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keernan
3y ago
Stirs memories of Clipper
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keernan
3y ago
>Yes, it is unethical to pirate content you don’t own the rights to. It is difficult for me to tell from context the definition of "to pirate content" you (and others) are using. Pirating content means: using copyrighted materi
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keernan
3y ago
If someone without permission projects a copyrighted movie onto the side of a building in Times Square - accompanied with speakers blaring the sound - is everyone in Times Square who watches the movie some how engaged in illegal activity?
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keernan
3y ago
Are you asking: do you earn money putting copyrighted materials you don't own online for others to watch? Or are you asking: do you watch videos online? IMO there is a huge legal difference between the two.
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keernan
3y ago
Filing a lawsuit so quickly is a clear indication Musk is using his money and the courts as a weapon. He wants to send a message to the world that if anyone does something he doesn't like, he's prepared to make them suffer; at a m
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keernan
3y ago
>The SCOTUS has no business in drawing these lines. What's interesting about the US Constitution is that SCOTUS is the final arbiter of the limit and extent of the powers of the three branches of government. The words of the constit
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keernan
3y ago
The narrative the NFL wants to push is that CTE is related by concussions; because concussions are something they can attempt to address. Unfortunately, more and more studies establish that repetitive smaller sub-concussive forces are the c
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keernan
3y ago
I've been using MS products since MS-DOS in my Radio Shack Model I in 1978. I've been using a cloud outlook.com email for years. Suddenly, a week or so ago, my outlook.com app lost the ability to compose new emails. I simply canno
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keernan
3y ago
While reading the article, I came across the following: > WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman told DailyMail.com ... The article never mentions "WCW" or Mr. Goodman anywhere else in the article. The sentence literally come
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keernan
3y ago
99% of religious membership is based upon birth. Every Muslim would be a Jew had they been born to Jewish instead of Muslim parents. And vice versa. It's true for every religion. Every organized religion on earth would disappear within
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keernan
3y ago
>a place where law enforcement feels empowered to ignore the law In the history of the world, there has never been a law enforcement institution that enforced the rules equally to itself. The same is true of every power structure e.g. go
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keernan
3y ago
eff.org is where I turn on issues like this: https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
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keernan
3y ago
Best drum solo ever I play it at high volume at least weekly (when the wife is out)
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keernan
3y ago
I first learned about computers in 1970 when I took the only computer course my college offered: a one semester course of Fortran. In 1977 I passed the bar and became a trial attorney. In 1978 I bought a Tandy Model I. I spent lots of hours
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keernan
3y ago
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler I read it in 1970. It sparked my interest in technology; an interest that is very much alive and kicking all these years later.
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keernan
3y ago
If you are not violating the law, then just say so and be done with it. But if you are violating the law, then arguing that the world will collapse if your illegal conduct isn't allowed to continue is a pretty brazen argument.
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keernan
3y ago
You are who you will have become at the moment of your last breath; regardless of goals or sense of fulfillment.
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keernan
3y ago
Obscene what-aboutism. Not a huge surprise in view of the title. Someone could prove that 20 former Presidents committed all sorts of crimes and that would provide zero evidence to dissuade me from my view that MAGA followers are the single
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keernan
3y ago
I'm confused by your confusion. Your statement means that if a private company was owned by the most horrific person in human history {take your pick}, you wouldn't care one bit and would continue doing business with him; and woul
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keernan
3y ago
With a commensurate decrease in compensation.
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keernan
3y ago
Despite the title, Google is not being sued "over bad map directions". Google is being sued because Google allegedly failed to take corrective action after being advised on multiple occasions that it was giving directions to the p
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keernan
3y ago
What does it say about our world when Musk can buy Twitter just because he wanted a new toy; and then the whole world watches as he demonstrates through his toy-play that he possesses the emotional age of 12 year old.
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keernan
3y ago
The current state of democracy in the United States is not about ideas. There isn't any legitimate political debate. I'm a 71 year old white American male and it has been ~25 years since I witnessed any 'exchange of ideas
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keernan
3y ago
"... the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report..."
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keernan
3y ago
For 50 years of my life, my dad always finalized a deal for a new car with one last requirement: the car must be free of all dealership logos (back then the dealership glued - or in some instances screwed - the dealership placard/logo
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keernan
3y ago
Of course not. They can't be the expert. But... I'm a trial attorney and I've tried cases involving complex issues far outside my knowledge base. However, I've never started any such trial without consulting an expert to
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keernan
3y ago
>Any advice on what to do? Yes. I was a trial lawyer for 40+ years. My advice: stop the nonsense of posting on the internet and talk to the lawyer you already have.
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keernan
3y ago
I read this exact article months ago. Then I see the name of the site. How is this anything more than an apple ad?
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keernan
3y ago
Musk is only worried they might win. In other words, Musk wants to boycott lawyers for enforcing the law.
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keernan
3y ago
The one that says slavery and genocide is evil.
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