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Comment Re:too bad (Score 1) 255

The Second Amendment contains the wording: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".

Now, which well-regulated Militia are you a part of?

"Because X is necessary, Y shall not be infringed" -does not say that a person must be a member of X in order to Y .

In the parlance of the time when this was written: 1.) every free male of fighting age was considered to be a part of the militia. 2.) "well regulated" meant "properly outfitted with necessary equipment" -aka armed with a gun and ammunition.

When the call went out to the community, it was expected for every man of fighting age to assemble with their gun and ammunition. This tradition was a simple outgrowth of the medieval standard, whereupon when the local lord called, the freemen of the estate would turn out -and bring their own weapon to fight with.

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None of this addresses the modern concern as to whether or not we should still allow individual ownership of firearms. That is a whole other discussion.

Comment Re:That's Fine (Score 1) 69

Just set up a special alternate password that when entered wipes the device. You didn't refuse and it isn't "false or misleading", technically.

That is exactly what they mean by "providing false or misleading information".

It is a system where dissent = terrorism. The greatest threat to society is non-conformity.

Your attempt at rules lawyering will get you tortured in a re-education center until you have a change of heart and publicly acknowledge your actions were wrong and offer your sincere apologies. As a foreigner, you may be allowed to return to your home country after serving as an example. If you are a citizen, you will disappear but your cooperation will save your family.

Comment Re:Could this all be solved (Score 4, Informative) 26

I would expect to find "back issues" of newspapers in a public library, but I would not expect to find today's paper.

Surprise! The public libraries used to get the paper delivered daily. You could, in fact, go to the library and read that days paper. Libraries would have the local paper, as well as major regional and national papers.

Comment Lipstick on a pig (Score 1) 41

More new features are not what Firefox needs.

Make a standards-compliant browser that does not hog resources. Let the community build plugins that can add special features for those who want them.

Don't beg us for money to support a mission and then waste it on side projects nobody asked for.

Comment Re:Are they not old enough to remember...? (Score 1) 65

My son's highschool did not have a student parking lot. The assumption has become that parents would deliver and pick up their children.

Can't leave them unsupervised! (and... many younglings just don't drive. I was surprised at how few of his schoolmates had drivers licenses by the time they graduated.)

Comment Re:Are they not old enough to remember...? (Score 3, Informative) 65

My high school had a smoking area -although it was restricted to Seniors only. And you could leave for lunch and go downtown to the shops. And there was a student parking lot. Hell, when I was in grade school, the local high school had both a pistol and rifle range...

Pepperidge Farm Remembers!

Comment Re:"helping" yeah so good of them to "help" (Score 1) 151

Buying solar panels that will work for 30+ years and don't need any fuel or manufacturer supported maintenance is hardly entering into servitude.

It is when you can't make the mortgage payments on those panels (and other infrastructure). Unpaid debts are not forgotten, they are compounded. There is damn sure a "foreclosure clause" in the agreement.

This is China using soft power. Like the USA used to do.

"Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift..."

Comment Re:Good news (Score 4, Interesting) 72

It's been years since I've shopped at a Walmart so them doing this doesn't affect me at all.

I lived in a town (in Missouri) where there was a gas station, a gas & bait shop, and a sporting goods store, with a Walmart 30 minutes down the highway, and a Super Walmart (bigger, also sells groceries) an hour the other direction down the highway. Walmart is commerce to a large portion of the USA. Anything that Walmart does matters to a lot of people.

Comment Re:Exclusive contract (Score 1) 15

Because Microsoft insisted as a condition of their investment.

Microsoft was the first big investor, back before anyone else was willing to take a chance with OpenAI. Microsoft has already relaxed a lot of the conditions of their early agreements in order to allow OpenAI to grow and each time they have gotten a new concession in return. Expect this to be another similar arrangement: "Give us X and we will let you out of your agreement to not do Y..."

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