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Comment Telling police within a day has value ... (Score 1) 16

This is merely tracker. Do you actually expect the item to sprout arms and legs and act as a physical protector and apprehend the thief? If do, your comprehension about things is sorely deficient.

Do you comprehend there may be use cases beyond your limited guesswork? For example, I'm traveling. Car is at the airpot. Each day I check if it's still there. If it moves I can report things to the police within a day of its movement, rather than a week or more later when I return home. That can be the difference between a car broken into and joy rided and a car stripped for parts.

Comment Re:Nah, its post 2016 turnabout (Score 1) 134

Not at all. The prosecutions of Trump were quite creative. The investigations bootstrapped with known unreliable info.

I will note that there are no details at all there, just very vague accusations. That, of course, flies in low info MAGA circles, but not in the real world.

Seriously, you bad guess know no end. I am not MAGA. I'm an independent that reads from left and right info silos and independent sources.

But please, project yourself onto others some more. It explains your silo'd perspective.

The world is not binary, it is not MAGA vs Resistance. Both of those are extremes and most people are in the middle, noting that most of those sides lie. Hence independents noticing the Resistance weaponizing the legal system against Trump. Noting this is something completely separate from supporting Trump.

But your biased mind can't recognize this reality. So you project your bias and low info onto others, assuming they are just the other side of the coin from you.

Time after time norms were abandoned because it was Trump.

Yes, norms about how the indicted and convicted felons are normally treated were indeed abandoned because it was Trump, as I noted ...

What you noticed was superficial, the way the wealthy and powerful are treated regardless of party. What I was referring to was something different, the bias in investigation, the bias in evidence, the bias in prosecution.

And Hillary and Biden

??? Neither of them have ever been indicted, let alone prosecuted.

Exactly, the norms they faced were reduced to enable indicting and persecuting Trump. It was theatre to persuade voters. And it failed in recount to the flaws in the charges and evidence. But successful prosecution was not the point, the political theatre to manufacture a perception in voters minds was the motivation.

The one initially commissioned by a Rubio megadonor?

Actually I think it was McCaine. But that is irrelevant. What is relevant was that it was taken to the FBI by a Hillary attorney. It was known to be unreliable and not meet FBI and DOJ evidentiary standards but it was used for FISA warrants nonetheless, hiding the unreliability from the judge, by FBI officials who thought of themselves as part of the Resistance. Tip of the iceberg. But your information silo doesn't cover this does it?

Comment Re:Nah, its post 2016 turnabout (Score 1) 134

You fairly investigate. You don't create new and novel and logically twisted theories of a crime. You don't treat folks differently based on whether they are your party or an opposition party. You prosecute the office seeker exactly as you would any other citizen.

That's the normal process, yes. That also appears to be what was done.

Not at all. The prosecutions of Trump were quite creative. The investigations bootstrapped with known unreliable info. Time after time norms were abandoned because it was Trump.

I know there's a certain echo chamber out there where whatever Trump claims ...

That is an awfully bad guess on your part. Trump claims don't count as evidence to me.

... about an investigation into himself is a given, but you've failed to actually demonstrate to any reasonable level of satisfaction that any of what you're claiming is true. About all you seem to have is that individuals running for high office should be immune to investigation or prosecution.

That's a quite ignorant statement give what I wrote above.

As for prosecuting the office seeker differently than other citizens, that was certainly true for Trump, ...

And Hillary and Biden

So, enlighten us, what were the abberations in the way his cases were handled that were not in his favor? How was he so unfairly treated?

As I said, novel theories of the crime. Plus unreliable evidence, Russian dossiers to Mira Lago valuation estimates. From charges to evidence, it was all manufactured to sway potential voters not actually accomplish anything in a court of law. Which is why it all failed.

Comment Re:Nah, its post 2016 turnabout (Score 1) 134

Yet you can't provide these transcripts, nor evidence that they were genuine or, indeed, existed at all. Interesting.

You can google as well as I can. But you seem to prefer willful ignorance.

A forged image is VERY VERY different from a difference in interpretation ...

Not what I said, a a false image and a false narrative. Both do the same thing, manufacture a false perception in the mind.

You have no interest in truth, only tribes.

LOL. Say the person who refuses to google and read, who doesn't understand both images and verbal narratives product false perceptions.

Please continue demonstrating the methods of dismissal that permits your willful ignorance of things outside your information silo.

Comment The printer hardware and software upgradable (Score 1) 108

Nothing will prevent a "skilled" user bypassing something like this.

We are dealing with a technical niche that is pretty much designed to prevent such things.

The printers can print parts to upgrade themselves, to add new functionality and capability. And the source code for the software tools tend to be open source.

Comment Turn it around, ML system to detect firearm parts (Score 1) 108

Until someone asks an AI to iterate on a firearm design that doesn't trigger the detection algorithm.

The gov't will hire folks to develop a ML system for detecting firearms parts. Sure the person trying to print replacement parts for a 1930s/40s typewriter might have some problems, but no one in gov't will care. (FYI - subtle joke there, guess what IBM manufactured for the gov't during WW2 since it was within the capabilities of their existing factories?)

Government is ran by incredibly ignorant people.

That's why they farm out a lot of work to the private sector. And there are plenty in the private sector that believe in banning civilian ownership of firearms.

Comment Carbon neutral. or adding sequestered carbon? (Score 2) 121

Which would you rather have: a world where all gasoline comes from these things using solar panels, or the current environmental nightmare of fracking and cracking? Most people don't need to think twice about it.

I'd add a secondary description. A gasoline that is carbon neutral, or a gasoline that adds ancient sequestered carbon to the atmosphere.

Comment Re:China to increase pollution through 2030 (Score 1) 83

Both China and Germany produce most of their energy with renewables.

That is irrelevant to China burning coal as fast as they can dig it up or import it.

As I said, China supplements coal with renewables. They are not displacing renewables. That is why they are the #1 polluter in the world. Why Pollution is increasing in China while it is decreasing in the west. In the west coal is being displaced by renewables and cleaner fossil fuels. The west is showing a preference for cleaner sources. China is showing a preference for less expensive sources, regardless of how polluting they are.

Comment Re:Get ready (Score 1) 92

Know how to defeat an interlock device? Have your 5 year-old start the car, I've heard a guy boasting about it. Unfortunately I don't have a better suggestion except to require Level 5 auto-drive on all vehicles :-)

I don't think these devices are starter interlocks. I think they monitor behavior while driving.

Comment Re:Get ready (Score 1) 92

In Washington drunk driving is an automatic 1 year suspension of license, misdemeanor conviction, and fine on **first offense**. We still have drunk drivers killing people, including ones who already lost their license. Just doesn't work any better than outlawing heroin has.

Add these devices to their cars, at their expense. Not make a universal expense.

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