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• On the post: Did The Supreme Court Just Take A Sledge Hammer To Copyright's Statutory Damages?

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2021 @ 12:58pm

  But does this mean that inserting false information in a person's credit report is now entirely OK. Unless a person could prove unequivocally that failure to rent a home, get a job, buy a home or car was specifically tied to the false information then no concrete harm?

• On the post: Police Union, Lax Oversight Allow Florida Cop To Survive Three Arrests And Seven Firings

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2021 @ 09:42am

  Immunity and impunity. How Trumpian!

• On the post: Michigan Legislator With No Understanding Of The 1st Amendment Wants To Fine Fact Checkers For Pointing Out His Lies

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 14 May, 2021 @ 02:44pm

  Bondo?

  "has to put up a $1 million bond, and then any "affected party" can sue"

  Can we apply that to the politicians themselves? With a suitably higher dollar amount of course. Then any "affected party" who objects and can prove lying or any other misconduct can take the pol to court. Some pols will easily warrant a $1 billion bond and for some that might not be high enough but their PACs can surely cover that trivial amount.

• On the post: Months After Indian Gov't Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees, Twitter Now Blocking Tweets That Criticize The Indian Government

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2021 @ 01:48pm

  I've often wondered why India is called "the world's largest democracy." The fact that the citizens have a theoretical role in selecting the government they want does not make it true.

• On the post: The Trump-Hyped Foxconn Wisconsin Deal Finally Falls Completely Apart

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2021 @ 01:51pm

  Re: Re: It didn't "fall apart" -- scaled down.

  If I remember the term from old-school maths classes it is termed "lower limit zero" or something similar. If Foxcon builds something new that is the size of a fast-food joint they will have truly "scaled down." Besides, if Trump backed it, it is automatically a fantastic best-ever world-beating success.

• On the post: Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2021 @ 07:20am

  Well, yeah, sure. Electricity and water and natural gas and phone service are a bit scarce in Texas right now but there is a state-wide half-price sale now on all ammunition and hugging your collection of assault rifles really tightly will protect you from any trouble.

• On the post: Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2021 @ 12:40pm

  Re: Re:

  Actually, the word in question is there but obviously less well remembered: Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
  Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
  From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
  For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
  Nameless here for evermore.

• On the post: Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2021 @ 05:07am

  In related news, the estate of Edgar Allen Poe is being sued by several parties for the use of the word "evermore" in his poem "The Raven".

• On the post: House Lawmakers Question Telecom Giants Over Broadband Price Gouging During A Pandemic

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2021 @ 08:21am

  "The lawmakers in question fired off equally polite letters to most telecom CEOs, asking for more detail on the timing of many capping decisions."

  And they'll keep sending the polite letters until the "contribution" checks clear the bank...

• On the post: Tennessee State Rep Ask US Congress To Ignore Supreme Court Precedent And Outlaw Flag Burning

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2020 @ 06:01am

  Sadly for there rest of the country, Reed probably accurately represents the beliefs of his constituents. I write this as a Tennessee transplant who has been observing the local "thought" processes with open-mouthed wonder and horror.

• On the post: Trump Fires US Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs After Krebs Debunks Trump's Claims Of Election Systems Fraud

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2020 @ 07:57am

  Not unexpected. Krebs committed the one sin which can never be forgiven in the capital of Trumpistan: honesty.

• On the post: The Government Has Been Binging On Classification. Senators Say It's Time To Start Purging.

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2020 @ 01:39pm

  Classification

  Years of government service taught me that, just as doctors bury their mistakes, bureaucrats classify theirs. Either way they are hidden and asses are covered.

• On the post: Federal Court: No, You Fucking May Not Force Your Way Into A Home And Strip Search Six Very Young Children

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2020 @ 06:41am

  New Employment

  And in further news Childress has been hired by the Trump administration to handle 'difficult' children separated from their parents at the southern border...

• On the post: Tennessee Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Calling Political Candidates 'Literally Hitler'

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2020 @ 05:09am

  Outlaw Falsehoods

  Would anybody seriously try to establish a law banning lying by politicians? That is the stock-in-trade of pols everywhere. It would be a good bet that anybody in a legislature passing such a law would have achieved said position by lying their asses off in various and sundry ways.

  My modest proposal is that every person running for and occupying a political position be sworn to a oath similar to that given to jurors: truth, whole truth, nothing but etc under penalty of law. If we can hold one group of people to that standard under threat of punishment why not pols who surely wreak more damage? The restriction would apply during any campaigning and time in office but would be dropped after a period of maybe four years so that the pol could lie freely in their biographies.

• On the post: The Military Is Being Tapped To Handle Domestic Protests, Something It's Not Really Equipped To Handle

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2020 @ 08:09am

  Re: Re: Re:

  You beat me to it but Kent State must never be forgotten. The fact that nobody was ever punished (or even tried as far as I know) for the blatant murders of innocents still raises my ire after all these years.

• On the post: The Military Is Being Tapped To Handle Domestic Protests, Something It's Not Really Equipped To Handle

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2020 @ 04:52am

  Always more to come

  Well, so far they've simply been using a red-cross marked helicopters to harass the protesters, in itself probably a violation of the laws of war (and Trump did say it was a war, didn't he?). There are always helicopter gunships and armed drones and maybe one of the AC-130 Spectre slaughter machines for the really big crowds. Given Trump's mentality, possibly caused by his bone spurs, there is probably no limit to what might happen and with the Senate and Courts as wholly-owned subsidiaries of the GOP there won't be any pushback there. [posted semi-sarcastically but the more I think about it...]

• On the post: Professional Race Car Driver Hires Expert Gamer To Race His Video Game Car

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 31 May, 2020 @ 08:50am

  Well, why not?

  This is clearly a business. To be successful in business one must learn early on to delegate tasks to those best able to carry them out or the most economical to achieve the desired ends: The art designer will not be tasked with doing data entry. The CEO will not be spending time emptying the trash.

• On the post: Harrisburg University Researchers Claim Their 'Unbiased' Facial Recognition Software Can Identify Potential Criminals

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 07 May, 2020 @ 12:39pm

  Yeah, why not?

  How could anything possibly go wrong with automated remote phrenology?

• On the post: New York's Governor Hands Down A Mask Mandate While The State's Anti-Mask Law Remains On The Books

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2020 @ 01:39pm

  It All Depends

  I'm sure that the police will be logic and even-handed as always and only view those masked while bearing excess melanin as malefactors.

• On the post: Verizon Quietly Stops Doing Broadband Installs, Repairs During COVID-19

  

  Bodger ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2020 @ 08:44am

  Eh, no big deal

  Barely worth noticing. AT&T stopped doing repairs and installs around here many years ago -- my neighborhood copper is vintage 1959. Calls about wires down and lying across the road get routed to the Philippines or India, get put on hold for an hour, and then are ignored. No kidding, in my neighborhood there are wires down from a falling tree in December.

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