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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2017 @ 11:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Re. Chiraq debunking...

  Why? I don't read ABC7's I-Team.
  
  Do you have anything to say about my points? Or do you just expect me to provide free correction services throughout the internet?

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2017 @ 05:29am

  Re: Thanks and bye-bye

  You've inspired me to donate $25 bucks.

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2017 @ 05:17am

  Re: Re. Chiraq debunking...

  Par for the course at Techdirt recently that a post need not be at all insightful to win an insightful call-out.
  
  First, worth noting that "Chiraq" was not coined by Trump, it was coined by the people of Chicago and was used as the title of a Spike Lee film about that dilapidated city.
  
  Second, Chicago has cut it's murder rate in half since 1991? Not so very long ago, you didn't have to reach all the way back to the height of the crack epidemic to make that claim. But this is a political post on Techdirt, so let's not let inconvenient facts get in the way of a nifty sound bite.

• On the post: Chinese Trademarks And The Emoluments Clause: Do They Intersect In The Trump Presidency?

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2017 @ 06:19am

  The argument that the emoluments clause doesn't apply to the president is quite a bit stronger and quite a bit older than Techdirt's analysis admits to. But it is true that the Supreme Court has never weighed in on the question.
  
  Meanwhile, people who have no problem with a Clinton or a Biden or a Reid going into government "service" in poverty and coming out a few years later fabulously rich are suddenly scandalized that a Republican with a successful private life could go in to politics.
  
  No sane person could think it's an impeachable offense if Trump is part owner of a hotel and someone who is a citizen of a foreign country stays there and pays their bill when they leave, which is what the arguments so far put forth amount to. The dishonesty of the new emoluments fans is laughable.

• On the post: Upset About Border Patrol Cruelty? It Didn't Start Under Trump

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2017 @ 10:57am

  Some of these are outrageous (the 2nd bullet point for instance), others are just the CBP doing their job (1st and 3rd, for instance). They do still have a job to do, you know. And the judge only ordered that people not be deported based on Trump's EO, he did not order that people not be deported. Only a fool would think that.

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2017 @ 09:08am

  Re: You know what?

  The real problem is, "insightful" no longer means "containing insight," instead it means "I agree with that" or "it makes me feel smart."

• On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2017 @ 08:34am

  Re: Re:

  People know how their towns are run and they know when the budget is funded through speed traps. Of course there was a referendum. It might have been called an election, but it amounts to the same thing.

• On the post: With So Much Public Interest In Our Judicial System, It's Time To Free Up Access To Court Documents

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2017 @ 02:49pm

  The news media has done far more than the Trump administration to call into question the legitimacy of factual news reporting, but otherwise, I agree. Pacer should be free. In fact, all public documents should be free. It would be a relatively trivial matter, cost-wise, to make all public documents free and freely accessible to the public that has already paid for them.

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2017 @ 08:54am

  "And thus turtle faced KY Senator Mitch McConnell did hand Elizabeth Warren the greatest campaign slogan for her 2020 run for President."
  
  If you had an ounce of sense, you'd know Republicans can barely contain their glee at the thought of Elizabeth Warren winning the Democratic primary. (She won't run, so you're wrong on both counts, but it would be a boon for conservatives if she did.)

• On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2017 @ 07:09am

  The practice of using a still photo to prove a moving violation has always been a dubious undertaking, abetted by judges too willing to play their part in a money making machine.
  
  I have no sympathy for the poor citizens who will have to cough up the money to pay the town's victims back. Screw them, they were happy to share the profits from this scam, now they will share the pain.

• On the post: New FCC Boss Decides It's Cool If Phone Monopolies Want To Rip Off Inmate Families

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2017 @ 08:52am

  "as we all know everybody in prison is always guilty"
  
  So it's ok to do this to the guilty?
  
  But it's so important to not do it to the innocent yet wrongly convicted (whatever that number is, you obviously don't know), that we should not do it to anybody for the sake of those unknown few?
  
  For the love of god, get away from politics! You haven't got what it takes and you're bringing down a once great site.

• On the post: Court Tells Melania Trump She Can't Sue The Daily Mail In Maryland, So She Refiles In New York

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2017 @ 05:25am

  Most people who forum shop a defamation suit try to get into England. Why in the world are the Trumps mucking about in Maryland and New York?
  
  SLAPP is largely irrelevant against a deep-pocketed media entity used to getting sued. But access to a forum where truth is no defense? You won't find that anywhere in the U.S.

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 08:43am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obama, the racist

  It didn't get debunked, it was disagreed with.
  
  I see the "insightful" light is on this one, perfectly illustrating my argument above that on Techdirt, "insightful" means "doesn't challenge the opinion I already have."

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 08:38am

  Re:

  The Benn quote reminds me of a Voltaire quote--A witty saying proves nothing.
  
  I often skip the "Voted Most" wrap up as the most insightful comments are usually not insightful at all, they just make the voter feel smart--with the most votes going to the commenter who throws the most fish to the barking seals.
  
  As Techdirt gets more political, even the funny is getting less funny.

• On the post: Basically The Entire Tech Industry Signs Onto A Legal Brief Opposing Trump's Exec Order

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 06:05am

  Re: Trump Won't Care

  Subtle, but well done tin-foil-hat wearer!

• On the post: Basically The Entire Tech Industry Signs Onto A Legal Brief Opposing Trump's Exec Order

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 06:04am

  Let's see, companies with a history of abusing the visa process to increase profits by underpaying their workers have banded together to protect their business model of abusing the visa process to increase their profits by underpaying their workers.
  
  Which part of this is supposed to make me do a fist pump and shout, "yeah! Right on!"?
  
  Seriously, which part?
  
  Mike? Which part?

• On the post: Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate 'Fake News'

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2017 @ 11:10am

  Fake news is like occupational licensing or any other monoploy behavior--it's the estabished media's way of eliminating competition without improving the product.
  
  It sounds nice, who could be FOR "fake news." But it's all about who gets to define it and who gets to enforce it. The recent incidents of blatant manipulation and sloppiness at the New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc. are never going to be called fake news. But they all are.

• On the post: Denmark Says Tech Giants Affect It More Than Entire Countries, Decides To Appoint Official 'Digital Ambassador' To Them

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2017 @ 07:15am

  And how many divisions does Google have?

  Denmark proposes changing the meaning of ambassador in ways they may come to regret. The typical ambassador manages relationships between countries within a framework of relative power that includes, somewhere at its base, the raw power of military muscle. Companies have very different resources and responsibilities.
  
  Google especially has vast economic might, but no military might. Or does it? It has access to the most advanced military machine in the world but none of the responsibilities that normally come with that kind of power. It's not a country and it won't behave like one.

• On the post: Congress Prepares To Gut Net Neutrality With Bills Pretending To Save It

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 09:45am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  And we felt lucky!

• On the post: Congress Prepares To Gut Net Neutrality With Bills Pretending To Save It

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 09:45am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Both licks.

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