TomMckenny

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by TomMckenny 9y ago
>...blames gun manufacturers for school shootings... If a new item today entered the market and was misused to the tune of 30,000 deaths per year. Misused far more often than legitimately like stopping an intruder. And the manufacturer k
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
If words do not lead to actions or changes in behavior then why are people bothering to post here? And if words never contribute to actions then there are allot of correlations to explain from the American revolutionary pamphleteers to the
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
I sure wish Equifax were questioned about collecting information with equal outrage.
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I gave up on writing Apps because of this. Too high a risk of a patent shakedown without LLC protection for a few fun apps.
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
How then should an employee act under a strongly anti-semitic or anti-asian or homophobic boss? Should they just endure it because quitting or complaining is censorship? Is driving people out by bigotry acceptable but firing the bigots who
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
When a criticism of the US (or any free country) is raised, the discussion is multifaceted. The conversation is never overwhelmed with by "calling out Russian hypocrisy" implying both that the post is from them and no one anywhere
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
The injustice aside, I wonder if Nazis fleeing German might have had the side effect of making German reconstruction easier while limiting those who fled into making chocolate in Bariloche under fake names. But on the other hand there was K
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Because it's not possible to predict who is next and the market hates uncertainty. So it's not just Amazon but any potential future target that may take a hit.
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Which again is a quote from 50 years ago and about Vietnam. And Vietnam clearly no longer feels like it's going to be nuked at any second. Instead it is increasingly friendly to other nations. As was Russia until Putin took over making
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
Today's comically poorly run US is spinning up huge pork barrel spending on pointless weapons while the Russians have a dictator who thrives on stories of imminent danger. It's quite symbiotic. Thus the super-fuze vs Sarmat issue.
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Note that he was not picked up by ICE after a wild police chase involving drugs, he was pickup up while driving his daughter to day care. The events in the link are from 2008 when he was a teenager. Since then he has apparently become a val
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
The US tapped wires 50 years ago so it's ok to target Argentine cables for cutting today? An alternative theory: Putin his driving his people into poverty and leading them to unnecessary and catastrophic conflict with the west to maint
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
>I'll agree that there are many more difficult issues to be solved, but the fatalist position takes us absolutely nowhere. Very, very true. I was actually pretty uncomfortable making my original post. But there seems to be too much
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The meteor impact threat is just a few steps from being solved. The serious problem is that humans continuously desire to kill each other on large scales. That psychological flaw won't disappear just by changing planets. Previous this
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It is not African fauna that is guaranteed extinction, it is humanity. Our species will come and go having done little more than left an mass extinction event in the fossil record. A record that will never be perceived since our specie&#x27
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
The vast majority of use cases of Kodi would be covered by the 1st amendment. In recent decades even the most frivolous copyright claims supersedes the 1st amendment in the eyes of both the courts and corporations. I imagine if they were in
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
"armalite" auto completes and even helpfully suggest the AR15, the exact weapon used in all the most spectacular massacres. I'm not suggesting Google interfere with either. I'm suggesting copyright forces have an unreaso
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
How is it that software makers are culpable when their product us used to commit a crime but not gun manufactures? Is it that copyright violation is such a "heinous" crime that special rules apply?
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Indeed, the typical American now spends more hours just to pay for land to sleep on than hunter-gatherers did to live.
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I believe there a multiple layers involved: a bizarre decisions about median divider design that attracts jay walking. a governor with a stake in this subject. an inexplicable disinterest in even minimal government oversight of the tests. a
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
nope, still no improvement for: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article720305...
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Odd the damage should be on the passenger side if she darted from the center median. Odd they see the need to add the conjecture that she may have been homeless. Curious too is that the center divider where she likely was has has a nice wal
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Russia by itself is merely a western rival which could normally be worked with by sane western governments. But Putin is a hostile who's popularity, having ruined the economy, depends on endless conflict and so will never be appeased.
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Rather than discussion about technical aspects, we get a spew of how innocent Russia is and how America deserves it. If the west now can't even defend its technical discussion forums from totalitarian disruption, heaven help it.
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by TomMckenny 9y ago
> There is no evidence of systemic abuse by ISPs governed under Title I, which means there are not immediate benefits to regulation, only theoretical ones No, there are many cases including blocking peer-to-peer, hijacking search queries
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What happens when ISPs decide you need a "business" subscription plan to use a VPN?