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• On the post: NY Times Notices That The Pirate Party May Be Changing Politics

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 08:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Emo rules!!

  9/10 - You forgot to attack somebody's character or argument.
  
  It sounds as though you're advocating a nanny state --
  
  "The rights of the group supersede the rights of the individual, therefore you have no rights."
  
  "There's no point in letting you decide what's good for you, you'd just do something stupid anyway. I will decide for you and you will do what I decide."
  
  By the way, you're 'fact 1' is a flawed premise, meaning your conclusion is inevitably flawed as well.

• On the post: NY Times Notices That The Pirate Party May Be Changing Politics

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 08:00am

  Re: Re:

  (Did you just describe reddit?)

• On the post: NY Times Notices That The Pirate Party May Be Changing Politics

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 07:43am

  Outrage!

  The public... involved in politics?
  
  It will never work.
  
  [/troll]
  
  
  One of the things I've actually remarked upon often lately: Humans as a species have reached a point of technical competence where it is entirely within the realm of feasibility to have a REAL direct democracy--all of a nation's people being directly involved with national decision making process.
  
  Realistically, the 'powers that be' will never embrace democracy (unless they'd sufficiently subverted it first), as it would put them out of power.

• On the post: How A Free Movie Made $1 Million In 14 Days

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 02:33pm

  Re: Once again, the studios were there first...

  And you don't find it ironic how you're pointing us to the websites?
  
  Or the fact they all require a payment of a membership, your name, your reactions to the moving being recorded/analysed...
  
  Just because the payment isn't monetary doesn't mean you aren't paying for it.
  
  Example: FREE LUNCH with 2 hours sales pitch about time share vacation properties...

• On the post: Do We Really Want Intellectual Ventures And Disney 'Governing' The Internet?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Ready.... Fight!

  (to play devil's advocate--I don't believe this argument)
  
  Well, one could argue that streets, power-lines, water-pipes, television broadcast frequencies, and telephone lines are all corporate controlled and government controlled and they still maintain quite a modicum of utility (no pun) for quite a few people.
  
  So the internet will join its other utility brethren in the chains and shackles mediocrity and inept corporate whoring--what's wrong with that? Is it right that the internet gets to remain free while everything else is regulated and whored to death??
  
  So remember, don't ask "why lock it up?"; ask "why isn't it locked up like everything else?"
  
  /super-mega-troll(?)
  
  Oh, almost forgot: freetard pirate fag noobs pudgy kittens apologist raporist magnificent bastards.

• On the post: Do We Really Want Intellectual Ventures And Disney 'Governing' The Internet?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 11:51am

  Re: How it begins...

  "Soon, we shall all be slaves."

  Soon? Don't you mean "since December 23, 1913 we've been slaves"?

• On the post: After Four Years Feds Finally Get Around To Prosecuting Ten Mod Chip Sellers

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 11:18am

  Re: Re: All! the! answers!

  "There are lot of sites which cater to people lacking in reasoning skills."

  like answers.yahoo.com which is an excellent place for trolling, or so I hear...

• On the post: After Four Years Feds Finally Get Around To Prosecuting Ten Mod Chip Sellers

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 10:19am

  That word...

  "effectively"
  
  Slapping a paper-clip onto your luggage and calling it a lock does not give you the right to sue somebody for bypassing your "lock".

• On the post: FBI Stops Yet Another (Yes Another) Of Its Own Terrorist Plots; This Time: Anarchists!

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 08:50am

  Re: Re: what a shame

  The current system is designed to keep ex-cons in a sort'of felon-loop-shuffle where they'll never actually be free of the system, regardless of having served their time.
  
  For the rest of their lives they will have no privacy, pay almost all their income to the government, and be forbidden from having rights. Just like normal citizens, except moreso and they aren't allowed to vote.

• On the post: FBI Stops Yet Another (Yes Another) Of Its Own Terrorist Plots; This Time: Anarchists!

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 08:35am

  Re: CoSen

  I hear Americans recognize 'Common Sense' when they see it, but cannot afford to keep any at home...

• On the post: FBI Stops Yet Another (Yes Another) Of Its Own Terrorist Plots; This Time: Anarchists!

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 08:19am

  Re: Okie Doke

  Not a problem! The FBI learned their lesson with the Oklahoma City bombing and now take great care to never provide the "suspect" with actual explosives.

• On the post: FBI Stops Yet Another (Yes Another) Of Its Own Terrorist Plots; This Time: Anarchists!

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 08:04am

  Re: Fonzi Scheme

  A Ponzi scheme requires investment, that means "buy in"
  
  One cannot buy into something in which they have no belief.
  
  The government is becoming so transparently pathetic in their attempts to assert control that even the 'normals' are beginning to recognize the farce for what it is.

• On the post: Grooveshark Tries To Force Digital Music News To Unveil Commenter, Ignoring First Amendment

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 03:07pm

  Re: Oh really?

  This statement is false.

• On the post: Stupidity Of Licensing Demands Means The Wrecking Crew Can't Help Sell More Music With Documentary

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 01:49pm

  Re: Well...

  *Ahem*
  
  It takes very creative interpretation of the laws in order to be such an incredibly dickish, short-sighted, extortionist bastard without having done anything illegal.
  
  As we all know, creative people are know as "artists"
  
  Therefore, these "Artistic Lawyers" are blocking the "hippy artists" from getting anything with their penniless problems--no pay, no play!
  
  /expert-troll

• On the post: Does It Makes Sense To Charge Kids & Their Parents With Libel For Online Bullying?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Nevarr!

  What?!
  
  American parents taking responsibility for the children's actions?
  
  Nevar!!
  
  /troll
  
  I thought today's standards called for pawning off all parental obligations onto the school/"justice" systems...

• On the post: Details Of Google Wi-Spy Investigation Show Disorganization And Bad Controls, Rather Than Malicious Spying

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 11:37am

  Everybody else was doing it, I just wanted to be popular...

  Big Search!
  
  Big Mike!!
  
  But, but piracy!
  
  /amidoingitright?

• On the post: Fearmongering Around 'Cyber' Threats Puts Internet Openness At Risk

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 10:30am

  Re: Fearmongering Around 'Cyber' Threats Puts Internet Openness At Risk

  This brings us back to the lesson of: "It is illegal if you do it, but it's okay if your government does it."
  (see: martial-force/assault, extortion/taxes, invasion-of-privacy/surveillance, counterfeiting/"minting" money, etc ad nauseaum).
  
  Here's one to think about: If the rights of the group supersede the rights of the individual, then the individuals have no rights.

• On the post: Fearmongering Around 'Cyber' Threats Puts Internet Openness At Risk

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 10:12am

  Re: Cybermen

  I'm fairly certain Doctor Who will save us from them...

• On the post: NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 08:14am

  Re: Re: Re: ...in the land of make believe

  That's the sort of thinking we don't need. Why don't you believe the FBI is infallible and shouldn't have any sort of recurring cost due to their actions?

• On the post: NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 07:36am

  ...in the land of make believe

  Catching real terrorists is hard work! Plus, they're like totally rare.
  
  Making up fake terrorists is just SOooo much easier.

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