1 I have been expecting something like this ever since Obama gave control of the internet to the U.N.

2 I welcome my new Microsoft Overlords. 

3 Actually, I think this quote was created by his Google Buzz account.

4

ALL YOUR INTERNETS ARE BELONG TO US

5 Astounding.  Soon they will want to license printers and copiers.

6 I can haz repressive dictatorship now? Posted by: Purple Avenger at 04:29 PM

I thought we already had one

7 Membership in Organizing for America required for license.

8

Soon they'll rename us all 'carbon emitting units' and require us all to have licenses to breathe air.

9 We are not going to be as strong as our weakest link!!

10 MS, the same good folks who won't sell Xbox 360's to our military trainers.

11 Millions for defense, not one cent for licensing!

12 You guys are just being paranoid!
Nothing could ever go wrong with this brilliant plan.

13

Astounding.  Soon they will want to license printers and copiers.

Nah, they already have invisible markers buried in them which come out on the copies.

14 Oh, we like this idea.  And everyone's going to jump onboard.

15 I'm licensed to ILL. I don't neeeed you're stinking bullshit Davos. You hearing me man?!!!

16 or if fees would be collected.

Oh now, you know the answer to this.

17 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

18 Its not clear ... if fees would be collected.

Really?  Not clear?   There is more ambiguity associated with death and taxes.  It does make you wonder how this would be reported by the BBC, though. 

19 I bet the "test" will be if your $100 check to the DNC clears.

20 Tyranny never sleeps.

21 Other than the idiot that thought this up, who else supports it?

22 If we need you cretins' comments, we'll ask for them.  Now, back to Wal-mart with you, be gone!

23 Other than the idiot that thought this up, who else supports it?

Big brother.  You don't want to cross big brother, do you?

24
Other than the idiot that thought this up, who else supports it?

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at February 13, 2010 04:43 PM (F09Uo)

*ahem*

25 2+2 = 5

Learn to love it.

26 freedom is slavery

27 Never groom your nether region.

28 rats, face, cage  some assembly required

29 FUCK everyone one of these demons.

30 I have another idea.  How about we install 24-hour a day web cams in every politician's and bureaucrat's office and house, with a view of the head, the bedroom and every computer and TV screen they own.  After they have done this for 5 years, we'll discuss limits on our own use. 

31 I foresee a resurrection of the old Bulletin Board software.

32

I can haz repressive dictatorship now?

You most certainly can!

33

Relax good people, the internet will be free. After you purchase licenses and contribute to the proper party of course.

In other news, all rations have been increased from 20 kilograms per month to 15 kilograms per month.

Have a good day.

34 Wiki already has up that there are calls for his resignation or firing after he made this rediculous statement.

35 How about we install 24-hour a day web cams in YOUR house?  I already want to track your location 7x24 using cell phones.

36 Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft

Gee, I wonder if this could be associated with DRM (Digital rights management) in any way?

37 30 I have another idea.  How about we install 24-hour a day web cams in every politician's and bureaucrat's office and house, with a view of the head, the bedroom and every computer and TV screen they own.  After they have done this for 5 years, we'll discuss limits on our own use.

Barney Frank excepted.  That is not something I even want to contemplate.

38 23 Other than the idiot that thought this up, who else supports it?

Big brother.  You don't want to cross big brother, do you?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 13, 2010 04:44 PM (hh4Yo)

I love Big Brother and I denounce you PA as someone that likes Big Brother somewhat less than I do.*

*just practicing for my written test.

39 That ought to go over like a lead...Zepplin.

40 hypocrite fucking liberals. constantly screaming the government is going to take your freedoms away when a republican is in charge. lead the way to actually do so when one of theirs is.

fuck all of them

41


X-Box 360 has always been at war with Playstation 3

42 Hey Craig. You can shove that right up your ass. And tamp it tight with a fence post.

43 The other purpose is no more anonymity for bloggers, so ace and PA are right out screwed.

44 Someone would need to overturn ( or totally ignore ) this

In Talley v. California, 362 U.S. 60 (1960), the Court struck down a Los Angeles city ordinance that made it a crime to distribute anonymous pamphlets.

along with other specific protections, and prove that all emails on blogs were "sedition"

45 43 The other purpose is no more anonymity for conservative bloggers, so ace and PA are right out screwed.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 13, 2010 04:54 PM (cpuvG)

FIFY

46 Oh, another reason to hate Microsoft.  Let me write that one down.

47 I don't know, an IQ test might be nice. Then again, I think an IQ test should be required for voting as well.

48 We would have a small army of petty dictators (in the image of Charles Johnson) running the show. THE END.

49 Blogs are the 21st century version of the pamphlets that fueled the American Revolution.  Can't let the unwashed masses upset the marxist counterrevolution by copying the Founding Fathers now can we?

50 I made the switch from Google to Bing a month ago.  Now I find out about the X-Boxes denied to the military and this hoser.  Where do I go now?

51 49 We would have a small army of petty dictators (in the image of Charles Johnson) running the show. THE END.

Posted by: maddogg at February 13, 2010 04:55 PM (lQT2m)

going to go out on a limb here, and predict that Cahrles will think this is a good idea

52  What foolishness is posted this blog?

Posters (Posters de Refuse, no less) still posting on the interwebs, and giving plussies?

You are all banned. – 1000 to each of you. eleventy.

Questioning the wisdom of Microsoft is bad enough, but the Designated Hitter rule?

You are all relegated to 2400baud dialup connections and 40 column displays for eternity. I say, Adieu (turns away and presents palm).

53
I made the switch from Google to Bing a month ago.  Now I find out about the X-Boxes denied to the military and this hoser.  Where do I go now?

Posted by: pep at February 13, 2010 04:56 PM (0K3p3)

I make a great pet.

54

who else supports it?

Fidel "weekend at bernie's" Castro, Vlad Putin, Hugo Chavez, George Soros......

 

55 Give Me a Bomb!

56 We love this idea.

57 every day I wake up, and every day I turn on the news hoping something particularly nasty has happened to George Soros.

is that wrong?

58 All those pedophiles, conservatives and Global Warming deniers need to be controlled. Can't have them running around doing things to the children!

59 who else supports it?

China

60 56 Give Me a Bomb!

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2010 04:58 PM (iVNtQ)

Link fail violation! That will cost you 1000 credits and suspension f your porn viewing privileges for 30 days.

61 60 who else supports it?

China

Posted by: mpur at February 13, 2010 04:59 PM (7m5P2)

they actually turned it down, as get this, "being too oppressive"

62 And a Scandi (swiss version) gets the first olympic gold, make him get an internet license now!

63

58 every day I wake up, and every day I turn on the news hoping something particularly nasty has happened to George Soros.

is that wrong?

Nope. I hope the evil bastard gets stomach cancer and eats himself slowly.

64 Sounds like a reasonable thing to me.

65

Next thing you, we'll be censored and right in the middle.of a post, you'll.

Hold on, there's someone at the door, I'll be..

66 My God! This means I might finally have to switch to Linux.

67

going to go out on a limb here, and predict that Cahrles will think this is a good idea

Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Meteors, and Buckets of Scorn for the Left at February 13, 2010 04:57 PM (erIg9)

Believe it or not, Markos just may have a great big problem with this. A few years ago he stood with conservative bloggers when that Maine Democrat rep. proposed something similar to this in the House. One of the only sane moments I've seen him exhibit.

Of course that was a few years ago when his his saviour wasnt in office and his party wasnt crashing and burning, so everything may have changed since then.

68 @51 http://www.dogpile.com/

69 Microsoft is evil.

70 blazer, is what I was saying earlier. they have their cabal in office now, they'll eat this shit up

71 They might try hiding behind

In 1940, the Congress enacted the Smith Act, which made it illegal to advocate "the propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force and violence." The law was mainly used as a weapon against Communist leaders. The constitutionality of the Act was questioned in Dennis v. United States 341 U.S. 494 (1951).  Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson  suggested that the doctrine did not require the government to "wait until the putsch is about to be executed, the plans have been laid and the signal is awaited", thereby broadly defining the words "clear and present danger." Thus, even though there was no immediate danger posed by the Communist Party's ideas, the Court allowed the Congress to restrict the Communist Party's speech.

72 54
I made the switch from Google to Bing a month ago.  Now I find out about the X-Boxes denied to the military and this hoser.  Where do I go n

I make a great pet.

Yeah, but their little wings get so tired carrying all those copies of Jugs-O-Plenty and He-Man Monthly. 

73 No. This is the line in the sand.

74
Yeah, but their little wings get so tired carrying all those copies of Jugs-O-Plenty and He-Man Monthly. 

Posted by: pep at February 13, 2010 05:03 PM (0K3p3)

Nothing a little JATO for pigeons cant fix, or a bottle rocket tied to each wing if you will.

75 Believe it or not, Markos just may have a great big problem with this.

That was pre-Obama era though.  If Il Douche supported it, Kos would carry 55gal drums of water on his back spinning it.

76 License? I don't need no stinking license!

77

I have a simple question.   What PROBLEM is this supposed to fix?

The government works for us.  right?

78 how easy really would this be to implement?

put the code into some version of windows, make end users buy license keys to access the net, force compliance through key tracking?

yeah, this is the kind of thing that is a line in the sand

79 Q:  What PROBLEM is this supposed to fix?

A: YOU.

80 _{61 56 Give Me a Bomb!}

_{Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2010 04:58 PM (iVNtQ)}

Coup d'tat 

I'll be in the corner with a Tinfoil Hat on...

 

 

81 They told us that if we voted for McCain we'd get repressive dictatorship -- and they were right!

82
Believe it or not, Markos just may have a great big problem with this.

That was pre-Obama era though.  If Il Douche supported it, Kos would carry 55gal drums of water on his back spinning it.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 13, 2010 05:05 PM (hh4Yo)

Well thats why I put the disclaimer in the bottom of the post. Bush was in office then and there was no guarantee a Democrat would get elected radical Marxist would come to power.

83 63 And a Scandi (swiss version) gets the first olympic gold, make him get an internet license now!

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 13, 2010 05:00 PM (cpuvG)

The Swiss aren't scandis.  They're likey either Krauts or Cheese-eating wine-pussies.

84 Dumb idea, and I throw this out there to the morons again. How much more of this crap are we expected to endure?

85 Can you imagine Andrew Jackson at Davos - just randomly cracking elites with a hickory stick.

86 My God! This means I might finally have to switch to Linux.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at February 13, 2010 05:02 PM (F09Uo)

And if they require an approved OS to gain internet access? Websites, gateways etc, simply wouldn't connect unless you a state approved computer.

87

where the fuck did that 'e' go???

Waning fu...

88 86 Can you imagine Andrew Jackson at Davos - just randomly cracking elites with a hickory stick.

Posted by: Jean at February 13, 2010 05:08 PM (GHEon)

god yes. laying about him with a fine cane, cracking heads, leaving a wake of unconscious libs behind him.

89

Seems there's a lot of profit in Marxism.

 

 

90

And if they require an approved OS to gain internet access? Websites, gateways etc, simply wouldn't connect unless you a state approved computer.

Posted by: Sharrukin at February 13, 2010 05:09 PM (593B

yeah pretty much this. every single node connection would be sniffed for OS compliance

91 ... and you'll have to get past me if you morons want a license.

92 The problem is US. The government is like a cancerous tumor, growing larger every year, sending tendrils into everything, taking over if allowed. The federal government has become a monster, and is fast taking the view that we work for it rather than the other way around.

93 how easy really would this be to implement?

Televisions are licensed in Britain and there's trucks with RDF gear driving around all the time looking for bootleg TVs...so this kind of totalitarianism is not unheard of.

Pretty easy actually.  Require ISP's to verify license before allowing an account to be opened.  Public library computers could be fitted with mag strip readers you'd have to swipe your license through to use.

94 49 We would have a small army of petty dictators (in the image of Charles Johnson) running the show. THE END.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a house slipper stamping on a human face— forever." With apologies to Orwell.

95 maddogg, we're already past that point

96

78

I have a simple question.   What PROBLEM is this supposed to fix?

The government works for us.  right?

Posted by: gus at February 13, 2010 05:06 PM (Vqruj)

No, that's just how its supposed to be and was intended.  The government works for themselves and expect you to pay for whatever they want no questions asked.

Who's got that quote about how if you want to be labeled a dangerous citizen today all you need to do is repeat the words spoken by our founding fathers?

97 Was I wrong to BING "craig mundie raped dakota fanning?" I mean, 5000 times?

98

Want to access the internet plebes ? Bow down and kiss the ring of Zod !

99 hey while we're at it, let's just include say, a national id, in this whole program.

100
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson

What he said............

101 I have an idea for more of a permit system.  A permit to allow you to beat the shit out of fucking control-freak leftists.

102 Thomas Jefferson was just another typical white person

103 Greetings, Netizen!  You appear to be operating from a suspicious IP.  Your papers, please.

104 I support this measure. The Internet seems so...monochrome.

105 Carhles and Chrissy need to be Mencken'ed

106 Jefferson would be labeled a dangerous radical these days and would carry an incompetent FBI tail until he did or said something they could lock him up for.

107 Greetings, Netizen!  You appear to be operating from a suspicious IP.  Your papers, please.

We also, I'm sorry to say, have reports of disallowed opinions being expressed from this IP.

108 Woof woof. Woof woof wooof.

109 107 Jefferson would be labeled a dangerous radical these days and would carry an incompetent FBI tail until he did or said something they could lock him up for.

Posted by: maddogg at February 13, 2010 05:16 PM (lQT2m)

They'd do to him what they've done to Sarah.

110 License keys to access the internet? No problem- we'll be able to purchase them at very reasonable rates from our Russian friends. And if they want too much I'm sure our Romanian friends will be more than happy to undercut the living sh*t out of them. Have no fear- free enterprise is alive, and well, and living behind what we used to call the Iron Curtain.

111

101.

I liked this one:

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson 

Even 200 years ago our founders knew that attempting to model themselves after Europe was a shitty idea.  Demonstrates the idiots in the Democratic Party today.  And don't they claim Jefferson as one of the orginal members of their party?

112 And after everyone is issued their Internet license, we will implement the Internet-only voting program.

113 Hey, Microsoft. My novel was a NOVEL, not an instruction manual. PUT. THE. KEYBOARD. DOWN.

114

Thomas Jefferson was just another typical white person

"I could no sooner dis-own Jefferson than I could my own Grandmother"

_{(Looks under Bus)}

"Gramma! How you Doin' back there? You need anything?  I'm sending Eric Holder back there to check on you..."

115

PA and others are right. If the government has a mind to, this could be implemented a lot easier than the UK's tele tax.

Simply require all MAC addresses to be associated with a person. Every time you buy a device that could achieve network connectivity, you have to show your license then you have to register that MAC address with your ISP or they will not let you on the Internet.

This could be readily done today.

116

Even 200 years ago our founders knew that attempting to model themselves after Europe was a shitty idea.

Jefferson was a big fan of France. But when push came to shove, he was American first.

117 Time to Form a Nobel Prize Worthy Organization

Internet Users without Borders

or, in French,

Users de Internet sans Frontieres.

-

118
Things Your Forefathers really said:




Give Me Government Rationed Healthcare And The Redistribution of Wealth, Or Give Me Death !

-Thomas Jefferson

Gentleman, We Must All Pay Our Taxes Together, Or We Shall Most Assuredly All Pay Them Seperately.

-Benjamin Franklin

119 Posted by: Chris Matthews at February 13, 2010 05:20 PM (P33XN)

Thanks, Chris.  I love you.

120

I donÂ’t have a problem with a national ID or linking criminal databases between jurisdictions, states and organizations. Yes, itÂ’s an infringement, and a very serious one too, but identity theft Â…..

But a company whose premier product looks like a worn-out bike inner tube (too many patches) and is ruthlessly avoided each time a fresh major upgrade is announced, suggesting that we need a license to access the internet?

No.

121

I see nothing wrong with licensing internet users.  Nothing wrong at all.

 

 

122 Unless your one of the elite slipstreaming on somebody's connection, your CC# and various ISP/cell accounts already identify you on the internet. The competitive commercial environment is the only thing keeping Lexus-N exus or Clearpoint from doing this now.

123 If Craig thinks he's smart enough to regulate web usage, why can't the son of a bitch make windows work?

124 These people should not be on the internet:

http://tinyurl.com/should-not-be-on-internet

Stick with the comments for a while to figure out the fail.

I'm not calling for a license but not everyone can handle the interwebs.

125 @124 Some things even genius can't fix... :-)

126 Hey.  I have a great idea for Davos.

127 I really hate the statist minded. Leave to a bunch of elites on a Davos panel to think they know how to fix the intranets.  If the panel consisted of people with even an ounce of wisdom they would realize that the best solutions the the various complex issues facing the internet is the market.

Allow the market to develop ways to deal with theft, fraud, etc..  They will develop various solutions and those which work will be adopted more broadly and, as a result, security will improve over time.  This is all too organic and passive for arrogant control freaks that think they can somehow tame the internet without ruining what makes it great.

Note to self: punch Craig Mundie in the face if ever given the opportunity. In case the opportunity never presents itself, just punch a random Microsoft employee.

128 When I can't access Ace of Spades top headlines, ONT and etc, I'm gonna go all Declaration of Independence on these fucken commies!

129 I can promise one thing, there will be a fee.

I am glad I already own a .223 pitchfork.

130 Someone forgot this ?  Isn't a blog post 'speech'?

Types of restraints on speech  Time, place, or manner restrictions

Time, place, or manner restrictions must withstand intermediate scrutiny. Note that any regulations that would force speakers to change how or what they say do not fall into this category (so the government cannot restrict one medium even if it leaves open another). Time, place, or manner restrictions must:

Be content neutralBe narrowly tailored......to serve a significant governmental interestLeave open ample alternative channels for communication Content-based restrictions

Restrictions that require examining the content of speech to be applied must pass strict scrutiny.

Viewpoint-based restrictions

Restrictions that apply to certain viewpoints but not others face the highest level of scrutiny, and are usually overturned, unless they fall into one of the court's special exceptions.

131 Jefferson was a dangerous radical.

In large part that's what made him so fucking awesome.

132

 Unless your one of the elite slipstreaming on somebody's connection, your CC# and various ISP/cell accounts already identify you on the internet

I think this is really much less about being able to indentify you on the internet and more about the ability to make money off you and control who gets access.

I see 3 reasonings for things like this.  There is the claimed reasoning which they are always willing to talk about.  Their actual reasoning which when pressed will admit is why they really want it.  And then their is the fantasy speculative reasoning of what they see this as being able to do which they will swear is never the case because they haven't reached step one towards achieving it yet.

133 Declaration of Complete Independence

FIFY.

134

I wonder where Lerch is in all of this? Everyone knows he's got his own bathroom stall with a Glory Hole in Davos.

135 Satan is a typical white person.

136 @23 Purple Avenger

Nope, don't want to cross him.

I want to punch him in the junk until he goes away.

137

George Orwell at February 13, 2010 05:23 PM (j4xgZ)

Homage to Catatonia?

138 Posted by: The Ministry Of Truth at February 13, 2010 05:20 PM (t72+4) May I get your Newsletter?

139

I can see it now:

Every time you fire up the Internet, an avatar of the Chicago Kid (with chin in air) pops up in the corner of the screen to keep an eye on you.

140 Nothing, and I mean nothing worthwhile ever comes out of Davos. It is just a convention of eggheads jerking each other off and thinking they are of superior intellect. Just a bunch of puffed up idiots.

141

And don't they claim Jefferson as one of the orginal members of their party?

Yes they like to claim that but like everything tyhey say it is a lie.

142 MAC address spoofing, wardriving. There are ways to defeat nearly any scheme; that's what black hat security guys do. You can bet some serious hackers (even lefty ones) would more than happy to spread around ways to crack this stuff. Even a closed system dominated by a "One Ring To Rule Them All" mindset (yeah, Apple, we see you) cannot keep people from jailbreaking iPhones. Right now, your ISP has logs of your public IP and your MAC addresses exposed to the intertubes, yet look how hard it is for gubmint to find the time to crack down on teh torrentz & warez kidz. A scheme to set up controlled access on a network as vast as the intertubes is simple in concept, but don't be too sure about the ease of execution. However, if any gubmint in 'Merica tries this, the public outcry will be literally in terms of pitchforks and torches. And Microsoft has given lots of people motivation to pirate and crack as much of their product as possible. After an effingly retarded suggestion like this, it's almost de rigeur to cheat Bill Gates out of his money.

143
24
Other than the idiot that thought this up, who else supports it?

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at February 13, 2010 04:43 PM (F09Uo)

I'm sure you'd find supporters at CBS News,  ABC News,  NBC News,  MSNBC,  CNN,  The New York Times,  the LA Times,  the Boston Globe...

144

And don't they claim Jefferson as one of the orginal members of their party?

Yes they like to claim that but like everything tyhey say it is a lie.

Posted by: Vic at February 13, 2010 05:32 PM (QrA9E)

They like to pretend Abraham Lincoln was too even though he was a Republican. They also like to pretend Bull Connor and George Wallace were Republicans too.

145 an avatar of the Chicago Kid (with chin in air) pops up in the corner of the screen to keep an eye on you.

Dating myself, but Max Headroom comes readily to mind.

146 If I were Apple I would work this guy's speech into a snarky ad.

147 I guess that Apple 1984 commercial was more prescient than we thought.

148 Note to self: More Ammo

149

So what are you guys getting your insignificant others for Valentines Day ? Me, I'm thinking of getting Elizabeth Turbo-Will 2010.

150 149 Note to self:
More Ammo

Posted by: citizen khan at February 13, 2010 05:40 PM (nvOHK)

hell if that ain't ingrained into your everyday life, you're too late

151 We need someone more industrious than myself to obtain and post the appropriate Microsoft email address so we can send "Are you assholes completely insane?" emails to them.

152 Posted by: John Edwards at February 13, 2010 05:41 PM (t72+4)

Heart-shaped headstone.  Pink.

153 What this is really about is Microsoft trying to ingratiate themselves with the PLA now that Google has blown up that relationship.

154 Actually, I was planning on 'field replacement' of most of my arsenal anyway

155 Don;t get too excited about the 'Microsoft not selling Xbox 360 units to the military' thing. Nothing is stopping the DOD from buying as many game consoles as they like. They can order them through the PX and get the same price as anyone else in the retail channel, which is only a few dollars less than the retail price. NOBODY makes a real profit on selling game consoles. (Unless you count theives.)

What Microsoft declined was giving the military a special discount on a product that is already sold at a loss. The business model for the hardware is to make up the loss on sales of games and then make a profit on further game sales. Currently, Nintendo is the only company that says it isn't losing money on the hardware sale.

The application the DOD had in mind wouldn't have created any game sales. It for using the hardware with custom training apps. They could just as easily have used PCs for the purpose but nobody in that business wants to sell at a loss. Funny how that works, huh?

156
We need someone more industrious than myself to obtain and post the appropriate Microsoft email address so we can send "Are you assholes completely insane?" emails to them.

Posted by: FUBAR at February 13, 2010 05:41 PM (1fanL)

Just tape it to a brick and send it through their picture windows. They'll get the message loud and clear then.

157 152 We need someone more industrious than myself to obtain and post the appropriate Microsoft email address so we can send "Are you assholes completely insane?" emails to them.

Posted by: FUBAR at February 13, 2010 05:41 PM (1fanL)

they'd just forward all of them to flag@whitehouse.gov

158 In a country that I would like to live in, anyone that even suggested this would be stripped off his/her citizenship, and thrown out on their ass.

But alas we let the commies fester too long and now they are quasi permanent in our society.

159 Does an LCR say I love you?

160 But alas we let the commies fester too long and now they are quasi permanent in our society.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at February 13, 2010 05:46 PM (/subp)

diversity will do that to a country

161 Microsoft contacts...

This is the best I can come up with right now.  You could mention Mundie prominently.

162 What Microsoft declined was giving the military a special discount on a product that is already sold at a loss.

Posted by: epobirs at February 13, 2010 05:43 PM (NXCBg)

Yeah, next time Microsoft needs our services, we'll be sure to drive a hard bargain.

163

The government works for us.  right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

164 Most of these mofo's can't even drive a nail, win, win for us smart adults.

Hey, hey M&M's.

165 A scheme to set up controlled access on a network as vast as the intertubes is simple in concept, but don't be too sure about the ease of execution.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 13, 2010 05:33 PM (LSqh5)

They don't need a 100% compliance, they only need 90% and how many people are really going to know how to evade the electronic gatekeepers?

166 The crazy lecturer who killed 3 people and "accidentally" shot her brother, accidentally shot him 3 times.

167

You know who I think will have a pretty big problem with all of this ?

This Guy.

168 Hi, it looks like you're trying to write on unauthorized subjects.  I've notified the appropriate authorities, but in the meantime, would you like to a) delete the offending speech; b) lockdown your computer until the authorities arrive; or c) complete the speech so as to incriminate yourself more thoroughly?

169 An internet license?  Another thing to throw on the ground!

Some Microsoft phony gets up at Davos/
and tells me I need a license to get on the internet./
"A PC's just like a car."   Man, /
You think you're foolin' me?  I took the podium.../
 and threw it on the ground!/
I'm an adult./
I'm not a part of your system./
My PC doesn't kill people on the freeway./
DUH!

170 167,

That's a big girl too, no sitting on the couch munching on a gallon of Blue Bell with croc. tears streaming down her face.

171 @156
As bad as a purely commercial decision is when it comes to our military, at least I can understand garden-variety human cupidity.  However, that isn't what they said.  The the real problem was that they said they didn't want their products associated with the military.  Suck it, Microsoft. 

172 What Microsoft declined was giving the military a special discount on a product that is already sold at a loss. Heh heh. Create popular product that you can't sell at a profit? Check. Leave your flagship OS product so full of security holes you could thread a roller coaster through it? Check. Imitate a competitor's media player product, in brown, and sell them in quantities approaching dozens? Check. If you disregard the ascension of Windows during the nineties and look at the last ten years of Microsoft's performance, there isn't much to envy. But at least the will to power hasn't ebbed.

173 The crazy lecturer who killed 3 people and "accidentally" shot her brother, accidentally shot him 3 times.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at February 13, 2010 05:54 PM (0FiCa)

I thought she shot him once, "accidentally," while learning how to load the gun.

174 I am appalled. Absolutely appalled that anyone in the technology industry would propose such a thing.

175 168

You know who I think will have a pretty big problem with all of this ?

This Guy.

Posted by: Blazer at February 13, 2010 05:55 PM (t72+4)

omfg

176 Blazer,

Youuuuuu soooo crazy!!

177 They don't need a 100% compliance, they only need 90% and how many people are really going to know how to evade the electronic gatekeepers? How does one learn how to use, clean and store a gun? You just learn to do it, you educate yourself. Even getting 90% compliance will not be easy. But consider... 10% of a nation 300 million strong is 30 million. You can be one of that 10%. No one has to take this sitting down.

178 You know who I think will have a pretty big problem with all of this ?

Thanks for that, Blazer.  That was friggin awesome... Can't stop laughing...

179 >>I thought she shot him once, "accidentally," while learning how to load the gun.

Apparently it was a triple-barrel shotgun.

180 Thanks for that, Blazer.  That was friggin awesome... Can't stop laughing...

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at February 13, 2010 06:01 PM (+PfVy)

"how do you exshpect a cassssshter to tank a blood prinssssh with negative dodge? oh my god oh my god"

181 Bought a huge coffee table today, this place is starting to like like a house.

182 I think the guy meant "license" like they make folks get in the U.K to have a TV:  To have one, you have to pay the gubmint something like $300 (200 pounds) per year, per TV.  Of course the UK gubmint justifies this by using the revenue to fund the (vastly leftist) BBC.  "You people wouldn't want to have (gasp!) *commercials* on your telly like those stupid Yanks, would you?"

Oh, and for the record:  When the TV license started in the UK, it was something like 5 pounds a year.  Once everyone got one, they started raising the price--a lot.  So if the Dem/socialists/marxists decided to go this route, you can expect the initial license to be a mere pittance--say 5 bucks a year.  And they'll promise that the revenue will be used to do something too, too precious, like give crippled kids free internet service or something similar.

So anyone thinking of voting against it will be thoroughly vilified.

Just sayin.

183 Dang, Blazer. Was that guy for real? It was too perfect.

184 184 Dang, Blazer.

Was that guy for real?

It was too perfect.

Posted by: eman at February 13, 2010 06:04 PM (4tixt)

hard to say, I play and I have no doubt there are lots of people just like him

185 I am appalled. Absolutely appalled that anyone in the technology industry would propose such a thing.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 13, 2010 05:58 PM (RZ8pf)

Unfortunately, I blame you and your fellow Seattlites.  I'm guessing this jackass is home-grown talent.

What do you have to say for yourself, young lady?

186 Looks like the 'Bama mama's family has a long history of being in the dark corner as most Harvard families have down deep, look who they elected!

187 He was Cartman as an adult. Sort of.

188
Dang, Blazer.

Was that guy for real?

It was too perfect.

Posted by: eman at February 13, 2010 06:04 PM (4tixt)

I think its an act. At any rate, I just picture that guy as Dum-Dum and it makes it all the more funnier for me.

189

Someday in the distant future, books will be written (because that's what we'll be back to by then, just the books) about what has happened, on line, in the last ten years. Kind of the way good Latinists can read the graffiti on a whorehouse wall in Pompei and tell you how things worked out for the Equestrian class. The Latin was lovingly preserved in a layer of lava; some of these posts will be harder to research. And nobody will know who Paul Anka was. 

More amusing, and visible during our own lifetimes, will be the way this will be taught in the colleges. "During the Wild West days of on-line newsfollowership, there were a lot of unscrupulous operators, impersonating licensed journos. They came up with the darnedest things, and really held back progress. It's amazing what people would believe in those days, with no layers of proofreading or editorship. And there was just zero co-operation with the policy board. We call it The Unsustainable Age." 

190 188 He was Cartman as an adult.

Sort of.

Posted by: eman at February 13, 2010 06:06 PM (4tixt)

maaaaaaaahm we need moar hot pahkets!

191 One good thing that could come from the Amy Bishop murdering spree is Bill Delahunt might get his ass fried.

192 Looks like the 'Bama mama's family has a long history of being in the dark corner as most Harvard families have down deep, look who they elected!

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 13, 2010 06:05 PM (Iyz0f)

She was trying to fit in with the local culture.

193 Don't forget big fat sis is watching us now, ohhh sorry big sis, but fark you very much anyway skank!

194

I'd like to witness the thought process involved in crafting this "policy." I mean, what the fuck could be going through your head when this idea appeared?

It must have been a post-ejaculation utterance.

 

On second thought, I rescind my statement about "witnessing the thought process."

195 This idea gives me a woody I haven't had in years.

Just imagine me then;  Charles Johnson, Internet Meter Maid

196 191,

Hotttttttttttt Paaaaaaackets!

197 FUBAR, it's the water here, really it does something to people's heads. That's why I stick to booze.

198 198,

Good idea.

199 I'd like to witness the thought process involved in crafting this "policy." I mean, what the fuck could be going through your head when this idea appeared?

Yeah, we were there you stupid git.  Dammit, we've already issued a fatwa against you.  That's it!  Double-secret fatwa for you!

200 Have the Chineeeeeeeeeeeese and Iranian dumbfucks taken over for these intellectuals??

201 it's the water here, really it does something to people's heads. That's why I stick to booze.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 13, 2010 06:10 PM (RZ8pf)

I'm thinking the weather.  It makes everybody miserable and suicidal, and they can't walk a block without taking a shot of really, really strong coffee.  When I was there, it rained 33 straight days.  I'm from the South.  I NEED sunlight.

202 The first control freak , Zag Johnson, was born in 50,000 B.C. He spoke up at a Clan meeting one day and said too many people have spears and only people with a spear license should have and use one. Moments later his legs were broken and he was left to the hyenas. One thousand years later the second control freak was born and one day he spoke up at a Clan meeting and said the same thing. This time the man was allowed to live. Here we are today.

203 The wingnuts on the Right are getting hysterical over this nontroversy. It's just a reasonable means to keep the haters and mouth breathing denialists off the net while us smart and reasonable sane people hold a conversation on how to save the planet.

If you find yourself with free time after we kick you off the internet, we have some vegetable gardens that need tending. Remember, "arbeit macht frei"

204 Temp. in the 30's every night for the next week after the big shiny light in the sky goes out every night for the rest of the week here in cajunland dammit, these dildos are just too much! I wish the most harm on them as possible for being stupid!

205

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to try to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices. It is also, sometimes, disparagingly described as Digital Restrictions Management. The term is used to describe any technology which inhibits uses (legitimate or otherwise) of digital content that were not desired or foreseen by the content provider. The term generally doesn't refer to other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles It can also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices.

So this guy is in charge of this at Microsoft. He wants to make Microsoft emperor of the world and I suppose, doesn't see or doesn't care about how this idea would be used by the nefarious marxists.

206 The first control freak , Zag Johnson, was born in 50,000 B.C.

He spoke up at a Clan meeting one day and said too many people have spears and only people with a spear license should have and use one.

Moments later his legs were broken and he was left to the hyenas.

One thousand years later the second control freak was born and one day he spoke up at a Clan meeting and said the same thing.

This time the man was allowed to live.

Here we are today.

Posted by: eman at February 13, 2010 06:19 PM (4tixt)

Aha!  I knew those damned Ku Klux Klan racists were behind it all!

207 The Alabama shooting case is getting weirder and weirder. I hope she talks aboot(Canadian) all her shootings over the years.

208 I'd normally say that a position put forth like this would be cause to dump Windows and flock to the Mac

Except that Steve Jobs is a loyal lefty and probably loves this idea too.

209

Yeah, we were there you stupid git.  Dammit, we've already issued a fatwa against you.  That's it!  Double-secret fatwa for you!

Posted by: Judean People's Front at February 13, 2010 06:12 PM

 

Splitter!!!

 

210 if you can plug in and power up a computer to the point where its connected to the internet, you've already accomplished far more in terms of "demonstrating competence" than is required to ummm....VOTE.

I think Stella just got her groove back!!

211 You know the routine
Move away from the keyboard,
Bend over & Spread em,
prepare for assimilation,
Obama's in charge.

212 Not truly OT: From Phil Jones via Newsbusters, "In a lengthy Q&A published at BBC.com Saturday, Jones also said: the recent warming trend that began in 1975 is not at all different than two other planetary warming phases since 1850; there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995, and; it is possible the Medieval Warm Period was indeed a global phenomenon thereby making the temperatures seen in the latter part of the 20th century by no means unprecedented." AGW is melting fast.

213

Put your hands on the computer desk and empty out your pockets !

214 I hardly think that food stamps or the crack dealer next doh is going to pay for their licenses and Gorebal fogettaboutit, he's freezing his fat ass off and crying.

215 Gorbals newly installed solar panels prolly caved in by now!

216 there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995

So it IS warming, you stupid inbred cousin-humping ignorant fascists!!!

217 178 They don't need a 100% compliance, they only need 90% and how many people are really going to know how to evade the electronic gatekeepers?

How does one learn how to use, clean and store a gun? You just learn to do it, you educate yourself. Even getting 90% compliance will not be easy. But consider... 10% of a nation 300 million strong is 30 million. You can be one of that 10%. No one has to take this sitting down.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 13, 2010 06:00 PM (LSqh5)

You're fooling yourself.  First of all, maintaining a weapon is like riding a bike.  Once you learn how to do it you know it forever.  To stay ahead of the internet police you would have to constantly study to learn new tricks.  I don't think 10% could do it, probably less than 1 in 20 could if they tried. 

218 218,

Amen!

219 Took a pass on cooking today bought a bucket of KefffingC grilled chicken today, I luuuuves some barnyard pimp!

220 They call it chook in OZ.

221 I know this is sorta nerdy but this reminds me of the Stamp Act but worse.

222 To stay ahead of the internet police you would have to constantly study to learn new tricks.  I don't think 10% could do it, probably less than 1 in 20 could if they tried.

Holeee Shit!!  A whole new shtick!  Internet Predator II!!

223

It would take a lot of effort to get out in front of this and stay there, forever.

Eventually you would screw up and get caught (and be prosecuted with the same vigor child pornographers are because people like YOU allow evil to happen - don't be surprised if a few terms get redefined in the popular culture along the way to make your prosecution seem reasonable) or you'd just get tired and give up and comply.

224 222,

Reminds me of a bunch of libtards that I despise with my whole being to include my weapons!

225 ...bought a bucket of KefffingC grilled chicken today...

NG, how is the grilled stuff?  I can't break my habit of Original Recipe....

226 226,

I hate that original stuff, why I never went there at all, but this grilled is just perfect!

227 Check out the "johhny Weir" fur flamboyant controversy. Highly amusing. Scarves everywhere.

228

remember when we were trying to figure out if Obama and fellow travelers were communists, socialists or statists> did we ever figure it out?

gps- cell phone for gvt, eeze, U.N. given rights here, licensing  to make all your internet experiences awesome as hell, Interpol, joe the plumber?

did anyone ever read  Obama's "The  Global Poverty Act" his piece of legislation in 2007

229

 Extortionate and confiscatory taxes wherever they turn on virtually everything they earn, purchase, or do, from the local level on up to the federal level;
• Myriad regulations, controls and arbitrary rules that hamper or obstruct their productivity and their lives;
• Footing the endless bills of earmarked pork barrel projects at home in the amount of billions;
• Footing the bill in the amount of the billions for bottomless altruist and "humanitarian" pork barrel projects abroad;
• Footing the bill for an ever-expanding and ever more costly welfare state to subsidize the ill, the retired, the aged, the young, etc.
• Being held hostage by, say, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and other hostile "oil-producing" countries, because our government has decided that snail darters, sea cows, and caribou have a greater right to live than have human beings;
• Paying more for food because mandated ethanol, which reports prove costs more in oil to produce than it "saves," in the gas they buy is taking more crop acreage out of production

@Capitalism Magazine april 2008

230 O/T the skanky prof who shot her co-workers yesterday in Alabama killed her brother 24 years ago and it was broomed by a Mass DA. His name is Delahunt and is now a sitting congressman, he needs to be shown the door.

231 http://tinyurl.com/4vh255 to capital mag

232 229 I don't know but that John Drew interview gave pretty good evidence that he was a marxist leninist whose hero now is John Doyle--or Boyle--a redistributionist. Drew also said that his favorite professor, a marxist, Boocher (not sure about the spelling) from Occidental is a visitor at the white house and a marxist. I found the fact that he lived with a rich POKistani who was a jr and sr when Barak was a freshman and sophomore interesting. At the time drew thought they were gay.

233
the grilled chicken is good

but w/o the skin (which is damn tasty!) the pieces seem so small

234 #231

Got a link for that?  I'd like to read the story.

235 You know who I think will have a pretty big problem with all of this ?

This Guy.





Dude...

236

Yeah Chairman Soetoro gets information control without our having any directly elected oversight on this assault on the first amendment.  The internet belongs to the American people it was bought with taxpayer funding and the architecture was built using primarily US funds.  It is simply SMASHING that we are now going to be muzzled by the modern equivalent of the Star Wars cantina.......

Remember kids the PATRIOT ACT was a HUGE assault on the first amendment doesn't anyone else remember the government controlled truth squads that were muzzling Chris Tingle and Olberdork?

 

//moonbat

237 Dude, with a Stasi  government-approved Internet license, I'll be good to go on the Information Highway!   Aaaaaaaaaawesome! 

238

dagny,  i hadn't heard the gey part.

someone dropped this info a couple of days ago

http://tinyurl.com/yjpupsp (newsmax)

Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.

“He was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist

239 You can be one of that 10%. No one has to take this sitting down.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 13, 2010 06:00 PM (LSqh5)

Hey, I don't make the news, I just report it. Most people don't care and will never care. 52% of them voted American Idol into the Presidency DESPITE the fact that everything they needed to know about him was out there.

Without 90% of those sources how do you tell people that Oceana has NOT been at war with Eastasia? They will just give you a funny look and mutter something about tinfoil hats.

240 Link to Gateway Pundit on Bishop  Very weird, and getting more so as time passes.

241 http://tinyurl.com/yaamqum

"News" from AP about health care reform.

242 And Obama can put the DMV in charge of the internet!

243 wow Popcorn, the gun accidently shot her brother 3 times?

244 Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW


Glad to see he was as down with the class struggle then as he is now.


One more thought on the idea of Internet licenses; such a move would probably be the death knell of P2P file sharing (and copyright infringement).  Think Dr. Utopia's Hollywood buddies would be on board?

245 "We start Google bombing in 5 minutes." - Ronnie Raygun

246 I have a hunch the main licensing criteria for Internet usage would be the ability of the average person to pony up mucho $$$. Amazing proposal, from the people that will then turn around and talk about the need for free internet service for the poor.

247 wow Popcorn, the gun accidently shot her brother 3 times?

I am unclear, but I THINK she fired it three times and only one blast hit her brother.  Presumably, the rest went into a wall somewhere.  Would be interesting to have a look at the wall, I guess.

In any case, it does not look much like an accident.  Three shots?  Nope, not from a properly functioning semi-auto.

248 This Bishop thing could nail Delahunt. If so, yummy. Can't stand that dude. Three people murdered because of political pulling in 1986?

249 wow Popcorn, the gun accidently shot her brother 3 times?

Posted by: willow is pe'ode at February 13, 2010 07:00 PM (7FgWm)

It was a triple-barrel shotgun, smartypants.

250
Don't forget it was a relative of Delahunt's who got off Andrew Sullivan for his pot charge.

251

250 wow Popcorn, the gun accidently shot her brother 3 times?

It's even worse, she left the house and tried to carjack people at gunpoint and was apprehended by cops drawing guns.

252 Cockroaches don't like light and the internet shines light on Political, Professor and Science's cockroaches.

253 Triple-barreled shotgun.  Heh. 

254 I think there should be a license for saying stupid shit.

255 Did someone mention Delahunt?  Jules Crittenden linked a Boston Herald article which reports that the GOP is targeting Delahunt's House seat this year.  LINK  

256 It's even worse, she left the house and tried to carjack people at gunpoint and was apprehended by cops drawing guns.

Weird, but hardly surprising.  This is the state that regularly returned Scuba Ted to the Senate even after his short but eventful stint as a submarine commander.

257 Another POS DEM, Delahunt, covering up for a murderess, ending tragically for 6 innocents.

258

"how do you exshpect a cassssshter to tank a blood prinssssh with negative dodge? oh my god oh my god"

Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Meteors, and Buckets of Scorn for the Left at February 13, 2010 06:02 PM

And the next line:

"I'm gonna have a heart attack!"

Yes.  Yes, you are.  Without a doubt.  But can you really blame Warcraft for that?

259
FYI: Did you know Delahunt won his first election by contesting it?

It's true. He demanded a recount and lo! won by a handful of votes.

260 O/T

The documentary "Michael Moore Hates America" is on Hulu.com for free now.

261 POS Delahunt is also in bed with Chavez, in hell he will be his homosexual lover.

262 "how do you exshpect a cassssshter to tank a blood prinssssh with negative dodge? oh my god oh my god"

Hmm, Unclefacts?  That was all just gibberish to me, how is it that you knew what he was talking about?  Inquiring minds want to know.

263 FYI: Did you know Delahunt won his first election by contesting it?

It's true. He demanded a recount and lo! won by a handful of votes.

Posted by: This is Carlton, the doorman at February 13, 2010 07:16 PM (PaMcq)

So now you wingnuts aren't just against science, you're against math too?

264

They can have my keyboard when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.(OK, enough with the Smart Thermostats)

If I wasn't at this computer I'd probably be at a Tea Party organizational meeting, not that the two are mutually exclusive but one takes more time and effort than the other.

Which is it going to be, totalitarian douche suckers?

DO YOU WANT ME AT YOUR DOORSTEP THROWING TWISTY LIGHTBULBS AT THE SIDE OF YOUR OFFICE?

What kind of press would that make?

"Disgruntled Tea Partier Creates Toxic Zone around Representatives Office using Legislatively Mandated New Light Bulbs!!11!!1!

265 Come and get me you totalitarian fuckers.
My fish sticks from my cold dead hands!

266

Obama names U.S. envoy to Muslim world body

Nothing good will come of this.

267 SuperObama brings you broccoli.

268 OT,

This is the freakiest thing I've read in a LONG time.  Think these guys are morons?

http://tinyurl.com/yzfehh7

Can you say bizarre?

269 263 "how do you exshpect a cassssshter to tank a blood prinssssh with negative dodge? oh my god oh my god"

Hmm, Unclefacts?  That was all just gibberish to me, how is it that you knew what he was talking about?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: FUBAR at February 13, 2010 07:18 PM (1fanL)

on advice of counsel, I have decided to invoke my privileges as set forth under the fifth amendment

270 Licenses for internet use seems to be a 1 st amendment problem to me. Isn't the internet just another technology for publishing (the press)?

271 Triple-barreled shotgun.  Heh. 

Posted by: Popcorn at February 13, 2010 07:12 PM (OOehk)

Vindication!!!11!!!1!!  I expect a written apology from you science-hating wingnuts.

272 #37

"Barney Frank excepted.  That is not something I even want to contemplate."

Speak for yourself.

273

Thanks, #273.  And to think I was going to make Indian Butter Chicken on jasmin rice for dinner tonight.

Bleh!

274 271 Licenses for internet use seems to be a 1 st amendment problem to me. Isn't the internet just another technology for publishing (the press)?

Posted by: sj at February 13, 2010 07:28 PM (p9ZXF)

To maintain consistency, we need to enact license requirements for printing presses and writing in general.

FOR THE CHILDREN!

275 Wow - NYT - Dem House Rep Delahunt was District Attorney at teh time of the first Bishop shooting of her brother and coverup of same in 1986

Time to take down another Dem house member, and now.   The police chief at the time defends his actions by saying they turned "the inquiry over to the district attorney" who, at the time, was Delahunt!!!  NYT couldnt get a comment out of his office.

Here's the money quote

“Everything was done that should have been done under the circumstances,” Mr. Polio said in a phone interview. “She was questioned, and then turned over to her mother. The determination was made that we were going to turn the inquiry over to the district attorney.”

The District Attorney at the time was William Delahunt, a Democrat, who is now a Congressman. Messages left for Mr. DelahuntÂ’s spokesman were not immediately returned.

276 There will also be a new minnimum number of posts per day to qualify for teh smart military bloggage.

277 Yeah, cause all those CB radio licenses worked out so well, huh!

278 There will also be a new minnimum number of posts per day to qualify for teh smart military bloggage.

Posted by: Central Scrutinizer - Davos 2.0 edition at February 13, 2010 07:46 PM (RfEaZ)

Also, Double And Triple Posts Will Not Be Tolerated !

279

254 Triple-barreled shotgun.  Heh.

WOW!~WAY COOL!

(Sura 2:29)

280 10 gauge, triple barrels, and case coloring?

Color me intrigued.

Oh, and "bespoke" means "insanely expensive," right?

281 I think they mean more like your license plates than your driving license: a simple, central method of tracking every user.

282 Posted by: Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter at February 13, 2010 07:40 PM (5r0Tz)

Hi, Wingnut-Come-Lately, we've already established my complete innocence of any wrong-doing in this matter.

Good DAY, sir!

283

Wasting Bandwidth, Helps A Soldier In East Asia !

Report Bandwith  Leechers At Your Local Ministry Office.

Oceania Depends on You !

284

Have You Rick-Rolled The Enemies Of Oceania Today ?

285 Yeah, cause all those CB radio licenses worked out so well, huh!

Posted by: Bill R. at February 13, 2010 07:50 PM (EhlQq)

CB's didn't have to log on to broadcast, and things like the Carnivore and NarusInsight software programs didn't exist.

286 Other than the idiot that thought this up, who else supports it?

Here ya go

Not that I support it - just demonstrating that your typical lefty journalist it.

287

2 Girls Are Sharing 1 Cup Right Now And Sacrificing For Their Country.

What Are You Doing Brother ?

288 It's easy to envision the same sort of differentiated structure for the Internet, Mundie said. He didn't get into examples, so here's one of mine. If you want to go to Time.com and read all about what's going on in the world, that's fine. No one needs to know who you are. But if you want to set up a site to accept credit-card donations for earthquake victims in Haiti? Well, you're going to have to show your ID for that.
Here's what I want to know.  What does this stupid bitch have against the Haiti earthquake victims? 

God, do these assholes ever stop to think about consequences?

289 288

2 Girls Are Sharing 1 Cup Right Now And Sacrificing For Their Country.

What Are You Doing Brother ?

Posted by: The Ministry Of Information at February 13, 2010 08:02 PM (t72+4)

gagging?

290 "I look at it this way; if you can plug in and power up a computer to the point where its connected to the internet, you've already accomplished far more in terms of "demonstrating competence" than is required to ummm....VOTE."


Oh god, that's funny, because it is literally true.

291 Here ya go

Not that I support it - just demonstrating that your typical lefty journalist it.

Posted by: chemjeff at February 13, 2010 07:56 PM (Gk/wA)

Some people would sell their soul for a day old twinkie. How do people get that trusting of government?

292 Oh, and "bespoke" means "insanely expensive," right?

Oui.  Special order firearms are wonderful things but not usually found in the hands of Massachusetts teenagers who are angry at their brothers.

293 All your Hobo Teeth and Pelts are Belong to Us!

294 All Harvested Hobo Must Have Gall Bladder Retained!

295 Wanton Waste of Hobo Meat Will NOT Be Tolerated!

296

CB's didn't have to log on to broadcast, and things like the Carnivore and NarusInsight software programs didn't exist.  Posted by: Sharrukin at February 13, 2010 07:56 PM (593B

Umm, yes the CB'ers DID have to "log on".  You were required to broadcast your callsign at the beginning and end of your conversations...

297 ... aaannnnd..   Cue the Lace Wigs!

298 Posted by: TXMarko at February 13, 2010 09:01 PM (KGJlV)

And if you didn't? Could you still broadcast? How much effort would it have taken on their part to find you if you didn't pay your licence fee? That is the issue.

299 #173

1) This is standard for the console industry ever since Nintendo revived it in the mid-80s. You sell the hardware at break even because the big money is in the software. The more machines in the installed base, the more copies of a title can be sold. The consumer preferably (leaving aside things like RROD or the prone to death by overheating PS1) only buys one unit of the console but could potentially buy dozens of games over the platform's lifetime, so limiting the installed base is working against yourself.

Microsoft and Sony pushed hard on the bleeding edge technology, making for very expensive machines that would be too costly at a break-even price. Thus they're sold at a loss. Nintendo avoided this by making the Wii a minor upgrade of their previous generation's hardware (die shrink for lower cost chips at higher clock rate and more RAM added). This meant not supporting HDTV but the bet worked by focusing on the new controller tech instead.

So, Microsoft isn't doing anything out of the ordinary for the console business by losing money on the base hardware.

2) I defy you to find a consumer OS that has had significantly less security hole identified than Windows. It doesn't exist. The difference is that everything other than Windows has such minuscule market share it isn't attractive to malware makers to target those machines. This isn't kids looking for ego boost anymore. It's a big business and the numbers matter.

3) In case you hadn't noticed, the Zune comes in other colors than brown. Nor is Microsoft alone in having a hard shaking Apple's hold on the personal audio player market. I wouldn't buy an iPod. They're overpriced and I detest the ill-behaved iTunes. But fashion matters more than function in the consumer world. The same with DVRs. The brand name TiVo has become synonymous with DVR for most consumers, as if other choices never existed. RePlayTV has better image quality, no encryption of the files, and better options (like a real 100 megabit ethernet port when TiVo only offered USB 1.0) all around but TiVo won on style. Such is life and business.

4) Near total ownership of the OS and productivity application markets? Yeah, I wish I could fail like that. Why don't you ask yourself why, if Microsoft sucks so much, Apple is still in single digits for the PC market and Linux barely merits mention? Apple doesn't want it because it requires doing stuff they find boring and unglamorous, while the Linux crowd doesn't get it when it comes to working with normal humans.


It isn't as though Microsoft doesn't already do a lot of business with the military. There is a fair amount of MS code used at the DOD that exists solely at their behest. But asking Microsoft to take a big loss on a deal like this is hardly a reasonable request. Most contractors have a bad track record just coming in on budget. Being asked for freebies won't fly.

Mundie really blew it on this one. Everybody who has ever worked in IT or just had to be the family tech support guy has had inner fantasies of denying large portions of the population access to computers or use of the internet. The frustration from dealing with people who are willfully ignorant or apparently incapable of learning despite seeming to function well elsewhere in life, that frustration inspires the worst in us. Much as those who have contempt for the average member of the species may be attracted to Marx and leftism, in the belief that elites who know better should run everything.

Living up to a belief in liberty for all is a never-ending test.

300 Just vote them out.  Vote them ALL out.  They have forgotten for whom they work. 

It's our fault.  We haven't properly trained our dogs.

301 #297

That 'callsign' wasn't an official government designation. Burt Reynolds' movie character didn't register with the DMV or FCC as 'the Bandit.' This wasn't ham radio. This was citizen's band. The cost of admission was paid at Radio Shack and nothing more was required.

To put it in modern terms, I don't have to tell the government what SSID I choose to use on my WiFi access point. In fact, there isn't anyone in the government willing to listen, because they don't supervise that stuff. Now, if I wanted to operate in the portion of the spectrum used by cell phone carriers, that would be a different situation. The government will be very interested in coming over to your house, if your neighbors don't beat you to death first.

302

My wife's netbook has a built-in webcam. 

I suppose the next requirement will be to have that camera on at all times, just to record who is posting on the 'net.

Time to resurrect a 60's chant:

"Two Four Six Eight"  Organize and Smash the State"

 

 

303

Some people would sell their soul for a day old twinkie. How do people get that trusting of government?

Oh they don't trust the government.  Not really.  See we raise a shitstorm because we see this as it really is.  These guys would raise a shitstorm if the government was currently controlled by people that get and R after their name.  No the only reason they are trusting is because their fellow travelers are the ones in charge.  Its not government its that they feel they are in the protected class and won't have any problem because they are 100% in agreement with the guys.

304 That 'callsign' wasn't an official government designation. Burt Reynolds' movie character didn't register with the DMV or FCC as 'the Bandit.' This wasn't ham radio. This was citizen's band. The cost of admission was paid at Radio Shack and nothing more was required.

Actually, that is not correct.  Currently, there are no registration requirements for Citizens Band transmissions.  Back in the '70s, registration with the FCC was required.  While the FCC was not going to try to track down folks who had not registered, it was an extra charge to lay onto those who chose to operate pirate radio and Linear amps on CB frequencies.

305

@169

That Paperclippy thingy is so annoying.....

306 Hmmmm.

The day is rapidly approaching when twits like these, advocates for licences on the internet, are put up against a wall during the Revolution.

To say I'm sick of the nanny-staters and the totalitarian wanna-bes is beyond repetitive.

307 epobirs #300 -- This is typical hard Left Microsoft BS. The rot comes from the top. Bill the Gates funded Bill Ayers brother project in the Berkeley School system for ten years, spending about $250 million -- all of it for racial studies, trips to Cuba, racial separatism, etc. Bill Gates is as hard left as James Cameron or Lachlan Murdoch, and for the same reasons: rich people HATE ordinary people, who "don't mind their betters." Windows 7 is a piece of crap, which you cannot upgrade from XP. It is a memory hog, prone to frequent crashes, and does not work with older XP-based drivers. IE which ships with it has so many (unpatched) security holes you could drive a train through it, and Garnter recommends users dump it for something else. Meanwhile, Ubuntu Linux is pretty easy to download and install, most laptops work out of the box or at most require a minor adjustment found in support forums, which is more than what you'll get if you add a peripheral in Windoze. You can get away with half the memory requirements, and the apps are free -- some bad, some good, and some world-class. There are other variants of Linux like Mint OS that are nearly as easy to use and install. If you can follow a recipe on Food Network, you can install and use Linux. Craig Mundie needs to be made an example of. There needs to be an organized effort to find out all the damaging information on him, publicize it, and demand Microsoft FIRE HIM so as to deter others from putting this forward. Guaranteed, if Mundie is not fired, he'll just push it harder.

308 Geeze, people, lighten up!

All they're asking for is a quick proof of the Riemann Hypothesis...

309 #309, I'm running Win 7 Ultimate for the last couple months, an upgrade from Vista after a hard drive failure (fuck Seagate!), and it's at least a fuckload better than Vista.

310 So, there would be a literacy test? That's rich.

311 How surprising that this would come from a company that already has its own "Passport" system. I don't think they call it Passport anymore, but if you have a Hotmail or Xbox Live account, that's Passport.

312 Apparently Craig Mundie is the slimy little communist shit, twinkle-toed cocksucker down here who just signed his own death warrant.

Any takers for the execution of sentence?

313 Hey if we get kicked off the net a lot of us will probably just become hackers and get right back on with NO further respect for any illusion of networking -security. The internet will probably ALWAYS be ruled by chaotic pricks but if we all work together really hard to make it restrictive or expensive, THEN it can be ruled by ANGRY DESTRUCTIVE chaotic pricks who rightfully do not give a fuck about anything (except who they want to screw with today).