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  • On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 01:20pm

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

    thanks mike!

    I completely agree. I for one want more people in jail where they can't hurt others or themselves.

    Furthermore, jail can be an end in itself. For instance, if I place a murderer in jail, then I have stopped that murderer from murdering have I not. The amount of murders stopped is directly proportional to the amount of time a murder is in jail, with death being the point of diminishing return.

    In the same way, the greater the quantity of copyright infringers in jail multiplied by the amount of time served will be directly proportional to the amount of pirated material available.

  • On the post: Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 01:13pm

    Re: Re: Are you all Doctors now?

    If the case was started while she was alive* and then dropped simply because she is dead, that could establish de facto precedent.


    *I say alive only because, it was never proven that she was or was not alive, or that she was dead for that matter. For all we know she could have moved after receiving a foreclosure notice.

  • On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 01:05pm

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    Jails are not 'overcrowded' everywhere. One solution could be a system whereby states traded jail space on a sort of exchange or market.

    That way states like Utah or Wyoming could 'sell' jail space to places like California.

    Many criminals want to be in jail after they get out because at least in jail they get a square meal three times a day and free medical care. Also, they aren't subject to the temptations to commit crimes that they are outside of prison.

  • On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 01:02pm

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    Where there's smoke there's fire.

  • On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 01:01pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    obviously not.

  • On the post: Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 12:59pm

    Re: Re: Defensive

    It's part of the agenda along with activist judges designed to subvert the rule of law in this country.

    Apparently now, according to Techdirt editorial cabal, that it's okay to commit a crime, as long as you are dead.

  • On the post: Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 12:57pm

    Are you all Doctors now?

    You seem to all be lawyers here at Techdirt, but now you've obviously seen fit to add physician to your schtick as well.

    How do you know for a fact that this 'grandmother' was dead?

    If the infringement happened while she was still alive then it makes legal sense to continue the case. If precedent is allowed to be established, simply because someone died, then how would that serve the public interest?

  • On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 09:46am

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    I have to agree. Crime has not risen substantially during this recession in large part due to the criminal elements in our society already being locked up.

    Normally, these would be the first to become unemployed and unemployable, and the first to start breaking the law when times are tough.

    It makes sense to fill our jails to capacity with as many criminals as possible. Then if we run out of room, we can always let certain ones out on parole.

  • On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 09:43am

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    Seems like you have some sort axe to grind with law enforcement outside this specific issue.

    I'm curious, do you have a police record?

  • On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 04:04am

    Adult Diapers Full of Crap

    Look, we can talk precedent and hurl man-on-street cliche's til the cows come home, but until we take actions against decrepit senior citizen Judge-corpses wearing adult diapers, we will continue getting these crap rulings about the internetz.

  • On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 04:01am

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    "The employee, believing the e-mail to be genuine, informed her supervisor,"

    If this is the type of critical thinking individual Morgan Stanley employs, then I would suggest placing your money elsewhere.

  • On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 03:50am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 20th, 2011 @ 7:45am

    Prohibit all cayenne sales in the United States! Some people don't like spicy food!

  • On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 03:49am

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    I think strong case could be made that the prohibition be based on their obvious banal derivative nature.

    Is this the 'Arab Street' of blogs?

  • On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 03:46am

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    Talking to yourself again? Pathetic.

  • On the post: Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic… To Rewriting Emails & More

    vancedecker ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 11:39am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: This country sounds like the NBC IT Department.

    The Problem with Buddhist Philosophy and Free Market Capitalism, is that you have to wait for these things to happen.

    Given enough time and monkeys, anything could happen, the trick is making it happen now.

  • On the post: Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic… To Rewriting Emails & More

    vancedecker ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 10:23am

    Re: Re: This country sounds like the NBC IT Department.

    They should rename it the Hitler Channel.

    Look I'm all about Hitler specila, but enough is enough, how many Hitler retrospectives can one channel possibly produce? What about all the other mass murder war mongers, like the Bush family for instance?

  • On the post: Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping… And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music

    vancedecker ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 06:18am

    "Check Your Premises" -Ayn Rand

    Will this stop Libertarian Christian nut bags from quoting an avowed atheist as Free Market scripture?*

    In the same sense, all the Limbaugh-Beck drone units are now telling us that the bank bailouts were not capitalism. So in effect, according to Rand, who died for our capitalist sins, we are absolved from the sin of TARP, which was caused by a sodomite Senator anyway. I mean nobody is perfect right?

    So long and thanks for the worthless apology...without any punishment to deter them, the doctrine of Industry Self Regulation will mean many more TARPs and too-big-to-fails to come.

    (*Greenspan was at one point an Ayn Rand disciple...for all you home skoolers out there)


    Anyway, the point is, after the complete failure of "self regulation" and freeing market forces for the magical invisible hand, we got the world's largest financial crisis to date. Will Objectivists, Libertarians, and Bible Thumpers check theirs?

  • On the post: Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic… To Rewriting Emails & More

    vancedecker ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 06:16am

    Re: Re: Re: Tunisia? Still exists? WTF?

    Part of the Jesus cult mentality is that everything has to have consequences* even if they don't. So for cases where there are none, they set about creating some.

    (*except big banks and CEO's because they create jobs and are doing god's work in other bigger more important ways)

    That's why these nut bags hate the morning after pill.

  • On the post: Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard

    vancedecker ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 05:49am

    Re: Ayn Rand once said "Check Your Premises"

    woops! totally meant to post this on another topic.

  • On the post: Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard

    vancedecker ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 05:13am

    Ayn Rand once said "Check Your Premises"

    Will this stop Libertarian Christian nut bags from quoting an avowed atheist as Free Market scripture?*

    In the same sense, all the Limbaugh-Beck drone units are now telling us that the bank bailouts were not capitalism. So in effect, according to Rand, who died for our capitalist sins, we are absolved from the sin of TARP, which was caused by a sodomite Senator anyway. I mean nobody is perfect right?

    So long and thanks for the worthless apology...without any punishment to deter them, the doctrine of Industry Self Regulation will mean many more TARPs and too-big-to-fails to come.

    (*Greenspan was at one point an Ayn Rand disciple...for all you home skoolers out there)

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