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• Jul 28th, 2014 @ 11:37am

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  on Spain Likely To Pass 'Google Tax'; Makes Paying For News Snippets An 'Inalienable Right' And A New Bureaucracy To Collect It
  And then they'll complain when Google and similar sites just shut down operations, and probably try to get a law passed to make it illegal to not aggregate news or some bullshit like that.
• Jun 17th, 2014 @ 11:16am

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  on College Pulls Support For Students' Parodic Musical Because It *Imagines* Disney Might Sue It
  Let it go! Let it go!
  Before Disney sues us all!
  Let it go! Let it go!
  Turn away, just screw you all!
  Here we stand, running from the fight!
  Let lawsuits rage on!
  The Mouse will not bother us anyway.
• Jun 8th, 2014 @ 3:37pm

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  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
  Dangit, the second time I got funniest comment for the week (I made a joke a while back about olympic competitors getting a gold medal for coming in second in a thing about condoms), and I forgot to log in when I made it. XD Oh well!
• Jun 2nd, 2014 @ 3:20pm

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  on Trademark Holder Sends Cease-And-Desist To Zazzle Over Products Using 3,000-Year-Old Greek Letter
  Just another guy trying to get a slice of someone else's pi.
• May 27th, 2014 @ 10:41am

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  on Former CIA Director And Defense Secretary Says CIA Tried, But Failed, To Do Economic Espionage
  "No, officer, I am not a murderer, I just emptied this pistol in the direction of that person with every intent to kill them and missed with every shot."
• May 27th, 2014 @ 9:02am

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  on Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?
  Honestly, at this point, I would not be surprised in the slightest. And two years ago, I would have probably only written it off as tinfoil hat insanity. It's amazing how much your perspective and understanding of the depths governments will sink to can change over that short a span of time.
• May 9th, 2014 @ 12:33am

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  on Dumb Criminal Posts Video Of Dumb Crime After Leaving Hospital Injured From Dumbness
  I feel I must call on the man with the collective knowledge of the internet to sum this situation up.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_mzsjWFNI#t=49s
  Yes, that should do nicely, I think.
• Apr 24th, 2014 @ 12:59pm

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  on DOJ Whines That A Warrant To Search A Mobile Phone Makes It More Difficult To Catch Criminals
  "Rights for me, and not for thee." Really, it's amazing the sort of double-think at work here. It's actually awe-inspiring.
• Apr 18th, 2014 @ 10:13am

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  on General Mills Says If You 'Like' Cheerios On Facebook, You Can No Longer Sue
  I suspect the only possible way this will ever get fixed is if some important member of the government gets screwed over by forced arbitration. Like, say, if some senator's child is poisoned or something and then isn't allowed to sue. Until then, I guess the rest of us lowly peons will have to settle for being screwed over ourselves. And as it stands, it's not really surprising, just disappointing.
• Apr 17th, 2014 @ 10:34am

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  on Connecticut Lawmakers Push 'Knockout Game' Bill, Citing Various 'Feelings' As Evidence Something Must Be Done
  Wait, what's a "knockout game"? This is literally the first time I've even heard of it. I mean, it sounds like it's some sort of a thing where you record yourself punching someone trying to knock them out, am I on the money here? Because that's one hell of an epidemic if this is the first I've heard of it.
  
  "It aims to criminalize the act of recording criminal activity"
  
  Wait, does that mean that cops wouldn't be allowed to record going after bad guys? Or, for that matter, mean that your punishment is lessened if you don't record yourself doing it?
• Apr 17th, 2014 @ 9:33am

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  on Textile Company Drags A Bunch Of Clothing Companies To Court Over Copyrighted Stripe Pattern
  An extremely creative eye, or a litigious one.
• Apr 16th, 2014 @ 2:44pm

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  on Travesty: Supreme Court (And Senate) Deny SCOTUSblog A Press Pass
  Well, we can't have actual informed journalists on the premises, now can we?
• Apr 15th, 2014 @ 1:57pm

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  on USPTO Keeps Granting Patents At Record Rates: 6,000 Utility Patents Granted In A Single Week
  6000 in a week? Man, that's just patently ridiculous.
• Mar 18th, 2014 @ 11:32am

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  on NSA Has Capability To Record And Store ALL Foreign Phone Calls In Certain Countries
  Aha! Now thanks to this graphic, I finally understand the NSA's obsession with taking and hiding everything.
  
  Gandalf: "Keep it secret. Keep it safe."
• Mar 14th, 2014 @ 1:37am

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  on Will Cheese Derail TAFTA/TTIP?
  Seems kind of a cheesy end to such an epic story.
• Mar 7th, 2014 @ 8:33am

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  on CIA: We Only Spied On Senate Intelligence Committee Because They Took Classified Documents That Prove We're Liars
  No no, you see, in THIS case it's okay for the NSA and the CIA to spy on the Senate Staffers, because by revealing this information, they're making people afraid of the government, and that's TERRORISM!!!!!! See, totally logical and legal.
• Feb 3rd, 2014 @ 3:57pm

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  on Judge Slams Prenda And Paul Duffy; Calls Them Out For Lying And 'Duplicitous Behavior'
  I have to say, I really like it when Prenda stuff comes up. On a bad day, it cheers me up, and on a good day, it's like a cherry on top of a freshly-made sundae.
• Jan 7th, 2014 @ 12:34am

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  on If You're Hiring A 'Head Of Digital Innovation' You're Doing It Wrong
  When questioned about this hiring decision, Bloomberg's spokesperson had this to say: "Well, we realized that we had to catch up with the times, and be hip to the groovy Internets the young kids are doing these days, so we cast out a world wide web to find someone good with numbers who could explain this "digit-all" stuff to us. With his help, we should be able to computer all this stuff out." At which point Bloomberg's spokesperson winked to convey his clever puns, then was confused when the interviewer performed the rarely seen Double Facepalm Maneuver.
• Oct 9th, 2013 @ 3:17pm

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  on Off-Duty NYC Cops Watched, Participated In Assault Of SUV Driver By Enraged Bikers
  No, it's an urban myth. "To protect and serve" is only the Los Angeles Police Department's motto, which given its proximity to Hollywood explains why you see that as the motto in so many movies and TV shows. Each city has its own motto. Just as an example, San Francisco's motto is "Oro en paz, fierro en guerra" (Gold in peace, iron in war). Just a bit of trivia for you.
  
  That being said, while there's a lot of explanations for why this cop didn't help (mob mentality, genuine fear for his life, bystander effect), it's still disgusting that he didn't at least call for backup.
• Aug 28th, 2013 @ 5:26pm

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  on DailyDirt: Can We At Least Agree On The Meanings Of Words?
  My favorite thing about the word "terrific" is from the mind of Terry Pratchet
  
  Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
  Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
  Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
  Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
  Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
  Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
  The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning.
  No one ever said elves are nice.
  Elves are bad.
  — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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