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• On the post: White Noise On YouTube Gets FIVE Separate Copyright Claims From Other White Noise Providers

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 10:31pm

  Re: 5x White noise?

  This is my question. Why don't they automatically have to duke it out any time multiple conflicting claims are filed?

• On the post: Maine Governor Tells 16-Year-Old Worried About Net Neutrality Repeal To 'Pick Up A Book And Read'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 12:05pm

  Re: Governor needs to take his own advice

  So, guv'nor, perhaps you should be taking a LePage from your own LeBook.

• On the post: Maine Governor Tells 16-Year-Old Worried About Net Neutrality Repeal To 'Pick Up A Book And Read'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 12:03pm

  Re: But which book is the question...

  Omg he's that guy.

• On the post: It Begins: Some Comic Conventions Refusing To Fold After San Diego Comic-Con Gets Its Trademark Win

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 11:52am

  Re: Re: "That's quite a hill to climb and must look more like Waterloo than Normandy."

  That seems to be a more likely diagnosis. Someone's always hittin' the syrup of pebkac.

• On the post: Shocked, Shocked To Learn The Patent Office Is Structurally Designed To Approve Shit Patents

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 11:46am

  Re: Who cares if rubber stamped? Real tests ALWAYS come later.

  Do you have a YouTube channel?

• On the post: Indiana Legislator Wants To Force NFL Team To Hand Out Refunds To Fans 'Offended' By Kneeling Players

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 06:15am

  Re: Puzzled by this protest

  I am puzzled as to why the national anthem is played at sporting events.
  
  Oh wait, no i'm not. It's about jingoism from the start. We refused to bow to the Red Menace just like we refused to live in fear of terrorism. By acting like infants. National anthem at corporate sporting events? Check. Forced pledge of allegiance in schools? Check. Inserting references to god into our money and pledge of allegiance? Check. Repressing with renewed vigor all manners of groups and people who have nothing to do with despotic communism or terrorism (or most hated flavor of the time) because they would like to change the status quo. Yep that's always good.
  
  That's why submissive authoritarians get so pissed off about this. They live for that sort of "patriotism". It's like the mechanical religion of the Romans.
  
  Your theories on why Blacks are affected by some things are wholly incorrect. And the economic disadvantage has the same distant and proximate causes it always had, in addition to causes shared with other groups.
  
  Why now? Someone thought of the particular mild form of protest recently. Why generally over the last few years? It might possibly be that things are in fact getting worse, and communication and organization are getting easier. Also, some people may have had some weird sense of hope, having a Black president for 8 years.

• On the post: It Begins: Some Comic Conventions Refusing To Fold After San Diego Comic-Con Gets Its Trademark Win

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 03:08am

  Re: Re: Re:

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• On the post: Maine Governor Tells 16-Year-Old Worried About Net Neutrality Repeal To 'Pick Up A Book And Read'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 06:47am

  How does he know she doesn't read a book every two days or something. What a dickbag.

  Let's also look at etiquette, which is something dickbags like this enjoy throwing at people as another avoid-the-question tactic if they find an angle.

  This young woman formatted a proper letter. An honest snail-mail letter, by all appearances. Used a polite tone.

  Governor Dickbag over here just scrawls some bullshit onto the bottom of the letter she sent and send it back? Seriously? Ex-fucking-scuse me?

  I am sure this fuckit is one who complains about other internet activities of the young, bemoaning how the art of writing letters is dead. (As if he ever writes them, or reads books...)

• On the post: Could It Be? Congress Actually Wants To Do The Right Thing On Electronic Voting!

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 10:12pm

  And what do we do about 1) making sure "new" machines are any better, and 2) only better machines may be purchased with the incentives?
  
  Of course they could save a lot of money, increase efficiency, and increase security, simply by using the damn optical scan paper ballots.

• On the post: It Begins: Some Comic Conventions Refusing To Fold After San Diego Comic-Con Gets Its Trademark Win

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 10:00pm

  Makes me want to start a business offering economical transport and setup for vendors and artists between conventions and their usual operations. And I shall give unto it a name: ComiCon MovingHelp.

• On the post: U-Haul Sends Bogus Legal Threats To Moving Assistance Company Run And Operated By Military Veterans

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 07:35am

  Re: Re: As long as there are no consequences for a spurious claim, this will continue

  Actually, I have been in wonderment over the mere existence of U-Haul since the 70s. They are so slow and atrocious, I don't know how they continue to do business. I feel like it's a front for something else.

• On the post: Donald Trump Hires Charles Harder To Threaten Steve Bannon With A Lawsuit, Block Publication Of New Book

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 02:37pm

  "Trump Person"

• On the post: Revealed: Vietnam's 10,000-Strong Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 03:15am

  Re: If Facebook removes my account, what recourse do I have?

  Nowhere near as huge or... as insidiously connected to everything as Facebook, but you can always find a Diaspora pod. Or host one. Some are big on the mass-interconnection with other services bit.
  
  I don't know if you'd call it analogous to vimeo : youtube or not.

• On the post: A Major Security Vulnerability Has Plagued 'Nearly All' Intel CPUs For Years

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 09:56pm

  Re: Re:

  Or your 2018 Mazda. Totes no difference.

• On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 09:24pm

  Re:

  It's pretty much all the content, so no, not even close to all of it is incitement. They got super pissed off when a thirteen year old told them to get the fuck off her front lawn and the soldiers eventually did. I guess those few weren't ready to do more than rough up humans of any age for no particular reason.
  
  If they want to stop incitement, they should look at their own "policies" first.
  
  Not that terrorists among the Arab population are defensible whatsoever, but the entire Arab population is treated as terrorists. Huh, where else does that crop up?
  
  I will tell you straight up I have an anti-Isreal bias. It's perfectly rational position. Like an anti-US bias, anti-NK bias, or an anti-Russia bias. They've all been rather consistently some of the biggest bastards on the planet. (Hardly a comprehensive list, that's a given.) Liars tell the truth sometimes, but you don't know when that is, so you look at them more skeptically than you look at someone with a pretty good record with the truth.
  
  Facebook complies with demands to take down things that are not incitement of any kind, unless you want to count reporting on atrocities of the complaining party as "incitement". They also leave up blatantly harassing, inciting, and threatening things. I don't think any of them look good for any of it.

• On the post: Revealed: Vietnam's 10,000-Strong Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 03:21am

  SEA is just full of this kind of thing. I guess it's good to be able to get a government public works job...

• On the post: Police Training Firm Dumps Interrogation Technique Linked To Multiple False Confessions

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 09:47pm

  _More and more of our law enforcement clients have asked us to remove it from their training based on all the academic research showing other interrogation styles to be much less risky."_
  
  This is one of the bits i found quite interesting.
  
  Another point, i suppose, would have been for such client departments to refuse to pay for and attend such sessions. A whole other thing is, why the hell has so much been farmed out for so long anyway?

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 12:52am

  Re: Copyright vs. trademarks

  The "creator of the IP" is the government, or, if you like, what we have allowed government a corporations to do under our social contract. The IP is the copyright itself. (Or the patent, or trademark.) But yes, it makes sense to allow the creator(s) a limited monopoly during their own lifetime, and the IP itself is non-transferrable, but licensable non-exclusively.

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 12:45am

  Re: I'm writing...

  No need for so much effort, just do what Disney has always done. Take story x from wherever, "but with Mickey Mouse in it".
  
  (It's like "but on a computer / network / the internet" patents.)

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 12:41am

  Re: We need to extend copyright

  They also won't have any incentive to create when they are resurrected as heads in jars in a museum circa 3000. That's why the term keeps getting extended. Of course, the the whole meaning of life + gets shifted and mangled a bit more.

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