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  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 12:51pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solution long lost

    So, how many people should he have to go through before he's justified? Two? Five? Should he have just have cut to the chase and called the President?

    He went to someone in charge and said "I think this is wrong." and that person, in charge of him, said "Shut up and find more people to oppress."

    I feel like you wouldn't have even said anything-- I mean, Iraq isn't a real democracy, so who gives a fuck if some brown people go to prison for looking into government corruption, right? They're not 'mercuns, so they don't deserve the rights we claim "all men" should have.

    Sometimes breaking the law is the moral and just action.

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 12:27pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solution long lost

    I feel like we're arguing different things.

    It doesn't matter what incident he's charged with; The question is whether he is a "leaker" or a "whistle blower". Since he went to his CO with concerns and was told to get back in line, he is, in my mind, a whistle blower, which affords him several protections. (Like, not being in jail.)

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 12:24pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solution long lost

    That is up for debate.

    Debate, that would occur at a trial.

    A trial that has not occurred in the 919 days since he was arrested.

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 12:19pm

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    A democratic society does not jail people for political dissent. Since all parties involved claim to be democratic, I think the right action would be to go my CO. Which he did.

    The wrong action is to be told to shut up and find more people exercising free speech for the IFP to jail.

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 12:10pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solution long lost

    Holy shit. Bravo Zulu, my friend. I honestly thought you were more than a troll, but I refuse to believe any human is so dense as to not be able to connect these dots. If his CO slapped him down once for trying to bring up something he felt wasn't right, you think he should continue to bring things to his CO? I'd call that a break down of his chain of command. Everything after that is whistle blowing.

    10/10, troll. You had me hook, line, and sinker.

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 11:56am

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    He says he did. (Found via this post.)

    02:35:46 PM) Manning: was watching 15 detainees taken by the Iraqi Federal Police? for printing ?anti-Iraqi literature?? the iraqi federal police wouldn?t cooperate with US forces, so i was instructed to investigate the matter, find out who the ?bad guys? were, and how significant this was for the FPs? it turned out, they had printed a scholarly critique against PM Maliki? i had an interpreter read it for me? and when i found out that it was a benign political critique titled ?Where did the money go?? and following the corruption trail within the PM?s cabinet? i immediately took that information and *ran* to the officer to explain what was going on? he didn?t want to hear any of it? he told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees?(emphasis mine)
    I'm going to assume you're on Team Manning, now, yes?

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 10:18am

    Re: Re: Re: Solution long lost

    I forgot nothing.

    "I was just following orders" does not make dishonorable actions permissible, and there is more to honor than following the letter of the law.

    Not to mention, the UCMJ makes blowjobs illegal. Wanna take a guess at how many people follow that rule?

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 09:00am

    Re: Solution long lost

    As a veteran, I'd say the reason he is in the predicament is because the soldier *did* the right thing.

    It takes a lot of balls for one person to throw his life away to stop injustice. We can bicker all day long on if he released too much information, but if I were in his position, I'd also be more likely to grab more information than was needed to shed light on the situation, than too little-- because I'm sure he knew he was going to jail, regardless.

    There is a difference between loving one's country, and loving one's government.

    The fact that you'd already tried and sentenced him in your mind, before was given his constitutionally guaranteed rights, makes *you* less of a patriot than him.

    He has my full support. All patriots do.

  • On the post: The Oatmeal Sued Again – This Time For Trademark Infringement

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2012 @ 05:22am

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    The difference is that Monster Cable doesn't sell greeting cards.

    I think this is a great example of technology (yet again) throwing a monkey wrench in existing law, and I also think they have a valid claim, under the current law.

    I wonder, if he put on the back of his greeting cards, next to his brand name, that he wasn't affiliated with their company, if that would make them feel better? It's pretty hard to have customer confusion when the confusion is cleared up, point blank, on the product, right?

    Otherwise, I feel like Inman is going to have to change his greeting card brand.

  • On the post: RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A Lot

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 01:02pm

    Re: Interesting Study - Invalid data points

    Correct, and this happens time and time again when new technology obsoletes a form of technology. This is often explain using the demand for buggy whips after the car became popular, though I personally prefer the ice man analogy.

    Once people actually paid people to deliver ice to their houses, but when household refrigeration became commonplace, the need for ice men melted (ha!) away. Pointing to industries that sold non-scarce digital goods to people and complaining that they are in decline is just like pointing to the failing ice men business. Your options become "sucks to be them" or "hold back technology". Any sane, non-biased person goes with the former-- only people directly affected dare suggest that forward technological progress should be held up so they don't have to change jobs, because ignoring the impossibility of that goal, it's incredibly self-centered.

  • On the post: RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A Lot

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 12:23pm

    Re: Okay, so you're a falling-down drunk and CAN'T parse this:

    WOOOOOOOSH.

  • On the post: RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A Lot

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 12:22pm

    Brain... hurts...

    So, his argument appears to be that p2p users got about half their collection for free... which completely misses the point any businessman should be focusing on: The paid 50% is bigger than the paid 80% (or whatever) of non-p2p users.

    They should look at it this way (using made up numbers), p2p users have given them $100, and non-p2p users have given them $50. Period. It doesn't matter how many digital files that a p2p user has downloaded, because those cost nothing to create.

    The bottom line is that p2p $ > non-p2p $, and that's all any businessman needs to know to make the right decision.

  • On the post: If You Read Just One Article About The Patent Mess, Make It This One

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 09:54am

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    I tried to build a working time machine, but it didn't work very well. As far as I could tell, it jumped me forward in time 0.000000000000000000000000000000001ns. (Margin of error, +/- .01 seconds.)

    Luckily, I've now got the patent I deserve for my hard work, so when someone else actually makes it work, their money all belong to me.

  • On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 02:21pm

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    Ah, the only true scotsman fallacy. Gotta love it.

    I'm also a veteran, and I have no problem with people who are anti-war, or anti-military-- as long as they're not anti-soldier.

  • On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 07:53am

    Re: Re: Re: Worse yet...

    Right. What I was getting at is that burning a flag, in an of itself, is not offensive or political. That means that the only thing one can find offensive about burning a flag is the *speech* behind the burning; making this a clear cut political speech issue.

    In America, it's (now) a slam dunk that flag burning is protected. I'm actually a little shocked that such an obvious form of speech isn't protected in the UK.

  • On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 07:49am

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    No, political correctness is designed solely to prevent someone from feeling bad. They're not midgets, they're "little people". He's not retarded, he's "mentally challenged". (Actually, I feel like even "mentally challenged" is no longer PC, but I don't know what fluffier way I can describe someone with brain damage.)

    All it does it breed thin-skinned humans, who take offense at everything but their pre-screened words and phrases.

  • On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 04:18am

    Re: Re: The Poppy

    Well, if you're in a Nazi concentration camp, or you're in a UK one (or an American one) I'm pretty sure it's equally as disastrous to you.

  • On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 04:14am

    Re: Worse yet...

    It's one thing to burn a flag, it's another to burn a paper representation of a flag.

    Actually, the proper way to dispose of a flag is to burn it.

    (k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

  • On the post: Teen Hacker Banned From The Internet For Six Years

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 01:03am

    Re: togowithyourwine

    Your nonchalant attitude to rape is very concerning.

  • On the post: Teen Hacker Banned From The Internet For Six Years

    The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 03:34am

    Re:

    There is a difference between living in a place without the internet and living in a place with the internet, without the internet.

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