So it just did it again. Somehow, when hitting the Backspace key, the form mistakenly thought I was hitting the Enter key. Sometimes I just want to scream!
You used too many words, you should've ended with "shot". Oh wait... I guess they don't have a vaccine for stupidity yet, do they. Back to the cannon idea.
(Another version of this is being held in moderation, and it was in the middle of being edited. I hope the moderator picks up on that, and deletes it. (Somehow, when h
Yeah, the issue here is the veracity of the applicant. How does any website determine the true age of a given viewer? Answer; they don't. They depend on self-honesty, and that's it. (OTOH, those sites dealing with money do take steps to make sure they won't get scammed. It still happens, but at least they try to prevent it. For them, responses to applicants are almost never "instant".)
BTW, "helicopter parent" has been replaced by "bungie parent". Gotta keep up with the way things move faster and faster on the 'web, eh? ;)
I hear that they took gullible out of the dictionary!
Not quite, but close. What they did was delete the former definition, and substitute in the words "See the definition for the word Republican".
** For those readers who are actually Republican, I'm sorry. But you have to admit, like cops who are "bad apples in the barrel", you are suffering the ignomy of being lumped into the same barrel - the plain evidence is there to see, for those who don't bury their heads in the sand.
Or if you prefer, let's go down this road: "95% of all lawyers are giving the profession a bad name." Same could be said about today's Republican party.
**
And for those who wonder....
Trump originally registered Democrat for 20 years, then Republican for 12 years, then Reform Party for 2 years, then Democratic for 8 years, then Independent for 2 years, then a pro-abortion liberal Republican in 2012, then a pro-life Republican from 2014 to the present. All the time before 2014 he was liberal, socialistic, pro-abortion, no matter what his party at the time. But when questioned about which party he would pick if he were to run for President, he said "Republican, because they'll believe anything".
Such a person has no philosophical conviction. And we saw that every day for four years and some - he believes in only one thing, and that's Trumpism. Everything else is a bad-tasting figment of his imagination.
No suspicions necessary, you are absolutely correct - Big Telco is most definitely whispering in our congresscritters' ears, and none-too-gently reminding them that the campaign donations will stop if they don't keep hammering on 'Big Tech'. It's going to change, and for the better, but likely not until long after I've shuffled off of this mortal coil.
Stephan, the problem with your request is by asking for even just one example of something that is "common knowledge", it's considered to be counter-productive. IOW, you are the one disrupting the conversation, as far as they are concerned. IOOW, you are attempting to have a battle of wits with someone who is unarmed.... does that seem like you're being fair to them? ;)
My opinion on the matter can be summed up nicely: As noted in the days of old, an armed society is a polite society. Here in the Internet Age, that's been modified to read:
An Internet-dependent society is a lowest-common-denominator society.
And that's a fookin' shame, cause it sure didn't start out to be that way.
Ah, a direct parallel to social media. It goes like this:
Blame the innocent bystander instead of the actual perpetrator of the crime;
is the equivalent of:
Blame the platform for a shit-post instead of the actual shit-poster.
By extension, most of Congress equals the prosecutors in this case, whereas the Judge has no counterpart.... but he's exercising both logic and rational reasoning, a faculty that desperately needs some form of existence in the "Tear Down Big Tech!" world.
I said "all the parts of the infrastructure", whereby I include the DNS servers, any cloud storage, CDN(s), all of it. Even at the gateway between countries, should the host provider be outside of the US. That's not going to be easy, but it can be done, and it should be done for the best effect.
The reason you don’t use the DMCA being shot from the hip is now they can show a reasonable, moderated effort to compel compliance with licensing terms.
The very act of going to court is that compulsion, before or after a DMCA notice makes no practical difference. What I'm saying is that going to court first allows a very long time slot wherein #45's crude and crass stealing remains in action. The DMCA notice squelches that much more quickly. And while a court case pursuant to a counter-claim notice is in play, the hosting provider most likely will not restore the site...... at least not without a direct court order.
As to due process.... I'm surprised at this one. The current law as implemented seems (very strongly) to explicitly exclude due process. IOW, a claim is made, and an adverse action is taken, end of story. At no time was any investigation as to the veracity of the claim made, not by any person, company, government agency, nor the courts. I find that to be the poster-boy for "no due process". I personally think that this lack is a large part of why the internet is in such turmoil, because we US citizens were raised to believe that one is innocent until proven guilty..... and we're not seeing that on the internet, are we?
Yeah, but we get to keep the name of United States of America. They can make up whatever name they want for themselves, but it can't include the words United, States, or America, not in any order. That's a firm line in the sand.
Re: The real damage is coming, just not so soon....
Actually TOG and AC, the only time I used "stupid" is in the last sentence, which is a statement of my personal sentiments. Perhaps I should have used a synonym, but the net effect is the same - I don't easily hold my tongue when I'm exposed to massive dumbass-ness. But other than that, I used "dumbass" instead of stupid, because it's a term that we all understand, in the generic sense.
And as to the pain felt, I agree. The reason for my statement is that obviously better educated folks do feel the pain, but the ignorant don't feel much of anything, it just slides right off of them, and they're happier than pigs in slop. Hence the quote, though I don't know who said it first.
While the SEC will eventually get around to scrutinizing what is sure to make Bonfire Of The Vanities look like a grade school prank, it will take time. Meanwhile, #45 and company are not paying the IRS what they should be paying, because the moment he touches any kind of perceived profit (he won't be able to say he's recovering his initial investment, right?), he's on the hook, plain and simple. But we can damn well guess with 101% certainly just how much he'll willing give up, eh?
So he's sitting on a fuck-ton of cash, now what? Well, who gave him all that money, via the word "investment"? Easy - Dumbasses Are Us™ .
But here's the thing. These so-called "investors" (who are going to go down in history as giving day-traders a good name) are going to claim that they lost money on that investment, and their tax picture is going to look a little bit more rosy, come next April. So now we have a double whammy - Trump is keeping his money out of the IRS's hands, Joe Bleaux is legitimately claiming a loss, so there's money not going in the government coffers, and the country as a whole comes up short. Next thing you know, Congress and the President are having to raise taxes to cover that shortfall. Uncle Sam figuratively comes knocking on your door with hat in one hand and his other stretched out with the palm up.
Remember those 3rd grade dropouts who can't count to 11 without unzipping their pants? Yeah, I'm talking about the Dumbasses Are Us™ crowd. Well, our Uncle is gonna be knocking at their door too. Now, overall, just how much did they save by claiming a loss??
Now you know why I have such a hard time getting through life - it's not that I don't tolerate stupidity, it's that I"m not afraid to tell people that my favorite quote is "It's too bad that ignorance isn't painful!"
Discuss It mentioned it above, in one fleeting sentence. Let's get into the nitty-gritty.
The courts certainly are NOT the correct solution here. The fast and lasting way that can't be easily circumvented is to serve DMCA copyright notices to all infrastructure suppliers for that site. After reading countless articles on how these things work, and given the fact that countering them requires a lot of effort (and no small amount of money), I'm pretty sure that UNtruth Social will not make it to prime time in the near future.
At least, not without #45 having to go on the offense for a change. Then he'll find out how slow-walking works, won't he though.
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So it just did it again. Somehow, when hitting the Backspace key, the form mistakenly thought I was hitting the Enter key. Sometimes I just want to scream!
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You used too many words, you should've ended with "shot". Oh wait... I guess they don't have a vaccine for stupidity yet, do they. Back to the cannon idea.
(Another version of this is being held in moderation, and it was in the middle of being edited. I hope the moderator picks up on that, and deletes it. (Somehow, when h
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You used too many words, you should've ended with "shot". (Oh wait.... I guin given a vaccine of some kind.)
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Re: Ticorette Gum
... said the pundit-wannabe who doesn't take his own advice.
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Re: Deeply wrongheaded mentality
Yeah, the issue here is the veracity of the applicant. How does any website determine the true age of a given viewer? Answer; they don't. They depend on self-honesty, and that's it. (OTOH, those sites dealing with money do take steps to make sure they won't get scammed. It still happens, but at least they try to prevent it. For them, responses to applicants are almost never "instant".)
BTW, "helicopter parent" has been replaced by "bungie parent". Gotta keep up with the way things move faster and faster on the 'web, eh? ;)
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Obviously not enough. 74.2 million American voters are proof of that particular lack.
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Re: Re: less offence, more defence
Not quite, but close. What they did was delete the former definition, and substitute in the words "See the definition for the word Republican".
** For those readers who are actually Republican, I'm sorry. But you have to admit, like cops who are "bad apples in the barrel", you are suffering the ignomy of being lumped into the same barrel - the plain evidence is there to see, for those who don't bury their heads in the sand.
Or if you prefer, let's go down this road: "95% of all lawyers are giving the profession a bad name." Same could be said about today's Republican party.
**
And for those who wonder....
Trump originally registered Democrat for 20 years, then Republican for 12 years, then Reform Party for 2 years, then Democratic for 8 years, then Independent for 2 years, then a pro-abortion liberal Republican in 2012, then a pro-life Republican from 2014 to the present. All the time before 2014 he was liberal, socialistic, pro-abortion, no matter what his party at the time. But when questioned about which party he would pick if he were to run for President, he said "Republican, because they'll believe anything".
Such a person has no philosophical conviction. And we saw that every day for four years and some - he believes in only one thing, and that's Trumpism. Everything else is a bad-tasting figment of his imagination.
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Yes. Do recall the old saying:
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Re: forget Facebook, go after Comcast
No suspicions necessary, you are absolutely correct - Big Telco is most definitely whispering in our congresscritters' ears, and none-too-gently reminding them that the campaign donations will stop if they don't keep hammering on 'Big Tech'. It's going to change, and for the better, but likely not until long after I've shuffled off of this mortal coil.
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Re:
Stephan, the problem with your request is by asking for even just one example of something that is "common knowledge", it's considered to be counter-productive. IOW, you are the one disrupting the conversation, as far as they are concerned. IOOW, you are attempting to have a battle of wits with someone who is unarmed.... does that seem like you're being fair to them? ;)
My opinion on the matter can be summed up nicely: As noted in the days of old, an armed society is a polite society. Here in the Internet Age, that's been modified to read:
And that's a fookin' shame, cause it sure didn't start out to be that way.
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Possibilities?
Guarantees:
Profit.
The Internet does not run on good will, it needs to be profitable in order to live on.
(Ah, Ah, Ah, don't go there. If it were run on government largesse, the entire thing would be shut down every time #45 threw a hissy fit.)
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Nothing is ever odd when you juxtapose campaign donations against voices of the people. To update an old phrase:
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Nah, according to Dr. Cuddy, he's just Koby Lite.
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Ah, a direct parallel to social media. It goes like this:
Blame the innocent bystander instead of the actual perpetrator of the crime;
is the equivalent of:
Blame the platform for a shit-post instead of the actual shit-poster.
By extension, most of Congress equals the prosecutors in this case, whereas the Judge has no counterpart.... but he's exercising both logic and rational reasoning, a faculty that desperately needs some form of existence in the "Tear Down Big Tech!" world.
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Re: Re: How it'll all go down....
James and Thad,
I said "all the parts of the infrastructure", whereby I include the DNS servers, any cloud storage, CDN(s), all of it. Even at the gateway between countries, should the host provider be outside of the US. That's not going to be easy, but it can be done, and it should be done for the best effect.
The very act of going to court is that compulsion, before or after a DMCA notice makes no practical difference. What I'm saying is that going to court first allows a very long time slot wherein #45's crude and crass stealing remains in action. The DMCA notice squelches that much more quickly. And while a court case pursuant to a counter-claim notice is in play, the hosting provider most likely will not restore the site...... at least not without a direct court order.
As to due process.... I'm surprised at this one. The current law as implemented seems (very strongly) to explicitly exclude due process. IOW, a claim is made, and an adverse action is taken, end of story. At no time was any investigation as to the veracity of the claim made, not by any person, company, government agency, nor the courts. I find that to be the poster-boy for "no due process". I personally think that this lack is a large part of why the internet is in such turmoil, because we US citizens were raised to believe that one is innocent until proven guilty..... and we're not seeing that on the internet, are we?
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Re: Re: Re:
Yeah, but we get to keep the name of United States of America. They can make up whatever name they want for themselves, but it can't include the words United, States, or America, not in any order. That's a firm line in the sand.
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Re: The real damage is coming, just not so soon....
Actually TOG and AC, the only time I used "stupid" is in the last sentence, which is a statement of my personal sentiments. Perhaps I should have used a synonym, but the net effect is the same - I don't easily hold my tongue when I'm exposed to massive dumbass-ness. But other than that, I used "dumbass" instead of stupid, because it's a term that we all understand, in the generic sense.
And as to the pain felt, I agree. The reason for my statement is that obviously better educated folks do feel the pain, but the ignorant don't feel much of anything, it just slides right off of them, and they're happier than pigs in slop. Hence the quote, though I don't know who said it first.
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The real damage is coming, just not so soon....
While the SEC will eventually get around to scrutinizing what is sure to make Bonfire Of The Vanities look like a grade school prank, it will take time. Meanwhile, #45 and company are not paying the IRS what they should be paying, because the moment he touches any kind of perceived profit (he won't be able to say he's recovering his initial investment, right?), he's on the hook, plain and simple. But we can damn well guess with 101% certainly just how much he'll willing give up, eh?
So he's sitting on a fuck-ton of cash, now what? Well, who gave him all that money, via the word "investment"? Easy - Dumbasses Are Us™ .
But here's the thing. These so-called "investors" (who are going to go down in history as giving day-traders a good name) are going to claim that they lost money on that investment, and their tax picture is going to look a little bit more rosy, come next April. So now we have a double whammy - Trump is keeping his money out of the IRS's hands, Joe Bleaux is legitimately claiming a loss, so there's money not going in the government coffers, and the country as a whole comes up short. Next thing you know, Congress and the President are having to raise taxes to cover that shortfall. Uncle Sam figuratively comes knocking on your door with hat in one hand and his other stretched out with the palm up.
Remember those 3rd grade dropouts who can't count to 11 without unzipping their pants? Yeah, I'm talking about the Dumbasses Are Us™ crowd. Well, our Uncle is gonna be knocking at their door too. Now, overall, just how much did they save by claiming a loss??
Now you know why I have such a hard time getting through life - it's not that I don't tolerate stupidity, it's that I"m not afraid to tell people that my favorite quote is "It's too bad that ignorance isn't painful!"
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or... That Maggot Trump Grifts
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How it'll all go down....
Discuss It mentioned it above, in one fleeting sentence. Let's get into the nitty-gritty.
The courts certainly are NOT the correct solution here. The fast and lasting way that can't be easily circumvented is to serve DMCA copyright notices to all infrastructure suppliers for that site. After reading countless articles on how these things work, and given the fact that countering them requires a lot of effort (and no small amount of money), I'm pretty sure that UNtruth Social will not make it to prime time in the near future.
At least, not without #45 having to go on the offense for a change. Then he'll find out how slow-walking works, won't he though.
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