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• On the post: Insane Clown Posse Sues FBI For Calling The Juggalos A Gang

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2014 @ 05:26pm

  Re: Re:

  I know! I saw them out this week, protesting the construction of a parking lot.

• On the post: Insane Clown Posse Sues FBI For Calling The Juggalos A Gang

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2014 @ 05:25pm

  Re: Re:

  Precisely this. Whatever you think about Juggalos, their rights are also your rights.

• On the post: Insane Clown Posse Sues FBI For Calling The Juggalos A Gang

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2014 @ 05:24pm

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  I get what you're saying, but here's the thing. A tiny minority of ICP fans formed a gang, using a name commonly used to refer to all ICP fans. Now all ICP fans are subject to intrusions into their lives because of a few.
  
  Having said that, I think that ICP needs to take some responsibility in both directions. It's great that they're coming to the defence of the majority of their fans who are not involved in criminal gangs. They also need to make it clear to the tiny minority that this is not cool. Moreover, it wouldn't be nearly as expensive as a lawsuit; a statement or a song would be sufficient.

• On the post: TSA Agent Hassles Actress For Carrying 'Knuckle Duster' Purse, Accuses Her Of Buying A Knockoff

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 11:38pm

  Re: No worries...

  Indeed. They only broke the spirit of the law, so everything is fine.

• On the post: TSA Courts Next Generation Of Groping Victims With Cartoons And Coloring Pages

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2013 @ 06:34am

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  Doesn't the US have laws against child grooming?

• On the post: 59 Bootleg Beatles Tracks Released Officially — For All The Wrong Reasons

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2013 @ 11:14pm

  Re: Re: In all fairness

  Precisely.
  
  The black death ended feudalism and paved the way for the Reformation and Enlighenment. But nobody would call 100 million deaths a "good result".
  
  Yes, I just compared copyright maximalism to the black death. Deal with it.

• On the post: 59 Bootleg Beatles Tracks Released Officially — For All The Wrong Reasons

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2013 @ 11:20pm

  So... a bunch of old BBC recordings and outtakes of songs we already know, and no sign of Carnival of Light. Figures.

• On the post: This Weekend's Rally Against NSA Surveillance Gaining Steam

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 08:00pm

  Re: /S

  Hang on, it's only 6,995 million potential terrorists. Plus 5 million potential whistleblowers.

• On the post: FBI Director Uses Appearance At International Police Convention To Complain About FBI Budget Cuts

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 06:25am

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  Also my thoughts. It would be far cheaper to invest in community policing. You know, working with communities which have vulnerable young people and diverting them away from a life of crime instead of luring them towards it and destroying any hope of trust with the community as a process.

• On the post: How The Government Blocked An Expert From Attending Its Own Cryptology Symposium

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2013 @ 01:44am

  Re: Standard US Practice

  I was thinking that. All the trouble that Adi Shamir had, imagine what Taher Elgamal would have had to go through!

• On the post: Bolivian President Plans To Sue The US For Diverting Presidential Planes

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2013 @ 09:21pm

  Re: what's the legal theory?

  Doesn't it violate Article 5 of the Chicago Convention?

• On the post: Village People Singer Wants To Ban The Group From Singing YMCA After Claiming He's Regained The Copyright

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2013 @ 11:11pm

  Re: D! M! C! A!

  You can stop the music, Vic Wills can stop the music...

• On the post: Verizon Lobbying Congress Over NSA Data Collection

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2013 @ 07:46pm

  Given the penchant for the government punishing you for protesting in public, they might think that this is more likely to get results.

• On the post: British Library Network Blocks 'Hamlet' For 'Violent Content'

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2013 @ 07:33pm

  There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

• On the post: US Government War On Hackers Backfires: Now Top Hackers Won't Work With US Government

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2013 @ 09:40pm

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  Not everything that the government does is evil, and not every money-making job constitutes "selling out".
  
  I've worked for law enforcement. Not in the USA, mind you, but still. The work was worthwhile, even if the pay was crap and the environment was soul-sucking.
  
  I didn't assist in putting surveillance on anyone without a warrant. I didn't assist in the prosecution of anyone we didn't think was guilty. Indeed, I helped put some very nasty characters behind bars. It's something I'd happily do again, if the work conditions were right.

• On the post: Zynga Thinks You Might Confuse Having Casual Sex With Playing A Scrabble Knockoff, Because It's 'With Friends'

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2013 @ 06:37pm

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  Farmville With Benefits

• On the post: FBI Has Used Drones On Americans To Save A Child… And The Rest Is Secret

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 05:52pm

  Re: Saving a child... after killing hundreds

  The government is not a monolithic entity. The FBI generally doesn't kill people or destroy property (trying to persuade people to commit suicide in the past notwithstanding). If they're going to destroy an innocent person's life, they use old fashioned entrapment.
  
  It's the military who kills people with armed flying robots.
  
  Different parts of your government do different things. About the only thing they agree on is that you can't know about it, because terrorism.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Frankenfoods Are Going To Kill Us All! Or End World Hunger. Whichevers.

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 05:47pm

  It's unfortunate

  The sad part is that the anti-GMO side of the debate seems to be concentrating on perceived safety issues. When can we talk about the economic and social justice issue of the world's food supply being patented?

• On the post: Fire Sale: Pope Francis Trades Indulgences For Twitter Followers

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 07:17pm

  So...

  I've got the hammer and the nails. Anyone know the way to Wittenburg?

• On the post: EFF Files Massive Lawsuit Over NSA Surveillance: Gun Rights, Civil Liberties Groups, Religious Groups Team Up

  

  Pseudonym ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2013 @ 09:45pm

  Re: Re: Just a little hint...

  Mmmmm... goats...

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