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  • On the post: Budweiser Asks Paramount To Remove Their Beer From The Movie Flight

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 02:11pm

    Re:

    I honestly cannot believe you were the first person to pick up on the subtle joke of my throwing the NFL in there associated with drinking....

  • On the post: Pfizer Can't Keep Its Viagra Patent Up In Canada

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 12:22pm

    Suggestion for additional line

    "Cases like this are why some experts recommend that if you experience a patent for more than 4 years, you should see a physician."

  • On the post: Pfizer Can't Keep Its Viagra Patent Up In Canada

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 12:05pm

    Kudos

    This is one of the best post titles I've seen on this site in quite a while....

  • On the post: Will Disney Block Star Wars Fan-Made Content?

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 07:10pm

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    Congratulations. You're a dickhead. Laughing at die-hard fans of a wonderful story/legacy....you must be the worst kind of douche-nozzle. God forbid you have children, or who knows how you'd judge their interests, you cock sandwich....

  • On the post: Stop Saying It's Okay To Censor Because 'You Can't Yell Fire In A Crowded Theater'

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 09:20am

    Re: Confused

    Donald Trump, but he's having that looked at by a physician that was totally born in the United States (and therefore likely of a low quality)....

  • On the post: Why Do Both Major Parties Suck So Badly On Civil Liberties?

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 02:49pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    "The chicken's egg can survive outside of its mother, and in fact can be brought through the entire gestation process in an incubator with no hen around anywhere. Can anyone deny that this is its own life?"

    Of course I can. It's an egg. It's an unrealized life. It ain't a chicken until it walks around and clucks at me, chastising me for all those god damned mcnuggets I've eaten all my life. Until it does, it's just that thing that gets fried up next to the bacon....

  • On the post: Why Do Both Major Parties Suck So Badly On Civil Liberties?

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 01:58pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Mason, you're playing games with words and pretending that the question is more simple than it is. For example:

    "So, when a woman chooses to have sex, and ends up pregnant because of it, should she be allowed to kill the unborn baby in order to avoid the natural consequences of her actions?"

    Your choice of the word "kill" makes a massive assumption that the baby is alive at all. This, of course, is what the entire debate is about. Nobody says that we should be able to kill a life. The question is whether or not it is a life. For another example:

    "When a person chooses to take an action that can potentially have undesirable consequences, and then finds themselves faced with said consequences as a direct result of their choices, should they be allowed to kill another human being in order to avoid the natural consequences of their actions?"

    I don't think these are your words, but, again, the term "human being" is snuck in as though that's a settled issue. It isn't, which, again, is what the debate is all about.

    And I'll go you one further: your entire premise is bullshit. The debate is not about whether or not a woman can avoid the natural consequences of having sex. It's DEMONSTRABLY not about that, otherwise abortion wouldn't be the only example of that debate at hand. We'd also be having the debate about whether it should be legal for a woman to kill the herpes she got, or fight off AIDS, etc. All of those are natural results of having sex, but we're not arguing about them. Why? Because that isn't the debate.

    The debate is undeniably religious. It's about the sanctity of life and what the definition of life is. While I won't take sides in this question for the purposes of this comment, as I see it there are only two VALID stances in this debate. Either abortion is ALWAYS wrong, including in cases of rape/incest, because life is life and that's the end of the question, or the question of life and personhood is unsettled and therefore we should not legislate in furtherance of an unanswered question.

    I won't tell you which side of those two I'm on, but they're the ONLY RATIONAL sides to be on in the first place....

  • On the post: Why Do Both Major Parties Suck So Badly On Civil Liberties?

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 12:33pm

    Disagree (am I fired?)

    "There are, of course, real differences in many of the other policies from the two candidates"

    No, not really. In the myopia of the American political system, there may appear to be differences, but on the world-sized scale these two are a few nearly imperceptible blips away from each other on just about everything. They're both from parties that embrace rampant spending (just on different stuff). Their differences on healthcare boil down to a single sub-issue (the mandate), and it's actually unclear where Romney actually stands there. Neither of them is for real tax reform in either direction, either from a massive tax uptick on the rich (a la the 1950's), or the institution of a progressive sales tax.

    The fact of the matter is that the United States is largely a conservative nation. So much so, in fact, that our "liberals" are merely on the liberal end of conservatism. It's what makes the hyperbolic claims about Obama being a socialist so hilarious. He's every bit the socialist as 1970's Republicans, which is what he essentially is.

    I don't say all this to argue that either conservative or liberal thought is better or worse than the other; the point I'm trying to make is that these two are, for all practical purposes, the same guy.

    Yay, democracy!

  • On the post: BitTorrent Uploader Ordered To Pay $1.5 Million After Not Showing Up In Court

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 10:27am

    Re: It's clear Mike is against the copyright holder:

    Didn't you read my comment at the top of the post? Hell, I even addressed it to you personally....

  • On the post: BitTorrent Uploader Ordered To Pay $1.5 Million After Not Showing Up In Court

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 09:42am

    Attention idiots:

    "From the (one-sided) evidence presented by Flava Works, it certainly seems much more likely that Fisher broke the law, and as such I don't think there's any issue with him losing the lawsuit"

    The "Mike has never once come out against pirates" bullshit is officially over. Granted, it was over long before this, but I'm stamping this one as being a completely invalid argument, for ever and ever, A-fucking-men.

  • On the post: Anti-Pornography Guy Politicizes 10 Year Old Girl's Murder

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2012 @ 01:34pm

    Re: Re: Re: Thanks, it's been nice--farewell

    "Does that help clear it up?"

    Yes, absolutely, and thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, the story was on point with Techdirt's focus, but I do understand not wanting to read about this stuff.

    What I would suggest is that hiding from these stories (and I don't mean that petulantly) can do more harm in the long run than whatever distress you're saving yourself from. Choosing not to see tragedy has oft times in history perpetuated that same tragedy.

    Still, I wouldn't presume to tell you what's in your own best interests, so I guess I understand your point of view....

  • On the post: India's Recording Industry Wants The Power To Take Down Content Without Notification

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2012 @ 12:35pm

    Re: @ "control what their citizens say and do on the internet"

    "you fanboys can twist yourselves into pretzels -- or ad hom all you like"

    Oh, the sweet, drunken irony!

  • On the post: Anti-Pornography Guy Politicizes 10 Year Old Girl's Murder

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2012 @ 11:22am

    Re: Thanks, it's been nice--farewell

    I am incredibly confused here. Did the post offend you? Are you saying that you just can't read a site that might have adult subject matter involved? Do you think I wrote something inappropriate or false?

    Considering the topic, I thought I wrote this up from a reasonably mature standpoint (and this is ME we're talking about). Unless I unwittingly included something offensive, not sure what the problem is?

  • On the post: Anti-Pornography Guy Politicizes 10 Year Old Girl's Murder

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2012 @ 09:16am

    Re: Bandwagon generator

    Tim Cushing?

    Nope, you're right. Totally works....

  • On the post: George Lucas Finally Relinquishes His Tight Control Of Star Wars… To Mickey Mouse

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 02:22pm

    Re: Re: Re: Disney in the year 2070

    UNLESS there's another extension? You say that as though it weren't already a foregone conclusion....

  • On the post: George Lucas Finally Relinquishes His Tight Control Of Star Wars… To Mickey Mouse

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 01:43pm

    And just like that....

    ....The star wars franchise is officially dead. It was already dealt a huge blow by episodes 1 & 2, although 3 nearly redeemed it from the dark side of racist CGI characters and cutesy plot nonsense.

    It's over. I had long thought that the problem with any episodes beyond the original trilogy would be that they'd pick the wrong plotlines from the books others have released. I was sure they wouldn't touch the Thrawn series of books. Now I'm sure they WILL, Thrawn being a blue-skinned being and that being all hip right now (meaning Disney will want to capitalize on what they think is a fad)....and they will completely fuck it up.

    /nerd-rant

  • On the post: Australian Consumer Advocate CHOICE Encourages IP Spoofing To Get Better Prices

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2012 @ 08:13am

    Re: Why price discrimination for music and software makes sense

    Michael, my argument, and I'm surprised you missed it, is that the marketplace for DIGITAL goods in particular is global by the very nature of the internet. Segmenting through false barriers attempts to maximize profits through the methods you describe, but that's as bullshit a tactic as tying digital good prices to an individual's income level. In the digital marketplace, it doesn't make sense.

    More importantly, it doesn't work either. False walls come crumbling down with the most minor of technical know-how....

  • On the post: TSA Bad At Security; Leaves Security Status Data On Boarding Passes Unencrypted

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 01:53pm

    Re: And if they did encrypt it

    You've got to be kidding me. That's the kind of combination an idiot puts on his luggage!

  • On the post: It Takes Jon Stewart To Finally Ask Obama About Civil Liberties… But Lets Him Off The Hook On Bogus Answer

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 01:46pm

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    I have no idea why people are hitting report on this comment. It is the single greatest thing I've ever seen. I'm terribly tempted to make this a First Word....

  • On the post: Statistical Stupidity: 95% Of All Lazy Journalists Believe That 88% Of All Homemade Porn Ends Up Online

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 11:23am

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    Sadly, Mike did not allow me to take explicit images of myself for use in this article. Granted, I would figure out a way to make any nudie picture of myself so eyeball-explodingly horrifying that we'd have to release a braille (sp?) version of Techdirt as a result....but it still would have been funny....

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