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On the post: Megaupload Programmer Takes Plea Deal, Though It's Still Unclear What Criminal Law He Violated

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2015 @ 12:49pm

What Criminal Law He Violated?

He disturbed the sensitivities of the recording industry.

This resulted in much hand wringing and wailing on their part. In turn this caused their political water carriers to rustle the jimmies of the Justice Department resulting in a torturous twisting of questionable laws and great pressure being brought to bear on the "suspect".

I'm certain had the recording industry thought they could get away with it, they would have asked for the death penalty plus the seizure of all his worldly assets and the indentured servitude of his entire family for life plus 70 years or so.

Perhaps this desire will be revealed in the TPP.

On the post: Dianne Feinstein Calls Bullshit On The 'Threat Assessment' That Said Releasing CIA Torture Report Would Lead To Violence

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2015 @ 08:43am

Bullshit

Now if she would only call bullshit on her own bullshit...

On the post: Lagunitas Drops Trademark Suit Against Sierra Nevada After Public Backlash

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2015 @ 09:10pm

Change?

I'm about to sprout wings, horns, and enslave humanity under my forked tongue.

So... you're changing vocations from writing to politics?

On the post: NYPD Baffled By Tech Advances Like Laptops And WiFi

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2014 @ 09:50am

Re: ZOMG anarchists!

NYPD = The fear mongering noun clowns?

On the post: The Repeated Failure Of The US And UK Governments' 'Add More Hay' Approach To Surveillance

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2014 @ 10:50am

It is all about their image

Politicians: They don't want to be the ones blamed if another attack gets through. The only thing they can do as a collective body is to throw money at the "problem" and make asinine speeches about something they know little to nothing about.

They happily spend taxpayer money like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

Thanks to them the various government agencies are spying on everything and everyone while proclaiming they have special secret laws that allow them to completely ignore the Constitution.

Politicians sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution stand by and do nothing.

Meanwhile everyone become less safe as the spy agencies drown in data they cannot possibly process.

Lobbyists: Their livelihood is tied to getting politicians to make laws and award contracts that favor their particular industry. They are under no obligation whatsoever to tell the truth... so they whisper terrifying lies into the ears of the politicians who in turn recoil in horror at the prospect of not appearing proactive in the fight against terror.

Thus more bad laws are created and wasteful contracts are awarded.

Corporations: The companies aligned towards information gathering and processing get huge contracts to help in the fight against the elusive terrorist. They have the ability to gather every form of electronic emission on the planet.

Of course there is no way to process all of that data, but never mind as the corporations are raking in billions of dollars as a result of their lobbyists appealing to the politicians to do something before another disaster strikes (not to mention the hefty campaign contributions that are handed out to those same politicians to "help" them reach the proper decisions).

American citizens are the only ones not benefiting from all of these idiotic actions by corporations, lobbyists, and the politicians.

We are far less safe and our Constitutional rights are becoming vague memories.

It seems as if there is no sane or honest person left in politics. If some lobbying group decided to pay politicians to create a law making Bozo the clown the next Czar against terrorists, you can bet it would get done.

Politicians don't need any common sense, knowledge about the laws they are asked to create, or oversight of the intelligence agencies monsters they have created. They just need to appear to do something against terror (and to collect the campaign contributions they really care about).

Nothing else matters...

On the post: Tom Wheeler Still Wants To 'Split The Baby'; Forgetting That The Point Of That Story Was Not To Actually Split The Baby

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2014 @ 10:19am

Private Industry Job Offers

it does appear that Wheeler wants more time to potentially explore the possibility of the hybrid option

Probably delaying any decision until a high enough paying job offer comes along for him after his FCC "service" is finished...

On the post: German Publishers Grant Google A 'Free License' Google Never Needed To Post News Snippets

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2014 @ 12:32pm

"Silly"

VG Media has made itself look silly

"Silly" is such an inadequate word.

I might have gone with "incredibly shortsighted, greedy jackasses"... but that's just me.

On the post: LA School District Reluctantly Gives Up The Grenade Launchers The Pentagon Gave Them

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2014 @ 11:26am

Being prepared

So many people squawking about how the LA school district police are becoming militarized.

You will be singing a different tune when the school district police run into another child that chews a pop tart into a vague pistol shape.

These dangerous pop tart chewing children only understand overwhelming force, and the police need that edge.

/s

On the post: NY Politician's Letter Supporting Comcast/Time Warner Cable Either Written By Comcast Or Plagiarized From Comcast

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 08:32am

Contact the shill

Here is his publicly available email address (in case anyone wishes to send him a link to the story and also inform him he is obviously a paid shill for Comcast):

morellej@assembly.state.ny.us

On the post: SWAT Team Shows Up In Ferguson, Detains Reporters Live Tweeting Their Actions

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 08:19pm

Disturbing

Ferguson chief tells me @WesleyLowery and @ryanjreilly's arresters were "probably somebody who didn't know better."

Am I the only one that finds the above statement (from the chief of police, no less) deeply disturbing?

Members of a SWAT team are supposed to be very seasoned officers which receive extra training in weapons and tactics.

The fact that the police chief thinks they are "probably somebody that didn't know better" speaks volumes about the type of officers and their qualifications that have been put on a SWAT team.

No wonder the situation is getting so out of control. Based on these recent revelations, I would not be surprised if at some point the police completely lost their composure and started firing into the crowd at random (Kent State ring a bell for anyone (although that was the National Guard in that incident)).

On the post: Randy Queen Keeps Digging: Issues DMCA Takedown On Blog Post About Him Issuing DMCA Takedowns

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 08:05am

On the path

Perhaps Queen should set out on the path to the Emerald City while singing "If I Only Had a Brain".

On the post: New York Guest House Burns Own Reputation To The Ground By Trying To Charge Customers $500 For Bad Reviews

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2014 @ 06:20pm

Change of heart - due to Internet backlash

Amid backlash, hotel rescinds $500 fines for “negative” online reviews

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/amid-backlash-hotel-rescinds-500-fines-for-negative-online-reviews/

From the article:

In the face of the backlash, the company quickly amended its policy, which as of now reads:

Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our Inn, your friends and families may not. This is due to the fact that your guests may not understand what we offer—therefore we expect you to explain that to them.

This is an improvement over "don’t give us negative reviews or we’ll fine you," but it remains oddly stilted—there’s still a weird threatening undertone to how the hotel "expect[s] you to explain" the inn’s "vintage" condition to other members of your party.

On the post: Quantifying Comcast's Monopoly Power

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 03:43pm

Doing the math?

I am sure that many politicians and regulators in D.C. can do the math applicable to this proposed merger.

I am also sure many of them will be unable to complete the math problem when they are busy counting the campaign contributions from the lobbyists of Comcast and TWC.

On the post: How Dianne Feinstein Misled Congress About How 'Useful' NSA Spying Authorities Were In Stopping Plots

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 12:38pm

Senator FrakenFeinstein

After lying to the public, her fellow politicians, newspaper reporters, television reporters, and pretty much anyone that will listen to her, how can she look at herself in the mirror.

Then again, she is a politician.

On the post: NY Port Authority Claims To Own The NYC Skyline: Tells Store To Destroy Skyline-Themed Plates

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2014 @ 09:52am

email Veronica

Here is a place to send her an email with your thoughts:

http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10003-ny-veronica-rodriguez-3811307/contact.html

I'm sure she would like hearing from everyone with an opinion on her (and the Port Authority's) bullying attitude.

On the post: Wikileaks Reveals Super Injunction Blocking Reporting On Massive Australian Corruption Case Involving Leaders Of Malaysia, Indonesia & Vietnam

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2014 @ 10:21am

Now that the cat is out of the bag...

Engage Streisand effect warp factor 9.

On the post: Why Does The Author's Guild Refuse To Even Acknowledge Views Of Authors Who Disagree With It?

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2014 @ 02:44pm

It's so hard...

But when an organization tries to conceal what its critics are saying, it's fair to surmise that something else is driving its behavior.

It is much easier to get people to swallow the swill you spew if you try your best to limit any form of rebuttal.

All those pesky facts get in the way of the AG's version of the truth.

On the post: Musician Threatens To Sue Journalists For Defamation For Pointing To His Past Troubles Fulfilling Crowdfunding Campaigns

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2014 @ 05:08pm

Re: Perjury

Discovery cuts both ways.

and depositions are a real bastard if you try to lie.

On the post: Federal Prosecutor Claims That Copyright Infringement 'Discourages Smart People From Doing Innovative Things'

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2014 @ 06:02am

Sally Quillian Yates seems to have no email contact point

I was going to send her a link to this article via email. Sadly, I can't locate an email address by which to do so.

I momentarily had the thought to print out and snail mail her this article, but fear of excessive prison time for violating copyright laws has stopped me from acting on this desire.

Perhaps the copyright maximalists are winning after all? /s

On the post: Doing An AMA On Reddit About Net Neutrality Reporting… And Anything Else

SolkeshNaranek ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2014 @ 04:02pm

AMA

The AMA was well done.

There were some excellent questions and well thought out responses.

(Mike, you should give more warning and perhaps post in advance the upcoming AMA to several subs to garner more attendance.)

I hope you do another one of those, the subject is more important than a lot of people realize.

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