as 'our' (sic) country devolves further and further into orwellian despair, it is difficult not to consider -realistically- whether nine one one was emperor bush the second's reichstag fire...
looking at it from *that* perspective, it makes a certain perverted 'sense'...
"tell our children that guns in certain terms are only meant for shooting the bad guy"
um, except for one teensy weensy detail:
according to Big Bother, WE 99% ARE the 'bad guys'...
guess that means we should all shoot ourselves ? ? ?
(it would save Big Bother the trouble...)
how many retards does it take to run a country into the ground ? ? ?
let me get out my abacus:
1 president
9 el supremos
100 + 435 kongresskritters
plus the state legislatures of every state...
if we got rid of those retards, could we get some real work done in fixing this ball-o-mud ? ? ?
(the answer is 'yes', by the way...)
just read another in a series of unending idiotic stories today, where a kid got pulled out of school and punished 'cause he chewed his poptart into the rough shape of a gun... *AND* they sent a note home with all the other precious snowflakes warning the parents about if the snowflakes were traumatized by the poptart 'gun'...
more pissed by the arrogant blocking than the pron...
as it is, 'our' ((sic)sick) 'representatives' can hardly demonstrate how much contempt they have for us lowly peons...
...and yet they still manage to rankle more...
fucking bastards...
i know how to tie a noose, i got a pitchfork, and i can make a torch real easy...
THAT is the inevitable conclusion THEY are pushing us towards...
do they not see that, or do they not care ? ? ?
"Tired of people thinking there are no repercussions to bad behavior." quoth a lonely mouse...
1. as a general principle, it is difficult to disagree with that truism... (in fact, it is how our whole system works)
2. HOWEVER, when viewed as coming from *YOU*, it is hypocritical and disingenuous on many levels...
3. *AND* when considering the kreepy, greedy MAFIAA bastards who you associate with, it is doubly hypocritical and disingenuous...
4. not to mention, i can hardly get excited that someone who ALREADY has more money than is seemly is getting screwed over a few shekels... if it was someone 'unknown', then i'd feel a trifle more concerned; but if they were 'unknown', then they wouldn't have been pirated in the first place...
5. briefly mentioned, is that the 'offender' was/is in the music industry: so aren't you suing somebody ON YOUR 'SIDE' to protect their job ? ? ? does the cognitive dissonance make your ears ring ? ? ?
6. actually kind of curious as to how all these 'leaks' happen: industry insiders 'steal' the product to put out in the wild, but NO ONE ever hears about them breaking down doors to get the ORIGINAL thieves, ONLY the stupid kidz doing torrents of it after it is in the wild...
i wonder why these insiders do this ? ? ? is it because they too DESPISE the very industry they are in and its puppetmasters ? ? ?
...*not* that the odd (literally/figuratively) courtroom defendant *actually* cusses out a judge (or other 'officer of the court'); which i'm sure *at least* 50% of the nekkid apes who appear before a judge WANT to do...
no, the lesson is, that judges are running unchecked fiefdoms where they can get away with 'contemptible' shit; whether a poor, ignorant, possibly screwed-over, unappealing defendant is slapped upside the head for having the temerity to treat the judge like a fellow human being who is no better than them; or imposing a personal or overtly political agenda to enforce THEIR views, regardless of the law...
whether it is 10 commandment plaques on courthouse steps, or other patently un-constitutional bullshit; judges are NOT *OUR* arbiters of justice, they are owned by The System...
(and we li'l peeps ain't invited...)
there are few-to-no judges who are NOT part of The System, and they will defend that system to the detriment of the people...
even though we have elections for some levels of judge, they are pretty much appointed to the position by the 'legal community'...
the votes are almost 70-80-90% to retain judges; which is why i always vote 'no' on retaining *any* of them... i want my little vote to -eventually- tally with enough that we put some fear back in them, where they *must* respond to our viewpoints...
(probably not in my lifetime...)
which *IS* actually part of the problem:
our evil overlords don't even have to BOTHER buying votes of the kongresskritters, railroading orwellian-named bills through, and other annoying shit: they just 'privatize' fucking EVERYTHING, and then,
A. they -duh- kontrol EVERYTHING (only *slightly* different from the present)...
B. they can violate 'laws', 'regulations', 'treaties', the 'constitution' at will with NO oversight or consequences...
IF it were a real law (whatever that means in these days of secret laws, secret interpretations, secret signing statements, ad nauseum), it could -at least theoretically- be stopped, overturned, amended, whatever...
(see, SOPA, etc *)
as a korporate 'policy', it is -apparently- beyond our control, much less influence...
(obviously, NOT that i want such a law, just that it being a 'private matter' has horrendous implications for our society...)
...or a john dos passos fan ! ! !
hee hee hee
...or a lazy puke like me ! ! !
ho ho ho
...or a person interested in communicating substance over style ! ! !
ha ha ha
...or a ne'er-do-well who likes tweaking the nares of grammar police...
ak ak ak
to the point:
1. *given* it is an insidious sellout of their customers and their rights...
(more quasi-private korporate actors evading the constitution and, well, you know, morals... yes, i know: if the constitution is 'quaint', according to a recent emperor, then 'morals' are a sick joke...)
2. *given* i agree with the original poster's assessment of the Big Media big wigs nefariously and purposefully choosing a korporate bootlick they *know* will shotgun out a billion takedowns, regardless of validity...
*exactly* like 2000+ florida rethugs 'filtered' their (florida's peoples'?) database lists of 'felons' (sic) etc to catch the MOST number of people (gee, usually dem'rats of color, how odd is that?), 90% plus of whom did NOT have felony convictions that would disqualify them (unfortunately) by florida law... if they had ANY part of a last name and initial which matched a felon's ANYWHERE in the US, they were booted from the voting rolls...
kampers, the racists never went away, they just got insidious... its all perfectly legal-like... *just* like gassing jews was all, you know, perfectly 'legal'...
personally, i'm looking into both public DNS services and a VPN... and i don't pirate nuthin'...
fuck them motherfuckin' eagles...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy (*ahem* 'archy and mehtabel')
eof
i have no knowledge on this one way or the other, but wouldn't they just assume that each youtube view was an ad view, whether it was adblocked or not ? ? ?
in other words, doesn't using adblock NOT work to prevent them from monetizing the views ? ? ?
(don't know, am honestly asking)
i might just say, that as a metaphysical test, the one species which wonders whether the other species is smarter than their species, is probably the smarter species...
(in other words, i don't think dolphins wonder if we are smarter than them, thus proving we are smarter than them...
if not as pretty)
1. on the scale of heinous crimes, i guess child killer is pretty much towards the one end of the scale; child molester would be pretty close, no ? ? ?
...and, yet, -at least in the states- their home location is PUBLICIZED by the gummint AFTER they have 'paid their debt to society' (such that their 'debt' is NEVER paid, is it ?)
in fact, they will FORCE the EX-offender to register their location, INFORM THEIR NEIGHBORS they are in that neighborhood, etc, etc, etc...
do you think that might be used for 'revenge' too ? ? ?
(ps i am against this sort of continuing punishment AFTER they've served their punishment...)
2. are the kids killing kids not adults now ? ? ? so, do we *screen*, protect, shield EVERYONE who did something 'bad' in the past and *someone* *may* *possibly* want to exact revenge ? ? ?
wouldn't that include approximately half the planet ? ? ?
2. gun owners do NOT 'advertise' they have guns ? ? ?
what state/country are you from ? ? ?
never seen a bumper sticker that says 'protected by smith and wesson' ? (i can assure you, they are serious)
3. again, in the rural, southern area i live in, *MOST* people have guns; it ain't no fuckin' 'secret' when you are in your back yard plinking shit for hours on end...
4. the safe (unsafe?) assumption around here is that, yes, just about EVERY house will have a gun or two... around here it ain't no secret, ain't no big deal, ain't no paranoid bullshit 'oh noes, don't nobody ebber tell nobody we got a gun, lurleen, they's a come to rob us fer sure ! ! !'...
give me a break...
again, the point another poster made above is valid:
paranoid gun owners are ascairt they will get robbed if they have a gun; but on the other hand they are all about letting you know they have a gun to defend themselves...
doesn't the paradox burn their brains ? ? ?
...or is that the saltpeter ?
not only that (again, stupid that i 'have to' say I AM FOR GUN OWNERSHIP), but how is it running a metal box on roads requires a permission/license from the state, but a small, easily concealed machine for killing people does not ? ? ?
NOTE: i COMPLETELY get that it is NOT paranoia to be 'afraid' (in a vague-ish sense) that the gummint is going to come after our guns... i do NOT discount that possibility out of hand...
*BUT* aside from our current extreme political climate, SHOULDN'T we -in a slightly more perfect world- require *SOME* training and control of machines made EXPLICITLY for killing nekkid apes, over machines that only incidently/accidently kill nekkid apes ? ? ?
just askin'...
2. again, it IS public info in some/many states, cry me a river if you don't like it... (not in la florida, though)
3. i am fully aware -as many gun owners seem blissfully and purposefully ignorant of- that guns are an ATTRACTION for burglars... where i live, gleaning that info from some public list, etc is a waste: randomly break in to ANY house around here, and you are probably 90% certain there will be guns there...
better yet, wait until the weekend, and you will here people popping off rounds ALL THE TIME, just listen for them and mark them down as a potential victim, no lists required...
(NOT TO MENTION, there are people firing ILLEGAL automatic weapons ALL THE TIME, and no piggies EVER 'investigate', much less confiscate them or arrest anyone...)
4. lastly, by your 'reasoning', NO property/house owners should be public info, 'cause, like, that tells people there is a big ole house there with stuff in it that someone wants to steal ! ! ! oh noes ! ! ! *AND* they give you their name and address and phone number ! ! !
will no one think of the poor defenseless houses ?
again, no problem with gun ownership (the gun owners are another matter), but the rights pendulum in this regard is pegged to the one side, it can stand to swing back a little to the more reasonable side...
gee, that ain't how it went down in bush v gore, it were ALL about *possible* future actions of unknowable actors...
of course, they told us peons upfront that it was a -you know- um, unique situation, nebber ebber to be used as precedent... (if that wasn't enough funny-bidness from the get-go to tell you what was going on, nothing was going to inform you...)
i was raised to respect a nation of laws, not a nation of men... (exactly when was it our moral/legal poles flipped ? ? ?)
...but doesn't secrecy and exclusivity go against the VERY PURPOSE of standards and codes WHICH HAVE TO BE KNOWN AND PROMULGATED to be useful ? ? ?
otherwise, it ain't an industry 'standard'...
the ONLY 'reason' to lock up such standards and codes is so that a gatekeeper can profit from it...
frankly, if there are codes and standards that need making, then it seems like the ideal spot for the gummint to fill that role...
also for the reason that private firms/consortiums ARE going to slant the rules/codes to THEIR favor...
being in the construction industry, i know damn good and well how vendors LOVE to have THEIR specifications included in a project, because they know it will lock in THEIR product to the exclusion of others that are appropriate for the application...
IN SPITE of all kinds of guidelines, etc to avoid proprietary solutions, it is SOP to slant the specs so ONLY YOUR PRODUCT 'qualifies'...
its a fucking game to get THEIR STUFF 'approved' and their competitors widgets 'unapproved'...
On the post: 7-Year-Old Student Suspended For Waving Around A 'Gun' Made From A Pastry
Re: Re: Re:
as 'our' (sic) country devolves further and further into orwellian despair, it is difficult not to consider -realistically- whether nine one one was emperor bush the second's reichstag fire...
looking at it from *that* perspective, it makes a certain perverted 'sense'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 7-Year-Old Student Suspended For Waving Around A 'Gun' Made From A Pastry
Re:
um, except for one teensy weensy detail:
according to Big Bother, WE 99% ARE the 'bad guys'...
guess that means we should all shoot ourselves ? ? ?
(it would save Big Bother the trouble...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Proposed California Bill Would Require Sites To Hand Over Private Info On Kids To Their Parents
how many retards does it take to run a country into the ground ? ? ?
1 president
9 el supremos
100 + 435 kongresskritters
plus the state legislatures of every state...
if we got rid of those retards, could we get some real work done in fixing this ball-o-mud ? ? ?
(the answer is 'yes', by the way...)
just read another in a series of unending idiotic stories today, where a kid got pulled out of school and punished 'cause he chewed his poptart into the rough shape of a gun... *AND* they sent a note home with all the other precious snowflakes warning the parents about if the snowflakes were traumatized by the poptart 'gun'...
world gone crazy...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: European Parliament Considers Banning All Pornography, Blocks Emails From EU Citizens Protesting Against Censorship
more pissed by the arrogant blocking than the pron...
...and yet they still manage to rankle more...
fucking bastards...
i know how to tie a noose, i got a pitchfork, and i can make a torch real easy...
THAT is the inevitable conclusion THEY are pushing us towards...
do they not see that, or do they not care ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Magician Sued By Teller For Copyright Infringement Has Tried A Disappearing Act In Response
Re: Meh. Tricks by performing monkeys.
T.
F.
U.
u r delusional, *not* smarter than everyone else...
blue-balled dickless wonder
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Swedish BitTorrent User Accused Of Sharing Beyonce Album, Hit By $233,000 Lawsuit From Sony
Re: Re:
1. as a general principle, it is difficult to disagree with that truism... (in fact, it is how our whole system works)
2. HOWEVER, when viewed as coming from *YOU*, it is hypocritical and disingenuous on many levels...
3. *AND* when considering the kreepy, greedy MAFIAA bastards who you associate with, it is doubly hypocritical and disingenuous...
4. not to mention, i can hardly get excited that someone who ALREADY has more money than is seemly is getting screwed over a few shekels... if it was someone 'unknown', then i'd feel a trifle more concerned; but if they were 'unknown', then they wouldn't have been pirated in the first place...
5. briefly mentioned, is that the 'offender' was/is in the music industry: so aren't you suing somebody ON YOUR 'SIDE' to protect their job ? ? ? does the cognitive dissonance make your ears ring ? ? ?
6. actually kind of curious as to how all these 'leaks' happen: industry insiders 'steal' the product to put out in the wild, but NO ONE ever hears about them breaking down doors to get the ORIGINAL thieves, ONLY the stupid kidz doing torrents of it after it is in the wild...
i wonder why these insiders do this ? ? ? is it because they too DESPISE the very industry they are in and its puppetmasters ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Kim Dotcom Loses Appeal Concerning Extradition
Re: the insider trading is a rock...
nope, too close to home, for the masters of the universe...
hee hee hee
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 'Cocky' Defendant Gets A Web Redemption
actually, the lesson should be...
no, the lesson is, that judges are running unchecked fiefdoms where they can get away with 'contemptible' shit; whether a poor, ignorant, possibly screwed-over, unappealing defendant is slapped upside the head for having the temerity to treat the judge like a fellow human being who is no better than them; or imposing a personal or overtly political agenda to enforce THEIR views, regardless of the law...
whether it is 10 commandment plaques on courthouse steps, or other patently un-constitutional bullshit; judges are NOT *OUR* arbiters of justice, they are owned by The System...
(and we li'l peeps ain't invited...)
there are few-to-no judges who are NOT part of The System, and they will defend that system to the detriment of the people...
even though we have elections for some levels of judge, they are pretty much appointed to the position by the 'legal community'...
the votes are almost 70-80-90% to retain judges; which is why i always vote 'no' on retaining *any* of them... i want my little vote to -eventually- tally with enough that we put some fear back in them, where they *must* respond to our viewpoints...
(probably not in my lifetime...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: System Used By New Six Strikes CAS, Falsely Identifies Game Mods As NBC TV Shows
Re: Re: Re: Re:
our evil overlords don't even have to BOTHER buying votes of the kongresskritters, railroading orwellian-named bills through, and other annoying shit: they just 'privatize' fucking EVERYTHING, and then,
A. they -duh- kontrol EVERYTHING (only *slightly* different from the present)...
B. they can violate 'laws', 'regulations', 'treaties', the 'constitution' at will with NO oversight or consequences...
IF it were a real law (whatever that means in these days of secret laws, secret interpretations, secret signing statements, ad nauseum), it could -at least theoretically- be stopped, overturned, amended, whatever...
(see, SOPA, etc *)
as a korporate 'policy', it is -apparently- beyond our control, much less influence...
(obviously, NOT that i want such a law, just that it being a 'private matter' has horrendous implications for our society...)
*(The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: System Used By New Six Strikes CAS, Falsely Identifies Game Mods As NBC TV Shows
Re: Re: Re: your boat...
hee hee hee
...or a lazy puke like me ! ! !
ho ho ho
...or a person interested in communicating substance over style ! ! !
ha ha ha
...or a ne'er-do-well who likes tweaking the nares of grammar police...
ak ak ak
to the point:
1. *given* it is an insidious sellout of their customers and their rights...
(more quasi-private korporate actors evading the constitution and, well, you know, morals... yes, i know: if the constitution is 'quaint', according to a recent emperor, then 'morals' are a sick joke...)
2. *given* i agree with the original poster's assessment of the Big Media big wigs nefariously and purposefully choosing a korporate bootlick they *know* will shotgun out a billion takedowns, regardless of validity...
*exactly* like 2000+ florida rethugs 'filtered' their (florida's peoples'?) database lists of 'felons' (sic) etc to catch the MOST number of people (gee, usually dem'rats of color, how odd is that?), 90% plus of whom did NOT have felony convictions that would disqualify them (unfortunately) by florida law... if they had ANY part of a last name and initial which matched a felon's ANYWHERE in the US, they were booted from the voting rolls...
kampers, the racists never went away, they just got insidious... its all perfectly legal-like... *just* like gassing jews was all, you know, perfectly 'legal'...
personally, i'm looking into both public DNS services and a VPN... and i don't pirate nuthin'...
fuck them motherfuckin' eagles...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy (*ahem* 'archy and mehtabel')
eof
On the post: YouTube's ContentID Trolls: Claim Copyright On Lots Of Gameplay Videos, Hope No One Complains, Collect Free Money [Updated]
Re: Re: The solution.
i don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but it appears the baby was drowned a long time ago, and is a floating stinking corpse...
so, throwing out the bathwater would have less deleterious effects than keeping the stinking mess...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: YouTube's ContentID Trolls: Claim Copyright On Lots Of Gameplay Videos, Hope No One Complains, Collect Free Money [Updated]
Re: Block their ads...
in other words, doesn't using adblock NOT work to prevent them from monetizing the views ? ? ?
(don't know, am honestly asking)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: DailyDirt: Are You Smarter Than A Dolphin?
Re:
(in other words, i don't think dolphins wonder if we are smarter than them, thus proving we are smarter than them...
if not as pretty)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement
Re:
...and, yet, -at least in the states- their home location is PUBLICIZED by the gummint AFTER they have 'paid their debt to society' (such that their 'debt' is NEVER paid, is it ?)
in fact, they will FORCE the EX-offender to register their location, INFORM THEIR NEIGHBORS they are in that neighborhood, etc, etc, etc...
do you think that might be used for 'revenge' too ? ? ?
(ps i am against this sort of continuing punishment AFTER they've served their punishment...)
2. are the kids killing kids not adults now ? ? ? so, do we *screen*, protect, shield EVERYONE who did something 'bad' in the past and *someone* *may* *possibly* want to exact revenge ? ? ?
wouldn't that include approximately half the planet ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: North Carolina Newspaper With No Backbone Apologizes For Its Request For Public Records
Re:
2. gun owners do NOT 'advertise' they have guns ? ? ?
what state/country are you from ? ? ?
never seen a bumper sticker that says 'protected by smith and wesson' ? (i can assure you, they are serious)
3. again, in the rural, southern area i live in, *MOST* people have guns; it ain't no fuckin' 'secret' when you are in your back yard plinking shit for hours on end...
4. the safe (unsafe?) assumption around here is that, yes, just about EVERY house will have a gun or two... around here it ain't no secret, ain't no big deal, ain't no paranoid bullshit 'oh noes, don't nobody ebber tell nobody we got a gun, lurleen, they's a come to rob us fer sure ! ! !'...
give me a break...
again, the point another poster made above is valid:
paranoid gun owners are ascairt they will get robbed if they have a gun; but on the other hand they are all about letting you know they have a gun to defend themselves...
doesn't the paradox burn their brains ? ? ?
...or is that the saltpeter ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: North Carolina Newspaper With No Backbone Apologizes For Its Request For Public Records
Re: So...
not only that (again, stupid that i 'have to' say I AM FOR GUN OWNERSHIP), but how is it running a metal box on roads requires a permission/license from the state, but a small, easily concealed machine for killing people does not ? ? ?
NOTE: i COMPLETELY get that it is NOT paranoia to be 'afraid' (in a vague-ish sense) that the gummint is going to come after our guns... i do NOT discount that possibility out of hand...
*BUT* aside from our current extreme political climate, SHOULDN'T we -in a slightly more perfect world- require *SOME* training and control of machines made EXPLICITLY for killing nekkid apes, over machines that only incidently/accidently kill nekkid apes ? ? ?
just askin'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: North Carolina Newspaper With No Backbone Apologizes For Its Request For Public Records
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ignorance running rampant
2. again, it IS public info in some/many states, cry me a river if you don't like it... (not in la florida, though)
3. i am fully aware -as many gun owners seem blissfully and purposefully ignorant of- that guns are an ATTRACTION for burglars... where i live, gleaning that info from some public list, etc is a waste: randomly break in to ANY house around here, and you are probably 90% certain there will be guns there...
better yet, wait until the weekend, and you will here people popping off rounds ALL THE TIME, just listen for them and mark them down as a potential victim, no lists required...
(NOT TO MENTION, there are people firing ILLEGAL automatic weapons ALL THE TIME, and no piggies EVER 'investigate', much less confiscate them or arrest anyone...)
4. lastly, by your 'reasoning', NO property/house owners should be public info, 'cause, like, that tells people there is a big ole house there with stuff in it that someone wants to steal ! ! ! oh noes ! ! ! *AND* they give you their name and address and phone number ! ! !
will no one think of the poor defenseless houses ?
again, no problem with gun ownership (the gun owners are another matter), but the rights pendulum in this regard is pegged to the one side, it can stand to swing back a little to the more reasonable side...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Supreme Court Effectively Says There's No Way To Challenge Warrantless Wiretapping
Re:
of course, they told us peons upfront that it was a -you know- um, unique situation, nebber ebber to be used as precedent... (if that wasn't enough funny-bidness from the get-go to tell you what was going on, nothing was going to inform you...)
i was raised to respect a nation of laws, not a nation of men... (exactly when was it our moral/legal poles flipped ? ? ?)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Supreme Court Effectively Says There's No Way To Challenge Warrantless Wiretapping
Re:
its the amerikan way ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Sheet Metal And Air Conditioning Contractors Use Bogus Copyright Takedown To Block Publication Of Federally Mandated Standards
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Insanity
otherwise, it ain't an industry 'standard'...
the ONLY 'reason' to lock up such standards and codes is so that a gatekeeper can profit from it...
frankly, if there are codes and standards that need making, then it seems like the ideal spot for the gummint to fill that role...
also for the reason that private firms/consortiums ARE going to slant the rules/codes to THEIR favor...
being in the construction industry, i know damn good and well how vendors LOVE to have THEIR specifications included in a project, because they know it will lock in THEIR product to the exclusion of others that are appropriate for the application...
IN SPITE of all kinds of guidelines, etc to avoid proprietary solutions, it is SOP to slant the specs so ONLY YOUR PRODUCT 'qualifies'...
its a fucking game to get THEIR STUFF 'approved' and their competitors widgets 'unapproved'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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