immigrate to GB at the time.

• On the post: Wisconsin County Briefly Considers (Then Drops) Resolution To Threaten Journalists With Prosecution For Not Reprinting Entirety Of Gov't Report

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2019 @ 05:23am

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  In cases like this, it's often that those in charge have a financial interest in the major corporation in the area that's causing the contamination. What do you wanna bet who gets blamed in the reports?

• On the post: States Are Being Conned By Lobbyists Into Backing Off The T-Mobile Merger Lawsuit

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2019 @ 11:05am

  Let me laugh harder

  The companies agree to pay up to a total of $100 million if they fail to meet these commitments.

  I can't believe he's so gullible... actually, I can... or maybe he's corrupt. In any case, notice it says up to $100 million. $0 is certainly part of the set of all numbers "up to" $100 million. Now if they had a legal contract that stated a minimum of $100 million, that might be more conceivable that the AG would pull out because of it. Of course, they'd never offer that. Instead, you get weasel words that mean nothing, and in the end, promise nothing.

• On the post: Biden Spreads False Info By Saying That Taking Away Section 230 Will Make Facebook Liable For Spreading False Info

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2019 @ 10:58am

  Understatement of the year...

  Biden's real complaint seems to be with the 1st Amendment and the fact that sometimes politicians are less than fully truthful in their advertising.

  Sometimes? More like the vast majority of the time.

• On the post: Hong Kong Court Hands Down Protest-Targeting Order Banning Online Content That 'Incites Violence'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2019 @ 05:13am

  ???

  Mr Justice Russell Coleman of the High Court issued the order

  Well, that's good solid Chinese name... are there still Brits left in Hong Kong? And what are they doing on the High Court?

• On the post: Copyright Troll Lawyer Serves Up BS 'Dead Grandfather' Excuse For Missing Court; Now Facing Sanctions And Arrest

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2019 @ 12:23pm

  Re: hypocratic oath for lawyers??

  End? It never started.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says It's OK For Cops To Destroy Someone Else's House To Apprehend A Criminal Suspect

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2019 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Re: Re: Hollywood problem solved

  But that only works if you're part of the police, not a vigilante.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says It's OK For Cops To Destroy Someone Else's House To Apprehend A Criminal Suspect

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2019 @ 05:09am

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  Even brighter side: they didn't send him a bill for damage done to the equipment while it was destroying his property.

• On the post: Shocker: ISPs Cut Back 2020 Investment Despite Tax Breaks, Death Of Net Neutrality

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2019 @ 09:28am

  Not a good analogy

  And like Lucy and Charlie Brown football, nobody in the US seems interested in learning from the experience.

  That never quite fit. It's more like every time Charlie Brown misses the football because of Lucy, she makes a million dollars while Charlie Brown goes to the hospital, and the taxpayers foot his bill, and yet we are not allowed to do anything about Lucy.

• On the post: Retrospective: As Sony Clearly Wins This Generation's Console Wars, Let's Recall How It All Began

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2019 @ 11:37am

  Re: List of problems with _this_ article by Tim Geigner

  In addition to being a really unimpressive number of sales for a quarter, who would buy 0.8 of a console?

  It was a floor demo unit and only included 4/5ths of what comes in a retail package. ;)

• On the post: Deadspin Is Being Burnt To The Ground By Its New Management As Staff Quits Or Revolts

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2019 @ 07:42am

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  TechDirt does not need to do as asking in a DMCA notice if they feel it's not proper. Your only recourse then is to sue in court, but they still don't need to take anything down until/unless a court orders it.

• On the post: Retrospective: As Sony Clearly Wins This Generation's Console Wars, Let's Recall How It All Began

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2019 @ 06:01pm

  Re: 30 Years

  I was going to comment on this myself... it's only been twenty years, not 30.

• On the post: Retrospective: As Sony Clearly Wins This Generation's Console Wars, Let's Recall How It All Began

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2019 @ 06:00pm

  Re: Re: Prediction

  Bad link.

• On the post: Blizzard Loses First Sponsor Due To Stance On Hong Kong Speech

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2019 @ 05:40am

  Re:

  Yeah, that would be this one:
  https://i.redd.it/r8s54s1bazm11.jpg The Far Side was great.

• On the post: Senators Wyden And Paul Put A Hold On Dangerous CASE Act; Will Propose Alternative

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2019 @ 04:22pm

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  I guess that's why he's senator - they didn't want his honesty infecting the state congress, so they sent him to DC hoping they would wear down his morals to state standards.

• On the post: More Than 50 Federal Watchdogs Sign Letter Condemning OLC Decision That Allows White House Counsel To Unilaterally Block Whistleblower Reports

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2019 @ 10:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: whistleblowers.

  Those senators should be worried about covering their own asses rather than Trump's. Perhaps they don't realize what message they're sending to voters when they blatantly endorse corruption at the highest levels.

• On the post: New Mass Shooting Prevention Bill Will Use 'Anti-Terrorism' Methods To Ramp Up Surveillance Of Students

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2019 @ 10:18am

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  That's a good one. Or maybe the Governor from Blazing Saddles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3GBlVjUd0 "Give the Governor a harrumph!"

• On the post: New Mass Shooting Prevention Bill Will Use 'Anti-Terrorism' Methods To Ramp Up Surveillance Of Students

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2019 @ 04:07pm

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  It's already illegal to sell a gun to anyone under 18 (21 if you're a licensed gun dealer).

• On the post: Adam Silver Reveals The Chinese Government Asked Him To Fire Daryl Morey

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2019 @ 07:17pm

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  The old saw is backwards because the way it's commonly used is stupid as I pointed out. The proper way to say it is "you want to eat your cake and have it, too." That makes perfect sense - once you've eaten it, it's gone, so you can no longer have it. Contrarily, saying "you want to have your cake and eat it, too" is a "well, DUH!" kinda statement. Of COURSE I want to eat the cake I have! That's why I have it! So I can eat it. What kind of sick bastard hands you cake and then says "you can have that cake, but absolutely NO EATING IT!" I'd take that cake and shove it in his face.

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