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You can get the rundown over at TorrentFreak, but here’s the skinny: Judges aren’t seeing through the bull crap of copyright holders trying to nab people that are INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!

Case in point:  February I went through numerous issues with my internet after installation, which a month later was actually found to be THEIR FAULT: poor installation followed by incompetent technicians…a single fitting had to be removed that was installed years ago.

Trust me, I’ve worked with fittings, taps and dies, and numerous connectors. THAT shouldn’t have happened!

During the month of me following directions, I did everything possible since I was getting the polite blame shift games:  translation:  my resetting of my modem resulted in my network being wide open.

Two days later I got an email from the provider that my IP had been sharing a movie, all kinds of sensitivity talk…but it made me wonder, “Did they provide my information to the accuser?”

Don’t know and don’t care now.  Before reading the linked story MY concern was MY home being searched, which is a major issue since I work maintain/store confidential medical information on external hard drives.  I mean if they could manage a search warrant ‘IN’ my house, ANYTHING is subject to scrutiny then…which could result in a potential HIPPA violation, regardless what anyone says.

So yeah, the recent judgment and position of the mentioned judge and his peers:  good for you!

I chalk this up to being “something for someone who you think has everything but you really can’t admit you don’t know JACK about them”.

I first caught this posted on a friend’s blog and thought it ‘might’ actually be something remarkable.  Alas, I was wrong.  What it makes me understand is that the internet is just being used as another marketing tool for billions of suckers needing to unjustly be taxed so society can do something better with their money than they ever could.

How many useless things does this remind you of you’ve seen on the internet?

First and foremost I want to impress on any reader: I have YET to find ANY app able to read decently ANY bar coding.

The reason?  The companies I’ve gotten apps from using ‘bar code’ reading seem to work find on iPhones, because the differences in the cameras compared to iPod Touch 4th Generation.

This however was hilarious.  A guy reading a bar code on a pack of cigarettes and it identified as an Apple accessory.

EPIC FAIL

When I was growing up as a kid the Amish didn’t have gazebos for sale, mainly because we didn’t have the internet back then.  Pretty much they kept to selling quilts at the local Farmer’s Market or a County Road stand at the entrance route to their cloister.

One family in particular that comes to mind developed a friendship with a farmer a few acres from my parents home.  Each Saturday the couple would put their two children in the buggy and horse off in our direction.  Turns out the husband had a hankering for ice cream as much as the farmer enjoyed the homemade peach pies the wife brought along.

I haven’t gone back home to the old stomping grounds, but I’d like to think that in these fast times after Y2K, there’s still some slow moving vehicles whose engines drop waste on the side of the road.