Whhooooooo! Whoooooooooooooo!

Boo!

technology trends...

Hey, leave it out.

The title says it all: I would never willingly associate myself with the socially-retarded "aspies," or the forever-alone 40-year-old virgins that hang out here. Sorry guys, there's a reason nobody likes you :/

I'd have notified our allies that to send over a representative so that someone could have independently verified the identity.

I'd have had some Arabic observers around for oversight, and I would have let them watch the live video feeds and verify the identity of the body.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *inhales* ahhhh ha ha ha haa ha ha ha hah ha...

Considering that Disney created propaganda films for the US Gov't during WWII

Which, give or take, was 70 years ago.

and Walt was one of the most fervent supporters of Joseph McCarthy,

Both of whom have been dead for a long time.

this move is actually very much in line with Disney's track record.

That's not much of a "track record" you've cited there.

We Americans believe we have the right to enforce our laws and beliefs in other countries because 1. we can, 2. we do, and 3. there is nothing you can do to stop us. There is nothing you are capable of doing that can stop us from getting what we want, and taking what is ours. Whenever you see something in the news about some unilateral US adventure, whether we're assassinating foreign nationals or dropping bombs on some recalcitrant banana republic, I want you take it personally, as if my country was waving its middle finger a half-inch from your face. Because that's exactly how I view these things. :)

A sawed-off shotgun and machete.

Really? It took you six tries to figure it out? I wouldn't go bragging about something like that. I had no trouble understanding the summary the first time I read it, so what's wrong with you?

I know I shouldn't make fun of people with learning disabilities, but you are one stupid motherfucker.

If the 'tool' is overwhelmingly used to facilitate crime, then it's time to ban the tool. End of discussion. No point-by-point rebuttal or cyber-anarcho-libertarian frothing-at-the-mouth is going to change this. Whine all you want, but the hammer is going to come down on these criminal scum and their sympathizers, and there is nothing you can do about it. I suggest you get over it and re-focus your efforts on making sure that you're in compliance with the the law, in thought and deed.

This is the worlds smallest violin, playing the world's saddest song for those poor, poor IP owners.

I'll take crass commercialism over insincere, middlebrow piety. Faggot.

It wants its joke back.

With mustard on, and because that's what Larry pays them to do.

I think it's pretty fair to guess they had some kind of disagreement (about the future openness of java? whether it has a future at all?) but there's some kind of confidentiality clause.

He's speaking in code. The translation is "Ellison's lawyers will feed by balls to the dogs if I don't keep quiet".