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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
Just be careful to not change your user-agent when doing this one, otherwise you would be committing a felony.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
Apple's fucking emoticons. I had to jailbreak and install a whitelist specifically because of the emoticon SMS spam.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
I did not know that. I still stand by nullification as a possible solution to marijuana possession charges or the more egregious "excessive downloading" felonies. But it would be horrific to watch it used by twelve racists to free
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
Can you add "jury nullification" to the mass emails also? That's what I tell my friends and family about.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
Evolution is so in line with reality, scientists have already made correct predictions about transitional fossils and where they would be found. The only choices are belief in evolution or rejection of reality.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
Your example proves the exact opposite of what you think; natural selection works as we suspect. The environment changed, the creatures best suited for the new environment will survive.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
> An analogy is not an equivalence. Please learn the difference. It's an appeal to emotion by comparing it with something so different it barely makes sense, if you prefer to argue from emotion instead of reason, then by all means.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
What he did was unethical. But the idea that connecting to a URL you changed on a hunch could ever be a felony is outrageous. Imagine if it had been comics published online. Because the server refuses to interact with your Chrome browser, y
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13y ago
Physical analogies do not work regarding the internet. What happened is like he was given an address, he drove to it in a van, and a screen showed him his email. Then, he extrapolated that the buildings in the block he went to would do some
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13y ago
First of all, it's completely ridiculous to compare copyright with slavery. You were never going to express yourself in exactly that manner, so from a practical standpoint copyright isn't preventing you from doing anything at all.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
Wasting man-years on reimplementing software is not a large enough problem to decide that authors no longer have any rights with their product.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
I'd advise against it; the converse, pretending to the server that you are accessing from a mobile device, is apparently a felony.
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reginaldjcooper
13y ago
That's a smokescreen. It's much better for the masses to be arguing over gay marriage than coming together and figuring out that maybe tax cuts for the wealthy were a bad idea after all.