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• On the post: Australia's Attorney General Ignores All Evidence And Experts: Decides To Obey Hollywood's Commands On Copyright

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 06 May, 2014 @ 05:42pm

  Everything in Australia is dangerous

  ..including it's copyright laws.

• On the post: Censorious Parent Calls Cops On Teen Giving Away Books In A Local Park

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2014 @ 03:57pm

  Re: Re: I'll argue the other side

  You should get a spell checker going, just make sure that it recogises if I'm from the US or an English speaking country that still spells words correctly.

• On the post: Brazil Passed On Boeing For $4.5 Billion Fighter Jet Deal Because Of Concerns Over NSA Surveillance

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2014 @ 03:45pm

  Re: saab makes fighter jets?

  Hopefully much more aerodynamic than the old Saab 900:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saab_900_GLE_(2)_(crop).jpg

• On the post: USTR Starts To Panic Over Calls To Take Corporate Sovereignty Out Of TAFTA/TTIP

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re:

  ISDS - I suspect dodgy senators.

• On the post: A Look Back In Techdirt History

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2014 @ 04:56pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Clearly not exclusively..

• On the post: Town Built Around No WiFi/Radio Waves Rules Is Right Next To NSA Snoop Center

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Tinnitus

  Genetic perhaps?

• On the post: Town Built Around No WiFi/Radio Waves Rules Is Right Next To NSA Snoop Center

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 01:50pm

  Re: Re: Frankly:

  If it is a good place to receive radio waves, doesn't that suggest there are lots of them to be received?

• On the post: Student Points Finger Like Gun, Gets Suspended Under Zero Tolerance Rules

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2014 @ 07:30pm

  Re: Sometimes the kid who does this sort of stuff actually has a massive history of issues.

  1% are little Dahmers
  
  So deal to these goddamn kids in a fitting manner but don't suspend your common sense for/or the other 99%.
  
  #justathought

• On the post: Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphone Battery And Attempts To Get YouTube To Pull The Incriminating Video

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2014 @ 12:49pm

  Re:

  'Oh no, I got a day of PAID leave for roughing up a bystander! I might even get a stern warning to not get caught doing so again!'
  
  FTFY

• On the post: United Airlines Nearly Kills Pet, Aims For Streisand Glory Instead Of Paying Vet Bill

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2013 @ 04:06am

  Re: Re: unfriendly skies

  Transport 1.0

• On the post: Sweden Insists On Fire Alarms On Hotel Made Of Ice

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 04:13am

  Re: Re: Re:

  becuase it is nice and warm for their lungs
  
  I want what you're smoking!

• On the post: Sports Journalist Gets Trolled On Twitter, Tattles To Troll's Parents

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2013 @ 04:41am

  Re: Re:

  He's apparently overqualified.
  
  ..Yeah, because he actually spoke to a voter..

• On the post: Sports Journalist Gets Trolled On Twitter, Tattles To Troll's Parents

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2013 @ 04:40am

  Re:

  Can you actually imagine getting annoyed at that troll? I mean, really?
  
  Surely the correct response is "Whatever" with zero added emotion.

• On the post: Top Venture Capitalists Demand Real Patent Reform, Put To Rest Myth That VCs Love Patents

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 02:28am

  Re: Re: Yeah, patents protecting poor inventors WOULD hinder Rich VCs...

  crickets

• On the post: 'Attribution Troll' Issues DMCA Notice To Remove Critical Posts From Techdirt, Boing Boing And Popehat

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 01:52am

  Re: Ah, just the kind of hissy fit anomaly that Mike and minions enjoy!

  If you have to ask us why you care, it suggests to me you are reading the wrong web site.

• On the post: Won't Somebody Think Of The Cows? New Zealand On The Brink Of Sacrificing Its Digital Future In TPP Negotiations

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 09:15am

  Re: It SHEEP for New Zealand,, not cows !!!

  Its definitely both. We just don't shag the cows.

• On the post: When Is A Lyric Site More Than A Lyric Site?

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 01:58am

  Re: NMPA needs to inform people about Noscript, Adblock, and hosts files!

  Advertising is among the lowest of the grifters, promotes insane consumerism besides mind-sapping entertainments.
  
  What the fuck does that even mean?

• On the post: French Court Orders Google To Magically Make Max Mosley Orgy Pictures Disappear

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2013 @ 01:19am

  Re: Oooh, which is worse: Nazi motorsports head or Google?

  Seriously, what dictionary do you use?
  
  I want to know so that I don't end up buying it.

• On the post: Antigua Still Threatening To Launch Its WTO-Endorsed Legal Piracy Site, But We've Heard That Before

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2013 @ 06:31am

  Re: Re: This is 3rd partly liability that you approve of!

  Except in this case, it wouldn't be infringement because the WTO has declared that Antigua could legally sell the products in question.

• On the post: Mike Rogers: You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know About It

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2013 @ 09:09am

  So Mike Rogers is saying that I can hide in his closet, take pictures of him shagging his wife and distribute them on the internet and so long as he doesn't find out, his privacy has not been violated?
  
  Riighhht.

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