That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 May 2021 @ 6:37pm
Something something it's only bad when THEY do it, not when WE do it.
Politics is equal opportunity about trying to use their power to apply pressure to the little people. Both sides do it & pretending its a red or blue issue says everything we need to know. It is an accepted practice & very rarely do the underlings actually push back... but then will try to protect their side from blame.
Both sides will keep claiming its the other side thats abusing it rather than admit the abuse is rampant & everyone should be sent to their rooms without dessert.
The dysfunction is real but until people accept its everywhere and not just a their side thing nothing will be fixed.
The self-centerness has a bodycount over 500K, that will keep going, perhaps its time to suggest that things will only get better when we stop asking what the country owes me & ask what the country owes everyone.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 May 2021 @ 12:24am
I know I feel much safer that the resources of the top justice agency are being put to use to unmask people who hurt Nunes's feels.
They had a grand jury seated for "threats" SOOOOOOO dangerous that they couldn't dare repeat them because that might wish them into reality.
Perhaps it is time to consider purging the staff & starting over.
Do we really want an AUSA who will do political bidding with no pushback, empowered to do whatever he wants?
Of course another way to see this is that if you speak ill of our betters they will unleash their secret police to find you & cause you all sorts of problems because you made Devin sad.
I only vaguely am aware of Cow & the others but I know for sure, that Cow makes sure the herd does NOT make threats & it is clear that they are not tolerated.
People who joust with those in power learn an important lesson early on, there is a line. Once you cross that line you've completely undone anything good you might have gotten done. You being labeled the bad guy, for making a stupid threat, gives the actual bad guy the ability to just point to that over & over as a reason to not take you seriously.
The corruption in DC is much much deeper than anyone wants to admit, but when you can get a grand jury to unmask a citizen using their 1st Amendment right to anonymously call out someone in power who is abusing it by claiming unspecified "threats" that magically evaporated in the daylight... One has to wonder why the DOJ is doing the bidding of 1 Congressman who has been unsuccessful in his legal pursuits & demands the DOJ get him the name.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 May 2021 @ 6:58pm
Gee its almost like if you keep giving your corporate child ribbons and medals for pretending to try instead of pushing them to compete makes them imagine they are olympic superstars.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 May 2021 @ 6:51pm
No wonder the FBI is how they are...
Its perfectly okay to allow the law to be violated to catch other law breakers that give better headlines.
The law is only a tool we can wield to forgive drug dealers as long as they catch us bigger headlines.
Something something mentally challenged people being talked into being jihadis by CI's who know they have a free pass to 450 kilos of cocaine when Lenny finally pets the mouse.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 May 2021 @ 10:11pm
"Chicago police incorrectly raided the same family's home three times over the course of four months this year"
I guess since they had to close the black site they were using to electrically encourage confessions from 'suspects' by applying the current to the testicles has left the unable to understand how investigations are supposed to work.
You actually have to make sure the target lived there in the recent past & maybe drive by and see if they are still there.
You can't just pick some random kid off the street, take him to the black site & zap him until you get a confession.
Police work is hard when you actually have to do it & not just beat someone until its 'solved'!
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 May 2021 @ 10:07pm
Re:
because dem evil evil black folk have magical powers & can suddenly leap from shadows killing you in seconds!
so the best thing to do, is surprise them, then shoot them before they shoot you with anything in or near their hands even if its only remotely gun shaped, because you getting home safe is the most important thing.
They gonna sue you either way & well lets be honest if your bodycam has malfunctioned & the target is dead, you get to explain how the target had sudden ninja skills & needed to be stopped immediately to keep bystanders safe.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 May 2021 @ 3:07pm
Ohh USCG, I remember them.
One of the early TAC posts before I registered the name.
Setting the stage for the wall of text we've all come to know and love. :)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 May 2021 @ 11:29pm
Amazon, with a system of logistics that rivals anyone else in the market couldn't see that permanent black marks, no appeals, not providing any information about the claimed infringement could be bad??
Twitch streamers aren't exactly something you can have knocked off in China for a few cents cheaper & then force the real thing off the platform as Amazon is want to do.
If they don't want the platform anymore, and their actions scream that story, perhaps they just need to find a buyer for it & take the loss to offload the cool toy they bought without understanding anything about it.
Yes copyright is hard to manage but you manage to get a random widget across the country in 2 days and this holds his hands up was the best thing you came up with to deal with a copyright policy you should have had from day one??
Yes the rightsholders are a bitchy bunch & never try to please them they just demand more.
Live up to your obligations under the law & the moral obligation to not sell out the only things that make your platform worth anything.
The system you designed is so far removed form reality we'd need 2 Blue Origin rockets to even get close to where the hell you are.
Its EASILY gamed, no one can dispute, no one can be told what part is the "bad part", and 3 strikes and we ban you off the platform... because EVERY copyright claim is legit. (shit my eyes just shot out of my head into orbit they rolled so hard).
Yes you can try to get new streamers to replace the ones you manage to drive off your platform... but do you think the new ones will stick around very long as your stupid policy never lets them get big b/c some random douche can setup and account claim 3 things and end their streaming.
When a song in a game being played can result in a takedown of an entire video over a few minutes, perhaps there is something seriously wrong.
No ones stealing the song, you got paid for its use in the game, you shouldn't have a right to demand further payments because someone else played the game & someone else heard that song too.
I am reminded of the patent on a tv to count the people in the room to make sure you haven't exceeded the number of people your 'purchase' of a movie is limited to.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 May 2021 @ 4:58pm
"If a fact-check entity is bankrupting businesses and cancelling people with lies, they should be held accountable."
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth!
Funny how he speaks about lies being a bad thing, while he uses his position to blatantly lie to people & helped cause a bodycount.
I swear to the FSM if these assholes had been alive Dec 7th 1941, they would have told us the Japanese didn't really attack us, it wasn't that bad, all of the "dead" were crisis actors.
I think a much better bill would punish/remove elected officials who lie from office.
How many people might still be alive today if Rand Paul had been run out of Congress the 2nd or 3 or 50th time he claimed he was a doctor & knows more than the experts & its just the flu.
Idiots are entitled to their opinions, they are not entitled to use their position to pretend they are facts.
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Re: Techdirt gets these every few days...
9 out of 10 Nigerian princes agree its effective.
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Something something it's only bad when THEY do it, not when WE do it.
Politics is equal opportunity about trying to use their power to apply pressure to the little people. Both sides do it & pretending its a red or blue issue says everything we need to know. It is an accepted practice & very rarely do the underlings actually push back... but then will try to protect their side from blame.
Both sides will keep claiming its the other side thats abusing it rather than admit the abuse is rampant & everyone should be sent to their rooms without dessert.
The dysfunction is real but until people accept its everywhere and not just a their side thing nothing will be fixed.
The self-centerness has a bodycount over 500K, that will keep going, perhaps its time to suggest that things will only get better when we stop asking what the country owes me & ask what the country owes everyone.
On the post: Chicago PD Oversight Says Officers Racked Up 100 Misconduct Allegations During A Single Wrong Address Raid
Re: Re:
But everyone lies.
They know this because they do it on reports & on the stand all the time.
On the post: DOJ Dropped Its Subpoena For NunesAlt Twitter Account One Week After Twitter Called Bullshit On Its Demands
I know I feel much safer that the resources of the top justice agency are being put to use to unmask people who hurt Nunes's feels.
They had a grand jury seated for "threats" SOOOOOOO dangerous that they couldn't dare repeat them because that might wish them into reality.
Perhaps it is time to consider purging the staff & starting over.
Do we really want an AUSA who will do political bidding with no pushback, empowered to do whatever he wants?
Of course another way to see this is that if you speak ill of our betters they will unleash their secret police to find you & cause you all sorts of problems because you made Devin sad.
I only vaguely am aware of Cow & the others but I know for sure, that Cow makes sure the herd does NOT make threats & it is clear that they are not tolerated.
People who joust with those in power learn an important lesson early on, there is a line. Once you cross that line you've completely undone anything good you might have gotten done. You being labeled the bad guy, for making a stupid threat, gives the actual bad guy the ability to just point to that over & over as a reason to not take you seriously.
The corruption in DC is much much deeper than anyone wants to admit, but when you can get a grand jury to unmask a citizen using their 1st Amendment right to anonymously call out someone in power who is abusing it by claiming unspecified "threats" that magically evaporated in the daylight... One has to wonder why the DOJ is doing the bidding of 1 Congressman who has been unsuccessful in his legal pursuits & demands the DOJ get him the name.
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Gee its almost like if you keep giving your corporate child ribbons and medals for pretending to try instead of pushing them to compete makes them imagine they are olympic superstars.
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rubs between his eyes
Same things over & over pretending its never been done & failed before.
On the post: FBI Informants Still Committing Serious Crimes Thousands Of Times A Year
No wonder the FBI is how they are...
Its perfectly okay to allow the law to be violated to catch other law breakers that give better headlines.
The law is only a tool we can wield to forgive drug dealers as long as they catch us bigger headlines.
Something something mentally challenged people being talked into being jihadis by CI's who know they have a free pass to 450 kilos of cocaine when Lenny finally pets the mouse.
On the post: FBI Got Access To Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account
Something something Top Men...
Imagined connections to the Russians while Devin Nunes is sitting there in a flop sweat.
Top... Men...
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So who's waiting for Time to name the top man who fought against covid as Trump?
I mean if you look at it sideways he fought really hard against admitting it was a thing.
On the post: DOJ Sent A Grand Jury Subpoena To Twitter Demanding The Unmasking Of A Twitter User Being Sued By Devin Nunes
Re: Re: Umm.
Did you miss the lawsuit against the farmer who said mean things about the man who hasn;t had a town hall meeting in well forever?
He hasn't even been in his district, preferring to have his fund raisers in a much nicer town up the road.
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Re: Re:
I just checked, Senator McCarthy is giggling inbetween having his skin seared off in the hellfire.
On the post: Chicago PD Oversight Says Officers Racked Up 100 Misconduct Allegations During A Single Wrong Address Raid
"Chicago police incorrectly raided the same family's home three times over the course of four months this year"
I guess since they had to close the black site they were using to electrically encourage confessions from 'suspects' by applying the current to the testicles has left the unable to understand how investigations are supposed to work.
You actually have to make sure the target lived there in the recent past & maybe drive by and see if they are still there.
You can't just pick some random kid off the street, take him to the black site & zap him until you get a confession.
Police work is hard when you actually have to do it & not just beat someone until its 'solved'!
On the post: Chicago PD Oversight Says Officers Racked Up 100 Misconduct Allegations During A Single Wrong Address Raid
Re:
because dem evil evil black folk have magical powers & can suddenly leap from shadows killing you in seconds!
so the best thing to do, is surprise them, then shoot them before they shoot you with anything in or near their hands even if its only remotely gun shaped, because you getting home safe is the most important thing.
They gonna sue you either way & well lets be honest if your bodycam has malfunctioned & the target is dead, you get to explain how the target had sudden ninja skills & needed to be stopped immediately to keep bystanders safe.
On the post: DOJ Sent A Grand Jury Subpoena To Twitter Demanding The Unmasking Of A Twitter User Being Sued By Devin Nunes
It really says something when the poster agency for Justice shows it is as petty and corrupt as the rest of DC.
This is the sort of thing that happens in dictatorships & the US claims to have the moral authority to call out as being bad.
Are We The Baddies dot Gif
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From the state that gave us 'Jersey Shore', more stupid dreck designed to get ratings not do anything useful.
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Would someone just like to explain to the Republicans that this means we can buy the titles of the 'films' they've been watching in their bedrooms?
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Ohh USCG, I remember them.
One of the early TAC posts before I registered the name.
Setting the stage for the wall of text we've all come to know and love. :)
On the post: Angry Joe Tears Into Twitch Over Its One-Sided Approach To DMCA Takedowns
Amazon, with a system of logistics that rivals anyone else in the market couldn't see that permanent black marks, no appeals, not providing any information about the claimed infringement could be bad??
Twitch streamers aren't exactly something you can have knocked off in China for a few cents cheaper & then force the real thing off the platform as Amazon is want to do.
If they don't want the platform anymore, and their actions scream that story, perhaps they just need to find a buyer for it & take the loss to offload the cool toy they bought without understanding anything about it.
Yes copyright is hard to manage but you manage to get a random widget across the country in 2 days and this holds his hands up was the best thing you came up with to deal with a copyright policy you should have had from day one??
Yes the rightsholders are a bitchy bunch & never try to please them they just demand more.
Live up to your obligations under the law & the moral obligation to not sell out the only things that make your platform worth anything.
The system you designed is so far removed form reality we'd need 2 Blue Origin rockets to even get close to where the hell you are.
Its EASILY gamed, no one can dispute, no one can be told what part is the "bad part", and 3 strikes and we ban you off the platform... because EVERY copyright claim is legit. (shit my eyes just shot out of my head into orbit they rolled so hard).
Yes you can try to get new streamers to replace the ones you manage to drive off your platform... but do you think the new ones will stick around very long as your stupid policy never lets them get big b/c some random douche can setup and account claim 3 things and end their streaming.
When a song in a game being played can result in a takedown of an entire video over a few minutes, perhaps there is something seriously wrong.
No ones stealing the song, you got paid for its use in the game, you shouldn't have a right to demand further payments because someone else played the game & someone else heard that song too.
I am reminded of the patent on a tv to count the people in the room to make sure you haven't exceeded the number of people your 'purchase' of a movie is limited to.
On the post: Michigan Legislator With No Understanding Of The 1st Amendment Wants To Fine Fact Checkers For Pointing Out His Lies
"If a fact-check entity is bankrupting businesses and cancelling people with lies, they should be held accountable."
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth!
Funny how he speaks about lies being a bad thing, while he uses his position to blatantly lie to people & helped cause a bodycount.
I swear to the FSM if these assholes had been alive Dec 7th 1941, they would have told us the Japanese didn't really attack us, it wasn't that bad, all of the "dead" were crisis actors.
I think a much better bill would punish/remove elected officials who lie from office.
How many people might still be alive today if Rand Paul had been run out of Congress the 2nd or 3 or 50th time he claimed he was a doctor & knows more than the experts & its just the flu.
Idiots are entitled to their opinions, they are not entitled to use their position to pretend they are facts.
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But if you don't let us behave like dictators with secret police, secret laws, secret courts you'll lose your freedoms!!!!
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