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• Mar 26th, 2012 @ 3:21pm

  hey!

  on Microsoft Spying On Live Messenger Messages, Censoring Any Pirate Bay Links
  so I commented on this and a notice came up that my comment was being checked by moderators. Is this something new? Nice. First MSN and now Techdirt. Let's have more censorship, I say!
• Mar 26th, 2012 @ 3:13pm

  Tempest in a teacup ...

  on Microsoft Spying On Live Messenger Messages, Censoring Any Pirate Bay Links
  Did anyone actually try MSN IM and see what happens to a link to Pirate Bay? It sent the link just fine for me. But that may be part of an MSN plot to um.. er.. well.. I'm sure they're up to no good somehow ... But this particular dog don't appear to hunt.
• Mar 19th, 2012 @ 3:45pm

  Major Obvious

  on Summit Entertainment Sues Guy Who Registered Twilight.com In 1994 For Trademark Infringement
  So why doesn't he get a nice non pro bono mouthpiece and sue Twilight's ass off for infringing on his site and domain name??
• Mar 19th, 2012 @ 9:01am

  Re: Re: Indictments? Trials?

  on Senators Tell The Obama Administration To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The Patriot Act
  So ... is that a "no"? Surely anyone charged under this concept will have someone who spreads the word. My question is whether the administration's legal arm is claiming any arrests or violations of the secret interpretations. Such a secret would have to have a lot of cooperative civil servants in order to succeed, and in the past they have all pretty much shown that they will blow the whistle.
• Mar 19th, 2012 @ 8:49am

  Indictments? Trials? (as charlie potatoes)

  on Senators Tell The Obama Administration To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The Patriot Act
  So ... has anyone or any group been charged with breaking Akbar Obama's secret interpretations? If so, what did the indictment say? Do prosecutors have to tell grand juries or federal judges what law precept is supposedly violated, or can they just sit and wink at the judge, asking for a directed verdict of guilty? Too much speculation here, not enough facts.
• Aug 2nd, 2011 @ 7:27am

  Propaganda (as charlie potatoes)

  on 'Dirty' City Decides It's Cheaper To Clean Up Google Rankings Than Clean Up
  Let's see, THEIR missiles are dirty old Scuds... American missiles are PATRIOTS. Yeah, I'm glad the U.S. Govt. never uses propaganda. Nasty business, what?
• Sep 1st, 2010 @ 4:33pm

  Re: Ban (as charlie potatoes)

  on Is Google Going Too Far In Latest Advertising Bans?
  John, you're talking out your ass. You have clue how I run my business or what kind of cut throat foreign scam artists i have to compete with who are happily in bed with Mr. Google. I'm not a flamer, but you, sir, are full of crap.
• Aug 27th, 2010 @ 4:05pm

  Wait a minute...

  on California Pre-Schoolers Getting Tracking Devices
  Ok. I misread it too. I thought they could tell if my child had BEEN eaten ... Never mind.
• Aug 19th, 2010 @ 12:10pm

  Frankly:

  on Another Woman Asks Google To Name People Who Were Mean To Her Online
  Whore? I think NOT ... To my knowledge Carla has ALWAYS given it away for free.
• Aug 16th, 2010 @ 9:41pm

  Truth in advertising

  on If Your Ad Claims 'Save More Every Time You Shop,' Does That Need To Be True?
  I passed a new beauty salon opening in the Asian part of Richardson, Texas. On a portable sign by the street were the words "Blow jobs ... $5." By the time I got turned around, parked, and made it to the door, several guys were ahead of me at the entrance. But Richardson Police, who came to sort out the traffic jam, said that the owners could not be forced to give us the blow jobs when it was obvious that they meant "Blow drys". But everyone I talked to that day said that they believed it was a $5 blow job that they were offering. I think they should have honored their ad.
• Aug 3rd, 2010 @ 10:48am

  Organization

  on FBI Claims Wikipedia Can't Display Its Logo
  There is no such thing as Organized Crime. They just seem organized when compared to the FBI.
• Jul 27th, 2010 @ 3:35pm

  free, my ass (as charlie potatoes)

  on Reminder: Webinar On Smart Uses Of 'Free' For Businesses
  let me see if i have this straight ... i'm invited to a webinar about Free as a business model. and all i have to do is give you my name, information on my company, email address, home address, my home phone number ... and purchase the software to view it on? haha right. i think i'll pass.
• Jul 21st, 2010 @ 7:14pm

  small number

  on More Porn Companies Filing Mass Lawsuits Against File Sharers
  ... It's because that is all the gay guys there are in Texas. And they are all immigrants. It's a crime down here ... at least every six months it is. The courts overturn it and the Texas Legislature rewrites it and posts it again. God bless Texas.
• Jul 6th, 2010 @ 11:42am

  Smirk (as charlie potatoes)

  on Prince: No Music On The Internet; The Internet Is Over
  Just what, exactly, does he think he is the prince of?
• Jun 5th, 2010 @ 1:09pm

  Re: (as charlie potatoes)

  on Police And Courts Regularly Abusing Wiretapping Laws To Arrest People For Filming Cops Misbehaving In Public Places
  A police officer is required by oath and by statute law to act when he sees a felony in progress. For a good officer to witness a felony assault, or any any other similar action by a bad officer, and then fail to stop it or file a report, makes the good officer a bad officer. There are no good officers, just some that are less bad. But the fact that I can say this with no fear of reprisal gives me some hope... Be right back, someone is at my door.
• Jun 5th, 2010 @ 12:04pm

  Highwaymen

  on Police And Courts Regularly Abusing Wiretapping Laws To Arrest People For Filming Cops Misbehaving In Public Places
  I lived in the deep south of Texas, on the Mexican border. I tried to help some of my Mexican friends learn English. They called the state troopers "highwaymen" I tried to get them to say "highway patrol". After being in the car with some of them, and being rousted at gun point, I realized that they were correct and I was the one in error.
• Jun 2nd, 2010 @ 9:01pm

  (untitled comment)

  on All That's Left Of Nortel? Patents For The Trolls
  Fuck you, Towel Head.
• May 25th, 2010 @ 7:36pm

  Getting what I pay for ... (as charlie potatoes)

  on Times Online Says Competitors Will Go Out Of Business Without A Paywall
  Ok, so after I give Murdock my dollar, what do I use to line the bottom of my bird cage? It's the only real value I see in newspapers of today. The city of Dallas has one newspaper... one ... haha. It's as big a neocon bubba as are the majority of my fellow Texans. The Republicans scream "liberal press" when anyone dares contradict them. Yet every newspaper in Texas regularly endorses the Republican slate. Texas used to be Mississippi with better roads. Now our only good roads are tollways, built by Republicans by their brothers in law. Newspapers can stick it up their ***, I'll never give them a nickel.
• May 25th, 2010 @ 11:37am

  Profound .... (as charlie potatoes)

  on Amanda Palmer And OK Go Get Together To Celebrate Being Dropped From Their Record Labels
  Anything to be first, huh? To hell with relevance, just comment first. Cute remark. Asinine, but catchy.
• Apr 12th, 2010 @ 7:37pm

  sexually liberal

  on TSA Admits That Body Scan Machines Can Record Images
  I performed cunnilingus once ... It made me want to rape and kill.

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