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God I hate basically everything about ATL airport.

http://imgur.com/gallery/GtGp0tY Actually this is why paleontologists *should* play computer games. FTFY. h/t Anna O Morgenstern

J. D. Obenberger is the attorney who helped racist censor Olivier Janssens attack the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) with a bogus DMCA takedown notice, for accurately reporting the racist comments that he made in a public forum on Facebook. (See the bogus complaint e-mail that J. D. Obenberger sent to C4SS’s web hosting company here: \u003Chttp://pastebin.com/CxD9UsPj>. In case you’re wondering, J.D. Obenberger is very familiar with the aggressive use of bogus DMCA takedowns to suppress speech. He’s a professional porn attorney, whose practice does most of its work defending adult entertainment websites and helping them to attack “pirates” accused of copying their copyrighted images and videos. In this article he actually brags about the ability to use DMCA takedowns to get his way through extralegal intimidation, even when he knows he doesn’t have a case. http://www.xxxlaw.com/articles/4secrets.html Here are some choice bits, quoted under terms of fair use for the purpose of commentary and criticism: “Most US pirating boards are ashamed of what they do and live in fear of liability; US hosting companies are also pretty worried because they have a lot invested – and many of them don’t require any formality to effect a takedown. If you write the request for a takedown on a leaf of stale cabbage in magic marker, without stating any reason or offering any proof or affidavit pursuant to the DMCA, and transmit it by a casual, friendly courier, who works a garbage truck route running past their office and offers to drop it off for you, most of them will take it down fairly immediately, within hours, because they are more afraid of you and your attorneys than they are of the posters.” – J. D. Obenberger, Attorney at Law. “. . . The second dirty little secret is that a very tiny number of the videos released via the Internet are ever registered with the Library of Congress. You have no legal right to maintain any lawsuit for infringement on the basis of an unregistered copyright. Period. (Look at Section 411(a) of the Copyright Act.) While your copyright theoretically exists in US law and under the Berne Convention from the time that it is first reduced to a tangible medium (there are exceptions allowing preregistration of things that are first fixed at the time of transmission, like the 6pm Network News and Trailer Park Sally’s webcam show), it is a hollow and illusory right upon which no lawsuit can be maintained until you’ve registered it. On the motion of the defendant, it will be dismissed without prejudice.” – J. D. Obenberger, Attorney at Law. The racist Janssen’s copyright-thug attorney Obenberger openly discusses the utility of abusing legal processes and directing over-aggressive DCMA notices for the purpose of intimidating hosting companies into yanking content without due process. In this case he submitted a DMCA takedown notice in a case where he knows that his client has “no legal right to maintain any lawsuit,” nothing at all but “a hollow and illusory right upon which no lawsuit can be maintained.” Because, as he knows, skittish web hosts will jump at the noise and censor websites even though they have done nothing actionable and nothing wrong. Obenberger ought to be ashamed of himself for facilitating this kind of censorship, and Olivier Janssens ought to be ashamed of himself for stooping to enlist it in the effort to cover up his racist tirades.

Thanks to Roderick Tracy Long for the example. Here’s an argument. I maintain that it is deductively valid, and so if all of its premises are true, then the conclusion must be true. 1. This argument is a valid argument. (Pr.) 2. This argument has all true premises. (Pr.) 3. The conclusion of this argument is: “Mitt Romney actually won the election, and is now President of the United States.” (Pr.) 4. If an argument is a valid argument and has all true premises, then the argument is sound. (Pr.) 5. All sound arguments have true conclusions. (Pr.) 6. If the sentence “Mitt Romney actually won the election, and is now President of the United States” is true, then Mitt Romney actually won the election, and is now President of the United States. (Pr.) 7. This argument is a valid argument and this argument has all true premises. (Conj. 1,2) 8. This argument is a sound argument. (MP 4, 7) 9. If this argument is a sound argument, this argument has a true conclusion. (UI 5, 9) 10. This argument has a true conclusion. (MP 9, 8) 11. The sentence “Mitt Romney actually won the election, and is now President of the United States” is true. (Subst. 10, 3) 12. Mitt Romney actually won the election, and is now President of the United States. (MP 6, 11) QED. If the argument is sound, then the conclusion has to be true. If the argument is deductively valid, but the conclusion is not true, then at least one of the premises has to be false. But which premise is the false premise? And why is it false?

c4ss.org is going back on the air soon. (When exactly depends on your DNS cache.)

http://www.change.org/petitions/limestone-county-board-of-education-allow-same-sex-couples-to-attend-leadout-and-prom-together?utm_campaign=new_signature&utm_medium=email&utm_source=signature_receipt#share “Limestone County Board of Education: Allow same-sex couples to attend leadout and prom together. Petition by Katie Mims, Ardmore, AL, United States.” Of course same-sex couples should be able to attend prom together. (Ardmore is a little town about 4 hours from here, up north near Huntsville.)

I have preserved a copy of the S4SS post that Olivier Janssens and his lawyer are trying to censor Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) for truthfully reporting. Please consider doing the same on your Facebook page or website. http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/09/23/c4ss-under-attack/ #SwarmAndTakeOver #NaziPunksFuckOff

From William Gillis, re: Olivier Janssen’s attempt to use #copyfascism to attack Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) and Students for a Stateless Society’s websites for outing him and his racist buddies: “I hate two things more than anything else in the universe: Racists and proponents of Intellectual Property. The Center for a Stateless Society recently outed a gaggle of racist/neonazi students at the University of Ghent attempting to coop a chapter of our student federation… So they DMCAed our webhost and knocked offline our site for the copyright infringement of QUOTING their racist facebook quotes.” #NaziPunksFuckOff

The Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) and Students for a Stateless Society websites are currently under legal attack by Olivier Janssens for truthfully reporting the man’s own words about Muslims and immigrants. Specifically, when he said, on Facebook: “HHH [*] has the balls to say that, thanks to our welfare state, our genetic pool is fucked. Exactly my thoughts. The only reason the Muslim parasite [sic] can breed at a 10 times faster pace than us. Totally love this guy.” [* Ed. Hans Herman Hoppe.] Olivier Janssens is a bigot, a bully, and now would like to add “censor” to his list of credentials, with a lawyer e-mailing legal threats and spurious takedown notices to C4SS and S4SS’s web host. #NaziPunksFuckOff http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AIBOUcbrDLioJ%3As4ss.org%2F470%2Fs4ss-ugent-not-anarchists-or-comrades

Here is a Google Cache copy of the S4SS post that the racist fuck Olivier Janssens and his lawyer are attempting to censor with a spurious copyright notice: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IBOUcbrDLioJ:s4ss.org/470/s4ss-ugent-not-anarchists-or-comrades