Yes -- in some ways the saddest and most ironic part of that particular mess is that I actually do believe Officer Kim Potter really, genuinely intended to fire her tazer at Daunte Wright, rather than shoot him down with a pistol.
People talk about military rules of engagement. I have zero military experience, but I don't think military tactics generally involve putting yourself into that kind of situation to begin with, if you can avoid it. And if you're forced to do it, you go in with a plan.
Funnily enough, from time to time we do hear from people (from Military Police to soldiers with multiple tours in Afghanistan or Iraq) who do have that military experience with rules of engagement in difficult, often confusing, stressful and "adrenalized" circumstances -- and they seem to be rather consistently... unimpressed... with how poorly police in the USA handle themselves in these situations.
Actually, Heinlein would be soundly pissed off (but hardly surprised) to know that people like you still have the chutzpah to reference his work as allegedly supporting their "arguments".
... and PayPal reserves to its own, idiosyncratic, opaque, non-accountable and distinctly... {ahem} "conservative"... decision-making apparatus what may or may not be deemed to be "adult" content or items.
At this point that's not going to do anything. You'll still have "a few bad apples" who use peer pressure and "code blue" to turn even the best-intentioned rookies into bystanders who need to keep their traps shut for their own sake, and thus become accessories to the crimes committed by the corrupt thugs with badges. As a well-intentioned rookie there are penalties for giving the senior officer lip, even if it's to stop him from choking someone to death.
George Floyd's death is almost textbook example of how that works. Chauvin, who murdered Floyd, had a long record of thuggery and bigotry. Another of the four, who helped restrain Floyd, similarly had a long list of complaints against him. The two remaining ones? Were idealistic rookies. But all thanks to Chauvin their lives are effectively over, simply because they were too afraid or too shocked to even raise their voice against a senior officer in public.
That's a large part of why this problem is so hard to fix -- the same people (superior officers, training officers, etc) who are theoretically in charge of fixing the problem, are generally committed to perpetuating the problem instead.
And unfortunately, it doesn't take a very high percentage of influentially placed "blue warriors" to keep things that way.
I'm not so sure of that.
I'd argue that in both stories, highly-biased judges have been bending over backwards to blatantly favour "Intellectual Property" rights-holders/claimants -- regardless of the actual facts, the actual the relevant law, and even the ethical obligations pertaining to carrying out their actual judicial duties.
Re: Re: Re: Re: There is no "cancel culture",
Congratulations!
You've successfully trained the Techdirt spam filter to assume that anything coming over TOR is probably spam.
Bravo! Well done!
Though admittedly, other TOR users may quite understandably disagree.
.
(Perhaps, eventually {insert raised-eyebrow emoji here}, you'll also succeed in understanding how your very own actions predictably and inevitably lead to the entirely very consequences that you are so very upset about.)
My first reaction was that your example of clawing back 23 out of 24 bottles was a bit of an exaggeration.
But then I remembered that last week I saw a post in which somebody served by this particular company (WOW) did the math...
He showed that under his current plan, if he actually used the "unlimited" plan that he's been paying for, he could hit his monthly cap in less than eight hours.
As the appeals court didn't grasp the distinction between declarations and programming code, the Supreme Court COULD have sent it back to them to learn the distinction, and pervert the facts some other way instead.
If I recall correctly, SCOTUS has in fact tried schooling the CAFC that way, on quite a number of occasions already, on rather similar matters -- to little if any observable effect.
(At least, with little effect on the Court of Appeals learning or understanding the relevant distinctions -- but quite remarkable effect in spurring the appeals court to find new ways of perverting the facts.
But by the same line of reasoning, simply confirming Alsup's original finding, that -- as a matter of long-established, basic Copyright Law (the aforementioned Section 102b) -- computer programming API's simply aren't even copyrightable in the first place, would also have concluded the matter at hand, even more definitively; and the whole "Fair Use" question would then have been swept aside as entirely moot, as it should have been all along.
“They like our public policy when we’re doing things that benefit them,” said House Speaker David Ralston, adding: “You don’t feed a dog that bites your hand. You got to keep that in mind sometimes.”
This appears to be a Man Bites Dog story...
Just who, exactly, does this politician think he's "representing", anyways?
If I were to ever write a book on politics, I'd be strongly tempted to title it The Irony and the Hypocrisy
A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.
“When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different,” says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.
However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
“Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by,” Edelman says.
At this point, it no longer matters; Cricut hereby joins Amazon Kindle, John Deere, etc, on my list on my list of manufacturers whose products are no longer even to be considered for "purchase" -- new or used.
I don't do business with companies who can't (read "choose not to") remember whether the business &/or it's product serves the customer's needs, or vice versa.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Yes -- in some ways the saddest and most ironic part of that particular mess is that I actually do believe Officer Kim Potter really, genuinely intended to fire her tazer at Daunte Wright, rather than shoot him down with a pistol.
On the post: Federal Court Tells Minnesota State Police To Stop Attacking, Harassing, And Arresting Journalists Covering Protests
Re: Re:
You, Sir, are no' a true Scotsman!
On the post: Released Body Cam Footage Shows Chicago Cop Shoot And Kill An Unarmed 13-Year-Old
Re: So here's the thing...
Funnily enough, from time to time we do hear from people (from Military Police to soldiers with multiple tours in Afghanistan or Iraq) who do have that military experience with rules of engagement in difficult, often confusing, stressful and "adrenalized" circumstances -- and they seem to be rather consistently... unimpressed... with how poorly police in the USA handle themselves in these situations.
On the post: Released Body Cam Footage Shows Chicago Cop Shoot And Kill An Unarmed 13-Year-Old
Well, two out of three isn't *that* bad
Never underestimate those darn squirrels...
https://bloggingwv.com/biker-squirrel-from-hell/
On the post: Mastercard Lays Down New Rules For Streaming Sites That Require Them To Review Content Before Publication
Re: Re: innocuous leader -- and worked again
Actually, Heinlein would be soundly pissed off (but hardly surprised) to know that people like you still have the chutzpah to reference his work as allegedly supporting their "arguments".
On the post: Mastercard Lays Down New Rules For Streaming Sites That Require Them To Review Content Before Publication
Re: Re:
... and PayPal reserves to its own, idiosyncratic, opaque, non-accountable and distinctly... {ahem} "conservative"... decision-making apparatus what may or may not be deemed to be "adult" content or items.
On the post: Iowa Senate Approves Bill That Would Add Qualified Immunity To The State Law Books
Re: Re: How about
Just because it's worth repeating:
That's a large part of why this problem is so hard to fix -- the same people (superior officers, training officers, etc) who are theoretically in charge of fixing the problem, are generally committed to perpetuating the problem instead.
And unfortunately, it doesn't take a very high percentage of influentially placed "blue warriors" to keep things that way.
On the post: Patent Loving Judge Keeps Pissing Off Patent Appeals Court, But Doesn't Seem To Care Very Much
Re: Re: Let's cut to the cheese
I'm not so sure of that.
I'd argue that in both stories, highly-biased judges have been bending over backwards to blatantly favour "Intellectual Property" rights-holders/claimants -- regardless of the actual facts, the actual the relevant law, and even the ethical obligations pertaining to carrying out their actual judicial duties.
On the post: Michigan AG Using Former Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell's 'No Reasonable Person Would Believe Me' Statements To Seek Sanctions Against Her
( ( ( schadenfreude ) ) )
On the post: Lawyer Whose Main Claim To Fame Is Suing A News Org To Get It Shut Down, Now Complains About 'Cancel Culture'
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: There is no "cancel culture&quo
--> inevitably lead to the entirely unsurprising and very reliably repeated consequences that you are so very upset about.
On the post: Lawyer Whose Main Claim To Fame Is Suing A News Org To Get It Shut Down, Now Complains About 'Cancel Culture'
Re: Re: Re: No, I'm NOT spamming, just disagreeing.
FTFY
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Re: Re: Re: Re: There is no "cancel culture",
Congratulations!
You've successfully trained the Techdirt spam filter to assume that anything coming over TOR is probably spam.
Bravo! Well done!
Though admittedly, other TOR users may quite understandably disagree.
.
(Perhaps, eventually {insert raised-eyebrow emoji here}, you'll also succeed in understanding how your very own actions predictably and inevitably lead to the entirely very consequences that you are so very upset about.)
On the post: Broadband Provider Wide Open West Tries To Justify Unnecessary Broadband Caps Using... Pizza?
Re:
My first reaction was that your example of clawing back 23 out of 24 bottles was a bit of an exaggeration.
But then I remembered that last week I saw a post in which somebody served by this particular company (WOW) did the math...
He showed that under his current plan, if he actually used the "unlimited" plan that he's been paying for, he could hit his monthly cap in less than eight hours.
On the post: Broadband Provider Wide Open West Tries To Justify Unnecessary Broadband Caps Using... Pizza?
Hey. listen -- have I ever got a great deal for you! (sucker!)
It amounts to a published confession that the whole premise is arbitrary flim-flam to gouge their customers.
On the post: Another Day, Another Ridiculous NY Times Opinion Piece That Is Confused About Section 230 And Free Speech Online
Re: Stop treating them like idiots
Came to post exactly this.
It's like that line in the Bond films (I'm sure Ian Fleming stole it from somewhere.)
On the post: Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google's Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use
Re:
If I recall correctly, SCOTUS has in fact tried schooling the CAFC that way, on quite a number of occasions already, on rather similar matters -- to little if any observable effect.
(At least, with little effect on the Court of Appeals learning or understanding the relevant distinctions -- but quite remarkable effect in spurring the appeals court to find new ways of perverting the facts.
On the post: Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google's Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use
Re: Re:
But by the same line of reasoning, simply confirming Alsup's original finding, that -- as a matter of long-established, basic Copyright Law (the aforementioned Section 102b) -- computer programming API's simply aren't even copyrightable in the first place, would also have concluded the matter at hand, even more definitively; and the whole "Fair Use" question would then have been swept aside as entirely moot, as it should have been all along.
On the post: Georgia Republicans Try To Punish Delta For CEO's Statement About Voting Rights Law
This appears to be a Man Bites Dog story...
Just who, exactly, does this politician think he's "representing", anyways?
On the post: Utah Governor Signs New Porn Filter Law That's Just Pointless, Performative Nonsense
Same as it ever was
If I were to ever write a book on politics, I'd be strongly tempted to title it The Irony and the Hypocrisy
On the post: Cricut Hastily Walks Back Plan To Charge Cutting Machine Owners $10/Month To Fully Use Their Purchases
At this point, it no longer matters; Cricut hereby joins Amazon Kindle, John Deere, etc, on my list on my list of manufacturers whose products are no longer even to be considered for "purchase" -- new or used.
I don't do business with companies who can't (read "choose not to") remember whether the business &/or it's product serves the customer's needs, or vice versa.
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