You mean WTO? And we lost because *drumroll* we in fact allowed gambling online within our borders.

Nothing says we have to allow remote gambling or gambling but we did have exceptions carved out for fucking horse racing. Then we explicitly allowed those across states and online.

Mitch mutherfucking McConnell
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The treaty obligation does not change federal laws that leave gambling regulation to the states. The WTO was basically we allow it here we must allow it there. We didn't sign a treaty to allow gambling everywhere, and the U.S. doesn't have mandatory legalization of gambling, where ever in the fuck did you get the idea it did?

And how frequently is that expected to happen? :)

It's not fair to blame /. or any other forum where smart people hang out and the same shift happened. It's not a stage in their life, it's a phase we're all going through.

It will continue for as long as the anti-intellectual populism that is causing it continues, and it will carry over to anything that might replace /. You know why the topic of the weather is polarized, but if you need it spelled out, pass the black sharpie. At this point it's physics, reverse the anti-intellectualism and you'll depolarize science and the places that talk about it.

Please.. JFC, stop. You need to sucker under 30s preferably with no family into a high-stress government job that gets exciting in the most horrible ways, so you target "gamers".
Everyone can stop trying hard to make a connection, it's a recruiting strategy. You could make up an even better bunch of fluff for targeting people exiting military service too. I'm sure they do try, and I'm sure that demographic already knows the game too damn well or they would have made their numbers there.

If the Marine Corps run ads in Call of a duty you morons would be talking up modern drone warfare and controller thumb twitch. Sure, join to become a drone pilot, it will be a rose garden. They'd only do it because something changed and they thought they could find a large enough group of young people there that could pass a minimum fitness test in a few months that might be worth the ad spend. It's marketing, a numbers game. Sorry not sorry to piss on everyone's fun.

Hey if you recently graduated from high school and kind of feel like you suck at life call a Marine Recruiter. Do it to turn your life around, not *snicker* drone pilot... but you could totally be a cool drone pilot and get laid all the time too. Do it.

Let's see if other countries can push these problems down faster than the US can bring old ones out of retirement. I'm betting American ingenuity prevails.

I'm sorry, your stealthy unmanned drone whose sketchily sourced webcam expects a wireless connection to the whole internet so that it can receive instructions to compromise the bespoke internal network ... and hack the drone's mainframe? Hey don't blame me, you started turning this into a bad action movie plot.

This probably isn't the supply chain attack you're making it out to be, this is stuff you should expect and check for when sourcing components for the drone you're building in your garage, like the earliest phase of development. No offense to the Royal Navy, I mean a lot of drones are built in garages these days, this whole story does not surprise me in any way.

My dudes, the system, our system(s) aren't perfect. I'm with you, the issue is the volume of shit courts have to deal with, and the solution is not super high speed automated dispute resolution systems to deal with even more automated speeding tickets, it's to lower the volume of bullshit, and less speeding tickets that do nothing good for anyone.

But complaining about getting in front of a judge to discuss how The Internet Moderators have treated you, what the fuck are you doing with your life. Again, the problem is volume, and no, sorry, the answer is not super high speed global legal frameworks to mediate petty internet moderation disputes. Kindly go the fuck away. *looks around* you all should be mature enough to take this literally thirty year old advice, go to a different channel, change your nickname, or turn your fucking computer off. It all still works, it still applies as well now as it did back then.

I sincerely wish the open source Android backgammon engine announcement dude the best of luck, but IDK, here's some more 30+ year old advice, try an email list, or try advertising on Slashdot.... ...... .

Nobody thinks taxes solves everything, and there is definitely an entire party platform built on _never_ raising taxes. The opposite of what you think isn't what they think, that's some kind of projection, which conservatives are famous for.

You have to pay for nice things, for anything. Sometimes you can solve a problem by buying less nice things. Conservatives are intensely focused on cutting nice things, increased spending on wars... Every. Single. Time. and of course in the face of cuts and overall increased spending - lowering taxes. Not even leaving them be to pay for SOME of their spending but paying LESS while spending more. It's become as predictable as the sunset. I can play out both sides of this until I turn blue, it always points to bad faith arguments about fiscal responsibility, and a concerted plan to repeatedly shock global energy markets and funnel money to energy and defense, and leave the rest of us to pay for it. It doesn't look like anything else.

Bro that's capitalism, what drives our GDP. When we try to do it responsibly by adding in environmental costs the magays cry communism or socialism or antifa.

What part of this tariff scheme targets environmental planet anything policy, none of it, because that would be antifa.

MAGA arguing to retard the economy to save _the planet_ with inflation is just about the dumbest thing I've heard in 24 hours. These days, that's an achievement, bravo DarkOx.

For companies with a complete set of supporting infrastructure, you must include the costs of standing up the whole structure, less licensing costs of the current ecosystem.

- Automated distribution and patching tools
- Standardized software
- Imaging tools for provisioning

Not to say it's still not worth it. It could be. But the larger the org, the greater the inertia, and the longer you live with both ecosystems.

If it's okay to go through a major civic building, destroy things along the way, and injure or kill a few people in the name of civil disobedience, it should be fine to knock down some cameras. Perhaps you should even be able to claim some expenses for it.

They will, they won't. Start blaming the fucking tool already because you're stuck with it.

I've worked with monitoring and alerting software of different stripes long enough to see the same pattern, the tool is somehow blameless for data quality issues when we all know damn well the data quality problems can be traced back to UX design of the tool. We're stuck with it anyway and that's the go-to defense. I've seen too many people give software, the tool, a pass because getting accurate data in and maintaining it, owning it, is the hard part. Well no, fucking, shit, the tool's developers know that, and bad software design is always the user's fault, we're always holding it wrong.

Who owned that data entry, for a suspected murderer, with what, plates and no description of the car or driver? That's like setting a bear trap in a busy campground. Don't worry, it's for the bear! I'll just mark a X on this bubblegum wrapper with some squiggly lines, and forget about it. Were they watching it, does the tool enable that, does it enable the level of ownership that is required for anything that dangerous? Were they aware of the first police response? Was the second team of responders days later aware of the first team's response? Was the owner of the alert? Bad data entry? .. and this information system is fine right, don't blame the tool. Bullshit.

We could easily spend a few million more years living in houses made of sticks and stones and do other cool things but not do any of that. It feels like a very bad extrapolation.

Way to bust that stereotype. :)

I only needed the first five words to get the dopamine hit. We're long past the point where it matters if purpose of the tariff is reasonable or valid. Even if this tariff is defensible. - and maybe it is - it's still like the blindfolded kid speared the donkey. Because even then, he'll try again and miss. And it's just entertainment now. Damaging... but still entertaining.