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• Jan 25th, 2017 @ 7:13am

  Make Whistleblowing Great Again

  on Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks
  So now Trump is going to Make Whistleblowing Great Again
• Apr 20th, 2016 @ 9:00am

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Optometrists Push For State Laws Blocking Online Eye Exams
  "You can't possibly hope to have any sort of reliable accuracy" According to the clinical trial, apparently you can.
  
  "I don't see how it could ever be reliable", but the clinical trial shows that it can be reliable.
  
  If you want to dismiss the results of the clinical trial, go ahead. You still have the choice to go to a regular optometrist.
• Apr 20th, 2016 @ 7:47am

  Re:

  on Optometrists Push For State Laws Blocking Online Eye Exams
  So your claim is that an optometrist does the test differently than an online app? That doesn't speak to whether the test is more accurate, or at least significantly more accurate, just that the test is done differently.
• Apr 20th, 2016 @ 7:30am

  Re:

  on Optometrists Push For State Laws Blocking Online Eye Exams
  "If someone has astigmatism how in the world do they intend to detect that?"
  
  For the specific things that an online exam can't detect, you can still go to an regular optometrist.
• Mar 25th, 2016 @ 11:12am

  (untitled comment)

  on Techdirt Reading List: GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History
  GDP rewards inefficiency and penalizes efficiency. Inefficiency that causes more money to be spent increases GDP.
• Feb 9th, 2016 @ 7:52am

  (untitled comment)

  on Daily Deal: The Bouqs Company Farm-Fresh Flowers
  I initially read that as Bogus Company Flowers.
• Feb 2nd, 2016 @ 1:57pm

  Great idea

  on How Lobbyists Turned Big US Education Reform Bill Into The 'No Copyright Propaganda Left Behind' Act
  "(including education about the harm of copyright piracy)."
  
  Great idea! Let's DO the education. And then use the education to point out that there is no harm from copyright piracy.
• Jan 29th, 2016 @ 8:30am

  (untitled comment)

  on Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block 429,343 Websites Completely, Because There's Porn On The Internet
  A story on Techdirt next week:
  Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block 4,293,430 Proxy Websites
• Jan 15th, 2016 @ 7:13am

  (untitled comment)

  on NZ Newspaper: An 'Honor' To Welcome Small Pacific Rim Countries As They Sign Away Much Of Their Sovereignty
  There's one thing I don't understand about the TPP. I can understand that the US would be more than happy to sign the TPP. But the other counties that would be screwed by the conditions that the US would want to impose on them through this agreement, where is their incentive to want to sign the TPP? Without the support of the other countries, how can this have a chance of passing?
• Oct 16th, 2015 @ 11:26am

  Re: Re: This just guarantees that everyone will use the insurance

  on Konami Ingeniously Fuses Two Things Everybody Hates: Insurance And In-Game Microtransactions
  If that's a way to get the message out, then I imagine the users would agree on some standard logo for everyone to use.
• Oct 16th, 2015 @ 10:51am

  This just guarantees that everyone will use the insurance

  on Konami Ingeniously Fuses Two Things Everybody Hates: Insurance And In-Game Microtransactions
  "Staff/materials stolen by the rival will in fact remain on your base, and an identical amount of staff/materials will be handed over to the rival instead."
  
  So all you need to do is, buy the insurance, disable all your defenses, tell everyone "free stuff come and take it". They get all your stuff, and then the insurance gives you everything back that they took?
• Oct 7th, 2015 @ 7:13am

  (untitled comment)

  on The TPP And The Tobacco Carve-out Bring Together Strange Bedfellows... While Highlighting The Problems Of The TPP
  Even for the other industries that were not carved-out, this presents a problem if governments actually get sued by those other companies under corporate sovereignty. The governments can just point to this exclusion and claim that they should be exempt from other lawsuits as well.
• Oct 2nd, 2015 @ 8:52am

  Re:

  on Argentina Plans To Increase Copyright In Photos From 20 Years To Life Plus 70 Years, Devastating Wikipedia
  Or just don't host the images on a server that is in Argentina.
• Oct 2nd, 2015 @ 8:46am

  (untitled comment)

  on Argentina Plans To Increase Copyright In Photos From 20 Years To Life Plus 70 Years, Devastating Wikipedia
  Simple. Any servers that are in Argentina, move the servers out of the country. That would work, wouldn't it?
• Sep 17th, 2015 @ 3:03pm

  Rand Paul was right

  on Having Lost The Debate On Backdooring Encryption, Intelligence Community Plans To Wait Until Next Terrorist Attack
  Rand Paul had recently said, "I think that they secretly want there to be another terrorist attack, so they can blame it on me." He was criticized for that statement. Looks like he was right.
• Sep 1st, 2015 @ 2:14pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Comcast Users Now Need To Pay A $30 Premium If They Want To Avoid Usage Caps
  The fact that they even have the ability to let you to avoid the usage caps, just means that they didn't need the usage caps in the first place. But we already knew that.
• Aug 14th, 2015 @ 10:25am

  (untitled comment)

  on School, Police Chief Must Face Lawsuit Brought By Student Suspended For 10 Days For Tweeting 'Actually, Yes'
  Roman Pierskalla should be expelled from his job for posting as Anonymous Troll in these comments. This reaction seems appropriate considering his reaction to the tweet.
• Aug 6th, 2015 @ 2:08pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Why Does The TPP Repeatedly Require Stronger Copyright, But When It Comes To Public Rights... Makes It Voluntary?
  Each party shall endeavor to pass the TPP.
• Aug 6th, 2015 @ 5:40am

  (untitled comment)

  on Universal Music's Anti-Piracy Ads Even Crazier Than You Can Imagine
  You wouldn't download an eyeball.
  You wouldn't download a thumb.
  You wouldn't download an ear.
• Jul 31st, 2015 @ 5:40am

  (untitled comment)

  on DailyDirt: Colonizing Space
  It's obvious that animals have evolved to live on Earth and not in space
  
  No they didn't. They were intelligently designed by God to live on Earth. And God doesn't want to create animals that can live in space.
  (/sarcasm)

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