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• On the post: Ted Cruz Doubles Down On Misunderstanding The Internet & Net Neutrality, As Republican Engineers Call Him Out For Ignorance

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2014 @ 10:39am

  Re: A moment of sanity!

  It seems absurd to me that you feel Obama deserves no trust whatsoever and you'll continue liking Cruz. You gotta be clueless to not recognize both as sleazy politicians.
  
  And I don't know where you think competition comes from, but it doesn't just magically appear and grand scales as soon as you deregulate things.

• On the post: Ted Cruz Doubles Down On Misunderstanding The Internet & Net Neutrality, As Republican Engineers Call Him Out For Ignorance

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2014 @ 10:31am

  That's why recognizing your OWN bias is so important

  The primary reason science is so powerful is because it wards off the biases we have personally. The first thing you should think when you recognize that you dealt with bad IRS and VA experiences is that you are SO extremely biased that you probably have an EXTREMELY far off from reality judgment of things.
  
  Policy and even claims about the nature of things should not be accepted by such biased personal anecdotes.
  
  That's the first thing to deal with here.
  
  Your conclusion about everything-the-government-does is completely nonsense. You have not got a good sample, an objective study. Your judgment is as careless as saying that you got mugged by some black guys on two different occassions, so all African Americans are violent criminals.
  
  The government touched what became our National Park system. That's crap? Or turning to crap? What utter nonsense.
  
  Note: I'm not saying anything disputing your personal experience with the IRS and VA. I'm not even saying that it wasn't typical. Perhaps the IRS is generally horrible. But you are part of the problem here if you use certain bad examples and then accept wholecloth the Republican campaign message of knee-jerk anti-government sentiment.

• On the post: If You're Going To Complain About Spotify Payments, At Least Understand A Little Economics First

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 01:21pm

  Re: Stop calling sharing "piracy"

  Here's how powerful the propaganda is:
  
  You wrote "Giving consumers lawful affordable options for listening to what they want when they want it in a convenient format reduces piracy."
  
  Now read it truthfully: "Giving consumers lawful affordable options for listening to what they want when they want it in a convenient format reduces SHARING."

• On the post: If You're Going To Complain About Spotify Payments, At Least Understand A Little Economics First

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2014 @ 01:20pm

  Stop calling sharing "piracy"

  It's not like anyone is going to think Techdirt is on the RIAA side either way. Drop the bullshit propaganda. Don't support the war on sharing. This is not about theft or attacking ships.

• On the post: One Of The NSA's Biggest Critics In The Senate May Lose His Seat

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2014 @ 09:32pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  This post describes the basic moral essence of sociopathy.

• On the post: What's So Bad About Making Money Off Fan Fiction?

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2014 @ 09:50am

  Why link to outdated license??

  Please change the "Share-Alike" license to link to the full version 4.0 International: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
  
  Why the heck would you link to an outdated version 2.5??
  
  Otherwise, superb article, thanks!

• On the post: New UK Copyright Exception Allows Mashups — But Only If Judges Think They Are Funny

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2014 @ 09:02pm

  Re: Re:

  The MAD Magazine ruling, the original Supreme Court precedent on parody does NOT say that the satire has to poke fun at the work itself. Your statements about US fair use are simply incorrect.

• On the post: Recording Industry Exec Says It's Not Censorship To Block Sites He Doesn't Like

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 12:59pm

  The profit motive makes it ok!

  http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/06/07/censorship-vs-copyright/

• On the post: Tom Lehrer, Culture And Copyright After Death

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 08:25am

  Re: No, Mr. Lehrer was the first to make his OWN label

  He didn't work with record labels. They wouldn't touch him, and so his has the significance of having been perhaps the first artist to create his own record label.
  
  The other issues are real about extended family etc.

• On the post: King Cries Trademark Over The Banner Saga

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2014 @ 11:58am

  Sounds like a bunch of lawyers cheating everyone

  This sounds like some lawyers figuring out bullshit things to do to get the company to pay them.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Dysfunctional Capitalism

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2013 @ 05:08pm

  Thanks

  Super to see actual questioning of these things in relative mainstream. Our society accepts far too many claims about economics without question. Capitalism is not something to be revered or given deference. What we want is progress and innovation. Capitalism can go to hell if it isn't doing the best job for us.

• On the post: Ridiculous: Why Is Any Country Supporting Locking In Life + 70 Copyright Term Protection?

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2013 @ 01:33pm

  Re: I got this one covered! -- Because The Rich want it!

  Someone said there are two OOTB's? This comment isn't junk, it's accurate.

• On the post: Sweden Insists On Fire Alarms On Hotel Made Of Ice

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 06:35pm

  Re:

  Shame on you for being more of a computer than a human. Check out https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_using_our_practical_wisdom.html
  
  The answer is obviously that someone should have just had the wisdom to make an exception knowing full well that an exception in this case would not be a precedent for any other exception arguments.

• On the post: People Happily Sign Petition Supporting The 'Orwellian Police State Based On Nazi Germany'

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 08:23am

  I wanna see the people who didn't sign

  Surely some people reacted, I wanna see how that went

• On the post: Craigslist Sues Craigstruck, Who Offers To Settle The Lawsuit Over A Football Bet

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2013 @ 11:20pm

  Craig Struck??

• On the post: President Obama Says He Learns What NSA Is Doing From The Press, Then Goes To NSA For Details

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2013 @ 03:46pm

  Re: "allegations"

  Is this good or bad? Do you think this is more like denial or more like admission that the accusations are of serious wrong-doing?

• On the post: Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Abolish The NSA And Give Snowden A Parade

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 09:38pm

  Are you just some completely dogmatic anarcho-capitalist??

  The idea that someone with true integrity like Kucinich could be completely dismissed indicates merely that you have not learned to be open-minded. Given you agree on this, maybe you could learn that with effort to see other's views, you'll find that some of them make sense. You shouldn't agree with him or anyone automatically on everything either, but if you've been that judgmental about Kucinich or his views? Well, I hope you take this as a lesson to check yourself and listen more and don't make up your mind in advance.

• On the post: Copyright Lawyers vs Patent Lawyers Smackdown: And The Winner Is…

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2013 @ 12:30pm

  Journal normal use = learning, patent use = legal

  The use of a journal article for the purpose of filing a patent is a totally transformative USE compared to the normal purpose of journal articles. It didn't transform the article itself, that's not the point.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Have A Cool Drink This Weekend

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2013 @ 06:53pm

  PATENT PENDING‽

  This is a broken system. They get their funding up-front from people who are already paying, the community paid already. There's no justice patenting this! We need to get rid of this patent nonsense. And Techdirt shouldn't be promoting that people fund new patents.

• On the post: Pianist Storms Off Stage, Claims Fans Filming His Performance Mean Record Labels Won't Give Him A Contract

  

  Aaron Wolf ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2013 @ 07:15am

  The problem is competition

  YouTube is hurting music careers because there is MORE music. It's better business to provide something really scarce. The problem is that good music isn't scarce now. This pianist wants most music recordings and videos destroyed because then he would be more in demand.

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