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Land of the free.

by M_Bakhtiari 9y ago

Land of the free.

isostatic 9y ago
Free to observe the night sky without someone else trampling on that freedom
- M_Bakhtiari 9y ago
  As long as you have a night sky observation permit. The United States has serious problems with bean counter overreach: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/08/criticizing-red-light-cameras-is-not-a-punishable-offense-oregon-concedes/?utm_term=.28a5dee72b95 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/0... Meanwhile the conservative politicians keep talking incessantly about deregulation, but it seems like it only applies to specific regulations that are inconvenient to friends of their, instead of actually attacking the deep cultural problem American society has with bureaucratic overreach. For goodness sake, a lot of actual dictatorships will meddle less in your personal business than the United States.
  - haZard_OS 9y ago
    Would you mind naming 2 of those dictatorships and perhaps explain what metric you used to arrive at your conclusion?
  - maxxxxx 9y ago
    The US has also a problem with private overreach as in rich property owners closing off huge areas of land completely. This is a huge problem in the west if you do any hiking. In Germany or Britain there usually is a path through but in the US they just close it off.
JshWright 9y ago
Really? You have a problem with a specific site being set aside for night time astronomical observation?
dang 9y ago
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not flamebait. Turning a thread about astrophotography into a garden-variety political flamewar, as you do here and downthread, is vandalism on this site. We ban accounts that break the site guidelines, and have already had to warn you again recently, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and abide more scrupulously by the rules from now on?

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Land of the free.

by M_Bakhtiari 9y ago

Land of the free.

isostatic 9y ago
Free to observe the night sky without someone else trampling on that freedom
- M_Bakhtiari 9y ago
  As long as you have a night sky observation permit. The United States has serious problems with bean counter overreach: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/08/criticizing-red-light-cameras-is-not-a-punishable-offense-oregon-concedes/?utm_term=.28a5dee72b95 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/0... Meanwhile the conservative politicians keep talking incessantly about deregulation, but it seems like it only applies to specific regulations that are inconvenient to friends of their, instead of actually attacking the deep cultural problem American society has with bureaucratic overreach. For goodness sake, a lot of actual dictatorships will meddle less in your personal business than the United States.
  - haZard_OS 9y ago
    Would you mind naming 2 of those dictatorships and perhaps explain what metric you used to arrive at your conclusion?
  - maxxxxx 9y ago
    The US has also a problem with private overreach as in rich property owners closing off huge areas of land completely. This is a huge problem in the west if you do any hiking. In Germany or Britain there usually is a path through but in the US they just close it off.
JshWright 9y ago
Really? You have a problem with a specific site being set aside for night time astronomical observation?
dang 9y ago
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not flamebait. Turning a thread about astrophotography into a garden-variety political flamewar, as you do here and downthread, is vandalism on this site. We ban accounts that break the site guidelines, and have already had to warn you again recently, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and abide more scrupulously by the rules from now on?