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Comment Re: How much of the science (Score 1) 36

Are you seriously suggesting a coverup? Simply ignoring the ocean and NOT studying human impacts on sea creatures? That will certainly continue the problem.
Are you a lobbyist for polluters or something? Why do you NOT want research done? Did your company dump a shitload of toxins in the water or something?
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I know you are likely batshit insane, since so far you have only been arguing with a strawman that you yourself created in this thread, but if you still have enough reason left in that little brain of yours maybe stop to reflect upon the damage that NOT studying human impacts on the marine environment will do.

Comment Great way to call BS and put a stop to it (Score 5, Interesting) 13

Australian Laurie Oakes did the same thing when betting houses took bets on what color tie he would wear during a television appearance.
    Brilliant SOB stuffed his pockets full of clip-on ties of each of the colors and swapped them whenever the camera panned away from him.
    Result? 1) the sportsbooks paid out on all colors that night 2) The bookies are not ever going to try that again

Comment Easy to make it a bigger problem they HAVE to fix (Score 5, Funny) 89

If its simple to keep robotaxis from entering, should be just as easy to fool them into not being able to leave.
See how many of them you can collect there until actual people are forced to retrieve them.
Betting THEN the programmers would suddenly discover enough time to update the maps of that area

Comment Re:"retake control of San Francisco from the Blues (Score 1) 80

The person you are responding to probably very likely was a "defund the police" advocate, so you are likely just talking to a wall. You can't expect someone that sees Nazis everywhere to understand the importance of a police force.

Why in the world would you imagine that?
I would like to know how you assume comments against a fascist plan to subvert and co-opt the police force in cause of revolution as somehow being inherently anti-police.
Unless, of course, you believe that the proper job of a police force actually -is- to end representative governance and impose fascism. Only then would it make sense.
So, the question would not be if I or anyone else here is anti-police. It is why you are anti-democracy, and how you somehow came to the conclusion that the proper duty of the police is political violence.

Comment Re:No Big 3 - this will fail (Score 1) 80

Crypto-utopians do have something akin to a code, even if it is involves little more than justifying the exploitation and oppression of all those they consider inferior.
Also have something akin to cult - that these incels are racially, intellectually and physically superior to all others and therefore have a mandate to control everyone and everything.
They have a sick and broken culture, but it is a relatively complete cultural construct.

Comment "retake control of San Francisco from the Blues" (Score 5, Informative) 80

Plus doing so by ignoring elections and using the police. That is a dystopian culture war, not a school.
  This is a bunch of people too prissy or cowardly to join the Proud Boys or America First and show real swastikas -Still only Nazis, just too afraid to admit it.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 23

Surrendered to the FCC for nothing or sold to some company that wants them? Easy decision. Dish sold the lease since it turned out they could not put the frequencies to a beneficial use.

They could put them to use, and they were.
The pretense that Dish could not use them was only that. Not a very good one, either, since they had already built out the majority of a very comprehensive network.
This was not a "beneficial use" thing, this was a "billionaires cozy with this administration" thing.

Comment Re:What was Dish thinking? (Score 1) 23

It was a shakedown. Straight up mafia stuff.
AT&T has the ear of the current administration, AT&T wanted the frequencies, and the FCC head wanted to wet his beak. That's pretty well it.
The stuff about not using the frequencies was a shameful pretense - over 20,000 towers had already been built out, and coverage and quality and every other metric was in compliance with the FCC demands. Everything needed for Dish to be a player in the mobile space was in place. Which was why the FCC had to put pressure on for a forced sale to AT&T now.
Rumor is that SpaceX is next up. They wanted some of the lower frequencies owned by Dish, Dish said no, so they have started cozying up to the FCC head.
Amazing how openly corrupt things have gotten now, and how little anyone cares.
   

Comment Re:Only one problem with this (Score 3, Insightful) 100

This, yes.

If you print a gun (or gun parts, depending on the part), it has to be traceable to an individual (not sure how you'd want to handle that), and have a serial number that gets registered to your gun license, complete with rifling pattern (randomly generated for each print)... of course, the file would have to be secured against being modified (maybe SHA or something).

Maybe... the registered gun license (which should be tied to an actual gun) has to be entered on a thing to generate the files for the gun (or parts) which has to have it's serial number entered also, and limit each serial/license linked combo to like one or two uses that are permanently tied to the license/serial linked combo.

Of course, one might ask... why would you need a gun (or gun parts) without a serial/identifying characteristics unless you're planning a 'big thing' that you don't want traced to you.

Why? Literally none of this is required for a gun machined from metal, injection molded plastic, or made through any other process.
If a 3D printed gun meets the legal standards required of every other type of firearm, what is the problem?
No other guns have rifling patterns logged, or to be registered in a central database, or require any licenses to own most places, so what is your justification for requiring it of -only- these?
   

Comment Re:Only one problem with this (Score 1) 100

Law is not the only thing that constrains people's actions. There are also moral and ethical considerations.
You may be aware that "virtually the entire United States" as you put it, has a serious problem with gun violence?

How is this relevant?
First, it is a District Attorneys job to deal with criminal law, nothing more. It is not a DA's place to use his offices power enforce his personal moral considerations upon anyone, not in his district and certainly not the world at large. To do that is an abuse of office and both corrupt and arguably a criminal act itself.
Secondly, I do not disagree we have a problem with gun violence. We have tools to deal with that, and we should be using them. Censorship is not a valid, or legal, solution to any problem.
We have many problems in our society. What other topics do you advocate solving through censorship?
By extension, do you believe eliminating the First Amendment would solve all societies problems then?

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