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• On the post: Texas Court Famous For Judicial Shopping Decides It Can Ignore Judicial Conference’s New Policy Against Judicial Shopping

  

  nasch ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2024 @ 07:11am

  I'm not sure how balanced it is, considering there was one case of attempted - and failed - judge shopping, followed by completely baseless speculation implying that it happens a lot successfully. Secondly, the main issue is not that lawyers attempt to get a favorable judge. I would be surprised if they didn't. The problem is when the system is set up to allow them to do so. The system in Alabama clearly is not.

• On the post: If You’re Trying To Stop Scammers From Using Your Site, Firing The Trust & Safety Team Might Not Be The Brightest Idea

  

  nasch ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2024 @ 07:46am

  I can't help noticing you didn't provide a link to a dictionary.

• On the post: Investigation: ‘Gold Standard’ Of Evidence Turned To Pyrite By Colorado Crime Lab Employee

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2024 @ 11:58am

  (Tranny = transistor radio.)

  Tranny = transmission!

• On the post: Vehicle Cloning — Another Reason Not To Use Automated License Plate Readers

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2024 @ 10:28am

  In the UK, it’s called the ‘criminal justice system’, presumably on the basis that everyone trapped by it is a criminal.

  It's called that because it deals with accusations of crime, i.e. criminal matters.

• On the post: Senator Durbin Petulantly Promises To Destroy The Open Internet If He Doesn’t Get His Bad ‘Save The Children’ Internet Bill Passed

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2024 @ 07:21am

  We're lucky the two parties disagree on why to repeal Section 230, otherwise it would be gone already.

• On the post: Vehicle Cloning — Another Reason Not To Use Automated License Plate Readers

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2024 @ 07:20am

  Jamming radar and lidar breaks California state law, but he was not breaking FCC or any other federal laws using his radar and lidar jammers

  Incorrect, jamming any legal transmission is banned by federal law in the US.

• On the post: HP Tries Desperately To Make ‘Printer As A Subscription’ A Thing

  

  nasch ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2024 @ 07:38am

  Brother Laserjet

  LaserJet is HP's brand name for their laser printers. Apparently it's become like Xerox or Kleenex now.

• On the post: Dish Network, The Trump Era ‘Fix’ For The Sprint T-Mobile Merger, Heads Into Its Final Death Spiral

  

  nasch ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2024 @ 07:36am

  Job

  Glad I didn't get that job offer.

• On the post: Eminem Can’t Duck Deposition In Dumb Trademark Opposition He Initiated

  

  nasch ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 08:40am

  Eminem didn’t write ANY of his stuff

  Reference for this?

• On the post: UK Military Censors Dismayed US Tech Companies Won’t Do More Censoring

  

  nasch ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 08:09am

  Right

  Still, the DMSA feels it has the right to complain about US tech companies being less than compliant with D-notices they’re not obliged to comply with.

  Are you suggesting they don't have that right?

• On the post: Whoops: ‘Smart’ Helmet Allowed Real Time Surveillance And Location Tracking Of A Million Customers

  

  nasch ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2024 @ 09:31am

  Internet of Things

  Remember, the "S" in IoT is for security.

• On the post: As Yet Another ‘Protect The Kids’ Bill Is Declared Unconstitutional, NY Moves Forward With Its Latest Attempt

  

  nasch ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2024 @ 07:19am

  Algorithms

  Last summary, a study at NYU showed that when you take away algorithmic feeds

  There's no such thing as a non-algorithmic feed. Chronological? That's an algorithm. Random? An algorithm. A computer cannot display information without using an algorithm to do so.

• On the post: Bill Ackman: Nazis On ExTwitter Are Just The Price Of Free Speech; But Marxist Theory Or Anti-Israel Claims On Campus Are Beyond The Pale

  

  nasch ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2024 @ 07:10am

  No “woe is me, how can you treat me so badly?”

  You've got to be kidding me. "I am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump, 73, claimed Sunday night during a Fox News virtual town hall in front of the Lincoln Memorial. "The closest would be that gentleman right up there," Trump said while pointing at Lincoln's statue. "They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse." - May 2020 "Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you know, he had a civil war going on. All right. But Abraham Lincoln had — was just vilified. He was," the former president said. "But now they say Trump got treated the worst of all..." - May 2023 He says he was treated worse than the president who got shot in the head. I could go on, and on, and on. How badly he's been treated is one of his favorite things to talk about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/18-times-donald-trump-complained-about-being-treated-unfairly/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/donald-trump-presidency-media-coverage-russia-scandal https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-has-been-treated-very-unfairly-by-people-who-wrote-constitution

• On the post: Bill Ackman: Nazis On ExTwitter Are Just The Price Of Free Speech; But Marxist Theory Or Anti-Israel Claims On Campus Are Beyond The Pale

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2024 @ 11:56am

  Not that I agree with them, but their complaint is not quite as stupid as that makes it sound. They say that Jesus washed the feet of his followers, not just anyone. However, that complaint implies that the people pictured (the only one I remember off the top of my head is someone getting an abortion but there were others that RWNJ would object to as well) could not possibly be Christians. Which is less stupid, and more evil. So on the whole I think they're even worse than you made them out to be.

• On the post: YouTuber Tries To Register Abandoned MythBusters Trademark; Discovery Is Not Happy With This

  

  nasch ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2024 @ 04:44pm

  There is no 10% standard; fair use is just case by case. Under some circumstances you could use the entire work under fair use.

• On the post: Order Demanding Oregon Paper Return Docs A Lawyer Accidentally Gave Them Reversed By Judge

  

  nasch ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2024 @ 07:31am

  a mark on their record for the next five years.

  Also it should be read aloud at the beginning of every case they preside over for that period. A little public humiliation could go a long way.

• On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Very Mad At Disney For Its Speech, Funds At Least One SLAPP Suit

  

  nasch ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2024 @ 09:17am

  Censure

  And was censured by congress (including my own Congressman!) for the temerity of being Palestinian while her people were victims of a genocide.

  She was censured for something she said, not for being Palestinian, and I'm pretty sure you knew that.

• On the post: FCC Takes Aim At AI Deepfake Robocalls After Sloppy Fake Biden Hoax

  

  nasch ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2024 @ 07:40am

  There is no second amendment claim for generative artificial intelligence.

  They're not weapons.

  There is no legitimate use for generative artificial intelligence.

  I've used it to help me with my work. Was that illegitimate?

  Generative artificial intelligence chatbots is another round of terrorism, criminal negligence, dereliction of duty, lemon law violations, bait and switch, identity theft, & fraud, by tech, in collusion with governments, military, haelthcare, mental healthcare, DARPA, & the finanxial sector.

  Do you have any more spaghetti, or has it all been thrown at the wall now?

• On the post: Cornices Centre Goes For The Streisand Effect Multiplier Over ‘Near Miss’ Bike Video

  

  nasch ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2024 @ 07:23am

  Publicity

  Maybe they're doing it on purpose because of the belief that "all publicity is good publicity". OK not likely.

• On the post: Universal Music Group Pulls Songs From TikTok, Causing Chaos On The Platform

  

  nasch ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2024 @ 07:44am

  It's relevant (at least to PR) when one party is claiming to be motivated by concern for a third party.

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