Re: This is why I have a poor opinion of cops in general.
exactly this...
IF there were a significant component of HONEST kops, then they would HAVE TO squeal on a LOT of their fellow kops, because they KNOW a LOT of them do illegal shit that is not particularly egregious (except for -you know- the disrespect for The Law, which is a life-sentence for us peons), and SOME of them do illegal shit which IS egregious...
but, they don't squeal, do they ? ? ?
nope, they go along to get along, and almost NEVER squeal on kops they KNOW are corrupt...
what does that say about THE WHOLE SYSTEM...
The They (tm) need NO pretext for this horror show; one thing (un) naturally follows the other:
'we' *HAVE TO* spy on our dear citizens because they are unhappy with us for spying on them so we have to spy on them to find out how unhappy they are about us spying on them because we are spying on them they feel spied upon so we spy on them to make sure they are not talking about being spied on and feeling bad about being spied upon...
ad infinitum ad nauseum...
The They (tm) are old hands at turning the screws until the screwee screams, at which point they say 'see, they screamed, we are justified in turning the screws on them...'
works every time...
...or, perhaps a reichstag fire or two
near as i can tell, ALL the feebs do these days is stage false flag ops...
how telling is it, that i 'trust' an unknown group to champion MY (and ALL OF OURS) interests and freedom MORE than just about ANYBODY in 'my' (sic) gummint ? ? ?
if there was an 'Anonymous' party, i would vote straight party line every damn time...
only *then*, *might* my vote have real meaning with real consequences...
Anonymous, i don't have many -if any- heroes on this planet, but you are one of them...
thank you (...and look out for the nazgul ! ! !)
(and THANK YOU, aaron, bradley, kiriakou, klein, bouazizi, rowley, edmonds, etc, etc, etc... there ARE some nekkid apes who will not bow to Empire... thank you all)
which is: NO ACCOUNTABILITY !
(please, i don't want to hear about so-called 'elections', etc...)
for us li'l peeps, unending rafts of laws which we are all 'violating' every day of our lives, simply waiting for The Man to crush us when he notices us not BEHAVING the way they want...
for the privileged classes, no laws need apply: no beatdowns for taking a picture, no perp walk for banksters, no CONSEQUENCES, period...
...AND they skate free with their ill-gotten gains, PLUS, make us pay THEM for looting US...
no, i've heard unions is communistical and evil, so it must be so...
having a counterforce to the unrestrained kapitalist piggies will just make our bankster overlords, well, antsy, so we don't want to upset them, now do we, no, i didn't think so...
my spousal unit is a teacher, and this kind of crap happens ALL THE TIME, only it is with 'real' books, too ! ! !
they end up buying 'new' books virtually EVERY year because the 'old' ones are 'outdated' (meaning they have moved some chapters around, and rearranged stuff so that the old exercise books are no longer applicable)...
IT IS A FUCKING SCAM ! ! !
not only that, they are not ALLOWED to use 'old' books, EVEN IF THEY ARE OKAY FOR THEIR purposes... oh, and do i mention the warehouses full of crap that gets bought but never distributed ? ? ?
ANOTHER 'legalized' -yet immoral- scam to fleece the powerless...
yes, this is something i squawked about a while back:
active, interesting threads 'go away' when their stories scroll off the frontpage, and it becomes annoying to keep up with them...
also, i mentioned how i like slashdot's 'rating' system, which allows everyone to customize their browsing level on the comments...
further, i was interested in how 'the community' might promote a debate where we would either vote or designate a couple people to go at some particular issue/point of debate... there are many times when one poster has cogent points 'con' the issue, and another is an effective 'pro', um, proponent, but their worthwhile debate can get lost in the noise (or even other useful comments)...
again, overall, can't get too worked up with how techdirt does its comments; about as open as can be, while maintaining a modicum of fairness and order...
*or* sounds like your 'opinions' conform to the subset that our korporate overlords approve of...
seriously, there are VERY FEW 'industries' or other niches (mostly in the 'arts') where you are 'allowed' to be free-spirited enough to buck conventional wisdom and not face any/many consequences for it, IF/WHEN it becomes known...
now, IF your 'opinions' are so mainstream and conventional that they brook no opposition from the korporate overlords, then you are free to spout this ultra-controversial (sarc) opinion as much as you want without any consequences...
it is only when the nail sticks its head above the rest of the crowd, that The Man (tm) wants to hammer you back down to mediocrity... nails that don't pop up and make a nuisance of themselves, don't get the hammer...
which nail are you, citizen ? ? ?
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
something that occurred to me last night: the 'mistake' prenda, carrion (sic), etc are making, is that they are NOT part of the Big Boys Club...
IF this was Bigshots, Clubem & Taketheirmoney, Lawfirm Inc, then The Law would simply look to get their cut, one way or the other, and they would be allowed to continue extorting people and violating all the laws they want...
(see, MAFIAA)
and/or their kongresskritter fiends whose beak they have wetted, will simply make the illegal, legal (at least for a select few...)
no, it is because these guys are small, independent extortionists without the approval of the organized criminal puppetmasters that they are being kicked around *some* by The Law...
IF this were being done at the behest of the MAFIAA, or some other power elite players, then i'm sure they would find a much more accommodating reception with The Law...
no, these are just small timers trying to cash-in on the extortion racket that the MAFIAA, etc owns; and the REAL organized crime element doesn't want anyone horning in on their action...
VERY much akin to the banksters, where THE major players who looted and crashed the economy skate away scot-free (WITH THE MONEY! in fact, we paid them off MORE), while a pitiful FEW, lowly henchmen get crucified for relatively nothingburger financial crimes...
chances are, it was -like aaron- the motel was owned or operated by somebody who embarrassed a power elite in some fashion, and thus got in the crosshairs of the eye of sauron, ortiz -like all US attnys- is simply an undead nazgul to do sauron's bidding...
as a fellow absolutist on free speech, i concur with most of your opinion...
*however*, i do feel that the 'gentle' censorship of superficial 'hiding' the comment is really not very egregious; especially relative to what *most* sites practice in *really* censoring their comments...
again, i agree with your sentiment in principle, but think this is about as harmless a method as could be to keep the signal-to-noise ratio up...
overall, techdirt gets high marks for tolerating 'trollish' (one man's troll is another man's bridge toll collector) behaviors, as well as allowing essentially unfettered speech so we can pretend we are adults with a modicum of control over our lives and say 'pee pee' and 'poo poo' and shit...
sometimes you just gotta call a fucking dickhead a fucking dickhead, and nothing else will do...
"Of course, it did help that the authors with whom I worked were recognized as luminaries in their respective fields."
ahhh! now, there's the rub, ain't it...
(relatively) privileged, rich, and/or famous nekkid apes can use their high status to avoid the pettifoggery mere nobodies are subject to in a million ways...
...and -as a LAWyer no less!- you are suggesting that *that* system is 'okay', not just that it is what is, but that it is okay as it is ? ? ?
here's my thing: 1. MY (and MOST people's) personal morals -GENERALLY- FAR exceed whatever bullshit 'laws' are on the books; 2. 'The Law' has become *such* a dense, unfair, tangled web that it ONLY SERVES THE INTERESTS of the puppetmasters and their parasitic puppets, er, lawyers; 3. when the results of 'enforcing' The Law is to persecute the aaron swartz's, bradley mannings, kirikaou's, etc, THEN THE LAW IS AN ASS...
...further, any/all parasites, er, lawyers who support such a corrupted system are complicit...
"first thing let's do..."
(nota bene: lawyers USED TO be a final defense we li'l peeps had against a system run by our betters; now they have been almost totally co-opted; the few 'good' lawyers standing against this unjust system of oppression are few and far between...)
excellent point...
people who own mini-warehouse places are NOT found liable for whatever illegal crap people store in them; why should an online 'place' which offers analogous storage be liable ? ? ?
i did finally manage to sign up, and decided i'll use it as a backup plan: started uploading all my music (100% 'legal', if that even exists any more) and other files...
if i use this and/or dropbox/whoever for a couple cloud backups, i feel better about that than the non-existent backups i'm *supposed* to do at home on a billion DVD's...
my shit is 100% legal, bitchez, better not take it down ! ! !
"It also found that, contrary to the claims that people just wanted content for free, people were spending more on entertainment."
i will make this point again, because i think techdirtia bends over backwards to assert everyone is willing to pay their FAIR (caps, underlined, bold, quotes, 36pt text of 'FAIR') share for 'stuff'...
*HOWEVER*, i will ask again, WHO on dog's green earth does NOT like 'free' stuff ? ? ?
i make this point NOT to rationalize copyright infringement, but as a general point of reference: WHO does NOT like free stuff in general ? ? ?
EVERYONE on this planet likes free stuff... EVERYONE.
AND that MOST especially includes the likes of the MAFIAA who want free rent for close-to or ZERO effort...
talk about freetards...
AND that -to the tenth power- MOST especially includes 'rich' people who are ALWAYS looking to get free goods and services BECAUSE they are rich/powerful/influential celebutards...
(as an aside, THAT alone is why i got my hate on tiger woods after his night-golfing-with-SUV's incident... could care less about his/their personal travails and screwing around, but the stories that came out about him stiffing waitresses (no pun intended), demanding places comp him meals and shit... FUCK THAT CHEAP BASTARD...
one of the most privileged, celebrated, richest pukes on the planet, and he has to get free meals and shit from working stiffs making minimum wage ? ? ? fuck him...)
no, the people who REALLY DESERVE 'free stuff' almost never get it; the rich pukes who do NOT DESERVE 'free stuff' almost always get it...
they get all the money, they get all the laws, they get all the perks, they get all the advantages, they get all the tax breaks, they get -literally- EVERYTHING; and we get stuck with the bill... fuckers...
(factoid: if you took the income of the top 100 richest people in the world, it would alleviate the poverty of EVERY poor person on the planet...
...FOUR TIMES OVER.)
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Re: This is why I have a poor opinion of cops in general.
IF there were a significant component of HONEST kops, then they would HAVE TO squeal on a LOT of their fellow kops, because they KNOW a LOT of them do illegal shit that is not particularly egregious (except for -you know- the disrespect for The Law, which is a life-sentence for us peons), and SOME of them do illegal shit which IS egregious...
but, they don't squeal, do they ? ? ?
nope, they go along to get along, and almost NEVER squeal on kops they KNOW are corrupt...
what does that say about THE WHOLE SYSTEM...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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Re:
in your eye, sauron ! ! !
a little hobbit-nation may still take you down, and wouldn't that be glorious...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Anonymous Hacks US Sentencing Commission Website, Grabs Sensitive Files And Demands Legal Reform
Re: Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Anonymous Hacks US Sentencing Commission Website, Grabs Sensitive Files And Demands Legal Reform
Re: Re:
The They (tm) need NO pretext for this horror show; one thing (un) naturally follows the other:
'we' *HAVE TO* spy on our dear citizens because they are unhappy with us for spying on them so we have to spy on them to find out how unhappy they are about us spying on them because we are spying on them they feel spied upon so we spy on them to make sure they are not talking about being spied on and feeling bad about being spied upon...
ad infinitum ad nauseum...
The They (tm) are old hands at turning the screws until the screwee screams, at which point they say 'see, they screamed, we are justified in turning the screws on them...'
works every time...
...or, perhaps a reichstag fire or two
near as i can tell, ALL the feebs do these days is stage false flag ops...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Anonymous Hacks US Sentencing Commission Website, Grabs Sensitive Files And Demands Legal Reform
Re: I'm a fan
kick their asses...
how telling is it, that i 'trust' an unknown group to champion MY (and ALL OF OURS) interests and freedom MORE than just about ANYBODY in 'my' (sic) gummint ? ? ?
if there was an 'Anonymous' party, i would vote straight party line every damn time...
only *then*, *might* my vote have real meaning with real consequences...
Anonymous, i don't have many -if any- heroes on this planet, but you are one of them...
thank you (...and look out for the nazgul ! ! !)
(and THANK YOU, aaron, bradley, kiriakou, klein, bouazizi, rowley, edmonds, etc, etc, etc... there ARE some nekkid apes who will not bow to Empire... thank you all)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Re: When a uniformed security guard tries to push you down a moving escalator...
that *may* be okay in theory, in practice, The They (tm) will simply pile on charges (see: ortiz, US Attny office, etc) until you scream for mercy...
...then, they will show you no mercy, as well...
gosh, ain't Empire grand !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Carlos Miller Arrested (Again) For Perfectly Legal Photography
Re: you've hit the nail on the head, there...
(please, i don't want to hear about so-called 'elections', etc...)
for us li'l peeps, unending rafts of laws which we are all 'violating' every day of our lives, simply waiting for The Man to crush us when he notices us not BEHAVING the way they want...
for the privileged classes, no laws need apply: no beatdowns for taking a picture, no perp walk for banksters, no CONSEQUENCES, period...
...AND they skate free with their ill-gotten gains, PLUS, make us pay THEM for looting US...
how much longer will the serfs endure it ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Human Rights Lawyer Explains Why He's Working For Kim Dotcom: Exposing American Corruption
Re: Re: Re: Re: I couldn't resist.
go wash your hands, now...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Re: Re: Systemic Corruption
having a counterforce to the unrestrained kapitalist piggies will just make our bankster overlords, well, antsy, so we don't want to upset them, now do we, no, i didn't think so...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Re: IP must be protected
they end up buying 'new' books virtually EVERY year because the 'old' ones are 'outdated' (meaning they have moved some chapters around, and rearranged stuff so that the old exercise books are no longer applicable)...
IT IS A FUCKING SCAM ! ! !
not only that, they are not ALLOWED to use 'old' books, EVEN IF THEY ARE OKAY FOR THEIR purposes... oh, and do i mention the warehouses full of crap that gets bought but never distributed ? ? ?
ANOTHER 'legalized' -yet immoral- scam to fleece the powerless...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Re:
active, interesting threads 'go away' when their stories scroll off the frontpage, and it becomes annoying to keep up with them...
also, i mentioned how i like slashdot's 'rating' system, which allows everyone to customize their browsing level on the comments...
further, i was interested in how 'the community' might promote a debate where we would either vote or designate a couple people to go at some particular issue/point of debate... there are many times when one poster has cogent points 'con' the issue, and another is an effective 'pro', um, proponent, but their worthwhile debate can get lost in the noise (or even other useful comments)...
again, overall, can't get too worked up with how techdirt does its comments; about as open as can be, while maintaining a modicum of fairness and order...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: TechCrunch Admits That Using Facebook Comments Drove Away Most Of Their Commenters
Re: Re:
seriously, there are VERY FEW 'industries' or other niches (mostly in the 'arts') where you are 'allowed' to be free-spirited enough to buck conventional wisdom and not face any/many consequences for it, IF/WHEN it becomes known...
now, IF your 'opinions' are so mainstream and conventional that they brook no opposition from the korporate overlords, then you are free to spout this ultra-controversial (sarc) opinion as much as you want without any consequences...
it is only when the nail sticks its head above the rest of the crowd, that The Man (tm) wants to hammer you back down to mediocrity... nails that don't pop up and make a nuisance of themselves, don't get the hammer...
which nail are you, citizen ? ? ?
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 'Defendant' In Prenda Law Case Reveals He Agreed To Take A Dive
Re: (post parasite here)
IF this was Bigshots, Clubem & Taketheirmoney, Lawfirm Inc, then The Law would simply look to get their cut, one way or the other, and they would be allowed to continue extorting people and violating all the laws they want...
(see, MAFIAA)
and/or their kongresskritter fiends whose beak they have wetted, will simply make the illegal, legal (at least for a select few...)
no, it is because these guys are small, independent extortionists without the approval of the organized criminal puppetmasters that they are being kicked around *some* by The Law...
IF this were being done at the behest of the MAFIAA, or some other power elite players, then i'm sure they would find a much more accommodating reception with The Law...
no, these are just small timers trying to cash-in on the extortion racket that the MAFIAA, etc owns; and the REAL organized crime element doesn't want anyone horning in on their action...
VERY much akin to the banksters, where THE major players who looted and crashed the economy skate away scot-free (WITH THE MONEY! in fact, we paid them off MORE), while a pitiful FEW, lowly henchmen get crucified for relatively nothingburger financial crimes...
just speculatin'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Aaron Swartz Unlikely To Face Jail Or Conviction... Until Feds Decided To 'Send A Message'
Re: Send a message
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Finnish Activists May Force Parliament To Vote On Crowdsourced New Copyright Law
Re: i'll leave this right here...
An expert is someone who knows more and more, about less and less, until they know absolutely everything there is to know about nothing at all.
based on a true story...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Re: Re:
*however*, i do feel that the 'gentle' censorship of superficial 'hiding' the comment is really not very egregious; especially relative to what *most* sites practice in *really* censoring their comments...
again, i agree with your sentiment in principle, but think this is about as harmless a method as could be to keep the signal-to-noise ratio up...
overall, techdirt gets high marks for tolerating 'trollish' (one man's troll is another man's bridge toll collector) behaviors, as well as allowing essentially unfettered speech so we can pretend we are adults with a modicum of control over our lives and say 'pee pee' and 'poo poo' and shit...
sometimes you just gotta call a fucking dickhead a fucking dickhead, and nothing else will do...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Can Crowdsourcing Complete The Job Aaron Swartz Started In Freeing PACER?
Re: Re: Re:
ahhh! now, there's the rub, ain't it...
(relatively) privileged, rich, and/or famous nekkid apes can use their high status to avoid the pettifoggery mere nobodies are subject to in a million ways...
...and -as a LAWyer no less!- you are suggesting that *that* system is 'okay', not just that it is what is, but that it is okay as it is ? ? ?
here's my thing: 1. MY (and MOST people's) personal morals -GENERALLY- FAR exceed whatever bullshit 'laws' are on the books; 2. 'The Law' has become *such* a dense, unfair, tangled web that it ONLY SERVES THE INTERESTS of the puppetmasters and their parasitic puppets, er, lawyers; 3. when the results of 'enforcing' The Law is to persecute the aaron swartz's, bradley mannings, kirikaou's, etc, THEN THE LAW IS AN ASS...
...further, any/all parasites, er, lawyers who support such a corrupted system are complicit...
"first thing let's do..."
(nota bene: lawyers USED TO be a final defense we li'l peeps had against a system run by our betters; now they have been almost totally co-opted; the few 'good' lawyers standing against this unjust system of oppression are few and far between...)
based on a true story...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Concerns Raised About Aaron Swartz's Prosecution And The Wikileaks Connection
Re: Re: Re:
good combination, bet that gets you far in our psychopathic bidness world...
dick
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
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Re: Re: Re:
people who own mini-warehouse places are NOT found liable for whatever illegal crap people store in them; why should an online 'place' which offers analogous storage be liable ? ? ?
i did finally manage to sign up, and decided i'll use it as a backup plan: started uploading all my music (100% 'legal', if that even exists any more) and other files...
if i use this and/or dropbox/whoever for a couple cloud backups, i feel better about that than the non-existent backups i'm *supposed* to do at home on a billion DVD's...
my shit is 100% legal, bitchez, better not take it down ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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i'm going to be a nag about this...
i will make this point again, because i think techdirtia bends over backwards to assert everyone is willing to pay their FAIR (caps, underlined, bold, quotes, 36pt text of 'FAIR') share for 'stuff'...
*HOWEVER*, i will ask again, WHO on dog's green earth does NOT like 'free' stuff ? ? ?
i make this point NOT to rationalize copyright infringement, but as a general point of reference: WHO does NOT like free stuff in general ? ? ?
EVERYONE on this planet likes free stuff... EVERYONE.
AND that MOST especially includes the likes of the MAFIAA who want free rent for close-to or ZERO effort...
talk about freetards...
AND that -to the tenth power- MOST especially includes 'rich' people who are ALWAYS looking to get free goods and services BECAUSE they are rich/powerful/influential celebutards...
(as an aside, THAT alone is why i got my hate on tiger woods after his night-golfing-with-SUV's incident... could care less about his/their personal travails and screwing around, but the stories that came out about him stiffing waitresses (no pun intended), demanding places comp him meals and shit... FUCK THAT CHEAP BASTARD...
one of the most privileged, celebrated, richest pukes on the planet, and he has to get free meals and shit from working stiffs making minimum wage ? ? ? fuck him...)
no, the people who REALLY DESERVE 'free stuff' almost never get it; the rich pukes who do NOT DESERVE 'free stuff' almost always get it...
they get all the money, they get all the laws, they get all the perks, they get all the advantages, they get all the tax breaks, they get -literally- EVERYTHING; and we get stuck with the bill... fuckers...
(factoid: if you took the income of the top 100 richest people in the world, it would alleviate the poverty of EVERY poor person on the planet...
...FOUR TIMES OVER.)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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