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• On the post: US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet'

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 05 May, 2014 @ 09:50am

  And the positives and negatives in this case...

  Are different from what we think.
  
  For the government the positives is all that delicious data in one spot and the negatives are privacy and anonymity.

• On the post: Find Two Hours To Watch Glenn Greenwald Debate Michael Hayden

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 06:48pm

  But you know...

  The NSA, Obama, Rogers, etc., will find *SOME* way to twist this to say that Hayden was the best, even if 80%+ thought Greenwald was the best.

• On the post: New Paper Says It's Time To Reasonably Decrease Copyright Term And Rethink Putting Copyright In Treaties

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 06:10am

  Re: Re: Hmm...

  If the Berne Convention wasn't in play, however, we could repeal copyright term lengths down to a reasonable amount.

• On the post: DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Bank Accounts Of Adult Film Actors

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 02:31pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  If it was just criminals, that would be one thing.
  
  But porn stars aren't criminals last I checked.

• On the post: New Paper Says It's Time To Reasonably Decrease Copyright Term And Rethink Putting Copyright In Treaties

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 06:22pm

  Hmm...

  Berne Convention was 100 years ago?
  
  Correction, it was 128 years ago.
  
  A treaty of 128 years ago is holding back culture and technology of today needs to go.

• On the post: DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Bank Accounts Of Adult Film Actors

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 08:19am

  Re:

  The big banks may be scum, but in this case, they are right.
  
  There is no reason to do this to porn stars.
  
  Pornography, sex and prostitutes have pre-dated and outlasted every society that has ever existed.
  
  Whether you like porn or not doesn't matter, this is going way too far.

• On the post: Some Good News: FCC's Wheeler Claims FCC Will Preempt State Laws Blocking Broadband Competition

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 03:52pm

  Re:

  In this case it is.
  
  Because the free markets have failed, due to the money and power that the big telcoms have.
  
  This is why anti-trust laws exist, to help break up monopolies and allow for more competition.

• On the post: Jeffrey Katzenberg: The New Pricing Model For Movies Will Be Based On The Viewer's Screen Size

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 03:12pm

  Re: You're wrong!

  That's...
  
  ...Huh... That would work, I think. Maybe.

• On the post: GCHQ Neglected To Tell Its Overseers That The NSA Granted Widespread Access To PRISM Databases

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 07:24pm

  Hey! Look over there!

  SQUIRREL!
  
  "While you're looking, I'll just take this stuff from you that you don't notice."
  
  Yeah, that's how it is.

• On the post: US Judge Says Prosecutors Can Use A Warrant To Go Fishing For Information Held Overseas

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 02:09pm

  Re: That certainly couldn't backfire...

  Or, you know, people getting raided by foreign police agents.

• On the post: What Does It Say About The US Press That The Toughest Interview Keith Alexander Has Is From A Comedian?

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 05:59am

  And the media wonders why...

  People trust Colbert, Stewart and now Oliver for their news more than CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
  
  When Stewart is named the modern-day Walter Cronkite... Well, that should tell you something.

• On the post: Virginia Prosecutor Educates Sexting Teens Rather Than Prosecuting Them

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2014 @ 01:31am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Because someone found it or it went to a wrong number or any number of reasons is the reason it got found out.
  
  Now that it's found out, the damage has to be mitigated.

• On the post: Ex-Wife Allegedly Using Copyright To Take Down Husband's Suicide Note

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2014 @ 01:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Sad as it is...

  As I replied to Gracey, it's because there are people who fight tooth and nail, who have no reason to keep on trying, to get one more moment in this world, even though they have absolutely nothing going for them and the world seems to try and kill them. Yet they fight on and try to survive.
  
  That's why suicide is cowardly.
  
  In a broad, general sense, of course. It needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis.

• On the post: Ex-Wife Allegedly Using Copyright To Take Down Husband's Suicide Note

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2014 @ 01:27am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Sad as it is...

  Because there are people who live in this world, with nothing, no money, no family, no friends, no home, nothing, or live with extreme pain or suffering and they fight tooth and nail for every breath of life and keep on fighting until their bodies give out.
  
  That being said, yeah, I'm terrified of committing suicide, but that's because I'm afraid to die, not because of me being brave.

• On the post: Virginia Prosecutor Educates Sexting Teens Rather Than Prosecuting Them

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 02:22pm

  Re:

  More like they're trying to keep this from happening if they did what normally happened...
  
  Future Employer: Huh, you're a sex offender?
  Current Teen: It wasn't my fault! I...
  Future Employer: Says here that you were charged with having child pornography.
  Current Teen: I was fifteen! It was pictures of myself and my friends and...
  Future Employer: We have no room in this establishment for disgusting deviants such as yourself.

• On the post: Ex-Wife Allegedly Using Copyright To Take Down Husband's Suicide Note

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 02:15pm

  Re: Re: Sad as it is...

  Because it's hard to keep living, it's easy to end it.

• On the post: Magistrate Judges Emboldened By Snowden, Pushing Back On Overly Broad DOJ Requests

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 02:11pm

  Re: Re:

  Oh, I trust the government.
  
  I trust that the government will take a tragedy and use it to do horrible things. I trust that the government will do all that it can to destroy people's rights if given the opportunity. I trust that the government is bought out by big money. I trust that the elections are rigged to keep the status quo in place by buying out the media.
  
  So, really, I do trust the government.
  
  About as far as I can throw the Washington Monument.

• On the post: Virginia Prosecutor Educates Sexting Teens Rather Than Prosecuting Them

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 02:19pm

  Finally!

  That's all I can say. Good to see someone with common sense.

• On the post: 'Radical' Publisher Claims Copyright On Free Collection Of Marx And Engels Works; Orders Them Taken Down

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 07:50am

  Delicious, delicious irony...

  The irony of copyright, being made up by western, non-communist countries, is more marxist than some of the things that the communists came up with...

• On the post: New Lawsuit Claims FBI Used No Fly List To Pressure Muslims Into Becoming Informants

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2014 @ 02:15pm

  Only difference between the Mob and the FBI...

  Is who the government backs.

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