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  • On the post: Musk To X Employees: Impress Me For Your Stock Options

    sumgai ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2024 @ 12:49pm

    Don't call me Shirley! ;)

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

    sumgai ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2024 @ 08:34am

    ... pass the c++ type checking rules.

    Well if that doesn't expose you for the basement dweller you are. I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but life was present long before C++ came along. And I'm pretty sure that as long as C++ type checking rules have been around, they haven't done anything so far to improve life in general for anyone, let alone a significant portion of the populace. My bet? I'd say that you're not an exception to that statement in our shared reality. How it works in your reality is quite obviously different. So, if anyone needs to step up to the task of doing a self-assessment, you should ask yourself this important question: Why Do I Keep Getting Flagged? Hint: it might be your personality... Just sayin'.

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

    sumgai ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2024 @ 08:04am

    I’m the only one that can see it simply because i have experience ...
    Ah, you've now made it blindingly obvious that also you attended The Wharton School Of Business, and mustered out in the same manner as #45. Better you should've read Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends And Influence People" than #45's "The Art Of Fucking People Over". He's getting his, so don't worry, you'll get yours too.

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

    sumgai ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2024 @ 08:03pm

    Useful Result???

    You couldn't even get to number 3 without stepping on your own dick, to wit:

    2) it gives useful result
    Explain exactly who decides what is or isn't useful. Points will be deducted if you rely on emotions instead of logic, and several points will be deducted if you include yourself as any kind of example. We'll be here when you come back with your answer.

  • On the post: AT&T Has To Settle Over Another 911 Outage, This Time For $950k

    sumgai ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2024 @ 08:57am

    That skit was from SNL, 48 years ago. In fact, it was 8 years before AT&T was forced to break up into several Baby Bells. (I had to look it up in order to get the date correct.) The names have since changed, but overall, no matter how "The Phone Company" is structured, it's still guilty of fucking over the public in general. It's enough to make a grown man cry.

  • On the post: Musk To X Employees: Impress Me For Your Stock Options

    sumgai ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2024 @ 10:05am

    no one has managed to find a single flaw with the Cybertruck.
    I can find a flaw, easily - it's so butt ugly that it makes the Panhard Dyna Z look like a Ferrari. Quite a trick, but Elmo pulled it off, in spades.

  • On the post: Musk To X Employees: Impress Me For Your Stock Options

    sumgai ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2024 @ 03:26pm

    "Why do I deserve stock options? "Because I've spent the last 18 months undermining and thwarting Elmo's attempts to sink this company. But alas, I've been unsuccessful, so in truth I don't deserve any options at all. "So I'm leaving, due to frustration at my own inability to perform my job. Besides, a billion options on a stock worth zero is... still worth zero." tl;dr: Thanks, but I'll wait until the movie comes out.

  • On the post: Snoo ‘Smart’ Baby Bassinet Sees Key Features Paywalled, Loses Functionality If Bought Used

    sumgai ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2024 @ 11:03am

    ... my ability to use their device.
    Slightly wrong - it's not their device, it's yours. Phrasing like your sentence only strengthens the corporate position that you don't own whatever 'thing' your hard-earned cash paid for, and that's just not right. Like others here, I believe the reason we've not yet seen a massive lawsuit over this subscription crap is because lawyers have priced themselves out of the market. Hmmm, just like a lot of other professions I can think of.... But the point is, someone, somewhere, at sometime, is going to have a straw-meets-camel's-back moment, and hire a big-time lawyer and make a real stink over this nonsense. I can't say when, but I'm dead sure that it will happen. It's simple contract law - neither side gets to change the terms after the signatures hit the dotted line, and the money has changed hands.

  • On the post: Lindsey Graham Promises To Try To Repeal Section 230 Every Week

    sumgai ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2024 @ 10:56am

    Not to mention, but NO, you don't need our opinions. Unless you're actually someone in the stratosphere of of the powers-that-be, then you can't possibly do anything of repute upon learning what our opinions might be. You're new here, so Lesson #1 is, don't antagonize the hoi-poi. Doing so tends to earn flags, and thence the hiding of your posts. Don't say you were never warned.

  • On the post: Court: No, You Can’t Sue Facebook Claiming It Takes Down More Pro-Palestinian Speech Than Pro-Israel Speech

    sumgai ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 06:36pm

    Upon re-reading TFS, I see that I somehow missed the "little" fact that the case was filed pro se. Even so, things like this take money - filing fees are no longer in the province of 'easy to swallow', they're now designed to dissuade people from attempting to achieve redress. This guy got nowhere fast, and is now out at least a couple grand for his efforts. But don't think that I'm feeling sorry for this dickhead. He knew, or should've known two things:

    • That court cases are nothing more than a gamble;
    and
    • Just like any game of chance in Las Vegas, the house always wins.

  • On the post: Court: No, You Can’t Sue Facebook Claiming It Takes Down More Pro-Palestinian Speech Than Pro-Israel Speech

    sumgai ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 06:13pm

    You might be a bad legislator if...

    you can bet there would be a shit ton of very, very stupid lawsuits.
    Either that, or shit ton of very, very over-expansive geo-blocking. My subject line is referring to legislators that don't think about the ramifications of having their citizenry cut off from a very sizable (and popular) chunk of the internet, should crappy laws like this be upheld by the courts. Talk about a fractured society! Wanna know my personal theory here? I believe that this isn't performative legislation, it's a case where each non-Democrat legislator (in each red state) is trying to prove who's got the biggest dick. You know, sort of like "My dick is so big, it's got its own postal zip code", that kind of thing.

  • On the post: Court: No, You Can’t Sue Facebook Claiming It Takes Down More Pro-Palestinian Speech Than Pro-Israel Speech

    sumgai ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 06:00pm

    All it would take

    All it would take for shit cases like this to disappear overnight would be for the courts to start sanctioning lawyers who are supposed to know better. When long-standing statute law and multiple case laws have been published for every lawyer to read and heed, then it does the judicial system no good to not punish attorneys for repeated abuse like this.

  • On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Content Moderation Case

    sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 06:08pm

    Already, not alreacy. Remind me to put the cat down off my lap before I start typing my reply.

  • On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Content Moderation Case

    sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 06:07pm

    Rather, Alreacy Been Copyrighted

  • On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Content Moderation Case

    sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 06:06pm

    No, it's the first one. Same brief, filed in two different courts. The sentence you quoted did not state "the only amicus brief ever to be filed that includes the line..."

  • On the post: California DA’s Office Used A Made-Up Story About A Dead Kid To Pitch Its Fentanyl Fantasies

    sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 05:41pm

    The dumb-asses painted their own targets on their head/backs/asses, and proceeded to pop up and proclaim their need to be shot down. Much fun ensued.

  • On the post: Clingy Guy Who Filed A SLAPP Suit Against Women He Dated Has Lawsuit Thrown Out… Immediately Refiles (Oh, And Also Gets Convicted For Tax Fraud)

    sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 10:00am

    Only if the case draws the same judge. If it's someone else, then there's a chance that #2 won't be cognizant of the previous case. But the filing is still so defective that the chances of it passing muster are still somewhere between a snowball's chance in hell, and #45's re-election.

  • On the post: Ben Franklin Was All About Content Moderation

    sumgai ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2024 @ 02:40pm

    A newspaper is a publication.
    True, as far as it goes.
    A platform is an arbitrary word with no relevance at all.
    Absolutely incorrect. The word 'platform' is a reference to "where one stands on a given topic". In the days of old (when I was first brought to life), people of like mindedness composed platforms that contained planks. These planks were statements of belief in how the platform should be assembled and then used. The real-world analogy really should not escape you, and I don't wish to elucidate any further, thank you. And here we actually do have a dichotomy, wherein the newspaper is a method for the dissemination of information, i.e. a publication, but as it is controlled (or moderated, if one prefers), by at least one human being, it becomes also a platform in that the controller is permitting, even encouraging, some content, and actively discouraging other content. That's the controller's statement of beliefs, and the publication of those beliefs is the controller's platform. Since this all seems to be overly complicated for even some TD contributors that I respect, I'm gonna simplify it for everyone: Franklin said he'd consider taking money for printing things he might dislike, but he didn't flatly state that he'd print anything and everything that came his way. He went on to state further that he would not besmirch his personal reputation, nor that of the newspaper, by inserting into it material he considered to be antithetical to the public' best interests. Argue away with that, be my guest. But since push will soon come to shove, I suggest that you wait and see what the court's opinion has to say. Might be enlightening, who knows.

  • On the post: Robocallers Used Sloppy Biden Deepfake To Try And Keep Voters From The Polls On Presidential Primary Day

    sumgai ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2024 @ 11:20am

    The period goes outside. Fuck all the people who ignore the Chicago Manual Of Style, and the horses they rode in on.

  • On the post: Investigative Report Proves What Most People Already Suspected: The ‘War On Woke & DEI’ Mostly Pushed By A Bunch Of Censorial, Racist Shitheads

    sumgai ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2024 @ 10:55am

    No, rich suckers are giving money to even richer assholes. That's how money works, it flows from the bottom upwards, leaving room at the bottom for poor people.

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