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• Aug 12, 2014 @ 01:27pm

  Patent selling

  on Know Your Troll: Innovative Display Technologies Targeting Any Company That Creates A Product With An LCD Screen

  Patents should not be transferable. Period. Not given away, not bought, not sold. That way they would help protect the ones that actually did the work, not some troll that only bought a piece of paper. When the original patent holder dies, the patent dies with them.
  
  Of course corporations can hold patents, so in those cases the patent should have a reasonable life span, say 4 years.

• Jan 14, 2014 @ 03:11pm
  on Weather Channel To DirecTV: Meet Our Cost Demands Or EVERYONE WILL DIE!

  I was watching TWC last night for about 5 minutes, and the whining they did about getting dropped from DirecTV was nauseating so I turned it off. These days the only time I watch TWC is when there is a hurricane bearing down somewhere.

• Oct 10, 2013 @ 03:07pm

  I just don't get it

  on Aereo Wins Yet Another Ruling Over TV Networks

  Wouldn't Aereo viewers mean more people are watching the broadcasts, and the commercials? With so many people cord-cutting, I would think broadcasters would welcome them with open arms.

• Jul 12, 2012 @ 08:40am

  They don't even realize...

  on Viacom Uses Fans As Hostages: Blocks Daily Show, Colbert Streams For Everyone To Spite DirecTV

  ...that nobody watches their channels anyway.

• Dec 23, 2011 @ 12:20pm

  Re: Re:

  on Breaking: GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

  Yes!

• Nov 29, 2011 @ 03:09pm

  Publishers

  on Ray Bradbury Discovers The Internet Is Real After All; Publishers Force Him To Offer Ridiculously Overpriced Ebooks

  Most publishers don't get ebooks. Browsing through books on Amazon shows a lot of books that have ebook versions priced higher than paperback. When I see that, it makes my choice easy ... no hardcover, no paperback, and no ebook. Idiots.

• Oct 21, 2011 @ 10:58am

  Re:

  on TSA Decides Terrorists Must Be Driving; Partners With Tenn. Law Enforcement To Randomly Search Vehicles

  This is exactly THE point. With these kind of responses, the terrorists are winning, but the TSA just doesn't see it.

• Aug 02, 2011 @ 08:48am

  Decreased record label sales

  on New Beavis & Butt-head To Contain Less Music… Because MTV (MTV?!?) Says It's Too Expensive To License Music

  The record labels aren't allowing as many promotional videos to be played and sales are decreasing. Hmmmmm, correlation??