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• On the post: Disappointing: The Onion Tests A Paywall

  

  Michael ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2011 @ 08:34am

  Re: Onion - carrot

  Green onion stalk

• On the post: Disappointing: The Onion Tests A Paywall

  

  Michael ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2011 @ 08:30am

  Re:

  I usually just check their headlines, but they have stories this week that were my favorites so far. I actually read an entire fake article yesterday.

• On the post: Google, Microsoft, Patents… And How To Dupe The Press With Out Of Context Statements

  

  Michael ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2011 @ 10:15pm

  Re: Re: Novell != Nortel

  throw HipsterCatRage

• On the post: Google, Microsoft, Patents… And How To Dupe The Press With Out Of Context Statements

  

  Michael ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2011 @ 09:22pm

  Is there any standard or convention for comments criticizing what you see as a badly written blog post?
  
  From what I've read on Techcrunch, MG Siegler has a hard-on for anything related to Apple, and doesn't think twice about hating everything else.
  
  He's like the Ahab of buyer's remorse.

• On the post: Google, Microsoft, Patents… And How To Dupe The Press With Out Of Context Statements

  

  Michael ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2011 @ 08:47pm

  Afterdawn's title is "Microsoft fires back at Google over patent dispute."
  
  What is worse: they're just using phrases from a press release, or the writers of these articles are just that unimaginative that they use the same hyperbolic cliche?

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Genes Are Patentable, Because They're 'Separate' From Your DNA

  

  Michael ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 08:03pm

  It sounds like a joke disprove by contradiction.
  Genes are patentable -> Genes are separate from DNA
  
  therefore,
  Genes are NOT separate from DNA -> Genes are NOT patentable.

• On the post: Would Fashion Copyright Have Made Kate Middleton's Knockoff Wedding Dress Illegal?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 09:45am

  Re: Re: AnonFail

  That's a sweet idea. You might be able to fun part of your wedding through adverts on the dress. That's prime real estate!

• On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce: Communicating With Woman Whose Sad Story We Manipulated Is Harassment

  

  Michael ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 09:27am

  Get the stamp out!

• On the post: Would Fashion Copyright Have Made Kate Middleton's Knockoff Wedding Dress Illegal?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 01:31pm

  AnonFail

  No, you fail. All wedding dresses look the same.

• On the post: One More Time, With Feeling: Winklevii Lose Yet Again

  

  Michael ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 11:22pm

  What harm do their failing lawsuits do to us? It seems more like a boon, in that they're spending so much of their own time and (their?) money cementing good actions in court. Isn't it all at their expense now?

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Michael ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 09:17am

  Could she just put some concrete down under all the garden boxes? I know it would be a waste of time and money to do so, but would that count as "paved?"

• On the post: Photographer David Slater Claims That Because He Thought Monkeys Might Take Pictures, Copyright Is His

  

  Michael ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2011 @ 06:29pm

  STOP IT RIGHT NOW

  The copyright is actually mine. Let's just settle this before we waste any more of our time.
  
  I let David Slater bring his camera there. I also knew that monkeys are capable of taking pictures. As you can clearly see, I set up the framing and circumstances for each one of the portraits. The copyright is mine and I'd appreciate it if you would all stop lying and saying otherwise.

• On the post: Making Sure Your Ass Is Covered

  

  Michael ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 04:09pm

  I feel a new crunk song coming on...

• On the post: TSA Planning New, Even More Invasive Security Measures In Response To 'Threat' Of Implanted Bombs

  

  Michael ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 02:26pm

  The Last Threat

  No kidding about them only stopping the last threat.
  Did they just now watch The Dark Knight? Will they try to protect us from exploding river ferrys next?

• On the post: First Totally Bogus Privacy Issue Over Google+ Raised

  

  Michael ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2011 @ 01:00am

  Re: Re: Re: My concern is

  You usually own the letter, unless there is some strange existing contract on the ownership of the paper. You can own a medium of expression without owning the copyright of that expression. The copyright and the expression are different entities in this sense.

• On the post: NASA Sues Astronaut, Claiming He Stole Space Camera… 40 Years Ago

  

  Michael ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2011 @ 12:43am

  With the end of the Shuttle program, people are leaving. Many of those leaving are going to be stealing and looting the program for all it's worth. Someone decided to try to go after this old astronaut for that same reason. They just want the trophy camera for themselves.
  
  I worked at Circuit City when it went out of business, and I remember the new guy who started two weeks earlier stealing my work uniform - literally my shirt - probably so he could sell it on Ebay or tack it to his wall for some imaginary geek cred.

• On the post: Supreme Court Says Pharma Companies Can Have Access To Drug Prescription Info To Pressure Doctors Into Prescribing More Expensive Drugs

  

  Michael ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2011 @ 10:03pm

  "Pro-corporate speech" is NOT pro-free speech. Corporations are not people.

• On the post: MPAA Directly Lobbies Law Enforcement To Be Its Own Private Police Force

  

  Michael ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 07:00pm

  Re: Graduated response a done deal

  Bad news for anonymous idiots who don't understand electronics. "Freeloaders" like you taking advantage of these messages are wasting your time.

• On the post: MPAA Directly Lobbies Law Enforcement To Be Its Own Private Police Force

  

  Michael ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 06:58pm

  You don't think of lobbying law enforcement because there is no such thing. It's bribery, plain and simple.

• On the post: 'Geek Power': Best Buy Sends C&D To Newegg Over Marketing Campaign

  

  Michael ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 04:11pm

  Newegg has been the better business disrupting Best Buy for years now. Best Buy is getting more desperate. Now begins some of the final maneuvers of a dying company, like the Lakers fowling everyone in the last 2 minutes of a basketball game.

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