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  • On the post: DOJ Rushed To Link Orlando Shooter To ISIS, Now Plans To Redact What He Said During 911 Call For… Reasons

    zerosaves ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2016 @ 02:18pm

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    I like how liberals are trying to make this incident into a gun problem, like crazy radical nuts have never made homemade bombs (OKC '95 anyone?) or used arson to kill before. If he had no gun, I'm he wouldn't have hated gays enough to try and kill them. Yes, that's it. It wasn't his perverted views on religion, it was the gun.

  • On the post: DOJ Rushed To Link Orlando Shooter To ISIS, Now Plans To Redact What He Said During 911 Call For… Reasons

    zerosaves ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2016 @ 01:42pm

    I like how your link to confirm "link to terrorism is basically non-existent" is to NPR, the biggest government propaganda mouthpiece they have. I'm sure everything they report to true!

    Now that the FBI has released in full, he clearly states he in fact did it inspired by ISIS and pledged to their leader, are you going to retract this ridiculous article's statements?

    Or are you still blind to the threat RADICAL (read: not all NOT ALL!) Islamists are to the LGBT in the world. They are condemned to death in their countries, not sure why its a stretch to believe they would want them dead here also.

  • On the post: Gawker Files For Bankruptcy, Begins Process Of Auctioning Itself Off

    zerosaves ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 04:35pm

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    And the success against Gawker will make it easier to kill publications you actually do like.

    So because Gawker loses a court case over posting a male celeb sex video recorded without consent and refusing to take it(text) down, it sets a precedent that others might sue publications like Techdirt that we all like, and also win?

    How does this make sense? Does the said party having a private financial backer make Techdirt more liable to something they posted, therefore losing to such a degree it would bankrupt? It changed nothing in the case.

    People have been funding lawsuits forever, just because one finally won over a legitimate claim and got a large sum does not change anything.

  • On the post: Gawker Files For Bankruptcy, Begins Process Of Auctioning Itself Off

    zerosaves ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 04:22pm

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    I have seen where Theil has gone out of his way to find people with a beef with Gawker and support them - not because their case was good or their cause just, but because they had a beef with Gawker good enough to drag them into court.

    I guess that is just where we differ. I see no problem in this. I see this as a way for him to help fight a company who he views as hurting people. No different than the wealthy leftist backers of environmental organizations, they use lawsuits as weapons all the time.

    I just don't agree with the "chilling effect" on journalism. Its all within context. Some billionaire could fund every Joe Nobody's lawsuit, unless there is merit to the claims, they won't go anywhere, certainly not bankrupt levels. You don't win $140m from no where. These are the same guys who berated everyone for the female celeb leak postings, fighting tooth and nail ignoring court orders to keep up a male celeb video. idiots. Its utter garbage. How people are equating this to "imagine if" the New York Times being sued is beyond me. CONTEXT.

  • On the post: Gawker Files For Bankruptcy, Begins Process Of Auctioning Itself Off

    zerosaves ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 11:38am

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    No, you are way off point here. Theil did not go around filing lawsuits to bankrupt the company, Theil found a PERFECTLY VALID lawsuit and came in to help fund it. I say perfectly valid because of the verdict. Theil had ZERO to do with the verdict the jury came to, the verdict came down on the claims made, they sided with Hogan. Not because he was funded by someone with money, but because they felt he was right. If Theil went and filed 50 lawsuits over stupid things that he knew would fail but would bankrupt them trying to defend/get them tossed, that would be an entirely different thing. Theil did not start this lawsuit.

    I don't know why so many people, including the Techdirt writers, are missing this point.

    There is nothing shady or illegal in getting help funding your lawsuit. Most of us in the real world would never be able to pay for a lawsuit against a giant media company. If you lawsuit has merit, it doesn't matter who is paying for it.

  • On the post: Annoying Windows 10 Update Request Highlights Its Annoying-Ness On Live Weather Broadcast

    zerosaves ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2016 @ 08:30pm

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    Because your customer should have to read all of that rather than just have a 3rd option "Do not remind me".

  • On the post: Nothing About The Story Of An Artist Being Threatened With A Lawsuit Over A Painting Of A Small-Dicked Donald Trump Makes Sense

    zerosaves ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2016 @ 10:22am

    Re: Fake?

    ^this is what I thought.

    The only other thing I could think of that was not mentioned is maybe the phrase, "Make America Great Again" is maybe registered or trademarked? Even though its pretty generic, if used together with Trump its easily identifiable and may be protected in some manner or another.

  • On the post: Startup Offers Citizens More Opportunities To Get Shot By/Have Their Smartphones Seized By Law Enforcement

    zerosaves ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2016 @ 10:04am

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    You obviously have not been reading this site before today.

  • On the post: With Fixed Costs And Fat Margins, Comcast's Broadband Cap Justifications Are Total Bullshit

    zerosaves ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2016 @ 07:34am

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    *edit- they would love internet to be thought of as electricity by consumers anyway, not regulators.

  • On the post: With Fixed Costs And Fat Margins, Comcast's Broadband Cap Justifications Are Total Bullshit

    zerosaves ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2016 @ 07:33am

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    Sadly, his other utility comparisons are exactly what they are hoping for.

    Do you get a choice who you get water/sewer (unless rural and have wells/septic) or electricity through? Private owned monopolies also, at least regulated to not charge insane amounts.

    Comcast would love internet to be thought of the same as electricity.

  • On the post: DSL Users Still Can't Get Advertised Speeds They Pay For, Nation's Telcos Couldn't Care Less

    zerosaves ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2016 @ 08:05am

    Re: Re: Yes, It Was Bad

    That's me. We pay for "3MB" DSL with Centurylink in central Florida, best can hope for is a 350 kbps on a good day. $45 with a year contract, otherwise its $65

    And its the highest speed offered. There is no cable, we live 5 miles out of their "area" and our county has no other cable provider than Comcast who is not planning on expanding internet offering.

  • On the post: Cable Company Publicly Shames, Lectures Overdue Customers On Facebook

    zerosaves ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2015 @ 07:10am

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    *does not mean they shouldn't

  • On the post: Cable Company Publicly Shames, Lectures Overdue Customers On Facebook

    zerosaves ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2015 @ 07:08am

    I'm honestly okay with this, just because I hate their business practices (in US anyway, not sure how they do it up north) does mean people shouldn't pay for something they signed up for. And customers complain on yelp and social media about companies all the time.

  • On the post: Facebook Declares BBC Article About French Political Polls 'Unsafe'

    zerosaves ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2015 @ 08:38pm

    I'm hoping Facebook dies someday. Its so full of misinformation that people take seriously, and these people have children who will grow up to be teachers.

    Facebook could be the start of the fall of civilization as we know it.

  • On the post: Patrick Zarrelli Claims He's Filing Criminal Charges Against Us Because He Doesn't Like Our Post About Him

    zerosaves ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 11:58am

    Re: Techdirt rank?

    I use bing myself (nothing against google, just feel helping healthy competition furthers both products) and it places "In the news" links first when you search his name, and this article here is the top result.

    GJ Zarelli

  • On the post: Comcast's Christmas Present To Broadband Users: More Usage Caps In More Places

    zerosaves ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 09:44am

    cordless!

    I'm a cord cutter since 2008, and I had Comcast back then. We had 3 adults living in the house, and had only Netflix at the time, and our area was under the original Comcast 300gb caps when they would disconnect you if you exceeded it 3 times. We did twice, and for the rest of the months we would literally not do anything the last few days to not go over again. That was until they revoked the caps entirely a few years later. I'm not sure if they were reintroduced around here again, as I left Comcast when we moved.

    Its not hard to go over.

  • On the post: How The Redskins' Delightfully Vulgar Court Filing Won Me Over

    zerosaves ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2015 @ 04:16pm

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    I'm not entirely on board with the name being racist. Some Indian groups do support them, and I do not think of it being used in a disparaging way. No other team is named something weak or to be made fun of. Sports teams are often named after mean, aggressive, or powerful animals or other subjects to portray cunning, prowess and intimidation. You name your team after something badass. You ARE that thing.