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• On the post: Federal Lawsuit Targets Vicious Gang Composed Of… Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2019 @ 03:54pm

  Re: Re: What do you mean 'pretty please stop that' doesn't work?

  The State Police might do, but there's no telling how far the rot has spread. Try the State Police, and that will tell you if it's spread that far.

• On the post: McDonald's Bullies Local Canadian Burger Joint Over 'Filet O' Fish' Trademark

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2019 @ 06:23am

  Re: 'Close call that'

  As much as people swear these days, I'd think that almost no place would have any problems with a customer swearing, much less a place like McDonald's. I guess you haven't overheard some of the folks the last time you went out... or maybe people are unusually polite where you live. :)

• On the post: South Carolina Judge Says State's Asset Forfeiture Programs Are Unconstitutional

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2019 @ 06:03am

  Re: who can legally appeal his verdict?

  Don't worry, these people are not just greedy, but stupid as well. They'll certainly appeal thinking only of their "lost" millions of ill-got goods. They also probably believe in the corruption culture, so they believe they'll win at the next level. The sad thing is, they're probably right. This may have to go to the SCOTUS before it gets resolved, but with the last ruling on Criminal Asset Forfeiture, maybe they're ready to take on Civil Asset Forfeiture as well.

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

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2019 @ 09:26am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Do you want your cake or to eat it?

  Cake is no good if you can't eat it. It may as well be plastic. The whole point of having cake is to eat it.

• On the post: Canadian Supreme Court To Cops: You Can't Arrest Someone Just Because You Think Something Illegal Might Happen In The Future

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2019 @ 09:21am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Unless you live in South-East Africa, no one is indigenous.

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

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2019 @ 06:55am

  Re:

  I imagine that's what he told the Chinese when they asked. "I'd love to help you out, but I don't have that authority. You'll have to speak to the Rocket's owners." Then he turns around and pretends to the American public like he turned them down because he's so damn patriotic.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 04:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Figurative threats become real lawsuits

  I remember that commercial just fine. I marked his post as funny. But I felt I had to mod it to be more accurate. But it reminds me of another old spoof on those ads, where the old fashioned way is to steal it.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 11:16am

  Re: Re:

  Not quite. The waiver cannot be offered until after they read you your rights.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 11:10am

  Re: The pendulum

  Ain't that the truth. Just one verse of "On Top of Spaghetti" would get you tried as an adult, and one verse of "Glory Glory Hallelujah" would have the in-school cop gunning you down where you stood.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 11:06am

  Re: Re: Figurative threats become real lawsuits

  So you may have to get your money the old fashion way.. INHERIT IT.

  FTFY (why doesn't the site support strikethrough?)

• On the post: Top Myths About Content Moderation

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 10:55am

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  Hiding anti-social behavior from the public internet will somehow make people stop being anti-social.

  Heh - that's the truth. Certain infamous commentators here are regularly down-voted enough to be hidden on virtually every post, but they constantly return, worse than ever. But that's why the posts are just hidden, not removed. Hiding them by popular consent is a very simple and straight-forward message that most of the people don't like what they're saying, but they're still allowed to say it. Removing the posts would send the message that since most people don't like it, they're not ALLOWED to say it, which would be against Freedom of Speech. All content moderation should be like here: enough down-votes just hide the content, but it's still there. And if it just happens to be illegal speech, it's still there for the police as evidence.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 09:09am

  Re: Common sense

  From the dictionary:

  Common Sense, noun, good sense and sound judgment in practical matters.

  So, no, they are not practicing common sense.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 06:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Shouldn't a finger gun be covered by the 2nd Amendme

  I was going to mark this as funny, but sadly it's actually insightful, not funny. We have police gunning down people holding video game controllers and cell phones, so finger guns are closer than you might think.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 06:17am

  Re:

  This leaves us with idiots.

  And criminals! Don't forget the criminals. Government work is one of the best places to be a criminal in modern society.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 05:12am

  Re:

  The problem with that is that Zero Tolerance Policies virtually guarantee you'll be hit with a lawsuit sooner or later. This arrest will certainly result in one.

• On the post: Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2019 @ 05:10am

  Re: Shouldn't a finger gun be covered by the 2nd Amendment?

  When it's a crime to make finger-guns, only criminals will make finger-guns.

• On the post: 'The Irishman' Ban Once Again Shows Hollywood's Disdain For Netflix is Stupid & Counterproductive

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2019 @ 12:29pm

  Re:

  Unless they bribe enough politicians. ;)

• On the post: Attorney Who Sued Grindr Responds Extremely Poorly To The Supreme Court's Rejection Of Her Section 230 Lawsuit

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2019 @ 10:48am

  Re: Do as I say...

  Nah, it's more like suing the post office because they delivered the mail someone sent while pretending to be someone else.

• On the post: New French Mandate Will Use Facial Recognition App To Create 'Secure Digital IDs'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2019 @ 03:28pm

  Won't last long

  Given the rates of misidentification, even for the very best facial ID systems, there will be many tens of thousands of people who wind up in limbo as "their" face is already registered to someone else. Maybe hundreds of thousands.

  This whole thing stinks of cronyism - someone in France's government works for a facial recognition system on the side and wanted government money lining their end-of-year figures.

• On the post: Whoops, Twitter The Latest To Use Two Factor Authentication Phone Numbers For Marketing

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2019 @ 07:30am

  Re:

  Frankly, I'm shocked they said anything at all. It's the sort of thing you expect a company to quietly fix behind the scenes and not say ANYTHING until the FTC files suit against them, at which point they act shocked and indignant, then deny all the way up until a settlement, or a fine is levied.

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