Free speech is hard, man.
Am I the only one that cringes when I see headlines such as "Limits to free speech?" If it's limited, it ain't free. I'll go so far as to say yelling "fire" in a crowded theater isn't some kind of...
View ArticleThe Apple Effect?
I'm surprised ( a little) that Apple seems to have forgotten or overlooked the Striesand effect. Maybe they think it doesn't apply to them...they are, after all, Apple. The more they drag this out, the...
View ArticleRe: Re: Re: Re: Really?
Well, I'm like whatever. However, thank you all for the quote of the day as far as I'm concerned: "standards are different". That is either the solution or the problem--I can't remember what we're...
View ArticleAdvisors
Doesn't the poor man have any advisors or interns or maybe a janitor or some guy wandering around aimlessly to tell him how ignorant and perhaps dim witted this all makes him appear? This ain't...
View ArticleFaulty Reasoning or Non Reasoning?
After reading this morning's batch of Techdirt insanity, I've begun to wonder if there isn't some kind of secret rule that requires senior officials in government and business to be morons..at least in...
View ArticleDoD policy on paper in general
I can't help it. This reminds me very much of a new policy that came out while I was on active duty (about an eon and a half ago)to reduce the number of forms in use. Naturally, the way we were...
View ArticleYou've heard the one about depression era apple sales?
Guy selling apples on a street corner for $10,000.00 each is asked how many he is selling for that price... None so far, he sez, but I only have to sell one. ...I wonder how that guy made out...
View ArticleI'll go quietly... more or less
My phone contract is up the end of January, so I'll be creeping in a very suspicious manner down to my carrier and getting a new phone this coming Friday. I'm not sure if I'm going to try it in its...
View ArticleRe: Those who forget their history are doomed. Period.
I can help you out with this one, Space. The FCC and the DOJ both combined don't know enough about what they are regulating to fill a dramatic pause. I'm sure when you were digging around the history...
View ArticleDeja Sue
This reminds me of the second most amazing thing about the latter career of O.J. Simpson. After the verdict in the first most amazing thing, he made a hobby of pushing his legal luck. He has finally...
View ArticleThe Government Way
This is very US Federal Government-like. Rule 134.5.7 JJJJ: If something is clearly not working, do it harder.
View ArticleWe are SO well trained...
First, the comment about poll manipulation as an art form is an understatement. Poll data has long passed from "probably useless" to "intentionally misdirecting" and it hasn't stopped heading in that...
View ArticleRe: Economic impact?
Yabbut math is HARD. Besides, we elected them already. Now what we have is a set of strong incentives for politicians to sell influence and buy votes, with control of those incentives in the hands of...
View ArticleYabbut wait!
I sense a latent implication that the networks going out of business would somehow be a bad thing. And here I was daydreaming (still legal in New Mexico) about what we'd replace it with once it was...
View ArticleTrust of breach
I would very much like to trust law enforcement agencies and officers again, but it will take some doing. It took a long time and a lot of bad acts to lose my trust, so I don't expect it to be all that...
View ArticleCriteria for Plot Foiling Credit
So the way I see it, if something almost happened but didn't, and the NSA was collecting information on it, then it goes on the list as "Foiled by the NSA". Since they are evidently collecting all...
View ArticleI know.
Yeah, this is pretty obvious populism whether or not it is sincere. But I like it. Maybe it's shallow and simple of me, but it looks and sounds exactly like a leader standing on principle... so I'll...
View ArticleDo we need more proof?
Telcos are pure evil. The only time they appear slightly less than pure evil is when they are compared with each other... then the little ones trying to get bigger sometimes do things that aren't as...
View ArticleRe: emailforallotherthings@gmail.com
I'm old enough to remember when J. Edgar Hoover (hisself) was a hero. I remember learning that in addition to that he had the goods on just about everyone, and that his public persona was a huge farce,...
View ArticleToo Common to Fact Check
Regardless of any later results that a fact check might produce (if we can determine which lie to disbelieve the least) the password thing is so common it is the easiest to believe.When I was in...
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