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  • On the post: NSA Program Found Unconstitutional Went On For 3 Years; Started Right After Telcos Got Immunity

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2013 @ 07:26am

    Re: Re: When I was a kid

    That is far more profound than it appeared at first glance.

    Overall, I completely agree.
    It is just a little sad though that they are acting the way they are.

  • On the post: NSA Program Found Unconstitutional Went On For 3 Years; Started Right After Telcos Got Immunity

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2013 @ 10:34am

    When I was a kid

    Back when I was young, I was always proud to call myself an American. These days not so much.

    America felt like it used to stand for freedom, and a great opportunity to make things better. These days it feels more like I am telling other countries not to bow to the US' paid off reps who just want to push policies globally that benefit the few rich people and those in power. Now it feels more like our government itself is the best ally the terrorists could have ever hoped for. Terrorists want to instill fear and get people to live in terror. They hated us for our freedoms. Apparently our government does to.

    Taking most of the chances they get to degrade the educational system or hinder it (the less educated we are the easier we can be controlled). Constantly spewing lies about the threats around every corner everywhere you go both online and off. When the entire government system is acting as the terrorists, who is there to protect us from them?

    They obviously don't care about the constitution anymore and are trying to work around it every chance they get. "Legal" monitoring to evade the 4th. Trying to redefine what a journalist is so they can beat people up for trying to use the 1st.

    I have spoken out to those who would listen about why a bunch of bad laws aren't needed, and why people shouldn't help promote bad laws because of temporary emotional lapses. Seems the country got bad anyways. I just am not sure how to fix it at this point. It is just such an anti-American group running the American government right now.

    I used to be proud to be an American, but right now our government is atrociously bad on a lot of fronts. I don't feel pride anymore, but more sad for the world at large.

  • On the post: Microsoft Folds Again: Xbox One Will Now Work Without Kinect Enabled

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2013 @ 06:50am

    Too little too late

    The fact that they considered all of the bad ideas seriously means I won't touch it.

    I have long been a PC gamer but also liked a lot of features of the 360. I will be returning to the PC exclusively for games from "next gen" (next gen always sounds funny because the PC is always already there).

    I just don't trust the big companies and their consoles anymore. Through software updates they seem to think it is okay to make huge changes to the way things work. We can already see that they want to take things in a direction that is not good for the consumer. I will stick to PCs for the new stuff now. Thanks.

  • On the post: Two Key Points: Copyright Isn't The Only Business Model; And When Done Wrong Makes Other Models More Difficult

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2013 @ 12:22pm

    Re: Re: Re: Wrong from start: Copyright Isn't A Business Model

    While most likely true, it was even an article title, which I would think is at least read:

    'Give It Away And Pray' Isn't A Business Model... But It Doesn't Mean That 'Free' Doesn't Work

  • On the post: Two Key Points: Copyright Isn't The Only Business Model; And When Done Wrong Makes Other Models More Difficult

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2013 @ 10:26am

    Re: Wrong from start: Copyright Isn't A Business Model

    BestNetTech: the only forum where "give away and pray" is taken seriously.

    OotB, you have been here long enough to see the articles Mike has written where he expresses serious doubts about the Give away and Pray model.
    Why spout such outright lies? They discredit anything else you are trying to say.

  • On the post: Someone Using A US Senate IP Address Edits Wiki Entry To Change Ed Snowden From 'Dissident' To 'Traitor'

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2013 @ 12:28pm

    Mike Rogers?

    Man, Mr Rogers has been having a few busy weeks here denying and insulting people thinking that makes his point somehow valid.

  • On the post: Two Key Points: Copyright Isn't The Only Business Model; And When Done Wrong Makes Other Models More Difficult

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2013 @ 10:24am

    Copyright As Oppression

    The legacy middlemen know that there are plenty of ways to make money without copyright. This is what scares them. The more ways there are, the harder it is for them to sit in the middle and collect money they didn't work for.

    So, what they do work for, is to oppress and hide as many artists and creators as possible by using copyright. They use it as a blunt tool to attempt to maintain control over the entire ecosystem.

    With secondary liability, their lives will be made so much better. Who will large tech and internet companies have an easier time listening to, the large middlemen currently in place, or tons of individual content creators pointing out where their content is wrongfully blocked?

    We have seen plenty of stories in the past here on BestNetTech about artists who have been wrongfully blocked under the current system, be it on YouTube, on review sites (dajazi anyone?), or through other avenues they used to distribute THEIR content. This private distribution and direct to fan is their absolute Worst enemy. It cuts them out. They cannot collect money for doing minor paperwork anymore once the new systems flourish.

    As such, copyright is all about one thing, control. They built up tons of money under this old system from back when it actually was more efficient. Now they will use that to try to maintain their seat of power.

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty Of Aiding The Enemy But Convicted On Other Charges

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2013 @ 01:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: I'll never understand the guilty pleas. Always a mistake.

    I rarely even click to show them anymore, but the topic in the replies made me show the comment. It has an insightful flag even though it was reported. I added an insightful because I completely agree. Doesn't happen often with OotB, if its the same one.

  • On the post: Why Does Rep. Mike Rogers Always Mock The Internet And Its Users?

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2013 @ 12:18pm

    Ashamed

    I have tried to get that d-bag out of office every chance I have had since I was old enough to vote. I honestly want to send him a simple email that just asks "How do you fit so much d-bag into such a small minded meat suit?". I at least feel a little better that Amash is also from Michigan to make up for some of Roger's asshattery.

  • On the post: ISP CEO Explains What Happens When The NSA Shows Up At Your Door

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 07:23am

    ISPs

    How come the cool ISPs that actually care about their customers are never where I am?

    Here in my section of Michigan we have either Comcast or satellite. That's it.

    In the words of Bobby Singer, "Balls!"

  • On the post: FISC Says It Will Declassify Ruling That Forced Yahoo Into PRISM

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 09:27am

    How to un-redact

    how-much-black-ink-will-they-use-up?

    I don't know but I think once I have the electronic version up, if I put white out on my screen then that should counteract the blank ink and I should be able to see what the document says.

    Just make sure I get to see it and I will let you know.

    Provided OoTB hasn't already done this several times over and proved it won't work.

  • On the post: Ecuador Using Copyright To Try To Take Down Leaked Documents About Its Surveillance Practices

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 09:35am

    Re: Re: I'm keen to guess

    Iceland is actually more green. And Greenland is more icy (or was at least, I hear they've been melting lately).

  • On the post: NSA Says It Doesn't Spy On Americans As Obama Administration Defends Letting NSA Spy On Americans

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2013 @ 12:37pm

    Re: Finally!

    That means voting independent, because the Republicans and the Democrats are mostly the same in this regard. They both oppress the public for the sake of the corporations and rich.

  • On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:10am

    Re: Really?

    You just haddddd to linked to cracked, didn't you? Well there goes an hour of my day.

  • On the post: France Tells Apple To Pay Giant 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax On iPads

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 05:37am

    Stand up Apple

    C'mon Apple, just stand up, and tell them No. Stand up for the users. I know you generally don't view them with the highest regard but please do the right thing. I will reconsider my low opinion of you if you do.

  • On the post: June 4th: The Struggle Of Memory Against Forgetting

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 12:47pm

    Revisionist History

    Kind of reminds me of all the stories I was reading back when about the textbook publishers for schools in Texas sort of rewriting history to change the founding fathers views ever so slightly and to leave out a bunch of the people who fought for freedom throughout our history.

  • On the post: Awesome Stuff: Dealer's Choice

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 26 May, 2013 @ 12:13pm

    Re:

    I would settle for enough friends in one place at one time who wanted to play texas hold em. All my friends want to play are computer games lately.

    My girl at least will vote for Kings in the Corner, which my friends will sometimes give in to oblige.

    It is something else but I wish I could play Texas Hold em more often. This of course may be because I do not play it digitally at all. Only irl.

  • On the post: Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few Answers

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 26 May, 2013 @ 12:34pm

    Market Research

    I saw somebody mention somewhere on the interwebs, this could all be a sort of marketing research for microsoft.

    They sit there and spew absolutely crazy ideas and see how badly the public will react to them. Since they are all software restrictions of stupidity, they can gauge how well the public will receive any absolutely horrible money grabbing policy they may want to push at the behest of the greedy EA types.

    By being vague and letting the public discuss, they are trying to figure out exactly how anti-consumer and anti-freedom / right of first sale they can be before the public will actually say no en-masse.

    Something to think about. Hopefully I am not too late in responding to this for some people to read this comment.
    Have a great holiday weekend my fellow TDians.

    -KT

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Life On Other Planets

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 06:28am

    Not free floating planets

    Those aren't starless planets, they are spaceships!

    Space ships meant to carry the last of a race of peoples from a star that was going to die to a new home somewhere that was chosen for them!

    (somebody should get the reference)

  • On the post: Gaijin Entertainment Demands Gaijin.com, Which Predates Them And Doesn't Infringe Their Trademark

    Killer_Tofu ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 12:22pm

    Re: I'm impressed!

    Which means he is more effective than any RIAA or MPAA education campaign to date.

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