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• On the post: Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, Ban Your Customers

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 03:24pm

  Re: Surprised anyone still buys from them anyway...

  "Asian people have a hard time making the sound for L, and it's funny to watch them try."
  Yay for generalisations! As a guy named Benny said in 'Lethal Weapon 4', "Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick!"

• On the post: Austrian Collection Society Pushing Members To Support Collecting Fees For Every Embedded Video

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 01:08pm

  Re: Weasel to english translation:

  ?Should the viewing of a web-page where this implies the temporary reproduction of a work protected under copyright on the screen and in the cache memory of the user?s computer be subject to the authorization of the rightholder??
  Technically, it already is. For example, I watched the video of She-Wolf last month with the full authorisation of David Guetta and VEVO.

• On the post: Austrian Collection Society Pushing Members To Support Collecting Fees For Every Embedded Video

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 01:00pm

  Re: you can try to paint it wrong, but..

  [T]he end user sees it as part of the site [...]
  Oh, I didn't realise I do that despite the address bar displaying www.youtube.com when loading a video embedded on a third party website.

• On the post: Congress Moves to Ban In-Flight Cell Calls, Blowhards at 30,000 Feet

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 12:43pm

  Re: Re: As soon as someone challenges this law

  1. Does the regulation serve an important governmental interest?
  Not as far as can be ascertained.
  2. Is the government interest served by the regulation unrelated to the suppression of a particular message?
  There is no government interest, period.
  3. Is the regulation narrowly tailored to serve the government's interest?
  Doubtful. How often do members of the government fly in economy or even business class?
  4. Does the regulation leave open ample alternative means for communicating messages?
  At five bucks a minute? Are you fuckin' kidding me?

• On the post: Austrian Collection Society Pushing Members To Support Collecting Fees For Every Embedded Video

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 12:36pm

  Re: Re:

  Hmm, screwy link again. Maybe try C3S.

• On the post: Austrian Collection Society Pushing Members To Support Collecting Fees For Every Embedded Video

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 12:32pm

  Re:

  Well, there's C3S. Now, where's Santa?

• On the post: Grand Jury Somehow Fails To Indict Man Who Shot Deputy During No-Knock, Pre-Dawn Raid For Capital Murder

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 12:18pm

  Re: George Orwell was a slacker

  A swat team is now called "Peace Officers"?
  In Texas, yes. Above them are Navy SEALS, the real experts in detonation of flash bangs.

• On the post: Frenchman Fined For 'Theft' And 'Fraudulent Retention' For Finding Health Docs Via A Google Search

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 10:01am

  Re: Re:

  By bending over.
  Disclaimer: I'm from the UK.

• On the post: Frenchman Fined For 'Theft' And 'Fraudulent Retention' For Finding Health Docs Via A Google Search

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 09:53am

  Re:

  Which is stupid. I'm an admin of a forum, and on the homepage there are boxes in which to put a user name and password. So do I or the webmaster have an issue if you access the forum without being signed in? Of course not, it's open to public view. Thus the evidence that the mere existence of user name/password boxes do not prove that a network is a 'private intranet'.

• On the post: Surprise: ASCAP and Music Labels Colluded To Screw Pandora

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 04:15pm

  To paraphrase Shakespeare...

  [I]t seems abundantly clear that these labels "withdrawing" from ASCAP had nothing to do with competition or market rates. It appears that it had little to do with even withdrawing from ASCAP. Instead, it seems to have been designed from the start to basically screw over Pandora, in what certainly smells an awful lot like collusion, by forcing Pandora to pay exorbitant rates or suddenly face a massive copyright liability because no one would tell them what songs were being "withdrawn" from an existing licensing agreement. Then, ASCAP and the other labels could turn around and use those "agreements" pretending they represented a "market rate" to argue for higher rates at the Copyright Royalty Board, which is supposed to try to come up with a "market rate" for various licenses (even though the high rates were supposed to have a confidentiality agreement tied to them). And then it's ASCAP going around claiming that Pandora is somehow trying to game the system?
  Hypocrisy by any other name still smells as rank.

• On the post: Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, Ban Your Customers

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 06:34am

  Re: Re: Hey, Lululemon...

  The exhaustion principle/first sale doctrine doesn't apply only to copyrights, but also to patents and trademarks, and it's being interfered with by Lululemon's unfair policy. I believe there's also interference with the second-hand market under European law since they have a UK website.

• On the post: EA: You Can Only Rate Our Dungeon Keeper App If you Give It A Perfect Rating

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 04:49am

  Re: Re:

  
  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Miss Tina Turner!
  Sung: What's Square got to do, got to do with it?
  What's Square? The company's Square-Enix.

• On the post: EA: You Can Only Rate Our Dungeon Keeper App If you Give It A Perfect Rating

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 04:36am

  Re: Re:

  You know, even though I'm Autistic, the lack of a sarc mark on that AC's comment didn't affect my ability to detect the obvious sarcasm in any way. So what's your excuse for your faulty sarcasm detector?

• On the post: PhRMA Wants EU Put On US's 'Priority Watch List' For Plans To Disclose Basic Safety Info About Drugs

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 10:08am

  Headline is incorrect

  PhRMA Wants EU Put On US's 'Priority Watch List' For Plans To Promote Public Safety
  FTFY, Glyn.

• On the post: Comcast: Allowing Us To Get Immensely, Inconceivably, Ridiculously Massive Is 'Pro Consumer'

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 05:07am

  And, oh, just a reminder, Comcast, you own Hulu.
  *quickly and quietly cancels Hulu subscription* Cunts don't deserve my money.

• On the post: EA: You Can Only Rate Our Dungeon Keeper App If you Give It A Perfect Rating

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 05:00am

  File an objection

  Right at the bottom of the page for each individual app in Google Play is a little clicky which allows you to file an objection about it and potentially get it pulled. The objection I filed is as follows: Company is maximising star ratings in abuse of Google's terms. Bad game, crashes all the time, can't play without money, and now can't rate less than five stars. Feel free to copy/paste.

• On the post: UK Government Official Gets Twitter Parody Account Closed Down For Mocking Politicians And Heads Of Large Companies

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 04:04am

  Easy to detect as parody

  Personally, I would say that the parody JCP account is easy to detect as a non-governmental work on the basis that the ConDems have never been that honest about their policies!

• On the post: Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, Ban Your Customers

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 03:51am

  Hey, Lululemon...

  Can you say "exhaustion principle"?

• On the post: When Facebook's Terms Of Service Decide What Kind Of 'Speech' Is Okay, Activists Get Silenced

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2014 @ 09:25am

  Re: Re: Re:

  don't have the right not to hear

• On the post: When Facebook's Terms Of Service Decide What Kind Of 'Speech' Is Okay, Activists Get Silenced

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2014 @ 09:23am

  Re: Re:

  @ Violynne, no one has a right to be heard, okay? Speak, yes, but be heard? Hell, no.
  Actually, I would argue that the right to be heard is inherent in the right to speak. However, that doesn't mean that others don't have the not to hear any speech they don't want to.

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