Rich P’s Comments

• Nov 11th, 2016 @ 7:22am

  Protests in the streets.

  on Trump's Very First Tweet As President Elect Basically Shits On The First Amendment
  Trump couldn't rouse a protest against the election result when Obama was elected. Seems that if you want a job done you have to do it yourself.
• Nov 9th, 2016 @ 12:33am

  7. High tech immigration

  on What The Election Means For Stuff Techdirt Cares About?
  Should that now read emigration?
• Jun 6th, 2016 @ 6:10am

  you [expletives deleted]

  on Court Dumps Hastily-Granted Restraining Order, Says MuckRock Can Publish Smart Meter Documents
  The missing phrase is 'corporate lawyers'.
• May 16th, 2016 @ 12:01pm

  A far out solution ...

  on How Java's Inherent Verboseness May Mess Up Fair Use For APIs
  The judge declares that the next session will be held on the moon. Since the definition of the solution is the same as the solution itself they'd have no problem, and as a bonus we'd get a base on the moon.
• Feb 11th, 2016 @ 2:22pm

  Robot assistants

  on Techdirt Crowdsourcing: How Will The TSA Idiotically Respond To The Laptop Terror Bomb?
  TSA will commission a set of robot scanners to deal with the problem of robot and electronic bombs. These will be in the form of large drop hammers that are specially trained to act on hunches (a.k.a. random number generators) which will instantly pulverise any laptops that have terrorist intentions leaving just the good ones intact.
• Dec 11th, 2014 @ 4:47am

  How long ...

  on Google Pulls Out The Nuclear Option: Shuts Down Google News In Spain Over Ridiculous Copyright Law
  before politicians in Spain realise that the only version of the news, and the only opinions expressed that their electorate see, is provided by foreign media.