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  • On the post: Austin Police Chief To Go After Anonymous Commenters

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2009 @ 06:44am

    Re: Re: Re: Lets be honest here...

    YOU are the one responsible for your protection. The police are just there to enforce the law. Enforcing the law is not the same as preventing crime.

    wow, thats the dumbest thing I have read today. Grats!

  • On the post: Austin Police Chief To Go After Anonymous Commenters

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2009 @ 05:41am

    Re: Lets be honest here...

    I feel sorry for you.

    I have absolute trust in my local police department.

    It has been years since I had the adolescent distrust of those responsible for my protection.

  • On the post: Austin Police Chief To Go After Anonymous Commenters

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2009 @ 05:18am

    why?

    People are impersonating officers and issuing false statements on behalf of the officers.

    That is a crime.

    It's up to the police to investigate these crimes.

    What's techdirt got against this?

  • On the post: New Study Reveals (Duh) Very Few People Will Pay For News Online

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2009 @ 04:41am

    Re: tablet

    RSS already exists. Use it.

  • On the post: Lily Allen, Don't Apologize To Me, Apologize To Everyone Else

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2009 @ 12:21pm

    In the past two days...

    In the past two days, I have come to the conclusion that Lily Allen is actually not smart enough to understand any issues approaching the complexity of copyright.

    As such, it's rather obvious that Lily Allen has just accepted whatever her label has told her without even attempting to think about the issue for herself.

    She's just not intelligent enough for it.

  • On the post: Intelligence Analyst Charged With Hacking For Logging Into An Account Sent To Him Via Email

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2009 @ 08:16am

    I disagree Mike....

    If I accidentally use the same username and password on techdirt that I do on my banks website, does that mean that anyone at techdirt has authorization to access my account?

    Do you think if Mike at techdirt emptied my bank account, that he shouldn't be charged with unauthorized access?

    I'd love to tell you to try and find out.. but sadly, I did not make this mistake.

  • On the post: Googling Juror Leads To Verdict Being Overturned

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2009 @ 03:37am

    none of it makes any sense

    Why does standard procedure/practice involve making your jurors as stupid as possible?

    Why shouldn't jurors be able to educate themselves as necessary in order to make intelligent informed decisions?

  • On the post: If File Sharing Is Killing The UK Music Industry… Why Is The UK Music Industry Growing?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 03:55pm

    Re: Mouthpieces

    By the way, Mrs. Allen... I just destroyed the one cd I had of yours, and you can rest assured knowing that I won't be buying another one.

  • On the post: If File Sharing Is Killing The UK Music Industry… Why Is The UK Music Industry Growing?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 03:34pm

    Mouthpieces

    Obviously another moron created by the labels for the labels dishing out verbatim what the labels want them to say.

    Grats on being a lemming!

    Oh, and before Ms. Allen and Mr. Blunt go full on wiht their "war on fans" they may wish to check and see how well that strategy worked for Mr. Ulrich.

    The Race to Obscurity is on!

  • On the post: Lily Allen: Copying Isn't Alright… Unless It's Done By Lily Allen

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 02:04pm

    Re:

    While I agree that Allen probably should have properly credited and linked to the original TechDirt post, frankly I find this post deeply hypocritical.
    And now TorrentFreak and TechDirt are jumping all over Allen for doing EXACTLY WHAT MIKE MASNICK SAID ANYONE COULD DO?!?

    *WHOOSH*

    That sound you just heard was the whole fucking point zooming RIGHT OVER your head. Sorry, you missed it.

  • On the post: Clothing Firm Pirated Itself… And It Worked Great

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 01:00pm

    that's good and all..

    That's good and all.. but it is essentially a company diluting its own trademark when done poorly.

    Example: Henckels Knives...

    They are awesome kitchen cutlery. But they were also rather expensive. Til they got tired of the knockoffs making money off their name.

    So they decided to make money off their own name by launching a similarly named low end company.

    My parents saw henckels knives int he store one day for what they thought was an awesome price and immediately got them for me as a present. As it turns out, they were crap, and WAY overpriced crap.

    So you know what? Ever since Henckels decided to cannibalize their own brand recognition in order to eek out a few more percents of profit margin, I have decided they are a shit company and instead of telling everyone how great their knives are, I warn people to stay away lest they get ripped off by paying too much money for cheap crap knives.

    I think the move to cannibalize your reputation is an incredibly short sighted move that ultimately leads to rapid departure from the market.

  • On the post: AACS Discovers The Streisand Effect: The More You Try To Suppress Something, The More Attention It Gets

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 02 May, 2007 @ 06:24am

    I bet there are alot of sites by now

    I jsut checked googles index..

    There are now 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 pages in the index that have the key on it.

    That is ALOT of pages.

  • On the post: Bay Bridge Traffic Problems Could Lead More Workers To Telecommuting

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 May, 2007 @ 05:07pm

    Telecommuting SUCKS

    When you are in a cubicle farm (the only people that the true benefits fo telecommuting apply to) then telecommuting is akin to job suicide.

    No matter how well you perform, EVERYONE assumes you are slacking off all day.

    Obviously, IT SHOULDNT MATTER if you are doing what they paid you to do. But it does.

    I refuse to telecommute. I don't need the pressure.

  • On the post: Amazon Patents Counting Book Pages To Figure Out Unnumbered Page Numbers

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 May, 2007 @ 05:02pm

    Re: can you patent math?

    LOL, I didnt even kno wyou could have 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 pages in a book. Well, ok, maybe if that book was stored on an HD-DVD... then maybe.. jsut maybe.

  • On the post: MPAA Chief Sings The Praises Of Interoperable DRM

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2007 @ 10:15am

    Re: uh-oh...

    Hello Mr. Gigatribe AstroTurfer! We haven't seen you here in what... days? hours? minutes?

    I was beginning to miss you!

    /sarcasm

  • On the post: Yahoo Licenses Lyrics… Meaning More Pressure Coming To Unofficial Lyrics Sites

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2007 @ 07:31pm

    Re:

    um, reallly... will anybody pay to just see lyrics???

    Yes, yahoo just did. Any other questions?

  • On the post: China Hoping That A Little Marxist Propaganda Will Clean Up The Internet

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2007 @ 03:18pm

    Re: Corrupting Influences

    What exactly was "corrupting" there?

    Both of those performances are inspiring.

  • On the post: Are Supporters Of Net Neutrality Really Just Supporters Of Music Piracy?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2007 @ 05:30pm

    The Great Divide

    I, for one, look forward to the great divide. The day one internet becomes two will eventually be heralded as the great rebirthing of the internet. This can only be accomplished by net neutrality. So the sooner we get net neutrality, the better.

    (This is about giving aol their own internet right?)

  • On the post: Perfect 10 Still Suing Anyone And Everyone They Can

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2007 @ 09:10pm

    Google is my anti-drug.

    (sorry, I've been waiting like 3 years to use that crappy line, I got tired of waiting for the right moment. (yes, that was an attempt at humor))

  • On the post: Weak Vista Launch Continues To Take Its Toll On Computer Industry

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2007 @ 07:14pm

    Re: More Anti-Microsoft FUD

    AMD is hurting because Intel caught up with them. Geeze how much of an anti-Microsoft lemming do you have to be to twist this with that headline.

    You might want to go back and read AMDs statement, as they were the ones blaming weak sales of vista for their current situation.

    And if what you said were the case, then how would you explain the fact that INTC has also been taking a beating since the failed launch of vista?

    BTW I have Vista running perfectly on my Vista system using Nvidia, HP, Epson, drivers all from the makers not just Microsoft..

    If I'm not having problems, then there is no problem. That's not an argument, its an acknowledgement that you live in a bubble.

    I have also installed all my XP aps just fine including some great small apps from one developer shops...

    See above. Oh, and why is it that you cannot even get Microsoft's own OWA to work under vista? is it that wonderful compatability? Just curious. Sure would be nice if Microsoft would patch that. (I've seen 3 companies so far advise their employees not to get vista on their home machines if they want to be able to login to the work email.)

    BUT THE FUD!!! Vista is a nice upgrade... Don't listen to the lemmings...

    If only there was a word for the equal yet opposite of FUD. Ah yes, "shill".

    Lay off the kool-aid man, its clouding your judgement.

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