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• On the post: Broadband Industry Takes To Congressional Hearing To Praise Wimpy, Neutrality-Killing Proposal It Helped Write

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2015 @ 11:32am

  Re: Sorry

  If Thune isn't careful, he may end up getting the same reputation as Daschle, who wasn't able to shake the perception that he was toeing the party line as opposed to the interests of his constituents.
  
  I've mentioned this before, but he'd also do well to remember that government regulation helped bring electricity and phone service to many rural areas in SD at a time when European countries like France and Germany were miles ahead of the US in that regard, and the industry wasn't competitive enough to make the investment worthwhile.

• On the post: Flimsy Last Ditch Effort To Derail Real Net Neutrality Protections Launches In Congress

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2015 @ 09:12am

  Re: Re: Bought and paid

  Or, I could have just looked it up.
  
  Health care, banking, ethanol, energy, insurance. There are ISPs in his top 100, but they are pretty far down the list.

• On the post: Flimsy Last Ditch Effort To Derail Real Net Neutrality Protections Launches In Congress

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2015 @ 08:41am

  Re: Bought and paid

  Thune used to lobby for and had received campaign funding from the railroad industry. This seems a bit at odds with his recent hard pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline, though, so the railroads may not be as much of an influence on him as they once were.

• On the post: John Steele Looking To Join Former Prenda Lawyer Paul Hansmeier In ADA Lawsuit Shakedown Business

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2015 @ 02:47pm

  Like most sequels...

  ...this one isn't as good as the original. Still, "Extortionists at Law 2: Steele & Hansmeierer" has a nice ring to it.

• On the post: Help Create Some Neil deGrasse Tysonisms: Tautologically Meaningless Solutions To All The World's Problems

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2015 @ 08:05am

  We don't know if P = NP

  But the solution would be to prove that is or isn't.

• On the post: Our Reply To A Totally Bogus Monkey Selfie Cease & Desist

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2014 @ 11:07am

  Did a company really sign the letter?

  How? Is this another case like the Saltmarsh document from Prenda lore?

• On the post: NSA Waited Until Christmas Eve To Release Details Of Its Illegal Surveillance On Americans

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2014 @ 09:16am

  Re: Re: Re: Good Play!

  Truman was a Democrat. Not that it matters much, both parties are different from what they were then.

• On the post: Neutrality Opponents Hope To Use Bickering Congress To Thwart FCC Neutrality Rules

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2014 @ 03:25pm

  Not so very long ago...

  ...government regulation helped bring electricity and the POTS to rural communities and farms in places like Jones County, SD, where Thune spent his formative years. Thune has made most of his political hay claiming to represent the rural citizens of SD; appearing at farm shows, pointing to his ranch-land upbringing, and so on. He ought to know better than to dismiss regulation out of hand.
  
  Still, South Dakota has been very 'company friendly' more recently, for better or worse. Hopefully, though, he can be convinced that this is one of those 'for worse' cases.

• On the post: Torture Report A Best Seller On Kindle, Despite Being Available For Free (And In The Public Domain)

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2014 @ 07:50am

  I don't know why the CIA is so upset...

  ...it's just an executive summary. And everybody knows that you can't derive any real information from metadata.

• On the post: Monkey Selfie Back In The News: Photographer Threatens Copyright Experts With His Confused Understanding Of Copyright

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2014 @ 10:22am

  Re: I still have problems with both side's arguments

  It seems like we are trending towards an argument saying that "he who set the trap/trigger/timer owns the copyright."
  
  And, I think I can live with that, but I suppose there's other issues. What if I train a monkey to take pictures? What if that trained monkey is no longer in my custody/care but he takes a picture?

• On the post: Senator Whitehouse Is Very Angry About A Made Up Google Search And A Made Up Pirate Bay

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2014 @ 11:32am

  Am I missing something?

  I think he's talking about a Google search he performed during the previous hearing with Espinel. And, as has been pointed out, Google search results for him may have been different for anyone else performing the same search. I've also never visited TPB, so I've no idea if his description ever reflected what the site offered, but it doesn't sound very likely, and it would seem that he has not recently attempted to see if any "improvements" have been made.
  
  His Google search experience may have been as he described it, but everything after that is BS.

• On the post: NYPD Baffled By Tech Advances Like Laptops And WiFi

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2014 @ 01:58pm

  Wait! I have an idea!

  If the NYPD is so technologically impaired, they should consult with Walter O'Brien and his Scorpion outfit.

• On the post: Justice Department Admits It Lied To Appeals Court Concerning Companies' Ability To Talk About National Security Letters

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2014 @ 01:22pm

  Re: prosecution bait

  Is it possible for me to send one so I can claim that I've received -1 NSLs?

• On the post: David Cameron Says People Aren't Radicalized By Poverty Or Foreign Policy, But By Free Speech Online, So ISPs Agree To Censor Button

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2014 @ 02:07pm

  It's the internet's fault!

  ...damn that Al Gore.
  
  Once upon a time, before I ever had a networked computer, I received some unsolicited neo-nazi propaganda. It's true! I couldn't believe it, either. But, there it was, plain as day, among the daily paper, bills and junk mail in that day's mail.

• On the post: Dish Pulls CNN, Doesn't Think Customers Still Paying For It Are Missing Much

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2014 @ 08:28am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  And then I suppose we'll have to do what is being done now. When the provider starts making us (the customers) subsidize crap shows/channels, cut the cord. On the internet, there's almost always an alternative.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Test Tube Meat Fresh From The Lab

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2014 @ 09:34am

  Re:

  And I don't think this would go over well with the anti-GMO crowd, either. Space exploration is the only application I can think of off of the top of my head, but that's not very profitable.

• On the post: You Know Who Else Hates Everyone In Congress? Congress!

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2014 @ 02:37pm

  Re:

  But that's the problem! Officials elected from hyper-partisan districts aren't willing to compromise on anything because their constituency demands that they don't (and they likely won their election by saying that their opponent compromised too often or at all).

• On the post: 'Scorpion' Walter O'Brien Finally Tries To Respond To Inconsistencies In His Many Claims

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2014 @ 07:23pm

  Re: Re: Scorpion is a great show

  Eh, gads. I mean Chuck Lorre, not Lorne Michaels.

• On the post: 'Scorpion' Walter O'Brien Finally Tries To Respond To Inconsistencies In His Many Claims

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2014 @ 07:17pm

  Re: Scorpion is a great show

  This show is about people who are too smart but lack social skills and can do things that people with social skills can't even understand.
  
  A premise also found in The Big Bang Theory. The difference being that Lorne Michaels isn't also claiming that he could spearhead the next breakthrough in physics if only you just paid him enough.
  
  Of course, you are free to watch whatever you please. I enjoyed Burn Notice, even though I'm sure it contained absolutely no correlation with the real life activities of covert operatives.

• On the post: Techdirt's Response To Roca Labs' Demand For A Retraction

  

  MM_Dandy ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2014 @ 02:55pm

  I looked,

  But I couldn't find any BestNetTech articles published on September 22, 2104.

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