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• On the post: Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based On Metadata

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 13 May 2014 @ 2:44am

  
  

  He laughed

  What scares me, apart from the fact that he's happy to kill people illegally, is that he was able to laugh off his statement.
  
  Wait until he got back to the office. "Guys, I was just on a panel, and told this doozy of a joke ... ".

• On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 13 May 2014 @ 2:40am

  
  

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  Given that the phone call "hey mom, can you order me a computer" would be tapped, I don't see the point.

• On the post: What Do You Get When You Mix Napster, Wikileaks, Snowden And Open Access?

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 10 May 2014 @ 3:45am

  
  

  This assumes that education is just reading relevant papers. There's a little more to it than that

• On the post: DailyDirt: Beyond The Cronut

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 10 May 2014 @ 1:12am

  
  

  Recipes

  "Good thing recipes can't be copyrighted."
  
  Yet ...

• On the post: The Logical Conclusion Of Zero Tolerance: College Prof Suspended Because Daughter Wore A GoT Tshirt

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 20 Apr 2014 @ 8:02pm

  
  

  Re: Re: In The US, You Tend To See Guns Everywhere...

  Right, because doctors don't do any good.
  
  You missed the 'lives saved by doctors' entry in your little essay.

• On the post: The Logical Conclusion Of Zero Tolerance: College Prof Suspended Because Daughter Wore A GoT Tshirt

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 20 Apr 2014 @ 7:59pm

  
  

  Re: Re: In The US, You Tend To See Guns Everywhere...

  "I have to tell you that you're wrong". Well I'm going to tell you that you're wrong.
  
  No, let's start again. What you should have said is "I disagree with you". Just as I disagree with you. That you made a point does not make it right. You have a view on gun ownership, which is your right. Countless others have different views, which is their right.
  
  I know many Americas who fear for the future of their country because of the proliferation of firearms. And a good number of people outside the US who choose not to visit for the same reason.
  
  You say, correctly, that it is a right to carry firearms in the US. Then you say, incorrectly, that that's for good reason. It isn't. It's an artefact of the days when the Constitution was written, and a complete and deliberate misinterpretation of the phrase in which 'militia' appears.

• On the post: Mark Zuckerberg Says The US Has Become A Threat To, Rather Than A Champion For, The Internet

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 13 Mar 2014 @ 7:31pm

  
  

  Re: Not sure what to think...

  Which is less evil? The one you don't have to sign up for.

• On the post: Mozilla Pretends New Firefox Ads Aren't Ads, Will Somehow Revolutionize Browsing

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 20 Feb 2014 @ 3:38am

  
  

  Fiduciary duty

  "We're not focused on bringing the most revenue into Mozilla," she said."
  
  A clear case of breach of fiduciary duty to the shareholders. She should be sacked, possibly prosecuted.

• On the post: Hunter Walk's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Craig Welch (profile), 18 Aug 2013 @ 4:45am

  
  

  Why would you want the weekend newspaper delivered seven days a week? Surely reading it once it's enough.

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