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Comment Re:I don't believe it (Score 2, Interesting) 758

That's why I am basically a libertarian in outlook. I don't want help from the public, and really kind of resent being made to support people who should be doing for themselves. I'm fine with some programs to help the old, sick, or infirm... but demmit get off your ass and do something if you can.

And I say this after being unemployed, living hand-to-mouth, and refusing to take benefits.

Life can suck, get a fucking helmet and get to work! And after the hard times comes good times!

Comment Re:IP6 addresses are a pain (Score 3, Interesting) 327

Seriously, it sounds like SOMEONE can't convert between decimal and hex.

The addresses are easy once you get even slightly used to them, and once you memorize your /48 or /64 prefix is no more difficult than v4. 2001:123:45:67::2E/64 isn't hard. [2001:0123:0045:0067:0000:0000:0000:002E]. I have memorized our /48 and our usual scheme is to split it into /64s that then match the 3rd octet of our 192.168.x.x private range...so for example, I'd set up a host that is on 192.168.16.5 as 2001:123:45:10::5/64.

Or even better... just let the router on the subnet autoconfigure the hosts, or setup DHCPv6 on a server.

(Ocourse the 2001:123:45 addresses are totally made-up and fictitious... no need to give my real-world v6 netblocks on here!)

Comment Simple Fix (Score 2, Interesting) 592

Wouldn't a simple fix for the countries involved just be to impose a tarrif on the importation of the "IP Rights"? Just set it to be equal to taxes on profits, and the problem is solved. So, FB UK doesn't make a paper profit of, say, 3 billion because their revenues of 3.2 billion are offset by "IP Licensing Costs" of 3 billion - just tax the importation of the right and collect the same amount as you would if they didn't try the shifting.

 

Comment Immunity (Score 1) 1013

The reason why the PLCAA was passed was to prevent executive agencies from attempting to implement their own de-facto gun control via regulation, and to shut down a spate of lawsuits by a couple of states Attorneys General who were attempting to do the same thing via litigation on cases that had little to no basis in law, but were so costly that the manufacturers would have to "cave in" and settle.

As for the other features, they all suffer from a glaring weakness in that it is trivially easy to bypass them in one way or another. Let's keep in mind that firearms are, at their core, just a pipe with a relatively simple mechanism behind it to smack a pin into the back of a cartridge. Even autoloading mechanisms only have a few parts, and it is physically impossible to prevent someone from disassembling the weapon and jamming the mechanism into a permanent "fire" mode with a drop of glue, a small screw, or even by just taking some lever out. All that it really would do is add cost and reduce reliability.

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