musterion’s Comments

• Nov 1st, 2018 @ 11:17am

  OK, go tell your congress critter

  on Verizon Just Obliterated Ajit Pai's Justification For Killing Net Neutrality
  to deal with this. Net Neutrality whether good or bad was beyond the scope of the FCC. Have Congress authorize the FCC to handle this, and while you are at it, have Congress include a "Fairness Doctrine" so the regulated carriers like Facebook and Twitter can't selectively censor viewpoints they don't like.
• Jan 19th, 2018 @ 6:42am

  How about "Net Transparency"

  on Apple's Incoherent App Approval Process Strikes Again, Net Neutrality App Banned For No Real Reason
  It seems the decision making in these large net/tech companies is completely opaque and Kafkaesque.
• Jan 5th, 2018 @ 8:04am

  Hollywood Money

  on It Begins: Some Comic Conventions Refusing To Fold After San Diego Comic-Con Gets Its Trademark Win
  This whole brouhaha shows he corrupting influence of Hollywood money, and I suggest that a certain company known for it vigorous legal team and control freak attitude that now owns the biggest movie franchises is probably the biggest corruptor in the whole deal.
• Dec 19th, 2017 @ 11:38am

  A name for this

  on Would-Be Congressman Wants A Law Forcing Social Media Platforms To Keep All His Alt-Right Buddies Online
  We could call it "the fairness doctrine"
• Dec 5th, 2017 @ 7:54am

  Remember

  on Judge Hands Back $92,000 Taken From Musician By Cops For Failing To Buckle His Seatbelt
  You do not have to talk to the police. Enough of these incidents have happened.
  
  You get stopped, and the officer asks you:"Do you know why I pulled you over?" If you say something like: "I must have been speeding." You have just incriminated yourself. If you answer at all, you could say: "Officer, I have no idea why you pulled me over?" You have answered their question and have not incriminated your self.
• Nov 1st, 2017 @ 8:38am

  Voters

  on Dead People Mysteriously Support The FCC's Attack On Net Neutrality
  These must be democrat voters.
• Sep 15th, 2017 @ 6:46am

  Remember, this is the state that Bernie Sanders represents.

  on Vermont State Police Rewrite Press Rules To Withhold As Much Information As Possible
• Sep 7th, 2017 @ 6:49am

  Re: Who to blame?

  on Multiple Legislators Looking To Neutralize AG Sessions' Rollback Of Federal Forfeiture Reforms
  blame the so-called "War on Drugs" IT has been the excuse for most of the erosion of our (in the US) civil liberties.
• Feb 21st, 2017 @ 7:13am

  Re: John Deere to the rescue!

  on Apple Says Nebraska Will Become A 'Mecca For Hackers' If Right To Repair Bill Passes
  Why would John Deere do this? Who runs the company now? Is it someone with a farm background, or some idiot with an MBA from Stanford, or Wharton? That will tell you.
• Feb 7th, 2017 @ 9:40am

  Re: I remember...

  on San Francisco Police Department Kicks FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force To The Curb
  Yes, SF just painted a big target on itself. I bet they dont run their own counter terror organization like NYC did. Probably for them terrorist organization are solely "right wing"
• Jan 19th, 2017 @ 8:03am

  Is China the testing grounds for Samaritan?

  on Chinese Officials With Government Access To Every Kind Of Personal Data Are Selling It Online
  "Person of Interest" reference. If you have not seen this show, I highly recommend it.
  
  If data can be collected, it will be collected.
  If data can be abused, it will be abused.
  
  The old canard "If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" becomes meaningless when the definition of wrong is slippery or subject to vast interpretation.
• Oct 27th, 2016 @ 11:50am

  Smart actors

  on Hollywood Accounting Back In Court: How Has Spinal Tap Only Earned $81 In Merchandise Sales For Its Creators?
  always get paid as a percentage of the gross, and not the net.
• Sep 30th, 2016 @ 7:10am

  Laws are for little people

  on Cops Dodge 4th Amendment By Phoning In 'Anonymous' Tips; Watch Their Drug Bust Vanish After They're Exposed
  Look at what Hillary Clinton gets away with.
• Sep 20th, 2016 @ 7:33am

  Give back a Pulitzer? You must be kidding

  on Will The Washington Post Give Back Its Pulitzer And Stand Trial With Snowden?
  Just like the NY TImes would give back it Pulitzer for Walter Duranty lying reporting on the Stalinist Soviet Union in the 30's
• Mar 29th, 2016 @ 10:36am

  Laws are for little people.

  on Compare And Contrast: Treatment Of Thomas Drake & Hillary Clinton For Having Classified Info
  Hillary the grifter is not a little person.
• Mar 21st, 2016 @ 7:43am

  Burn baby burn

  on Hulk Hogan's $115 Million Win Against Gawker Raises Serious First Amendment Questions
  Absolutely! Sadly most of the contributors will find homes on sites like Wired and Ars Technica.
• Jan 29th, 2016 @ 7:53am

  So, what is a species?

  on DailyDirt: Nature Doesn't Play By Our Rules...
  If dog, wolf, and coyote can interbreed and produce fertile offspring how are they different species, and not simply variants of the same species? A wolf, a coyote, and a German Shepard look a whole lot more like similar animals that a German Shepard and a Dachshund.
• Dec 29th, 2015 @ 8:24am

  Service

  on After A Decade Of Waiting For Verizon, Town Builds Itself Gigabit Fiber For $75 Per Month
  Do you mean a town that is home to a large state university?
  
  I remember in the 70s when, if it rained there was wso much line noise that a 300 baud acousting couple modem was nearly worthless.
• Dec 23rd, 2015 @ 7:12am

  Getting rear ended

  on Self-Driving Cars Have Twice The Accidents, But Only Because Humans Aren't Used To Vehicles Following The Rules
  if you are driving the speed limit when everyone alse around you is doing the limit plus 10--you are the problem.
• Dec 11th, 2015 @ 7:35am

  Re:

  on Techdirt Reading List: Economics Rules: The Rights And Wrongs Of The Dismal Science
  In the field of econimics, one thing is for sure - and that is that Marxisn and Keyensianism are complete failures. That does not bother some, they simply double down claiming they didn't implement it hard enough--Cuba/Venezulea I'm looking at you.

More comments from musterion >>