Rattran’s Comments

• Apr 30th, 2021 @ 7:34am

  Re: Cursed Asset (as rattran)

  on Verizon's Media Failure Is Complete As Company Eyes AOL/Yahoo Sale

  They said the deal came in at $5 Billion. Maybe that's what it will cost Verizon for someone to take AoL/Yahoo/Oath off their hands.

• Nov 18th, 2019 @ 6:31pm

  Re:

  on Brooklyn DA's Office Latest To Release A List Of Cops It Doesn't Want Anywhere Nears Its Prosecutions

  We know what would happen. They charge them with jaywalking for falling in the street, and charge them for the cost of the bullets used to shoot them.

• Oct 14th, 2017 @ 5:13am

  Re: Re:

  on Google Fiber Gives Up On Traditional TV, And Won't Be The Last Company To Do So
  CBS will also get plenty of people like me who simply don't watch the new Star Trek series. I'm ready to admit I'm a fan of the franchise in general, but with it locked behind a paywall plus commercials, it's not for me. Plus all the people with capped/slow/non-existent broadband will not see it.
• Jul 20th, 2016 @ 6:47am

  It's pretty bad

  on Court Says There's No Remedy For Person Whose Vehicle Was Subjected To Civil Forfeiture After An Illegal Search
  Back in the late '80s, we were warned not to take nice cars, cash, or travelers checks across the Texas border from El Paso to Juarez, as the policia could not be trusted to not confiscate them on trumped up charges. I thought it was a bit paranoid myself at the time, but still heeded the advice. I'm now giving the same advice now to my Canadian friends about America.
• May 13th, 2016 @ 2:35pm

  Old School FBI

  on FBI Found To Be Harvesting Surreptitious Recordings Around Two Other California Courthouses
  J Edgar Hoover would be proud of far the FBI hasn't come. Time for a new Church Report to be ignored/disdained by the FBI over the next few decades.
• May 9th, 2016 @ 4:26am

  (untitled comment)

  on European Parliament Orders MEP To Take Down A Video About His Attempt To Visit The 'Reading Room' For Trade Documents
  Taking direction on how a democracy should function from the USA at this point seems... Unwise.
• Apr 20th, 2016 @ 3:58am

  Re:

  on Australian Case Shows Why Corporate Sovereignty Isn't Needed In TPP -- Or In Any Trade Agreement
  To be fair, the USA looked like a total prat long before NuCoal came into the picture.
• Feb 23rd, 2016 @ 9:39am

  Just take a lesson from FOIA costs...

  on FBI's Scorched Earth Approach To Apple Means That Tech Companies Now Have Even Less Incentive To Help Feds
  Apple just needs to apply FOIA costs math to the situation, and inform the FBI that they can start working on the code needed as soon as the FBI gives them estimated costs of $15,564,708,001.34 The code should be available to the FBI in approximately 3 years after receipt of the cash.
  
  Then send a hard copy of the firmware on a4 paper from a dotmatrix printer with an old ribbon.
• Jul 22nd, 2015 @ 7:17am

  Keep it Simple

  on Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'
  Just call him "Chief Corruption Officer"
• Dec 30th, 2013 @ 10:16am

  Re: Pedantic Math error

  on Canadian Copyright Collective Calls It A Day After 15 Years Of Failing To Make Payments To Rights Holders
  It was founded in 1998, it's a simple typo. Which is much less fun than than idea of them losing almost a million dollars and 10 years.
• Dec 7th, 2012 @ 9:41am

  Re: Re: Piracy of Sega is rampant... (as R Tranter)

  on Sega Goes Nuclear On YouTube Videos Of Old Shining Force Game
  The Sarchasm, you fell in it.
• May 1st, 2008 @ 12:44pm

  Disc prices here too (as rattran)

  on Despite Winning The HD Format War, Blu-Ray Sales Dropped
  Bluray prices have gone up just due to no real specials since January. I'd been buying about 10 discs a month before, Feb-Apr I added a total of 9 discs to my collection. $29.99-$34.99 a movie just isn't worth it to me, even though I'm an early adopter of both formats.
  
  I've gotten a pile of clearance HD-dvd discs in that time for ~$10 each.