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• On the post: Moosehead Breweries Cuts And Runs From Trademark Suit Against Hop 'N Moose Brewing

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 06:50am

  Re: They Are Opening Their Own Microbrewery

  That idea makes my head hurt a little.

• On the post: Judge Tells CIA It Can't Hand Classified Info To Journalists And Pretend The Info Hasn't Been Made Public

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 06:48am

  Sent in emails? Must be super classified stuff.
  
  I do wonder, however, about information which came with an NDA attached, or information used to justify asking news outlets not to run stories. The latter certainly seems fair game, at least if not involving NDAs. From the journalism end, i can see why information might not be published, but i don't see why that information isn't subject to FOIA.

• On the post: Why (Allegedly) Defamatory Content On WordPress.com Doesn't Come Down Without A Court Order

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 05:52pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So? You accept risks by going into business -- wherever. An online "platform" don't make ya special in law so should be immune from all that you're hosting.

  You just re-stated much of the problem as if it's the excuse. You keep restating this as if it is a problem. the practical consequences of so many persons publishing so much. Much-decried elitism at its finest.

• On the post: Director Of Thor: Ragnarok Pirated Clips For His Sizzle Reel

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 03:56pm

  Re: Even I read this one TWO WEEKS AGO.

  It's entirely legal to pirate films from pirated film torrents to use in your little clip reel or whatever? OK then. Good to know.
  
  Further, who says it is his own material? Does he own the copyrights on his "own" material as a director anyway?
  
  You need to get over the fact this site isn't breaking news. Your head must simply explode once a week when things that happened 15 years ago are mentioned.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Trooper's Attempt To Portray New-ish Minivans With Imperfect Drivers As Justification For A Traffic Stop

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 03:05pm

  Re:

  So, that would be the only reason, among the billions of reasons not to do so.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Trooper's Attempt To Portray New-ish Minivans With Imperfect Drivers As Justification For A Traffic Stop

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 03:01pm

  Re: Re:

  Indeed, in the first comment. And indeed, it could have been a really bad pretextual stop incited by equally shady evidence gathering by other means.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Trooper's Attempt To Portray New-ish Minivans With Imperfect Drivers As Justification For A Traffic Stop

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 02:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Oi.

  Dollars to donuts we would play the technicality game over the term "criminal" wrt "traffic" regarding local level divisions of court or code.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Trooper's Attempt To Portray New-ish Minivans With Imperfect Drivers As Justification For A Traffic Stop

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 02:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: And yet drugs WERE found.

  Knew a cop who tripped and face-planted on the sidewalk. Saw something between two buildings from that perspective which blew an existing case wide open. Now he jumps head first down the steps at the station every day to start his patrol.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Trooper's Attempt To Portray New-ish Minivans With Imperfect Drivers As Justification For A Traffic Stop

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 02:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: And yet drugs WERE found.

  The numbers are all the cops, all the time. Stops that result in nothing are highly unlikely to go to court, or reach the attention of a larger segment of the public in any other way. This crap happens all the time. There are no collected numbers as they are non-collectable.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Trooper's Attempt To Portray New-ish Minivans With Imperfect Drivers As Justification For A Traffic Stop

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 02:21pm

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

  Corporations. like dogs, should not drive.

• On the post: Single-Pixel Tracker Leads Paranoid Turkish Authorities To Wrongly Accuse Over 10,000 People Of Treason

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re:

  Gee yeah, can't have anyone doing the same thing Erdoğan did. Especially not his former buddy.
  
  Every Turk on earth knows what happened to your secular democracy. There's the crazy. (Don't worry, we are trying so hard to catch up.)

• On the post: BrewDog Beats Back Trademark Action From The Elvis Presley Estate

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 02:09pm

  Re: Re:

  Elvis needs boats.

• On the post: Trump's FCC Pats Itself On The Back For A Historically Stupid Year

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 09:08pm

  So they accomplish something then put the opposite on the graphic? (Allowance made for "cutting... regulation", if you cut up the phrase.)

• On the post: Moosehead Breweries Cuts And Runs From Trademark Suit Against Hop 'N Moose Brewing

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 09:00pm

  Well I don't know. I was on my way to Moose Jaw in a hurry, and ended up in a bottling plant.

• On the post: Why (Allegedly) Defamatory Content On WordPress.com Doesn't Come Down Without A Court Order

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 03:12pm

  They did handle the Moritz debacle fairly well, after an admittedly shaky start.

• On the post: Classified Cabinet Docs Leak Down Under Via An Actual Cabinet Sale… Just As Aussies Try To Outlaw Leaking

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2018 @ 08:04pm

  Classification and overclassification of materials not provably dangerous to national defense should be criminalized.

• On the post: BrewDog Beats Back Trademark Action From The Elvis Presley Estate

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2018 @ 07:58pm

  Eleves

• On the post: Tarnishing The History Of Martin Luther King Jr.: Copyright Enforcement Edition

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2018 @ 04:45pm

  Re: So, you actually WANT corporations stealing the virtue of "natural" persons to sell laundry soap.

  You know, you are right. No one should be able to use such works, including barf-inducing cynical corporate use for advertising, without paying some fsckwit who had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the work used. That makes things so much better!

• On the post: Public School Board Member Threatens Boss Of Woman Who Spoke Out Against School Book Banning

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2018 @ 11:41am

  Re:

  Maybe the rest of the board is pretty good, then. They also didn't abuse procedures to make her shut up and then arrest her for not sitting down fast enough, or something. That seems to be how it usually goes when a majority would collude to suppress speech.

• On the post: Public School Board Member Threatens Boss Of Woman Who Spoke Out Against School Book Banning

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2018 @ 11:38am

  Re: Re: No right " to ban books or to suppress the speech of the public" unless it's Google, arbitrarily denying use of its vast "platform", eh?

  Refuse to host != suppress, also.

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