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• On the post: Does Twitter Have An Anti-Conservative Bias, Or Just An Anti-Nazi Bias?

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2019 @ 06:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Neither, but anti-American, pro-globalist, p

  Better be careful, you're laying into btr pretty hard there and we all know what happens when you give someone a fit and there's nobody around to hook up a defrembulator. Their mind. Blown.

• On the post: European Journalists Point Out That Article 11 Will Enrich Publishers At The Expense Of Journalists

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2019 @ 05:30pm

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  the journalists are about to experience what "artists" (particularly musicians and actors) have been experiencing ... having all of the money that's supposed to be going to them diverted into publishers' coffers instead?

  The journalists might want to watch what they say, lest Voss alter the deal to reflect a model based on the academic publishing industry.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2019 @ 05:02pm

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  I hope this is meta-humor :)

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2019 @ 12:48pm

  It didn't make the funniest of the week, but btr1701 had a spittake-worthy response to an AC's comment that mentioned Monica Lewinsky during a discussion about journalism:

  Monica Lewinsky wasn't a whistleblower, genius.

• On the post: Latest EU Copyright Directive Still Demands Internet Companies Wave Magic Wands

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 11:06am

  Re: Re: The question lawmakers never seem to ask.

  ... and who's telling me it's broken?

• On the post: On Heels Of Favorable FCC Ruling, Verizon Imposes 'Spam' Fees On Text Message Service For Schools, Nonprofits

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 09:21am

  Re: Deregulation is wonderful

  Where is John Galt when we need him? Oh... I'm sorry, you must not have heard. Poor Mr. Galt passed away after a long battle with salmonellosis, small-cell carcinoma, and black-lung disease. (To be fair, though, it was his own fault for not realizing that his meds were just re-labeled tic-tacs... caveat emptor :)

• On the post: NY Court Tells NYPD It Can't Hide Surveillance Of Protesters Behind A Glomar Response

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re: Re: Rotten to the core

  And now we've got prosecutors trying to join police unions.

• On the post: NY Court Tells NYPD It Can't Hide Surveillance Of Protesters Behind A Glomar Response

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 08:47am

  The NYPD also claimed the Glomar response was valid because -- and let me see if I can get this straight -- the described deployment of cell tower spoofers against protesters would violate the law. I don't know how the NYPD imagined this stunted, malformed argument might work in court...

  Were they maybe going for some sort of half-witted 5th Amendment dodge here?

• On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 07:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Funny...

  My problem with this is that you're being over-broad with your you definition of libertarianism, conflating left & right varieties... which is like saying that Ayn Rand & Gene Roddenberry were peas in a pod ;)

• On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 01:13pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Make your betters look bad? Off to jail

  I don't care what the results might say on Sunday, this is my winner for Funniest of the Week.

• On the post: FCC Wants Delay In Net Neutrality Trial Due To Government Shutdown, But Isn't Likely To Get It

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 12:44pm

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  Thanks for the assist-clarification on my post, AC. Back in the day, I developed a policy for myself of never using s's by being sure that any use of sarcasm I employed was "dripping to the point of a steady flow" in nature. Unfortunately, my continued adherence to that rule doesn't seem to work in the current climate of self-satirizing government and ubiquitous Poe-etry.

• On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 09:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Make your betters look bad? Off to jail with you.'

  As a rule, those who break laws and those who remain quiet while witnessing others break laws live peaceful, prosperous lives because they have money and are not targeted by people. Another rule is that there exist people who are too self-aware to enjoy "peace and prosperity" while living lives of pants-shitting cowardice and slavery.

• On the post: FCC Wants Delay In Net Neutrality Trial Due To Government Shutdown, But Isn't Likely To Get It

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 09:43am

  the Commission believes that, in an abundance of caution, it should move for an extension to ensure that attorneys may fully prepare for argument.

  To be fair to the FCC, it is hard to get ready to appear in court when you're hit with a lawsuit outta nowhere, unexpectedly, and without any sort of warning.

• On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 08:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Funny...

  I'm gonna go with "he's extremely critical of abuses committed by law enforcement, and rightly so".

• On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 01:20pm

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  I dunno, I think the AC's got a pretty good analogy there: most of the radio stations I listen to play two-second samples of songs and then tell me where I can go to get a full-length, fully-licensed version.

• On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 01:06pm

  Re:

  Article 15: all EU citizens granted an annual, Google-funded, two weeks paid holiday in Mountain View California.

• On the post: Ajit Pai Refuses To Brief Congress On What He Plans To Do About Wireless Location Data Scandals

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 07:46am

  Pai has made it fairly clear by now that he sees government consumer protection oversight as largely unnecessary

  I've actually gotta disagree with this, or at least how it's phrased. I would say that Pai sees government consumer protection as being very necessary: if it wasn't so important to so many people, helping to destroy it wouldn't be earning him that big payday when he returns to the private sector. In other words, I don't think Pai's some sort of free market utopia true-believer with a warped perspective; he's just a run of the mill greedy sociopath who knows exactly what he's doing.

• On the post: AT&T Execs Think It's Really Funny They Misled Consumers About 5G Availability

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2019 @ 04:16pm

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  The relevant legal term is "puffery": "[a] term frequently used to denote the exaggerations reasonably to be expected of a seller as to the degree of quality of his product, the truth or falsity of which cannot be precisely determined." Little known fact: the term originated in the Faroe Islands, where street vendors were known to rip off tourists by selling low-grade seagull meat as "roasted auk".

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Compelling People To Unlock Phones With Their Fingerprints/Faces Violates The 5th Amendment

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2019 @ 03:47pm

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  I think you may be looking at the idea of "testimony" too concretely. One's biometric markers being able to unlock a device would be considered, I believe, a "testimonial action" in the sense that it speaks to ownership/control of the item; whether you're conscious or not when (e.g.) your fingertip passes over a scanner is immaterial.

• On the post: Naperville, IL Development Project Forced To Drop Name To Avoid Public Confusing It With City 1.7K Miles Away

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2019 @ 09:32pm

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  OK, 1.7K miles must be driving distance. Still, a rhumb line between Napierville and Henderson is longer than a great circle route by... a bit. So technically, my joke is still valid because, er, common law? Something like that.

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