That's $112,500.00 per year before even graduating. Sad that it took them eight years to pay up, but still a good haul. I wonder how many other VDU students can boast that sort of income.
... while ignoring the similar but far more massive lobbying by Google and other tech companies to bamboozle and strong-arm Federal politicians into giving them favorable Federal laws ...
Really? Which "favorable Federal laws" are we talking about?
Is it a lazy cheat on my part, knowing that others around here are likely to hit “report” on posts that I'd rather not see ...
I happen to think it's the opposite. One of TD's mantras is "Bad speech is best countered by more speech", which to me means give 'em all the rope they want, the better to hang themselves with.
I'm sympathetic to the view that their noise just gets in the way, but maybe we should have a "Dumbth" button along with insightful, funny, and report, in order to highlight the egregiously trollish posts to make them really stand out for those who want to either ignore or counterattack.
Dotcom was a show trial as a demonstration of how deeply the MAFIAA has corrupted the US government.
Since they'd already badgered Aaron Swartz into suicide trying mfgr. such an example, KDC was next on their list of potential victims. Business as usual.
I wonder what Diaz and Heymann are up to nowadays.
It's always a shame when someone intent on committing a crime is found out beforehand and stopped prior to actually committing the crime. It would be so much better for everyone if they'd just have waited so we would have a real verified victim to avenge.
I wonder why cops hand out all those traffic tickets. Wouldn't it be better to just allow the carnage to happen, then clean up the mess and incarcerate the offenders?
Re: Could be worse, they could be dealing with Google's competition
... google's competition, Apple and Microsoft ...
That looks so weird but, nowadays, I guess it's true. You'd think it were Yahoo! and Bing (you know, search engines), but I suppose it'll soon include automobile mfgrs, couriers, geographical atlas publishers, Welcome Wagon, realtors, broadcasters, news agencies, and Consumer Reports. Based on MafiAA whining, I'd guess they'll take on Netflix next. I wonder if we could convince them to replace our non-functioning gov'ts too.
... they need to get a dose of the way their competition does business.
How do they do business? Which one are we talking about?
Wilson said McLellan had other resources to keep his business, “L & M Convenience Mart,” open since last October. But he had to fork over $3,000 for his initial legal fees, and some $19,000 for an accountant to audit his business to prove to the government there wasn’t anything untoward going on. The government said it will not repay those costs or any interest on the seized money.
He's out $22K, just the price of doing business. Note, this was after the DoJ decided they need to rein in this practice, but the IRS has other ideas. Armed robbery, ostensibly in the service of the War On Drugs. USA!
... they are discussing using their power and position and that of the AG to influence stock pricing and damage Google if they did not get what they were demanding from Google.That on top of using supposedly independent news channels to spread their lies ...
I don't want to hijack this story away from focusing on Hood or the MafiAA, but this needs to be said.
Whether you like it or not, this is exactly the sort of crony capitalism and regulatory capture she warned about in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She called these people "moochers" for seeking legislative or legal favours from our elected (or appointed) representatives in return for bribes or other corrupt considerations.
You may not like how she said it, or approve of her as a person (we all have our flaws), but this was her message. A freely functioning democracy doesn't allow favoritism. Ours is broken and she was warning us as far back as the 1940s. The truth hurts, I know.
I wouldn't call it lying. I think he's doing parody to prove Mike's point. The real LU thinks anonymity is anathema. This LU is showing that old joke, "On the internet, no-one knows you're a dog", or LanceUlanoff, for real.
"Dr. Holzer’s experience administering FOIA and his demonstrated commitment to transparency will benefit OGIS, the National Archives, and the American public," said Ferriero.
Full on, flat out Newspeak. I think Gorbachev's USSR did transparency better than the so-called Free World has done in the past few decades. This is only serving to intensify the damage when it all hits the wall. There's still time to apply the brakes, or at least I think there is.
As long as the music's still playing, they'll keep dancing and potential problems are easy to shrug off as hypotheticals. To them, you're just fearmongering if you say different. It's this head in the sand attitude that pretty much demands a Google, an Uber/Lyft, or a Microsoft to step up and exploit this entrenched lethargy. Microsoft is already starting to see it happen to itself. If Google and Uber/Lyft don't continue to innovate, they'll see it happen to their fiefdoms too.
There's always hungry predators out there looking for the old, injured, young, or weak. You can't hide within the herd forever.
They needed to fall back on fascism to end the War On Drugs. Nothing else was working, and they were (and still are) losing it. It was serendipitous for them that the War On Terror happened to justify their new choice of methods.
Long term, they still won't win, and it'll be very messy for everyone including themselves until they recognize this. Prohibition doesn't work! We all know this.
Therefore they cannot hide the fact that they have probably seen secret documents, or who they are.
Seeing secret documents is not a crime as far as I know. If, in its infinite wisdom, the gov't insists it needs secrecy to carry out its assigned duties, it's up to the gov't to secure access to those secrets. "They" (journalists) are private citizens, unbeholden to the gov't to carry on such secrecy for them. Their job may be at odds with the wishes of the gov't, but we decided a long time ago that the wishes of the gov't don't trump the needs of a free society nor its individual members of it.
If the gov't doesn't like this, we can renegotiate the deal, which will involve a lot of messy things they will prefer to see even less than their secrets getting out, such as them hanging from meathooks in the town square. That's not a threat; just an observation based on historical events. They need to decide how far they want to push and how much it's worth to get what they want.
I always wondered why our society bends into such contortions over the nattering of a very vocal and aggressive minority that only makes up around 2% of the population ...
That's Canada's multicult in action. We have chosen, for good or ill, to not accept "tyranny by the majority", and as a recognized minority they get the right to do things just like the majority gets to do things. This "thing" is going to happen, which means they need this space to do it in, so they get the space and you shut down until they're done when you can then go back to using it. Would it be better to offer them exclusive right to some other space to do it in (ie. a public park) instead of the street in front of your business? I think so.
Tyranny by minority is no better than by majority, but how that gets worked out can certainly be done better. You don't deserve to have your rights denied just because we're recognizing theirs. Talk to your city counselors.
... and notes that he knew there was such a risk and had, in fact, made such errant calls in the past.
Even after repeated warnings, even with the ability to autolock built in, even with the availability of third party apps designed to make it even easier, ... Crack open the champaign ma'am. He just handed you a winning lottery ticket on a solid gold, jewel encrusted platter.
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Way to go, kid!
Who's next? >:-) # [
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Re: Try telling the whole story
Really? Which "favorable Federal laws" are we talking about?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Home address
I happen to think it's the opposite. One of TD's mantras is "Bad speech is best countered by more speech", which to me means give 'em all the rope they want, the better to hang themselves with.
I'm sympathetic to the view that their noise just gets in the way, but maybe we should have a "Dumbth" button along with insightful, funny, and report, in order to highlight the egregiously trollish posts to make them really stand out for those who want to either ignore or counterattack.
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Re: MPAA SOPA, etc.
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Re: Re:
Since they'd already badgered Aaron Swartz into suicide trying mfgr. such an example, KDC was next on their list of potential victims. Business as usual.
I wonder what Diaz and Heymann are up to nowadays.
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Re: I hope that county has deep pockets
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Re: Okay, so the Judge slapped Dart...
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Re: Re:
Hackers (N. Koreans?!?).
Yes, if it's sufficiently encrypted, or if you've bulletproof security end to end; creation through heat death of the universe.
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Re: Re: Re: THIS IS A WISH LIST.
It's always a shame when someone intent on committing a crime is found out beforehand and stopped prior to actually committing the crime. It would be so much better for everyone if they'd just have waited so we would have a real verified victim to avenge.
I wonder why cops hand out all those traffic tickets. Wouldn't it be better to just allow the carnage to happen, then clean up the mess and incarcerate the offenders?
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Re: Could be worse, they could be dealing with Google's competition
That looks so weird but, nowadays, I guess it's true. You'd think it were Yahoo! and Bing (you know, search engines), but I suppose it'll soon include automobile mfgrs, couriers, geographical atlas publishers, Welcome Wagon, realtors, broadcasters, news agencies, and Consumer Reports. Based on MafiAA whining, I'd guess they'll take on Netflix next. I wonder if we could convince them to replace our non-functioning gov'ts too.
How do they do business? Which one are we talking about?
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
He's out $22K, just the price of doing business. Note, this was after the DoJ decided they need to rein in this practice, but the IRS has other ideas. Armed robbery, ostensibly in the service of the War On Drugs. USA!
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To all the Ayn Rand haters out there ...
I don't want to hijack this story away from focusing on Hood or the MafiAA, but this needs to be said.
Whether you like it or not, this is exactly the sort of crony capitalism and regulatory capture she warned about in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She called these people "moochers" for seeking legislative or legal favours from our elected (or appointed) representatives in return for bribes or other corrupt considerations.
You may not like how she said it, or approve of her as a person (we all have our flaws), but this was her message. A freely functioning democracy doesn't allow favoritism. Ours is broken and she was warning us as far back as the 1940s. The truth hurts, I know.
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Re:
Please explain how Google is "pro-piracy." How are they facilitating copyright infringement any more than any other net search engine outfit is?
You do understand there are other net search engine outfits out there, yes?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Hey I'm LanceUlanoff(TM)
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Sigh.
Full on, flat out Newspeak. I think Gorbachev's USSR did transparency better than the so-called Free World has done in the past few decades. This is only serving to intensify the damage when it all hits the wall. There's still time to apply the brakes, or at least I think there is.
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Re:
There's always hungry predators out there looking for the old, injured, young, or weak. You can't hide within the herd forever.
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Re: Re: Re: Once upon a time
They needed to fall back on fascism to end the War On Drugs. Nothing else was working, and they were (and still are) losing it. It was serendipitous for them that the War On Terror happened to justify their new choice of methods.
Long term, they still won't win, and it'll be very messy for everyone including themselves until they recognize this. Prohibition doesn't work! We all know this.
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Re: Re:
Seeing secret documents is not a crime as far as I know. If, in its infinite wisdom, the gov't insists it needs secrecy to carry out its assigned duties, it's up to the gov't to secure access to those secrets. "They" (journalists) are private citizens, unbeholden to the gov't to carry on such secrecy for them. Their job may be at odds with the wishes of the gov't, but we decided a long time ago that the wishes of the gov't don't trump the needs of a free society nor its individual members of it.
If the gov't doesn't like this, we can renegotiate the deal, which will involve a lot of messy things they will prefer to see even less than their secrets getting out, such as them hanging from meathooks in the town square. That's not a threat; just an observation based on historical events. They need to decide how far they want to push and how much it's worth to get what they want.
Whose gov't are they?
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That's Canada's multicult in action. We have chosen, for good or ill, to not accept "tyranny by the majority", and as a recognized minority they get the right to do things just like the majority gets to do things. This "thing" is going to happen, which means they need this space to do it in, so they get the space and you shut down until they're done when you can then go back to using it. Would it be better to offer them exclusive right to some other space to do it in (ie. a public park) instead of the street in front of your business? I think so.
Tyranny by minority is no better than by majority, but how that gets worked out can certainly be done better. You don't deserve to have your rights denied just because we're recognizing theirs. Talk to your city counselors.
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Butthurt?
Even after repeated warnings, even with the ability to autolock built in, even with the availability of third party apps designed to make it even easier, ... Crack open the champaign ma'am. He just handed you a winning lottery ticket on a solid gold, jewel encrusted platter.
This guy's Darwin Award material.
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