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  • On the post: Backpage Founders Trial Finally Begins

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2021 @ 06:02pm

    Re:

    The religious right seems to hate hookers.
    It's not that they hate them. It's that they want them considered sub-human, contemptable, unreliable liars that no-one should ever listen to. That way when the inevitable comes out, they've already discredited the witness, AND made it seem like they were corrupted by the sex worker, and didn't do it of their own free will and hypocrisy.

  • On the post: More Pro-Trump Lawyers Sanctioned For BS Election Fraud Lawsuits

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2021 @ 02:51pm

    Won't Matter

    it's integral to the grift.

    It's pretty clear that they were utterly shit as attorneys anyway. so they won't have much in the way of assets, because what work they had done won't have generated much money. They also have little prospect in furthering their legal career because of their manifest inability to comprehend things. So they're dead-ended at the bottom as lawyers.

    The grift is the only way.
    So they do these performative suits, funded by others to raise their profile, not caring what happens to their ability to practice law (because they know its never going to take them anywhere, and they may lose it through malpractice anyway if they try); they do this safe in the knowledge that when the shitstorm dumps on them, they can then turn around and play the biggest ever victim to those who concern themselves with virtue-signaling and the like.
    They have to play the victim, and the only way to do that is to make themselves the victim of the system, by DELIBERATELY feeding themselves into the disciplinary process.

    They've set themselves up to fail, then using that fail to claim persecution. Then they're using that claim of persecution to create themselves a cozy career as a pundit, or consultant, or speaker.

    They are the essence of the person killing their parents, and then demanding leniency because they're been recently orphaned.

    And the thing that is the most grating, is that in every other aspect in life, their target market is vehemently (and sometimes violently) opposed to this exact grift. Show them a person who goes around faking tripping on broken sidewalks to get compensation for a living, or deliberately gets into car crashes but when it happens here, they're all sympathy and - more importantly - money.

  • On the post: Canadian Cops Blow Off Drone Operation Laws, Crash Their Drone Into A Landing Airplane

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2021 @ 10:28pm

    doesn't happen then happens multiple times at once...

    An Embracer regional passenger jet was hit this week as it took off from a chicago airport. they had to declare an emergency, burn off fuel to max max landing weight, and then land for inspection. Some damage found. No clue on who's drone as yet.

  • On the post: Fake 'U.S. Copyright Office' Imposter Gets Google To Delist URLs On Section 1201 Grounds

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2021 @ 11:48pm

    Re: overwhelmingly illegitimate

    What are you betting? If it's not something I want, i'm not interested, because I know I'll win. I (and others at TF) look over a whole lot of DMCA requests and most are bad. What if I told you I'm working on one example, where the claiming company deals in a very specific type of content, which the receiving company knows. Yet they've had a notice with 300+ entries, claimed to have checked them all and found that only one or two are inaccurate. I've gone through the list (ever had the fun of going through the details of a list that's been DMCA'd and recovering the data? It's slow, but possible) and I found that over 20% are not only not what was claimed, but were content by the US government and thus in the public domain - and it was INCREDIBLY obvious that was the case. I found maybe 4% of the claims that were actually work whose rights belong to the DMCA claimant. This is absolutely standard. it's normal. It's how things are.

  • On the post: Political Consultant Misrepresents Nearly Everything In Arguing That The Gov't Should Make Google/Facebook Pay News Orgs

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2021 @ 11:03am

    People who make a living spraying shit everywhere, sprays shit everywhere.
    Film at 11

  • On the post: Rockstar Begins A War On Modders For 'GTA' Games For Totally Unclear Reasons

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2021 @ 10:23pm

    Re:

    Yeah, but the online streamer/youtuber system mostly abandons GTAOnline, and uses NoPixel, or 5PD, or similar.

  • On the post: New Hampshire PD's Recruitment Pitch Lists Qualified Immunity As A Job Perk

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2021 @ 04:59pm

    Officer perkins! You said the quiet thing loud so you got to be punished. We'll increase your quota by 20%, AND you get the crappy bodycamera with the faulty battery. Don't do it again!

  • On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2021 @ 11:21am

    Re:

    I also can't wait for 6 months time, when we file FOIA requests on this data, to see what they got.

  • On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2021 @ 11:20am

    Ok, so who's with me on filing complaints about Parler?

  • On the post: Oversight Unable To Discover Which FBI Agents Leaked Clinton Investigation Info Because Goddamn Everyone Was Leaking Stuff

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2021 @ 09:25am

    We are the FBI, one of our primary roles is counter-intelligence, finding and stopping leaks and intelligence operations operating on US soil.

    We are also the FBI. We ourselves leak so badly, that we can't tell which of us is leaking to who.

    Not sure where you got the idea that these two statements might be contradictory....

  • On the post: Maine Legislature Ends Civil Asset Forfeiture In The State

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2021 @ 01:05pm

    Re: Re:

    If they couldn't follow the reporting restrictions, then they have shown 'intent'. It's not like 'oh that stuff we seized accidentally fell in my pocket". They intended to take it, and didn't follow the legal proceedures to get those things. And no, it is not double standards, to hold those taking property to the highest of standards.

  • On the post: Maine Legislature Ends Civil Asset Forfeiture In The State

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2021 @ 08:24am

    Reporting requirements can be fixed easily.

    "Any seizure not promptly reported will be considered illegal. Items seized will be returned to the owner, and felony theft charges will be filed against those responsible for the action. "

    Because if it's not reported, it's not fully completing the requirements for a seizure. And if it's not a properly done seizure, then it's theft, and should be prosecuted accordingly.

  • On the post: Telecom Industry Spends $320,000 Every Day Lobbying Against Policies It Doesn't Like

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2021 @ 12:15am

    Its simple

    politicians have to give in to lobbyists.
    If they don't, then the vast sums spent on lobbying is wasted.
    If these companies are wasting vast sums on lobbying, then they're not going to be profitable, and thus they're going to fail.

    So for politicians, it's a simple choice of do what lobbyists say, or the industry will collapse and it'll be their fault.

    Of course, anyone with a brain will see right through this, but then anyone with a brain would tell lobbyists to - what was the phrase Peter Sunde once used.. oh yes! They would tell lobbyists to go and sodomise themselves with a retractable baton.

  • On the post: It Appears That Jason Miller's GETTR Is Speed Running The Content Moderation Learning Curve Faster Than Parler

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2021 @ 12:19pm

    Let's be honest, this 'speed running', is as close to running as most of those who'll stay on GETTR will manage, unless it's to lick Prince Covfefe's shoes....

  • On the post: Why Do We So Quickly Blame The Internet And Anonymity For Things That Are Not About Anonymous People Online?

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2021 @ 12:03pm

    Why is obvious

    It's easy to blame social media.

    it's both everywhere and nowhere. It can cover everything while covering nothing. It's the ultimate in easy punches that can't hit back. And it's the tired target of people who blame anything they can't/won't/don't understand.

    It used to be rock+roll, then it was video games, now this.

    They don't like it, they're not 'on top of it', thus it shouldn't be allowed. And how do you stop it being allowed? By blaming it for any ill you can.

    All it does show, is the people casting the stones are lazy, ignorant, and have zero personal accountability in their quest for power and control.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Rejects Another Questionable Qualified Immunity Decision By An Appeals Court

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2021 @ 09:45pm

    Re: One Thing

    He wasn't resisting, you jackbooted murder-porn festishist chud. Now, before you try and convince yourself some more that you really do enjoy deep-throating that side-handle-baton and that if you show pleasure they'll stop; let's just look at what the court document actually said, eh? Bear in mind, this is what the police claim. "Gilbert was cooperative throughout the booking process and checked “no” to a question asking whether he had a medical condition of which the officers should be aware. While Gilbert was in the cell, the officers observed him engaging in unusual behavior, including waving his hands in the air, rattling the bars of his cell, throwing his shoe, and bobbing up and down. Officer Jason King then observed Gilbert tie an article of clothing around the bars of his cell and his neck. Officer King stated out loud that Gilbert appeared to be trying to hang himself. After overhearing Officer King’s statement, Officer Joe Stuckey entered Gilbert’s cell but found Gilbert without any clothing tied to his neck. Officer Stuckey cuffed Gilbert’s left wrist but before he could cuff Gilbert’s right wrist, Gilbert began to struggle with Officer Stuckey as well as Officer Ronald DeGregorio and Sergeant Ronald Bergmann, who had entered the cell after Officer Stuckey." Notice that phrasing. "stated out loud that Gilbert appeared to be trying to hang himself". Might as well start shouting 'stop resisting' at that point. Also, funnily enough, no video footage, which would probably have shown that most of these claims were fictional. Then, based on the unsubstatiated claim of an officer that had already been demonstrated to be a lie, they decided to do an illegal additional restraint without any neccesity. They're putting shackles on him in a cell, based on a claim that they already know is bullshit. Who wouldn't be resisting at that point.
    it's literally the sort of action that Judd Nelson's Sheriff character lampoons in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - "The hell with this. Let's go back to the station house, and cornhole us a drunk."
    That people in a cell are to be toyed with, fucked around with, or otherwise messed about for the perverse amusement of the officers, perhaps to excite people who get off on that sort of thing, even vicariously - people such as your statement make you out to be. Bullies don't care how much you suck up to them though, they'll stick pick on you just the same, if there's noone else to pick on. The sooner you learn that, the sooner you might have some self respect.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Rejects Another Questionable Qualified Immunity Decision By An Appeals Court

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2021 @ 03:19pm

    Re: Re: Better idea

    Exactly. It's amazing how many things they think are normal, and couldn't possibly be thought of or them realise it would be dangerous, or infringing if they're doing it to others, but if it's done to them, it's suddenly assault, and an imminent deadly threat that needs responding with lethal force. Best example is 'tazer use'. You ask most cops and they'll say tazers are safe, and they know that because they have been hit with one. And you see footage of them experiencing it, and they get to prepare for it, work themselves up, get it when they're ready, in the chest, and have two other guys ready to catch them and lower them slowly to the floor. It's not all of a sudden whap in the back, and you're freaking out, and muscles are spasming as you weren't expecting it, and that is 'resistance', and you're hit again, etc.
    And the cops know this.
    Thats why last year, the cops shot Rayshard Brooks, because it's 'minimal safe, and injury free' when its a cop weilding it on someone (because then they get QI) but anyone else it's the reality of a dangerous, pretty lethal torture device.

  • On the post: DRM Strikes Again: Ubisoft Makes Its Own Game Unplayable By Shutting Down DRM Server

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2021 @ 09:54pm

    Ubisoft is registered with the Ferengi Commerce Authority, and all complaints should be sent care of the FCA

    ... where they'll send it back and charge you for reading it, quoting the following rules of Acquisition

    1 - Once you have their Money, you never give it back

    17 - A contract is a contract... but only between ferengi

    239 - Never be afraid to mislabel a product

    299 - After you've exploited someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, it's easier to exploit them next time

  • On the post: Supreme Court Rejects Another Questionable Qualified Immunity Decision By An Appeals Court

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2021 @ 01:00pm

    Better idea

    If they want to try that path, and claimed that body survival spasms are actually resistance, then how about a test.

    Anyone wanting to claim immunity in this case has to submit to the same handling, and NOT RESIST. I mean, they've no incentive to resist, do they?

    If they're still alive at the end of the 15 minutes and haven't resisted, then yes, they get their qualified immunity, if not, they don't. Bet with that standard, you'll suddenly find a lot less claims of QI being made...

  • On the post: 2nd Circuit Upholds Non-Monetary Sanctions Against Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2021 @ 03:55pm

    It's a good job you can't copyright "being benchslapped for being shitty at attempting to copyright troll" else, Hansmeier and Steele would be also hounding Liebowitz for money.

    And lets face it, we'd ALL love to read the legal "handbag fight" between those two groups of incompetents if that were to happen.

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