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  • On the post: House Intelligence Committee Threatens Rep. Grayson For Informing Other Reps About Leaked NSA Docs From The Guardian

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2013 @ 07:50am

    In other headlines...

    House Intelligence Committee threatens member with sanctions for providing intelligence to the House Committee that oversees Intelligence.

    Follow up:

    House Intelligence Committee denies having any intelligence on recently reported stories about the recent lack of oversight on Intelligence.

  • On the post: Zynga Thinks You Might Confuse Having Casual Sex With Playing A Scrabble Knockoff, Because It's 'With Friends'

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2013 @ 05:16pm

    Re: Re: Zynga gives new meaning to the Laffer Curve...

    Wow, and Wow again. Someone got it!!!

  • On the post: Rep. Mike Rogers' Staff Insists They Never Said I Defamed Him… And Then Reveal The Reporter They Apparently Never Said It To

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2013 @ 04:13pm

    Uh Oh!!

    Seems like someone might be heading for the door, except they might not be able to figure out who to show the door to.

  • On the post: Russia's Version Of Facebook, VKontakte, Offers Ed Snowden A Job In Data Protection

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2013 @ 04:10pm

    Really bad when you think about.

    It's really bad when you think that a knockoff might be the place to protect the freedom of information. Forget the other things that are a side effect of freedom, like piracy.

    I hope Snowden goes to work for them and then helps them protect info from the Russian Government.

    So very sad that a place of freedom of information is now in the place of so much in terms of totalitarianism. And the US is falling behind that place.

  • On the post: Zynga Thinks You Might Confuse Having Casual Sex With Playing A Scrabble Knockoff, Because It's 'With Friends'

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2013 @ 04:03pm

    Zynga gives new meaning to the Laffer Curve...

    (Or Laughter Curve)

    And relates it to the the new Internet age.

    Just Kidding!

  • On the post: Next Two Congressional Hearings On Copyright Reform Show The Exact Wrong Approach

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 03:49pm

    Re: NEITHER of the sides are going to serve the public interest.

    Wow, wow, wow OOTB you are just plain old fashioned stupid. I AM a content producer and content provider.

    Tech has allowed me to offer my product (as that is all music or video or anything else is) to a much larger audience.

    I made more money when CD's came out and less when they started to wane. I earned more money when downloads became the venue and less as other options became available.

    But each time I did change to adapt to what is current.

    Any dinosaur that did not stop the hostage situation imposed on their musicians should go bye-bye.

    This comment like yours is off topic but it like all of your uninformed comments requires an answer. So why should someone pay for something they do not find value in?

    I find value in buying a song for $.99 cents - $1.29 but I don't in buying 16 songs I don't know for $19.99.

    In the world of technology I spend $1.29 to buy one song that I liked. In your world I had to decide if I wanted the whole album. And I would have said no as I did for years.

  • On the post: Court Says Reporters Can Be Compelled To Give Up Sources In Whistleblowing Cases

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 03:25pm

    Re: Re: So we are now truly a police controlled state.

    Agreed. They provide the least that is required of them in terms of clarity.

    Their ideal world is a place where everything they do is ok and no one shall ever challenge them on why they did it.

  • On the post: Copyright As Censorship: NBC Pulls YouTube Clip From Senator Elizabeth Warren's Account

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 03:19pm

    Re:

    Censorship is about not allowing someone to express their views. Mike and BestNetTech never edit anyone's comments. They present them as they are entered and allow us the people that read the Blog (not a news site or factual disseminator)to decide what we want to view.

    Your comments were viewed as not discussing the topic but instead expressing your not popular (on this blog) view and dislike of Mike Masnick.

    So as I did I can find your comment and comment on it without any issue.

    Unlike a true dictator which would never allow a dissenting comment to be available for comment I could find and express this view on your failed thoughts.

    Please become a thinking person. Don't just follow doctrine.

  • On the post: Next Two Congressional Hearings On Copyright Reform Show The Exact Wrong Approach

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 02:50pm

    Sorry but the "public" can only donate in small amounts!!

    Mike, Mike, Mike... You are so smart but yet so naive!!!

    The public is a vast non-cohesive entity that votes on Dance talents, and Voice performances and donates their spare buck when they are confronted with an aggressive campaigner.

    The content providers spend almost as much to protect their illegal monopoly as 100 million voters do. So who do you think the bought and paid for Congress will vote with?

    Even I can look at the world and say hey this dufus is going to help me earn 10 times what I can get in a normal job and for that help I will do what I can to help them. You scratch my ass and I will scratch yours. Not an unreasonable request.

  • On the post: Court Says Reporters Can Be Compelled To Give Up Sources In Whistleblowing Cases

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 02:35pm

    So we are now truly a police controlled state.

    Enjoy the fruits of your electorate decisions. Enjoy!!

  • On the post: Perfect 10 Loses Yet Another Ridiculous Copyright Lawsuit

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 02:24pm

    Well that sounds like good news.

    Heading now to Yandex to get some good download material. The Streisand effect is helping me find some good images.

    Thanks perfect 10!!!

  • On the post: Snowden's 'Dead Man's Switch' May Just Make Him A Bigger Target

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 02:19pm

    I am sad, very sad that Snowden should feel the need...

    Where is the person that can say the US is willing to try the person in a constitutionally defined legal proceeding and present the proper due process in convicting him?

  • On the post: Investigation Finds The UK's Spy Agency Did Not Break Any Laws When It Tapped Into PRISM Data

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 12:57pm

    Snowden!!! The true American!!

    Look I know some secrets need to be kept secret but some do need to be blasted to the world to let all people know what is happening.

    Snowden might be one of the greatest patriots of our time. For showing to the all of us in the US and the world what BS is happening in our names and by the people we think we elected to represent what is best for all of us.

    It is so clear to anyone now that the US prefers access to all information at all times. Constitution be damned. Foreign laws are not worthy of consideration. Fuck them and the governments that created them.

    The US police state wants to know and your rights shall not infringe on that want to know.

    Americans have long suspected our government (those not beholden to it) are doing a lot more than they say they are doing. But Snowden has shown us proof we can not ignore or deny. Unless we benefit from it.

    We should all thank Snowden and support him in any way we can so that a person that wants us the US to become a better country not a police state does not become a victim of a clearly over-reaching government.

  • On the post: NSA Official Admits Agency's Surveillance Covers Even More People Than Previously Indicated

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 12:59pm

    I wonder how many more slips before....

    the info comes out that the NSA actually has intercept switches inside all the big trunk providers and just sucks up all the data on the internet?

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At BestNetTech

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2013 @ 05:19pm

    Re:

    And you should get the second for being so afraid of taking credit for your stupid comments you refuse to provide a name.

    AC = person that is too stupid to figure out a name to call themselves.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At BestNetTech

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2013 @ 04:49pm

    So BestNetTech is awesome and all that but...

    I think it would be cool to issue badges to those people that get Most something in a week. Make it a numbered badge. Just a thought. Something that make those people feel like they earned something but offering their opinion.

    Just a thought.

  • On the post: Clueless State AGs Attack Google Over YouTube Videos Instead Of Pursuing The Criminals Who Made Them

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 10:01am

    Re: Another rant from Mike defending his "Precious".

    Google is not a platform nor is YouTube. But they provide for a profit a platform people can use. Semantics don't make a good argument.

    Also rants not pertinent to the discussion just make you look like a fool.

  • On the post: NSA Deletes Fact Sheet On NSA Spying After Senate Points Out It's Actually NSA Lying

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 03:17pm

    Re: Hiring interview at the nsa (parts redacted)...

    Oh you so took my idea and did not transform it. I am sending you and the NSA a takedown notice!!!

  • On the post: Federal Judge None Too Impressed With Government's Defense Of Its 'No Fly' List

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 03:14pm

    Re:

    Obama-The President of platitudes. Change!!! Hope!!!

    I am proud that we as country elected a person of non white origin but sad that we picked someone so dedicated to making sure the government would run our lives. Forever. Slavery is not just a physical state. It is a mental binding and forced life choice that you are not allowed to chose.

    What is the Obama care but a loss of choice? Or a forced case of being required to do as the government requires. Prove me wrong. Show me the loopholes?

  • On the post: Federal Judge None Too Impressed With Government's Defense Of Its 'No Fly' List

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 03:06pm

    Re: Re: Yeah my wife the teacher was and maybe still is on the list.

    Her name is not even close to a common name based on the census.

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