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Comment Re:Holy grey area! (Score 1) 159

So let's say I start a company that uses GMO THC yeast to make bread dough. The dough does not contain any THC; just the yeast that can create it. I sell this bread dough in your supermarket's freezer section as unrisen, unbaked loaves.

You purchase the bread dough, take it home, thaw it out, let it rise overnight. (Or, for an hour or two in a warm oven.) It happily produced CO2 and THC, the bread rises, you then bake it. You then can make some 'fun' sandwiches. Is my business legal?

As long as you probably have the proper license here in Washington state, yes, it's legal. May not even need a license because you aren't growing or harvesting Marijuana.

Comment Re:the mac phenomenon (Score 1) 210

Here's a current gen deal: xbox 360 for $150
Deal has expired; but they come and go.

http://slickdeals.net/f/555149...

Oh, you mean the xbox one or PS4; well those are the latest gen, but xbox360/PS3 are still current gen.
In fact, they are much better consoles to own for now. More games. Cheap games. Used games available.

I love stupid people.

Comment Re: Redneck roadhouse (Score 1) 311

I've lived in South Carolina for 31 years (since birth). Trust me, the term is quite alive and well around here. As a matter of fact hate for Northerners is much stronger than racism these days and has little to do with the Confederacy. There's just a cultural divide. We've had 150 years to integrate the races and for the most part the southern whites and the southern blacks get along fine, but I can't hear a Brooklyn or Boston accent without anger stirring from within.

Don't worry about, I live in the North (well, Northwest) and we refer to you southerners as Rednecks, hillybillyies, racists and of course, you are all a bunch of interbreeding good old boys.

Comment Re:the mac phenomenon (Score 2) 210

In the old days, we all had windows desktops which could be modded and used to play games in addition to it's usual uses.

Now all the kids (and myself) only own Mac laptops, and don't want to buy a windows desktop just to game.

So the easy choice is to drop $200 no a game console to augment the Mac.

Let know know when you find a current gen console for $200.

Comment Re:more leisure time for humans! (Score 1) 530

Karl Marx saw this coming over 150 years ago

The final end result of mass mechanized production is that the available workers will far outnumber the available jobs, and this is the problem that communism was intended to solve.

Unfortunately, communism has earned a fatally bad reputation after being misused by so many dictators during the 20th century.

That is because you can't put all the power into the hands of the few. Doesn't matter which type of government you run, if you leave the power in the hands of the few, corruption will happen, always.

Comment Re:"Good faith" (Score 2) 349

The DMCA does not allow you to refuse to process notices due to unpaid processing fees. Therefore, if they refuse to pay the fee, you are still required to process all their notices anyway, or you lose safe harbor.

Okay, then let's do this the way. If you don't pay the fines, then your DMCA notices are put in the low priority queue. You pay your fines, we put you back in the high priority queue.

That works for Netflix & Comcast, so I don't see why it shouldn't work for DMCA notices.

Comment Other side of the equation (Score 1) 333

I have trouble focusing my thoughts on stuff for longer then 20 seconds at a time. I can do it, but I have trouble, very easily distracted, mainly by my own thoughts.

Now my ADHD doesn't like me doing nothing for 15 minutes, but I can be alone with my own thoughts, dang, it's how i entertain myself.

TBH, I'd probably space out and not even realize 15 minutes have gone by.

I live alone, I prefer to be alone, my biggest contact with people is thru online video games. And most the time I'm trying to kill them (just kidding, I play EQ2 mainly, love raiding).

We are social creatures, but get the fuck off my lawn before i shoot you.

Comment Re:"Good faith" (Score 5, Insightful) 349

It's too bad that there's not a higher bar for "good faith." It'd be nice if it could be more readily disproven, in some cases.

"I did a Google search for [term] and have a good faith belief that there's no possible way any of the results could be non-infringing. Because I can't believe that any of the results could possibly be non-infringing, I'm not going to examine any of the results more closely. I require you to remove all these results I came up with or be subject to liability under ridiculous laws if it turns out my head isn't *completely* up my ass. In addition, unless you can *prove* that I'm not acting in good faith, through a time-consuming and expensive process, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it! Have a nice day! ---Jackass-in-a-suit"

Screw good faith. Places need to start charging to process DMCA notices, and then when they get fake or bad, or just plain wrong notices like this, you then charge them 1000x the price. They don't pay? Then you don't process any more DMCA notices from them.

I thought we were about capitalism, this is capitalism at it's finest. Money is the only thing these people/corporations understand, so speak their language. They want to not be responsible about DMCA notices, then make it cost them.

Comment Re:Ah (Score 1) 69

A Boleto is essentially a document that allows a customer to pay an exact amount to a merchant.

So, like, a bill. How unlike us stupid norteamericanos, who of course just pay completely random and imprecise amounts to merchants.

(Cue all the people telling me how stupid and parochial I am ... but it would have been nice if the article actually explained this thing.)

I get bills all the time, I don't pay most of them.

Hmm, that makes me wonder, can I just start sending official looking bills to people and see if they pay them?

Comment Re:Not for deaf/hard of hearing... (Score 2) 579

Please don't do an audio countdown. It doesn't work for us hard of hearing people.

Doesn't work for us that have our music players on. Plus you got the noise of the traffic, so it would need to be loud, which probably would then be heard by the cars, mainly if they have their window down and no music playing.

How about you use crappy LCD screens that you pretty much have to be in front of it to see, so the people in the cars would be at the wrong angle to see it?

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