The car-killer in Charlottesville is being prosecuted for murder, without political controversy. How many of the San Jose stormtroopers are being prosecuted (apart from the three dumb enough to attack the cops who were on their side)?
The Second Amendment does not empower aggressors to shoot down people they don't like, and NRA types have not been doing so (or we have heard about it by now). The masked stormtroopers of Antifa could claim a tit-for-tat relationship to masked KKK thugs, except that masked KKK thugs have gotten rather scarce in recent years.
To the man with a hammer, everything is a nail. To the bully motivated by antifascism, everything is fascism.
Hugo S Cunningham (profile), 12 Jun 2018 @ 10:04am
Refusing to admit ticketholder after search? totally baffling
There is a drug-warrior logic behind the drug-dog presence. If I understand this story correctly, however, even "clean" (false-positive) concert-goers who offer to let a human cop search them will lose their (expensive) tickets. If they tried that at a 1960s Stones concert, there would have been a riot.
Since they themselves are claiming '*phonetic* equivalents to “Comic Con”' [*emphasis* added], their piracy cannot be considered innocent or accidental.
Damages can be apportioned to worthy socialist causes.
Partly inspired by the Cold War "Radio Free Europe", how feasible would it be for a consortium of universities and academics (both European and American), small and alternate websites, and Internet philanthropists to set up an overseas news aggregator ("Internet Free Europe") of Europe's alternate and minor websites, immune from EU legal coercion?
Hugo S Cunningham (profile), 23 May 2018 @ 11:10pm
Blackmail-- can two legal acts be combined to make a crime?
It is legal to post mugshots and legal to ask for money. Is the combination of these two legal acts a crime? This question has been around long enough to post to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail#Objections
An analogy is sometimes made to drunk driving: it is legal to get drunk and legal to drive, but combining the two poses a criminal risk to other drivers on the road.
Hugo S Cunningham (profile), 19 May 2018 @ 12:24pm
Move "Mars Attacks" Congress speech to Parliament.
Does anyone remember the comedy film "Mars Attacks", where the Martian addresses a joint session of Congress (and vaporizes the lot of them)? Perhaps, in honor of this visit, someone could do Gollum addressing the House of Commons...
If cops want to frame you, they don't need your DNA.
(But no technology is infallible, eg DNA can be planted or contaminated by a third party. Even a "99.9% accurate" technology should be corroborated by independent evidence.)
Hugo S Cunningham (profile), 20 Apr 2018 @ 11:05am
Benign virus to make Internet porn generic?
Even if a jerk who put revenge porn on the Internet goes to prison where he belongs, the porn is likely to remain out there, even if no longer so closely associated with the victim.
Might an Internet virus be devised that recognizes porn, and alters the face, clothing, and other distinctive features of the subjects to something still visually appealing, but no longer "recognizable" as the original subject? Porn stars who wished to be recognizable could still offer personal images at their personal websites.
The principal defect in the original TPP was Obama's IP giveaways to his Hollywood campaign donors (people to whom Trump owes little). Without the malign US influence, these IP provisions were dropped. If current TPP signatories hold firm about not re-opening the IP issue, and Trump gets us to join anyways, it will be a better deal for America than Obama's version.
Force Google out of news aggregation. Make it an EU monopoly.
/sarc/ Once an EU government monopoly controls Internet news links, the social utility of making publishers pay for previously free links and advertising will become obvious./s/
Hugo S Cunningham (profile), 31 Mar 2018 @ 10:00am
Religious contribution to Forbes [Was: Re:
I am no fan of conservative Evangelicals (aka Fundamentalists), but why did you send your denunciation of them to Forbes, a business magazine? Were you responding to a *Forbes* article about or by such a person or people? If there was such a Forbes link in your article, I missed it.
Not a very appealing defendant. Might that have weighed on the minds of the judges who upheld the conviction?
(Though they do seem to be stretching the definition of "violent" in claiming *five* prior "violent felony" convictions. Two were actual assaults, but the others were drug offenses.)
"William Chance Wallace is a confirmed member of Tango Blast, a Texas crime syndicate. As of 2015, Wallace had been convicted of five violent felonies: one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of possession of a controlled substance, and one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Wallace violated his probation for the unlawful delivery charge and a warrant was issued for his arrest on January 15, 2015. In two separate cases, Wallace was charged with and pleaded guilty to: (1) being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and 924(e); and (2) aiding and abetting retaliation against a witness in a criminal investigation."
On the post: Funneling Trump Rally Attendees Directly Into A Violent Anti-Trump Crowd Costs Officers Their Qualified Immunity
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On the post: Funneling Trump Rally Attendees Directly Into A Violent Anti-Trump Crowd Costs Officers Their Qualified Immunity
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To the man with a hammer, everything is a nail. To the bully motivated by antifascism, everything is fascism.
On the post: Appeals Court Rejects Sketchy Plan To Pretend To Sell Patents To Native American Nation To Avoid Scrutiny
Patent States' rights should be two-way street
On the post: Denuvo Martyrs Voksi Using Bulgarian Police In What Will Surely Be The End Of Denuvo's Troubles
Re: good bargaining position?
On the post: It's Not Such A Wonderful Public Domain, As Paramount Plans To Block 'It's A Wonderful Life' Sequel
Re: Re: I never liked...
On the post: French Political Party Voting For Mandatory Copyright Filters Is Furious That Its YouTube Channel Deleted By Filter
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On the post: South Carolina Drug Warriors Routinely Serving Regular Warrants Like No-Knock Warrants
next in the LEO arsenal-- the "Stalingrad warrant"
No troublesome survivors will be left to sue you.
On the post: Australian Cops Say Their Unreliable Drug Dogs Will Decide Who Gets To Attend Music Festivals
Refusing to admit ticketholder after search? totally baffling
On the post: San Diego Comic-Con Petitions Judge To Have Salt Lake Comic Con Pay Its Attorney's Fees, Bar It From Calling Itself A 'Comic Convention'
Capitalist bloodsuckers infringe "Comecon" name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon
Since they themselves are claiming '*phonetic* equivalents to “Comic Con”' [*emphasis* added], their piracy cannot be considered innocent or accidental.
Damages can be apportioned to worthy socialist causes.
http://www.cyberussr.com/
On the post: EU Parliament Members Play Hardball On Terrible Copyright Policies, Article Highlighting Sketchy Tactics Magically Disappears
Internet Free Europe?
On the post: Mugshots.com Operators Arrested For Letting Money Influence Editorial Decisions
Re: Re: They should've left CA alone!!
On the post: Mugshots.com Operators Arrested For Letting Money Influence Editorial Decisions
Blackmail-- can two legal acts be combined to make a crime?
This question has been around long enough to post to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail#Objections
An analogy is sometimes made to drunk driving: it is legal to get drunk and legal to drive, but combining the two poses a criminal risk to other drivers on the road.
On the general subject of dirtbags on the edge of the law, I prefer California's approach to one witnessed by Sherlock Holmes:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Charles_Augustus_Milverton
On the post: Turkish President Visits UK To Remind Everyone He Still Wants To Punish Critical Speech
Move "Mars Attacks" Congress speech to Parliament.
On the post: Drug Dog Trainer: Marijuana Legalization Will Literally Kill Police Drug Dogs
Soviet dissident writer saw this problem earlier...
On the post: Police Use Genealogy Site To Locate Murder Suspect They'd Been Hunting For More Than 30 Years
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(But no technology is infallible, eg DNA can be planted or contaminated by a third party. Even a "99.9% accurate" technology should be corroborated by independent evidence.)
On the post: Texas Tosses Out Law Against Peeping Tom Photographs As A First Amendment Violation
Benign virus to make Internet porn generic?
Might an Internet virus be devised that recognizes porn, and alters the face, clothing, and other distinctive features of the subjects to something still visually appealing, but no longer "recognizable" as the original subject? Porn stars who wished to be recognizable could still offer personal images at their personal websites.
On the post: After Removing US From Negotiating Process, Now Trump Suddenly Wants US Back In TPP
TPP: Maybe Trump will get us a better version
On the post: Latest EU Copyright Plan Would Ban Copyright Holders From Using Creative Commons
Force Google out of news aggregation. Make it an EU monopoly.
On the post: It Took All Of Three Hours To Code A Plugin That Makes News Comments More Civil
Religious contribution to Forbes [Was: Re:
On the post: Appeals Court Has No Problem With Cops Using E911 Services To Perform Warrantless, Real-Time Tracking
Not a very appealing defendant
(Though they do seem to be stretching the definition of "violent" in claiming *five* prior "violent felony" convictions. Two were actual assaults, but the others were drug offenses.)
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1861388.html
"William Chance Wallace is a confirmed member of Tango Blast, a Texas crime syndicate. As of 2015, Wallace had been convicted of five violent felonies: one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of possession of a controlled substance, and one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Wallace violated his probation for the unlawful delivery charge and a warrant was issued for his arrest on January 15, 2015. In two separate cases, Wallace was charged with and pleaded guilty to: (1) being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and 924(e); and (2) aiding and abetting retaliation against a witness in a criminal investigation."
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