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• On the post: After Losing 10,000 Viewers Per Day, ESPN Finally Buckles To Offering Standalone Streaming Video Service

  

  roebling ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2017 @ 12:49pm

  Spurn churn

  Glad to see ESPN being proactive to keep their college sports revenue-generator running and producing for college athletics.
  If pricing is monthly, like most streaming outlets, I can watch all of football season for the price of one ticket to the game, then bail.
  On the other hand, if the pricing's annual, ESPN generates three times the revenue, and I still buy.
  Hope they go monthly!

• On the post: CIA Slightly Scales Back Its Domestic Surveillance Powers In First Major Policy Update In Over 30 Years

  

  roebling ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2017 @ 06:21am

  Two things:
  1, the Bill of Rights still applies to Americans in America. We still have "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." In English that means "F**k the CIA."
  2, The author writes, "the CIA announced changes to its rules on gathering/using (inadvertently or otherwise) data and communications from American citizens." Who but an idiot believes anything these monkeys say?

• On the post: US Government To Start Working On NAFTA 2.0 Immediately; What Will It Do On Corporate Sovereignty?

  

  roebling ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2017 @ 11:13am

  Treaties require approval of 67 Senators. There aren't but maybe 50 pro-USA Senators. And only 17 or so of them will have to answer to their constituents while Trumps in office.
  Damned shame, how the Senate has been structured. After election, Senators needn't worry about pleasing their voters again for 4 or 5 years.

• On the post: Court Says 791 Days Of Warrantless Location Tracking 'Unreasonable," But Refuses To Toss Evidence

  

  roebling ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2017 @ 06:26am

  Parolees are prisoners

  Parolees are convicted prisoners who have not completed their sentences. Prisons conditionally release some early but those so released aren't "free", they are still "in the system". Their lives aren't their own, they must do whatever officials require them to do. Those that abuse the terms of their release go back to prison to finish their sentences.

• On the post: Brooklyn Prosecutor Forged Judges' Signatures On Wiretap Warrants To Eavesdrop On A 'Love Interest'

  

  roebling ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2016 @ 11:12am

  Heheheh!

  Hilarious but (I hope) not career-ending

• On the post: After All That, E-Voting Experts Suggest Voting Machines May Have Been Hacked For Trump

  

  roebling ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2016 @ 04:18am

  Paper ballot bias

  Paper "absentee" ballots favor Democrats because they offer the corrupt the opportunity to vote anonymously.
  Career Dems, the organization of those who want more than they've earned (i.e., trade unionists, government employees, welfare recipients), are over-represented in voting scenarios that don't require IDs.

• On the post: President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He's Wrong

  

  roebling ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2016 @ 06:44am

  Understandable

  It's completely understandable, given Pres. Obama's disdain for the Constitution, that he would not know about Article II, Section 2 of it.

• On the post: Trump, GOP Prepare To Gut FCC Boss Tom Wheeler's Populist Reforms…Under The False Banner Of Populist Reform

  

  roebling ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 07:14am

  Restore local control

  Local control is not just Constitutional, it's the best. When your elected neighbors decide how best to serve you, they act responsibly and they are accountable. When unelected, distant plutocrats make decisions to regulate you, it's to line their pockets.
  Support Trump and screw the elitist DC mafia.

• On the post: Fighting For The First Amendment Is Going To Be A Priority: Help Us Do It

  

  roebling ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 10:29am

  Is this a joke?

  Is the writer being witty? Throughout the campaign, Globalist-funded corporate media alternated between taking Trump's remarks out of context and misrepresenting them and outright lying. The best selling book of this year's presidential campaign season was a compilation of the corporate press's Trump-slandering lies of omission juxtaposed with the truth.
  Today the best of that genre (NYT) has publicly acknowledging their misdeeds and they've vowed to return to their journalistic roots. And today, of all days, alt-tech's NYT, "Techdirt", publishes this crap?
  It's sad.

• On the post: Intelligence Contractors Being Paid Millions To Surf The Web, Sext With Teens, Have Affairs With Co-Workers

  

  roebling ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 03:24pm

  SEC again?

  And this is different from the Securities and Exchange Commission because...

• On the post: FBI, CBP Join Forces To Turn Airports Into Informant Recruiting Centers

  

  roebling ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 03:22pm

  CBP?

  Whatsa CBP?

• On the post: Donald Trump's Son & Campaign Manager Both Tweet Obviously Fake Story

  

  roebling ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2016 @ 02:58am

  Support the Clinton Crime Family!

• On the post: As Donald Trump Ramps Up Threats To Sue Newspapers, A Reminder Of Why We Need Free Speech Protections

  

  roebling ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 02:45pm

  Freedom of Press, not freedom to slander

  The New York Times, under its new management, unlike "Gawker", is an engine for perverting elections to deliberately destroy America.

• On the post: US Gov't Officially Accuses Russia Of Hacking… Question Is What Happens Next

  

  roebling ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2016 @ 05:15am

  Democrat PSA--Propaganda Surrogate Announcement

• On the post: Basically All Big Tech Companies Deny Scanning Communications For NSA Like Yahoo Is Doing

  

  roebling ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2016 @ 05:45am

  One legal, easy way to protect customers' cloud data would be to serve the data, RAID-like, from multiple countries. In a RAID-2 system of three or more drives, bits are stored sequentially across all the drives save the final one. The final drive merely records a bit that indicates whether the sum of the other bits is even or odd, failure-proofing the other drives.
  With RAID drives located in multiple jurisdictions, subpoenaing one country would only recover info of a single RAID drive, useless jibberish.

• On the post: Albuquerque Police Seize Vehicle From Owner Whose Son Drove It While Drunk; Want $4,000 To Give It Back

  

  roebling ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2016 @ 05:50am

  Albuquerque shouldn't give the car back, it was used in a crime which endangered people in Albuquerque.
  Owners of cars, like owners of guns and pharmacies and anything else, have responsibility for how those tools are used.
  Take the kid's license & sell the car at auction.

• On the post: Leaked EU Copyright Proposal A Complete Mess: Want To Tax Google To Prop Up Failing Publishers

  

  roebling ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2016 @ 10:03am

  Politicians sell "protection"

  Politics runs on donations and no one donates except for protection.
  
  Old-tech publishers donate to get protection from new-tech publishers. New-tech publishers donate to be allowed to continue their business.
  
  Savvy politicians thrive from such rivalries. They conspire with other politicians to heighten awareness and apprehension among opposing industries by alternately promoting one side over the other.
  
  To understand populist politics think, "professional wrestling."

• On the post: Techdirt Gear: Copying Is Not Theft

  

  roebling ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2016 @ 02:12pm

  Fullfillment stinks

  Bought a shirt here for my kid's birthday two weeks ago & I still haven't received it.

• On the post: Yes, You Read That Correctly: China Says It's OK For Members Of The Public To Record The Police

  

  roebling ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2016 @ 04:37am

  No unions to answer to

  China officials welcome the additional oversight that personal video recording will bring to Chinese police forces. Government in China, bad though it is in many ways, doesn't have the police unions that America has blocking any attempts to make officers more accountable for their actions.

• On the post: Innocence Of Muslims Maker Produces Acting Waiver Signed By Cindy Garcia

  

  roebling ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2012 @ 07:28am

  Re: Re: Obama-ganda

  No "protests" occurred except after the press circulated the propagandized version of the original event. Those feeble protests were in support of Obama's anti-American, anti-free speech, misdirection of the Libyan atrocity.
  When I wrote for a newspaper, the hierarchy of reporters was: 1) Original news story writers; 2) Rewriters of the original stories, for later editions & papers requiring different stylistic elements; 3) Rewriters of press releases.
  Guess which type of writer you are, dipwad.

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