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• On the post: The Non-Existent 'Cyber War' Is Nothing More Than A Push For More Government Control

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 12:44pm

  "Because this enemy does not exist, it must be created. And as international experience shows, the worst enemy is an invented one. I assure you it will be an incredibly horrifying monster. Armed forces will have to be doubled."
  
  Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "The Doomed City"
  
  Translation by YT.

• On the post: Hurt Locker File Sharing Lawsuit Lists Hockey Stadium IP Address

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2011 @ 02:01pm

  The main thing

  IP adressess, file sharing, lawsuits... who cares?
  
  Go Habs! :-)

• On the post: Rhode Island Teen Facing 'Domestic Violence' Charges For 'Inappropriate' Facebook Message Sent To A Girl He Met

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2011 @ 10:22am

  Re: Re:

  Except who got the police involved in the first place? If she's that uncomfortable about a guy in her class and doesn't want to de-friend him on FB, well.. that's what fmylife.com is for...

• On the post: EU Commissioner Asks Big Copyright To Increase Their Lobbying Efforts For More Draconian Copyright Law

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 10:00am

  Enemies?

  "The debate has been totally and completely owned by those in favor of stricter, more draconian copyright law[...]"
  
  No enemy is as powerful and as horryfying as the imaginary one.

• On the post: Of Course: New Fox Delay Means More Unauthorized Downloads Of Fox Shows

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2011 @ 12:19pm

  In the steps of Stephen Colbert...

  I think a new term is required here: "realitiveness"

• On the post: Does The FBI Really Use Surveillance Vans With WiFi SSIDs Saying 'FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN'?

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2011 @ 02:08pm

  Re: Re: New ideas for SSID?

  Reminds me of a Doug Stanhope joke: "Have you ever considered registering as a sex offender just so that your friends would stop bringing their children over to your place?" LMAO

• On the post: Guy Claims Google Owes Him $500 Billion

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2011 @ 07:18am

  Mediation, meditation...

  No chance of settling this via Quake 3 contest, is there...

• On the post: Some Old Guy Can't Come Up With Any New Ideas; So He Says There Are No New Ideas & It's Twitter's Fault

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2011 @ 01:28pm

  Since I have nothing intelligent of my own to add to the debate, I would like to quote my favourite band instead:
  
  Gogol Bordello, "Ultimate":
  There were never any good old days
  They are today, they are tomorrow
  It's a stupid thing we say
  Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
  
  By denying the value of communications tools such as Twitter, people can only devalue the overall communication and proverbally "curse tomorrow with sorrow" of diminished exchange of ideas.

• On the post: When Everything You've Ever Said Can & Will Be Used Against You By Anyone… Forever

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2011 @ 01:01pm

  What's in a word?

  I never understood the reson behind the wording "anything you say can and will be used against you...". What if I say (truthfully!) I was reading to blind people during the time the crime was committed?

• On the post: El_Segfaulto's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2011 @ 11:42am

  Uhm... "further adieu"? Is my sarcasm-o-meter off?

• On the post: What Do They Say About The Lawyer Who Represents Himself?

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2011 @ 01:03pm

  Re: Re: Well...

  True but the marriage issue is mostly conservative vs non-conservative issue. I use the term non-conservative as it encompasses both the liberals and large swaths of the libertarian movement. In fact, libertarians often dislike the "conservative" label.

• On the post: What Do They Say About The Lawyer Who Represents Himself?

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2011 @ 10:20am

  Well...

  "[...]and also labeling certain websites and institutions (such as Reason and the CATO Institute) as being "ultra right wing," which is funny if you know much about Reason or Cato."

  
  Though this whole thing is wholly insane, the Libertarian politics are generally associated with right-wing politics and ideology. If anything, the majority of libertarian politics can be described as anti-state right-wing. One can easily be forgiven for thinking of the Cato Institute as right-wing given their association with the Koch brothers and opposition to climate change/global warming science.

• On the post: TSA May Announce New Behavior Screening Plans Soon

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2011 @ 07:29am

  If the behavioural profiling will be done by the same fritattas groping us now, we're all in deep shit...

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Genes Are Patentable, Because They're 'Separate' From Your DNA

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2011 @ 06:59am

  Separate?

  The genes are separate from DNA only in he same sense as this ruling is separate from the law.

• On the post: Idea/Expression Dichotomy Is Dead; Judge Allows Photographer's Lawsuit Against Rihanna To Move Forward

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2011 @ 08:50am

  Bringing judging to a whole new level

  "Both works share the frantic and surreal mood of women dominating men in a hypersaturated, claustrophobic domestic space."
  
  Is she a judge or an art critic???

• On the post: How Should Law Enforcement Handle Being Filmed? Officer Lyons Provides The Perfect Example

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 12:48pm

  A quick Google search also reveals that Officer Lyons is an author of a book on the history of law enforcement in Oceanside. He can definitely be proud of repsecting the legacy of a storied department. At the same time, I wonder if he'll see more interest being shown in his book?
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073853112X/reasonmagazineA

• On the post: How Should Law Enforcement Handle Being Filmed? Officer Lyons Provides The Perfect Example

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 12:42pm

  Re:

  Officer Lyons is a 20+yrs USMC vet. I think pretty much anything is a low stress environment for him. :)

• On the post: And Here Comes The Video Game Backlash Due To The Norway Tragedy

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 10:26am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Oh, the irony...

  As I am rather prone to self-doubt, I thought to myself: "Maybe Big Mook is right. Maybe I am being flippant. Maybe the public face of the TEA party is not the somewhat racist-ish, uneducated horde that we see so much." So I went on a highest-rated (by Google) site which is teapartypatriots.org and checked out some random blogs of their supporters. I also scanned the news. Here are my findings of the world according to Teabaggers:
  1. 27 x 65 = 7555
  2. President Obama is a secret Muslim.
  3. It's OK to shoot cops if you're feeling oppressed.
  4. Anders Breivik is a liberal but he's right that multi-culturalism is a bad idea.
  I think I'll stick with the derogatory term Teabagger for the time being.

• On the post: Associated Press Carelessness Reaches Boiling Point

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 12:46pm

  Math, eh...

  That's just super. I'm surprised that hadn't mentioned that 90 degress is the right angle...

• On the post: Associated Press Carelessness Reaches Boiling Point

  

  Pickle Monger ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 12:45pm

  Math, eh...

  That's just super. I'm surprised that hadn't mentioned that 90 degress is the right angle...

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