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Anonymous Coward , 10 Apr pm. The more and more you go on Marcus, the more you read like Mike. That is to say, arrogant, self assured, and more than a little full of shit. Hello Coward! On the spot with that vitriol, I see. Very good, have a cookie. Have you thought about getting yourself a name?
I'm thinking: On-the-spot-troll or something to that effect. It's nice to see how much you're enjoying our Techdirt community, and you apparently have a fervent desire to be a contributing member, what with your witty criticisms offered up in such a timely manner Anyhow, hope you're having a good day.
This comment has been flagged by the community. I am having a great day. It's another chance to watch Marcus make an ass out of himself, to be a strident and only semi-informed Mike-abee. It's as enjoyable as the spring flowers. I trust you are having a good day yourself! You're having a miserable day.
I would too if I were forced to read things written by people I despise. You should probably go outside. Talk to some friends, maybe give your mom a call? Um, the only one that looks like an ass Now believe me, when Marcus messes up I will be right there with you to chastise him. Hugs and kisses M But it is really getting boring watching stupid insult after stupid insult.
At least be creative. Try this. How about actually countering his points with points of your own? Now go get a cookie from Lobo. I hear he has Oreo's and chocolate chips, pour yourself a glass of milk, and try to do better next time. Watchit profile , 10 Apr pm. I would love to read your blog re: how the sky is not falling on internet and personal freedoms but is surely falling on the content industries. Hey AC, when is your blog going live?
What will it be: a gritty, dirty look at the dealings of K Street, a sad, pathetic view of an artist who's glory days are long gone, or a peek into the sleaze and sychophancy of a content industry middle-manager? Did I just invent a word? Either way, I plan on insulting you personally when I don't have a counter to your arguments, once I find out who you are and get a look at your picture.
His blog is live It's his companies that are spewing that crap, Human Centipede-style, through themselves, then our gov't, and finally, out to the public, telling us that this output is good for us and we should eat it up. I have a plan: All we need to do is sew shut the last asshole; if we're lucky, in a short while the whole chain of them will explode!
Once we clean up the shit after that we should be good to go. Anonymous Coward , 11 Apr pm. Those things are all certainly going to have the sky fall on them. The "pro internet" types hi Marcus would like to have the internet ruled by the lowest, least restictive law sets on the planet. That is to say, if the copyright laws are slack in Spain, he wants the whole world to have to work with Spain's laws.
He doesn't give a crap about the rights of people in different countries to have different laws and views. He wants the internet to force the citizen of sovereign nations to suffer under the law making of the weakest countries. Normally we try to get rid of the weakest link - Marcus wants us to live by the rule of the weakest link. So yeah, the sky is falling on internet freedom because it's really just anarchy, and that cannot be tolerated in our society.
Nay, just regular Oreos. And, I suppose there's one to spare for you too, though you don't look all that familiar to me Thank you for showing up and commenting on every article immediately with insults and attempts to down-play and discourage both writers and readers. It's a testament to how important these issues are and how much some powerful people don't want them discussed or disseminated.
If all was as you say it is, you wouldn't even be here. You'd have better things to do. So, thank you. I mean that. Man you really have it in for Marcus. I'm not his biggest fan either but damn man.
Did you even have time to read this then come up with this bullcrap in 12 minuets? Or do you just have a bunch of troll insults on a word document somewhere to cut and paste from? No, he didn't read it. But it's only because he's very busy and has many important dealings to attend to. So important, in fact, that he's only available to comment all day, every day. So, please don't disturb him. He's a superstar.
Which is longer, 12 minuets or 12 waltzes? I'm so jealous of your passionate relationship with Mike! I don't care what anyone says! I'll stalk you and insult your articles to cover this burning lust I have for you in my loins!
Please respond to me! Your replies are like the nectar of the gods! Your personal attention to me satisfies my yearning for your words! Take me, Marcus! Penetrate my cravings with your dirty, forbidden talk of piracy and freetards!
Leigh Beadon profile , 10 Apr pm. Watchit profile , 11 Apr am. Screw You. Leigh is almost as good as the Spaznick. Between the two, TD is nonstop laughs. Benjo profile , 10 Apr pm.
He's Charlie McCarthy. Why do you think Masnick adopted him. Be prepared parasite, the days of wild west legislation are over, the public now are taking an interest on those and is not going to be easy to pass them anymore. So, do you have any constructive criticism, or is it, as always, pointless and mindless prattling on as if you knew something, but without making a single point to disprove the blinding ignorance coming off your ego-hat? The Moondoggie , 10 Apr pm.
You do know that if this bill is passed you are affected too? With teh way you troll you'd might be mistaken as a terrorist and would be subject for surveillance. That means no trolling for you anymore! I like the way that you countered each of his arrogant, self assured, and full of shit arguments in such detail. OC , 10 Apr pm. That gives them almost nothing at all to mess with.
Cowardly Anonymous , 10 Apr pm. I was wondering if my interpretation of the bill was somewhat appropriate. Reading through the text, it seems like the premise is to contract out cyber-security to private firms. That sounds like part of it at least. Anyway it sounds like they want to go through private companies to get information they couldn't normally get legally. Though certain companies have been shown to share private data with the government irregardless anyway.
Liz profile , 10 Apr pm. At least tell us that the conference wasn't hosted in an AOL chatroom. I just can't wrap my head around the mindset of these guys.
They never do any research on the subjects their laws cover, and yet they still believe they can pass themselves off as well-informed. They should've been asking questions during that conference call, not giving answers.
Oh, I'm pretty sure they know exactly how their bill works, good for them, bad for us. Their bets are placed on making it look like they know what their doing and hoping the public doesn't figure out how much they are being screwed over. Silver Fang profile , 10 Apr pm.
I think the problem with our legislator and the Net is they are old! Most of them are over 50 and grew up with black and white TVs with dials, rotary phones and old stuff like that. To them, the concept of a digital world is foreign.
Thus, they tack the prefix cyber- onto anything referring to the Net in order to attempt to sound like they understand and only make themselves look more foolish in so doing. Because of this, I propose that no one over 50 be allowed to propose any laws for the Net. If you don't know how it works, you've no business trying to regulate it. Since I know that won't happen, I think all Net users need to declare the Internet a sovereign nation, entity, etc.
I know that won't happen either Seems to me a knowledgable guy like Issa sees it for what it is and hasn't succumbed to the whole Chicken Little narrative. John Fenderson profile , 10 Apr pm.
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