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Duwensatzaj··on The Stallman Report
Codes of conducts are political weapons to be used against those disfavored by the powers that be and ignored when the elect violate them.

Drupal and Larry Garfield years ago, and most recently Python and Tim Peters.

Duwensatzaj··on FreeWP Is Here to Shake Up the WordPress Ecosystem
Trademark, not copyright.

Copyright can’t be extinguished by common use. Trademarks can.

Duwensatzaj··on California bans legacy admissions at private universities
>while not violating anyone's freedom

Compelled speech is a bright line violation. There are very few scenarios where it is allowed by American precedent, and a graduate's resume is absolutely not one.

Note that the legacy admission reporting required here is dependent on the universities accepting funding. The government requiring reports in exchange for funding is very different from compelling people at gun point to include information about their university on resumes.

Duwensatzaj··on California bans legacy admissions at private universities
For example, Hillsdale College and Grove City College do not accept government financial support so they're not bound by various legal requirements.
Duwensatzaj··on Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
May I suggest Squick instead?
Duwensatzaj··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
Truly disgusting how many people conflate attacking a terrorist organization with minimal civilian casualties with terrorism.
Duwensatzaj··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
Any kids killed were accidental as opposed to the Hezbollah rockets shot at northern Israel. When those rockets killed 12 kids playing soccer those deaths were intentional.
Duwensatzaj··on To forget is an ethical act
Is corruption of blood a trend?

I can think of one case where a minor sports figure was fired for decades old statements from his father, but I haven’t seen any others.

Duwensatzaj··on 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
It’s not humor.

It’s religion for the irreligious.

Duwensatzaj··on Region-specific Machines pricing
Look at the Exception section.

Grease payments are allowed. You can’t bribe border guards to sneak things through, but if they demand a bribe to do their job or your servers get mysteriously blocked from import, paying them off is allowed.

Duwensatzaj··on The greatest social media site is Craigslist
Ebay took out a share of classified revenue as well.

Quick search said classified ads were 40% to 70% of revenue.

Duwensatzaj··on Can men live without war? (1956)
Shades of the novy sovetsky chelovek.

How well did that work out?

Duwensatzaj··on Can men live without war? (1956)
You’re not banning anything. You’re proposing a total monopoly on effective weaponry for this joint army.

And requiring global controls on 3D printers, CNC machines, any pressure bearing metal, and a range of chemistry and fertilizers.

All this after a door to door search for weapons and ammunition. What army exactly is going to be kicking down my door to confiscate these at gunpoint?

Duwensatzaj··on Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
You misunderstand cause and effect. They have become financial instruments because there is insufficient supply for the demand.

Unfortunately others with that level of economic ignorance tend to advocate for policies that fail to fix this and either 1) pick a few lucky winners and fuck everyone else over like rent control or 2) make things even more expensive by subsidizing house purchases or creating risk like the 2008 mortgages.

Duwensatzaj··on Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case
Considering the death penalty existed in English common law far before slavery, this is ahistorical.
Duwensatzaj··on 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI
What’s hilarious is cities like Washington DC going the other way and requiring degrees for child care while exempting current child care workers.

https://dcist.com/story/22/08/18/dc-child-care-workers-colle...

Duwensatzaj··on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
FDR froze wages during WWII while excluding insurance benefits.

That plus tax subsidies for third-party insurance and we ended up in the current mess.

Duwensatzaj··on Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues
There’s also some non-environmental reasons.

1) Increased diagnosis due to

A) Increased awareness of the issue for both parents and medical staff. I think that one is clearly true.

B) Rational response to educational incentives around relaxed testing for those diagnosed with syndromes. Extra testing time is big. During the Varsity Blues scandal it came out that you could buy paperwork for accommodations for around $5000. Or parents might see a legitimate issue and testing and in-school accommodations convince them that it’s worth getting their child diagnosed.

C) Merging of Aspergers into autism.

2) Increased assortative mating for those with autism or those with autism risk. Some evidence here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.28.358895v1

As to why it might be increasing?

A) Collapse of traditional paths to marriage. If you’re less likely to meet mates by meeting them at church or other community events with a more wide spread selection of people, are you more likely to meet someone else on the spectrum?

B) Increased career rewards for those with autistic tendencies, so less need to find a non-autistic spouse.

Duwensatzaj··on The NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's Twitter account
Then why do cops and government officials get QI in non-emergency situations?
Duwensatzaj··on Sweden Is a NATO Member
> counterbalance alliance

Russia had that in CSTO.

After Russia ignored Armenia’s request for help, it’s worthless.

And Russia has already created entrenched conflicts in a number of countries for exactly that reason.

Duwensatzaj··on Surely You're Joking, Comrade Beria (2021)
Please do some research first next time.

From the Beria wikipedia article: In 1993, construction workers installing streetlights unearthed human bones near Beria's Moscow villa (now the Tunisian embassy). Skulls, pelvises and leg bones were found.[90] In 1998, the skeletal remains of five young women were discovered during work carried out on the water pipes in the garden of the same villa.[91] In 2011, building workers digging a ditch in Moscow city centre unearthed a common grave near the same residence containing a pile of human bones, including two children's skulls covered with lime or chlorine. The lack of articles of clothing and the condition of the remains indicate that these bodies were buried naked.

Duwensatzaj··on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)
Hope they haven’t forgotten about Project 100,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000

Another article is more explicit about exactly who isn’t joining the military anymore. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sha...

Duwensatzaj··on Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI
Probably never. Entrapment in US law is when the government creates the crime. Offering up the opportunity doesn’t create it, just catch those looking.

Maybe if they started heavily advertising it, sending spam to the same person continuously for months on end.

Even if an undercover cop asked you to hire a hitman and you say yes. Entrapment is more when you say “No” and the government agent keeps on begging you until you give in.

Duwensatzaj··on Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
So you want Google to lie about reality and punish people who state the truth.

I honestly can’t understand why.

Duwensatzaj··on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
> You do not need to create fake wet signatures

I’ve seen US Fed agencies reject signed documents when the signature is typed out, so the need exists.

Duwensatzaj··on San Francisco Landlords may lose everything [video]
Wrong.

Housing is unaffordable because demand outstrips supply.

Economic illiterates who blame “greed” making public policy tend to make it even worse.

Duwensatzaj··on French Gov Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly into Web Browsers
Also illegal but not uncommon.

To clarify, French judges can order paternity tests as part of a hearing.

Germany has restrictions on paternity tests as well.

Duwensatzaj··on Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
Cell phones.

The shift away from desktop and laptops to cell phones is a major factor as well.

Duwensatzaj··on The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)
This is codified in law.

Habitual offender sentence enhancement or three strikes laws.

Duwensatzaj··on French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
Is that why billionaires are pushing millions into civilian disarmament aka “gun control”?
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