Michael’s Comments

• Feb 28th, 2013 @ 10:36am

  (untitled comment)

  on Is It 'Fair' That Baauer Gets The Proceeds From Harlem Shake Videos, Despite Having Little To Do With Meme Popularity?
  "the role of the community in making that work a hit"
  
  Preposterous: If someone is a content creator, the marketing costs in forcing the public to consume it are a creative expense of that creator or their distributor! These crowd-sourced marketers must have been well-compensated in order to perform their services, or they wouldn't have done it!
  
  Or:
  How could anything not be driven by money? Therefore, let money control everything.
• Feb 14th, 2013 @ 11:43pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Bizarre 'Attribution' Troll Bullies Twitter Users Into Compliance With Baseless Legal Threats
  If only our thumbs were made of glass, how much more careful would we be when we tweat.
• Aug 23rd, 2012 @ 2:03am

  Wiki Books

  on Screwing Students Through Pointless Textbook Bundles
  Don't forget wiki books! My favorite class used this one last quarter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Graph_Algorithms
• Apr 17th, 2012 @ 10:43pm

  Re: Re: Weren't These The Guys...

  on Disappointing: Teller Sues Other Magician For Doing The Same Trick
  Bullshit! was a great show, and Penn & Teller Tell a Lie is pretty good, too.
• Apr 17th, 2012 @ 10:42pm

  Re: Re: Revealing secrets

  on Disappointing: Teller Sues Other Magician For Doing The Same Trick
  Straight from the mouth itself.
  "You might be wondering if we had to break some magician's code of secrecy to show you that hanky thing. Yeah, we did. And there are probably some magicians, some tuxedo-clad lowlifes, that actually put their cheesy little secrets above patriotism..."
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEB50IfgkA4
  
  On the other hand, I remember the flower-shadow trick as Teller's masterpiece.
• Apr 13th, 2012 @ 3:25pm

  Re: Is There Any Merit To Neil Young's Plan To Improve The Quality Of Digital Music?

  on Is There Any Merit To Neil Young's Plan To Improve The Quality Of Digital Music?
  And Monty has a good answer to the post title:"Misinformation and superstition only serve charlatans".
  
  Not feeling enough like a unique butterfly in a global information culture? There's a charlatan for that.
• Apr 7th, 2012 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Inconcistency in TSA Handling

  on Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones
  You've given up your right to air travel.
• Apr 7th, 2012 @ 12:07pm

  Re: Ya,, I carry a scarry bag.

  on Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones
  Artists are the greatest threat to national security, after all.
• Apr 7th, 2012 @ 12:06pm

  Re: I've been carrying "Subnotebooks" all along.

  on Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones
  What did you have to explain to them about your notebooks?
• Apr 5th, 2012 @ 5:08pm

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  on Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'
  Do you have to friend an underage person to act like a predator on Facebook?
• Apr 5th, 2012 @ 4:58pm

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  on NYTimes Columnist Stirs Up A Controversy That Will Only Drive Human Trafficking Further Underground
  Jay isn't paraphrasing Mike's stance on the issue. He is paraphrasing the grandstanders.
• Apr 5th, 2012 @ 12:17am

  This Just In!

  on New York Times Adapts Open Source Mini-Game For Some Meta-Journalism
  Lazy Luddite uses new technology to make a point.
• Mar 29th, 2012 @ 4:43pm

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  on AMC Defies MPAA Bullies: Will Show Unrated Documentary To Kids With Permission Slips
  Content creators are more important than content owners.
  
  Your desperation is palpable. It is delicious.
• Mar 29th, 2012 @ 4:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Isn't the MPAA dead yet?

  on AMC Defies MPAA Bullies: Will Show Unrated Documentary To Kids With Permission Slips
  Yeah, MPAA is so left wing that they discriminate against GLBT and femenist indie films. See "This Film Is Not Yet Rated".
• Mar 29th, 2012 @ 2:26pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Erm,

  on In The UK They Jail People For Being Obnoxious Jerks On Twitter?
  There you go. Bible-god tells you who to hate with him.
• Mar 22nd, 2012 @ 11:50am

  Re: Re: Re: My guess

  on Parent Claims 'Ender's Game' Is Pornographic; Teacher Who Read It To Students Put On Temporary Leave
  The parent definitely overreacted, but I don't know why the school in question went along with it.
• Mar 20th, 2012 @ 8:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Double Standard

  on Procedural Error By Law Enforcement Means Restraining Order On Kim Dotcom 'Null And Void'
  I think you can fire and replace bankers without destroying the bank.
• Mar 15th, 2012 @ 12:44pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'
  Want me to buy your DVD or bluray? Bundle it with a free IMAX ticket.
  
  Sound like an "entitled" perspective? From here, the idea that DVDs and blurays are valuable items to own is the delusion.
• Mar 15th, 2012 @ 12:40pm

  Re: another rhetorical question

  on Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'
  Better clothes at Target anyway.
• Mar 15th, 2012 @ 12:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: by their works ye shall know them

  on Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'
  I detect a hint of "Netflix is the new big thing! We have to send movies through the mail, too!" in this one. That puts them only 2 or 3 years out of date.

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