actually, in my precinct, i wouldn't be able to file a 'spoiled' vote: it is a bubble filled ballot that goes into an optical scanner on my way out, if it doesn't read it for some reason ('spoiled'), it gets spit back out and i have to 'correct' it for it to be accepted...
i will not bore kampers with how even a relatively benign system of optical scanners can be scammed and hacked... as with stalin, it doesn't matter who votes, it matters who controls the vote counting machines...
(a CLOSED, PROPRIETARY system of software/hardware... huh, i'm sure nothing could go wrong there...)
um, actually, evolution is more a panoply of random mutations, and those which confer benefits to the creatures to survive in that particular environment, pass on those mutations until they become the predominant genome...
its not 'directed', nor necessarily in 'response' to the environment: random mutations *happen* (cosmic rays, at least), most of those mutations are unexpressed or of no immediate consequence, some are deleterious under the particular circumstances, and those creatures will be disadvantaged, some are beneficial under the particular circumstances, and those creatures will be the ones that tend to survive and pass on those particular mutations...
its random 'shit happens', and some of the shit sticks...
really, that is one of the more ridiculous aspects of this 'judge's' ruling: HOW can he NOT see the logical trap HE has set up ? ? ?
HE is saying: IF thedirty had the name 'puppiesandrainbows.com' with the EXACT same content, THEN they would have 'safe harbor' ? ? ?
total bizarroworld...
evidently can't reason his way out of a wet paper bag if you spotted him a knife; but i bet he rules how Empire likes ! ! ! (that's the important thing, ain't it ? ? ?)
as a floridian, i happen to know our laws are all parties have to be informed a recording is being made; as a poster says below, they don't have to 'consent', they just have to be 'informed'... *presumably*, if they are 'informed', and they choose to continue the conversation knowing it is recorded, they are effectively 'consenting'...
no, that sentiment is not limited to non-native speakers listening to english lyrics...
i regularly rant about how you can't *hear* the lyrics half the time UNLESS you go to relatively extreme lengths and play it back a hundred times to pick out the unintelligible words...
for me, it is an effort not worth undertaking to parse and translate and squint my ears (yes, i said that) to *TRY* to pick out words/lines in pop songs... to what end ? "i love you baby, do you love me, ooo oooo, oooo ooo" okay, i played a song back ten times to pick out *those* life-changing lyrics ? ? ? i don't think so...
for the most part, it is 'the sound' that catches my attention, the lyrics are almost meaningless these days...
i know that is unfair to the songsmiths who craft clever, smart, entertaining, insightful lyrics, but i'm just not going to waste my time figuring lyrics for 100 songs for the sake of the one which is 'good'...
holy guacamole! talk about stunningly obvious, what an idiot i feel like: *OF COURSE* that is the way it should be done, given the digital format of the music itself, simply add on text/RTF/whatever files of the lyrics...
the damn lyric/text files for a whole album would be -what- a couple K ? ? ? now that i'm thinking about your great idea (which a poster below says has been implemented in -you know- NON OFFICIAL ways), it pisses me off EVEN MORE at the useless MAFIAA dons...
that was what was lost with going from albums to CDs (and even more so with MP3's), the loss of cover art, as well as the liner notes, and -many times- even the damn lyrics... as far as i can tell, even when you buy a physical CD these days, they don't generally have the lyrics...
it's almost as if the lyrics are meaningless sounds to accompany the music...
Re: Re: Techdirt always arrives late and without the last decade context.
yes, *BUT* don't you think that gas vehicle manufacturers (who are generally *also* electric/hybrid makers) *WANT* to have DRM in all their vehicles ? ? ?
it was only because it was relatively easy to slip that in unnoticed on their electric vehicle that they did it; i'm certain ALL auto makers would do the same...
THAT is the arc of how this story is unfolding, aint it ? ? ?
well... i wouldn't be so quick to give petrol carmakers a free pass:
many contemporary gas vehicles have onstar and other centrally controlled services which *CAN* shut off your engine, unlock the doors, honk the horn, or do whatever they want to do remotely...
i *thought* it was even here where i saw a story a while back where donut eaters had some onstar type service kill a car of a 'perp'...
not simply electric cars (they were probably just easier to insert the DRM into), but EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE is going to be 'DRM'ed...
THAT is the world we are building, and we must like it that way, richtig ? ? ?
...or is it being imposed on reluctant sheeple who won't bare their fangs ? ? ?
1. that would be making several assumptions: they are 'smart' people... perhaps, perhaps not: lackeys for Empire come in all sorts... main requirement is to drink the kool-aid...
2. you *MUST* change your perspective: when you look at their actions through the lens of a normal person, seeking to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number, their actions make non sense... IF -however- you look at their actions as being in service to Empire, and all that entails; *THEN* their actions make *perfect* sense, in a sociopathic, fleece the sheeple kind of way...
which naturally leads to: The System is totally subservient to the wants/needs/whims of the 1%, while we languish in a corrupted country which seeks to punish the 99% for not being the 1%...
IT DOES NOT MATTER whether someone/anyone has 'something to hide' or does not: our INALIENABLE RIGHTS are NOT contingent upon being good/bad people, or good/bad times...
our INALIENABLE RIGHTS are UNASSAILABLE in and of themselves...
if ANYONE tells you/asks you to 'justify' them, tell them to fuck off: WE DO NOT HAVE TO DO THAT...
these are BEDROCK NATURAL RIGHTS (regardless of any shredding of the constitution), and we do NOT need to 'justify' them, 'excuse' them, 'asterisk' them, or otherwise explain or weigh them against some mythical rationale to abandon these rights...
dog damn it, sheeple, stand up on your hind legs and bare some bicuspids at Empire ! ! !
power NEVER devolves voluntarily, we have to TAKE IT BACK... stop being afraid of a state whose only power over you is being afraid of the state...
The They (tm) do not hesitate to use violence against us 99% ALL THE TIME; what is the lesson from that ? ? ?
(pssst: the lesson is *not* to cower more abjectly...)
not to mention -duh- that if those media are readable one way or the other (either with original equipment, or analyzing the media and recasting it), then not only SHOULD they be transferred to digital form for posterity, they MUST be, or they will be effectively lost forever, REGARDLESS of what the idiotic copyright terms are...
further, it is by no means a certainty that these works will be transferred/translated to a digital format under their 'enhanced' copyright; BUT, IF they were in the public domain, available to all, i bet dollars to donut holes that there would be a contingent of fans and/or nerds who would effect such a digitization themselves at some point...
i bet silk road has helped a ton more people to get, *ahem*, medicated, than obamacare has, to date...
secondly, i am not coerced by the state to buy shit off of silk road, but i am forced by the state to buy shitty health insurance profits...
and, yes, i said that right: we are being FORCED to finance the man-in-the-middle attack which is called health insurance... that has NOTHING to do with 'healthcare', and EVERYTHING to do with propping up a zombie industry to rip us off FOR-FUCKING-EVER with a gummint-granted monopoly... but idiots and fan bois are distracted by the shiny...
(ps obligatory: YES, i am 100% FOR universal HEALTHCARE, which is WHY i am 100% against the universal health insurance company bailout...)
people are just TOO quick to get all up in other people's shit over relative NOTHING-BURGERS, EXCEPTING the crucial people who actually run this here ball-o-mud: if the concern trolls put 1/10th their effort into (rightfully and righteously) excoriating the rich, the pols, the banksters and korporadoes who have fucked this planet, we would have won the day already...
instead, we're going to get butthurt-by-proxy over relatively inconsequential injustices (if that), but we're too chickenshit to confront the stuff that REALLY matters...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Steve Gaucher on Nov 8th, 2013 @ 6:12pm
really ? so what ? you missed my point after all, and -frankly- *you*, of all people...
IF (and that is a huge, 150 point 'if') you believe in free speech, THEN dan snyder/whoever can name THEIR team/product/etc WHATEVER they want to name them, 'offensive' or not...
THEN, depending on how truly 'offensive' the public finds such names/brands/etc, they will refuse to patronize said offensive brands, and the people who produce them are deemed bigots/asshats, and the planet spins on...
no fascist laws need passing (which WILL be corrupted and turned against *you*, when the time comes); no zombie mob of screeching banshees need descend upon the transgressor, no hypocritical moralizing by privileged pwogs butthurt-by-proxy need apply...
y'all need to turn your faux-ire up to 11 on more deserving targets and injustices...
how about you actually show some concern for how indians are actually treated on their reservations, rather than the theoretical offenses you suffer on their behalf for the humiliation from being sports mascots...
(as an aside, did not hear the valid query of why MANY similar names/teams/etc are not subject to these 'rules', the KC chiefs, etc... have they managed to find the right tribal leaders to bribe to be 'okay' with it ? ? ? )
furthermore, if the polls cited by a number of other posters are in fact and in deed correct, it *SOUNDS LIKE* actual INDIANS don't have a major problem with it, only slacker-libtard, concern trolling, trust funders who have nothing better to do than have a butthurt-by-proxy-of-the-month club are the ones 'offended' by this...
On the post: TPP IP Chapter Leaked, Confirming It's Worse Than ACTA
Re: bullshit
i don't think anymore need be said...
On the post: TPP IP Chapter Leaked, Confirming It's Worse Than ACTA
Re: Re: Re:
i will not bore kampers with how even a relatively benign system of optical scanners can be scammed and hacked...
as with stalin, it doesn't matter who votes, it matters who controls the vote counting machines...
(a CLOSED, PROPRIETARY system of software/hardware... huh, i'm sure nothing could go wrong there...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: University With History Of Free Speech Violations Abuses Trademark Law In Clumsy Attempt To Shut Down Critical Blog
Re: Re: Surprise?
its not 'directed', nor necessarily in 'response' to the environment: random mutations *happen* (cosmic rays, at least), most of those mutations are unexpressed or of no immediate consequence, some are deleterious under the particular circumstances, and those creatures will be disadvantaged, some are beneficial under the particular circumstances, and those creatures will be the ones that tend to survive and pass on those particular mutations...
its random 'shit happens', and some of the shit sticks...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Appeals Court To Explore If A Site With 'Dirt' In The URL Loses All Liability Protections For User Comments
Re:
HE is saying: IF thedirty had the name 'puppiesandrainbows.com' with the EXACT same content, THEN they would have 'safe harbor' ? ? ?
total bizarroworld...
evidently can't reason his way out of a wet paper bag if you spotted him a knife; but i bet he rules how Empire likes ! ! !
(that's the important thing, ain't it ? ? ?)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Boston Police Department Claims Contacting Its Public Affairs Number Is A Criminal Act
Re: So let me get this straight...
*presumably*, if they are 'informed', and they choose to continue the conversation knowing it is recorded, they are effectively 'consenting'...
IANALTDA*
(*i am not a lawyer thank dog almighty)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Internet Archive Fire Shows Vulnerability Of The World's Online Memory
i love the inertnet archive...
archive.org is THE most important website on the inertnet tubes...
P.E.R.I.O.D.
(AND it is also GREAT FUN to browse, you can get lost in those 'stacks' FOREVER...)
On the post: When Is A Lyric Site More Than A Lyric Site?
Re:
On the post: When Is A Lyric Site More Than A Lyric Site?
Re:
i liked the phil collins song better when i thought he was singing 'paper plate, paper plate'...
On the post: When Is A Lyric Site More Than A Lyric Site?
Re:
i regularly rant about how you can't *hear* the lyrics half the time UNLESS you go to relatively extreme lengths and play it back a hundred times to pick out the unintelligible words...
for me, it is an effort not worth undertaking to parse and translate and squint my ears (yes, i said that) to *TRY* to pick out words/lines in pop songs...
to what end ? "i love you baby, do you love me, ooo oooo, oooo ooo"
okay, i played a song back ten times to pick out *those* life-changing lyrics ? ? ? i don't think so...
for the most part, it is 'the sound' that catches my attention, the lyrics are almost meaningless these days...
i know that is unfair to the songsmiths who craft clever, smart, entertaining, insightful lyrics, but i'm just not going to waste my time figuring lyrics for 100 songs for the sake of the one which is 'good'...
its junk food for the ears...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: When Is A Lyric Site More Than A Lyric Site?
Re: Re:
the damn lyric/text files for a whole album would be -what- a couple K ? ? ? now that i'm thinking about your great idea (which a poster below says has been implemented in -you know- NON OFFICIAL ways), it pisses me off EVEN MORE at the useless MAFIAA dons...
that was what was lost with going from albums to CDs (and even more so with MP3's), the loss of cover art, as well as the liner notes, and -many times- even the damn lyrics...
as far as i can tell, even when you buy a physical CD these days, they don't generally have the lyrics...
it's almost as if the lyrics are meaningless sounds to accompany the music...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Renault Introduces DRM For Cars
Re: Re: Techdirt always arrives late and without the last decade context.
it was only because it was relatively easy to slip that in unnoticed on their electric vehicle that they did it; i'm certain ALL auto makers would do the same...
THAT is the arc of how this story is unfolding, aint it ? ? ?
On the post: Renault Introduces DRM For Cars
Re: And this is why...
i wouldn't be so quick to give petrol carmakers a free pass:
many contemporary gas vehicles have onstar and other centrally controlled services which *CAN* shut off your engine, unlock the doors, honk the horn, or do whatever they want to do remotely...
i *thought* it was even here where i saw a story a while back where donut eaters had some onstar type service kill a car of a 'perp'...
not simply electric cars (they were probably just easier to insert the DRM into), but EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE is going to be 'DRM'ed...
THAT is the world we are building, and we must like it that way, richtig ? ? ?
...or is it being imposed on reluctant sheeple who won't bare their fangs ? ? ?
On the post: UK Foreign Secretary Says Merely 'Speculating' About Intelligence Capabilities Is Damaging To The Country
Re: Intelligence my ass..
2. you *MUST* change your perspective: when you look at their actions through the lens of a normal person, seeking to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number, their actions make non sense...
IF -however- you look at their actions as being in service to Empire, and all that entails; *THEN* their actions make *perfect* sense, in a sociopathic, fleece the sheeple kind of way...
which naturally leads to: The System is totally subservient to the wants/needs/whims of the 1%, while we languish in a corrupted country which seeks to punish the 99% for not being the 1%...
i mean, that's just the way it is, richtig ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: GCHQ's Response To Hacking Slashdot And LinkedIn: No Comment, But It Was Perfectly Legal
Re: Re: Encryption anyone?
IT DOES NOT MATTER whether someone/anyone has 'something to hide' or does not: our INALIENABLE RIGHTS are NOT contingent upon being good/bad people, or good/bad times...
our INALIENABLE RIGHTS are UNASSAILABLE in and of themselves...
if ANYONE tells you/asks you to 'justify' them, tell them to fuck off: WE DO NOT HAVE TO DO THAT...
these are BEDROCK NATURAL RIGHTS (regardless of any shredding of the constitution), and we do NOT need to 'justify' them, 'excuse' them, 'asterisk' them, or otherwise explain or weigh them against some mythical rationale to abandon these rights...
dog damn it, sheeple, stand up on your hind legs and bare some bicuspids at Empire ! ! !
power NEVER devolves voluntarily, we have to TAKE IT BACK...
stop being afraid of a state whose only power over you is being afraid of the state...
The They (tm) do not hesitate to use violence against us 99% ALL THE TIME; what is the lesson from that ? ? ?
(pssst: the lesson is *not* to cower more abjectly...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Vlambeer Makes YouTubers Monetizing That S@&% Easy As S@&%
now, wait just a darn tootin' minute...
*that* will never catch on...
On the post: Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain
Re: Re: Re: Re:
further, it is by no means a certainty that these works will be transferred/translated to a digital format under their 'enhanced' copyright; BUT, IF they were in the public domain, available to all, i bet dollars to donut holes that there would be a contingent of fans and/or nerds who would effect such a digitization themselves at some point...
now? no such luck...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: GCHQ Used Fake Slashdot Page To Install Malware To Hack Internet Exchange
Re: Re: Re: Any re-direct can do this.
(not using noscript here at work, but do at home, and don't recall *not* being able to read 'hidden' comments...)
On the post: Dan Gillmor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re:
i bet silk road has helped a ton more people to get, *ahem*, medicated, than obamacare has, to date...
secondly, i am not coerced by the state to buy shit off of silk road, but i am forced by the state to buy shitty health insurance profits...
and, yes, i said that right: we are being FORCED to finance the man-in-the-middle attack which is called health insurance... that has NOTHING to do with 'healthcare', and EVERYTHING to do with propping up a zombie industry to rip us off FOR-FUCKING-EVER with a gummint-granted monopoly... but idiots and fan bois are distracted by the shiny...
(ps obligatory: YES, i am 100% FOR universal HEALTHCARE, which is WHY i am 100% against the universal health insurance company bailout...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: How Trademark Law Can Finally Kill Dan Snyder's Racist Dreamworld
Re: who's been called a redskin actually???
people are just TOO quick to get all up in other people's shit over relative NOTHING-BURGERS, EXCEPTING the crucial people who actually run this here ball-o-mud: if the concern trolls put 1/10th their effort into (rightfully and righteously) excoriating the rich, the pols, the banksters and korporadoes who have fucked this planet, we would have won the day already...
instead, we're going to get butthurt-by-proxy over relatively inconsequential injustices (if that), but we're too chickenshit to confront the stuff that REALLY matters...
On the post: How Trademark Law Can Finally Kill Dan Snyder's Racist Dreamworld
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Steve Gaucher on Nov 8th, 2013 @ 6:12pm
so what ?
you missed my point after all, and -frankly- *you*, of all people...
IF (and that is a huge, 150 point 'if') you believe in free speech, THEN dan snyder/whoever can name THEIR team/product/etc WHATEVER they want to name them, 'offensive' or not...
THEN, depending on how truly 'offensive' the public finds such names/brands/etc, they will refuse to patronize said offensive brands, and the people who produce them are deemed bigots/asshats, and the planet spins on...
no fascist laws need passing (which WILL be corrupted and turned against *you*, when the time comes); no zombie mob of screeching banshees need descend upon the transgressor, no hypocritical moralizing by privileged pwogs butthurt-by-proxy need apply...
y'all need to turn your faux-ire up to 11 on more deserving targets and injustices...
how about you actually show some concern for how indians are actually treated on their reservations, rather than the theoretical offenses you suffer on their behalf for the humiliation from being sports mascots...
(as an aside, did not hear the valid query of why MANY similar names/teams/etc are not subject to these 'rules', the KC chiefs, etc... have they managed to find the right tribal leaders to bribe to be 'okay' with it ? ? ? )
furthermore, if the polls cited by a number of other posters are in fact and in deed correct, it *SOUNDS LIKE* actual INDIANS don't have a major problem with it, only slacker-libtard, concern trolling, trust funders who have nothing better to do than have a butthurt-by-proxy-of-the-month club are the ones 'offended' by this...
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