Yeah, once they enforce free speech on private webforums it will be the Bill Hagerty really loves Big Ned's New Discount Boner Pills! (And you will too!) messages that will really hoist him on his own petard.
In the aughts (I think) McDonalds started to advertise that its shakes contain actual ice cream, given Wendy's frosties and Jack-in-the-Box's milkshakes were being advertised as such (implying McDonalds shakes were not milkshakes).
Remember McDonalds introduced the all-beef (no-filler) burger, so the fast-food industry was already shady about its food products, and using real food while its competitors might not be was a marketing theme.
Law enforcement from the village precincts up to the FBI have been defying congressional orders for decades, and ICE is signing its own warrants when they can't find a drunk or indifferent judge to scribble a signature for them.
That is to say, this might help if the system wasn't already broken to scuttle the warrant review process.
The for the children exception to section 230 has already done untold damage to the web while further endangering the trafficked people it was (allegedly) intended to protect.
And yet, no one in Washington, on either side of the aisle is eager to make section 230 whole again.
My latest upgrade featured a copy of Windows 10, which I've been trying to keep from tracking all my movements and reporting back to Big Microsoft. It's an ongoing fight.
But delving deeper into the OS, it's actually harder to tweak the system than Win7. I'm spending a lot of time in Regedit.
I'm trying to understand why businesses are sticking to Windows unless its sheer habit, especially since all the new flashy features mean reporting keylogs to Microsoft (who is, like Amazon, rather chummy with law enforcement). If I was, say, a general contractor, I wouldn't want them looking at my data for leverage.
Hawley's behavior in this regard appears to be consistent with what we've seen among rightwing actors since 2015 (if not even further back) in which wrongdoing is impossible by the white chess-pieces and righteous behavior is impossible from the black chess-pieces.
Or to borrow another metaphor, the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled is fooling people into believing their enemies are the Devil, Himself. Then they are free to commit any atrocity on their rivals, to justify any heinous behavior in vanquishing what they believe to be the ultimate evil. Even when it means transgressing against their own ethics and creeds, and losing their humanity.
Of course (skipping metaphors again) once one is seduced by the Dark Side to neutralize the greatest foe, all they have left is a big giant hammer, and all they can see around them are nails.
Hopefully Visa and Amex don't follow suit. But this is yet another example of neo-feudalism where non-state actors decide to enforce their loyalties or creeds on a society.
Maybe there needs to be a state option for cashless transactions.
When James Comey talked of honoring the mission (which under his watch went from law enforcement to national security) how did he reconcile acting like a family of racketeering mobsters?
I guess the Bureau hasn't improved since the Hoover years. And it's still antagonistic to the people of the United States.
Except it is according to SCOTUS. If you're a police officer and are acting [in the color of] good faith, then you can arrest whoever you want for any reason that you [pretend to] believe is against the law.
Rather they're going bright, where law enforcement can not only bypass phone and internet encryption but also legal limitations on what they're allowed to access during an unwarranted search.
So we're back to square one, where they can scrape a suspect's entire history for something to bust him on and to disgrace him in the eyes of a jury.
So we each better hope no official or officer decides we have something worth ruining a life over.
Delicious, substantially nutritious non-tooth murdering cake maybe, or better yet a nutrition program that teaches kids and parents not to snack on sometimes foods (for starters).
Part of the problem is how much of our food industries focus on the delicious part with no regard for actual substance, which is why I can't be trusted near peanut-butter M&Ms.
But the NSA traded its prior tool of collaborating with the public to create a robust culture of high-grade cybersecurity for a library of zero-day exploits, betraying that robust culture and exiling the public.
So they traded their socket spanner for a hammer, and now can't even imagine a socket spanner.
The right thing to do is put the NSA budget and resources in the hands of an EFF-like entity that doesn't capitulate to mission creep. We won't get that.
But maybe after a few more successful, embarrassing attacks from foreign and corporate interests, they'll recognize how useless their hammer is in this situation.
One more time: Yes, if you're a Fourteen-Worder and you go to a bakery for a swastika cake, they don't have to provide you with one. But according to most public accommodation laws, they do have to provide you with a basic blank cake and leave you to decorate it. Want a designer to design you a cake shaped like a giant swastika, you may have to shop around. These days you'd have to shop around much less than you would have say twenty years ago.
A Muslim bakery that makes wedding cakes will have to provide one for a gay couple, just like the ones he provides to straight couples. He doesn't have to put the two-grooms (or two brides) mannequins on top. He doesn't have to make any statements he doesn't like. But if he provides a generic cake to some people, he has to provide them to the rest of the public.
Cake-makers are allowed to choose what kind of decorations they provide, what symbols and phrases they're willing to write on a cake, but not in provision of the cake itself. And your framing it as one thing at the top of your post, and then another at the bottom is confusing me.
The times I've read Thomas' legal opinions, he certainly seemed to have the disposition of a Dickens villain glad to dispose of thieving urchins and ragged toshers. A right proper London sort, like a Turpin or a Wargraves.
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Covering up a crime
Principals of plausible deniability tells me a friend of a friend in a precinct was able to secure one for him.
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Endless possibilities
An airliner would be great if she had access.
I'd suggest a Mars rover but ballast is at a premium on those.
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Posting "Bill Hagerty is a tool"
Yeah, once they enforce free speech on private webforums it will be the Bill Hagerty really loves Big Ned's New Discount Boner Pills! (And you will too!) messages that will really hoist him on his own petard.
On the post: Captive Markets Are Just Hostages; Or Why Your McDonalds Never Seems To Have A Functioning Shake Machine
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Question
In the aughts (I think) McDonalds started to advertise that its shakes contain actual ice cream, given Wendy's frosties and Jack-in-the-Box's milkshakes were being advertised as such (implying McDonalds shakes were not milkshakes).
Remember McDonalds introduced the all-beef (no-filler) burger, so the fast-food industry was already shady about its food products, and using real food while its competitors might not be was a marketing theme.
On the post: Wyden-Backed Bill Would Make It Illegal For Government To Obtain Location Data Without A Warrant
Isn't ICE signing it's own warrants?
Law enforcement from the village precincts up to the FBI have been defying congressional orders for decades, and ICE is signing its own warrants when they can't find a drunk or indifferent judge to scribble a signature for them.
That is to say, this might help if the system wasn't already broken to scuttle the warrant review process.
On the post: Captive Markets Are Just Hostages; Or Why Your McDonalds Never Seems To Have A Functioning Shake Machine
Right to repair?
Would this be yet another monopoly that would be broken by established right-to-repair regulations?
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Meanwhile we still have SESTA/FOSTA
The for the children exception to section 230 has already done untold damage to the web while further endangering the trafficked people it was (allegedly) intended to protect.
And yet, no one in Washington, on either side of the aisle is eager to make section 230 whole again.
On the post: FBI Flexes Rule 41 Powers, Uses Remote Access Technique To Neutralize Compromised Software All Over The US
Non-windows operating systems
My latest upgrade featured a copy of Windows 10, which I've been trying to keep from tracking all my movements and reporting back to Big Microsoft. It's an ongoing fight.
But delving deeper into the OS, it's actually harder to tweak the system than Win7. I'm spending a lot of time in Regedit.
I'm trying to understand why businesses are sticking to Windows unless its sheer habit, especially since all the new flashy features mean reporting keylogs to Microsoft (who is, like Amazon, rather chummy with law enforcement). If I was, say, a general contractor, I wouldn't want them looking at my data for leverage.
On the post: Josh Hawley: We Must Break Up Companies Whose Politics I Disagree With For Discriminating Against People Whose Politics I Agree With
Cult loyality over creed
Hawley's behavior in this regard appears to be consistent with what we've seen among rightwing actors since 2015 (if not even further back) in which wrongdoing is impossible by the white chess-pieces and righteous behavior is impossible from the black chess-pieces.
Or to borrow another metaphor, the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled is fooling people into believing their enemies are the Devil, Himself. Then they are free to commit any atrocity on their rivals, to justify any heinous behavior in vanquishing what they believe to be the ultimate evil. Even when it means transgressing against their own ethics and creeds, and losing their humanity.
Of course (skipping metaphors again) once one is seduced by the Dark Side to neutralize the greatest foe, all they have left is a big giant hammer, and all they can see around them are nails.
On the post: Mastercard Lays Down New Rules For Streaming Sites That Require Them To Review Content Before Publication
I freaked when Paypal refused to serve Asange
Hopefully Visa and Amex don't follow suit. But this is yet another example of neo-feudalism where non-state actors decide to enforce their loyalties or creeds on a society.
Maybe there needs to be a state option for cashless transactions.
On the post: FBI Scores Itself Another Lawsuit For Using The No Fly List To Punish A Lebanese Man For Not Becoming An Informant
The FBI extorts innocents to become informants
When James Comey talked of honoring the mission (which under his watch went from law enforcement to national security) how did he reconcile acting like a family of racketeering mobsters?
I guess the Bureau hasn't improved since the Hoover years. And it's still antagonistic to the people of the United States.
Disband the justice system. The whole thing.
On the post: Appeals Court Extends Qualified Immunity To Cops Who Knew They Were Violating A Photographer's Rights
The courts enable the misconduct of the police.
And that another reason why the entire justice system will have to be abolished.
If we want to change our system from our fascist police state, that is.
On the post: Appeals Court Extends Qualified Immunity To Cops Who Knew They Were Violating A Photographer's Rights
Ignorance is no excuse
Except it is according to SCOTUS. If you're a police officer and are acting [in the color of] good faith, then you can arrest whoever you want for any reason that you [pretend to] believe is against the law.
Checkmate, citizen.
On the post: It's Apparently Bipartisan To Threaten To Punish Companies Via Antitrust Law For Speech You Don't Like
Re: Re: punitive antitrust
Has antitrust been used in a non-petty public serving way in the last twenty years?
And why are there antitrust exceptions? Isn't a crime of trust a crime of trust regardless of what large establishment company is doing it?
On the post: New Info About Encrypted Messaging Service Bust Shows Signal Protocol Is Still Secure, Law Enforcement Can Still Bypass Encryption
So communications are not going dark
Rather they're going bright, where law enforcement can not only bypass phone and internet encryption but also legal limitations on what they're allowed to access during an unwarranted search.
So we're back to square one, where they can scrape a suspect's entire history for something to bust him on and to disgrace him in the eyes of a jury.
So we each better hope no official or officer decides we have something worth ruining a life over.
On the post: UK Child Welfare Charity Latest To Claim Encryption Does Nothing But Protect Criminals
Non-tooth murdering cake
Delicious, substantially nutritious non-tooth murdering cake maybe, or better yet a nutrition program that teaches kids and parents not to snack on sometimes foods (for starters).
Part of the problem is how much of our food industries focus on the delicious part with no regard for actual substance, which is why I can't be trusted near peanut-butter M&Ms.
On the post: NSA Director Says More Domestic Surveillance Might Stop Foreign Hacking; Fails To Explain Why NSA Isn't Stopping Much Foreign Hacking
This smacks of when all you have is a hammer.
But the NSA traded its prior tool of collaborating with the public to create a robust culture of high-grade cybersecurity for a library of zero-day exploits, betraying that robust culture and exiling the public.
So they traded their socket spanner for a hammer, and now can't even imagine a socket spanner.
The right thing to do is put the NSA budget and resources in the hands of an EFF-like entity that doesn't capitulate to mission creep. We won't get that.
But maybe after a few more successful, embarrassing attacks from foreign and corporate interests, they'll recognize how useless their hammer is in this situation.
On the post: Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
Swastika Cake
One more time: Yes, if you're a Fourteen-Worder and you go to a bakery for a swastika cake, they don't have to provide you with one. But according to most public accommodation laws, they do have to provide you with a basic blank cake and leave you to decorate it. Want a designer to design you a cake shaped like a giant swastika, you may have to shop around. These days you'd have to shop around much less than you would have say twenty years ago.
A Muslim bakery that makes wedding cakes will have to provide one for a gay couple, just like the ones he provides to straight couples. He doesn't have to put the two-grooms (or two brides) mannequins on top. He doesn't have to make any statements he doesn't like. But if he provides a generic cake to some people, he has to provide them to the rest of the public.
Cake-makers are allowed to choose what kind of decorations they provide, what symbols and phrases they're willing to write on a cake, but not in provision of the cake itself. And your framing it as one thing at the top of your post, and then another at the bottom is confusing me.
On the post: Senator Mark Warner Doesn't Seem To Understand Even The Very Basic Fundamentals Of Section 230 As He Seeks To Destroy It
Warner is not a nerd, but he disagrees.
(I'm never going to let them live down this attitude.)
On the post: Appeals Court Judge Attacks Fundamental Principle Of 1st Amendment Law, Because He Thinks The Media Likes Democrats Too Much
Originalerist
The times I've read Thomas' legal opinions, he certainly seemed to have the disposition of a Dickens villain glad to dispose of thieving urchins and ragged toshers. A right proper London sort, like a Turpin or a Wargraves.
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