If you can still see the food, there's not enough butter.

Well, there is that, hardly worth the quarter of a cent or whatever it comes to. But if such a case can get a court to tack on a significantly painful asshole penalty... it might discourage others.

"...at least in the case where the "copyright holder" decides to monetize rather than take the video down..."

Seems to me that a case could be made that per the DMCA, they owe you 3x damages.

.. all at the behest of the tinfoil industry.

They were probably just making a reference sample.

It's the same kind of "Mommy fix!" crying kids do now because they've been taught that hyperprotective parents will save them from anyone saying mean things, and kiss their boo-boo for them and give them lots of attention every time they cry.

So now we're expected to all be these professional victims' hyperprotective online parents. Boo-hoo, mommy fix!! and give 'em milk and cookies while we're at it.

I was a lot more sympathetic before I read Wu's own words on the subject, and followed the little arrows to where she was doing what when. And... you're absolutely right.

As far as I've paid attention (I read gamergate.community articles occasionally), one thing I've noticed is that GamerGate itself is very much about self-policing, and harrassment of *anyone* is roundly discouraged.

BTW great post up above (the one that got the +5, I'd give it +10).

"What rights do men have that woman do not?"

The right to be the huge majority of on-the-job deaths comes to mind.

Or maybe it looked to them like she had progressed in her career and even if she wasn't who they wanted last year, maybe this year she is, but when they got as far as checking out her in-person knowledge, it wasn't there yet. People are not static.

Or could be she seemed like a great candidate, good enough to give a second-third-fourth chance, but once they had her in person they could tell she was still the same person they didn't want before. (Sometimes a negative trait isn't outgrown or discarded, or gets worse.)

Could be all sorts of reasons, not just "HR not keeping track" let alone "too old". My guess, tho, given the lawsuit -- is that she seemed like a great candidate til they got a firsthand look at her attitude.

But you are a sheep. Just not Microsoft's sheep.

Warhol's Entitlement isn't just for people anymore.

Back when I was a chemistry student, the very large 4-floor chem building had two phones: one in the front office, the other in a professor's 2nd floor office midway down the main wing. The intercom system was to stick your head into the stairwell and YELL. After a while someone would notice the noise and pick up in the 2nd floor office. If the call was for someone on the 3rd floor -- you guessed it, the method was for whoever answered on 2nd floor to stick their head in the stairwell, and YELL!

Hell, too much of anything is bad for you. It's all about balance. Almost everything we need to live is damaging or toxic if we overdo it.

But I'll still pick bacon over seaweed. :)

Welcome. An additional thought re the Japanese study:

Most of what we call "diseases of aging" are actually hypothyroid symptoms (T4 to T3 conversion declines, and the effect is low thyroid at the tissue level even tho TSH and T4 will still test normal). If thyroid function can be boosted naturally as people reach that stage -- perhaps we can mitigate those symptoms more broadly, as it appears the Japanese diet does. But you don't want to do it too early (or overdo it) and damage function, either. Needs More Study.

It's a case of some is good, more is not necessarily better. A few articles that came instantly to hand (tho the one I wanted, with hard data, managed to elude quick search):

http://www.medicinenet.com/scr...
http://www.thyroid.org/ata-sta...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
http://www.thyroidresearchjour...

To what degree it relies on underlying conditions...?? Fact is about 25% of the "healthy" population, and 80% of people over 50 years old, have some degree of thyroid dysfunction (an adaptation against starvation especially in less-productive ie. older individuals). Suddenly that risk pool doesn't sound so small, does it??