Phalamir’s Comments

• Mar 13th, 2012 @ 11:33am

  Michael Callahan? Really?

  on Delusions Of Grandeur: Yahoo Officially Sues Facebook, Laughably Argues That Facebook's Entire Model Is Based On Yahoo
  Well I see Yahoo!'s problem right off the bat - they let a time-traveling barkeep do their legal
  
  
  Plus, Mr. S Robinson wants them to pay up for each time Callahan's name appears on the filings.
• Feb 23rd, 2012 @ 4:17pm

  Enemy =

  on Bradley Manning Formally Charged; Defers Plea
  The enemy is the American people.
• Jan 13th, 2012 @ 3:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: Human vs Alien

  on Righthaven CEO, Plus Two Former Righthaven Lawyers, Being Investigated By Nevada State Bar
  Also known as unilateral disarmament. You want to sit quietly, worry only about the aggressor's fee-fees, and not their victims' wounds, you can do so in the Vichy Corner. The rest of us might actually try and make the world a better place.
• Jan 13th, 2012 @ 2:06pm

  Special Relationship

  on US Can Extradite UK Student For Copyright Infringement, Despite Site Being Legal In The UK
  I guess the chorus of Rule Britannia is no longer in effect.
• Jan 13th, 2012 @ 7:33am

  Re: Just who is innovating here?

  on Libraries Are The Best Counter To Piracy... So Of Course Publishers Are Trying To Limit Them
  Randoid, mental defective, or troll? Maybe all three?
• Nov 7th, 2011 @ 6:02pm

  Re: I've said it before...

  on Once Again Court Says FCC Can't Fine Janet Jackson For Wardrobe Malfunction
  So, "family show" is defined as a bunch of men engaging in pretty blatant homo-erotic S&M play, while women are shown on the sidelines doing routines that most of these municipalities forbid for strip-clubs"? But a nipple is so explicitly over the top, that the world ends? Unless you are using the sheet-with-a-hole method, the nipple was involved in the creation of the family - and was probably used in the rearing of the family (unless you also believed that your kid must be the sole supporter of the dairy industry). Please explain in non-retard-speak how the nipple is not family oriented, but intentional violence (with Spartacus-levels of homoerotism) and hootchie-girls is pure, chaste family embodiement
• Oct 25th, 2011 @ 8:12pm

  Free vs paying

  on What's The Most Expensive WiFi You've Seen?
  My running theory is that cheap hotels give free wireless because they see it as a way to attract customers (like advertising HBO). On the other hand, fancy hotels figure that either (a) their customers will consider the price a small part of the total cost of the trip, and/or (b) they are traveling on business and the expense account will cover it
• Oct 14th, 2011 @ 9:26pm

  I think what he means by lectureres losing jobs

  on Teachers Union Thinks It Blocked Online Classes...But It Didn't
  I think what he means by lecturers losing jobs has to do with how administrators want the courses designed. They want a course format set-up in such a manner as that any warm body can "teach" the course. Basically, lay out all the info, and then do assessment in such a form that actual teaching by the "instructor" is not needed. The meatspace equivalent would be: "Write us a book containing all the lectures needed for the course in a format easily read by freshmen, then write a couple multiple choice exams and a key. Here's $50, now leave peaceably or security will escort you out unconscious on a stretcher". He phrased it so badly as to possibly rip space-time with the derp, but he basically means "we plan to stop the university from charging you a premium for online access to a random guy holding a three-ring binder and a GED".