I know I'm going to get a hatchet job every time I see "copyrights and patents" bunched together, along with the claim that both illegitimately control "ideas". While patents do attempt to protect ideas, copyright protects only specific implementations of ideas. I consider patents to be illegitimate for that reason, but support copyright. If I write a clever spreadsheet program, copyright prevents you from making money selling my program, but does not prevent you from writing and selling your own program, containing all the features mine has. How can any reasonable person be against this?
... and just tell every company to turn over personal information of every buyer everywhere? No, that would be heating up the pot too fast. Give 'em a year or so and see if we're not there.
Silly citizens! Don't you know that your betters, in "public service", don't need to share anything with you unless they want to? Some asshole cop mistreated you, you say? Just be glad you're still alive, if you were so stupid as to piss that cop off. You know he can kill you with impunity, don't you? Bend over and take it!
Mr. Masnick is an example of that curious modern species, a human who most of the time seems perfectly rational, but who, at the mention of vaccines and any possible uncertainty regarding them becomes a raving lunatic.
The author outs himself as an rabid anti-anti-vaxer, apparently labeling any questioning of the efficacy or potential risks associated with a vaccination as automatically "nonsense". It must be swell to be so all-knowing! As for freedom of speech, well, it's fine, as long as the author and his friends deem its content "not dangerous".
This is an illustration of why it's not necessary to run screaming and whining to legislators to pass a LAW prohibiting this or that and mandating that and this. The marketplace takes care of it.
The drug war is a crime and anyone who participates in pursuing it is a criminal who should be stopped from further predations by whatever means prove necessary.
On the post: The FBI Tried To Get A Secure Phone Company To Create A Backdoor In Its Encrypted Network
Typical government thug trick
They do this all the time.
The government is a criminal organization.
On the post: Lawsuit Settlement Over Detainment Of A Journalist Will Force Denver Police Department To Admit The First Amendment Exists
Cops: worse than useless
In other words, acting just as they normally do. To state the obvious, these two thugs should pay the $50,000 out of their own pockets. AND be fired.
On the post: Ninth Circuit Upholds Its Previous Declaration That Cops Stealing Your Stuff Doesn't Violate The Constitution
Remind me again
On the post: Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss
The usual hatchet job
I know I'm going to get a hatchet job every time I see "copyrights and patents" bunched together, along with the claim that both illegitimately control "ideas". While patents do attempt to protect ideas, copyright protects only specific implementations of ideas. I consider patents to be illegitimate for that reason, but support copyright. If I write a clever spreadsheet program, copyright prevents you from making money selling my program, but does not prevent you from writing and selling your own program, containing all the features mine has. How can any reasonable person be against this?
On the post: DOJ Wants Apple, Google To Hand Over Names And Phone Numbers Of 10,000 App Users
Why don't they save time
... and just tell every company to turn over personal information of every buyer everywhere? No, that would be heating up the pot too fast. Give 'em a year or so and see if we're not there.
On the post: Months After Christchurch Shooting, The Australian Government Is Issuing Site-Blocking Orders Targeting Footage Of The Incident
It should be amusing ...
... to watch the Australian government play Whack-a-Mole as the video gets passed around to more sites. Get a clue, guys, you can't win this one.
On the post: Investigation Uncovers Mass Purging Of Phoenix Police Department Misconduct Records
And we're surprised because ... ?
Silly citizens! Don't you know that your betters, in "public service", don't need to share anything with you unless they want to? Some asshole cop mistreated you, you say? Just be glad you're still alive, if you were so stupid as to piss that cop off. You know he can kill you with impunity, don't you? Bend over and take it!
On the post: Pinterest's Way Of Dealing With Anti-Vax Nonsense And Scams Is Only Possible Because Of Section 230
Re: Re: Thanks so much for your intolerance!
I have that effect on some people.
On the post: Pinterest's Way Of Dealing With Anti-Vax Nonsense And Scams Is Only Possible Because Of Section 230
Re: myths vs. side effects
Mr. Masnick is an example of that curious modern species, a human who most of the time seems perfectly rational, but who, at the mention of vaccines and any possible uncertainty regarding them becomes a raving lunatic.
For anyone who wants a balanced view, here's a good start: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2019/07/29/a-second-look-at-vaccination-answers-that-cannot-be-questio ned/
On the post: Pinterest's Way Of Dealing With Anti-Vax Nonsense And Scams Is Only Possible Because Of Section 230
Thanks so much for your intolerance!
The author outs himself as an rabid anti-anti-vaxer, apparently labeling any questioning of the efficacy or potential risks associated with a vaccination as automatically "nonsense". It must be swell to be so all-knowing! As for freedom of speech, well, it's fine, as long as the author and his friends deem its content "not dangerous".
On the post: White House Now Thinks Harvesting Fitness Tracker Data Could Stop The Next Mass Shooting
The best answer to mass shooters with guns is more good guys with guns.
On the post: Pressured By 'Right To Repair' Movement, Apple Will Sell Parts To Independent Repair Shops
This is an illustration of why it's not necessary to run screaming and whining to legislators to pass a LAW prohibiting this or that and mandating that and this. The marketplace takes care of it.
On the post: Indiana Appeals Court Decides Badmouthing A Cop On Facebook Is A Crime
Poor pathetic little cops! They're "Special", and they need special protection from things you or I would have to endure and get over.
On the post: Man Spends Three Months In Jail Because A Drug Dog And A Field Test Said His Honey Was Methamphetamines
The drug war is a crime and anyone who participates in pursuing it is a criminal who should be stopped from further predations by whatever means prove necessary.
On the post: Do Citizens Have A Right To See The Algorithms Used By Publicly-Funded Software?
Whenever the government spends money on one individual and denies it to another, the reasons should be public knowledge.
On the post: Trump Decides The State Should Run US Businesses, Orders Them To Stop Doing Business With China
I only wish...
... I was running an international business, so I could give Trump the finger in a more tangible way.
On the post: Don't Let The Bret Stephens Bite: NY Times' Hypocritical 'Free Speech' Columnist Flips Out After Being Called A Bedbug
Har!
I haven't laughed this much in months.
On the post: SLAPP Threats Don't Even Need To Become Lawsuits To Be Effective: Cop Gets Columnist Fired For Pointing To Picture Of Him With Racists
Cops are thugs
And all too many cowardly Americans are intimidated by them.
On the post: Ninth Circuit Says Warrantless Device Searches At The Border Must Be Limited To Searches For Contraband
Good news, if it sticks. But it'll take a lot more to stop the government's march to run our lives down to the smallest detail.
On the post: China (Yes, China) Complains About Attack On Its 'Free Speech Rights' After Twitter/Facebook Boot Propaganda Accounts
Re: I guess turnabout ISN'T fair play in China
"Where's that nano-violin when you need it?"
I've got mine right here ... somewhere.
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