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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 09:44am

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  In 10 feet of snow.

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

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2017 @ 09:50am

  A few years ago when net neutrality first started getting talked about, Mike penned a solid argument (this was before techdirt became a political rant site) that charging service providers for faster service constituted double dipping and was in violation of high speed contracts customers were signing and paying for.
  
  That strikes me as the best avenue to go down--the legislature is fine, but that sounds like a long-term solution. Instead have the courts decide the issue under contract law.

• On the post: The Massive Overreaction To Uber's Response To JFK Protests

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 05:36pm

  Re: Couldn't Disagree More

  Trump protesters breed more than their fair share of discord and confusion. When Trump won, I consoled myself with the expectation that he would be a one-term president. But with the jackasses on the left trying so hard to get him reelected, I'm not so sure.

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:45am

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  Oh my, where to begin. Trump has never been accused of being a lefty? Trump is more Democrat than Republican. He became a Republican because he saw an easier path to the nomination there. Much like Michael Bloomberg in New York.
  
  Trump is trying to scale back government regulation over the police? You are aware, are you not, that the police are a government agency. Talk about nonsensical!

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:42am

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  Well...when your only alternative is Hillary Clinton...it doesn't pay to act like there were choices on the ballot that weren't.
  
  That's where folks like you keep falling down--it wasn't Trump or the guy you really want, it was Trump or Clinton.

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:40am

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  We already get that. The best we could do this time around was reject Hillary Goldman-Sachs. It's not much, but it keeps them on their toes.

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:38am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Unions

  Public sector unions are doing something fundamentally different from what private sector unions are doing. I am not per se against public sector unions; I am, however, against calling them unions and allowing them to co-opt the rich history of unionization in America.

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:35am

  Re: Re: Fake Rights

  I disagree. Fake rights achieve numerous goals, one of which is curtailing real rights. To your main point, it is not an equal opportunity abuse, it is tailor made for the goals of the left.

• On the post: The Massive Overreaction To Uber's Response To JFK Protests

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 05:34pm

  How could uber break the strike when there was no strike?
  
  Strikes are work stoppages orchestrated to give workers bargaining power in contract talks. This was a protest and Uber has every right to protest (or not) in the manner it sees fit without clearing it with the taxi drivers.

• On the post: Trump Orders The Cyber To Be Fixed In The Next Sixty Days

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 11:26am

  I believe Neil DeGrasse Tyson already solved this problem--create an unbreakable code. The rest is just implementation.
  
  2 days tops. And 58 days lolling in the sun with a margarita.

• On the post: Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2017 @ 06:49am

  "One of the fundamental rights of every American is to live in a safe community."
  
  Wrong right out of the gate. I agree that Black Lives Matter is a destructive, dangerous, hypocritical organization and that the reflexive protest to every "outrage" is dishonest and counterproductive, but part of the whole point of electing Trump was to remind the government of who works for whom.
  
  Fake rights are the language of the left looking to expand the government at the expense of the citizen.

• On the post: NSA Cites New 'Security Concerns' In Preemptive Refusal To Even Search For Contractor Documents

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 10:28am

  Personally, I'd like to do away with the entire FOIA structure. Instead, all public documents should as a matter of standard procedure be loaded into a searchable public database. Then, instead of making a request, waiting a bunch of months, and then being presented with a bill for the search regardless of whether any documents turn up, you could just go to the database and search and print to your heart's content. After all, you've already paid for it through your taxes. And if we're a government of the people, by the people, for the people, then conceptually, we're entitled to ti at any time for any reason.
  
  The bar for secrecy should be much higher as well.

• On the post: Our Humanity

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 10:02am

  It's good that this is not a political blog because the politics are too often childish.
  
  One immigrant is the same as another?
  
  1817 = 1917 = 2017?
  
  You see that as nonsense? Then you think like a child.
  
  No non citizen has a right to enter a country and every government has a duty to control its own borders. And every country (not just Trump's America) does just that.
  
  I don't support this order either, but don't be absurd. It's not a radical departure from past behavior. It is a temporary halt to some immigration while processes are revamped.

• On the post: New Trump Executive Order Says Federal Agencies Should Exclude Foreigners From Privacy Protections

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2017 @ 11:31am

  "Presented without comparison, it will skew public perception, making it appear as though the main criminal force in the US is people who aren't here legally."
  
  Yes, 49 pointy heads CAN dance on the head of a pin. It may not matter much to the apparatchiks referenced in the "banality of evil" quote, but it will matter a great deal to the specific victims of the specific crimes.

• On the post: New Attorney General Loves Him Some Encryption Backdoors, Which Should Pair Up Nicely With FBI Director's Plans For The Future

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2017 @ 06:57am

  The problematic legal aspect of asset forfeiture is not that the Attorney General thinks it's ok (I don't care what the AG's position on it is, except perhaps tangentially as an aspect of his overall world view), but that the Supreme Court thinks it's ok.
  
  It's obviously unconstitutional (not even a close call) and deeply troubling that freedom's last resort has turned its back on the fourth amendment.

• On the post: The Gates Foundation Emerges As A Leader In The Fight For Full Open Access And Open Data

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2017 @ 06:41am

  It may be Bill's money, but it's Melinda's altruism. He stopped being a greedy miser right about the time they got married.

• On the post: Court Says Location Of FBI's Utility Pole-Piggybacking Surveillance Cameras Can Remain Secret

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 07:22am

  I wonder if they could, as some internet companies do in response to secret user information requests, release information on which poles do not have FBI piggybacking.

• On the post: Outgoing FCC Boss Reminds Trump Supporters That Net Neutrality Is Good For Them, Too

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2017 @ 08:27am

  Re: Re: Re: On a side note

  It's not a numbers game. Used properly, executive orders are an important tool in implementing laws passed by congress. Used improperly, executive orders are a nefarious tool used to get around the laws passed by congress.
  
  When Obama said, "I don't need congress to act, I have a pen and a phone," that was an example of the dangerous authoritarianism that Democrats cry so much about under Trump (before he even took office!) that they completely ignored under Obama.

• On the post: Sheriff's Office Raids Home, Seizes All The Furniture, Ultimately Returns Everything But The Couch

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 06:25am

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  This country has many strengths and weaknesses. What's the connection between state and local police acting as highway robbers and people illegally crossing our borders?

• On the post: Sheriff's Office Raids Home, Seizes All The Furniture, Ultimately Returns Everything But The Couch

  

  timmaguire42 ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 06:10am

  "gives the program the appearance of impropriety"
  
  Yeah, that's the problem. The APPEARANCE of impropriety.

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