Step right up suckers and give Amazon/Apple/Whoever your money to "rent" your own culture. And if you're all good boys and girls you might be allowed to visit it once in a while.
Reminds me of when an Apple team internally code named a project "Carl Sagan" only to get a C&D from his spaced out Weed-Headedness complaining. Apple promptly changed the name to "BHA", script for "Butt-Headed Astronomer".
Apple's lawyers were ordered by the Apple board of directors to shut down the distribution of these Steve Jobs dolls ASAP.
It seems that these dolls, while certainly less costly than the real Steve Jobs, were proving to be more charismatic leaders, better communicators and superior technology visionaries than the real article.
Please publish your home address in a responding post.
Several of us will be by shortly to search your home, papers, computer(s), underwear drawers and your person. We may decide to seize anything of interest.
Since when is persona privacy a right?
Since when is being free from warrant-less search and seizure a right?
Either the Constitution of the Unites States is the ultimate law of the land or it isn't There is no gray area.
Is the Constitution dead, or are you just too god-damned lazy to defend it?
...being forced to pay for programming that they don't want or worse, find morally or politically offensive.
In NO OTHER arena of American civil life are consumers forced to buy bundles of products. When I walk into a grocery store, I am not forced to choose between Family-Feed-Bag 1, 2 or 3.
Television programming is NO DIFFERENT. The technology limitation excuses are holdover lies from the past. The boxes today have total discrete control over the channels gated through.
Revolt! Revolt I say! Cut the cord! Smash the Dish!
Make these bastards crawl back to us with decently priced ala-carte programming by network.
A law that states that all laws and legally binding agreements and disclosures must be printed in 72 point high type with a minimum width of 20 points.
Let's bury the bastards under giant mounds of their own paper effluence!
Mike wrote: "...but it does seem especially sleazy to do this while pulling child-only health insurance."
Why is it sleazy to run a profit/loss analysis on a product or service, determine that you -will- LOSE money and then have the temerity to actually act on that information in the best interests of your employees and shareholders?
How would Floor64 like to be held to the same irrational, illogical, coercive and frankly socialist standard you and the "Never had a real Job" Obama administration are trying to hold insurance companies to?
If that forehead smack really hurt, then good. You needed one for posting that little leftist turdball.
Not if we muster the sense to simply -shut down- the Patent Office.
Why can't we have -THAT- discussion?
What would be the big loss?
From my perspective, all I see is benefit as business has one less lawyer-laden anchor around its neck. Innovation will accelerate. Prices will fall. Production will rise. Lawyers may starve, but who cares the crap cares about lawyers?
For those of us poor schlubs that will never step foot in New York state, exactly what is the difference between your typical "California" bagel and a real New York Bagel?
Should I be eying that poly bag of eight bagel impostors lurking in my fridge with derision or pity?
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DRM - Defective by Design.
On the post: Intellectual Ventures Files Its First Lawsuits; Giant Patent Troll Awakened
Why fix it?
The real inventions these days are just noise buried by a cacophony of "Refrigerator-Clock" incrementalist dreck.
All of this nonsense is a DRAG on our economy and needs to be swept away.
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DAMN YOU MIKE!!!!!
The worst part is the deafening buzzing sound.
On the post: Olympics Continues Threatening ICANN Because It Won't Block All Olympics-Related Terms
Re: Huh
Reminds me of when an Apple team internally code named a project "Carl Sagan" only to get a C&D from his spaced out Weed-Headedness complaining. Apple promptly changed the name to "BHA", script for "Butt-Headed Astronomer".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation
On the post: Olympics Continues Threatening ICANN Because It Won't Block All Olympics-Related Terms
Olympics??
ICANN should pull that trigger first and seek a declaratory judgment. Then sue the US arm of the IOC to recover the legal expenses.
On the post: Apple Forces Removal Of Steve Jobs Action Figure
The inside story....
It seems that these dolls, while certainly less costly than the real Steve Jobs, were proving to be more charismatic leaders, better communicators and superior technology visionaries than the real article.
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Ohhh...Mike....
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Re: don't fly
Several of us will be by shortly to search your home, papers, computer(s), underwear drawers and your person. We may decide to seize anything of interest.
Since when is persona privacy a right?
Since when is being free from warrant-less search and seizure a right?
Either the Constitution of the Unites States is the ultimate law of the land or it isn't There is no gray area.
Is the Constitution dead, or are you just too god-damned lazy to defend it?
On the post: TSA Threatens To Sue Guy For Not Agreeing To Having His Groin Touched By TSA Agents
The bottom like to all this is...
Think about that for a while kids.
On the post: TSA Threatens To Sue Guy For Not Agreeing To Having His Groin Touched By TSA Agents
Re:
"Please" is not a word that has ever, or will ever come from any of their over-fed government pie-holes.
On the post: Texas Supreme Court Cites The Wisdom Of Spock On Star Trek
"Wrath" is a very quotable movie.
"As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create. " -Spock
It therefore follows that those among us that seek to destroy only emphasize their inherent laziness and defective work ethic.
On the post: Comcast Pretends That Cord Cutters Aren't Cord Cutters If They Cut Cord Because Of The Economy
People are also pissed about...
In NO OTHER arena of American civil life are consumers forced to buy bundles of products. When I walk into a grocery store, I am not forced to choose between Family-Feed-Bag 1, 2 or 3.
Television programming is NO DIFFERENT. The technology limitation excuses are holdover lies from the past. The boxes today have total discrete control over the channels gated through.
Revolt! Revolt I say! Cut the cord! Smash the Dish!
Make these bastards crawl back to us with decently priced ala-carte programming by network.
On the post: Supreme Court Chief Justice Admits He Doesn't Read Online EULAs Or Other 'Fine Print'
Ah-ha! The answer to to problem is....
Let's bury the bastards under giant mounds of their own paper effluence!
On the post: The New Children's Health Plan Is Videogames?
Sleazy???
"...but it does seem especially sleazy to do this while pulling child-only health insurance."
Why is it sleazy to run a profit/loss analysis on a product or service, determine that you -will- LOSE money and then have the temerity to actually act on that information in the best interests of your employees and shareholders?
How would Floor64 like to be held to the same irrational, illogical, coercive and frankly socialist standard you and the "Never had a real Job" Obama administration are trying to hold insurance companies to?
If that forehead smack really hurt, then good. You needed one for posting that little leftist turdball.
On the post: Microsoft's Patent On GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding
Re: Junk Patent Problem Yet Again
Not if we muster the sense to simply -shut down- the Patent Office.
Why can't we have -THAT- discussion?
What would be the big loss?
From my perspective, all I see is benefit as business has one less lawyer-laden anchor around its neck. Innovation will accelerate. Prices will fall. Production will rise. Lawyers may starve, but who cares the crap cares about lawyers?
On the post: Advertisers Bailing On Murdoch's Paywalls As The Company Won't Reveal How Many People See Ads
Re:
On the post: Advertisers Bailing On Murdoch's Paywalls As The Company Won't Reveal How Many People See Ads
In the words of that...
"Haaaa-haaaa"
Mike is so gracious and sweet. He never posts overt "I Told You So" articles.
He lets us carry the "Neener, neener, neener" load.
On the post: City Councilor Sue Uteck Silences, Threatens To Sue, Person Who Set Up FakeSueUteck On Twitter
Obigitory Internet Response....
Signed,
Spartacus
Third hovel on the left.
Misirable, Nasty Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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This was really a hoot..
Simpson's writers, take note.
On the post: Bagel Company Sued For Claiming It Had Patented Process For Making 'Brooklyn Water'
Further insight required Mike...
For those of us poor schlubs that will never step foot in New York state, exactly what is the difference between your typical "California" bagel and a real New York Bagel?
Should I be eying that poly bag of eight bagel impostors lurking in my fridge with derision or pity?
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