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  • On the post: Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt

    trollificus ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2017 @ 08:57pm

    Re:

    Our legal system seldom closes off avenues for lawyers to make money. Just sayin'...

  • On the post: Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt

    trollificus ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2017 @ 08:51pm

    Re: Re: Shiva Will Appeal

    Well, if this is also draining Shivas' resources that might otherwise go towards his political ambitions, it cuts both ways.

    Also, fingers crossed that he ends up paying the TD legal fees. That would be a wonderful reward for his persistence, aight?

  • On the post: Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt

    trollificus ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2017 @ 08:45pm

    Re: Oh, rats! -- Er, I mean, congRATSulation!

    You comments are available, and considering they have about as much value as the "Click here to see how I earn $3487.32 per week!" posts that are so ubiquitous on the internet, I appreciate the option to pass over them.

  • On the post: Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt

    trollificus ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2017 @ 08:25pm

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    "...it doesn't look very good for him and/or his lawyer."

    Well, it looks like billable hours to his legal firm, so, no problem there.

    Anyway, congrats on the win. Just wondering how this never got to the part where it became relevant to the case that he IS delusional, IS a liar and IS a race-baiting reprobate. That should all be put on public record somewhere, I think.

  • On the post: Latest EU Parliament Votes On Copyright: Fuck The Public, Give Big Corporations More Copyright

    trollificus ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2017 @ 04:13am

    "Google gets paid, the news company gets visitors and recognition, everybody wins."

    Meh. I'm starting to think anything more subtle than "Me get money." is beyond the "thinking" that goes on at a lot of these 'gatekeeper' and 'legacy' businesses.

    "everybody wins"?
    "No, we win, they lose."

    "visitors and recognition?"
    "Not money. Get money, keep money."

    "adapt, monetize, innovate"?
    "Too complicated. We have good plan, called "Get Money Plan". Step 1: Buy Congress........Step 3: PROFIT!! Much get money. Much win."

    Except for the expenditure of funds to make the above sound legalistic and convoluted (a testament to the obfuscatory capabilities of corporate lawyers), that seems to accurately reflect a common mindset.

  • On the post: Trump's Internet Brigades Shocked To Realize The Government Just Sold Them Out On Privacy

    trollificus ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2017 @ 09:41pm

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    It's ALWAYS more profitable to collude than to compete.

    Though there does exist the inexplicable race-to-the-bottom competition to become the most-hated/"best customer raping" company in the country. I suspect the execs just engage in that for funsies, though.

  • On the post: Trump's Internet Brigades Shocked To Realize The Government Just Sold Them Out On Privacy

    trollificus ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2017 @ 08:19pm

    Sorry if this has been dealt with above, but...

    "Of course the sudden realization that government oversight of giant, anti-competitive corporations is sometimes necessary and even good for consumers has arrived a little late for most of us."

    Umm...the problems which you so eagerly and smugly require government regulation, specifically the lack of competition in the broadband space, ARE CREATED BY OTHER GOVERNMENT ACTIONS. There is no "capitalist" or "market forces" or "invisible hand" to debunk or ridicule.

    Perhaps if you were saying (accurately), "We need SOME government regulations to protect us from the government selling out to corporate lobbying efforts." it would be easier to see how bullshit your "proof" of the need for more government regulation actually is. Or maybe not.

  • On the post: The Web Screws Artists Again… By Letting Them Have A Normal Life

    trollificus ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2017 @ 03:37pm

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    May all the people who worked in 20th Century-style A&R for the labels can become cab drivers instead. Ohh...

  • On the post: Encryption Workarounds Paper Shows Why 'Going Dark' Is Not A Problem, And In Fact Is As Old As Humanity Itself

    trollificus ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2017 @ 10:59pm

    Re: on the basis of an individual case,

    Well, the first step is obtaining the power, under the guise of, of course, national security.

    The second step is USING the power for more...personal gains than just the security of the nation.

    Step One has been ongoing for quite a while, not surprising to see the intelligence community flex its power now.

  • On the post: eBook Pirates Tend To Be Older And Well Off, Which Means They Pirate Because Of Human Intuition On Economics

    trollificus ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2017 @ 08:15pm

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    Well, I see your point, and that's pretty much what I do.

    Then again, fuck you. The eBook prices are still spit-in-your-face, piss-in-your-beer insulting ripoffs. They could make money from me by pricing reasonably, but THEY FUCKING WON'T. Screw 'em. Not a penny from me.

  • On the post: Lawyer's Association Asks New California Attorney General To Drop Its Abusive Prosecution Of Backpage

    trollificus ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2017 @ 06:11am

    Re: Re: Re: Response to: That Anonymous Coward on Mar 18th, 2017 @ 1:26pm

    "Many of the women and girls in the sex trade are not there willingly."

    Ah, a rigorous statistical analysis:"Many", eh? Read (in the most recent issue of REASON) about Cross X Country, the giant, multi-agency sting/raid/bust operation that netted "less than many" unwilling prostitutes, and "so less than many it was almost zero" UNDERAGE ones.

    Indicating the problem, while allowing that forcing little girls to have sex is bad m'kay?, is NOT a gigantic epidemic requiring a moral panic to deal with. Even less than alcohol was prior to Prohibition or drugs right after Prohibition ended.

    Put it this way...the conventional wisdom is that the "Red Scare" was a cynical attempt to increase gov't power by frightening the public. Yet there WERE more actual Russian agents/plants within the gov't than were found "underage forced prostitutes" in this recent massive (and expensive) undertaking.

    Keep saying "but it's illegal!" all you want, you still have to account for the actual size of the problem and the proportionality of the response.

  • On the post: Lawyer's Association Asks New California Attorney General To Drop Its Abusive Prosecution Of Backpage

    trollificus ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2017 @ 05:54am

    Re: Re: Election choice between horrible and worse

    Bureau of Departments.

  • On the post: ESPN On-Air Talent About To Care About The Cord-Cutters The Execs Aren't Concerned About

    trollificus ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2017 @ 07:55am

    Re: Viacom is looking to be the canary in the mine

    Viacom has running shows?

  • On the post: ESPN On-Air Talent About To Care About The Cord-Cutters The Execs Aren't Concerned About

    trollificus ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2017 @ 07:42am

    Re: Number of Subscribers vs. Number of Viewers

    ^ This, exactly. They would be in a much better financial situation right now if they'd have been willing to "lose" some of those bidding wars.

  • On the post: ESPN On-Air Talent About To Care About The Cord-Cutters The Execs Aren't Concerned About

    trollificus ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2017 @ 07:23am

    Re: Re:

    Especially, gutting the corrupt Olympic pig* would be welcome.

    As a long-time sports (pro and college) fan, I'm starting to feel that consuming media "sports entertainment product" is a suboptimal use of my time and to contribute money to the pockets of franchise owners, agents, and the 'governing bodies" of faux-amateur sports empires is stupid and might even be wrong on a moral level.

    Comcast is going to bugger me no matter what, and I think they view "cable basic" as a bit of olive oil. If you know what I mean.

    *-Seriously, I didn't mean to put down pigs.

  • On the post: National Police Union President Says Asset Forfeiture Abuse Is A 'Fake Issue' Generated By The Media

    trollificus ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 10:44am

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    That's...brilliant! And exactly true.

    I'm not one to get hysterical about what are mostly stylistic affronts emanating from Trump, and consider his election an ill-considered if understandable yuge orange middle finger directed at a self-appointed elite.

    That said, the appointment of Sessions for AG is an absolute worst-case scenario. Sessions' comments about civil asset forfeiture (or, more accurately, "random spontaneous law enforcement tax surcharge collections") are perhaps the most "divorced from reality" on any subject I have ever heard. Not just from politicians, but anywhere. And I've read YouTube comment threads!

    Surely it will be a test of Trumps' own ability to do simple political calculations. Cops only have so much political power. Their victims, and the tens of millions of American citizens who obviously WANT THEIR DAMN DRUGS have many multiples of that power. If Trump reconsiders this appointment, or allows it to fail without doubling down or investing much political capital in pushing it, that will be a welcome sign, of, at least, a degree of pragmatism and rationality.

    IF, otoh, he really thinks Sessions should be AG...well, it will mean some of the hysterically-expressed fears of the Trump administration were justified. The silver lining would be the increased likelihood of a single-term Presidency.

  • On the post: Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Now Under FBI Investigation For His ADA Lawsuits

    trollificus ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 03:31pm

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    One would hope that "syphilitic zombie" would be part of the sentence for Hansmeier et al, but I suspect it was just a coincidence in Capones' case.

  • On the post: EU's Departing Internet Commissioner Leaves Behind Copyright Plan That Will Outlaw Basic Internet Functions

    trollificus ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 01:21pm

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    "Wish all who are reading this a better 2017 with less morons in politics and more sanity in the world. Cheers"

    Hope never dies, indeed. :-)

    AND a happy New Year to you and all, also.

  • On the post: Victims Of Car Crash Sue Apple For Not Preventing Distracted Driver From Hitting Their Vehicle

    trollificus ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 11:17am

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    " Let's blame somebody else, anybody else as long as I get to hold someone who has a lot of money responsible!"

    FTFY

  • On the post: EU's Departing Internet Commissioner Leaves Behind Copyright Plan That Will Outlaw Basic Internet Functions

    trollificus ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 01:34pm

    This ^ x1,000. Corruption in a European bureaucracy? Say it ain't so!

    And it also explains why some of us are always, intuitively and without knowing all the specifics, distrustful of "bigger, better, (and always more powerful) government". No matter if the urge to produce such a governing force begins with moral high ground, best intentions and people of good will...it always ends up with people rationalizing a sell-out. When they bother with rationalization at all.

    Given that technology is finally bringing into focus the Holy Grail of totalitarians everywhere: the ability to know what everyone is doing, all the time; people need to understand the starkness of our choices. Total top-down control ("Don't worry citizen. We'll have top men in charge. Top. Men.") or a messy chaotic freedom that will have its' own failures and casualties.

    And while I can't advocate anyone else search for wisdom in the ouvre of a middlebrow movie director, I'll admit to being inspired by, and adopting, Capt. Mal Reynolds' declaration in Firefly: "I aim to misbehave."

    Choose wisely.

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