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• On the post: The End Of Ownership: Tesla Software Updates Giveth… And Tesla Software Updates Taketh Away…

  

  steell ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2020 @ 08:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  IC 35-43-4-3 Version a
  Conversion:
  Sec. 3. (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally exerts
  unauthorized control over property of another person commits
  criminal conversion, a Class A misdemeanor. In Indiana anyway. 2014 version so might have been changed/updated since then.

• On the post: AT&T Keeps On Firing Employees Despite Claims The Trump Tax Cut Would Boost Job Growth

  

  steell ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2020 @ 09:48am

  Re: Theoretical Job Growth

  In United States law, a state actor is a person who is acting on behalf of a governmental body, and is therefore subject to regulation under the United States Bill of Rights, including the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which prohibit the federal and state governments from violating certain rights and freedoms. https://www.google.com/search?q=State+Actor&oq=State+Actor&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

• On the post: Egyptian Government Plans To Track The Movement Of 10 Million Vehicles With Low-Cost RFID Stickers

  

  steell ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2019 @ 11:12pm

  jamming is against FCC regs

  Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi).

  https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

• On the post: Charter Spectrum Won't Get Kicked Out Of New York State After ISP Promises To Suck Less

  

  steell ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2019 @ 05:59am

  Re: Sounds like throwing good money after the bad

  I think you're a little confused as to which way the money is flowing this time. "Charter will also be required to pay $12 million to deliver broadband to additional underserved areas, a chunk of which could technically be doled out to competitors if they beat back Charter during a competitive bidding process (often difficult if not impossible)."

• On the post: US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy As Comcast's Broadband Monopoly Grows

  

  steell ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 08:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Come on Starlink!

  [quote]Mark Handley, University College London built a simulator based on public details from the FCC
  filings to understand the latency properties of the network. They evaluate how to use the laser links to provide a network and look at the problem of routing on this network. They conclude the SpaceX Starlink network can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 kilometers.[/quote]https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/11/spacex-low-latency-starlink-satellite-network-will-be-massively-profitable.html Using "latency using StarLink" as a search parameter I could find no sites supporting your claims. I did find many claiming that SpaceX system is anticipated to be faster that cable with lower latency..
  Multiple posts claiming problems with StarLink that are not supported anywhere that I could find indicates to me that you are a troll.

• On the post: EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed

  

  steell ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2019 @ 08:35am

  Re: Re: The EU is losing all legitimacy and credibility as a Dem

  Much as I dislike Trump, it would be more honest to say that Trump is following the EU example since the EU predates Trump.

• On the post: FBI Forensic Experts Claim Mass-Produced Jeans And Shirts Are As Distinct As Fingerprints And DNA

  

  steell ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2019 @ 11:41am

  Re: Re:

  Where do you purchase your blinders? I need some like yours that will create an entire new reality.
  
  [quote]A top Nixon aide, John Ehrlichman, later admitted: “You want to know what this was really all about. The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. [/quote]
  
  John Ehrlichman, the man that created the White House Plumbers that broke into the Watergate (perhaps you remember the name) hotel, and led to Nixon's resignation.
  
  [quote] disaffected former official who had had a falling-out with the administration [/quote]
  
  Really serious fact twisting going on.
  
  [quote] Following Nixon's victory, Ehrlichman became the White House Counsel. (John Dean would succeed him.) Ehrlichman was Counsel for about a year before becoming Chief Domestic Advisor for Nixon. It was then that he became a member of Nixon's inner circle. He and close friend H. R. Haldeman, whom he had met at UCLA, were referred to jointly as "The Berlin Wall" by White House staffers because of their German-sounding family names and their penchant for isolating Nixon from other advisors and anyone seeking an audience with him.[/quote].
  
  You ought to work with Trump.

• On the post: Federal Court Says Iowa's Ag Gag Law Is Unconstitutional

  

  steell ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2019 @ 02:48pm

  Re: kosher slaughterhouses

  How can you bring yourself to post such garbage? As far as I can tell, every statement in your post is a deliberate lie.
  
  For a non PETA propaganda source read https://oukosher.org/blog/news/setting-the-record-straight-on-kosher-slaughter/
  
  The real PETA, "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals"

• On the post: UK Cops Have Decided Impolite Online Speech Is Worth A Visit From An Officer

  

  steell ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2018 @ 10:20am

  Re: Re:

  You left out the fact that the law states you must show "intent". Pissing off someone without deliberate intent to annoy is still fine.

• On the post: While Everyone's Busy, Hollywood & Record Labels Suggest Congress Bring Back SOPA

  

  steell ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2018 @ 10:50am

  Four posts, all by the copyright trolls, and four posts flagged.
  
  Got to be trolls, I can't understand how any real person could be that evil.

• On the post: New York Lawmakers Want Social Media History To Be Included In Gun Background Checks

  

  steell ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2018 @ 03:31pm

  Re: Re: Only allowing governments ownership of anything is immoral t

  Already screwed? You make a nonsense statement and think you've won.
  Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and many other conflicts have illustrated the stupidity of your statement.
  
  I suppose you are unaware that the US Military has no responsibility to protect the US Government? The oath is to protect and defend the Constitution, not the government nor any members of the government.
  
  Apparently you have such an overriding hatred of inanimate objects (guns), that you are incapable of rational thought.
  
  If you would ignore the rantings of Sharon Watts and her mugs with jugs crew you would be a lot better off.

• On the post: DHS Watchdog Says CBP's Drone Program Is An Insecure, Possibly Rights-Violating Mess

  

  steell ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2018 @ 09:25am

  Re: Re: Blame

  According to wikipedia:
  
  "ci·vil·ian
  səˈvilyən/Submit
  noun
  plural noun: civilians
  a person not in the armed services or the police force.
  synonyms: noncombatant, nonmilitary person, ordinary citizen, private citizen; informalcivvy
  "family members and other civilians were quickly evacuated from the post"
  INFORMAL
  a person who is not a member of a particular profession or group, as viewed by a member of that group.
  "I talk to a lot of actresses and they say that civilians are scared of them""

• On the post: James Woods Is Correct That Twitter Shouldn't Have Blocked His Account, But Still Hypocritical On Free Speech

  

  steell ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2018 @ 10:19am

  What happened to the first part of the second paragraph?

• On the post: Louisiana Police Appear To Be Using A Hoax Antifa List Created By 8Chan To Open Criminal Investigations

  

  steell ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2018 @ 11:46am

  Re: supporting documents

  "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
  
  Ever heard or read the above? It's called the First Amendment, and you are awful quick to surrender it.

• On the post: Breaking With 30 Years Of Traditional Opacity, DOJ Releases FISA Warrant Applications For Surveillance Of Carter Page

  

  steell ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2018 @ 07:25am

  Re:

  "We don't know what's behind the blacked out text, but Schiff does, and he says it's multiple independent sources that corroborate Steele's claim that Page met with Russian officials [Sechin and Divyekin]."
  
  https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1020845111398330369
  
  I don't believe the above info will affect your opinion one whit, but maybe others will find it interesting.

• On the post: Miami Cops Forced To Give $20,000 Back To Person They Stole It From After Screwing Up Their Supposed Drug Bust

  

  steell ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2018 @ 06:53pm

  Re: Oh, TechDirt, why must you tease me so?

  "you just might find yourself sitting on the Group W bench someday, and then what will you say?"
  
  I want to kill! Kill! Kill!
  
  Alice's Restaurant Massacree reference, not an incitement to violence.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Pile Of Voter Data Left Laying Around On A Public Server

  

  steell ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2018 @ 10:57am

  Is there anyone

  in the US whose personal data has not been revealed / stolen? Maybe even multiple times?

• On the post: As NAFTA Negotiations Finish Up, Hopefully The USTR Remembers That The Internet Has Been Good For Creators Too

  

  steell ( profile ), 10 May, 2018 @ 09:35pm

  Re: Msnick doesn't "support copyright" only opportunity to publish.

  You win.if you are a idiotic, ignorant troll, or some moron paid by the site to generate posts, I am done. It seems like three fourths of the comments in any thread discussing copyright are simply replies to your trollish posts. And you know what shit for brains?Calling me "kid" makes me want to reach up your ass and yank your head out.
  
  Go fuck yourself.

• On the post: Anti-NRA Censorship Efforts Echo Earlier Pro-NRA Censorship Efforts, And Learn No Lessons From Them

  

  steell ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2018 @ 02:19pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "You can certainly round up the majority of guns an illegals" Can you cite some basis for that statement? Or is it just irrational opinion?
  
  Are you seriously comparing the US to Japan? You're right about one thing, it is a sign of ignorance.
  
  There is no way to compare American and Japanese culture, they're completely different. A shade over two million legal immigrants in Japan, vs how many millions in the US?
  
  Oh yeah, go ask Connecticut how their assault weapon ban is going, last I heard it was about 3% compliance. But you'll be eager to volunteer to go door to door confiscating guns, right?

• On the post: Anti-NRA Censorship Efforts Echo Earlier Pro-NRA Censorship Efforts, And Learn No Lessons From Them

  

  steell ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2018 @ 01:38pm

  Re:

  From open secrets 2016 NRA stats:
  
  Contributions to candidates: $834,115
  Contributions to Leadership PACs: $28,550
  Contributions to parties: $218,435
  Contributions to 527 committees: $2,500
  Contributions to outside spending groups: $500
  
  https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082

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