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  1. Re:oh darn on Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section · · Score: 1

    I wonder what would happen if you got a man and a woman prostitute and asked them to fuck each other while you watched? would that be legal? what if I have a camera, video or otherwise?

    Reminds me of something I heard somewhere.

    If you're looking for a hooker, instead of asking for sex, ask if you can take pictures of them naked, as there's no law* against that and an undercover cop likely won't agree to it.

    *Obviously depends on whatever jurisdiction you're in at the time, much as your loophole does.

  2. Re:Censorship? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 1

    An excellent point, but I fail to see how saying "maybe someone of Nation A who just lost a friend to Nation B might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can play as Nation B and kill people from Nation A" is in any way indicative of a "high horse" mentality. At least that's how I read it.

  3. Re:Censorship? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 1

    It's certainly a blurry, jagged line between "not sweating the petty things" and "letting people walk all over you".

  4. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    "It is better to let a thousand guilty men go free, than to imprison a single innocent."

  5. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    you at least get a hung jury and another trial

    Unless you're Terry Childs. I cannot find the link, but I seem to recall in one of the many articles about him, either in the article itself or the comments, it was mentioned that for a while there was a lone juror holding out on Not Guilty, so the court ended up replacing just that one juror.

  6. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between running a story without fact-checking, and running a story without fact-checking but providing a disclaimer up front that "I did not check my facts".

  7. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    Minorities are called "minorities" for a reason, though lobf would have done better to have kept the "probably". IE, "Do you know that your great-grandparents, and their parents, probably enforced Jim Crow?"

  8. Re:so... on Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The way I read TFS, it sounded more like the defendant was trying to claim that because the expert witness and Wikipedia said the same thing, the expert witness could not be trusted.

  9. Re:True patriots on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exchanging one Lincoln for another, I love it.

  10. Re:Asymmetric Encryption on BlackBerry Battle In India Going Down To the Wire · · Score: 1

    As I understand it from some RIM stories in the past, an organization could host their own servers that their blackberries talk to, and RIM would have zero access to be able to decrypt the contents in that case.

  11. Re:Le sigh on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1
  12. Re:2004? No statute of limitations in the UK? on Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down · · Score: 1

    David Hasselhoff too I believe. Though to be fair, it wasn't supposed to be Hasselhoff himself, but Mr Garrison after a nose job.

  13. Re:Give Me A Break! on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    Coca-cola doesn't seem to benefit in any way from the fact that people ask for Cokes at restaurants when they mean "any brand name cola product."

    And suddenly it makes a lot more sense why I was always silently brought a Pepsi instead of the goddamned Coke I'd asked for. Minus the goddamned part of course.

  14. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, in the mid 1700's there were just "a few nuts" who wished to fight off Britain. Most everyone else would have preferred to just "roll over".

    Sometimes all you need is a few nuts.

  15. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    Such a power, if it exists, has been reserved to the People.

    Could you please point out where in Maryland's Constitution it says something to the effect of "any powers not delegated to the state by this document are reserved to the people"?

  16. Re:This may sound snobby but... on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    It was framed for 2.35:1 - it was intended, when shot, to be shown in 2.35:1

    This would appear to say otherwise.

  17. Re:Response on Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace · · Score: 1

    The difference is that you don't own that office.

    I'm a telecommuter, you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Illegal under Net Neutrality on UK ISP To Prioritize Gaming Traffic · · Score: 1

    It's also worth noting that the monopoly problem is one the government created itself, by locking-out competitors.

    It's also worth noting that we wanted the gov't to mandate only a single provider because of the negatives that came with multiple providers back in the day (hundreds of ugly cables littering the city scape for one). I'll grant you though that we may no longer need as much cabling as we used to to enable competition, but gov't regulation of a sort would still be required to force companies to share the few cables that would be put up.

  19. Re:Assange and his team are doing great things on Sweden Defends Wiki Sex Case About-Face · · Score: 1

    As I understood the scenario...
    1) Find male teacher.
    2) Hit on male teacher. Male teacher does nothing.
    3) Accuse male teacher of sexual abuse.
    4) ???
    5) Profit!!!

    So I think legally is accurate.

  20. Re:I have often wondered about this. on The Many Faces of 3G · · Score: 1

    The original poster's comment that his connection was as slow as a 2k modem was an *idiotic* statement.

    Again, OP never said that. You're completely ignoring the actual things people are saying in the posts you're responding to (which I've come to find is something you do quite well).

    You're also still making assumptions about...
    -When maillemaker went to college.
    -What they were doing with that 2400 baud modem.

    It was equivalent of saying [...] that he has a Dual Core PC that feels as slow as a 1 megahertz CPU.

    A Dual Core PC running an OS of today feeling as responsive as a 1MHz machine running a piece of software from its day? Because that is the kind of comparison that everyone here has been trying to tell you is being made.

  21. Re:It's not a lie on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    If I sold you a sports car that could do "Up To 300 km/h," but failed to mention that is only when being dropped out of an airplane, would that be lying?

    Yes, because without additional acceleration, it'd only get up to 35.28 km/h. :P

  22. Re:Bullshit on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    Go to the original source FIRST before you presume yourself more knowledgeable than the "fundies" you hate.

    When the purpose is to say "hey, you know that particular translation of that holy book you hold so dear? Take a look at what else it says", it is correct to use the translation that the "fundies" are using.

  23. Re:Extreme Irony on Sell Someone Else's Book On Lulu! · · Score: 1

    Anyway, congratulations for not being an asshole.

    Wait, so if someone from France or Spain or Germany or anywhere else in Europe calls themselves a European, they're being an asshole?

  24. Re:What one generation accepts... on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And on that note, just as how all the hippies of the 1970's were totally acceptant of the rules imposed on them by the post-WWII generation and the big federal government

    Yeah, I really love all those changes that occurred once the young adults of that era grew up and took charge of this nation.

  25. Re:details details on BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now it could be that simply do not understand how retail works, but since you cannot buy direct from BFG, isn't Best Buy (just to pick a store at random) the one footing your bill in that case?

    1) Buy card from Best Buy.
    2) Return old card to party unspecified (not sure whether you meant it to go to BFG or, in this example, Best Buy).
    3) Wait one month.
    4) File credit card dispute (I'm guessing at step 2, you meant send to BFG. Otherwise there'd have been no need to file the dispute as Best Buy would have refunded your purchase at time of return).

    Congratulations, you just committed civil fraud against Best Buy in your attempt at sticking it to BFG.

    Or was step 4 just in case the store didn't refund you? At any rate, you've still involved a 3rd party in your dispute with BFG.