Re: Re: well, two bad examples in a number of ways...
...because they are cowards and control-freaks ? ? ?
...or were you being passively-aggressively snarky, yet not brave enough to simply come out with it ? ? ?
yeah, i'm going with the latter... (of course, your 'argument' makes no sense, doesn't actually address any points in the article, comments, or my post; but, day-am, wasn't that some golden snark... *snicker*)
WHY my comment is 'the reason why news site are getting rid of commenters.' is not explicated; in all likelihood because you HAVE NO 'REASON' other than a dislike for me personally... thus, you prove you are both a widdle baby who has NO CONCEPT of what free speech entails, and a pantywaist wormtongue...
Re: Re: Re: well, two bad examples in a number of ways...
yeah, i was banned from there too... *tried* to email the site admins, but i am an unclean untouchable, so of course they don't respond... it is NEVER that i say doo-doo, or fuck you, or whatever, it is ALWAYS because i challenge their received 'wisdom', and would play the devil's advocate on a lot of the bullshit they presented... they no likey opposition, ESPECIALLY if it is presented by 'one of their own'... banned from pandagon, banned from a bunch of other libtard sites, and a couple conservatard sites...
i think i'm up for most unpopular poster on the inertnet... hee hee hee
1. saloon sux, period... it is all but impossible to visit that site without adblock+/ghostery/etc... the HUGE list ghostery shows of crap they are loading is jaw-dropping... not only bad in a theoretical privacy sense, but it takes fucking FOREVER for pages to load... really, one of the shittiest designed and executed websites there is... frankly, the ONLY REASON i go to saloon, is to see what looney PC, uber-fembot bullshit they are selling that day, and shake my head and laugh at their idiocies... (been banned from commenting because i mock them mercilessly and they could not abide that...) libtards like them make me NOT want to be associated with liberal/progressive issues in any way; they disgust me, they have NO principles (otherwise they would repudiate the war kriminal obomber), AND they are anti-freedom in nearly every posture they take... 2. and -of course- the 'listening to their readers' by metrics is bullshit: i go to a site, i may open 5-10 tabs of stories i might be interested in, or merely want to laugh at the lunacy in the comments, BUT, maybe put that in the background while i do some other tasks, and their 'metrics' are telling them i visited, opened a bunch of stories, and was on the web page for HOURS, when -in fact- i NEVER got back around to going back to read the stores, etc... its not turtles, its bullshit all the way down... 3. MANY times, the comments -good or bad- are WAY more interesting and insightful than whatever article was the impetus for comments... one annoying aspect of that, is when/where there IS an interesting thread of comments, it gets shoved down the list until invisible (IN SPITE of still being active), and is smothered in the cradle...
Re: Re: The problem here is with some people's worls view.
let me reinforce that with a point i find myself making over and over again in these 'debates'... that is the problem of the elephant in the living room: authoritarians... approx 25% of ANY population will be comprised of authoritarians; THEY are the impediments to citizen actions, they are the quislings and non-thinkers who comprise the not-so-silent minority who can be depended upon to support the status quo/leadership NO MATTER WHAT... this is NOT a joke: if the authoritarians Big Daddy says 'hate/kill XYZ!', they will hate/kill XYZ, NO QUESTIONS ASKED... the horrifying aspect is, if Big Daddy says THE NEXT DAY 'love/protect XYZ!', the followers will turn on a dime WITHOUT QUESTION and now love XYZ... there is NO 'logic', there is NO 'reasoning', there is NO 'greater good for the greatest number', it is ALL about doing whatever Big Daddy says UNCRITICALLY... in short, THERE IS NO REASONING with authoritarians...
Re: Re: Re: Wheeler has made it clear that his plan is to avoid those ...
bullshit... in many to most places, Big Media has carved up the states/counties/cities, and there are NO ALTERNATIVES, per-i-fucking-od...
further, it is either literally impossible (due to statutory restrictions), or essentially impossible (due to high cost of entry and/or control of rights-of-way/fiber) to start up any kind of competitive ISP venture...
and -yes- the exceptions DO prove the rule, AND prove that competitors CAN do what Big Media has been promising (AND BEING PAID) to do for decades, and has failed repeatedly... they have ZERO credibility, such that if Big Media claims the sky is blue, i am almost certain it is grey and i'm getting pissed on...
because they are authoritarian kreepazoids who buy into 'if we don't like them for whatever reason (or no 'reason' at all), they are terrorists...' mentality... declare them non-persons, then anything goes... we're all non-persons, now...
in a related vein, i related how i was a 'samknows' participant for a number of years... *one* of the reasons i no longer am, is because of what i saw as COMPLETELY SHAM 'measurements' of my ISP 'speed'... according to these charts, my ISP service was NEVER off, NEVER below the advertised amount, and NEVER varied in any significant fashion... excepting one minor detail: the monthly samknows charts were showing 'normal' 3mps dsl speeds during WEEKS of TOTAL internet outage... (BOTH from NO USABLE signal at the telephone post, to fried modem(S!) from lightning strike(S!), to fried ethernet ports, etc...) WEEKS of 'normal' signals indicated on the charts, when i could not make a connection AT ALL; WEEKS of 'normal' connection indicated when THERE WAS NO SIGNAL AT THE POST, THEIR modem/router was NOT PLUGGED IN, or (later) FRIED, and/or our computers were inoperable... WEEKS... but the damn charts they are sending me over the 5-6 months these issues occur don't show a blip, a hiccup, a jiggle... bull-fucking-shit, says i, and tell them where to stuff their lying router...
um, yeah, well... seeing as how the revo war was about ultimately establishing said constitution, maybe that was a tad difficult to violate prospectively...
also, the harsh truth is, that 'our' (sic) gummint *has* violated and abandoned the constitutional protections on more than a few occasions, and certainly under the rubric of 'war' ! ! ! *supposedly*, we 'learn' each time we do that to be -you know- eternally vigilant not to allow such transgressions to occur... ...until they do...
couple observations: 1. as other posters, pretty much don't like many current movie theaters for the fact of the audiences... related once about lady who opened up her fucking LAPTOP in the theatre DURING the main movie... at times like those, i see the logic in concealed carry... (NOT that it was okay under any circumstances to use your laptop in a movie theater, *but* doing so during the interminable ads -another reason i hate going- is not the capital offense during the movie is...) 2. at a recent semi-hoity-toity theatrical performance of phantom of the opera, and the generally older audience had a huge percentage dicking around with their brain cancer machines... did not notice any *during* the show, but *right* up to it, and during intermission, and afterwards they were all over their time-wasting gizmos... living in the moment ? doesn't happen any more...
*sigh* why i am coming to despise our so-called modern society with all the "conveniences"... i *used* to be able to: A. call a pizza place and order a fucking pizza... DONE... there is no 'step B.' to ordering a pizza... no idiotic 'registering' or opening an online 'account'; and with no more intrusion than they caller-id'ed my ass to make sure i wasn't a deadbeat... *now* ? they nearly force you to use some CRAPPY website which invariably is NOT up-to-date, and asks for information as if i'm taking out a fucking bank loan... FUCK YOU, you shit pizza chains: i want a fucking PIZZA, NOT waste a half hour 'registering' to be some marketing data you sell off to others to then bug the shit out of me for for-fucking-ever... guess who i don't buy pizzas from ? idiot chains who funnel you into their ridiculous crapp... sure, compared to the NSA they aren't *that* intrusive, but seeing as how i think buying a fucking pizza should have ZERO intrusion/hassle, it is still infinitely more intrusive than is necessary...
MAFIAA: hey, rubes, we got another shit sandwich for you, enjoy ! ! ! rubes: no thanks, going elsewhere now... MAFIAA: what, you can't do that!! ! what are you talking about ? ? ? (whoa, its slippery in here...) rubes: about had it with your extortionary pricing, shitty presentation of products, and limitations that make no sense, much less cents... MAFIAA: b-bu-but, *we* control the horizontal, *we* control the vertical... (damn, what is all over this floor...) rubes: too bad, so sad, you cut your own throats, then blame us, now *you* enjoy your self-inflicted bloodbath... MAFIAA: unka sam ! ! ! protect US ! ! ! make the bad cord-cutters go away ! ! !
so, if it makes so much sense for drones, by *YOUR* 'logic', that should go a hundred times over for 'real' aircraft, which have an infinitely bigger potential impact than a couple pound drone...
i thought the default position of the gummint not doing anything significant to benefit the 99% was solidly ensconced; now, some boy scout comes along and makes all the right noises...
a small victory, but a victory nonetheless... thanks for being a public servant, mr wheeler...
3. now what ? (this is where the campaign starts to unravel) little explanatory video begs the question, in that they start with an assumed case/docket number, blah blah blah...
4. uh, yeah, i'm *not* a lawyer (EVEN THOUGH you do NOT have to be a lawyer/etc to sign up for/use pacer, etc, it is pretty much assumed throughout the process); and EVEN the explanatory process for the activist campaign to download a bunch of pacer dox for free as in beer by recruiting a 'vast' nerd-wing konspiracy to have STUPID CIVILIANS, like me, sign up, and do the soft-ddos, is assuming you are a lawyer... not helpful for legal stupidheads from stupidtown like me who still want to help download 'stuff', which should have been available in the first place...
5. the instructions are not clear: *says* icon will turn blue when 'logged into' pacer site, but not strictly true, you have to either select one of the available court links, or do a query, in order to have recap 'active'... secondly, the short video was *not* what happened: i did *not* get a little icon inthe lower right corner which notified me it was uploaded to the archive, i only got it downloaded locally...
6. somehow got on a link from some group called asymptote, or some thing, that supposedly offered a way to find out what dox were needed, and *that* had a link for 'x' document being needed, i smooshed it, it was downloaded locally, but not anywhere else; it even had a specific button to upload, but i don't know if that happened...
has anyone else in techdirtia had similar problems getting the addon to work/upload ? i guess i can figure out where to upload 'manually', but i thought it was also doing the bookkeeping in keeping track of what was/wasn't downloaded at that point... thanks for help, can't find a lot so far on the sites in question...
On the post: Free Speech Champions File Amicus Brief In Hopes Of Getting Terrible 'Publicity Rights' Decision Re-Examined
Re: Re: Re: Courts got it correct
maybe his greedy heirs 'disagree', but fuck them...
On the post: Guardian, Salon Show How Keeping And Fixing News Comments Isn't Hard If You Give Half A Damn
Re: Re: well, two bad examples in a number of ways...
...or were you being passively-aggressively snarky, yet not brave enough to simply come out with it ? ? ?
yeah, i'm going with the latter...
(of course, your 'argument' makes no sense, doesn't actually address any points in the article, comments, or my post; but, day-am, wasn't that some golden snark... *snicker*)
WHY my comment is 'the reason why news site are getting rid of commenters.' is not explicated; in all likelihood because you HAVE NO 'REASON' other than a dislike for me personally... thus, you prove you are both a widdle baby who has NO CONCEPT of what free speech entails, and a pantywaist wormtongue...
On the post: Guardian, Salon Show How Keeping And Fixing News Comments Isn't Hard If You Give Half A Damn
Re: Re: Re: well, two bad examples in a number of ways...
*tried* to email the site admins, but i am an unclean untouchable, so of course they don't respond...
it is NEVER that i say doo-doo, or fuck you, or whatever, it is ALWAYS because i challenge their received 'wisdom', and would play the devil's advocate on a lot of the bullshit they presented... they no likey opposition, ESPECIALLY if it is presented by 'one of their own'...
banned from pandagon, banned from a bunch of other libtard sites, and a couple conservatard sites...
i think i'm up for most unpopular poster on the inertnet...
hee hee hee
On the post: Guardian, Salon Show How Keeping And Fixing News Comments Isn't Hard If You Give Half A Damn
well, two bad examples in a number of ways...
really, one of the shittiest designed and executed websites there is...
frankly, the ONLY REASON i go to saloon, is to see what looney PC, uber-fembot bullshit they are selling that day, and shake my head and laugh at their idiocies...
(been banned from commenting because i mock them mercilessly and they could not abide that...)
libtards like them make me NOT want to be associated with liberal/progressive issues in any way; they disgust me, they have NO principles (otherwise they would repudiate the war kriminal obomber), AND they are anti-freedom in nearly every posture they take...
2. and -of course- the 'listening to their readers' by metrics is bullshit: i go to a site, i may open 5-10 tabs of stories i might be interested in, or merely want to laugh at the lunacy in the comments, BUT, maybe put that in the background while i do some other tasks, and their 'metrics' are telling them i visited, opened a bunch of stories, and was on the web page for HOURS, when -in fact- i NEVER got back around to going back to read the stores, etc...
its not turtles, its bullshit all the way down...
3. MANY times, the comments -good or bad- are WAY more interesting and insightful than whatever article was the impetus for comments... one annoying aspect of that, is when/where there IS an interesting thread of comments, it gets shoved down the list until invisible (IN SPITE of still being active), and is smothered in the cradle...
On the post: Anti-Net Neutrality Propaganda Reaches Insane Levels With Bad Actors And Porn Parody
Re: Re: The problem here is with some people's worls view.
that is the problem of the elephant in the living room: authoritarians...
approx 25% of ANY population will be comprised of authoritarians; THEY are the impediments to citizen actions, they are the quislings and non-thinkers who comprise the not-so-silent minority who can be depended upon to support the status quo/leadership NO MATTER WHAT...
this is NOT a joke: if the authoritarians Big Daddy says 'hate/kill XYZ!', they will hate/kill XYZ, NO QUESTIONS ASKED...
the horrifying aspect is, if Big Daddy says THE NEXT DAY 'love/protect XYZ!', the followers will turn on a dime WITHOUT QUESTION and now love XYZ...
there is NO 'logic', there is NO 'reasoning', there is NO 'greater good for the greatest number', it is ALL about doing whatever Big Daddy says UNCRITICALLY...
in short, THERE IS NO REASONING with authoritarians...
On the post: Stop Saying That The FCC Is 'Treating Internet As A Utility' -- It's Not
Re: Re: Re: Wheeler has made it clear that his plan is to avoid those ...
in many to most places, Big Media has carved up the states/counties/cities, and there are NO ALTERNATIVES, per-i-fucking-od...
further, it is either literally impossible (due to statutory restrictions), or essentially impossible (due to high cost of entry and/or control of rights-of-way/fiber) to start up any kind of competitive ISP venture...
and -yes- the exceptions DO prove the rule, AND prove that competitors CAN do what Big Media has been promising (AND BEING PAID) to do for decades, and has failed repeatedly...
they have ZERO credibility, such that if Big Media claims the sky is blue, i am almost certain it is grey and i'm getting pissed on...
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Re: Re: What Koch needs
i'd buy a tee shirt, pay double if its a hemp tee shirt...
hee hee hee
but i would...
On the post: FBI Added Lulzsec Hactivist Jeremy Hammond To The Terrorist Watchlist A Year Before He Was Arrested
Re: Re:
declare them non-persons, then anything goes...
we're all non-persons, now...
On the post: Cable's Answer To A Changing TV Landscape? Stuff More Ads Into Every Hour
Re: Re: Re: Re:
according to these charts, my ISP service was NEVER off, NEVER below the advertised amount, and NEVER varied in any significant fashion... excepting one minor detail: the monthly samknows charts were showing 'normal' 3mps dsl speeds during WEEKS of TOTAL internet outage...
(BOTH from NO USABLE signal at the telephone post, to fried modem(S!) from lightning strike(S!), to fried ethernet ports, etc...)
WEEKS of 'normal' signals indicated on the charts, when i could not make a connection AT ALL; WEEKS of 'normal' connection indicated when THERE WAS NO SIGNAL AT THE POST, THEIR modem/router was NOT PLUGGED IN, or (later) FRIED, and/or our computers were inoperable...
WEEKS...
but the damn charts they are sending me over the 5-6 months these issues occur don't show a blip, a hiccup, a jiggle...
bull-fucking-shit, says i, and tell them where to stuff their lying router...
On the post: Former CIA & NSA Boss: September 11th Gave Me Permission To Reinterpret The 4th Amendment
Re: Re: Re:
seeing as how the revo war was about ultimately establishing said constitution, maybe that was a tad difficult to violate prospectively...
also, the harsh truth is, that 'our' (sic) gummint *has* violated and abandoned the constitutional protections on more than a few occasions, and certainly under the rubric of 'war' ! ! !
*supposedly*, we 'learn' each time we do that to be -you know- eternally vigilant not to allow such transgressions to occur...
...until they do...
On the post: MPAA's Lies About Films Being Available Online Easily Debunked In Seconds
Re: Re: Re:
1. as other posters, pretty much don't like many current movie theaters for the fact of the audiences... related once about lady who opened up her fucking LAPTOP in the theatre DURING the main movie...
at times like those, i see the logic in concealed carry...
(NOT that it was okay under any circumstances to use your laptop in a movie theater, *but* doing so during the interminable ads -another reason i hate going- is not the capital offense during the movie is...)
2. at a recent semi-hoity-toity theatrical performance of phantom of the opera, and the generally older audience had a huge percentage dicking around with their brain cancer machines... did not notice any *during* the show, but *right* up to it, and during intermission, and afterwards they were all over their time-wasting gizmos...
living in the moment ? doesn't happen any more...
On the post: MPAA's Lies About Films Being Available Online Easily Debunked In Seconds
Re: Additional Beermat Research
why i am coming to despise our so-called modern society with all the "conveniences"...
i *used* to be able to: A. call a pizza place and order a fucking pizza...
DONE...
there is no 'step B.' to ordering a pizza...
no idiotic 'registering' or opening an online 'account'; and with no more intrusion than they caller-id'ed my ass to make sure i wasn't a deadbeat...
*now* ? they nearly force you to use some CRAPPY website which invariably is NOT up-to-date, and asks for information as if i'm taking out a fucking bank loan...
FUCK YOU, you shit pizza chains: i want a fucking PIZZA, NOT waste a half hour 'registering' to be some marketing data you sell off to others to then bug the shit out of me for for-fucking-ever...
guess who i don't buy pizzas from ? idiot chains who funnel you into their ridiculous crapp...
sure, compared to the NSA they aren't *that* intrusive, but seeing as how i think buying a fucking pizza should have ZERO intrusion/hassle, it is still infinitely more intrusive than is necessary...
On the post: MPAA's Lies About Films Being Available Online Easily Debunked In Seconds
Re: Re: Heh.
rubes: no thanks, going elsewhere now...
MAFIAA: what, you can't do that!! ! what are you talking about ? ? ?
(whoa, its slippery in here...)
rubes: about had it with your extortionary pricing, shitty presentation of products, and limitations that make no sense, much less cents...
MAFIAA: b-bu-but, *we* control the horizontal, *we* control the vertical...
(damn, what is all over this floor...)
rubes: too bad, so sad, you cut your own throats, then blame us, now *you* enjoy your self-inflicted bloodbath...
MAFIAA: unka sam ! ! ! protect US ! ! ! make the bad cord-cutters go away ! ! !
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Re:
what a PITA...
On the post: Wichita Police Respond To Request For Shooting Incident Details With A Handful Of Fully-Redacted Pages
in soviet amerika...
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Re:
and liberty dies from a thousand cuts...
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Re: Re: Re: Consent
*as if* the flustered kops *won't* arrest you if you don't 'consent' ? ? ?
um, liberty univ law school grad ?
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Re: Thin Blue Line Uber Alles
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Re:
a small victory, but a victory nonetheless...
thanks for being a public servant, mr wheeler...
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not on topic: having PACER/RECAP probs...
2. got recap addon for chrome...
3. now what ? (this is where the campaign starts to unravel) little explanatory video begs the question, in that they start with an assumed case/docket number, blah blah blah...
4. uh, yeah, i'm *not* a lawyer (EVEN THOUGH you do NOT have to be a lawyer/etc to sign up for/use pacer, etc, it is pretty much assumed throughout the process); and EVEN the explanatory process for the activist campaign to download a bunch of pacer dox for free as in beer by recruiting a 'vast' nerd-wing konspiracy to have STUPID CIVILIANS, like me, sign up, and do the soft-ddos, is assuming you are a lawyer...
not helpful for legal stupidheads from stupidtown like me who still want to help download 'stuff', which should have been available in the first place...
5. the instructions are not clear: *says* icon will turn blue when 'logged into' pacer site, but not strictly true, you have to either select one of the available court links, or do a query, in order to have recap 'active'...
secondly, the short video was *not* what happened: i did *not* get a little icon inthe lower right corner which notified me it was uploaded to the archive, i only got it downloaded locally...
6. somehow got on a link from some group called asymptote, or some thing, that supposedly offered a way to find out what dox were needed, and *that* had a link for 'x' document being needed, i smooshed it, it was downloaded locally, but not anywhere else; it even had a specific button to upload, but i don't know if that happened...
has anyone else in techdirtia had similar problems getting the addon to work/upload ?
i guess i can figure out where to upload 'manually', but i thought it was also doing the bookkeeping in keeping track of what was/wasn't downloaded at that point...
thanks for help, can't find a lot so far on the sites in question...
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