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• On the post: Homeland Security Adviser Warns Parents That Their Mouthy Kids May Grow Up To Be Terrorists

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2014 @ 01:13am

  Re: Re: Now if this doesn't fall into the WTF America category...

  Oh look, it's the person who attacks me at every moment because he's pathetic and has nothing better to do.

• On the post: NY Times Changes Its Tune On TPP; Highlights Cronyism, Lack Of Transparency As Problems

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 06:41pm

  Good...

  Glad to see that even the NY Times is understanding how bad this is...
  
  Makes one wonder why they didn't see it before though.

• On the post: Can Anyone Name A Programmer Still Getting Paid For Code He Wrote In 1962?

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 11:03am

  Re: Re: Oh, there are some...

  I know, I'm just pointing out that if they worked 50 years ago and are still getting paid, they did something else, and I used Woz and Gates as examples, since they were programmers from before I was born.

• On the post: Can Anyone Name A Programmer Still Getting Paid For Code He Wrote In 1962?

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 05:33am

  Oh, there are some...

  But i suspect that they're still working or have other ways to make money...
  
  Was Bill Gates a programmer in the 60s? How about Steve Wozniack? ...Those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head that might have been programmers then and still get paid today.

• On the post: Homeland Security Adviser Warns Parents That Their Mouthy Kids May Grow Up To Be Terrorists

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 05:01am

  Now if this doesn't fall into the WTF America category...

  I don't know what does.
  
  Seriously, the government flat-out admits it sees the citizens as the enemy here.
  
  So... When's the revolution to overthrow everything?

• On the post: General Mills Changes Policy After Internet Did Not 'Like' Its Plan To Remove Your Ability To Sue If You 'Liked' Its Facebook Page

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 04:57am

  I'll give them this much...

  At least they didn't double down on what they were doing.

• On the post: The Logical Conclusion Of Zero Tolerance: College Prof Suspended Because Daughter Wore A GoT Tshirt

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2014 @ 06:45pm

  And this is why...

  Zero Tolerance should be illegal.

• On the post: LA Sheriff's Dept. On New Surveillance Program: We Knew The Public Wouldn't Like It, So We Kept It A Secret

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 07:39am

  There is a limit to how far people can be pushed...

  And no amount of Orwellian surveillance will save your life when you push too far.

• On the post: Would You Pay $50 Per Episode To See Game Of Thrones?

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 05:07am

  50 bucks an episode?!

  Are they mad?! I don't even like paying 50 bucks for a series of anime unless it's at least 40 or more episodes.
  
  It's the reason I still haven't bought the first season of Haruhi, last time I saw it, it was 50 bucks for 13 episodes.

• On the post: NY Prosecutor: Annoying Someone Is A Criminal Act, Especially If It's In Writing

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 08:09am

  Well, if that's the case...

  Then we should arrest the entire U.S. government for annoying me, especially since most of the stuff they put down is in writing.

• On the post: Bracket Watch: EA Upset Early, Comcast Beats Monsanto For 'Worst Company' Award

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 02:59pm

  Well...

  At least the gamers didn't win this year.
  
  ...
  
  Oh wait, they never win.

• On the post: Snowden Says NSA Is Lying When It Claims He Didn't Raise Concerns Through The Proper Channels

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 12:56pm

  At this point...

  Snowden has more credibility than the entire U.S. government put together.
  
  Save for a few individuals, but they're few and far between.

• On the post: Hollywood Piles On: MPAA Sues Megupload, Even Though They Already Got The Feds To Kill It

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 05:07pm

  Re: Re: Yet another reason...

  Nope, I refuse to watch anything from Hollywood.
  
  Complete and total boycott of EVERYTHING they make.
  
  Which kind of sucks, I wanted to watch Kick Ass 2, the new Star Wars movies and other things too.

• On the post: US, Apparently With No Sense Of Irony, Preaching 'Openness' And 'Transparency' To Chinese

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 10:22am

  Re:

  Considering his entire Presidency has been nothing but one long, drawn out comedy of errors...

• On the post: Hollywood Piles On: MPAA Sues Megupload, Even Though They Already Got The Feds To Kill It

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 01:38pm

  Yet another reason...

  Why I shall NEVER watch anything by the MPAA ever again.

• On the post: 5 Year Old Hacks Xbox Live; Thankfully DOJ Apparently Uninterested In Prosecuting Cute Kid Under CFAA

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 11:25am

  On the other hand...

  Had the DoJ gone after the kid, we might see some real push to reform the CFAA.
  
  ...
  
  Which is probably why they didn't do it.

• On the post: Sony And YouTube Take Down Sintel; Blender's Open Source, Creative Commons, Crowdfunded Masterpiece

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 04:10am

  Re:

  You mean abused, like it was in this case.

• On the post: Mike Rogers Still Pushing His 'Snowden Is A Russian Spy' Delusion, Citing Every Single 'Counterintelligence Official' In Support

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 05:23am

  Hey, Michigan...

  Your loony is off his meds again.
  
  Can someone give him an "I love me" jacket already?

• On the post: 'Bay Of Tweets Invasion' Legitimizes Nearly Every Crackpot Anti-US Claim From Dictators Around The Globe

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 05:18am

  Combined with the Snowden leaks...

  Every single conspiracy theory regarding the government is starting to look pretty legitimate now-a-days.
  
  Thanks, Obama.

• On the post: Governin': Sen. Dan Coats Questions The Wrong Witness At The Wrong Hearing

  

  silverscarcat ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2014 @ 01:06pm

  Your tax dollars...

  Are hard at work, everyone!

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