JWW’s Comments

• Mar 30th, 2016 @ 2:15pm

  If wishes were horses...

  on After Leading The Attack On Investigative Journalism, President Obama Whines About A Lack Of Investigative Journalism
  I love all the comments that give Obama a pass on being a horrible President with respect to whistleblowers. People who love him politically cannot wrap their head around the fact that he would deliberately do something "bad" so they come up with all these crappy excuses that are pretty much exactly like a five year old pointing and yelling "but Georgie did it first!!"
• Jul 20th, 2015 @ 11:31am

  Damned GOP

  on General Wesley Clark: Some WWII-Style Internment Camps Are Just The Thing We Need To Fight Domestic Radicalization
  When are these damned GOP politicians gonna learn that this isn't acceptable?
  
  Oh, wait, what is that Wesley Clarks a Democrat? That can't be right, progressives would never advocate for these things.
• Feb 27th, 2015 @ 5:33am

  It makes more sense

  on DOJ Inspector General Tells Congress That FBI Isn't Letting His Office Do Its Job... Again
  It makes more sense if you always realize that the truth is 180 degrees opposite from what the administration is saying.
• Feb 4th, 2015 @ 9:27am

  Takes me back

  on Keurig Competitor Offers Free Hack Workaround For Keurig's Absurd Java Bean DRM
  Damn, this take me back to when you'd use a paper punch to notch out a tab on the floppy disk so the other side could be used.
• Jan 27th, 2015 @ 11:53am

  Wow

  on France Announces Plans To Hold The Internet Responsible For Terrorism
  Wow, they totally missed the point of that rally they had a few weeks ago.
  
  Free Speech means you have the right to insult. Period.
  
  Politically, I likely disagree very strongly with most stances the Charlie Hebdo magazine takes. But they have the RIGHT TO SAY THEM!
  
  When we are unable to speak we are controlled, when we are controlled we are not free.
  
  France is doing just what the Charlie Hebdo ATTACKERS want them to do.
• Jan 21st, 2015 @ 12:56pm

  Yeah, but

  on Die Another Eh: What Does It Mean Now That James Bond Is In The Public Domain In Canada?
  If they do make Canadian Bond films the Queen can still take it out on them, since she is still their Monarch.
• Dec 15th, 2014 @ 6:41am

  Careful

  on Irony Alert: DOJ Leaked To Press Decision Not To Force Reporter James Risen To Reveal Who Leaked Info To Him
  The DOJ better be careful, by doing this they might just create an irony singularity.
• Dec 5th, 2014 @ 1:46pm

  Re: Ferguson is not a civil rights case, NY is a civil rights case

  on The Homicide No One Committed: Eric Garner's Death At The Hands Of An NYPD Officer No-Billed By Grand Jury
  As a libertarian, I strongly believe that selling property that you have previously legally purchased should never be a crime. Those laws are just protection for established businesses.
  
  Killing someone over that kind of law is an abject horror.
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:17am

  Re: Not partisan

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  Yeah, thats another irony in this.
  
  Obama wants this but the man HE SELECTED to decide this doesn't.
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:16am

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  I have my ideological lines too, but....
  
  I work on the internet, I get my entertainment over the internet, I utilize the internet daily for untold things.
  
  If there is ONE issue that I could possibly be compelled to be a single issue voter on, it is internet freedom.
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:13am

  Re: Re:

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  Republicans really need to wrap their head around the statement
  
  "even a broken clock is right twice a day"
  
  This is one of those two times Obama is right.
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:12am

  Re:

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  Heh, I occasionally watch Fox News.
  
  And
  
  The people on that panel are seriously wrong.
  
  Have I restored any of your hope?
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:10am

  Re: Just think

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  All the more reason for Republicans to pick this up and run with it.
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:09am

  Re: If you like your movie provider, you can keep it

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  This is what I don't get. Republicans should be rushing to support Obama on this. This is their chance to get some bipartisanship credit AND stick it to Hollywood (mark my words, there are Hollywood folks making Obamas phone ring off the hook to try to back him down on this).
  
  But the stupid Republicans fawn over Hollywood hoping to get some scraps from them.
  
  This time you can do the same thing Obama is advocating AND support the actual "folks" who don't want their Netflix to start moving at the speed of molasses. Thats the whole rub here an the angle.
  
  Minus common carrier the screws will be turned on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, until those services either become too expensive or too slow to be of use to people. This it the argument, this is the reason.
  
  Republicans, get on the right side of this dammit!
• Nov 11th, 2014 @ 9:04am

  Re: Re: Obamacare for the Internet?

  on Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama's Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules
  There is no way in hell Cruz wins the nomination.
• Nov 10th, 2014 @ 9:09am

  Actually

  on Computer Scientists, Legal Experts Explain To Supreme Court Why APIs Are Not Copyrightable
  While thinking about this I came up with a idea about how to relate to this.
  
  API's are like recipes for how to get things done by calling API functions on computers. Recipes are printed in a cookbook and people who want to use the recipe can cook the dish that is described. Companies that publish cookbooks NEVER EVER sue people for cooking the dishes that are listed in the cookbook. I mean what would the point be? The cookbook would be useless. Just like APIs would be useless if using them was a punishable copyright offense.
  
  Therefore, I think what the supreme court should do is declare that yes, API's are copyrightable, BUT using API's is an exercise in FAIR USE and cannot be punished.
• Nov 10th, 2014 @ 9:03am

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Surprise: President Obama Calls For Real Net Neutrality
  Yep. He claims to not control the FCC. But the next step for him is to call head of the FCC and advocate for Common Carrier.
  
  I do not for the life of me understand how the hell Republicans are getting this wrong. One of the biggest opponents to net neutrality is Hollywood. Hollywood fucking hates Republicans. Here's there chance to poke Hollywood in the eye with a sharp stick and also point out that Obama said it was a good idea too.
• Nov 2nd, 2014 @ 1:12pm

  So true

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
  Yep one thing that Jonas Salk did by not patenting the vaccine was insure that everyone would remember his name as the man who took out polio.
  
  Everyone that is except for silerscarcat.
• Oct 31st, 2014 @ 1:51pm

  Hmmmmmm

  on Mobile Providers: No One Has Complained* About Our Service, So Net Neutrality Shouldn't Apply To Us
  They must be missing the store in my town. Every time I go in there I complain about the bandwidth caps.
• Oct 31st, 2014 @ 11:32am

  Re: Disappearing report...

  on If GOP Takes Senate Next Week, Expect The CIA Torture Report To Disappear
  And I would also note that if the report disappeared, Obama would applaud the action.
  
  Finally we would have bipartasianship!

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