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• On the post: Is It 'Fair' That Baauer Gets The Proceeds From Harlem Shake Videos, Despite Having Little To Do With Meme Popularity?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 10:36am

  "the role of the community in making that work a hit"
  
  Preposterous: If someone is a content creator, the marketing costs in forcing the public to consume it are a creative expense of that creator or their distributor! These crowd-sourced marketers must have been well-compensated in order to perform their services, or they wouldn't have done it!
  
  Or:
  How could anything not be driven by money? Therefore, let money control everything.

• On the post: Bizarre 'Attribution' Troll Bullies Twitter Users Into Compliance With Baseless Legal Threats

  

  Michael ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2013 @ 11:43pm

  If only our thumbs were made of glass, how much more careful would we be when we tweat.

• On the post: Screwing Students Through Pointless Textbook Bundles

  

  Michael ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 02:03am

  Wiki Books

  Don't forget wiki books! My favorite class used this one last quarter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Graph_Algorithms

• On the post: Disappointing: Teller Sues Other Magician For Doing The Same Trick

  

  Michael ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2012 @ 10:43pm

  Re: Re: Weren't These The Guys...

  Bullshit! was a great show, and Penn & Teller Tell a Lie is pretty good, too.

• On the post: Disappointing: Teller Sues Other Magician For Doing The Same Trick

  

  Michael ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2012 @ 10:42pm

  Re: Re: Revealing secrets

  Straight from the mouth itself.
  "You might be wondering if we had to break some magician's code of secrecy to show you that hanky thing. Yeah, we did. And there are probably some magicians, some tuxedo-clad lowlifes, that actually put their cheesy little secrets above patriotism..."
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEB50IfgkA4
  
  On the other hand, I remember the flower-shadow trick as Teller's masterpiece.

• On the post: Is There Any Merit To Neil Young's Plan To Improve The Quality Of Digital Music?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2012 @ 03:25pm

  Re: Is There Any Merit To Neil Young's Plan To Improve The Quality Of Digital Music?

  And Monty has a good answer to the post title:"Misinformation and superstition only serve charlatans".
  
  Not feeling enough like a unique butterfly in a global information culture? There's a charlatan for that.

• On the post: Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones

  

  Michael ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2012 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Inconcistency in TSA Handling

  You've given up your right to air travel.

• On the post: Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones

  

  Michael ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2012 @ 12:07pm

  Re: Ya,, I carry a scarry bag.

  Artists are the greatest threat to national security, after all.

• On the post: Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones

  

  Michael ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2012 @ 12:06pm

  Re: I've been carrying "Subnotebooks" all along.

  What did you have to explain to them about your notebooks?

• On the post: Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'

  

  Michael ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 05:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Do you have to friend an underage person to act like a predator on Facebook?

• On the post: NYTimes Columnist Stirs Up A Controversy That Will Only Drive Human Trafficking Further Underground

  

  Michael ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 04:58pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Jay isn't paraphrasing Mike's stance on the issue. He is paraphrasing the grandstanders.

• On the post: New York Times Adapts Open Source Mini-Game For Some Meta-Journalism

  

  Michael ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 12:17am

  This Just In!

  Lazy Luddite uses new technology to make a point.

• On the post: AMC Defies MPAA Bullies: Will Show Unrated Documentary To Kids With Permission Slips

  

  Michael ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 04:43pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Content creators are more important than content owners.
  
  Your desperation is palpable. It is delicious.

• On the post: AMC Defies MPAA Bullies: Will Show Unrated Documentary To Kids With Permission Slips

  

  Michael ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 04:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Isn't the MPAA dead yet?

  Yeah, MPAA is so left wing that they discriminate against GLBT and femenist indie films. See "This Film Is Not Yet Rated".

• On the post: In The UK They Jail People For Being Obnoxious Jerks On Twitter?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 02:26pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Erm,

  There you go. Bible-god tells you who to hate with him.

• On the post: Parent Claims 'Ender's Game' Is Pornographic; Teacher Who Read It To Students Put On Temporary Leave

  

  Michael ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 11:50am

  Re: Re: Re: My guess

  The parent definitely overreacted, but I don't know why the school in question went along with it.

• On the post: Procedural Error By Law Enforcement Means Restraining Order On Kim Dotcom 'Null And Void'

  

  Michael ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 08:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Double Standard

  I think you can fire and replace bankers without destroying the bank.

• On the post: Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'

  

  Michael ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 12:44pm

  Want me to buy your DVD or bluray? Bundle it with a free IMAX ticket.
  
  Sound like an "entitled" perspective? From here, the idea that DVDs and blurays are valuable items to own is the delusion.

• On the post: Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'

  

  Michael ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 12:40pm

  Re: another rhetorical question

  Better clothes at Target anyway.

• On the post: Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'

  

  Michael ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 12:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: by their works ye shall know them

  I detect a hint of "Netflix is the new big thing! We have to send movies through the mail, too!" in this one. That puts them only 2 or 3 years out of date.

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