I find it rather amusing that a IP built around the idea of 'fully automated luxury communism' in space has to rely so heavily on intellectual propriety law.
Just kidding... there's nothing amusing about communism, even in a fiction.
Yeah, I did watch it... and I regret doing so as I will never get those hours of my life back. They basically just strip-minded the older serious' for troupes and glued it all together with some of the worst writing I've seen in any science fiction show to date. There's just no real excuse for Discovery... it's just bad.
For one thing, I don't use Apple products at all. But more than that, I find the smart watch concept utterly pointless as a whole. What little they can do, I can do with my smart phone alone. Theoretically the health monitoring functions might be of some use, but not nearly enough to spend the money on one.
Well to me I don't think this really has much to do with DD themselves, but reversing the Obama Administrations attempt to use ITAR to block the sharing of information on personal arms fabrication. When you really look at it objectively most of the design Wilson releases weren't really worth much. But the legal precedence he helped establish could very well be used by others to produce more serviceable weapons. Perhaps something like what you could see in those old 'Paladin Press' books that have been floating around for yeas. Or perhaps something like some of the guns that Royal Nonesuc, over on YouTube, was making.
Well I was referring to the 21 AGs that are trying to shut down his group with a new lawsuit specially. But that said the city of Austen has a reputation for being pretty 'blue', which is where this supposedly happened. So if you wanted to delve into conspiracy theory you could look it at that way.
Well I don't disagree with what you're saying, but ultimately Cody did do something really stupid and put himself out there.
I'm a pretty solid constitutional, so I do support his case. But Wilson's always had a somewhat well deserved reputation for having a real big ego. And in doing so he left himself open for this kind of attack, not to mention that he was on a rather scuzzy looking website to begin with. That was just flat out a damn stupid thing that he did.
While the person the interviewed for this article is right in saying that Cody Wilson is the 'face' of his group, he was far from the driving force behind it. In fact Defense Distributed wasn't really even the driving force behind his recent judicial win against the DOJ. He had major backing from multiple pro second amendment groups, most notifiable the Second Amendment Foundation. Which is the same advocacy group that provided a lot of the legal aid legal muscle behind both the Heller and McDonald SCOTUS decisions. While the SAF certainly isn't going to front the bill for Cody's legal defense over this case, they're not likely to complete abandon the fight against the 21 totalitarian AGs that are trying to use a really shitty 10th amendment argument to shut down the distribution of those 3D printable firearms designs.
Looking at this case Cody Wilson himself is probably screwed, but his arguments for the first and second amendment aren't simple going to disappear with him.
No, this entire thing stinks of a set up. This is not to say that he didn't do what they claim. But it does look like a set up that he just walked into.
If nothing else, this proves that if you're going to be activist, you have to be aware that those that appose you are going to use any dirty trick they can to shut you down. And if you do something stupid your enemies are going to jump on your.
Well, to be fair, the Federal Government has always had a tendency to be overly militarized in their duties of law enforcement. Don't forget, during the Obama Administration the FBI launched a full SWAT team raid on Gibson Guitars searching for illegal wood. They had imported wood from an endangered species of tree that had been legally harvested from a tree farm in Madagascar, but the letter of the law says you can't use that wood. Even though the law the EPA used for their justification for that raid related to harvesting wild examples of that tree.
But that said, does anyone really believe the Federal government anymore? The same government that said that 'you could keep your plan', that 'there are WMDs in Iraq', and that 'the Russians are hacking everything'?
So let me get this right... The State of California is going to spend tends of millions of tax payer dollars to fabricate and lance a new weather satellite, expend mega tons of CO2 emissions to do so, placed even more space junk into an already crowding upper atmosphere, and lock the tax payers into a plan that will force them to spend millions of rollers to maintain and monitor that satellite... all to repeat the same data collection that NOAA is already doing now. Because Drumpf!!!
Wasn't it called Watch_Dogs? The entire city it was set in (Chicago, I think) was all connected by a giant city owned Wi-Fi network that everyone connected to.
Well being that was only a computer game I'm sure there's no way that it could ever be abused by an authoritarian city government... like one that already has a pretty piss poor track record of respecting people's rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Would Twitter then be guilty of disobeying a federal court?
Perhaps in spirit, but probably not by the letter of the order. The ruling was specially aimed at the president himself. But that said Trump might be able to cite that order if he tried to take Twitter to court if he were to be banned by them.
How can a service like Twitter be a "designated public forum" and be safe from unilateral blocking when the networks it is carried on are the private property of the telecoms on which they can carry whatever traffic that they please?
Hell if I know. You'd probably have to ask Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, the person that made that ruling. Right now social media is trying to have it both ways when it comes to hosting content. They want to be treated like a common carrier when they don't want to be held responsible for content on their networks, but they also want the power to pick and choose what content is on their networks when it goes against their arbitrarily chosen terms of service.
I'll point out that President Trump as already had a federal judge declare that he can't block people on his Twitter feeds. Citing the idea that his account is a "designated public forum" after a number of journalist were blocked from tweeting at him. If that is the case how exactly could Twitter than turn around take that designated public forum away citing their own TOS?
Ultimately I don't know what that court case would look like, but I bet it will turbo charge the argument that social media needs to be regulated like a public unity or a common carrier.
First off I'd point out that Baltimore is a city of about 620,000. Not the biggest city, but it's more than big enough that trying to provide areal over watch to watch the watchers, so to speak, is going to be increasingly expensive. Not to mention the fact of how hard it is going to be to try and use a 'computer program to stitch the photos' of still pictures from 30K feet up in the air. Assuming that's even technologically possible and good enough to be used in a court of law. Not to mention the idea of trying to fly in bad weather or at night, and most digital cameras don't work very well at night, especially when your moving.
No, I think this entire plan was cooked up by some activist group that doesn't have a single clue about what they're talking about. But if they're really concerned about police brutality then I would suggest lobbying the BPD to use mandatory body cameras. That's a far more feasible plan than trying to do areal surveillance of the police. Of course I don't really think they'll go for that... because it turns out that those body cameras sometimes end up being used in court to justify the actions of the police against bad actors. There's been a handful of incidents where someone get's pulled over by the cops, make up a wild story after the fact about police brutality, only to have their claim completely disproves when the body camera footage is released.
A lack of economic diversity is hardly limited to socialist states. Whatever the ideology, the temptation to assume that a boom in any commodity will last forever is a feature of many different kinds of governments
Well I don't disagree with you over the idea that monoculture economies are not limited just to socialist economies. But I'll still argue that this particular form of socialist economy is especially vulnerable to it, due to their lack of flexibility and tendency to just seize privately held business. Especially when they're that corrupt. I'd have to try and find the statistic that even now 60% or 70% of Veinizaul's economy is considered privately owned and they're just not exporting that much to help keep the rest of the economy afloat.
Oil in the ground ultimately isn't really worth that much when you can't extract, process, and ship it. And Venezuela's aging oil infrastructure has been struggling for years now. Case in point this article from Routers that reports that Venezuela's tankers have been banned from some ports because they're so poorly maintained that they leak unacceptable amounts of oil into the local area. https://www.reuters.com/articl...
At the end of the day this really does show one of the weakness of socialist monoculture economies. If the one good you can sell starts too loose value you'll quickly find yourself in a pretty dire situation. Even more so if you're government is both corrupt and too incompetent to modernize your industrial equipment.
Every right is limited against other rights, it's always been that way.
That is true, the problem for your argument is that what Cody Wilson was doing was within the purview of existing federal law on the manufacture of your own firearms. Which is why the federal government ended up just settling the case when they couldn't make an argument against him. They merely laid out some basic rules of what could be created and distributed while they worked on the full text of the new regulations. But that got put on hold again when 20 or so AGs decided to get the ruling reverse using a really flimsy 10th amendment argument. And once again, Wilson used the letter of taht previoous injunction to start releasing those files again.
But that said, it's a safe bet that the original AGs that started this case are going to file a new injunction. We'll see what happens next.
Well that sucks, I would have totally bought one. I mean, I had all the files when the were first realsed years ago. But having that branding drive would be a nice collectors item.
I imagine those a-hole AGs are having a shit-fit while they frantically prepare another case to try and have Cody Wilson shut down again. I'm curios to see what argument they'll make this time.
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I find it rather amusing that a IP built around the idea of 'fully automated luxury communism' in space has to rely so heavily on intellectual propriety law.
Just kidding... there's nothing amusing about communism, even in a fiction.
Yeah, I did watch it... and I regret doing so as I will never get those hours of my life back. They basically just strip-minded the older serious' for troupes and glued it all together with some of the worst writing I've seen in any science fiction show to date. There's just no real excuse for Discovery... it's just bad.
For one thing, I don't use Apple products at all. But more than that, I find the smart watch concept utterly pointless as a whole. What little they can do, I can do with my smart phone alone. Theoretically the health monitoring functions might be of some use, but not nearly enough to spend the money on one.
SLOW your ROLL moron.
Well to me I don't think this really has much to do with DD themselves, but reversing the Obama Administrations attempt to use ITAR to block the sharing of information on personal arms fabrication. When you really look at it objectively most of the design Wilson releases weren't really worth much. But the legal precedence he helped establish could very well be used by others to produce more serviceable weapons. Perhaps something like what you could see in those old 'Paladin Press' books that have been floating around for yeas. Or perhaps something like some of the guns that Royal Nonesuc, over on YouTube, was making.
Yeah post the same slanderous non-argument again. That'll convince people.
Well I was referring to the 21 AGs that are trying to shut down his group with a new lawsuit specially. But that said the city of Austen has a reputation for being pretty 'blue', which is where this supposedly happened. So if you wanted to delve into conspiracy theory you could look it at that way.
CAPSLOCK is cruise control for COOL, amirite?
Slow your roll son, you don't have to make yourself look like a screeching idiot every day.
Well I don't disagree with what you're saying, but ultimately Cody did do something really stupid and put himself out there.
I'm a pretty solid constitutional, so I do support his case. But Wilson's always had a somewhat well deserved reputation for having a real big ego. And in doing so he left himself open for this kind of attack, not to mention that he was on a rather scuzzy looking website to begin with. That was just flat out a damn stupid thing that he did.
While the person the interviewed for this article is right in saying that Cody Wilson is the 'face' of his group, he was far from the driving force behind it. In fact Defense Distributed wasn't really even the driving force behind his recent judicial win against the DOJ. He had major backing from multiple pro second amendment groups, most notifiable the Second Amendment Foundation. Which is the same advocacy group that provided a lot of the legal aid legal muscle behind both the Heller and McDonald SCOTUS decisions. While the SAF certainly isn't going to front the bill for Cody's legal defense over this case, they're not likely to complete abandon the fight against the 21 totalitarian AGs that are trying to use a really shitty 10th amendment argument to shut down the distribution of those 3D printable firearms designs.
Looking at this case Cody Wilson himself is probably screwed, but his arguments for the first and second amendment aren't simple going to disappear with him.
No, this entire thing stinks of a set up. This is not to say that he didn't do what they claim. But it does look like a set up that he just walked into.
If nothing else, this proves that if you're going to be activist, you have to be aware that those that appose you are going to use any dirty trick they can to shut you down. And if you do something stupid your enemies are going to jump on your.
Well, to be fair, the Federal Government has always had a tendency to be overly militarized in their duties of law enforcement. Don't forget, during the Obama Administration the FBI launched a full SWAT team raid on Gibson Guitars searching for illegal wood. They had imported wood from an endangered species of tree that had been legally harvested from a tree farm in Madagascar, but the letter of the law says you can't use that wood. Even though the law the EPA used for their justification for that raid related to harvesting wild examples of that tree.
But that said, does anyone really believe the Federal government anymore? The same government that said that 'you could keep your plan', that 'there are WMDs in Iraq', and that 'the Russians are hacking everything'?
So let me get this right... The State of California is going to spend tends of millions of tax payer dollars to fabricate and lance a new weather satellite, expend mega tons of CO2 emissions to do so, placed even more space junk into an already crowding upper atmosphere, and lock the tax payers into a plan that will force them to spend millions of rollers to maintain and monitor that satellite... all to repeat the same data collection that NOAA is already doing now. Because Drumpf!!!
Is really the plan? Or am I missing something?
Wasn't it called Watch_Dogs? The entire city it was set in (Chicago, I think) was all connected by a giant city owned Wi-Fi network that everyone connected to.
Well being that was only a computer game I'm sure there's no way that it could ever be abused by an authoritarian city government... like one that already has a pretty piss poor track record of respecting people's rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Jerry Smith.
Would Twitter then be guilty of disobeying a federal court?
Perhaps in spirit, but probably not by the letter of the order. The ruling was specially aimed at the president himself. But that said Trump might be able to cite that order if he tried to take Twitter to court if he were to be banned by them.
How can a service like Twitter be a "designated public forum" and be safe from unilateral blocking when the networks it is carried on are the private property of the telecoms on which they can carry whatever traffic that they please?
Hell if I know. You'd probably have to ask Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, the person that made that ruling. Right now social media is trying to have it both ways when it comes to hosting content. They want to be treated like a common carrier when they don't want to be held responsible for content on their networks, but they also want the power to pick and choose what content is on their networks when it goes against their arbitrarily chosen terms of service.
I'll point out that President Trump as already had a federal judge declare that he can't block people on his Twitter feeds. Citing the idea that his account is a "designated public forum" after a number of journalist were blocked from tweeting at him. If that is the case how exactly could Twitter than turn around take that designated public forum away citing their own TOS?
Ultimately I don't know what that court case would look like, but I bet it will turbo charge the argument that social media needs to be regulated like a public unity or a common carrier.
First off I'd point out that Baltimore is a city of about 620,000. Not the biggest city, but it's more than big enough that trying to provide areal over watch to watch the watchers, so to speak, is going to be increasingly expensive. Not to mention the fact of how hard it is going to be to try and use a 'computer program to stitch the photos' of still pictures from 30K feet up in the air. Assuming that's even technologically possible and good enough to be used in a court of law. Not to mention the idea of trying to fly in bad weather or at night, and most digital cameras don't work very well at night, especially when your moving.
No, I think this entire plan was cooked up by some activist group that doesn't have a single clue about what they're talking about. But if they're really concerned about police brutality then I would suggest lobbying the BPD to use mandatory body cameras. That's a far more feasible plan than trying to do areal surveillance of the police. Of course I don't really think they'll go for that... because it turns out that those body cameras sometimes end up being used in court to justify the actions of the police against bad actors. There's been a handful of incidents where someone get's pulled over by the cops, make up a wild story after the fact about police brutality, only to have their claim completely disproves when the body camera footage is released.
Reading over the article it claims that this new update to Google Assistant can understand 6 languages.
A lack of economic diversity is hardly limited to socialist states. Whatever the ideology, the temptation to assume that a boom in any commodity will last forever is a feature of many different kinds of governments
Well I don't disagree with you over the idea that monoculture economies are not limited just to socialist economies. But I'll still argue that this particular form of socialist economy is especially vulnerable to it, due to their lack of flexibility and tendency to just seize privately held business. Especially when they're that corrupt. I'd have to try and find the statistic that even now 60% or 70% of Veinizaul's economy is considered privately owned and they're just not exporting that much to help keep the rest of the economy afloat.
Oil in the ground ultimately isn't really worth that much when you can't extract, process, and ship it. And Venezuela's aging oil infrastructure has been struggling for years now. Case in point this article from Routers that reports that Venezuela's tankers have been banned from some ports because they're so poorly maintained that they leak unacceptable amounts of oil into the local area. https://www.reuters.com/articl...
At the end of the day this really does show one of the weakness of socialist monoculture economies. If the one good you can sell starts too loose value you'll quickly find yourself in a pretty dire situation. Even more so if you're government is both corrupt and too incompetent to modernize your industrial equipment.
Every right is limited against other rights, it's always been that way.
That is true, the problem for your argument is that what Cody Wilson was doing was within the purview of existing federal law on the manufacture of your own firearms. Which is why the federal government ended up just settling the case when they couldn't make an argument against him. They merely laid out some basic rules of what could be created and distributed while they worked on the full text of the new regulations. But that got put on hold again when 20 or so AGs decided to get the ruling reverse using a really flimsy 10th amendment argument. And once again, Wilson used the letter of taht previoous injunction to start releasing those files again.
But that said, it's a safe bet that the original AGs that started this case are going to file a new injunction. We'll see what happens next.
Those were all sold out in seconds.
Well that sucks, I would have totally bought one. I mean, I had all the files when the were first realsed years ago. But having that branding drive would be a nice collectors item.
I imagine those a-hole AGs are having a shit-fit while they frantically prepare another case to try and have Cody Wilson shut down again. I'm curios to see what argument they'll make this time.