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• On the post: Court Says Government Needs More Than The Permission Of A Couple Of Underperforming Drug Dogs To Justify Seizure Of $276,000

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2016 @ 08:05am

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  I am not suspicious the whole thing is a racket. I am 100% certain that the whole thing is a racket.

• On the post: Court Says Government Needs More Than The Permission Of A Couple Of Underperforming Drug Dogs To Justify Seizure Of $276,000

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2016 @ 08:03am

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  Even then, equal treatment is a myth. The privileged treatment of the cops and government may be favorable to cops and the government, but is certainly not "equal treatment".

• On the post: Comcast Preventing Customers From Accessing Starz Streaming App, Can Only Offer Flimsy Reasons Why

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2016 @ 07:54am

  Re: Just a theory...

  You mean the bandwidth that Comcast customers are already paying for?

• On the post: EU Officially Goes After Google's Android On Antitrust Grounds

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2016 @ 06:29am

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  Allowing competing apps in their store would be an improvement, but really they should do what Android does: allow you to install apps locally and from alternative app stores.

• On the post: New Zealand Government Trying To Streamroller TPP Through Ratification Without Proper Scrutiny Or Public Input

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2016 @ 06:18am

  Re: Untrustworthy car salesman

  Yes. Any deal that "you have to take RIGHT NOW or you'll miss out!" is a scam.

• On the post: New Strategy For Pro-Clinton SuperPAC: Argue With Everyone On Social Media

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2016 @ 06:05am

  Re: I got the Founding Fathers on the line:

  Not really, because the US didn't exist when the revolution happened, so it didn't get scrapped.

• On the post: Why Did Congress Let Law Enforcement Officials Lie About Encryption?

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2016 @ 06:32am

  Congress can't tell anymore

  Why did Congress let LEOs tell lies?
  
  I submit the answer is that they've spent so much time creating and listening to lies that they've long ago lost the ability to tell what's a lie and what isn't.

• On the post: FISA Court Rejects Arguments By First Public Advocate To Argue NSA PRISM Backdoor Searches Are Unconstitutional

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2016 @ 06:15am

  Public advocate is no fix

  Having a "public advocate" is better than nothing, but no matter how earnest or effective such an advocate is, it does nothing to really affect the fact that the FISC is a serious miscarriage of justice. It's a fake court used to justify the erosion and elimination of the rights of citizens.

• On the post: Indian Government Agencies Demand Access To WhatsApp Messaging Groups

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2016 @ 07:18am

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  Rumors can be true. A rumor is an unsubstantiated claim. Unsubstantiated claims can be accurate claims, and yet are still rumors until substantiated.

• On the post: Sevens Marry Sevens: Is Online Dating Making Mixed-Attractiveness Couples More Rare?

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 05:39am

  The scales are not standardized

  A 10 to me might be a 5 to you and vice-versa.

• On the post: FISA Court Still Uncovering Surveillance Abuses By NSA, FBI

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 05:33am

  All solved then

  The opinion only notes that he is "satisfied" the FBI is "addressing the issue."

  
  
  I feel so reassured. /sarc

• On the post: EU Officially Goes After Google's Android On Antitrust Grounds

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 06:19pm

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  "They could make all the non-critical apps removable for sure."
  
  They can't, actually. The stock Android that Google makes doesn't do any of that -- the issue is that the manufacturers have taken Android and modified it to do that sort of thing.
  
  Since Android is open source, Google has no power to tell them to stop directly. They might be able to leverage the use of the Android trademark or the Google apps to force different behavior, but that's not a quick fix.

• On the post: Authors Guild Petulantly Whines About How Wrong It Is That The Public Will Benefit From Google Books

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 06:10pm

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  This has happened twice now:
  
  I've been researching a topic online and got a search result that led to a scanned book result. I read the couple of pages of the scan and realized that the book being excerpted contains exactly what I'm looking for. I buy the book.

• On the post: Netflix CEO Says Annoyed VPN Users Are 'Inconsequential'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 06:01pm

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  "The customer isn't always right and sometimes it's cheaper in the long run to say good bye to that customer versus doing everything possible to keep them."
  
  Well, I agree with what you mean here, but there's a much more accurate way to say it: what a business can provide is not always able to meet what the customer demands.
  
  It's not a matter of right or wrong. Netflix deciding to fight VPN usage is not right or wrong, it's a business decision. If a company makes a business decision that you as a customer disagrees with, you complain and try to get the company to change. If the company does not change, you either accept it or stop doing business with them.
  
  Personally, my decision was to cancel my account. It's not a boycott, and I'm not punishing Netflix. I just made a business decision that they no longer offer a service I'm willing to pay for.

• On the post: Netflix CEO Says Annoyed VPN Users Are 'Inconsequential'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 05:49pm

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  I'm personally responsible for getting Netflix at least a half dozen new customers.

• On the post: Netflix CEO Says Annoyed VPN Users Are 'Inconsequential'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 05:47pm

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  It's the problem with text: it makes everything sound so much more somber than it is. I understood Karl, but defended him badly. :)

• On the post: Not Funny: How The OFAC Is Outlawing Even The Lamest Attempts At Humor Over Terrorist Fears

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 05:44pm

  Re: It is not Fear!

  Perhaps. But isn't it at least as plausible that they saw how compliant US citizens become when terrorized, and liked it? It makes everything so much easier for them.

• On the post: California Assembly Looks To Push Cities To Copyright & Trademark Everything They Can

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 07:37am

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  Lose [inventions the public funded are privatized, denying the public the use of them except as a monetized consumer]

• On the post: Netflix CEO Says Annoyed VPN Users Are 'Inconsequential'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 07:31am

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  This inconsequential customer is no longer a customer.

• On the post: UK Drug Dogs Finding Way More Sausage And Cheese Than Actual Drugs

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 06:44am

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  "So a few people had their time wasted, is that such a big deal?"
  
  The big deal isn't the wasting of the time.

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