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• On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 05:38am

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

  http://on-t-internet.blogspot.com/2016/09/once-more-with-feeling-anarchy-doesnt.html That is all.

• On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 05:33am

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

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWVpcypf0w

• On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 05:32am

  Re: Re: Re: True Religion

  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1%3A27&version=NIV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%202:5-6&version=NIV You're welcome.

• On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 05:25am

  Re: Churches

  You're assuming they wanted all wanted it there, Ron. Better to demand that those individuals who wanted it so badly cough up the dough themselves. Apparently, there's quite a few of them.

• On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 05:24am

  Re:

  Zero $. That's entitlement for you.

• On the post: High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 03:31am

  Re:

  Why should we pay them to do it? It's not like they're actually, you know, working, or anything.

• On the post: High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 03:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Focus on the inefficiency and lying

  Woman here; it's very creepy to be near someone who is watching porn where everyone else can see it. Do that at home. RE: social media, cat videos, etc., you're wasting your employers' (that's us if you work for the government!) time and money. Do you remember the story of the American sys admin who got a Chinese bloke to do his job so he could play around on Reddit and YouTube all day? It's fine to play around on social media, etc., during breaks, I'm doing that now with a timer running in the background, but to fool around when you ought to be working is taking liberties. Not okay. To watch porn right in front of others is downright objectionable, and to women like me, it's intimidating. I mean flippin' 'eck, guys, where's the line?

• On the post: High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 03:22am

  Re: Re: Not doing their job / don't pay them

  Erm... over here in the UK, there's work for them to do, they're just not doing it. Really annoying if you're depending on them to sign stuff off or process paperwork.

• On the post: High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 03:21am

  Re: Re: Not doing their job / don't pay them

  Then why in the name of all that's holy are we paying them for 8hrs worth of work, damn it? Either do the job you're paid to do or let a competent person earn the money. I've spent years being too poor to go out with friends because I was stuck in low-paid jobs. I'm in a sweet situation now, but honestly, stories like this make my blood boil. Watch porn at home. Imagine being a woman sitting near the creep. How does she feel about it? I'd be very uncomfortable.

• On the post: High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 06:08am

  Re: Re: Re: The Governments dime, funded by us!

  Ewww! I suppose they could laminate them to protect the public.

• On the post: Houston Police Officer Who Led Botched Raid That Killed Two People Now Facing Felony Murder Charges

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 05:57am

  Re: Re:

  Well he'd better sort himself out -- or he's toast. I'll see myself out.

• On the post: The DMV Is Selling Your Data To Vast Array Of Third Parties

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 05:51am

  Re: Re: it's about government

  RE: those flakes that doesn't trust government generally The idea behind that is to make such people so mistrustful of government on principle that it doesn't occur to them that
  a) they effectively ARE the government, and
  b) they can effect change if they engage more and get others to join them. As you may have noticed, this is working like a Fascist dream; disengaged people shout about rebellion and revolution but it just doesn't click with them that they could, like, totally call their representatives or campaign for change like the sensible people do.

• On the post: That Time EFF Got A Copyright Takedown Demand Of Its Own Artwork

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 05:46am

  Re: Re: And that is why you check your targets first...

  Canuck, they made private fools of themselves, that's why we don't know who they are.

• On the post: Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2019 @ 02:45am

  Re: Other people's Time and money

  Yep. Zero hours contracts are a classic example. They OWN you between shifts or work assignments so you can't do other jobs during down time in case you get called in to work. Unpaid lunch breaks are the same; you can't work for others during that hour so effectively you're being robbed.

• On the post: Student Sues College After Being Told Not To Exercise His First Amendment Rights Without The School's Permission

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2019 @ 02:35am

  Re: Re:

  You can't make off-colour jokes any more, either. One chap nearly went to jail for mouthing off about an airport.

• On the post: Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2019 @ 02:42am

  Sweat o' the brow

  Funnily enough, this is not a left V right thing as actual Socialists will argue for property rights on intellectual output as a guaranteed reward for labour of hand or brain. For a group that claims to be all about the Commons, this is about as individualistic as they get. It's fascinating to see where the overlaps fall.

• On the post: That Time Taylor Swift Threatened To Sue Microsoft Over Its Racist Chatbot

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2019 @ 03:03am

  Re: With apologies to William McGonagall...

  My friend Mumba named her son Taye. On the basis of Swift's reasoning her trademark is invalid.

• On the post: That Time Taylor Swift Threatened To Sue Microsoft Over Its Racist Chatbot

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2019 @ 03:02am

  Re: What normally happens with groups of kids

  Is it possible to build a communitarian liberal democratic algorithm into a chatbot that would filter out racism, etc.?

• On the post: Months After Christchurch Shooting, The Australian Government Is Issuing Site-Blocking Orders Targeting Footage Of The Incident

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2019 @ 09:01am

  Re: Imagine that 9/11 coverage was illegal

  In New Zealand, it will be.

• On the post: Big News: Appeals Court Says CFAA Can't Be Used To Stop Web Scraping

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2019 @ 03:30am

  Re: I agree with the "few lawyers" that you don't!

  Therefore, you'd better STOP the hiding of comments: that's tortious interference with The Public's First Amendment Rights. See you in court, Blue.

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