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Comment: Hope and Change Really ? (Score 0) 568

by Crashmarik (#43928127) Attached to: The NSA: Never Not Watching

OH my dear lord the only saving grace this administration has had is the laughter factor. Being able to laugh at all his supporters takes some of the edge off the miserable times he has perpetuated upon this nation.

Just for those that voted for him and reflexively hate Republicans.

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

Ronald Wilson Reagan-January 20, 1981

Comment: Re:who cares (Score 4, Funny) 253

Why the fuck are you Americans so paranoid? You have all the guns you want, a massive military yet you're still so utterly shit scared that everyone's out to get you. For all the talk of "If I someone tried to attack me, I'd shoot them because I'm a hard scary person" in your country

I am a hard scary person, but it looks like someone needs a hug

Comment: This is why open source is so important (Score 1) 1

by Crashmarik (#41249295) Attached to: Community seeks to stop closure of City of Heroes

Forget about the fact that NCsoft has taken customer monies for subscriptions and the abilitiy to buy ingame items that it will now never deliver. NCsoft has cut the players off from their data. City of heroes was a tool for creating and fleshing out a players fantasy. The data the 3d models the records of achievements are all trapped in ncsofts servers and after the shutdown date will likely be nothing more than a set of discs in Iron Mountain or some other storage facility where they will never see the light of day again.

The whole concept behind copyright and publishing was to make certain that creative works would be preserved, that they would not be lost. This kind of activity completely subverts the process. Could you imagine if J.D. Salinger decided the EULA on "The Catch in the Rye" lets me revoke the rights, and since the work could be better i am going to turn off all the copies ?

Comment: Nice to see someone taking obviously needed steps (Score 1) 71

by Crashmarik (#40148899) Attached to: EU Commissioner: I Will End Net Neutrality Waiting Game

The mind boggling thing is that we are still actually arguing the need for this in the U.S.

When ATT was the phone company we made DAMN certain it couldn't extend or leverage its monopoly position. Stopping ISPs from leveraging their monopoly duopoly position to controlling your content choices is a no brainer.

Canada

Canadians #TellVicEverything In Response To Bill C-30 84

Posted by timothy
from the like-a-sausage-but-with-cracks-on-the-surface dept.
First time accepted submitter beerdragoon writes "In order to protest the government's new Internet snooping legislation, some Canadians have started a somewhat unorthodox protest. Vic Toews, the minister responsible for tabling the legislation, has had his twitter account bombarded with tweets regarding the boring, banal aspects of regular Canadians' lives. The idea is that since Toews wants to know everything about your personal life, we should oblige him and #TellVicEverything."

Comment: IF it can be done it will be done (Score 2) 54

by Crashmarik (#38826311) Attached to: OzLog: Unlimited Private Data Retention For Australia?

And very often if there is even a small advantage to doing so. The plus side of having a national policy and laws is you can have some sort of a framework governing the use of the retained data. The downside is that most of these laws just encourage big brotherish behavior

Comment: Re:Well unbiased reporting is the real fantassy (Score 1, Insightful) 877

by Crashmarik (#38769380) Attached to: 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record

Its a pure appeal to emotionalism and its playing with the data the way a magician plays with expectations. Whats worse when you think about it 98 was the hottest year on record, and we have had 13 years of ever increasing levels of CO2 production you would think 2011 should be hotter ?

Wow a data point which is at best not impressive has been transformed into a brickbat. God forbid you question the common sense of trying fuel our automobiles with corn, the power grid with wind because that brickbat and whole bunch of equally specious will be thrown at you.

"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion." -- Harlan Ellison

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