"Dotcom's little henchman is wrong," says Mr Key..... "I'm probably not going to jump in front of what information he's got," says Mr Key. "It's up to the henchman to go and deliver that information I suppose, but mark my words, he's wrong. I'm right and I'll prove I'm right."
Key then proceeded to say, " Greenwald is a stupid dorky dorkyface," before adding, "Neener neener neener. So there."
(Seriously, what it is about Glenn Greenwald that reduces grown men to hurling 4th-grade insults? Aside from the fact that they can't actually refute anything in his stories...)
From his other actions relating to this incident, I don't think he could have put nearly as much thought into this release as you have attributed to him.
A fair point. I just figured he'd taken some suggestions from other awful people in his department who said something along the lines of, "That'll show those outsiders..."
The only conceivable reason for the release was a post-facto "justification" of Officer Darren Wilson's decision to shoot an unarmed man several times.
There's another reason. On Thursday, August 14 (the day before the press conference where Ferguson PD released this video), Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol had taken over security in Ferguson and adopted (initially) non-confrontational tactics. Protesters and police were peaceful on Thursday evening, which further highlighted -- in a very public manner -- how badly the Ferguson PD had handled everything in the previous week.
Ferguson police Chief Thomas Jackson was humiliated and felt that his territory was threatened. He released this tape certainly in an attempt to smear Mike Brown, but also knowing it would be a provocation, an insult on top of the many insults his department has piled on this community.
I fully believe that Chief Jackson released this video as part of a deliberate effort to incite violence and undermine the efforts of community leaders and the fragile detente with outside police agencies, as well as to justify the earlier overreaction by his department.
There is some evidence that repeating a lie, even for the purpose of debunking it, can actually make people more likely to accept it as true. (Unfortunately, there's no way around that, except I suppose to have an entire article with nothing but the repeated sentence: "Shiva Ayyadurai is lying about that thing.", and usually we want a bit more context than that.)
Perhaps this has been Ayyadurai's clever strategy all along. Or perhaps he's just a delusional egomaniac.
Which part of the "Harvard code of conduct" is Colin Reed alleging that Professor Lessig has violated? I'd really like to know.
P.S. A person who embraces the Senate's distorted definition of "lobbyist" has no business lecturing anyone about the "search for truth and knowledge". Legally, it might be correct. But it's certainly not truthful.
Go spin your racist drivel someplace else. I recommend trying your hand at book reviews for The Economist. You'll fit in nicely there and no one will challenge your worldview.
What's insane about all of this is that the re-re-filings come the day after Toeppen was arrested for harassment, indicating that it will take more than the justice system to slow down his brand of insanity.
I'm thinking the arrest actually triggered the re-filing, just with a quick cut-and-paste with a different date and county. This is Toeppen lashing out in a blind rage at being called on his behavior.
Or it's just further proof that the entire world has gone mad. It's getting hard to tell.
pan·dem·ic adjective 1. (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
But the word works even if using your definition of "affecting all the people". Because regardless of whether every officer acts inappropriately, this does affect the entire police force. The officer who made the joke (publicly, and addressed at a community organization) about the woman who died after falling onto the subway tracks was no lowly rookie but a captain, a precinct commander. When the leadership acts this way, the rank-and-file are inclined to follow.
They've effectively banned the Bible by putting it in the reference section.
Well, no, they haven't. According to Austin Memorial Library's online catalog (linked from www.austinmemlib.org ), their copy is cataloged under "Adult Non-Fiction".*
Whether that's appropriate is of course another matter. Would you prefer it be put in the "Fiction" section? It would probably get good exposure there.
*Dewey Decimal System (which this library uses for its catalog) puts it under 200, "Religion". Dewey uses 000 for "General Works, Computer Science, and Information" (which include reference titles such as almanacs and encyclopedias).
This is all so strange. Prior to this latest PR push by Shiva Ayyadurai and friends, had there been some resurgence of truth-telling by people pointing out that he did not invent the first email? Is all this a reaction to that, or is it leading up to the launch of some new company/book/seminar series?
This kind of PR is expensive, and while his apparent current connection with woomaster Deepak Chopra is no doubt profitable, it just doesn't make sense to me to devote so much time, effort, and money selling a lie. Then again, people are buying it. And sense doesn't always prevail. Maybe it's just a cult.
And now I wonder if any of his other claims of invention and innovation are also false...
Full disclosure: I once interviewed for a job at a federal agency whose offices were located on a Raytheon campus. They paid for my parking. /cabal_shill
The forward (which can be read using the "Look Inside" feature) to the Kindle edition is interesting, speaking of a "cabal" out to undermine VA Shiva Ayyadurai.
We've also seen some interesting collaboration -- formal and informal -- among new and old media around the reporting on Ferguson. A couple of examples: - Print media reporters (such as Wesley Lowery from the Washington Post and Matt Pearce from the L.A. Times, for example) using Twitter and Vine, freely linking to other reporting from other outlets (including online-only such as HuffPo) and from "citizen journalists" on the ground. - The Guardian and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch teaming up to collect (online) people's accounts of racial profiling. Collaboration, done right, can lead to better reporting and at the same time conserve resources (staff time and money).
Publications that are willing and able to adapt can endure and even thrive.
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As opposed to, say, television or newspapers, which -- based on News Corp's stellar examples -- should be a canvas for monkeys throwing feces.
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(Seriously, what it is about Glenn Greenwald that reduces grown men to hurling 4th-grade insults? Aside from the fact that they can't actually refute anything in his stories...)
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A fair point. I just figured he'd taken some suggestions from other awful people in his department who said something along the lines of, "That'll show those outsiders..."
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There's another reason. On Thursday, August 14 (the day before the press conference where Ferguson PD released this video), Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol had taken over security in Ferguson and adopted (initially) non-confrontational tactics. Protesters and police were peaceful on Thursday evening, which further highlighted -- in a very public manner -- how badly the Ferguson PD had handled everything in the previous week.
Ferguson police Chief Thomas Jackson was humiliated and felt that his territory was threatened. He released this tape certainly in an attempt to smear Mike Brown, but also knowing it would be a provocation, an insult on top of the many insults his department has piled on this community.
I fully believe that Chief Jackson released this video as part of a deliberate effort to incite violence and undermine the efforts of community leaders and the fragile detente with outside police agencies, as well as to justify the earlier overreaction by his department.
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From the cable companies' perspective... (ew)
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Perhaps this has been Ayyadurai's clever strategy all along. Or perhaps he's just a delusional egomaniac.
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I like that idea. Kind of like maggots to flies. Although that's a bit rude to the flies.
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"Harvard code of conduct"?
P.S. A person who embraces the Senate's distorted definition of "lobbyist" has no business lecturing anyone about the "search for truth and knowledge". Legally, it might be correct. But it's certainly not truthful.
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Re: racism vs. facts -- rewriting history
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I'm thinking the arrest actually triggered the re-filing, just with a quick cut-and-paste with a different date and county. This is Toeppen lashing out in a blind rage at being called on his behavior.
Or it's just further proof that the entire world has gone mad. It's getting hard to tell.
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Too late. Now we're arguing about the Dewey Decimal System.
See what you started??!! ;-)
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adjective
1. (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
But the word works even if using your definition of "affecting all the people". Because regardless of whether every officer acts inappropriately, this does affect the entire police force. The officer who made the joke (publicly, and addressed at a community organization) about the woman who died after falling onto the subway tracks was no lowly rookie but a captain, a precinct commander. When the leadership acts this way, the rank-and-file are inclined to follow.
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This library is probably too small (or thinks its too small) to have a separate religion section. The Qu'ran is also in the Adult Non-Fiction section.
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Well, no, they haven't. According to Austin Memorial Library's online catalog (linked from www.austinmemlib.org ), their copy is cataloged under "Adult Non-Fiction".*
Whether that's appropriate is of course another matter. Would you prefer it be put in the "Fiction" section? It would probably get good exposure there.
*Dewey Decimal System (which this library uses for its catalog) puts it under 200, "Religion". Dewey uses 000 for "General Works, Computer Science, and Information" (which include reference titles such as almanacs and encyclopedias).
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End game?
This kind of PR is expensive, and while his apparent current connection with woomaster Deepak Chopra is no doubt profitable, it just doesn't make sense to me to devote so much time, effort, and money selling a lie. Then again, people are buying it. And sense doesn't always prevail. Maybe it's just a cult.
And now I wonder if any of his other claims of invention and innovation are also false...
Full disclosure: I once interviewed for a job at a federal agency whose offices were located on a Raytheon campus. They paid for my parking. /cabal_shill
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Here are a few arguments supporting genocide:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140820/13224428268/james-foley-beheading-video-how-amer icans-conceptualize-their-enemies.shtml#c1364
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140820/13224428268/ james-foley-beheading-video-how-americans-conceptualize-their-enemies.shtml#c1355
https://www.techdir t.com/articles/20140807/14513028142/about-freaking-time-new-york-times-will-finally-start-calling-ci a-torture-practices-torture.shtml#c491
And one arguing that racism is dead and the only real racists are people who raise the issue of racism.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140814/17553728219/turns-out-when-police-act-cordial-rath er-than-as-oppressive-military-force-things-work-out-better.shtml#c891
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Email-Revolution-Unleashing-Connect/dp/1621532631/ref=sr_1_1?ie= UTF8&qid=1409687834&sr=8-1&keywords=Shiva+Ayyadurai
The forward (which can be read using the "Look Inside" feature) to the Kindle edition is interesting, speaking of a "cabal" out to undermine VA Shiva Ayyadurai.
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Re: The end of News?
( http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=79027 )
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- Print media reporters (such as Wesley Lowery from the Washington Post and Matt Pearce from the L.A. Times, for example) using Twitter and Vine, freely linking to other reporting from other outlets (including online-only such as HuffPo) and from "citizen journalists" on the ground.
- The Guardian and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch teaming up to collect (online) people's accounts of racial profiling.
Collaboration, done right, can lead to better reporting and at the same time conserve resources (staff time and money).
Publications that are willing and able to adapt can endure and even thrive.
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