there are some kongresskritters who won't ACCEPT emails from 'non-constituents'...
('cause - don't you know- there is such a thing as too much free speech...)
i'm betting if your name is on a donor list, you get a real quick response...
it used to be a tired joke, now it is tragically true: we have the best kongress money can buy ! ! !
so, the 'problem' is, us po' folks simply can't outbid our betters... ain't that the free-market way ? ? ?
l'il wolf-
oh, absolutely, they are looking to use the 'push polls' to confirm the evil they already are intent on doing; HOWEVER, i *DO* like to put just a teeny little outlier in their data, and so answer the OPPOSITE (if possible within the constraints of the poll), *just* to skew their results a *little*...
yes, poking my tiny febrile appendage in the eye of sauron is all that is left to me in order to express outrage at the system...
(paraphrasing kennedy: when you eliminate all means of non-violent dissent, WTF do you think that leaves, mr politician...)
i mentioned this very notion previously:
during the recent fake-election season, i was bombarded by the usual 'vote for me, not that other scumbag...' calls, plus a *bunch* of 'surveys'...
*some* of the 'surveys' were simply thinly-veiled 'vote for me...' calls, some were 'push polls' which -surprise!- gave false choices and 'funneled' you into answers along the lines of 'do you want to let moose-limb tourists gang rape your puppy, *OR* would you rather kongress burned the bill of rights on the whitehouse lawn ?'...
um, there's no other choice ? ? ?
(apparently not)
also -i recounted this earlier- had a number of polls where after you were finished, they got 'basic info' on the respondent: age, race, etc... one question -which i heard from 2-3 different polls, was along the lines of 'How often do you go to church/worship?', and the answers you had to choose from, were 'several times a week'; 'once a week'; 'once a month'; and the LAST 'choice' was 'less than once a month', there was NO CHOICE for 'never'...
in other words, EVERYONE who responded to that poll (including this agnostic/atheist) was COUNTED as going to church/worship AT LEAST SOME OF THE TIME...
that makes THEM liars...
not politics, but sports are the last bastion of the scoundrel...
well, okay, politics too...
pretty sure Big Media is effectively bribing the various sports leagues to stay in the fold, because they know that a LARGE percentage of us who have not cut the cord yet, ONLY because of the non-availability of *most* (mainstream) sports outside of the cable/satellite 'walled garden'...
IF i could get the few sports/teams i still watch online (can get some!), i would dump our satellite faster than usain bolt...
(do ANY of these media pigs realize the HUGE groundswell of 'bad will' THEY have generated all this time, such that NO ONE 'wants to' do bidness with them, we are simply FORCED to do bidness with their effective monopoly ? ? ?)
somewhat like the other sports fans whose ardor has cooled, i am much the same way, BUT there are some teams i still follow...
now, now, you know better, kamper:
those 'rights', 'laws', etc are an example of 'diode morality', only works in one direction, from the top, down, NOT from the bottom, up...
now, AVERT your gaze, peasant, as our betters will tell us what rights we may possibly have, if they so generously allow...
*snicker*
1. yes, 'journo' has been around for a long time...
'jurno', never heard of it, but a poster further down says it is some sort of newspeak...
whatever, sounds stoopid...
2. 'etcc', never heard of that either... actually 'etc' is an abbreviation for 'et cetera' (two words), meaning 'and others' in latin... (yeah, those two years *did* pay off!) it is already 'plural', in that sense...
3. if you followed the links provided by someone else previously, buhl is a full blown wackaloon; along the lines of that chick who was suing the guy over taking similar photographs... buhl was REALLY creepy in her stalkerish behavior, and her sockpuppets to 'defend' her crazy...
(apparently, she is incapable of stopping the digging...)
(i actually emailed the photographer wench, and she IS definitely skull-fucked... she kept on insisting i was the guy who 'copied' her precious photos; i just exchanged 2-3 emails telling her she was full of it, and she would send an occasional email afterwards saying something along the lines of 'i know its you, ryan' (? i think that was the guy's name)...
she is weird in a future-crazy-aunt-in-the-attic way, not weird in the fun-loving, try-anything kind of way...
oddly enough, 100% of the drivers think it is the *other* driver who is in the 90%...
seriously, the sooner the better for autonomous cars: my 45 min commute makes me want to put an RPG up the tailpipe of about half the drivers...
protip to slowcoaches in the left (speeders) lane: when in rush hour traffic and there is a half mile clear space in front of you, a half mile of fuming drivers stuck behind you, and you are going 35-40 in a 45 mph zone where most people go 50-55, and glaring people are pulling around you in a dangerous fashion, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LANE, jackass...
1. i believe it is self-evident why any self-respecting nekkid ape would hate the intrusion of TEEVEE freaking ads at the MOVIES...
um, what the hell was wrong with some damn cartoons ? ? ?
that was half the damn fun...
now, get off my screen ! ! !
(again, *WHY* do i *WANT* to go to the movies, MAFIAA overlords ? ? ?
is it the crappy movies you make for a zillion dollars ?
no
is it the crappy prices we pay ?
no
is it the crappy snacks we pay through the nose for ?
no
is it the wonderful audience experience of talking 'tards and cell phone monsters ?
no
is it the sticky floors ?
no
is it the speakers blaring at 200 decibels...
...NEXT DOOR ?
no
why is it i go to the movies again ?
well, realistically, it is ONLY because we get gift cards to go, and irresistible pressure from spousal unit, kids, grandkids... otherwise, i wouldn't go near the place...)
2. less 'normal', is my aversion to trailers, here are my reasons:
A. hate most of them, i am about full up with secret-agent-assassin-zombie-vampire-hitmen-revenge-against-the-world movies, which appears to be 90% of them...
B. those few movies i DO want to (eventually) see, are -i won't say 'ruined'- but spoilt by the previews...
believe it or not, i don't want to know/see what is going to happen in a movie BEFORE i see it...
i'm weird like that...
C. back in the day, saw a trailer for ET, and it ABSOLUTELY DID RUIN the 'finger-lighting' scene for me in the actual movie... i have not forgiven trailers since then...
thank you mr fenderson, well stated, i feel much the same...
there is CLOSE TO ZERO advertising that is 'entertaining' (i mentioned the other day that ESPN consistently makes funny ads, but you have to be a sports fan to 'get' many of the jokes... AND, for all that, i would *still* prefer no ads over funny ads...), and there is nearly ZERO times an ad is 'useful' to me...
if/when i want to get INFORMATION about a product/service, i almost certainly do NOT depend on ANY ads for that... yes, once in a blue moon they inform me of some product/service i was not otherwise aware of, but that is VERY rare...
otherwise, it is visual and noise pollution i have little to no control over...
oh, and let me whip this pet hobbyhorse one more time:
i pay (relatively) EXORBITANT money to go to a movie (mostly against my will and better judgment), AND they suck the life out of me with endless TEEVEE ads and previews for 10 movies i will NEVER see ? ? ?
i should charge the bastards for the soul-deadening time they torture me with that crap... at full volume...
just one minor point:
i put my 'anonymous' email eddress up here (and scattered all over the inertnet tubes), and get very little spam/etc...
not sure if it is because my ISP's spam blocker is good, or what... but the 'risk' of putting up your email eddress is overblown... i mean, to a large extent, it *is* out there already, putting it up another time or two on the web doesn't make you suddenly more vulnerable...
also, Big Pharma uses ALL KINDS of bullshit accounting tricks, etc to inflate the 'costs' of their 'R&D': for instance, a LOT -the preponderance- of 'R&D' costs are actually MARKETING COSTS that they throw into the 'R&D' budget to make it look ginormous, when it is all their MARKETING crap that is a huge expense...
1. as a technical matter: aren't those the drugs of whoever was taking them ? ? ? can't they leave them to whoever they want ? (yes, yes, 'controlled substance', blah blah blah)
2. if The State is going to confiscate them, shouldn't they be paid for them ? ? ?
3. how much do you want to bet that less than half of whatever the piggies 'seize' finds its way back to the evidence lockers (not to mention what -you know- walks out of there) ? ? ?
no, just more harrassment of the lowly...
i am skeptical it has any major effect on legal-illegal drugs making it into the market...
i am not opposed to the idea of captcha for soft-security stuff, but the implementation of it drives me nuts...
depending on how messed up they make it, the words can be so distorted/obscured, that i have to run through 4-5 reloads to get one that is readable...
WTF
i'm imagining that spammers/etc who break captchas for whatever reasons, have little-no trouble breaking them, but it sure does annoy the fuck out of me, a 'real' user...
as far as i'm concerned, its a teeny, tiny DRM function that does little/nothing to slow down the 'bad guys', but annoys the hell out of ALL the legitimate users...
any software which makes me feel unnecessarily stupid, is NOT software i tend to admire...
while i use adblock/noscript/ghostscript etc online, they don't have an app for that on the tee vee (actually, seriously considering talking SWMBO into getting a dish hopper/slingbox thingie, which *does* allow skipping ads), so we are 'forced' to watch ads on the teevee...
*of course* 90-99% of ads are crap (sturgeon's law, after all), the ONE organization which CONSISTENTLY puts out entertaining/funny commercials, is ESPN...
while you might have to be a medium sports fan to appreciate a lot of the inside jokes and sports celebrities making fun of themselves, they consistently run self-deprecating, mocking commercials which -from my perspective- endears me to them as a whole...
(*hate* that they are now owned by dizzywhirled, and also VERY disappointed in their 'droid app:
1. does NOT tell everyone in the description that you have to be subscribed to only a handful of cable providers in order to use it (i get 10 million espn channels through the satellite, but *that* is not enough to qualify!)
2. not only that, but they have diluted their brand/goodwill by having a two-tiered system: those who have the handful of approved tee vee/cable providers are good to go; and those who get *some* services based on a partner ISP (which mine is)...
(so, i *can* get it online on ESPN3 or WatchESPN or whatever the fuck they are calling it this week; but i can't get it on my 'droid!)
not only that, but half the time watching online, the signal is degraded so much it is not worth watching...
(of course, the paranoid in me wonders if that is not purposefully done to destroy the online viewing experience and force us back into the lockeddown teevee...)
dog almighty, it will be a happy day when Big Media dies...
@ AJerk
1. rikuo is -in fact- one of the more perspicacious posters here, thank you very much...
2. which proves you are just a nasty piece of work; not difficult to believe you are training to be a parasite on society...
3. there is not ONE PERSON on the inertnet who believes you: you have squandered any goodwill or respect with your tiresome, repetitive, crybabyin' about 'chubby won't debate me...' wah wah wah... really, i'm embarrassed for you...
4. you do NOT engage in intellectually honest debate no matter who it is; while even a blind pig will find an acorn every once in a while, your argumentative stench makes it pointless to follow your posts for that one acorn...
5. as a disagreeable character myself, you make me look like fucking mary poppins...
i was thinking i was the only numbskull on the planet who thought ALL these 'entrapment' scenarios are BULLSHIT...
they are CREATING crimes NOT COMMITTED to snare careless and/or innocent (in the sense of naive) people... *THAT* should be the 'crime', not responding to a weird (ON ALL LEVELS) fake 'girl' who doesn't exist...
On the post: Congress Apparently Uninterested In 'Aaron's Law' To Reform CFAA
Re: Re: Damn...
there are some kongresskritters who won't ACCEPT emails from 'non-constituents'...
('cause - don't you know- there is such a thing as too much free speech...)
i'm betting if your name is on a donor list, you get a real quick response...
it used to be a tired joke, now it is tragically true: we have the best kongress money can buy ! ! !
so, the 'problem' is, us po' folks simply can't outbid our betters... ain't that the free-market way ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: If You Want Two-Thirds Of Americans To Agree That Violent Video Games Are More Dangerous Than Guns, All You Have To Do Is Ask The Right Americans
Re: Re: Re: As usual, a loaded question...
oh, absolutely, they are looking to use the 'push polls' to confirm the evil they already are intent on doing; HOWEVER, i *DO* like to put just a teeny little outlier in their data, and so answer the OPPOSITE (if possible within the constraints of the poll), *just* to skew their results a *little*...
yes, poking my tiny febrile appendage in the eye of sauron is all that is left to me in order to express outrage at the system...
(paraphrasing kennedy: when you eliminate all means of non-violent dissent, WTF do you think that leaves, mr politician...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: If You Want Two-Thirds Of Americans To Agree That Violent Video Games Are More Dangerous Than Guns, All You Have To Do Is Ask The Right Americans
Re: As usual, a loaded question...
during the recent fake-election season, i was bombarded by the usual 'vote for me, not that other scumbag...' calls, plus a *bunch* of 'surveys'...
*some* of the 'surveys' were simply thinly-veiled 'vote for me...' calls, some were 'push polls' which -surprise!- gave false choices and 'funneled' you into answers along the lines of 'do you want to let moose-limb tourists gang rape your puppy, *OR* would you rather kongress burned the bill of rights on the whitehouse lawn ?'...
um, there's no other choice ? ? ?
(apparently not)
also -i recounted this earlier- had a number of polls where after you were finished, they got 'basic info' on the respondent: age, race, etc... one question -which i heard from 2-3 different polls, was along the lines of 'How often do you go to church/worship?', and the answers you had to choose from, were 'several times a week'; 'once a week'; 'once a month'; and the LAST 'choice' was 'less than once a month', there was NO CHOICE for 'never'...
in other words, EVERYONE who responded to that poll (including this agnostic/atheist) was COUNTED as going to church/worship AT LEAST SOME OF THE TIME...
that makes THEM liars...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Oakland Raiders Hack NFL Blackout Rules In Real Life By Shrinking Stadium
not politics, but sports are the last bastion of the scoundrel...
pretty sure Big Media is effectively bribing the various sports leagues to stay in the fold, because they know that a LARGE percentage of us who have not cut the cord yet, ONLY because of the non-availability of *most* (mainstream) sports outside of the cable/satellite 'walled garden'...
IF i could get the few sports/teams i still watch online (can get some!), i would dump our satellite faster than usain bolt...
(do ANY of these media pigs realize the HUGE groundswell of 'bad will' THEY have generated all this time, such that NO ONE 'wants to' do bidness with them, we are simply FORCED to do bidness with their effective monopoly ? ? ?)
somewhat like the other sports fans whose ardor has cooled, i am much the same way, BUT there are some teams i still follow...
needs me my tribe-substitute, now don't i...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Homeland Security: Not Searching Your Laptop Doesn't Benefit Your Civil Liberties, So We Can Do It
Re: Re: Like I said before...
those 'rights', 'laws', etc are an example of 'diode morality', only works in one direction, from the top, down, NOT from the bottom, up...
now, AVERT your gaze, peasant, as our betters will tell us what rights we may possibly have, if they so generously allow...
*snicker*
hint: power NEVER devolves voluntarily...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Copyright Boss: 'It's Great Mechanics Now Need To Know About Copyright'
Re:
better off downloading a mechanic-droid from the darknets...
why are The They (tm) so intent on creating the worst philip k dick dystopia ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Teri Buhl Threatens To Sue Us And Others; Still Seems Confused About The Law
Re: Re: Re:
'jurno', never heard of it, but a poster further down says it is some sort of newspeak...
whatever, sounds stoopid...
2. 'etcc', never heard of that either... actually 'etc' is an abbreviation for 'et cetera' (two words), meaning 'and others' in latin... (yeah, those two years *did* pay off!) it is already 'plural', in that sense...
3. if you followed the links provided by someone else previously, buhl is a full blown wackaloon; along the lines of that chick who was suing the guy over taking similar photographs... buhl was REALLY creepy in her stalkerish behavior, and her sockpuppets to 'defend' her crazy...
(apparently, she is incapable of stopping the digging...)
(i actually emailed the photographer wench, and she IS definitely skull-fucked... she kept on insisting i was the guy who 'copied' her precious photos; i just exchanged 2-3 emails telling her she was full of it, and she would send an occasional email afterwards saying something along the lines of 'i know its you, ryan' (? i think that was the guy's name)...
she is weird in a future-crazy-aunt-in-the-attic way, not weird in the fun-loving, try-anything kind of way...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Another Future Clash: How Will The Law Deal With Autonomous Vehicles
Re: Re: Re:
seriously, the sooner the better for autonomous cars: my 45 min commute makes me want to put an RPG up the tailpipe of about half the drivers...
protip to slowcoaches in the left (speeders) lane: when in rush hour traffic and there is a half mile clear space in front of you, a half mile of fuming drivers stuck behind you, and you are going 35-40 in a 45 mph zone where most people go 50-55, and glaring people are pulling around you in a dangerous fashion, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LANE, jackass...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Many Motivations Of Movie Piracy (Notably Absent: 'I Want Everything For Free')
Re: Re: Re: Re: Not "bad"
um, what the hell was wrong with some damn cartoons ? ? ?
that was half the damn fun...
now, get off my screen ! ! !
(again, *WHY* do i *WANT* to go to the movies, MAFIAA overlords ? ? ?
is it the crappy movies you make for a zillion dollars ?
no
is it the crappy prices we pay ?
no
is it the crappy snacks we pay through the nose for ?
no
is it the wonderful audience experience of talking 'tards and cell phone monsters ?
no
is it the sticky floors ?
no
is it the speakers blaring at 200 decibels...
...NEXT DOOR ?
no
why is it i go to the movies again ?
well, realistically, it is ONLY because we get gift cards to go, and irresistible pressure from spousal unit, kids, grandkids... otherwise, i wouldn't go near the place...)
2. less 'normal', is my aversion to trailers, here are my reasons:
A. hate most of them, i am about full up with secret-agent-assassin-zombie-vampire-hitmen-revenge-against-the-world movies, which appears to be 90% of them...
B. those few movies i DO want to (eventually) see, are -i won't say 'ruined'- but spoilt by the previews...
believe it or not, i don't want to know/see what is going to happen in a movie BEFORE i see it...
i'm weird like that...
C. back in the day, saw a trailer for ET, and it ABSOLUTELY DID RUIN the 'finger-lighting' scene for me in the actual movie... i have not forgiven trailers since then...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Many Motivations Of Movie Piracy (Notably Absent: 'I Want Everything For Free')
Re: Not "bad"
there is CLOSE TO ZERO advertising that is 'entertaining' (i mentioned the other day that ESPN consistently makes funny ads, but you have to be a sports fan to 'get' many of the jokes... AND, for all that, i would *still* prefer no ads over funny ads...), and there is nearly ZERO times an ad is 'useful' to me...
if/when i want to get INFORMATION about a product/service, i almost certainly do NOT depend on ANY ads for that... yes, once in a blue moon they inform me of some product/service i was not otherwise aware of, but that is VERY rare...
otherwise, it is visual and noise pollution i have little to no control over...
oh, and let me whip this pet hobbyhorse one more time:
i pay (relatively) EXORBITANT money to go to a movie (mostly against my will and better judgment), AND they suck the life out of me with endless TEEVEE ads and previews for 10 movies i will NEVER see ? ? ?
i should charge the bastards for the soul-deadening time they torture me with that crap... at full volume...
reason #27236 why i hate going to the movies...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Investigative Journalist Claims Her Public Tweets Aren't 'Publishable;' Threatens To Sue Blogger Who Does Exactly That
Re: Re:
i put my 'anonymous' email eddress up here (and scattered all over the inertnet tubes), and get very little spam/etc...
not sure if it is because my ISP's spam blocker is good, or what... but the 'risk' of putting up your email eddress is overblown... i mean, to a large extent, it *is* out there already, putting it up another time or two on the web doesn't make you suddenly more vulnerable...
just sayin'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Investigative Journalist Claims Her Public Tweets Aren't 'Publishable;' Threatens To Sue Blogger Who Does Exactly That
Re: protip for holediggers...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: White House Declares It Has 'Broad Powers' When It Comes To Cyberattacks
the beatings will continue...
problem solved...
On the post: Bayer Fights India's Compulsory Licensing Of Cancer Drug By Claiming It Spent $2.5 Billion Developing It
Re: Re: Who cares
they are scum...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: DEA Circumventing Oregon State Law To Grab Medical Records Without A Warrant
one outrage after another...
2. if The State is going to confiscate them, shouldn't they be paid for them ? ? ?
3. how much do you want to bet that less than half of whatever the piggies 'seize' finds its way back to the evidence lockers (not to mention what -you know- walks out of there) ? ? ?
no, just more harrassment of the lowly...
i am skeptical it has any major effect on legal-illegal drugs making it into the market...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Ticketmaster Finally Dropping Captcha System...For Ad-Driven Captcha Clone
not enough captcha hatin'...
depending on how messed up they make it, the words can be so distorted/obscured, that i have to run through 4-5 reloads to get one that is readable...
WTF
i'm imagining that spammers/etc who break captchas for whatever reasons, have little-no trouble breaking them, but it sure does annoy the fuck out of me, a 'real' user...
as far as i'm concerned, its a teeny, tiny DRM function that does little/nothing to slow down the 'bad guys', but annoys the hell out of ALL the legitimate users...
any software which makes me feel unnecessarily stupid, is NOT software i tend to admire...
hatin' on captcha here, boss ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Campbell's Hack The Kitchen Shows Anyone Can Have An Innovative Idea, And Anyone Can Screw It Up
speaking of ads...
*of course* 90-99% of ads are crap (sturgeon's law, after all), the ONE organization which CONSISTENTLY puts out entertaining/funny commercials, is ESPN...
while you might have to be a medium sports fan to appreciate a lot of the inside jokes and sports celebrities making fun of themselves, they consistently run self-deprecating, mocking commercials which -from my perspective- endears me to them as a whole...
(*hate* that they are now owned by dizzywhirled, and also VERY disappointed in their 'droid app:
1. does NOT tell everyone in the description that you have to be subscribed to only a handful of cable providers in order to use it (i get 10 million espn channels through the satellite, but *that* is not enough to qualify!)
2. not only that, but they have diluted their brand/goodwill by having a two-tiered system: those who have the handful of approved tee vee/cable providers are good to go; and those who get *some* services based on a partner ISP (which mine is)...
(so, i *can* get it online on ESPN3 or WatchESPN or whatever the fuck they are calling it this week; but i can't get it on my 'droid!)
not only that, but half the time watching online, the signal is degraded so much it is not worth watching...
(of course, the paranoid in me wonders if that is not purposefully done to destroy the online viewing experience and force us back into the lockeddown teevee...)
dog almighty, it will be a happy day when Big Media dies...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: One Of The Funniest S#*$r B$@l Ads You'll See This Year Makes Fun Of NFL Trademarks
is 'euphamism'...
just askin'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: NZ Copyright Tribunal: Accusations Are Presumed Infringement, Despite Denials
Re: Re: Re: Re:
1. rikuo is -in fact- one of the more perspicacious posters here, thank you very much...
2. which proves you are just a nasty piece of work; not difficult to believe you are training to be a parasite on society...
3. there is not ONE PERSON on the inertnet who believes you: you have squandered any goodwill or respect with your tiresome, repetitive, crybabyin' about 'chubby won't debate me...' wah wah wah... really, i'm embarrassed for you...
4. you do NOT engage in intellectually honest debate no matter who it is; while even a blind pig will find an acorn every once in a while, your argumentative stench makes it pointless to follow your posts for that one acorn...
5. as a disagreeable character myself, you make me look like fucking mary poppins...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Police Department Rewards Officer Caught By An Online Pedophile Sting With Full Retirement Benefits
Re:
i was thinking i was the only numbskull on the planet who thought ALL these 'entrapment' scenarios are BULLSHIT...
they are CREATING crimes NOT COMMITTED to snare careless and/or innocent (in the sense of naive) people... *THAT* should be the 'crime', not responding to a weird (ON ALL LEVELS) fake 'girl' who doesn't exist...
world gone crazy, is what i say...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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