I'm not defending ICE's actions. I can't defend the indefensible. But nobody can be like them and claim the moral high-ground. They won't be around in their current form forever. As tough as it is, I recommend we wait them out, and speak out as needed, firmly but non-violently.
It has been accepted since biblical times that we must not suffer the sins of the father on the son. Let's keep that as a north star.
When a new administration comes in and uses the same tactics against those who now cheer such actions and yell "Hooray for our side" will be screaming how unfair it is. All of a sudden, payback makes what seemed like a good idea ta the time wasn't.
Did that happen when Trump 1.0 ended? I don't recall that the Biden administration followed the same playbook that Trump did.
Some Trumpists might say yes, pointing to post-Jan 6 prosecutions for example. Well, legitimate crimes need to be prosecuted, even if the other side cries foul.
The problem is that when one side has truly become corrupt, they frame their opponents as corrupt, especially when they're taken to account later.
The government historically was given the benefit of the doubt regarding whether their pursuit of justice was considered appropriate.
It's called Presumption of Regularity.
Recent filings, and arguments, have shown that there has been a shift in the governments approaches, and the judiciary has taken notice that they can no longer just give the government a pass.
Yup.
No idea what the actual problem was — probably some encrypted communication misconfiguration, channel misconfiguration, stealth mode setting, bad PTT button, or other similar weirdness. And of course, the internal clocks would have drifted by probably several hundred microseconds over the course of the mission because of time dilation, so in the unlikely event that they're using encryption that is ridiculously timing-sensitive, that could also be an issue, but that seems unlikely.
If the problem was misconfigured encryption, wouldn't it have affected communication both ways? The Integrity crew could hear the rescue team, but not the other way around. Look, I have no experience with these radios, so someone who does, please clarify. I have no doubt that everyone trained on these radios (satphones?) and tested them. Be interesting to find out what happened.
In general, I found this mission to be somewhat more -- well, "chill" -- than others. Mostly plain language on technical matters was exchanged between Integrity and the Capcoms instead of lots of jargon. The lunar-terrain observations were amusing because the astronauts obviously trained thoroughly for the task, but it seemed that there was a significant focus on everyone "taking turns" at the windows. It's as though the mission was trying to project a relatable image for the public.
lets face it Microsoft was completely late to the party for any attempt to integrate an assistant at an OS level
Yeah, sorry for reminding you of that.
No, stop again and think about the new thing you just wrote.
Anthropic insisted the DoD follow its terms of service. In response, the DoD blacklisted them and labeled them a "supply chain risk." That is what Anthropic is suing about.
Slippery slope much? Consumers have dealt for decades with terms of service for licensed products that prohibit certain kinds of use. They haven't obliterated private property.
This. Not to mention that Beyond_GoodandEvil is comparing apples to oranges. Citizens United addressed a concern about corporations using their substantial financial resources to influence elections. Whereas Anthropic wants to defend their right to set the parameters of how their product is used -- specifically, no autonomous weapons and no domestic civilian surveillance.
So much widespread corruption so frequent that not only can't the media report on it fast enough (even if they were fully and honestly doing their jobs) it's also so much that it is just like the big lie psychology from the Nazi era -- people can't believe it's possible to be so extreme.
The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit. -- Steve Bannon
Just saturate the news cycle, and any bad news will disappear in 24 hours. That has been Trump's strategy, going back at least to 2017.
Just cave to the DoD when you think you've been wronged by them? Don't go to the courts?
Stop and think about what you just wrote. And consider how un-American it is to just let the government have its way with you.
nealric didn't claim it was every year.
Oops, s/he did. Sorry.
It's every year.
It certainly is not $400 a year like you claimed.
nealric didn't claim it was every year. It is in fact $400 to register an EV in Texas for the first two years. Thereafter, it's $200 per year. pdf alert:
https://www.txdmv.gov/sites/de...
The excise tax on gas is $.20 as you said, but you forgot to include sales tax on top of that.
Texas does not charge a sales tax for gasoline. However, it does collect a federal tax of 18.4 cents. Another pdf:
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tt...
Once you get the math right, the EV tax is comparable and not "absolutely punitive".
Per the second pdf, the math shows that the average driver pays $9.52 per month to the state, or $18.28 per month including federal tax. That comes out to $114.24 per year to the state, or $219.36 including federal tax. So, EV drivers pay more to the state, but ICE drivers pay slightly more overall on average.
I think you're confused. I'm not saying EVs shouldn't be taxed in general. I'm saying they shouldn't be taxed due to the oil crisis. Governments should encourage, not discourage, the use of alternate energy-sources when one of them has supply-chains that are threatened.
And I made no claim that treating EVs (tax-wise) like ICE vehicles is "punitive"(*). But taxing EVs more than ICE vehicles because of the oil crisis certainly seems to be so. But see below...
You make a good point about road taxes, but not much else. The virtue of taxing gas consumption is that at least it correlates somewhat with road use and environmental impact. Perhaps we need something else for EVs, but I can't think of what it could be right now.
(*) please note how it's spelled.
Good points. Execpt for one that confuses me:
8. Punitive taxation on electric vehicles, solar and wind due to the oil crisis.
We may be living in upside-down-world right now, but I can't imagine that even the current government would punish the use of non-oil sources of energy during an oil crisis. Maybe for some other reason, but not "due to" the oil crisis.
The topic was intelligence. Not your false anti-female invective. Take it somewhere else, it's not welcome here.
You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted it!
