The surprise is that didn't happen sooner.

This is a lot of cope. Sorry - there's nothing historically or linguistically accurate about that paper. It uses liberal misinterpretation of the word 'regulated' to infer government control, and grossly over-extends how militias have been regulated and mustered for the 300 odd years prior to the Constitution, and for 150 odd years after. It's doublespeak, a reinterpretation and recast of original intent and meaning.

My guy... have you been on youtube lately?

Ignoring for a moment that militias were actively prosecuted and pushed underground during the 80s/90s/00s, "guntube" quite clearly shows that there are organized and well equipped (how we say 'regulated' in today's parlance) militias out there still. They're just not registered 501c3 organizations. When the founders wrote the US Constitution, "militia" was every able bodied male who could muster arms. This is well established historically from the English tradition.

It isn't that we think gun-lovers are going to go ape-shit and shoot everyone around them, it is that a proportion of gun-lovers will do this. Which ones? Why you just have to ask them.

Why don't you do that, then? And look at the shooting death and mass shooting statistics and demographics, while you're at it. It isn't the people you're concerned that it will be, at all.

Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.

So ... this leaves us with an open question for this to make legal sense.

The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.

When in the course of Human Events....

Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.

Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.

Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.

A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.

Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.

Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?

To make him "relatable" they say?

There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?

2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.

This is true, except in places like San Francisco, where self defense is effectively illegal if you're of a specific ethnic or cultural persuasion.

Well that's not quite a substantial claim. They've not really implemented any added compatibility in years, very negligible support (eg. no AHCI support at all).

Considering its a 16/32 bit system, and most of the Windows apps from that era run under Wine without problems from what I've seen, I struggle to see the point.

Perhaps if the political climate had been different for the past 30 odd years (until recently), yes...

At this point the hardware support is so negligible that it's a fanciful idea - it hasn't really progressed at all from the last time I tried using it a decade ago, from what I can tell.

You realize that this is literally the textbook definition of market fascism, right - when government and commerce collude, with the industries typically following the lead of the government's mandates for what they're supposed/allowed to build?

I've been wondering this. WTF is going on? 2 nights ago, when it was clear, I was out back with a fire. I live in town and rarely can see shooting stars from here.

That night, we saw no fewer than 5, not even really watching. They weren't particularly fast, had 1-2 hands of trail in the sky, and all went from east->west across the horizon.

It's not supposed to be a meteor shower, at least based on conventional meteor showers (persids, etc.) but I have never seen this many before in such a short period of time.

500 miles is not a "multi-day" range. That's a day (300-600 miles) for local driving, or less than a day for OTR long haul. 12+ hour days are not common, most of it spent driving. Even a local fuel delivery route is going to exceed that in most cases.

I'm guessing these will be for close-to-terminal local delivery only, because they're not going to have much use beyond that, particularly with lengthy charge requirements and no sleeper.

Yeah, I don't really get it's trajectory. I'd have thought that by 2005/2010 or so they'd have pivoted to W7 workalike compatibility, due to it being vastly superior in literally every way.

At that point, you could conceivably implement W10+ compatibility at a much lower effort, making it a realistic bridge for people to stand on for modern hardware.

A focus on supporting newer hardware, with a newer architecture, would go a long way to bridging the "I can do windows things not on Windows".

At this point we're talking about a code base that's designed for 30 year old hardware. That doesn't seem to have much utility, especially with the inability to work with modern hardware.