Not only is the United States the only country that has successfully landed a craft on Mars; it may be the first or only country that will have a copyright litigation when one Mars astronaut copies another astronaut's mp3 file.
By having tools that are specifically designed for children, they could eliminate any inhibition that police and administrators have in using these tools.
That is just what I've been wanting! This is just the thing that will make me want to come back to cable tv again!
A closed cable tv box is my dream come true.
With a closed cable tv box I would be so happy that I could overlook minor things like:
* reality tv * reruns or reruns * marathons of reruns * programs with more ads than content * ads that are obnoxiously loud * after a long string of ads, the program content is then obscured by characters and animations that walk out on the screen covering the content -- sometimes even items that are critical to the plot of the story * inability to record some programs * being tied to a schedule * high prices * sudden rapid price increases * regular high price increases * award winning service -- for being the worst and most hated company ever! * inability to cancel my account, ever * technicians who strive for the corporate goal of technical incompetence
Thanks to your closed tv box, I am signing up. Enclosed is a blank check. Please fill in the amount and activate my service anytime within the next 24 months!
Either sarcasm or do not sarcasm. There is no try.
Point: the NRA will never accept even common sense ideas like keeping firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people or others who clearly should not have them. It is a gun manufacturers association masquerading as trying to protect gun owners' rights.
Please remember this holiday season that firearms make excellent gifts for the entire family. Family packs available at participating retailers. Check out the new Starter Guns sized just right for the little ones. Please use firearms responsibly when drinking. The NRA offers discounts to those who can show proof of mental impairment or illness.
Consider too, that part of sub saharan Africa are as Christian as some parts of the American South.
As I read that, I read the phrase "are as Christian" as being sarcastic. To mean having a pretense of being Christian while not actually believing or having any of the evidence of actually being Christian.
Like how Trump is a Christian, exhibiting values such as:
compassion
kindness
gentleness
temperance
forgiveness
humility
truthfulness
integrity
good stewardship of resources
It would be no surprise that these "christians" would want to put gay people in prison -- just as Jesus taught us to do! Organize the religious leaders and punish sinners without grace or mercy seems to have been His example.
That implies that there should be a distinction between legal and illegal.
Being cynical, for good reason, I can imagine that the legal robocalls will be something like the anti-net-neutrality "paid prioritization".
Imagine, phone providers offering "paid prioritization" of robocalls, making it legal for robocallers to provide their robocalling "services" to consumers.
In return, the phone service providers, and the robocallers will pay under the table money, and campaign contributions to the FCC members who make the new rules.
Is this scenario really that difficult to imagine?
Next up, a premium robocalling service option that guarantees the recipient of a robocall cannot hang up or disconnect the robocall until the call has been "completed".
(The meaning of "completed" will someday be stretched to mean that a credit card number has been taken and charged for something.)
Yep. Call me crazy, paranoid, insane, crazy, cynical, or crazy.
Since voting is hopelessly insecure, the president should simply decree (by executive odor?) the outcome of the election. It would save a massive amount of human time spent voting. It would save all of the costs of operating elections.
A bad law, like a soiled diaper can be 'freshened' by replacing its contents with newer, fresher contents. But it does not become more appealing, useful, helpful or otherwise beneficial in any way.
On the post: When A 'Trade War' Involves Seizing And Imprisoning Foreign Execs, It's No Longer Just About Trade
Re:
On the post: The TV Sector's Latest Bad Idea: Ads That Play When You Press Pause
I've said it before
Radio. TV. Cable. Magazines. DVD. Billboards.
On the post: ESPN Has Lost 14 Million Viewers In 7 Years Thanks To Cord Cutting
Other cord cutting losses
Not only has ESPN lost viewers . . . but cable tv companies have no doubt lost subscribers because of ESPN being forced upon them.
On the post: We Interrupt All The Hating On Technology To Remind Everyone We Just Landed On Mars
Re: The only country to do so
On the post: Red Bull Fails To Block Trademark Registration In EU Over Logos That Aren't All That Similar
Similarity
Both logos have only two colors.
One is yellow and black.
The other is yellow and red.
The logos have some symmetry.
Both logos are two dimensional.
Once you spot the similarities between the logos it is clear there must be infringement.
On the post: $337,000 Settlement Headed To Elementary School Students Handcuffed By School Resource Officers
A reasonable solution
* child sized hand cuffs
* child appropriate tasers
* flavored pepper spray
* child sized detention cells
By having tools that are specifically designed for children, they could eliminate any inhibition that police and administrators have in using these tools.
On the post: Comcast To Battle Cord Cutting By... Reinventing The Closed Cable Box
Oh good! That's just what I've been waiting for!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
That is just what I've been wanting! This is just the thing that will make me want to come back to cable tv again!
A closed cable tv box is my dream come true.
With a closed cable tv box I would be so happy that I could overlook minor things like:
* reality tv
* reruns or reruns
* marathons of reruns
* programs with more ads than content
* ads that are obnoxiously loud
* after a long string of ads, the program content is then obscured by characters and animations that walk out on the screen covering the content -- sometimes even items that are critical to the plot of the story
* inability to record some programs
* being tied to a schedule
* high prices
* sudden rapid price increases
* regular high price increases
* award winning service -- for being the worst and most hated company ever!
* inability to cancel my account, ever
* technicians who strive for the corporate goal of technical incompetence
Thanks to your closed tv box, I am signing up. Enclosed is a blank check. Please fill in the amount and activate my service anytime within the next 24 months!
Again, thanks!
On the post: Judge Lets NRA's 1st Amendment Lawsuit Against Andrew Cuomo Move Forward
Re: Re: Holiday Reminder PSA
Point: the NRA will never accept even common sense ideas like keeping firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people or others who clearly should not have them. It is a gun manufacturers association masquerading as trying to protect gun owners' rights.
On the post: Judge Lets NRA's 1st Amendment Lawsuit Against Andrew Cuomo Move Forward
Holiday Reminder PSA
On the post: The Girl Scouts Sues The Boy Scouts Over Trademark
Re: Just a bit of history
On the post: Pennsylvania Attorney General Sends Broad, Unconstitutional Gag Order To Gab's New DNS Provider
Go after the Users not the Site
Of course, we all know this on TD.
The DNS, the connectivity, the infrastructure should be neutral.
If anyone is at fault it is possibly the Site, but more likely an end user.
Of course, it's easier to just try to cut them off at the basic infrastructure level.
On the post: Governor Of Tanzania's Capital Announces Plan To Round Up Everyone Who Was Too Gay On Social Media
Re: 'Cut me off in traffic? Oh they are definitely gay.'
On the post: Governor Of Tanzania's Capital Announces Plan To Round Up Everyone Who Was Too Gay On Social Media
Re:
As I read that, I read the phrase "are as Christian" as being sarcastic. To mean having a pretense of being Christian while not actually believing or having any of the evidence of actually being Christian.
Like how Trump is a Christian, exhibiting values such as:
It would be no surprise that these "christians" would want to put gay people in prison -- just as Jesus taught us to do! Organize the religious leaders and punish sinners without grace or mercy seems to have been His example.
On the post: FCC Pretends To Hold Carrier Feet To The Fire On Robocalls
Illegal Robocalls
That implies that there should be a distinction between legal and illegal.
Being cynical, for good reason, I can imagine that the legal robocalls will be something like the anti-net-neutrality "paid prioritization".
Imagine, phone providers offering "paid prioritization" of robocalls, making it legal for robocallers to provide their robocalling "services" to consumers.
In return, the phone service providers, and the robocallers will pay under the table money, and campaign contributions to the FCC members who make the new rules.
Is this scenario really that difficult to imagine?
Next up, a premium robocalling service option that guarantees the recipient of a robocall cannot hang up or disconnect the robocall until the call has been "completed".
(The meaning of "completed" will someday be stretched to mean that a credit card number has been taken and charged for something.)
Yep. Call me crazy, paranoid, insane, crazy, cynical, or crazy.
On the post: Georgia Scrambles To Patch Massive Vulnerabilities In Its Voter Registration System After Insisting It Was Totally Secure
Voting systems hopelessly insecure
Since voting is hopelessly insecure, the president should simply decree (by executive odor?) the outcome of the election. It would save a massive amount of human time spent voting. It would save all of the costs of operating elections.
On the post: Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry
Re: Re: Didn't they do this before?
On the post: Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry
Didn't they do this before?
On the post: Internet Memes Are Making UK Children Fat, Say Researchers Who Don't Understand Memes
MEME-lite. Less filling, just as inciteful
The Windows Support guy said Windows would work better if I Power Cycle at least twice a day. But I don't even own a bike.
On the post: UK Refreshes Stupid Porn Filter Law, Making It Fresher But No Less Stupid
It still stinks as bad
On the post: Will Donald Trump Support A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law Now That It's Helped Him Win Stormy Daniels' Defamation Suit?
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
I seem to remember from the Groklaw days that it is a violation of FRCP to deliberately try to increase the litigation costs of the other party.
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