You're not a PLAGIARIZER, you're a NEWSER

We've been hearing about Russia "hacking" the USA election, and helping idiots to vote for Trump. Who had the latest news? Oh, some cut-and-paste cheap-ass website called NEWSER.

The first thing that came up in getting the latest on the "hacking" story (and you can bet they paid for the placement) was the NEWSER site.

Like other Millennial-prick websites such as Gawker, and Decider and the others that simply add "ER" at the end of a word, NEWSER merely TAKES what other reporters have researched, and digests it.

This isn't PLAGIARISM? No, NEWSER gives a "credit" to the sources. Legally that's all you need for "fair use." Christ only knows, you can go to the bank and deposit "credit." You can go to the supermarket and pay for food by saying, "NEWSWER quoted me. They don't pay me, and they take away from MY newspaper website traffic, but...can I have a loaf of bread?"

Yes, yes, VERY clever, the way some twat at NEWSER gets paid to read the work of real reporters and "digest" it and upchuck it like a mother bird feeding her stupid birdbrain hatchlings.

Sad but true, Millennials ARE hatchlings. They don't know any better, and whoever pays GOOGLE the placement money gets the spoils.

Corruption is so common now (like piracy) that nobody's concerned about ethics. So what. Let Newser and Decider and Huffity-Puffity do what they want. Let blogs be masked by domain names and palmed off as legit sources, too. Everybody likes FREE, so accept it as THE NEW PARADIGM.

We accept a certain amount of insect parts in peanut butter, a certain acceptable level of filth for a health inspector to still give a restaurant an A rating, and businesses "allow for shrinkage" from shoplifters or their own employees. So what. Rules are STUPID. The speed limit is 55 mph and everybody goes 70, and maybe 1 in 5,000 gets a ticket. And that's only if the cops have to maintain a quota.

As to the dithering over Russian hacking, well, we know the Internet by now, don't we? Unless you're a stupid Polish person (I know, STUPID and POLISH is a redundancy) you're not gonna get caught or prosecuted for running a Kickass torrent. In fact, if you're a big fat clever German, you can STILL be considered a hero and hide your millions and thumb your nose as you plod through the courts fighting extradition. Right, MR. DOTCOM? And if you're a really clever slimeball, you just hide in a banana republic's embassy till your rape victims die of old age or your country declares that the statute of limitations has been reached.

People like to smirk and be "sophisticated" about corruption. It's cool. It's daring. It's urbane.

I guess the "inconvenient truth" is that hacking, identify theft, and Zinfart's merry 10 years of thievery, don't matter to people, any more than birds pecking shit off a rhino's back or sucker fish hooking under a shark and eating the bits of flesh the shark drools.

It's like bureaucracy in government. We're used to it. So we accept it. "Your insurance is now FUCKED UP. Be prepared to spend days/weeks trying to get back to where you once belonged, JoJo." "Oh, OK. I'll go wander around in your maze, and jump through the hoops. No point expecting my elected officials to do much to help me or CHANGE ANYTHING."

PS, there's a law in the USA that makes it illegal to sell or distribute porn without a model release. Try and get it enforced. Ha ha ho ho hee hee. It's like expecting the FBI to take those warnings on DVDs seriously: "Duplication is punishable by a fine or imprisonment." Oh? "Hey, FBI, look at that website full of free downloads. Look at this eBay schmuck selling bootleg copies." "Eh, not our problem. Tell the rights owner to hire a lawyer and sue."

What if Putin DID hack emails and even found a way to tamper with voting tallies? Nobody's gonna prosecute HIM or go to war with HIM. Better to ignore it. What, find a way to stop this cyber-abuse? Nah, it can't be done, and besides, "monopoly is so much fun I'd hate to blow the game." Trump, president elect, turns away from any talk about Putin being evil. Professional courtesy.

And it really wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends.

"Maverick" Senator McCain will complain and complain and make speeches, and then figure, ok, I'm on record, now I can go do something else. At one time he was insisting he was going to create a USA boxing commission to battle the corrupt banana republic monkeys and underworld thugs who lead the so-called "sanctioned" boxing associations that hand out championship belts. He was going to end corruption and unify boxing rules and safety measures. This got him airtime on boxing broadcasts which increased his visibility (I'd never heard of him before that). But did anything happened? Yes. He got publicity. That was it.

He's getting publicity now. Nothing will come of any whining about Putin. And the Wikileaks assholes still do as they please, and Assange still isn't in jail and is still running his mouth. And Zinfart is still keeping up his senile hobby of putting his smelly name on password downloads and thinking he's a star.