All of us who've been seeing parallels to 1984 have got it wrong all this time. Lewis Carroll is the seminal source we should have been comparing to.
So, what could explain this? Maybe it's in the stack of documents waiting to be entered into the database, but the stack is so big and the secretary who does that hasn't yet got around to it. I thought the court system had gone electronic and everything is now filed electronically, so a link to the court filing would handle this.
Or, they're too busy finding bad guys and FOIA is low priority. Just wait. They'll find time eventually.
Or, they don't give a flying !@#$ that Congress wrote an FOIA law (they don't have to, as there is no effective oversight), so !@#$ you!
Or, "What's a database?"
"Drip, drip, drip, ..."
That's the sound of tyranny. Slow and steady wins the race. In other news, since there is no "front line" on the battlefield in the War On Terror (nor in the War On Drugs, coincidentally), perhaps the Pentagon's new Law of War manual applies everywhere, including the continental USA. You may have been added to another list, that of "unprivileged belligerents" (formerly known as "unlawful combatants").
In which case, you're lucky you're not already wearing an orange jumpsuit. Count your lucky stars for having got off easy this time. Don't expect it to happen again.
Oh, well, that's alright then. Move along people. Nothing to see here. I guess the cop just feared for his safety a bit which is why it's alright that he assaulted a defenseless, already restrained civilian. Oh wait, assault is illegal, isn't it?
You're part of the problem, you know? I wonder how much he's going to get from suing your employers.
Congratulations to the police union for proving they're also racists.
Perhaps they're slow witted and somebody ought to explain to the police that no matter how much they may resent the presence of minorities in their country, beating the crap out of them at every turn isn't going to make them go away, nor will it look very good for them when it reaches the six o'clock news, even if they're drug dealers or gangstas!
I'd also suggest upping the ante. Any cop found pulling this is fired AND their watch commander is busted back to beat cop. If they can't control their subordinates, they're either unfit for command or they're part of the problem themselves.
And after this, are you still going to insist you're being censored, and if so, WTF is wrong with you?!? You're not censored. Anyone *can* read it if they want to. Having been reported, you just don't get to *force* your vitriol on anyone who doesn't want to bother with it.
Or were you, not to mince words, just another lying pirate-fanboy-troll making a smartass quip ...
And that, right there, is a perfectly example of why you get reported.
Indeed. I mean, who could possibly have come up with a better retort to match his imbecility than himself, right from the horse's mouth, er, keyboard. Give him/her/it all the rope he/she/it wants, the better to hang him/her/itself with. What a masochist! :-P What on Earth can anyone be gaining from pissing into the wind like this, I really wonder.
This is turning into a perfect storm of DMCA abuse plus schaudenfreud plus corporate IT incompetence & fraud. Take a bunch of jerks welshing on their marriage contracts and insisting it's okay because morals and ethics are so passe that *everyone's* doing it these days, fold in Feminazis ("Why aren't they complaining about the "Cougars" board too?!? Obviously the hackers are feminists!"), and holy crap, what a show they've produced. And, it's a Canadian op! Californian, Las Vegas, or New York maybe, but Canadian?!? How'd that happen?
If that's not enough, their IT is so crappy that someone was even able to open an account under the name Tony Blair! The divorce lawyers can't even use this to get rich off of it, they are so bad!
That's because ordinary citizens are not "stakeholders" and have no actual seat at the table.
Exactly right. This is a trade agreement, the negotiation of which is being done by the US Trade Representative. Companies and countries trade. Citizens, or more accurately consumers consume, not trade. Consumers can happily rely on Adam Smith's invisible hand to manage all the grotty details in this for them. Capitalism! USA!!!
Not to nit pick, but that's not theft, it's fraud.
I'm not even sure that it's fraud. It's breach of contract.
To Joe Blow on the street, it is nitpicking. He knows he's been robbed. Lawyers can dance on the heads of pins all they want determining what the specific infraction's called, but he's not going to care.
Isn't it interesting that the MafiAA sees any existence of "piracy" to be damned near a failure of civilization, but little things like this that rob thousands or millions at a time are just business as usual?
All familiar, but are there any examples of, well, something that's a loss?
Well, there's the thousands/millions of innocent subscribers who've paid money for a service who, through no fault of their own, are no longer getting what they paid for, and are never going to get restitution for it.
You go right ahead and say what they were paying for wasn't worth anything. It's still theft on a massive scale.
Not to mention, "free market" is hardly what they're working within. When the vast majority of subscribers have a choice of one or two possible vendors to choose from, the game's rigged. That's not a competitive free market.
YOU "non-programmer" don't grasp what an API is! It's INTRINSIC AND INSEPARABLE FROM OTHER CODE.
An API allows *real* programmers to not care about the code it interfaces with. It lets us treat that code as a black box, which is why you can build programs out of discrete chunks of (eg.) Assembly, C/C++, perl, python, etc. As long as my code, written in whichever language, calls that box correctly supplying arguments it expects to be supplied with, it'll work.
Go back to school. It appears you've slept through too many classes. AND LEAVE THE DAMNED CAPSLOCK ALONE, idiot!
You're that guy at the party no one wants to be around or be known to have known.
We wish. There's plenty of amoral corporations out there who're happy to buy services from other amoral corporations. They don't need all those millions of Joe Blows out there who spend an inordinate amount of time and effort complaining about things like data caps.
That's one point of view. The other (Devil's Advocate) is that creators and rightsholders are being robbed blind by filthy pirates, enabled by megacorps (Megaupload, Google), and these so obviously plaintiff leaning judges you speak of are just leveling the playing field. Look how slow judge after judge was to finally twig to the antics of Prenda Law. Look how insulated the average judge is from understanding technology.
The US' Justice system is FUBAR. It's now just a Legal system. Justice is just a lucky side effect for a few.
To get off the list, a person must convince the government he or she won't commit a criminal act that its "predictive model" has determined they might.
What kind of thickheaded tool politician signs off on laws that allow something like that to become possible, and how can it have taken 15 years (and counting) to realize it makes no sense whatsoever, doesn't help them either find or stop terrorists, and has needlessly turned over a quarter of a million people into pariahs in limboland? Just imagine the ongoing cost in dollars and time to make this happen, and this is in effect throughout the world's air travel system! Only a few months ago a woman managed to win her case forcing them to back off and fix the system. So, why haven't they backed off and fixed the system?!?
Yet, this is the same country that tries to convince the world of its high moral standards and that it's the world's beacon of freedom. Those in control of this situation should be charged under the espionage act. They're enabling bad guys far more than any whistleblower ever has by stuffing up the works the authorities use to protect its citizens. I'll be surprised if they ever catch one again if this's how they work. They're making the world look like a nation of fools for being willing to tolerate ritual abuse for no discernable reason.
If you take a look at the decisions from the Texas school boards, it's sort of obvious that bordering on Mexico is not as much of an influence on Texas as bordering on insanity is.
True, but this is only a symptom of a larger problem. The USA as a whole is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, and all those personalities are schizophrenic. Sure, the USA and its people have done some marvelous things, up to and including putting men on the moon and building the Internet. Meanwhile, they turn a blind eye to things like this where Paul Newman's Judge Roy Bean is still holding court in the sticks down in Texas, and the South still wants to celebrate the Confederacy! Add in that wonderful, brilliant document called the Constitution, then mix in CIA and NSA and AUSA machinations to undercut it at every turn.
It's bizarre to watch. It would be funny if it wasn't so horrible for the victims forced to suffer through it. I'm thankful I'm not one of them and I'm allowed to merely witness the mess from afar.
Classic case of Obsessive Compulsive disorder. You should seek professional help. You don't need to do this to yourself. Do yourself a favor and get help.
"Save the children, stop the illegal pirates, and stop the bad people".
Yes, and most importantly for her, she fails (or actively avoids) to see that she's one of the worst sorts of "bad people." Introspection can be fatal for them.
Damn the torpedos; full speed ahead; don't question the agenda! That way could lead to a path out of chaos, and how could she matter to anything then? She'd be exposed as the wisp of pointlessness she really is. There's no power to be had in that course.
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Orwell's an "also ran."
So, what could explain this? Maybe it's in the stack of documents waiting to be entered into the database, but the stack is so big and the secretary who does that hasn't yet got around to it. I thought the court system had gone electronic and everything is now filed electronically, so a link to the court filing would handle this.
Or, they're too busy finding bad guys and FOIA is low priority. Just wait. They'll find time eventually.
Or, they don't give a flying !@#$ that Congress wrote an FOIA law (they don't have to, as there is no effective oversight), so !@#$ you!
Or, "What's a database?"
"Drip, drip, drip, ..."
That's the sound of tyranny. Slow and steady wins the race. In other news, since there is no "front line" on the battlefield in the War On Terror (nor in the War On Drugs, coincidentally), perhaps the Pentagon's new Law of War manual applies everywhere, including the continental USA. You may have been added to another list, that of "unprivileged belligerents" (formerly known as "unlawful combatants").
In which case, you're lucky you're not already wearing an orange jumpsuit. Count your lucky stars for having got off easy this time. Don't expect it to happen again.
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Re: Brutal reality
Oh, well, that's alright then. Move along people. Nothing to see here. I guess the cop just feared for his safety a bit which is why it's alright that he assaulted a defenseless, already restrained civilian. Oh wait, assault is illegal, isn't it?
You're part of the problem, you know? I wonder how much he's going to get from suing your employers.
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Perhaps they're slow witted and somebody ought to explain to the police that no matter how much they may resent the presence of minorities in their country, beating the crap out of them at every turn isn't going to make them go away, nor will it look very good for them when it reaches the six o'clock news, even if they're drug dealers or gangstas!
I'd also suggest upping the ante. Any cop found pulling this is fired AND their watch commander is busted back to beat cop. If they can't control their subordinates, they're either unfit for command or they're part of the problem themselves.
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Re: Re: Calling Dr. Voltaire.
Here endeth the lesson. Have a marvy day.
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Re: Re: Re: Calling Dr. Voltaire.
Indeed. I mean, who could possibly have come up with a better retort to match his imbecility than himself, right from the horse's mouth, er, keyboard. Give him/her/it all the rope he/she/it wants, the better to hang him/her/itself with. What a masochist! :-P What on Earth can anyone be gaining from pissing into the wind like this, I really wonder.
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Calling Dr. Voltaire.
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Making popcorn. Lots and lots of popcorn!
If that's not enough, their IT is so crappy that someone was even able to open an account under the name Tony Blair! The divorce lawyers can't even use this to get rich off of it, they are so bad!
Those crazy Canucks! :-)
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Re: cameras
And since when have Swedes been prudish about nudity? They think the US' obsession over wardrobe malfunctions is psychosis, and rightly so.
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Re: We're not "stakeholders"
Exactly right. This is a trade agreement, the negotiation of which is being done by the US Trade Representative. Companies and countries trade. Citizens, or more accurately consumers consume, not trade. Consumers can happily rely on Adam Smith's invisible hand to manage all the grotty details in this for them. Capitalism! USA!!!
On the post: FCC May Finally Act To Ease The Pain Of Stupid Cable TV Content Negotiation Blackouts
Re: Re: Re: Re:
To Joe Blow on the street, it is nitpicking. He knows he's been robbed. Lawyers can dance on the heads of pins all they want determining what the specific infraction's called, but he's not going to care.
Isn't it interesting that the MafiAA sees any existence of "piracy" to be damned near a failure of civilization, but little things like this that rob thousands or millions at a time are just business as usual?
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Well, there's the thousands/millions of innocent subscribers who've paid money for a service who, through no fault of their own, are no longer getting what they paid for, and are never going to get restitution for it.
You go right ahead and say what they were paying for wasn't worth anything. It's still theft on a massive scale.
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Ignorance is bliss.
An API allows *real* programmers to not care about the code it interfaces with. It lets us treat that code as a black box, which is why you can build programs out of discrete chunks of (eg.) Assembly, C/C++, perl, python, etc. As long as my code, written in whichever language, calls that box correctly supplying arguments it expects to be supplied with, it'll work.
Go back to school. It appears you've slept through too many classes. AND LEAVE THE DAMNED CAPSLOCK ALONE, idiot!
On the post: Hey NSA: Even If AT&T Was Collecting The Info For You, The Fourth Amendment Still Applies
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We wish. There's plenty of amoral corporations out there who're happy to buy services from other amoral corporations. They don't need all those millions of Joe Blows out there who spend an inordinate amount of time and effort complaining about things like data caps.
On the post: Hey NSA: Even If AT&T Was Collecting The Info For You, The Fourth Amendment Still Applies
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Which, incidentally, is why Congress needs to approve umpty-gajillion dollars more funding to the NSA so they can catch up with their targets.
See how that works?
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The US' Justice system is FUBAR. It's now just a Legal system. Justice is just a lucky side effect for a few.
On the post: Feds Still Shrugging People Onto Terrorist Watchlists Based On Hunches
Insanity personified.
What kind of thickheaded tool politician signs off on laws that allow something like that to become possible, and how can it have taken 15 years (and counting) to realize it makes no sense whatsoever, doesn't help them either find or stop terrorists, and has needlessly turned over a quarter of a million people into pariahs in limboland? Just imagine the ongoing cost in dollars and time to make this happen, and this is in effect throughout the world's air travel system! Only a few months ago a woman managed to win her case forcing them to back off and fix the system. So, why haven't they backed off and fixed the system?!?
Yet, this is the same country that tries to convince the world of its high moral standards and that it's the world's beacon of freedom. Those in control of this situation should be charged under the espionage act. They're enabling bad guys far more than any whistleblower ever has by stuffing up the works the authorities use to protect its citizens. I'll be surprised if they ever catch one again if this's how they work. They're making the world look like a nation of fools for being willing to tolerate ritual abuse for no discernable reason.
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Re: As expected
True, but this is only a symptom of a larger problem. The USA as a whole is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, and all those personalities are schizophrenic. Sure, the USA and its people have done some marvelous things, up to and including putting men on the moon and building the Internet. Meanwhile, they turn a blind eye to things like this where Paul Newman's Judge Roy Bean is still holding court in the sticks down in Texas, and the South still wants to celebrate the Confederacy! Add in that wonderful, brilliant document called the Constitution, then mix in CIA and NSA and AUSA machinations to undercut it at every turn.
It's bizarre to watch. It would be funny if it wasn't so horrible for the victims forced to suffer through it. I'm thankful I'm not one of them and I'm allowed to merely witness the mess from afar.
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Eeeeww! :-P
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Yes, and most importantly for her, she fails (or actively avoids) to see that she's one of the worst sorts of "bad people." Introspection can be fatal for them.
Damn the torpedos; full speed ahead; don't question the agenda! That way could lead to a path out of chaos, and how could she matter to anything then? She'd be exposed as the wisp of pointlessness she really is. There's no power to be had in that course.
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