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• On the post: Court To Cops: Sucking At Your Job And Slow-Walking A Stop Means You Lose All Your Evidence

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 23 May, 2024 @ 12:06am

  Money and Time

  Do you have the money to hire an attorney? Do you have time that you can take out of your day to go to court and fight the charges, or will you be fired if you're off of work for a day?

• On the post: Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 15 May, 2024 @ 10:40pm

  i feel sorry you don't have basic reading comprehension. Perhaps you need to go out and touch some grass. Interact with other humans. Learn.

• On the post: Court Supports NY State’s Quest To Require $15 Broadband For Poor People, Much To Big Telecom’s Horror

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 03 May, 2024 @ 12:58pm

  Would that include student debt?

• On the post: Cops Battered A Man Suffering A Seizure, Cooked Up Criminal Charges To Cover Up Their Actions

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2024 @ 12:28pm

  If you want to read those feel-good stories, you can find those elsewhere. TechDirt doesn't have to cater to your whims.

• On the post: Palworld Is a Great Example Of The Idea/Expression Dichotomy

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 12:37am

  That claim was made from whole cloth: It's a lie made by someone who has a grudge against Palworld.

• On the post: Judge Reminds Deputies They Can’t Arrest Someone Just Because They Don’t Like What Is Being Said

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 06:32pm

  Beating the rap?

  Some people only beat the wrap because they died in police custody due to officer negligence.

• On the post: Judge Reminds Deputies They Can’t Arrest Someone Just Because They Don’t Like What Is Being Said

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 06:29pm

  What the officer did was the equivalent of shooting and killing a person for alleged theft. There are steps to take before using the most extreme punishment.

• On the post: Sending Cops To Search Classrooms For Controversial Books Is Just Something We Do Now, I Guess

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2024 @ 06:06pm

  Fighting back?

  You try fighting back against a police officer. I'll wait.

• On the post: You Still Don’t Own What You Bought: Purchased TV Shows From PS Store Go Bye Bye

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2023 @ 05:38pm

  Discovery probably went "It's mine now. You can't have it," and put it on their own streaming service unimaginatively named Discovery+.

• On the post: Report: Unregulated Data Brokers Sell Military Family Info For Pennies

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2023 @ 08:10pm

  Another vote for the "Sad, but true" button…

• On the post: Police Chief Who Headed Raid Of Kansas Newspaper Resigns Rather Than ‘Defend His Actions’

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2023 @ 06:58pm

  Sadly, can't

  Not going to happen: judges have absolute immunity. The best you can hope for is impeachment.

• On the post: Freedom Of The Press Foundation Calls Out Alabama Cops For Arresting Journalists For Committing Journalism

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2023 @ 12:56pm

  Shelly Digimon?

  Yeah, that caused me to pause as well. There's only one place it's Digimon in the whole article (as opposed to four places it's Digmon), so I'm guessing it's just a typo. Although Digmon does sound like a Digimon…

• On the post: Court: You Can’t Add A Lie To An Already-Executed Warrant And Expect Everything To Be Constitutional

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2023 @ 11:01pm

  High on the totem pole

  The problem is that the person they're investigating is high enough on the totem pole that if they did do SOP, other people would get mad. …people that could impeach the judge, for example.

• On the post: HBO CEO Used Fake Twitter Accounts To Troll Critics, Didn’t Realize There Are Professionals Who Can Do That For You

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2023 @ 12:49pm

  "The call is coming from inside the house…"

  Who says the hate was from outside the company? It could have been from inside from someone that either really loved the original, someone with beef with anyone on the production team, or someone just jealous of the success of the new show.

• On the post: Corrupt LA Cops Saddle The City With More Lost Convictions

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 08:56pm

  Yawn

  Please spew your hatred elsewhere, Matt.

• On the post: The Casual Cruelty Of Cops: Inventory Search Edition

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 05:49pm

  Vast majority, no. Majority, no. But enough that the rest get plastered with the bad name. Bad apples spoiling the barrel, and all that.

• On the post: Not In Kansas Anymore? Police Chief Suspended Following Raid Of Small Town Newspaper

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2023 @ 05:35pm

  Because of course he did. The police chief should be punished monetarily, or maybe even jail time. Not a lateral move to another police department.

• On the post: Unity Fallout Continues: Dev Group Shuts Down While Developers Refuse To Come Back

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2023 @ 05:33pm

  Bu… but-but but… Money! If possible, they'd charge per CPU instruction executed, and make the customer glad about it.

• On the post: Court: Apparently Vindictive Detainment And Strip Search Are, Yep, Constitutional Violations

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2023 @ 08:55pm

  "The second great commandment…"

  Would you like to be stripped and have a cavity search if you couldn't make bail for whatever reason, but a friend came in to make bail, but the police wouldn't release you because they had a hair up their bum? Are you willing to follow through with that?

• On the post: The Group Claiming To Have Hacked Sony Is Using GDPR As A Weapon For Demanding Ransoms

  

  MaddTheSane ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2023 @ 08:51pm

  Bluffing?

  I'm surprised, then, that no-one has called their bluff.

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