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• Oct 15th, 2009 @ 4:34am

  so...

  on Smart Use Of Facebook By College Helps Students
  they used it as an email replacement?
  
  so its nothing but a fad then? gotcha
• Oct 14th, 2009 @ 9:14am

  Re: Bailout??? ... really??

  on Pandora Continues To Push Users To Vote For Shameful Radio Performance Tax
  uh, no, its definitely a bailout...
• Oct 8th, 2009 @ 11:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: can someone explain to me

  on Judge Tells Gamer That Sony Doesn't Violate His Free Speech Rights By Banning Him
  just grab a screencap from the movie..... that is clearly fair use
• Oct 6th, 2009 @ 3:06pm

  Re: Re:

  on Why Fining People Can Actually Increase That Activity... An Economics Lesson
  The entire "imaginary profitables" market is held in place solely due to a set of laws that no common man believes in, and the common man violates them on a daily basis.
  
  This is why the RIAA, the MPAA and the BSA cannot win in the long run. The laws are immoral and will not be accepted.
  
  They are just milking the cash cow before it runs out.
• Oct 5th, 2009 @ 3:50pm

  Re: Re: Green Apple

  on Do Morons In A Hurry Shop For iPhones At Woolworths Down Under?
  That is the logo they use when parading their eco-friendliness.
• Oct 5th, 2009 @ 1:19pm

  Re: Woolworth Could Have Saved Themselves Some Trouble

  on Do Morons In A Hurry Shop For iPhones At Woolworths Down Under?
  they make and sell phones
• Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 4:09pm

  more importantly

  on WSJ Defies NFL's Restriction On Live Blogging
  more importantly.. this guy might be staff of WSJ, but hes using all free resources to accomplish his "job".
  
  How;s the NFL gonna stop the 5000 people who copy him when the NFL tries to slap WSJ for this?
• Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 10:56am

  I disagree absolutely

  on Speakeasy The Latest VoIP Provider To Block Certain Calls
  The real answer is to get rid of the arbitrage loopholes.
  
  Just like 900 numbers, there is no reason that anyone should be compelled to connect calls that require extortionary fees.
  
  There's no need for legislation... Just block the calls. The businesses being hosted there will simply go out of business when people find out their "free" host wasn't actually free and isn't actually available to the parties they invited.
  
  This isnt rocket science... thats an abusive leach. Don't outlaw abusive leaching.. just don't require people submit to abusive leaching and the problem goes away.
  
  Just because the telcos (intentionally) created a stupid rule, doesn't mean we should make everyone else pay for their mistake.
  
  Mike, this might be the first time you have suggested that "there ought to be a law" to handle a free market mistake.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 2:22pm

  Re:

  on Congress Not Yet Willing To Outlaw Being A Jerk Online
  Sometimes, even I am a jerk online. :)
  
  YOU EVIL WENCH!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  *the topic made me do it.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 9:07am

  Innovation? I'll give you innovation!

  on Is It So Crazy For A Patent Attorney To Think Patents Harm Innovation?
  Someone innovated the entire "imaginary profitables" market before there was even a system in place to profit from such innovation.
  
  Now, who would have ever bothered innovating an entire market into existance if they didn't have a guarantee on it?
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 8:41am

  Re: Nonsense

  on Is It So Crazy For A Patent Attorney To Think Patents Harm Innovation?
  You realize there is offense and defense in court right?
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 8:38am

  Re: Re: Almost seems like they're following the techdirt play book though

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  "poon feeding" news would probably count as a reason to buy
  
  I would buy an iphone just to buy that app.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 8:31am

  There is a reason for this

  on Is It So Crazy For A Patent Attorney To Think Patents Harm Innovation?
  And yet there are some in the patent or copyright legal business who somehow seem to think that it's traitorous for a patent or copyright lawyer to ever dare question the idea that patents and copyrights work.
  
  Because they know that what they themselves are doing is wrong, and they want to keep doing it.
  
  They understand they shouldn't be doing what they are doing, but it's so damn profitable.
  
  They are well aware of the fact that the entire thing will crumble when critical mass of dissent is achieved, and as such, they want everyone profiting off of "imaginary profitables" to tow the line and keep their lucrative system in check.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 8:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I don't think that's the point

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  I see humor is lost on you, as most other things as well.
  
  I see the point is lost on you. Very well, I give up.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 8:12am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I don't think that's the point

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  So it is connecting with people with no morals?
  
  Read: Wikipedia: Moral Dilemna and be enlightened.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 7:32am

  Re: Am I the only one?

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  Aren't the ads supposed to be in a "free" version? Seems we've had us an unwritten app rule that free=ads and pay=contentonly, a nice rule that has set the new digital medium apart from it's newspaper & cable tv predecessors.
  
  When cable started, it was commercial free too. That didn't last long.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 7:29am

  Re: Re: Re: I don't think that's the point

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  They will not reciprocate by letting you use their content, they will retaliate by unleashing their lawyers on you.
  
  Right war, wrong battle.
  
  Yes, its connecting with fans, cause its providing them with something they want. No, its not connecting with you, cause its not providing what you want, but thats irrelevant. It is connecting with other people who don't have your moral dilemna.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 7:04am

  Re: Perhaps

  on And You Thought Your Job Was Stressful: France Telecom Employees Keep Committing Suicide
  gives a whole new meaning to sever!
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 7:02am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logic Fail

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  They are giving people a platform. Not asking them to wed.
• Oct 1st, 2009 @ 7:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  on Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?
  Read the next sentence and you will see how much I said with those few words.
  
  Ya.. no actually.

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