> It's written by Marc Randazza, so it's got that readable style he's become known for.
I especially enjoyed this from page 21:
If we must have factual development on this, then Defendants may be forced to call an expert on existential philosophy and another on quantum physics, or the court could simply realize what any sensible person would recognize, and that is that this is a statement of hyperbole, and protected opinion.
and this from page 24:
A reasonable reader would not reasonably believe that a suggestion to swallow cement in lieu of the Roca Labs product is a statement of fact. If this is not rhetorical hyperbole, then one would presume that the only discovery we could engage in to prove it true or false would be to find an unfortunate test subject, force them to drink a glass of liquid cement, and leave them sitting on the witness stand until they report to us whether they feel full or not. Such mockery is not offered to be irreverent toward the Court ...
Hilarious, yet prudent... scrumptious (no, not the cement, or Roca Labs' product)...
I love the maximalists pulling out "inalienable rights" out of their backsides, considering that the collateral damage always ends up stripping people of other "rights" --- as we see here.
> There has been a re-emergence of measles, pertussis
It's disingenuous to state this without stating the reason why: anti-vaccination propaganda has destroyed the herd immunity against these diseases in many locations.
We can trust our "mommy instincts"... to kill what? a few pro-mil of our children? (Compared with vaccination itself causing serious injury only in single digits per million, if that much).
On the contrary, the government/LEA malware planted on your computer along with the pervasive surveillance of the net has activated the automatic anti-infringement SWAT drone which is already on its way! (Yea! I just unified several diverse Techdirt topics!)
I find the preoccupation with Mars as a place for human settlement silly. It seems obvious to me that we'd be much better off using the Moon as a site for improving our technical ability to make robots which could be useful (and probably essential) to "break ground" before sending humans (since neither Mars nor the Moon have strong enough magnetic fields for radiation shielding, the only way for humans to survive there for long periods is to stay deep underground most of the time).
Mars has the advantage of having an atmosphere and (probably more) water, but it is just too cold and too far away from the Sun. Temperatures in the shade there are approximately the temperature of dry ice.
> Or we could just stop suppressing the discoveries of Dr. Thomas Townsend Brown.
You don't understand! If we (you know, those of us really in charge) shut off the Brown effect suppression field, terrorists will be able to block the gravity of the Sun, sending the Earth spinning out of its orbit and killing us all!
It might be cheaper to build such a cable, but one could just as easily use satellites in the L4, and L5 points supplemented by a periodically refueled satellite orbiting around L2.
Latency would suck compared to a cable, though. But for most imaging research, it would be perfectly OK.
> could you travel out of the country with a book?
The answer is (or was): "yes". This is exactly how the source code for PGP was exported out of the US to enable its international distribution. IIRC, the book which was printed even had periodic checksums to enable easily checking the output of the OCR processing.
> Even if there are some bad file names, most are going to be what they claim to be.
Given that the content industries hire companies to produce "red herring" files, this argument seems a bit weak. Certainly weak if we're talking about a criminal case.
People keep throwing around these pro- and anti- prefixes, but in the end, they don't mean much, or possibly anything at all, because they are usually just a shorthand for the logical fallacy of "false dichotomy".
I'm also anti-piracy, but then, I'm also anti-littering. I'm not sure which should have the greater punishment, it seems to me to be a matter of context.
Wow. Let's see now, when combine your post with "statements" from the **AA's reports, what conclusion we come up with.
(1) A large percentage of Internet communications are copyright infringement using P2P software. (2) Anyone using P2P software illegally uploads in order to gain profit (as in, getting other parts of the file from others). (3) Copyright infringement for profit is criminal. (4) This criminal infringement is being willfully aided by Internet providers in general (5) All Internet providers are also criminals, so we should shut them all down.
There now. Now the **AA's can go to sleep and rest peacefully, knowing that their bad dream of the Internet has been duly erased from reality... in order to serve Justice, of course.
Theoretically, you are right... but didn't you notice that AD only states "you are right / I was wrong", which in the absence/reporting of his original posts does not add anything to the discussion.
He carefully didn't actually state anything which is worth reading on its own. If he had stated "I was wrong, and the US government has no justification to seize Dotcom's assets", then I would agree with you that the posts shouldn't have been reported (and I have a suspicion that "you" are actually AD).
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Re: You forgot Britney Spears
I still remember laughing until tears when I first saw that website.
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How will they define porn?
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Not Judge Arnold, Judge MORRIS Arnold
Judge Morris "Buzz" Arnold left FISC in 2013, FSM be praised.
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Randazza style
I especially enjoyed this from page 21:and this from page 24:Hilarious, yet prudent... scrumptious (no, not the cement, or Roca Labs' product)...
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Patent-free chemotherapy drug development
Disclaimer: I donated.
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Re: Re:
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Contradictory rights
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Thank you, anti-vaxxers
It's disingenuous to state this without stating the reason why: anti-vaccination propaganda has destroyed the herd immunity against these diseases in many locations.
We can trust our "mommy instincts"... to kill what? a few pro-mil of our children? (Compared with vaccination itself causing serious injury only in single digits per million, if that much).
Oh, that was "thank" with an "f"...
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On the contrary, the government/LEA malware planted on your computer along with the pervasive surveillance of the net has activated the automatic anti-infringement SWAT drone which is already on its way! (Yea! I just unified several diverse Techdirt topics!)
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Re: Re: Issa
If corporations are automatically people, shouldn't it work the other way?
(Yes, yes, I know about that "gold" aphorism...)
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Moon first, please...
Mars has the advantage of having an atmosphere and (probably more) water, but it is just too cold and too far away from the Sun. Temperatures in the shade there are approximately the temperature of dry ice.
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Re: Re: Re: several weeks (at least)
You don't understand! If we (you know, those of us really in charge) shut off the Brown effect suppression field, terrorists will be able to block the gravity of the Sun, sending the Earth spinning out of its orbit and killing us all!
/sarc
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Not 100% necessary
Latency would suck compared to a cable, though. But for most imaging research, it would be perfectly OK.
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Re: Memories from the cryptowars
The answer is (or was): "yes". This is exactly how the source code for PGP was exported out of the US to enable its international distribution. IIRC, the book which was printed even had periodic checksums to enable easily checking the output of the OCR processing.
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Re: Re: Re:
Yes, of course! That's much more suspicious than... choosing a nick called "PRMan".
Can anyone send me some of what that AC was smoking?
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Re: Re: Re:
Given that the content industries hire companies to produce "red herring" files, this argument seems a bit weak. Certainly weak if we're talking about a criminal case.
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Pro- / Anti- == false dichotomy
I'm also anti-piracy, but then, I'm also anti-littering. I'm not sure which should have the greater punishment, it seems to me to be a matter of context.
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Re: Re: Re:
(1) A large percentage of Internet communications are copyright infringement using P2P software.
(2) Anyone using P2P software illegally uploads in order to gain profit (as in, getting other parts of the file from others).
(3) Copyright infringement for profit is criminal.
(4) This criminal infringement is being willfully aided by Internet providers in general
(5) All Internet providers are also criminals, so we should shut them all down.
There now. Now the **AA's can go to sleep and rest peacefully, knowing that their bad dream of the Internet has been duly erased from reality... in order to serve Justice, of course.
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No big loss, anyway...
He carefully didn't actually state anything which is worth reading on its own. If he had stated "I was wrong, and the US government has no justification to seize Dotcom's assets", then I would agree with you that the posts shouldn't have been reported (and I have a suspicion that "you" are actually AD).
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