Re: Why no amusing anomalies here like this "trip from hell" via Uber?
Why no amusing anomalies here like this "trip from hell" via Uber?
It's funny that you call this instance concerning Uber an anomaly. From my experiences, overcharging tourists, rude drivers and bad driving is SOP with the taxi industry.
Failing that, crapflooding the page with nonsense also seems to be a win for them - if the "argument" happens at the top of the thread, all the reasoned debate gets knocked out of view, minimising the number of people who will see it and maximising the number who see only semi-literate idiocy.
That you think that the average reader is unable to parse a conversation and determine what is noise and what is signal is semi-insulting.
...it's quite likely that some, most or even all of these replies are themselves by paid shills...
LOL. I wish someone paid me to comment here.
They don't need lecturing, they need to be banned forever.
So your solution to speech you disagree with or that annoys you is to ban that speech?
Now don't get me wrong here, I agree that the shills and morons like Blue are most definitely annoying and distracting to the conversation here, but I will fight to the death for their right to express themselves as much as I would for my own rights to express myself.
The proper response to incorrect or disagreeable speech is to counter it with more speech.
The lowest number of unique visitors to Techdirt last month was around 13,000 on 6/21.
Look at the counter on the podcasts, 1193 listens in a week for the latest one, 173 followers. That's hundreds, not thousands.
That's just the podcasts, not this site.
You alone, Gwiz, must be responsible for 50 page views a day at the rate you comment, Blue would be higher and all his are unique IP addresses.
I only view Techdirt from two different IP addresses (home & work). Yes, I refresh and bounce around a lot, but those would be counted in the pageviews column, not the unique visitors column.
And yes, by using Tor and different addresses, Blue adds to the unique visitors total, but I generalized with "thousands" and I am well within the ballpark with that generalization.
...and a goodly number of fanboys who can't tolerate a bit of text.
I find it pretty funny that you constantly trot out this deluded notion of "it's the fanboys that always censor me".
Is it just too unfathomable to your simple mind that the intelligent, educated and well spoken readers of Techdirt also think your comments are outlandish and trollish?
Re: Masnick against "innovative services on condition that they do not harm the open Internet access"!
Take away that presumption and it's just ranting.
You can call whatever you wish, but the bottom line still remains the same: Thousands of people come back here every day to hear what Mike has to say and very few (if any, based on how fast your comments are hidden) are here for what you have to say.
Re: "You want Shenmue 3? You'll get it. If you pay for it." -- Direct quote from:
WHAT'S NEW ABOUT CONNECTING "PAY" TO "GET"? That's all any creator has ever asked, you pirates!
Personally, I find it very interesting to watch such things as Kickstarter progressing and gaining popularity. To me, it represents a fundamental shift away from our current copyright system back to the way is was before copyright existed. It's basically a patronage system on steroids where many patrons can contribute smaller amounts.
You undermined your argument all by yourself there. Perhaps your vehement dislike of alcohol has colored your thinking a bit here. (not that I disagree all that much about the evils of alcohol abuse, being sober for over ten years myself now).
Your argument boils down to this:
In order to safeguard your rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we have to dictate how you live your life, remove your liberty to consume what you wish and only allow you to pursue happiness that we approve of.
One of the classic examples is Prohibition. [...] It was still fundamentally a good idea, though.
Did you really just say that a government playing nanny and dictating what a grown adult may or may not put into their own body is "still fundamentally a good idea"? Seriously?
Re: Re: Among usual boilerplate, Masnick's only real worry is "undermine intermediary liability".
Mike isn't censoring you. The rest of us are.
Blue also cannot seem to understand that no one is clicking report in his comments because they wish to "censor" him or because they want to "bury the message" or whatever other tinfoil-hat conspiracy he believes is happening.
People click report on his comments because they are "trollish" and that is one of the explicit, stated purposes of the report button. (you can hoover over the button for a description)
You appear to be under the impression that in this day and age, journalism and exposure can do a thing to dissuade these companies.
I believe they can, to some degree. Public opinion does hold weight with stockholders who don't wish their investments to be devalued by a public trashing of the company.
As a counterargument, I offer... oh, I dunno... maybe every single thing that we found out the oil industry has done since the invention of the Internet?
Standards are: If you allow oil industry to pollute limitless they will, since it is in their best interest.
This argument may have held true in the past when such things could be done pretty easily without public knowledge. I'm not so sure that in this day and age of social journalism that oil companies could get away doing things like that, even without the standards we currently have in place.
Where exactly is Bas doing that? Did you read beyond the title?
If you don't want to listen to the suggestions of someone with a lot of knowledge about the music industry and where it's headed that's your prerogative.
If I was a professional musician, I would definitely pay attention to what Bas has to say, but that's just me.
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Re: Why no amusing anomalies here like this "trip from hell" via Uber?
It's funny that you call this instance concerning Uber an anomaly. From my experiences, overcharging tourists, rude drivers and bad driving is SOP with the taxi industry.
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Re: Re: Way to go everyone!
That you think that the average reader is unable to parse a conversation and determine what is noise and what is signal is semi-insulting.
...it's quite likely that some, most or even all of these replies are themselves by paid shills...
LOL. I wish someone paid me to comment here.
They don't need lecturing, they need to be banned forever.
So your solution to speech you disagree with or that annoys you is to ban that speech?
Now don't get me wrong here, I agree that the shills and morons like Blue are most definitely annoying and distracting to the conversation here, but I will fight to the death for their right to express themselves as much as I would for my own rights to express myself.
The proper response to incorrect or disagreeable speech is to counter it with more speech.
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Re: Re: Re: Masnick against "innovative services on condition that they do not harm the open Internet access"!
Look at the stats for yourself:
https://www.quantcast.com/techdirt.com?country=GLOBAL
The lowest number of unique visitors to Techdirt last month was around 13,000 on 6/21.
Look at the counter on the podcasts, 1193 listens in a week for the latest one, 173 followers. That's hundreds, not thousands.
That's just the podcasts, not this site.
You alone, Gwiz, must be responsible for 50 page views a day at the rate you comment, Blue would be higher and all his are unique IP addresses.
I only view Techdirt from two different IP addresses (home & work). Yes, I refresh and bounce around a lot, but those would be counted in the pageviews column, not the unique visitors column.
And yes, by using Tor and different addresses, Blue adds to the unique visitors total, but I generalized with "thousands" and I am well within the ballpark with that generalization.
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Re: Re: Re: Masnick against
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Re: Re: Re: Masnick against
I find it pretty funny that you constantly trot out this deluded notion of "it's the fanboys that always censor me".
Is it just too unfathomable to your simple mind that the intelligent, educated and well spoken readers of Techdirt also think your comments are outlandish and trollish?
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Re: Masnick against "innovative services on condition that they do not harm the open Internet access"!
You can call whatever you wish, but the bottom line still remains the same: Thousands of people come back here every day to hear what Mike has to say and very few (if any, based on how fast your comments are hidden) are here for what you have to say.
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Re: Re: Re:
It's a reference to Rick Moranis' character in Spaceballs.
DH was a regular commenter a long time before writing articles here.
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Re: "You want Shenmue 3? You'll get it. If you pay for it." -- Direct quote from:
Personally, I find it very interesting to watch such things as Kickstarter progressing and gaining popularity. To me, it represents a fundamental shift away from our current copyright system back to the way is was before copyright existed. It's basically a patronage system on steroids where many patrons can contribute smaller amounts.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Re:
Your argument boils down to this:
In order to safeguard your rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we have to dictate how you live your life, remove your liberty to consume what you wish and only allow you to pursue happiness that we approve of.
What kind of sense does that make?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Re:
Did you really just say that a government playing nanny and dictating what a grown adult may or may not put into their own body is "still fundamentally a good idea"? Seriously?
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Re: Re: Re: Among usual boilerplate, Masnick's only real worry is "undermine intermediary liability".
Gah. I guess you could use your vacuum cleaner for this, but I really meant "hover".
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Re: Re: Among usual boilerplate, Masnick's only real worry is "undermine intermediary liability".
Blue also cannot seem to understand that no one is clicking report in his comments because they wish to "censor" him or because they want to "bury the message" or whatever other tinfoil-hat conspiracy he believes is happening.
People click report on his comments because they are "trollish" and that is one of the explicit, stated purposes of the report button. (you can hoover over the button for a description)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: enough is enough
I believe they can, to some degree. Public opinion does hold weight with stockholders who don't wish their investments to be devalued by a public trashing of the company.
As a counterargument, I offer... oh, I dunno... maybe every single thing that we found out the oil industry has done since the invention of the Internet?
I don't see the invention of the Internet as the turning point here. It's since everyone started carrying a remote TV news crew in their pocket that's the turning point. With smartphones and all the associated social media apps anyone can be a reporter these days. We don't have to wait for mainstream media to get around to doing an in-depth exposé to get people up in arms about an issue.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: enough is enough
This argument may have held true in the past when such things could be done pretty easily without public knowledge. I'm not so sure that in this day and age of social journalism that oil companies could get away doing things like that, even without the standards we currently have in place.
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Re: Is there a Google venture that Masnick doesn't love?
If creating a web service is so cheap, why are you still here leeching off of Mike's service?
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Re: DOJ
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Re: What concepts! At last a nice "thoughty" piece! ... That leaves one uneasy like walking past the "special ed" room.
Wait. Did you seriously just criticize someone else for a putting out a "babbling stream of consciousness"? Hilarious.
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Re: Reading Techdirt right now on a Linux box?
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Re:
Where exactly is Bas doing that? Did you read beyond the title?
If you don't want to listen to the suggestions of someone with a lot of knowledge about the music industry and where it's headed that's your prerogative.
If I was a professional musician, I would definitely pay attention to what Bas has to say, but that's just me.
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Re:
Fair enough. That's your choice, but that doesn't mean you can make that choice for others.
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