That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Jun 2021 @ 2:21pm
Re: Prosecutors
The problem is the people.
The FBI arrests 30 "terrorism" suspects & everyone cheers.
No one asks how they got that many men with IQ's in the 60s together.
We think a 15 and 16 yr old dating is okay, but cheer on the headline that the older boy who had photos of a young girl is going to be a sex offender for life.
The world burned in the mortgage bubble collapse. Despite clear evidence none of the big banks got charged, because they coudl afford to fight back. (Well and the asshole in charge now works inhouse a GoldmanSachs color me shocked).
The only bank they went after was Abacus. A tiny tiny bank serving those of Chinese descent. After roasting them over the coals for wrongdoing... they found 2 things. The bank did things in a traditional way that didn't meet the fed standard... meanwhile the bank did better than the big banks without people defaulting.
We reward them for the headline, then move onto the next thing.
There are still people out there, even after a Judge spanked the FBI and an AUSA for luring an impressionable man into supporting terrorism by loaning him the $20 so he could send ISIS an apple gift card, that thinks the FBI is protecting us.
We deserve better, but no one has the will to demand it assuming the system works perfectly, there is oversight, and the 15th time someone gets caught violating a citizens rights that this time it'll be different.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Jun 2021 @ 12:24pm
"It's completely natural for those who are on the receiving end of obviously bogus suspensions to take it personally"
I feel seen. GLARES
Another metric: how many suspensions go over 100 days with no response. There are to many competing goals in the mix & its making things much worse.
In response to a video of someone being 'kidnapped' for a party (victim did not know until later it was a prank) friend of mine said if someone grabbed her like that she would punch him.
12 hour timeout, having to remove the tweet, because it was wishing pain or harm on someone.
(HI KAT!)
"If someone assaults me I would hit them." - Banable tweet treated on the same level as someone threatening harm to all the Jews.
Zero tolerance policies still are bad ideas.
More timeouts for people threatening hypothetical imaginary people (who aren't part of one of the 10K protected groups on twitter) doesn't make the platform better or "safer".
The CoVid Misinfo AI is bugged, Senator Anti-Vaxx is still promoting all of his crazy ideas (can still see them on the platform) while some sociopath mocks morons who think there is a chip in the vaccines has the tweet hidden and is over 100 days in TwitMo waiting for assistance. I've offered to delete the tweet, but prying a phone number from my poor hands matters more than anything else it seems.
I guess if you use a trendy avatar, call yourself an immortal sociopath, you are held to higher standards than members of Congress.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Jun 2021 @ 11:59am
"Andersen, the journalist Tran shared the bulletin with, was not charged because "the police have the ability to use discretion when deciding whom to recommend for criminal charges," Miller wrote."
Something something the law doesn't apply to everyone equally, we only go after those we think we can crush under our bootheels.
Someone should be looking for a new job, he is unfit the the office he holds. He has shown he is willing to use the office to intimidate and harass citizens, with no basis in law. This is not someone who should have power over peoples lives after proving he is a vindictive asshole.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Jun 2021 @ 9:43am
Something something can not serve 2 masters.
We only elect them, but corporations give them perks, donations, glowing press.
We're going to get screwed in this once again.
Until we the people can put aside the little bullshit they use to keep us distracted and demand better under threat of being voted out nothing will ever be different.
For all of their talk about us mattering, we don't.
Nothing matters except their reelection campagin dollars.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Jun 2021 @ 9:39am
Re: Exclusivity Leases in DC
Most likely.
And given how little they "donate" to elected officials to maintain power, it wasn't that much.
Verizon might have given them a spool of wire to save on costs and offered a couple bucks & they signed on the dotted line.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2021 @ 1:29pm
If only the FCC asked citizens about their service & issues instead of listening only to CEOs who don't give a shit.
For a nation of free markets & free market will fix it, why do we allow these monopolies to still exist, offering shitty service & high prices. Giving them handouts, believing lie after lie, & writing laws to make sure we have shittier offerings than many 3rd world nations.
Someone should make a republican run away in terror and ask how can America be great again when we keep giving handouts to corporations who lie & overbill at every turn.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2021 @ 1:24pm
Gee if only Faux News had fact checkers this dribble never would have been released to the public.
But then they aren't a news outlet, they are entertainment pretending to be news... the same way Hearst pretending all of his reporting was legit.
I guess Faux & the Conservatives are confused that the fact checkers used by others require something more than a former president or cocaine addict to claim something is true but like actual facts to support the claims.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2021 @ 1:19pm
I stand by my earlier assessment...
TechBros invent the Klan.
A bunch of idiots running around blaming everything on everyone else & they aren't very bright.
One has to wonder if anyones asked the PD's in areas served by this shitshow how many false leads have they been fed & have they had to rescue anyone from a posse who got together to get the bad guy they think they heard whistled at a white woman.
It would be nice if someone with authority actually stepped in, in the name of public safety, and quashed their private police force fantasy's before they manage to lynch someone they misidentified.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2021 @ 7:16am
To many lawyers of questionable ability.
Perhaps it is time those in charge actually provide oversight & punishments rather than worrying about how that might make the profession look. I mean come on they ignored Prenda for a decade & then magically decided maybe we'll suspend them while they are in prison. o_O
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 May 2021 @ 4:01pm
His rules...
Well he can't go to or watch the World Series...
Democratic senator criticizes World Series crowd booing Trump: 'The office of the president deserves respect'
He's criticized a whole bunch of things including Congress so he shoudl remove himself right?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 May 2021 @ 12:33pm
Its only because we are conservatives who love the Constitution*!!!!
well what we think it says, we've never read it and we're pretty sure its only to be used against those commie liberal bastards who are trying to stop us.
We small government conservatives, now let us make this massive political boondoggle to allow our government to be in control.
On a side note this also proves another TAC Truth.
Humans love to stuff more & more things into labels rendering them useless.
The left trying to add microagressions & 'eye rape' to the definition of rape.
The right turning 'conservative' into a catch all for right wing and Q insanity wrapped up in the prosperity gospel of things Jesus never said claiming they follow the teachings while refusing to live those teachings they demand everyone adhere to.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 May 2021 @ 8:00am
'Merika in a nutshell.
Y'all expect they will do the right thing then are shocked just shocked when they find a way to screw you.
Telco
Cable
Elected Officials
Corps
When y'all gonna learn the lessons from the past?
If there is a way they can screw you, even in the face of armageddon, for a couple cents more they will.
Somehow no one considered that unless it was explicitly spelled out, and even then half the time, they'll screw you.
They screwed fire fighters in the middle of a disaster to get a few cents more, but thought oh they'll do the right thing.
Also missing here is the lesson of we gave them a shit ton of bandwidth & cash to build out a network for first responders... but no one thought to put milestones in it... just keep paying them as they do nothing.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 May 2021 @ 12:28pm
"This is why different DNA programs, and even different laboratories using the same program, will generate substantially different results for the same sample."
So these newest bestest tests are the latest in field test kits?
Like that recent story about the cop claiming the ashes of a child were drugs because the test said so.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 May 2021 @ 12:23pm
"Ransomware can’t succeed without cryptocurrency."
The UK thought that murder can't succeed without guns, now they stab each other & have to register ownership of cutlery.
You know what really really can stop Ransomware from succeeding??
Kill all the humans.
No really they are the weak link in nearly every ransomware attack.
Baring that perhaps demanding a tiny amount of security from these companies with actual penalties for not doing it.
If we just ban Western Union none of those Nigerian Princes could make a dollar, I see no problem with this make it so.
How in the actual fsck is this person allowed out in public without a team of minders keeping him from running into traffic to show that if we ban all cars no one would get run over.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 May 2021 @ 8:29am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If you can't win an honest game
smiles in sociopath
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
You've managed to inter people who were much less dangerous many times before.
A global health emergency seems like a much better reason than we hate Asians.
We have plenty of space to hold them where they can't harm others with their wackiness & its not like the neighbors have taken advantage of those in internment camps stealing homes, property, businesses.... oh oops.
People thought I was just being extra snarky when I called humans the "Hold my beer" race.
I really am always confused how the species manages to survive their own self destructive actions.
When someone wants to scream MUH RIGHTS...
I present the 100 miles inland that is a Constitution Free Zone, "Free Speech Zones", Well she wasn't the target so it didn't violate her rights, and all of the other insane things you've accepted in the name of safety & security.
These maskholes are a clear and present danger.
They can & will end up spreading it to others, not to mention each one of them can create their own variants to add to the mix.
You are more likely to be infected by a maskhole than blown up on a plane by terrorists, perhaps we should respond like its actually serious & stop coddling those screaming that mask mandates are just like the Holocaust. Lets give them the real feel & pack them into camps. Then their selfish natures can run their course.
500K+ dead when a majority shouldn't have gotten infected in the first place if maskholes had been adults about it.
You've shredded the rights you all hold so sacred over much smaller death counts for very little gain, where if the maskholes were removed from the general population until they are vaccinated or dead we could end the pandemic.
I guess humans only accept locking up those with more melanin to "solve" problems.
On the post: Judge Dumps Iowa Prosecutors' Attempt To Jail An Activist For Sharing A Law Enforcement Document With Journalists
Re: Prosecutors
The problem is the people.
The FBI arrests 30 "terrorism" suspects & everyone cheers.
No one asks how they got that many men with IQ's in the 60s together.
We think a 15 and 16 yr old dating is okay, but cheer on the headline that the older boy who had photos of a young girl is going to be a sex offender for life.
The world burned in the mortgage bubble collapse. Despite clear evidence none of the big banks got charged, because they coudl afford to fight back. (Well and the asshole in charge now works inhouse a GoldmanSachs color me shocked).
The only bank they went after was Abacus. A tiny tiny bank serving those of Chinese descent. After roasting them over the coals for wrongdoing... they found 2 things. The bank did things in a traditional way that didn't meet the fed standard... meanwhile the bank did better than the big banks without people defaulting.
We reward them for the headline, then move onto the next thing.
There are still people out there, even after a Judge spanked the FBI and an AUSA for luring an impressionable man into supporting terrorism by loaning him the $20 so he could send ISIS an apple gift card, that thinks the FBI is protecting us.
We deserve better, but no one has the will to demand it assuming the system works perfectly, there is oversight, and the 15th time someone gets caught violating a citizens rights that this time it'll be different.
On the post: It's Not Personal: Content Moderation Always Involves Mistakes, Including Suspending Experts Sharing Knowledge
"It's completely natural for those who are on the receiving end of obviously bogus suspensions to take it personally"
I feel seen. GLARES
Another metric: how many suspensions go over 100 days with no response. There are to many competing goals in the mix & its making things much worse.
In response to a video of someone being 'kidnapped' for a party (victim did not know until later it was a prank) friend of mine said if someone grabbed her like that she would punch him.
12 hour timeout, having to remove the tweet, because it was wishing pain or harm on someone.
(HI KAT!)
"If someone assaults me I would hit them." - Banable tweet treated on the same level as someone threatening harm to all the Jews.
Zero tolerance policies still are bad ideas.
More timeouts for people threatening hypothetical imaginary people (who aren't part of one of the 10K protected groups on twitter) doesn't make the platform better or "safer".
The CoVid Misinfo AI is bugged, Senator Anti-Vaxx is still promoting all of his crazy ideas (can still see them on the platform) while some sociopath mocks morons who think there is a chip in the vaccines has the tweet hidden and is over 100 days in TwitMo waiting for assistance. I've offered to delete the tweet, but prying a phone number from my poor hands matters more than anything else it seems.
I guess if you use a trendy avatar, call yourself an immortal sociopath, you are held to higher standards than members of Congress.
On the post: Judge Dumps Iowa Prosecutors' Attempt To Jail An Activist For Sharing A Law Enforcement Document With Journalists
"Andersen, the journalist Tran shared the bulletin with, was not charged because "the police have the ability to use discretion when deciding whom to recommend for criminal charges," Miller wrote."
Something something the law doesn't apply to everyone equally, we only go after those we think we can crush under our bootheels.
Someone should be looking for a new job, he is unfit the the office he holds. He has shown he is willing to use the office to intimidate and harass citizens, with no basis in law. This is not someone who should have power over peoples lives after proving he is a vindictive asshole.
On the post: Experts Fear Biden Broadband Plan Won't Fix The Real Problem: Monopolization
Something something can not serve 2 masters.
We only elect them, but corporations give them perks, donations, glowing press.
We're going to get screwed in this once again.
Until we the people can put aside the little bullshit they use to keep us distracted and demand better under threat of being voted out nothing will ever be different.
For all of their talk about us mattering, we don't.
Nothing matters except their reelection campagin dollars.
On the post: Experts Fear Biden Broadband Plan Won't Fix The Real Problem: Monopolization
Re: Exclusivity Leases in DC
Most likely.
And given how little they "donate" to elected officials to maintain power, it wasn't that much.
Verizon might have given them a spool of wire to save on costs and offered a couple bucks & they signed on the dotted line.
On the post: Starlink Reviews Show The Limitations Of Musk's Broadband Play
If only the FCC asked citizens about their service & issues instead of listening only to CEOs who don't give a shit.
For a nation of free markets & free market will fix it, why do we allow these monopolies to still exist, offering shitty service & high prices. Giving them handouts, believing lie after lie, & writing laws to make sure we have shittier offerings than many 3rd world nations.
Someone should make a republican run away in terror and ask how can America be great again when we keep giving handouts to corporations who lie & overbill at every turn.
On the post: Fact Check: Yes, Fact Checking Is Totally Protected By The 1st Amendment
Gee if only Faux News had fact checkers this dribble never would have been released to the public.
But then they aren't a news outlet, they are entertainment pretending to be news... the same way Hearst pretending all of his reporting was legit.
I guess Faux & the Conservatives are confused that the fact checkers used by others require something more than a former president or cocaine addict to claim something is true but like actual facts to support the claims.
On the post: Citizen Continues Its Push To Become Cops-For-Hire By Leaking Sensitive Data... Twice
I stand by my earlier assessment...
TechBros invent the Klan.
A bunch of idiots running around blaming everything on everyone else & they aren't very bright.
One has to wonder if anyones asked the PD's in areas served by this shitshow how many false leads have they been fed & have they had to rescue anyone from a posse who got together to get the bad guy they think they heard whistled at a white woman.
It would be nice if someone with authority actually stepped in, in the name of public safety, and quashed their private police force fantasy's before they manage to lynch someone they misidentified.
On the post: Citizen -- The App That Wants To Be A Cop -- Offered A $30,000 Bounty For The Apprehension Of An Innocent Person
Wait till he learns he & his posse don't get QI, & pretending to be cops has a penalty.
On the post: High School Teacher's Copyright Suit Against Netflix Gets Dismissed Because Coincidence Isn't Protectable
To many lawyers of questionable ability.
Perhaps it is time those in charge actually provide oversight & punishments rather than worrying about how that might make the profession look. I mean come on they ignored Prenda for a decade & then magically decided maybe we'll suspend them while they are in prison. o_O
On the post: Senator Chris Coons Says No One Who Has Ever Criticized Intellectual Property Can Head The Patent Office
His rules...
Well he can't go to or watch the World Series...
Democratic senator criticizes World Series crowd booing Trump: 'The office of the president deserves respect'
He's criticized a whole bunch of things including Congress so he shoudl remove himself right?
On the post: Private Security Company Thinks It Should Be Able To Take People To Jail Just Like Real Cops
Re:
Why am I not that shocked to see thiel and palantir involved with this?
On the post: First Legal Challenge To Florida's Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Law Has Been Filed
Its only because we are conservatives who love the Constitution*!!!!
We small government conservatives, now let us make this massive political boondoggle to allow our government to be in control.
On a side note this also proves another TAC Truth.
Humans love to stuff more & more things into labels rendering them useless.
The left trying to add microagressions & 'eye rape' to the definition of rape.
The right turning 'conservative' into a catch all for right wing and Q insanity wrapped up in the prosperity gospel of things Jesus never said claiming they follow the teachings while refusing to live those teachings they demand everyone adhere to.
On the post: Senator Chris Coons Says No One Who Has Ever Criticized Intellectual Property Can Head The Patent Office
Can we get him to explain the multiple patents on PB&J please before we yeet him into the sun?
On the post: Warner Bros. Bullies Airbnb Hobbit-Themed Offering Into Changing Its Name Over 'Hobbit' Trademark
Re:
Shhh that's the next round.
On the post: Verizon Forces Users On To More Expensive Broadband Plans Just To Get $50 Covid Subsidy
'Merika in a nutshell.
Y'all expect they will do the right thing then are shocked just shocked when they find a way to screw you.
Telco
Cable
Elected Officials
Corps
When y'all gonna learn the lessons from the past?
If there is a way they can screw you, even in the face of armageddon, for a couple cents more they will.
Somehow no one considered that unless it was explicitly spelled out, and even then half the time, they'll screw you.
They screwed fire fighters in the middle of a disaster to get a few cents more, but thought oh they'll do the right thing.
Also missing here is the lesson of we gave them a shit ton of bandwidth & cash to build out a network for first responders... but no one thought to put milestones in it... just keep paying them as they do nothing.
On the post: Warner Bros. Bullies Airbnb Hobbit-Themed Offering Into Changing Its Name Over 'Hobbit' Trademark
If they take down 8 hobbit themed things is that a hobyte?
On the post: EFF Tells Court Defendants Must Be Allowed To Examine The DNA Software Used To Convict Them
"This is why different DNA programs, and even different laboratories using the same program, will generate substantially different results for the same sample."
So these newest bestest tests are the latest in field test kits?
Like that recent story about the cop claiming the ashes of a child were drugs because the test said so.
On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware
"Ransomware can’t succeed without cryptocurrency."
The UK thought that murder can't succeed without guns, now they stab each other & have to register ownership of cutlery.
You know what really really can stop Ransomware from succeeding??
Kill all the humans.
No really they are the weak link in nearly every ransomware attack.
Baring that perhaps demanding a tiny amount of security from these companies with actual penalties for not doing it.
If we just ban Western Union none of those Nigerian Princes could make a dollar, I see no problem with this make it so.
How in the actual fsck is this person allowed out in public without a team of minders keeping him from running into traffic to show that if we ban all cars no one would get run over.
On the post: Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If you can't win an honest game
smiles in sociopath
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
You've managed to inter people who were much less dangerous many times before.
A global health emergency seems like a much better reason than we hate Asians.
We have plenty of space to hold them where they can't harm others with their wackiness & its not like the neighbors have taken advantage of those in internment camps stealing homes, property, businesses.... oh oops.
People thought I was just being extra snarky when I called humans the "Hold my beer" race.
I really am always confused how the species manages to survive their own self destructive actions.
When someone wants to scream MUH RIGHTS...
I present the 100 miles inland that is a Constitution Free Zone, "Free Speech Zones", Well she wasn't the target so it didn't violate her rights, and all of the other insane things you've accepted in the name of safety & security.
These maskholes are a clear and present danger.
They can & will end up spreading it to others, not to mention each one of them can create their own variants to add to the mix.
You are more likely to be infected by a maskhole than blown up on a plane by terrorists, perhaps we should respond like its actually serious & stop coddling those screaming that mask mandates are just like the Holocaust. Lets give them the real feel & pack them into camps. Then their selfish natures can run their course.
500K+ dead when a majority shouldn't have gotten infected in the first place if maskholes had been adults about it.
You've shredded the rights you all hold so sacred over much smaller death counts for very little gain, where if the maskholes were removed from the general population until they are vaccinated or dead we could end the pandemic.
I guess humans only accept locking up those with more melanin to "solve" problems.
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