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  • On the post: Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate 'Fake News'

    sorrykb ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2017 @ 11:01am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea?

    Wait... what are you implying about cat people?

  • On the post: Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate 'Fake News'

    sorrykb ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2017 @ 09:10am

    Re:

    Now they seem to have lost there bearing and cannot see any good in anything that happens.
    Has something good happened?

  • On the post: Recent Law School Grad Sues Twitter Because Someone Made A Parody Twitter Account

    sorrykb ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2017 @ 02:27pm

    um......

    Are we sure that this lawsuit wasn't filed by whoever's running the parody Twitter account, in attempt to further damage Tiffany Dehen's reputation?

    ...

    (I know the more likely answer is "No, she's just that ignorant and has never heard of the Streisand Effect", but I've been told I'm too negative, so this is me desperately trying to latch onto something to preserve a scrap of faith in humanity.)

  • On the post: Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate 'Fake News'

    sorrykb ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2017 @ 12:39pm

    Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea?

    I'm hesitant now to label anything "The Worst Idea".
    Each new day brings something we earlier would have thought unimaginably bad.

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 01:56pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Way to miss the point

    (If so, I'd like to delete that comment of mine and fix my markdown error.)

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 01:03pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Way to miss the point

    You just deleted them all. Wait... we can delete comments now?!?

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 12:57pm

    Re: Re: Humanity?

    Earlier, someone asked about the relationship of immigration-driven US population to our sustaining environment.
    No, no one asked about this. Unless you're talking about yourself in the third person again. And forgot your own name. And there's no need to link again to your turdfest of a website. We've been there, and it's pretty clear that it's not "the environment" you're concerned about. It's keeping (or rather, making) America exclusive to white Christians. No thanks. Actually, strike the "thanks". Just no.

  • On the post: China's Response To Study Confirms It Uses 'Strategic Distraction' To Prevent Collective Action. Sound Familiar?

    sorrykb ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 08:49am

    Re: This describes the liberal media's to a T

    Foreign troll, or simply an illiterate American?

    You decide!

    (Sadly, my money's on the latter.)

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 02:53pm

    Re: Re: Re: Way to miss the point

    You know, rock and roll? Freedom? Tolerance? Our culture.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_hip_hop

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 12:59pm

    Re: Re: Re: Way to miss the point

    complete and encyclopedic knowledges of Muslim culture and Sharia law,

    snort

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 12:57pm

    Re: Re: Re: Way to miss the point

    restless94110 wrote:

    You are confusing violent cut off your head ISIS with a base belief that women are 2nd class citizens and homosexuality is perversion. These are issues that have been settled in American society.
    REALLY?

  • On the post: Trump Orders The Cyber To Be Fixed In The Next Sixty Days

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:30am

    Re:

    Shit, you're right.
    runs off to buy pretzels before it's too late

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:12am

    Re: Re:

    Also worth noting:
    Trump lost the border state of New Mexico, and didn't exactly pull off a landslide in Arizona (48.7% for Trump vs 45.1% for Clinton). And he lost Nevada (not a border state but still southwest). In fact, he did worst in states with greater demographic diversity.

    So what does that tell us about the fear you speak of? What is it that scares those people? What do they fear they might lose?

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:06am

    Re:

    Where to start? Should I start by saying that my comments will be "moderated" for a couple of days before posting, thus rending them moot?
    Well you're off to a great start so far.
    I think key here is that being critical of Trump (who appears to have serious mental issues) isn't a bad thing. The bad thing is how you are critical of him. Too often, the tone (as I did above) is about the person and not the policies
    The person matters. Everything Trump does is about who he is. Sure, that's true of everyone, but his ... disorder absolutely determines every policy he will make. His behavior is reckless, impulsive. He is driven by a constant need for attention and adultation, and by vindictiveness towards anyone who fails to praise him.
    Also, bans on people entering the US from certain countries is not all that ommon, but it has happened. Japanese were banned (by law) in 1924. You can see some other bans in the past...
    And most of us, looking back, acknowledge that those bans were mistaken and immoral, not in keeping with who we are, or at least who we aspire to be as a nation.
    One of those is the questions of huge increase in Muslim populations around the world outside of normal areas...
    "Normal areas" -- Tell that to my Irish Catholic immigrant ancestors. And by your implicit definition American Jews are not in their "normal areas".
    many of the more recent "refugees" seem to expect to import their way of life into their new countries.
    "But these immigrants are different than everyone before". Not so much. No. Read this article at Popehat, or just read up in the comments, where this has been discussed repeatedly.
    Given a few more generations of near unlimited immigration, the UK will effectively become a Muslim nation. For some, that has the look of a sort of trojan horse attack. The "refugees" and immigrants overwhelm the system and at the end of the day, end up controlling the place. Political correctness and reasonable accommodations are things that make it even easier for this sort of silent take over to occur.
    Bullshit fearmongering. I bet you believe there are also Muslim "no go" zones in English cities.
    In the US, there are a few great fears. There is the threat from the South, with parts of the southern US becoming almost provinces of Mexico and Central America, and the threats from non-integrating immigrants from Muslim nations. That fear is what Trump campaigned on, and it's real enough for enough Americans that he got elected.
    I live in Southern California, which used to be a territory of Mexico. In my L.A. apartment building live people from all over the world, speaking a variety of languages. And you know what? It's fine. We're fine. We've made it work. In fact, much of it is pretty damn awesome, and the state is thriving. And by the way, Trump didn't win here in California. He lost, by a huge margin. By your logic, shouldn't we Californians be most fearful?

  • On the post: Mac Repair Company iGeniuses Sends Legal Threats To Unhappy Customers, Demanding $2500 Per Negative Review

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 10:03am

    Re:

    ooh I like that last one. Though it sounds vaguely like a sex shop.

  • On the post: Mac Repair Company iGeniuses Sends Legal Threats To Unhappy Customers, Demanding $2500 Per Negative Review

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 09:52am

    Re:

    Has any company made legal threats to customers their business model? (It'd be a variation on Prenda scheme, I know.)

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 09:15am

    Re:

    Zach wrote:

    This isn't relevant.
    You must have skipped this part of the article:
    But I don't think there's any need for me to try to justify why I'm making this post on Techdirt today. This is about humanity. And if you want to complain in the comments that you don't want to read this on a "tech" site, well, then maybe take a second and think about what this says about you.

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 09:09am

    Re: Re:

    Out of the two options the latter strikes me as much more likely.
    While the former is simply ludicrous.

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 09:07am

    Re: The right and obligation to control our population

    Hi CAIRCO. You linked to your site, so I went there to have a look and found:

    So, yeah, tell me again how your concern is about population growth and infrastructure.

  • On the post: Our Humanity

    sorrykb ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 08:42am

    Re: Way to miss the point

    Some reading for you. It's short.
    https://www.popehat.com/2017/01/29/randazza-what-shall-we-do-with-the-dago/

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