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• On the post: EA Hates You: SimCity Kneecaps The Modding Community

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 08:44pm

  Re: EA's crap shoot

  So EA offered extra content for a price, but no one was buying any of it because there was so much available for free?

• On the post: EA Hates You: SimCity Kneecaps The Modding Community

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 04:18pm

  Why?

  Does EA have some weird hypothetical in mind where not restricting user mods will somehow cost them money? Or is it the result of some corporate culture that's so deeply ingrained that they don't even consider if a move like that will gain or lose them money?

• On the post: Report From The Court Room On Latest Prenda Hearing In Minnesota: Another Hearing, Another Mess

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 09:11pm

  Re:

  Why? Because he's a troll, and people feed him here.

• On the post: Report From The Court Room On Latest Prenda Hearing In Minnesota: Another Hearing, Another Mess

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 09:13pm

  Steele then testified that Mr. Cooper had been angry and hostile once he knew the sale was going forward, and that Cooper had taken items from the property, caused property damage, and attacked or threatened people who came on the property.

  Strange, then, that either 1) the police were never contacted about any of it, or 2) Steele didn't bother to get copies of any of the police reports and present them to the court.

• On the post: Creepy Professor Excuses Upskirt Picture-Taking With Creepy Excuse

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2013 @ 10:09pm

  Samuelson admitted the camera pen was his, but insisted he was using it to prove a woman wasn't wearing any undergarments.

  Is there a school rule saying that students have to wear underwear? Not saying it would justify what he did, I'm just trying to figure out some way that what he said wasn't a massive non-sequitur.

• On the post: 'See Something, Say Something' Campaign Creates Massive Database Of Useless Info From Citizens Spying On Each Other

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2013 @ 04:38pm

  Five males "photographing a mannequin on a bus bench"

  Hey, what if the terrorists figure out a way to use cameras to bring mannequins to life? That report might be the key to preventing our great nation from being torn apart by a horde of bloodthirsty mannequins!

• On the post: Pat Roberston Claims Gays Intentionally Spreading AIDS; Abuses DMCA To Stifle Criticism

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2013 @ 02:04am

  Re: Re: You can't censor yourself! -- Everyone is free to criticize Robertson WITHOUT using CBN material.

  He's just an attention seeking troll.

• On the post: Not Content With Gutting The Fourth Amendment, The Government Continues Its Attack On The Fifth And Sixth

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 03:30pm

  Re: Re: And that's why to despise and mistrust lawyers.

  If he did (or has) left such a comment, Ken most likely wouldn't let it through, as the first comment anyone makes has to be approved by a moderator.

• On the post: DOJ Scrambles To Try To Explain Why It Never Investigated Systematic Misrepresentations By NSA To FISA Court

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 03:55pm

  First of all, that makes no sense. Clearly, if someone gave a logical and detailed reason why no investigation was necessary, that would have likely made Heath rethink the entire story.

  But Fallon didn't want the reporter to rethink the story, he wanted the reporter to not publish the story.

• On the post: Court Says ASCAP Can't Selectively Remove Songs From The Blanket License It Gives Pandora

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2013 @ 06:07pm

  The judgement doesn't seem to reference ASCAP's stupid little game of "we won't tell you which tracks you're no longer allowed to use". Did Pandora just not bring up that issue? IANAL, but there's just no way that can be legal.

• On the post: If You Can't Trust A Cop… 13-Year Veteran Of Seattle PD Makes Body Cameras For Cops

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2013 @ 05:34pm

  Re:

  It is eroding basic public trust in each other. Not to mention the cop is far less likely to follow his gut or instincts and rather will follow the letter of the law.

  The same could be said of citizens filming police.

• On the post: Feds Had Court Reverse Ban On Warrantless Searches On Americans Because 'We Wanted To Be Able To Do It'

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2013 @ 05:41pm

  Re: Re:

  When are you going to learn to reply to threads rather than create whole new threads for each response?
  
  He never will, because creating new threads gets him more attention and more responses.

• On the post: Feds Had Court Reverse Ban On Warrantless Searches On Americans Because 'We Wanted To Be Able To Do It'

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2013 @ 05:37pm

  Re: Re:

  Look AJ, if you feel so strongly that what the NSA is doing is constitutional, then...
  
  Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that he isn't just trolling, his strong feelings aren't about what the NSA is doing, but about Mike making legal claims without having done any research.

• On the post: Internet Companies Argue A 1st Amendment Right To Correct False Reports On NSA Spying, Despite Gag Orders

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2013 @ 05:02pm

  The various public reports from The Guardian, The Washington Post (and others, including Gawker) are flat out wrong concerning the nature of these companies' involvement with the NSA.

  I wonder if merely saying that little is a violation of the gag order? I mean, if they're accused of A, and say "we didn't do A", are accused of B, and say "we didn't do B", and so on, up until they're accused of Z, and say "no comment", then you know that Z is exactly what they're doing.

• On the post: Prenda's Mark Lutz Doesn't Show Up In Two Key Cases, Has A Reason But Won't Share Because People Might Discuss It

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2013 @ 03:33pm

  Lutz clearly knew long before the hearing that he wouldn't have been able to attend. A flight from Miami to San Francisco is over five hours long, and somewhere during those hours when Lutz was not on the flight, you'd think perhaps he would have called Duffy and told him he wouldn't be able to attend.

  To play devil's advocate: perhaps Lutz has a medical condition which acted up in a way which, for at least a span of five hours, not only prevented him from boarding a plane, but also prevented him contacting Duffy. And he wants to keep that medical condition private.

• On the post: Petulant Billionaire NY Mayor Continues To Insist He's Never Wrong; Sues City Council Over Stop-And-Frisk Legislation

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2013 @ 05:34pm

  Re: If it's true...

  No, the way I see his argument is: if the police department decides to do something, they aren't doing it via passing a law, and since no law was passed it's perfectly fine. In other words, if a city's police department does something the city council doesn't like, the only means for the city council to deal with it is to make an appeal to the state government.

• On the post: Megachurch's Anti-Vaccine Stance Results In God's Measles-y Wrath

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2013 @ 05:40pm

  Troll! Troll in the comments! Thought you ought to know...

  He's a troll, and knows that being anti-vaccine will piss people off, exasperate them, make them incredus, and so on, which will lead to responses; just ignore him.

• On the post: Just Kidding, Square Enix Still Hates Its Biggest Fans

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2013 @ 12:16am

  Re: Just Kidding, Square Enix Still Hates Its Biggest Fans

  But, a fan film (and one based on Final Fantasy 7 no less) is what gets their legal team in a rage?

  Just another thing which lets them rack up the billable hours.

• On the post: Former NSA Lawyers Attack Senator Wyden For Hinting At NSA Surveillance Excesses That Are Now Confirmed

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2013 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Re: Stupid lawyer....

  Or, as someone else pointed out in another thread, he could have said, before he started testifying, "If I'm asked a question where either answering truthfully or refusing to answer would reveal classified information, I'm instead going to lie through my teeth. If that's not acceptable, I'm not going to testify at all."

• On the post: Staffers For Rep. Mike Rogers Apparently Claim They Could Sue Me For Defamation

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2013 @ 03:20pm

  If you found this out second hand from a reporter, rather than directly from Mike Rogers's attorney(s), then I doubt that he has any intention of actually suing.

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