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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. That's fantastic.
  7. 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.
  8. You say you do, but I bet you really don't.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Fair warning, you're now on their mailing lists and you're gonna start getting spam, from Felito especially.
  12. But I can't just put this fucker in the oven and have it be ok.
  13. It's been above freezing for a couple of hours now, and is currently 40+. But not very sunny. There are insufficient signs of melting and it's kinda pissing me off. Was near 32 yesterday and sunnier and there were more signs of melting than so far today. Considering it's going to get dark at 5 and re-freeze hard, this is not good.
  14. Well, makes me feel better about not doing something like this with my driveway. It's not very steep at all, but does have some slope. And both our cars are RWD, which I generally prefer except for now. I salted it before it started (but still damp/wet from rain) and half-heartedly in the middle of it. Not being a Yankee, I guess I don't know what I'm doing but didn't seem to have much effect. In the past, just slush when the temp was above freezing was enough to make wheels spin. And then I'd shovel/sweep a kind of wheel path/rut in it and still wasn't good enough until it just was.
  15. Well, they are currently spending like drunken sailors. Unless you think they're gonna win it in year one, they're going to need to sustain it.
  16. Unfortunately, Susie Wiles is not stupid. She is one of the principal lever-pullers for the malign marionette that is Donald Trump. I'm not sure she really has much of her own agenda like Vance or the P2025 crowd, but her mission is to keep Trump in office by toeing the line between utter insanity and appeal to his base. And she is damned good at it. I think she is one of the few people that can actually exert some control over him.
  17. I think more than any "numbers" problem relating to enforcement, they're trying to focus the blame on uncooperative cities and states. "We wouldn't have to go full Nazi on you if you would just collaborate, kamerad." From a theoretical standpoint, as the primary prosecutors of crime, state and local entities would have more information on who is and isn't a "criminal." They also have less information about who is and isn't an unlawful immigrant. By and large, when a person is convicted of a crime, their identity is established along with immigration status and very few convicted of serious crimes in the US are not deported, that's not really a concern. Let me repeat that for the pearl clutchers: unlawful immigrants in the US who are convicted of serious crimes are routinely deported. No state convicts unlawful immigrants and releases them back into the population unless it is by accident. From a very practical standpoint, it is very costly for state and local entities to cooperate with federal authorities in apprehending unlawful immigrants and even "handing them over" when arrested or only temporarily detained, that is, those only charged with a crime or otherwise briefly in contact with local authorities. This is aside from any political or moral objection to this type of enforcement. This is not a theoretical thing. Every city in the US is wrestling with its law enforcement budget. Even if you think immigration enforcement is a trivial addition to the workload, you're wrong. States and local entities are constitutionally entitled not to be "commandeered" to enforce federal law.
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