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• On the post: Flying Dog Brewery Wins Against North Carolina On ‘Vulgar’ Beer Label Art

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 24 May, 2022 @ 08:25am

  For the Record

  I feel it needs to be mentioned that the artist for Flying Dog Brewery is none other than Ralph Steadman, good friend of Hunter Thompson and illustrator for the novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

• On the post: Court Unanimously Keeps Lower Court's Injunction Against Trump's Immigration Order In Place

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2017 @ 08:17pm

  Trumplation

  Court: To rule on the Government’s motion, we must consider several factors, including whether the Government has shown that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its appeal, the degree of hardship caused by a stay or its denial, and the public interest in granting or denying a stay.

  Trumplation: You gotta figure in a whole lot of things, if they're gonna win, big things, like hard stuff caused and the other guy.

  C: We assess those factors in light of the limited evidence put forward by both parties at this very preliminary stage and are mindful that our analysis of the hardships and public interest in this case involves particularly sensitive and weighty concerns on both sides.

  T: It's too soon to tell, but we're taking lots, a whole lot of stuff into account.

  C: Nevertheless, we hold that the Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure to enter a stay would cause irreparable injury, and we therefore deny its emergency motion for a stay.

  T: The so-called government's screwed. They got nothing, they can produce nothing so they get bupkus.

• On the post: Charles Carreon Keeps Digging: Promises To Subpoena Twitter & Ars Technica To Track Down Parody Account

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2012 @ 01:37pm

  Found This

  Carreon is a tool

• On the post: The Politicians Who Cried 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' Wolf

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2012 @ 11:24am

  Re: Didn't read it all..... lol

  DON'T put critical systems ONLINE.
  
  In other words, the government doesn't need to have access to all of our communications on the internet in order to protect systems which shouldn't be on the internet.
  
  If there is a danger to secured SCADA systems or air traffic control communications, then rightfully the government should have some authority to police those systems.
  
  But this is not what they are asking for.

• On the post: The Politicians Who Cried 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' Wolf

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2012 @ 10:57am

  We Can Only Hope

  If there really were a true and just God, then the MPAA and the RIAA would both be destroyed in a Digital Pearl Harbor.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: The 'Stakeholders' For Copyright Policy Don't Fit In A Room

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2012 @ 12:19pm

  Ha Ha Ha

  This is why the MPAA and the RIAA don't have comment sections on their "blogs"
  
  The public isn't supposed to participate in copyright, they're just supposed to buy things protected by copyright.

• On the post: It's Amazing The Lengths 'Music Supporters' Will Go To In Trying To Trash Success Stories

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 03:47pm

  What Next?

  What this may mean is that a small, rich, vocal cabal of music fans could grow to have an undue impact on the way music progresses...
  
  Would they call themselves the VCAA?

• On the post: Chinese Copyright Proposal Would Allow Compulsory Licensing Of Music After Three Months

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 12:57pm

  Headline

  Nuclear War With the Chinese
  Obama, "the RIAA Won't Let US Back Down"

• On the post: Nathan Myhrvold's Delusions: Patent Wars 'Vindicate' The Importance Of Patents

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 08:59pm

  Makes You Wonder

  Is Nathan jealous of Bill's billions?

• On the post: Why You Can't Have A Tacocopter Drone Deliver You A Taco For Lunch Today

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2012 @ 12:25pm

  Lemonade

  [O]n the other hand, it's a little bit ironic that that's the case in a country where you can be killed by drone with no judicial review.
  
  So why not tweak the business model a bit and offer a murder-for-hire drone service?
  
  This just means I'm going to revive my taco delivery idea, Tacobruchet?

• On the post: Should We Outlaw Employers From Asking For Social Networking Logins?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 08:38am

  Inevitable

  It's interesting that a legislator would want this law seeing as how much of the government is perfectly comfortable with asking people to hand over vials of their own urine in order to get/stay employed.

• On the post: Why Anti-Circumvention Laws Are Evil: Hollywood Gets To Veto DVD Jukebox, Despite Complete Lack Of Infringement

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 11:06am

  Awesome

  After thirty years, Hollywood has finally managed to kill the VCR.

• On the post: UK Decides Hollywood, US Gov't's Interests More Important Than Own Citizens; Extradites Student For Linking

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2012 @ 11:47am

  Let's Just Be Grateful

  We should all get down on our knees and thank everything that's holy that the US DOJ has caught, convicted, imprisoned and otherwise deactivated all violent criminals and terrorists so that they can now devote the proper amount of attention to saving Hollywood from the Internet.

• On the post: New Rules To Block 'Distracted Driving' Will Likely Make Things Worse, Not Better

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2012 @ 12:31pm

  Not So Fast

  Remember when DOT limited speedometer displays to 85mph?
  
  That pretty much put an end to people driving faster than 85.

• On the post: Always A Gatekeeper: RIAA Backs .music Proposal… If It's Only Limited To 'Accredited' Musicians

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 11:09am

  dotBlackHole

  This would be great if it were ALL and ONLY RIAA musicians, and the music was locked down as tight as possible and nothing but 22khz, 1-minute streams, no cover art larger than 320x240 pixels, etc.
  
  Then, the RIAA could stop trying to destroy the internet in order to "stop piracy" and everyone else could go on about their lives.
  
  As the commenter up thread said, we need a .movie and .cable domain too.

• On the post: Megaupload Users Plan To Sue… As Their Files & Data Are About To Be Destroyed

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 01:09pm

  Damn Straight

  Why would the Department of Entertainment Justice risk having something silly like evidence get in the way of a perfectly good case against a "rogue site"?

• On the post: Misguided Twitter Protests… And Why Twitter Could Have Explained Itself Better

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 09:21am

  Under the Radar

  Thai Gov't Welcomes Twitter's Censorship Plans
  
  I wonder if Twitter's clumsy announcement was worded specifically to be received positively by leaders of oppressive regimes?

• On the post: UK Court Says You Can Copyright The Basic Idea Of A Photograph

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 09:01am

  Crowd Sourcing

  Where's the "Red Bus on Bridge in Front of Big Ben" tumblr?
  
  I have a photo I need to submit.

• On the post: Megaupload Shutdown Means Other Companies Turning Off Useful Services

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 10:58am

  Exodus

  And with that, the technology industry begins to follow small manufacturing and the textile industry out of America.

• On the post: Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2012 @ 05:40am

  So What

  that means that the real tablet revolution ... will not be one in which Apple plays a major part...
  
  I don't think Apple will mind - they (and Microsoft) will just sue all the Android device makers and programmers to make up the difference.

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