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nicki_easy

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About nicki_easy

I'm an ex-pat American currently working mainly as a translator, but I think I fell into this line of work primarily so that I could spend all day making love to the Internet. Perhaps I should join you in making it.

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    Comment #3477186

    "Crime."

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    Comment #3470714

    Fair enough. I'm new to posting here and being up-/downvoted; I usually just lurk.

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    Comment #3467116

    Hugging that comment gets hated? I guess I could have expanded.

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    Comment #3466949

    Thanks. I agree.

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    Comment #3465907

    She ;) I think the whole thing is disgusting and wrong. And I think that she was railroaded off because of the views she expressed post-sentencing--they were trying to make an exam…

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    Comment #3465518

    But she didn't say "fuck you" to the judge. She recognized that the judge had been lenient and was thankful: "I know it is ridiculous that I'm going away at all... I know, and I kn…

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    Comment #3465492

    So do you think her common sense should have told her to keep her mouth shut? As an idealistic young American with no experience with the justice system and a firm belief that what…

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    Comment #3464862

    Here is Hana's personal response to the judge: "Your Honor, Firstly, please let me apologize for my use of foul language in the documents that you will see before you. The idea of …

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    Comment #3464403

    Yes, but does Neil H. MacBride or anyone working in his office have a lick of common sense? It seems like people so unable to see things in proper perspective should be prohibited …

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    Comment #3464327

    There's a small screenshot here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/151547/4_sites_to_find_and_wa... And some waybacks but they don't really show it as it was: http://wayback.archive.o…

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    Comment #3464265

    Brad Burnham said something recently that encapsulated it perfectly for me: "I believe that downloaders are making a moral calculation and coming to the conclusion that the content…

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    Comment #3464207

    Is that germane? "[A] decision of the United States Supreme Court rejecting the First Amendment right of prisoners to provide legal assistance to other prisoners." She was sentence…

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    Comment #3464196

    I did, yes. Also this one: http://prospect.org/article/ninja-our-sites And this one: http://torrentfreak.com/ninjavideo-founder-sentenced-to-22-m... And this one: http://www.app.co…

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    Comment #3464071

    RIP free speech.

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    Comment #3389030

    I had an idea, but I don't know who to pitch it to or if it's good or bad or has already been done. It's unfortunate, but our political process is coin operated--this is even more …

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    Comment #3181708

    Here's the most popular petition to take the petitions seriously: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/take-petiti...

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    Comment #3181697

    I've been utterly disappointed at the handful of official responses so far ( http://blog.norml.org/2011/10/29/white-house-response-to-nor... ), but it's worthwhile giving it a shot…

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    Comment #3163609

    This doesn't seem to be all that uncommon here; I've read several similar stories--a couple of months ago I read that a woman had been robbed of a bag containing about 40 grand and…

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    Comment #3162781

    If you were an Internet start-up trying to solve Barcelona's rampant thievery epidemic, what kind of start-up would you be?

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    Comment #2904183

    Yes. This is the problem for me. The only description of arrays is what I've pasted above from the lesson. I'd never heard of them before and all I currently know about them is tha…

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    Comment #2903108

    I am no one's girlfriend, and I am stuck on lesson five :P I think that if this is aimed at beginners it needs to be dumbed down more--I am a reasonably intelligent absolute beginn…