It got him an off-hour story on Slashdot.

What if it's a smear job on Take Two? At taxpayer expense?

1. This isn't at taxpayer expense. It is at television owners' expense. Only people with televisions have to pay the television license that funds the BBC, not all taxpayers. To conflate the two is disingenuous.

2. So what if it is inaccurate or a smear job. That is part of having a free press: the right to get it wrong (and if you do, be eviscerated and/or humiliated by everyone else). The BBC has a very good record and deservedly good reputation, because despite the occasional imperfection, by and large their reporting and documentaries are first rate.

This lawsuit is an attempt to undermine the free press and apply inappropriate pressure to the editorial process, and frankly, Rockstar and Take Two deserve a severe smackdown for trying to do so, irrespective of the program's content.

In a nutshell, what they're saying is:

"If we can't control your editorial content in reporting about or dramatizing our behavior, we're going to sue you in an attempt to make it not worth your while to report on or dramatize our behavior"

Fuck them. I hope the BBC has the backbone to stick up to this sort of corporate bullying. If the show isn't flattering to Take Two, they can suck it up like anyone else.

I agree. It may only take a few seconds to google, but that's a few seconds unnecessarily wasted because the summary poster was too lazy to provide a definition (though to be fair, with as inaccurate as some summaries have been lately, this isn't the worst offense by far).

And in exchange for higher taxes on driving, they get the privilege of providing Oregon information on how much they travel and WHERE THEY TRAVEL.

It doesn't have to be that way. There could simply be an annual check of your odometer when you get your annual emissions check, with a bill due for the miles driven in the last year * rate per mile, payable in 60 days, with a slightly higher rate if you'd like to pay in installments. No need for GPS tracking at all.

Of course, they'll no doubt push in the direction of GPS tracking because big brother likes his data, but really, we could have per mile taxation without big brother intrusions if we as a society would stand up and demand it.

The infinite monkeytypings will eventually produce a theorem proving it one way or the other, if such a theorem exists.

I'm not exactly excited about Hillary, but Kim Dotcom isn't where I usually turn for information about politics.

Sounds like he just misses being in the headlines.

I was astonished to see it open at 9.0 on IMDB. I had read that it's just one big chase scene with no plot. Is it actually interesting?

If you tell them you're a turtle, maybe they'll 3dprint a damn for you to give.

Sorry, this postmodern English grates on my nerves.

Get Live at Leeds on one of the remastered CDs. You can get the whole concert now, or the whole concert sans Tommy, which still includes lots of stuff the LP didn't.

And they were phenomenal: Roger on lead vocals, John on lead bass, Keith on lead drums, and Pete on precussion guitar.

By the time I was old enough to hear them live they had keyboards, a horn section, and doo-wop girls. Not the same thing at all.

Apropos the top post, I've put on The Who in the last 24 hours, but I've also put on some Medieval and Renaissance music. I still listen to my teenage faves, but my tastes have expanded a lot too.

There's something in the air. Lately even Joe Scarborough and some of the FOX News regulars have occasionally balked at the bullshit.

Probably the solar system is passing through a cloud of hippie gas or something.

Only the penny-stock corporations. But it's easier for a herd of camels to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich corporation to go to Heaven.

You should read more of his posts.

Everyone except rich people and wannabes, apparently. It's the MAKE MONEY FAST mentality that has mortally wounded our economy over the past 35 years.