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• On the post: Tennessee Town Passes Policy Banning Negative Comments About The Town's Government

  

  Starke ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2014 @ 01:57pm

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  ...and arrest anyone who runs against them.

• On the post: Cleveland Police Union Rep: Citizens Think They Understand The Law? Ridiculous!

  

  Starke ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2014 @ 07:56pm

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  Based on the article here: http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
  
  I'd say excluding justified killings, Tom's estimate would be conservative to say the least.
  
  Also, with the sheer volume of shootings, and the increasing number of police killings where we're seeing police overstepping the bounds and then claiming it was justified, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of genuinely justifiable police shootings are in the single digits. With a most of them being "justified" because the person they killed was trying to defend themselves from a madman on a power trip with a badge and a trunk full of military hardware they were itching to play with.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: History Lessons

  

  Starke ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2014 @ 09:57am

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  Wait, no the F2P mechanics video was back when they were still associated with the Escapist. I remember that video.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: History Lessons

  

  Starke ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2014 @ 05:40pm

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  If it was only that, then no. At the time I had a slowly growing list of reservations with their content. And, before you ask, no, I don't remember what those were because it's been years.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: History Lessons

  

  Starke ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2014 @ 02:16pm

  If I'm honest, after the mess they made out of the Video Game Addiction video, I'm not sure I'd really consider the Extra Credits brand as a seal of anything other than embarrassment.

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Back To Threatening And Arresting Reporters: Tells Them To 'Get The Fuck Out Of Here'

  

  Starke ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2014 @ 02:44am

  Re: This is why police need to wear bodycameras

  We're talking about a department that didn't even issue the dashcams they had.

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Back To Threatening And Arresting Reporters: Tells Them To 'Get The Fuck Out Of Here'

  

  Starke ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2014 @ 02:42am

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  Because no one realizes that Battlefield: Hardline is a thing yet, outside of the gaming community?

• On the post: Turns Out When Police Act Cordial, Rather Than As An Oppressive Military Force, Things Work Out Better

  

  Starke ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 07:24am

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  There's already a bill being proposed. I'd link but it's been a long night.

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

  

  Starke ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 09:57pm

  Re: Re: Re: (Parody)

  Yeah, I just didn't remember the name.

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

  

  Starke ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 07:50pm

  Re: (Parody)

  Yeah... not really feeling it. It might just be the situation's a little too fucked up for that, at the moment, or it might be the part where, if you'd left the parody tag off of your post, there'd be no way to know you weren't serious.

• On the post: Italy's Public Prosecutor 'Seizes' Giant Webmail Provider And Cloud Storage Provider, Because Copyright

  

  Starke ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2014 @ 07:20am

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  Well, and we're already seeing this. What SOPA and the other heavy handed legislation has shown the tech sector is, they need to get serious about lobbying. Which was something they had stayed out of.
  
  The other major factor is probably going to be lobbying against patent trolls, which could easily create a tech coalition in lobbying.
  
  It's not at the personal level that Loki seemed to be talking about, but at an organizational level, where the legacy industries face a real risk of actually being destroyed, and not just in their bottom line takes an imaginary hit kind of way.

• On the post: Italy's Public Prosecutor 'Seizes' Giant Webmail Provider And Cloud Storage Provider, Because Copyright

  

  Starke ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2014 @ 05:59am

  I remember Mark Halprin, in his book Digital Barbarism, talking about how he thought that there were factions out there that wanted to see the destruction of copyright, as a whole... and of course, going on about how horrible that would be.
  
  But, it occurs to me, that if the legacy entertainment industry keeps pushing against the tech sector as hard as they are, they could very well create, and die, to the monster they've imagined.

• On the post: Manuel Noriega Sues Activision From Jail Over Call Of Duty Depiction

  

  Starke ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 02:14pm

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  In the case of sports games... they actually are. As in everything's sketched out in the contracts. The issue is just if the players are getting a cut, or if everything's going to the organization.
  
  Here... eh... he's litigious, who knew?

• On the post: Inspector General's Report Slams DOJ For Mishandling Its Investigation Of FBI Crime Lab Problems

  

  Starke ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 11:04am

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  Of course not, because we're talking about public employees, they'll hide behind sovereign immunity, or whatever, and get the cases tossed, because it was "honest mistakes."

• On the post: Inspector General's Report Slams DOJ For Mishandling Its Investigation Of FBI Crime Lab Problems

  

  Starke ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 11:01am

  Re: Re: Things will get worse.

  Sorry, that should be: "...chose to ignore the court's ruling..."

• On the post: Inspector General's Report Slams DOJ For Mishandling Its Investigation Of FBI Crime Lab Problems

  

  Starke ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 10:58am

  Re: Things will get worse.

  The Supreme Court has always been in a bit of a precarious position. Strictly speaking it has no real enforcement powers. If a lower court simply chose to the court's ruling, there isn't a mechanism the court can directly employ.
  
  Walking out on Congress is a horrible idea because if they piss them off enough, Congress can just start defunding them. But, the Supreme Court has no real recourse like that.
  
  We've even seen this with the CAFC getting cases thrown back in it's face over and over by SCOTUS. Now, CAFC hasn't simply up and decided that, "no, screw the Supreme Court." But, with the Copyright Office basically ignoring them, this can only get worse.

• On the post: Inspector General's Report Slams DOJ For Mishandling Its Investigation Of FBI Crime Lab Problems

  

  Starke ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Sorry, we're too busy...

  Or, you know, "doing counter-terrorism" in a way that would get most of us arrested for public indecency...

• On the post: Manuel Noriega Sues Activision From Jail Over Call Of Duty Depiction

  

  Starke ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 03:20pm

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  I kept wondering what I was missing, and that was it...
  
  This could still go a little sideways if we have a trade agreement with Panama that got an IP protections rider... and they manage to find a judge that would accept "publicity rights" as intellectual property.
  
  Just thinking.

• On the post: Manuel Noriega Sues Activision From Jail Over Call Of Duty Depiction

  

  Starke ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 08:51am

  Re: Profit from a Crime

  Probably not, given that most of the events surrounding his character in Black Ops 2 never actually occurred?
  
  Also, as far as I know the laws regarding profiting from a crime are all over the map on what they do and don't allow. It's not a situation where there's "a law", it's a situation where there's hundreds, if not thousands of different laws that apply in different circumstances.

• On the post: Manuel Noriega Sues Activision From Jail Over Call Of Duty Depiction

  

  Starke ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 08:49am

  Re: Lost Profits and Damages

  Court filings brought to you via madlibs.

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