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• On the post: San Francisco Police Department Kicks FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force To The Curb

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2017 @ 12:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: I remember...

  If there's something out there you don't think TechDirt is talking about, they have a handy little button at the top to submit a story.

• On the post: New FCC Boss Ajit Pai Insists He's All About Helping The Poor, Gets Right To Work Harming Them Instead

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2017 @ 12:15pm

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  Google just gave me 846,000,000 results for "Jesus"

• On the post: New FCC Boss Ajit Pai Insists He's All About Helping The Poor, Gets Right To Work Harming Them Instead

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2017 @ 07:11am

  He just wants to help the poor stay poor.

• On the post: San Francisco Police Department Kicks FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force To The Curb

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 03:57pm

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  I'm a little confused by your argument.
  
  Arizona passes a law that is ruled unconstitutional.
  
  Washington state argues that an executive order is unconstitutional.
  
  It seems like the constitution is backing up both of these positions?

• On the post: San Francisco Police Department Kicks FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force To The Curb

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 02:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: I remember...

  You weren't comparing the police to their past behavior. You were comparing them to Arpaio.
  
  But if a police dept. changes from abusing human rights to not abusing human rights, I'm not going to complain and call it a double standard. I'm going to praise them for getting better, whatever the reason.

• On the post: San Francisco Police Department Kicks FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force To The Curb

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 12:20pm

  Re: I remember...

  "Arpaio has been accused of various types of misconduct, including abuse of power, misuse of funds, failure to investigate sex crimes, improper clearance of cases, unlawful enforcement of immigration laws, and election law violations."
  
  What the San Francisco police are doing here is clearly not the same thing, and it's not a double standard.

• On the post: Trump Orders The Cyber To Be Fixed In The Next Sixty Days

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 12:32pm

  Re: I like this plan

  When it fails, he'll blame other people and say "I tried!"

• On the post: Our Humanity

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 02:49pm

  Re: All in Time - Its about trust

  I don't know about you but if I couldn't return to the country for 90 days I'd pretty much be bankrupt and out of work. Even if my job supported me by keeping my job available, I doubt they would pay me for those three months away.
  
  And I wouldn't mind except I have yet to see a good reason why we need this ban. What's the justification? What's the benefit? It's not like terrorists are using their green cards to get into the U.S. to blow things up.

• On the post: Lock Them Up! Trump Staff Still Using Private Republican National Committee Email Accounts

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 01:08pm

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  He's always looked like an asshole. There's nothing to undermine.

• On the post: Six Journalists Arrested, Charged While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 12:16pm

  Re: If this becomes a national story,

  Thank you for going in there and figuring out the background on all the protesters and unveiling all this as a sham. After all, what can art and history and journalism majors contribute to the world.
  
  I wonder what area of studies you approve of at protests?

• On the post: Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2017 @ 01:01pm

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  It's a fluke and an accident, so it's not a pretty good criticism of registration, esp. when there are now thousands (millions?) of orphaned works for which the copyright holder can't be found.
  
  One movie slipped through the cracks of the old system, but thousands are slipping through the cracks of the new system.

• On the post: Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2017 @ 08:34am

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  You realize when you register something, you're supposed to give the Library of Congress a copy so they can verify if it's been infringed. If you want to give them a copy of all your emails, go right ahead.
  
  People are only going to bother with copyrighting stuff they feel needs a copyright - i.e. something they hope to make a profit on or at least consider worthy creative works.
  
  I'd rather have some rules regarding abuse of the system than a mandatory fee, esp. since fees have a tendency to keep increasing over time.
  
  And there's no reason the whole system can't be mostly automated.

• On the post: Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2017 @ 12:33pm

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  The creator decides what is worth protecting. I create stuff all the time. There's very little of it I consider worth protecting with copyright.

• On the post: Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2017 @ 12:31pm

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  Why charge a fee at all? The copyright office is taxpayer funded and registration of works should be free.

• On the post: Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2017 @ 11:06am

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  Copyright will never be the sole motivation for creation, just like I don't buy a car so I can have car insurance. Copyright is supposed to be protection for something the creator feels is worth protecting. Most creations are not worth protecting.

• On the post: Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2017 @ 11:02am

  Re: Re: Laws have loopholes that were not envisioned

  As long as the RIAA and MPAA have a say in copyright reform, it will never be reformed in any way that doesn't benefit them. I hope I'm proved wrong, but it just isn't going to happen.

• On the post: UN Independent Expert On Promotion Of Democracy Calls On Governments To Stop Persecuting Whistleblowers

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2017 @ 12:29pm

  Re: I guess the question is...

  Whistle-blowing implies telling the people that their government is doing something illegal. That's worth knowing even if it's classified.

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  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2017 @ 08:23am

  Re: Re: T Minus 5 Days ...

  I thought it was bad form these days for circuses to have elephants?

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 12:31pm

  Re: What goes around, comes around

  The only name calling I see for Shiva is "a very bright kid."

• On the post: Net Neutrality Hating, SOPA-Loving Marsha Blackburn Pegged To Chair Key Technology & Telecom Subcommittee

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 12:29pm

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  That decision will be left to the consumer, who will not only have to pay for the content, but pay to have it sent to them, and pay for the privileged of looking at it, on top of paying to have access to the internet. See how good this is for business and jobs.

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