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by erentz 8y ago
Rightly or wrongly we live in a world where corporations lobby for all kinds of things. But the response from Bay Area companies to this growing problem over the past decade seems to be invisible if it exists. Do the big Bay Area companies
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Local leaders cooling to Boring Company tunnel promises(arstechnica.com)
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by erentz 8y ago
Don’t forget the 60,000 strong force that is allowed to stop anyone within 100 miles of a border, ask for papers, and put anyone they like, including American citizens in jail without trial or normal legal process, sometimes for years.
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by erentz 8y ago
Note the bans on some of those NZ ISPs started before the video was classified as objectionable. So they’re not banning them to prevent their customers from facing charges. They’re doing it for other poorly explained reasons that aren’t leg
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by erentz 8y ago
Common misconception that this is directed by the government, like Mubarak ordering the internet cut off or something. The Office of Film and Literature classification reviews and classified media material in NZ, similar to how the MPAA doe
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by erentz 8y ago
> the most disturbing Orwellian thing I’ve ever seen. The level of authoritarian curbing of freedoms that has seemingly happened overnight at the stroke of a pen should seriously concern anyone who values constitutionally limited governm
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by erentz 8y ago
> it would be nice to have more widebody flights You'll be a fan of the new midmarket airplane Boeing is planning at the moment then. It's really hard to think of an ideal time that Boeing could reasonably have done a clean she
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by erentz 8y ago
That's always been my understanding of it. Hijackings were common in Europe for example and that's how it almost always went down. (Not too familiar with the history of hijackings in USA, but sounds the same.) Then we saw the chan
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by erentz 8y ago
> Most notoriously, the airlines, after the hijacks to Cuba in the late Sixties and early Seventies, made sure that Congress and the FAA did not require hardened cockpit doors and stronger latches on all aircraft, costing a modest $3000
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by erentz 8y ago
Prior to now, this doesn’t seem like it would have been much of a fix. Pilots would still have had to understand what is happening when this light went off: that there is a system (MCAS) that is taking faulty input from the AoA and pushing
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by erentz 8y ago
> I'm not following how that's implied? The proposed job guarantee talked about is a $15 per hour minimum wage job.
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by erentz 8y ago
> There's no shortage of work out there to be done Ok, I have to agree with this to a certain point as it’s an argument I find myself making in change resisting organizations. But the implication here is that there will always be no
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by erentz 8y ago
Isn’t QE believed to have lead to considerable asset price inflation? Even if the price of a bottle of milk stayed the same, the price of housing, or stock, etc. have increased a lot.
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by erentz 8y ago
Probably dumb question: if debt and deficits don’t matter and a country can just print money - how does that explain cases where countries have defaulted and other countries and their own citizens lose confidence in the currency? I also don
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by erentz 8y ago
Do you know if and how those updates translate to codes that need to be complied with? For example we have codes for ramps that specify the maximum grade, length, minimum platform size, etc. I’m wondering if something analogous needs to exi
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by erentz 8y ago
“Asking for anything beyond that [from the developer] is unrealistic.” It seems realistic that we could (and IMO should) ask for it from the businesses though. Just in line with existing non-internet accessibility requirements we have for b
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by erentz 8y ago
And at least in the US, that’s how things were. Legislation changed that and forced the issue. Maybe we need an ADA update for the web? (There was a good movie on the movement the created the ADA called Music Within for anyone wanting somet
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by erentz 8y ago
You said: > This is a great tool for stifling opposing politics of _any_ kind. And seems like the easiest way to start an oppressive tyranny than a method of stopping terrorist propaganda. You’re talking about a tool in New Zealand you c
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by erentz 8y ago
The need to see a video is proven wrong by your very example: Passengers on 9/11 already started putting up a flight before they’d seen the video, after they heard on their cell phones from loved ones what had happened to the other fli
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by erentz 8y ago
Youre responding to a thread about the New Zealand mosque attacks and the Office of Film and Literatures classification of this video as objectionable and expressing concern that this can be used for political purposes to quell dissenting p
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by erentz 8y ago
You’re making the same mistake everyone is making by assuming that the censor in this case is answerable to the Govt and can censor anything he/she likes or is told too. I understand because in the US system that is probably how it wou
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by erentz 8y ago
Needs to be noted, because a lot of people are very confused about this as you seem to be: The government cannot direct the rating and censoring of material in NZ. It’s an independent commission operating under the strict legislation that e
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by erentz 8y ago
It wasn’t clear to me from the article if this was the exact same plane or merely same type. But the hiding of this information on the initial reports of that incident suggest there might be some fear of corporate culpability. Perhaps the p
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by erentz 8y ago
From the ISPs statements and what’s been reported though it wasn’t this block list that was used. These ISPs just did it themselves.
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by erentz 8y ago
>> Internal Affairs investigates and sometimes prosecutes people who deliberately collect objectionable material and find ways to distribute it to other people via the Internet. Occasionally, the nature of the Internet can lead to so
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by erentz 8y ago
The partial root of the problem, I think , is that prior to Facebook, YouTube, et al. there were decision makers and responsible parties in the flow of such materials. So news agencies had to decide to print it, or broadcast it, or a publi
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by erentz 8y ago
If you're a customer of one of the ISPs in question (sounds like you are), you could try contacting them and asking the reasoning behind their blocks of these sites, and the reason for the inconsistencies you point to. If they brush yo
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by erentz 8y ago
Yeah, it's a little problematic. I've just seen a lot of people misunderstanding and thinking that the NZ Government did this. Personally I haven't read what the motivations were behind the initial block that these ISPs put i
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by erentz 8y ago
> That said, possession, distribution and (I believe!) consumption of objectionable ... cops and the courts exercise discretion here. There likely is discretion involved and the law probably needs some updating. The DIA website on this [
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by erentz 8y ago
Technical point. "They" in this case is not the NZ government, it's assorted ISPs in NZ who quickly and independently decided to do this after the event.

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