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  • On the post: Baldaur Regis' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Talmyr ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 02:30am

    Re: nitpick

    Ok, I thought I was totally up on little grammatical nitpicks of that nature, but that one had eluded me. Thanks!

    Of course, I'm having to keep track of not only British English, but American English and the internet brand: Stupid English. So my grammar is a bit polluted...

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

    Talmyr ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 02:28am

    Re: An Older Lesson In Copyright Maximalism

    I thought languages were immune to copyright, being 'factual'?

    And how can you 'copyright' a simplified subset of an existing language?

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

    Talmyr ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 02:26am

    Re: Re: Re:

    I'm happy not knowing if it happened or not :)

  • On the post: Traditional Publisher Ebook Pricing Harming Authors' Careers

    Talmyr ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 07:49am

    Re: Space invaders

    ^^^^ A thousand times this!

  • On the post: Traditional Publisher Ebook Pricing Harming Authors' Careers

    Talmyr ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 07:47am

    Re: overhead

    I'm sure there was a point somewhere in that word salad. What does PC devaluation have to do with e-book valuations?

  • On the post: Traditional Publisher Ebook Pricing Harming Authors' Careers

    Talmyr ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 06:19am

    Re:

    The exception to this was London Underground. Many years ago, faced with an inevitable massive rise in passenger travel over their network that was way more than they could cope with, they openly declared that they were deliberately raising prices a lot to force people to use other public transport options, despite the fact that in a lot of cases they were the only practical (or possible) one.

  • On the post: Honest Mistake: Order A TV From Amazon, Receive An Illegal Assault Rifle

    Talmyr ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 06:14am

    Well, it's really instructive seeing how a relatively gun-neutral article in a primarily American media environment manages to bring out the pro-gun nuts (as opposed to regular gun-owners), the labelling nazis (becaue whether or not this thing fires spuds, bullets or nukes automatically, semi-automatically or singly is irrelevant to the story) and manages to generate a whole load more unnecessary comments than most articles of general import. Most of which are really off-topic, which is that just after a big gun-related 'disaster' someone gets a gun through the post instead of some totally unrelated product, and with zero checks on himself.

    Sheesh, talk about compensating!

  • On the post: Honest Mistake: Order A TV From Amazon, Receive An Illegal Assault Rifle

    Talmyr ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 06:07am

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

    FIFY:

    State Department: Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes. "Fisson bomb" has a very specific definition, one quality of which is that the weapon uses nuclear fission. "Atomic bomb" is a bullshit made-up term, that anti-nukers and commie librul atheist OWS hipsters created in order to confuse the public and conflate regular, fission bombs with true, military-grade fusion bombs. And it worked. The analogy to "IP theft" and "copyright infringement" is 100% on the mark.

    Also, to the author: this is not a "military grade" weapon because it is not fusionable. It is functionally equivalent to your historical government's Hiroshima-grade bomb.

  • On the post: Wide Disparity In Which ISPs (In Which Countries) Throttle BitTorrent

    Talmyr ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 05:59am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    And UPS are 'leeching' from the public/government by using the road network to 'illegally' bolster their business method? Is it suddenly worse if they decide to use local delivery services for the last mile than their own? If they decide to use rail for longer-distance deliveries?

  • On the post: How Google's ContentID System Fails At Fair Use & The Public Domain

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 05:45am

    Re:

    This post makes me want to log into multiple computers so I can report it more, it is so unnecessarily vicious and stupid.

  • On the post: How Google's ContentID System Fails At Fair Use & The Public Domain

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 05:41am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Fantastic, so that means we can get rid of all those pesky "Stand Your Ground" laws now, because murder is murder? I'm sure Trayvon's family will be ecstatic.

    Stop conflating idiot civil and criminal laws with actually good criminal laws.

  • On the post: Internet Archive Enables Over 1,000,000 Torrents Of Books, Music And Movies

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 05:17am

    Re:

    The same could be said of the paid-for, over-reaching laws the MAFIAA so rely on. "It's the laws, not our own stupidity and viciousness!"

  • On the post: Internet Archive Enables Over 1,000,000 Torrents Of Books, Music And Movies

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 05:16am

    Re: Re:

    I think he meant his brain cells were depleting due to emulating the wrong-headedness of the MAFIAA, as opposed to saying that the MAFIAA have any brain cells to start with. Better get your irony meter and parsing machine checked out :)

  • On the post: Australian Advertising Watch Group Says Companies Are Responsible For Comments On Their Facebook Pages

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:56am

    Re: Re: Re:

    I thought it was Australian for "foetid dingo's kidney" :)

  • On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:53am

    Re:

    Tania Hershman helped try to put the flames out - she should be one of the better ones in this.

  • On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:42am

    Re: Two additions to the list of misconceptions

    4. That is so not true. You can restrict certain activities legally, but not others. You cannot stop someone lending out a copy of a book that they have bought. You cannot stop them making fair use of it. You cannot stop them throwing it on the compost heap or using it as toilet paper and posting the pictures to the internet.

    You don't own their property. You only 'own' your own 'imaginary property'. How well you can control it, since it's imaginary, is a whole different matter.

    So please, have you written anything that can be used for compost? Worst case, I can just use this (copyright) posting of yours... :)

  • On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:38am

    Re: Re: Two additions to the list of misconceptions

    That is twaddle. If someone gets made redundant from a job, can they sue their ex-employer for their wages for the rest of their employable years? If a Costa opens near a Starbucks, can Starbuck sue Costa for 'lost' profit? Don't be daft!

    Next you'll be arguing that when you're made redundant, the government has the moral right to all the taxes it would have gained if you'd kept earning.

    Potential profits are just that: Potential. It's not up to the universe (or anyone else) to make them up to you.

  • On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:26am

    Re: Re:

    Naaah, just more tarted up ;)

  • On the post: Another Music Service Shuts Down, Blames Ridiculous Licensing Fees

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:12am

    Re:

    Right, so let's drop the (criminal) laws that actually stop people getting hurt because they (very) occasionally don't work. But let's fight to keep the (civil) laws where breaking them doesn't do any person any actual harm (just very possibly financial) and which are pretty much broken by everyone, even by accident. Aye, great argument. Especially the bit where you cry "Wolf!", sorry, "Waaaaa!" about people pirating as you rant against services where people actually choose to pay for music.

    I have a very big billy goat I'd like you to meet...

  • On the post: Another Music Service Shuts Down, Blames Ridiculous Licensing Fees

    Talmyr ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:07am

    Re: Re: AC troll nailed it!

    TL;DR

    [citation needed]

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