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• On the post: Phone Metadata Suddenly Not So ‘Harmless’ When It’s The FBI’s Data Being Harvested

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2025 @ 10:44am

  Oh come on now. We all know they will keep their jobs, that cosy pension, and possibly run for an elected office like POTUS. I won't mention her name though.

• On the post: FTC Bans GM From Selling Driver Location Data For 5 Years

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2025 @ 09:27am

  Wouldn't it be something if the punishment stops at the same desks the dollars do? Maybe a specialty resort in Alaska for a decade or three. Create local jobs. Keep the bears fed.

• On the post: Appeals Court: Yes, Suing The Family Of People You Killed In A Car Crash For Defamation Is A SLAPP Suit

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2025 @ 05:20am

  ...

  As a side question, what is the responsibility and ethics of the lawyers who proceeded with sueing the family of the victims? This is based on knowing full well that their actions fall into - only following orders - level of culpability?

• On the post: Always-On School Surveillance Tech Is Sending Cops To Deal With At-Risk Students

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2025 @ 05:48am

  I was expecting more lines like... Welcome to Paranoia, where knowledge of the rules is not allowed. Do you wish to know the rules citizen? attemps to learn the rules will result in summary execution, HAVE A NICE DAY! Always remember that the computer is your friend. Do you doubt the computer, citizen? ...That's what I thought. Of course you cannot play unless you know SOME of the rules, but if you tell anyone, You will be summarily executed!

• On the post: Always-On School Surveillance Tech Is Sending Cops To Deal With At-Risk Students

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2025 @ 05:42am

  Harass, as in dispensing hot metal injections?

• On the post: DOJ Secures Agreement With Antioch, CA PD That’s Supposed To Make Its Racist Cops Less Racist

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2025 @ 04:32am

  Criminals do what Criminals do

  It still all boils down to basic intelligence and training. Two to three years training where they start with the absolute basics while being thoroughly assessed as to background and personality. Sort of what most first world countries do.

• On the post: The Jawboning Double Standard: Brendan Carr’s Threats Are Way Worse Than What Biden Was Accused Of

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2025 @ 12:18pm

  Toast?

  It's burnt. Also, the house hippo needs fresh water.

• On the post: On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2025 @ 12:13pm

  Agreements deals whatever

  "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further". "We have treaties." "Ink on a page."

• On the post: Federal Judge Strikes Down Unconstitutional Arkansas Book Ban Law

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2025 @ 12:32pm

  Raisins

  Now if only there was some form of disincentive or outright punishment for attempting to enact such laws in the first place.

• On the post: AZ Cops Walk Away Without Criminal Charges After Colluding With Prosecutors To Treat Protesters As ‘Gang Members’

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2025 @ 12:23pm

  Criminals do what Criminals do

  That riot thing. Did nobody notice the complete lack of shoulder to shoulder, two lines deep of heavily armed enforcers along the route in comparison to those blessed with nellanin when they did their marches? I also noted uniforms in the crowd at the time (live stream) and not to be seen afterwards (news services).

• On the post: Deputy Pleads Guilty To Charges Stemming From Beating Of Transgender Person Who Flipped Him Off

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2025 @ 11:59am

  That sounds familiar

  An yet some are surprised that travel to the states is listed as "under advisory" or "at own risk" by most nations that allow travel outside their borders.

• On the post: Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection)

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2025 @ 11:50am

  Intelligence?

  Why not both? They have already achieved the near impossible by combining Arrogance Stupidity Greed, all into neat delusional little packages and stuffed them all into board rooms.

• On the post: Donald Trump And Joe Rogan Think Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Akin To Magic Pixie Dust

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2024 @ 08:01am

  Shhhh. Don't confuse them with logic or verifiable facts.

• On the post: Dear Jeff Bezos: The ‘Hard Truth’ Is That Cowardice Like Yours Is Why People Don’t Trust The Media

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2024 @ 09:45am

  Whut?

  I heard a very different version on the local radio news stations commentary this morning. Note that the talking head on that segment is very pro us free enterprise and such yet it was a very different story. The WP officially hasn't endorsed any candidates as the WP. Their various commentary writers are free to support or lambast any and all as long as libel isn't involved. There is a difference and most reasonably intelligent readers can tell the difference. Sadly reasonably intelligent is a diminishing quality of the politicized. Now as for Beelzebub blocking individual articles supporting one or the other, that's up to him and his companies policies. His is not a news organization,just a fancied up chatboard.

• On the post: Cop/Substitute Teacher Reenacts George Floyd Murder With Black Student, Says ‘Police Brutality Isn’t Real’

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 07:51am

  Criminals do what Criminals do

  My disgust is reserved for the system that allows such misanthropes in positions of power over others. That would be the judiciary, school boards and especially the criminal organizations known as brotherhoods.

• On the post: German Court: LAION’s Generative AI Training Dataset Is Legal Thanks To EU Copyright Exceptions

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 07:40am

  Logic?

  The second sentence accepts the existence of the million monkey premise. This is where through just randomization and enough time you could get an exact copy of something like Shakespeare. As for a copyrighted image, copyright comes into play if there is even less than 90% correlation between images. My guess is that European judges are far more math literate than domestic.

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

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 07:18am

  Raisins

  I find the whole voter registration thing asinine. They already know who you are. As for a right instead of a responsibility, that just plays into the hands of those who are futzing with things to stay in power. Low voter turnout plays into their hands since they only have to convince enough of those willing to go through the registration circus instead of an actual majority. Makes you wonder how different things would turn out if voting was a responsibility 🤔 and first past the post was replaced with 50%+1 where people had to put in a second and third choice? Of course you would need a nobody option for a first choice just to keep all the candidates nervous.

• On the post: Your ISP Now Requires A Broadband ‘Nutrition Label’ To Clearly Show You You’re Being Ripped Off

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 06:57am

  That sounds familiar

  America has never been a country for free markets except as a smoke screen to shut down any competition. America loves monopolists. That whole tea thing? Very effective marketing. Complete bollox.

• On the post: Federal Monitor Expands Consent Decree To Cover PD’s Stop-And-Frisk Shift To Traffic Stops

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2024 @ 06:59am

  A little update to the training won't fix anything. Add sugar to a manure sandwich. You still have a manure sandwich. What needs to happen in to rip that festering scab off, disinfect everything, and apply a propper remedy. This means a couple years of pain depending on how the changeover is handled. The new Police peace officers would require a two year college level program where background and psych checks are done during the first semester of enrollment. Each then would be self insured like any professional. Funding and salaries would be at the federal level so everyone is on the same pay scale. Local jurisdictions would contribute to the federal agency instead of some local agency. Once the first class graduated, remove each force in one go, removing all immunities and ship one and all to a dedicated internment facility in Alaska. Grizzlies and mountain lions make excellent outside security patrols. One can dream.

• On the post: Federal Monitor Expands Consent Decree To Cover PD’s Stop-And-Frisk Shift To Traffic Stops

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2024 @ 06:39am

  You forgot to mention the entitled motorcycle riders and cyclists being at fault.😉

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