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TwiceHorn

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  1. True enough. Because the alternative was incomprehensible. But Tanya Chutkan wasn't in the tank for Trump and look how that turned out. Still, the protections offered by the system, at least to those savvy or rich enough to employ them, have worked in favor of at least Comey, James and several others, and many immigrants like Abrego Garcia. It would have been fun and amusing to Star Chamber or Dexter Trump and his minions. But upon his reelection, where would we be? His reelection swamped out everything. And would have regardless.
  2. Yeah, that problem kind of swallows all the other problems whole. We sit here and endlessly speculate, often in very educated and credible fashion, when, how, and if the Trump terror will end and whether the country will survive. And no one knows the answer. I suspect Biden and his people did too. As noted, Biden has been part of the system for a long time, probably too long, and may have had too much confidence in its ability to withstand Trump. But I don't think they sat around with their thumbs up their asses. Much, anyway, I mean they are democrats. The fear that Trump would use his prosecutions to justify his own, actually political, prosecutions in retribution proved to be a very valid thought, for example. The miscalculation was that he would do it anyway, based on some grievance or other, whether he was prosecuted or not. There's a lot of hindsight bias going on here. And what people really seem to be asking of the Biden administration is that it should have thrown the rule of law out the window, on some temporary or other justifiable basis, so that Trump could not do the same thing on the basis of personal pique or self-aggrandizement and enrichment. I'm not sure that goes as well as people want to think.
  3. No argument there. IP law gets criticized as a tool of capitalist oppression. Well, that may be from time to time, but no more so than contract law or any number of otherwise neutral devices employed by the haves against the have-nots. It also gets used by little guys, if not necessarily have nots, to take down big guys. And most current attempts to reform IP law are only really hurting the little guys.
  4. Well, the other thing was that in some states, including Texas until last September, the university/institution could not pay for NIL, only third parties. Frankly, it's fishy for a university to pay for NIL. Texas had the right idea in proscribing that. The only justification for that was in the pre-Houser days, universities made revenue through licensing things like EA Sports, jersey and gear sales, etc. but that was done through Learfield or whoever was the agent for that at the time. It would make more sense for the Learfield to do it, or EA or the jersey seller, etc. But revenue share means a university/institution can pay a player outright, with no consideration or quid pro quo other than signing/playing. And those deals are not subject to clearinghouse approval. The only limitation is the "salary cap" of ~$21M total annually.
  5. Of the dozens, nay hundreds or thousands of those you could have picked, well-played.
  6. Also, I forgot to add that the Copyright Office provides exemptions to the Anti-Circumvention provisions of 17 USC 1201. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/chapter-II/subchapter-A/part-201/section-201.40 And at sub (b)(14) and following, computer programs in vehicles (many other appliances elsewhere) are exempted from anti-circumvention laws. So, a lot of the squawking about DMCA and copyright law and right to repair is a bit mythical.
  7. I find it odd that you would criticize a shotgun then recommend another long gun. Shotguns have a long and effective history in short-range combat in close quarters. A lot longer than short rifles.
  8. I think everyone admits AI has its use cases. It's just the sort of mandated ubiquity that it's tech-bro proponents are constantly barking about that annoys and should probably be shouted down. Along with the DaTA CeNTeRZ that must be constructed with government aid and disregard for the harm they cause regular folk.
  9. John Deere's interpretation of the DMCA is not the actual law. It's jawboning from Deere. And it's really its licensing practices that are harmful. I am not aware of any successful prosecutions or civil suits for this type of circumvention, as opposed to circumvention for the purpose of essentially counterfeiting or bootlegging. If Deere were merely attempting to enforce the DMCA, it wouldn't be being sued by the FTC and losing. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/DeereCoREDACTEDComplaintCaseNo325-cv-50017.pdf Also, incidentally, 17 USC 117 and 1201 let a device/software owner decrypt, copy, and modify software for personal use. What it doesn't permit is third parties to do it, which is an issue unto itself. But strictly speaking, a DIY owner can repair and maintain.
  10. Well, there's a fair amount of evidence that Iowa contains a lot of stupid motherfuckers, per capita. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst being Exhibits A & B, and that cunt realtor posted the other day, all the farm fucks that voted Trump. And, while he may be fucking them over, they're still mostly adoring and all he has to do is spew some bullshit in their vicinity and they're back on his sack again. Excepting @Al_4_ISU of course. Not like we Texans can brag.
  11. Anyone find it odd that it is reported that Miller and Noem are crossed up here? Seems screamingly clear that Noem is not much more than Miller's mouthpiece. Trump is stupid enough to fail to draw a distinction, but Wiles is not. I guess maybe Wiles figures Miller can be muzzled somewhat.
  12. That's fantastic.
  13. My guess would be that a great deal of American wealth has been amassed in or converted into the shares of the publicly traded corporation, making wealth figures relatively easily calculated. Whereas a lot of European wealth was amassed and remains contained in private "vehicles" before the ascendance of the corporation (or SA, etc.) so it can only be estimated. Also, because Europe is an amalgamation of countries, some are more opaque (CH, LI, LU, MC) than others. I mean, it's all an estimation, but I can see the European one being more error-prone.
  14. You say you do, but I bet you really don't.
  15. Well, copyright is a species of the genus "IP law," while patent law is another species of the genus. And yeah, small creators don't need copyright law, hell at their smallest they'd probably love to have their work reproduced and distributed without compensation. But as they "grow," it is going to be copyright law that enables and assists their growth, either by avoiding "stripmining" as you say, or by providing the framework under which people will invest in them. Also, "right to repair" really is more a creature of contract than anything else. There is a notion that isn't very solid, that a patent owner can prevent reconstruction and repair of a patented device, but it's mostly the fact that a purchaser agrees not to reverse-engineer a product or its software that denigrates the right to repair, and for software, it may be copyright law.
  16. They also have a general contempt for the rest of us. Our jobs, our mental health, our ability to outthink their AI, our autonomy not to buy their bullshit, literally and figuratively.
  17. Fair warning, you're now on their mailing lists and you're gonna start getting spam, from Felito especially.
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