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• On the post: If You Were Bradley Manning, What Would You Do?

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 03:37am

  Re: WWBMD

  Add some yellow as well; the "awareness ribbon" for suicide prevention is yellow in color.

• On the post: If You Were Bradley Manning, What Would You Do?

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 03:12am

  Re:

  Moron out_of_the_blue talking out of his ass again, trying to muddle the discussion with his trollish behaviour, putting the grown-up's discussion at risk, without backing up any of his claims.

• On the post: Chamber Of Commerce Drops Lawsuit Against Parodists The Yes Men, Who Ask The Chamber To Reconsider

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 02:59am

  Re:

  You know... instead of contributing to this community, you keep spamming your link everywhere, and then complain that you're being banned.
  
  You are very abrasive and quick to use ad hominems instead of proper arguments, so don't expect ANY compassion from the people who frequent here and actually contribute.

• On the post: LeaseWeb Deletes Megaupload's Servers Without Warning, Destroying Key Evidence

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2013 @ 08:56am

  Re: Re: Oh, I doubt the mythical exculpatory evidence!

  Well, it was the hosting partner Leaseweb that deleted the material.

• On the post: LeaseWeb Deletes Megaupload's Servers Without Warning, Destroying Key Evidence

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2013 @ 08:54am

  Re: Re: Oh, I doubt the mythical exculpatory evidence!

  Haven't you heard? You're now guilty until proven guilty.

• On the post: Clapper: I Gave 'The Least Untruthful Answer' To Wyden's 'Beating Your Wife' Question On Data Surveillance

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2013 @ 02:19pm

  Re:

  Fine, I'll answer it for you. Copyright infringement is not immoral.
  
  There, you have an answer, now get lost.

• On the post: British Politicians: There's Child Porn On The Internet And Google Needs To Do Something About It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 08:17am

  Re:

  I'm against that kind of waste of my tax money. Unless they are doing this in their own time.

• On the post: British Politicians: There's Child Porn On The Internet And Google Needs To Do Something About It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 08:10am

  Re: Re: GOOGLE DOES NOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!

  reported as off topic.

• On the post: 'Bug' Allows Same-Sex Marriage In Nintendo Game, Nintendo Releases Patch To 'Fix' It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 08:01am

  Re:

  Good post, overall, however I object to the term "minority", because I'm sure that Tokyo's population must have a lot of minorities, just perhaps very few black people.
  
  Minority doesn't mean "black people", it means the group of people that's not the majority.

• On the post: Team Prenda Not Only Still Shaking Down People, But Also Threatening To Tell Their Neighbors About Porn Habits

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 07:34am

  Re: What Paul Duffy's Wife (#Prenda) Thinks

  Yes, blame the carriers for the distribution of porn to minors, while the carriers themselves don't distribute porn themselves, and it's the producers that provide access to that crap.

• On the post: Mark Lutz Claims He Signed 'On Behalf Of Salt Marsh' But No One Seems To Know Where The Original Is

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 07:31am

  Re:

  Well Prenda are wizards alright. But their magic is fool's magic.

• On the post: More Details Show IRS Targeted Groups Critical Of How The Government Was Run

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 07:10am

  Re: Obama=Putin

  Putin is, as far as I can see, white, Obama is not.
  
  Putin is Russian, Obama is not.
  
  You have already failed on two parts of your equation.

• On the post: Judge Wright Tells Team Prenda To Pay $80k, Refers Their Activity To State Bars, Feds & IRS

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 08 May, 2013 @ 07:40am

  Re: From the Phoenix Wright school of Attorney

  Androids eh? What we need here is a blade runner...
  
  
  Pistorius, get over here. We have a job for you.

• On the post: Will Wright Says SimCity Launch Was 'Inexcusable'

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 08 May, 2013 @ 07:15am

  Re: Re: Re:

  The biggest problem with this "Always online" malarkey is that at any point in time the game company can decide: "You know what? You can't play anymore, because we don't want to keep these servers running, they cost us too much."
  
  And there you are with your $60 game, and no way to play.
  
  I'll stick with SimCity 2k, and spend my money on Kickstarter games.

• On the post: YouTube Once Again Building A Paywall On Which Old Media Can Hang Itself

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 08 May, 2013 @ 04:02am

  Re:

  Youtube is way more than just cat videos and music videos.
  
  There are full length episodes of online only original content on there. From 'networks' such as Geek and Sundry, Vsauce and Jupiter Broadcasting. To name three off the top of my head.
  http://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry Geek and Sundry.
  http://www.youtube.com/user/jupiterbroadcasting Jupiter Broadcasting
  http://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce Vsauce
  
  Also there are the Google Science Fair lectures: http://www.youtube.com/feed/UCAn-f5AvAospCM1Jzgn9QHw

• On the post: Judge Wright Tells Team Prenda To Pay $80k, Refers Their Activity To State Bars, Feds & IRS

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 04:30am

  Re: Re: Re:

  "And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids."

• On the post: Chile Says It Does Not Recognize The Legitimacy Of The USTR's Special 301 Report

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 04:18am

  Re: Re:

  Bieber is Canadian.

• On the post: Copyright Trolls So Sloppy They Sue The Same Guy Multiple Times

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 04:13am

  Re:

  You want to watch that movie more than once? Pay us a fee for every viewing, damn dirty pirate!

• On the post: The Fight Over DRM In HTML5 Should Represent The Last Stand For DRM

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re: A Bit Upset With Netflix Here

  Even though this is a highly off topic rant, and mostly misguided, I'll touch on one subject
  
  

  MS offered and gave help getting support for silverlight on linux
  
  Moonlight was an extremely bastardized version of Silverlight, and never fully supported all the trappings that came with Silverlight, also lagging at least 1 version behind Silverlight.
  The media codecs that were needed by Moonlight, had to be installed illegally, and even those never supported the crappy DRM that MS built into Silverlight.
  It's also buggy as can be.
  
  I've watched several (non-DRM'ed) Silverlight streams with Moonlight, result: I had to pause+play the video about every 5 minutes, and sometimes it would lose its place and start all over again, all because the player would forget it was already playing, and would put the "PLAY NOW" overlay back on top of the already playing video.
  
  Linux distros have served me very well since I switched from Windows to Linux in 2005. And I do play games (Steam is but a small cog in here, the Humble Bundle has done a lot for Linux gamers too), I surf the web, watch videos, email, do word processing, chat, etc. Without ever resorting to Windows.
  
  For work, I have to work with Windows, because the machines are locked down, but if I had my wish, they'd be running Linux as well, because there's no software that I need to run for my work that doesn't work on Linux.

• On the post: Greenheart Games Trolls Pirates With Altered Cracked Version Of Game Dev Tycoon

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 08:26am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Still isn't the same as stealing. That's what I was getting at. But yeah, they did pretty much copy the game.

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