ArcticChill’s Comments

• Apr 27th, 2011 @ 10:09am

  At what point....

  on Instead Of Hiring Film Crew To Make PSA About Out Of Work Film Crews, ICE Just Reruns Someone Else's Video
  ...did the Journalistic crowd go from Government Watchdog to Government Shill? It was well before the War On Terror and WMD's.
  
  Though now in the US you have the "If you don't agree with us you must be a terrorist" line to deal with.
• Sep 14th, 2010 @ 9:15am

  Rome

  on Why It's Important Not To Call Copyright Infringement Theft
  Rome is the mob, to control Rome you control the mob....
• Sep 11th, 2010 @ 10:44am

  Where do...

  on Evidence Shows You Can, In Fact, 'Compete' With 'Free'
  ..."they" find the statistics on piracy? The movie/music industry says they have stats, the fellow talked about in the article has stats. Just curious is all.
• Aug 14th, 2010 @ 9:44am

  So ummm.....

  on Anonymous Mexican Blog Becomes Go To Source For Drug War Info, 'Pro' Journalists Upset
  Why has no one gone after Big Pharma? They're a gang, they sell drugs, they charge huge sums of money, they're product is "needed".
• Aug 14th, 2010 @ 9:36am

  The Government Is Guilty of Violent Video Games

  on National Youth Rights Association Looking For Examples Of Political Speech Via Video Games
  I'm not a console gamer and it seems to me that most of the games wanting to be banned are of that genre, I would point you all to two PC games endorsed by the US Government.
  
  http://www.americasarmy.com/
  
  http://www.socom.com/
  
  Both games developed with the US Government's permission and or endorsement. So how can a State rule that violent video games are illegal when the Federal body says it's ok?
  
  PS - I'm not an american citizen
• Aug 26th, 2009 @ 12:13pm

  Re: Irony

  on Is Assisting With Assisting With Assisting With Potential Copyright Infringement Illegal?
  Aye ye land lubbers....hand over your mp3's or we'll keelhaul you, your ISP, your Telco's/Cable providers.
  
  So basically it's back to people don't kill people, guns kill people?
  
  Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'donell fat.
• Jul 29th, 2009 @ 7:29am

  From the North

  on Irony: Columnist Who Berates Bloggers For Not Fact Checking, Didn't Fact Check
  I lived and worked in the US for a span of time before and after 9/11, I was completely taken aback by the new media before and after 9/11. I moved back to Canada and thought once again I would be in the land of the boring newscaster, where he droned on for what seemed hours about the daily facts. But it wasn't anymore, the newscaster was the same, but the splash and fireworks from the American network news had gotten the better of him.
  
  I turned to the newspapers, they were no better. Headlines of hype and fear mongering with following articles of little or no substance, but there were a lot of ads to read about the next sale at Sears!
  
  In Canada the CBC is a government funded news agency, or rather it used to be but the they've turned to advertising to augment their budget needs. I still read their news online and then go in search of comparable stories from other agencies around the globe and bloggers.
  
  If the news media as a whole could do their job without the need for a dollar you'd have unbiased factual information. As long as they need to "sell" ads to generate the income required for operation then the bias will always tend towards the dramatic and not the factual.
• Jul 24th, 2009 @ 7:17am

  So ummm.....

  on Oh Look, More New Business Models For Reporting On City Hall Politics
  ....just what newspaper is paying the coward to haunt your site? Or should I wait until tomorrow to read it in his newsprint?
• Jun 30th, 2009 @ 1:50pm

  Re: Re: Need more disclosure

  on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Bogus Laptop Battery Length Claims
  But who sets the standard for "normal" use? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea. If at the minimum they stated battery life based on simple things like "Watch 2 dvd's back to back and you gotta plugg'r in again".
  
  Since consumers are becoming lazier and lazier by nature it's no wonder they sue for their own lack of research.
• Jun 30th, 2009 @ 12:59pm

  Expectations

  on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Bogus Laptop Battery Length Claims
  I would tend to agree to some of what consumers are concerned about. The manufacturers test their machines without all the extra software running that most users have installed. So, the reported battery life is accurate when running just Windows.
  
  Consider battery runtime is reduced by approx. 45mins by just running an AV software suite.
• Jun 30th, 2009 @ 12:55pm

  A wild hair

  on Jammie Thomas Not Willing To Settle Yet... Acccording To The RIAA
  Just a random thought out of the wilderness....
  
  Is it possible the jury that set the penalty actually thought it out and decided to make a laughing stock of the whole situation? The jury consisted of 6 people, could it have been that difficult for them to all agree on something this absurd?