If I was not able to even send it in the first place, how is that 'was read, but ignored'?
Literally, the system did not permit you even to have the ability to send, AT ALL.
It wasn't "I get to type and then it's sent elsewhere" - on the 'contact' link it said 'give your address, now heres your rep, this is the one you can contact, and not anyone else'.
You're reaching so far, you should look into being a goalkeeper.
no, it actually would not let you send him a message, you were blocked from sending a message to a congressmember that did not represent you, so it's NOT like the mute at all.
That's as may be, BUT norac was saying 'shes on committees, sure, but you don't go to one on the committee, you have something for them all, or at least the chair, not the freshman.
The business is with the committee, not one member. And so it again comes to the question of 'district'?
Many years ago, I went to engage with Lynn Westmoreland after his disastrous appearance on the Colbert Report (where he wanted a 10 commandments statue, but couldn't name but 3 commandments)
He refused to take my email back then, because I didn't reside in his district any more (I'd moved a few months earlier). I don't see this as being that different, and it was an activity on the house website.
ok, the EDNY covers Richmond, kings, queens, Nassau and Suffolk. AOC's district covers part of Queens and the Bronx.
So, if this guy lives in the Queens part of her district, then he may have a case, depending on the specifics of his actions.
HOWEVER, if he's elsewhere in the EDNY, then he may be out of luck.
And indeed I read further on, and " Mr. Hikind lives in Kings County, New York", which is Brooklyn, and his assembly district (brooklyn 46) is the midwood and Borough Park areas, which are NOT in the 12th Congressional district, it's in the 10th.
So, AOC is not his representative, Jerry Nadler is. So, if he wants to address his member of Congress, He's who he should be communicating with, and he's the only member of the house that has any sort of responsbility to be open for address. I mean, I can't go to AOC and have her do things for me either, I have to go to deputy whip (and living photo-op, seriously he does nothing else) Drew Ferguson (who is more whipped than whip-er)
So, she may win, because it's not her job to listen and deal with nutjobs nationwide, only if they reside in the Bronx and bits of Queens.
while they're sideloading, one does have to wonder what hte potential is for it to be turned back on them, either by
a) killing the program and running a fake version which says 'all clear" (possible)
b) expanding on the practice that you NEVER plug in random USB devices (there are USB killers, just put it in the port of a phone that you charge wirelessly)
c) Weatherwaxing them (taken from this bit of the Discworld novel 'Carpe Jugulum' - “You wanted to know where I’d put my self,” said Granny. “I didn’t go anywhere. I just put it in something alive, and you took it. You invited me in. I’m in every muscle in your body and I’m in your head, oh yes. I was in the blood, Count. In the blood. I ain’t been vampired. You’ve been Weatherwaxed. All of you. And you’ve always listened to your blood, haven’t you?”
Extremely hard to do, but possible and could really bite them on the backside. would require details of what they're using to sideload though.
A really good and close friend of mine (of 20+ years) had a stroke just the other day (sunday night), while she was asleep (happy fucking birthday me!). she was rushed to the hospital, and tests were done IMMEDIATELY. - you know why, to find and correct the damage. Then straight into surgery to deal with the cause.
She's already home. That's what happens with Stroke cases, it has to be dealt with quick. Luckily it seems she got REAL lucky, just some weakness, no loss of control on her left side.
Now, I also happen to know how late night radiology goes. A good friend from school is a radiologist. He used to practice in London, but with Brexit, he moved to ireland. Every so often he's got to do 'on call' work, which means sitting at home, going through the scans that are sent to him, all night long. Since he's 5 hours off from me, he'll call me, and we'll chat, I'll keep him awake, so on. Sometimes he'll go quiet when he gets a rush job like... a stroke case.
Oh, this woman makes my blood boil so much, exploiting and trying to play this shit for money. ARGH!
For all we know, Bing and Amazon are licensing from Genius, and the contract includes a non-disclosure agreement (or at least a 'clients choice to reveal, you don't advertise our contract' clause). Or it could be part of a settlement from another past issue, we just don't know.
I'd still keep the watermark, just to see if someone not a licensee is scraping them, even from those who are licensed.
All we have are a set of public facing circumstances that APPEAR the same, nothing more, and we won't know any more unless one of the parties involved tell us more; anything else is just blind speculation.
Re: Re: Re: Liberals try to create milieu in which gun = guilt o
"The reason we have the second Amendment is so we can guard our lives and our families and our personal property against those who would bring harm to them."
Nope, not even close. I literally just had to school my congressman on this as he was happily wishing the US Army its 244th birthday last week. The US Army was formed in 1792 (originally as the Legion of the US) and not 1775. The Continental Army was founded in 1775, but was disbanded in 1783.
The idea of the second amendment being about self defense is a creation of the last 30 years, nothing more. The reason we have the second amendment is because Hamilton hated the military, and Madison was such a loser, he felt the 9 months he was employed as his fathers XO (a position his dad bought so his son wouldn't see combat, but would instead spend doing paperwork) made him a military genius. None of them trusted the military, so they disbanded ALL of the military (except for a regiment to form a central cadre for northwest defense with militia around them, and an artiliary squad to guard the west point armory). Hamilton and Madison pushed for the citizen-soldiery idea, which was a fresh coat of paint on the feudal levy system used until the 1600s. After all, it'd won them the war of independence, right? 200k armed civilian-militiamen? (Well, that and the 50,000 professional troops from France and Spain, to face off against the 25k british troops, and the 20k german mercs, and the threatening noises france and spain were making in Europe which dissuaded the uk from sending more in case they restarted the semi-continuous state of warfare that had been going on between them for the previous 50 years)
Regardless, they pushed it though in 1791, and so it became. Then there was its first test. Battle of the Wabash. 1100 men under General St Clair, militia all, went off against Blue Jackets 1000 trained troops. The result was 30-30 - 30 or so of St Clair's men escaped, while Blue Jacket lost roughly 30 men. Biggest defeat in us history. Almost took down Washington's presidency. in response the Congress started its first ever investigation, which caused washington to call the first ever cabinet meeting, and then in the end create the concept of Executive Privilege to stop the investigation taking him down. Oh, and then he Created the Army (as the legion, as noted above), followed by the navy in 1794, and the marines on July 11 1798), and the militia concept kinda died, because htey had no way to rescind an amendment, and no political capital to do so, having spent it all to pass it a year earlier.
And thus led to a whole series of lawsuits over the 2nd amendment. Basically though, it wasn't about guns for self defense, it was only for legitimate guns useful in warfare, and for the purpose of bolstering the army if needed.
Thus things stayed until the rise of political Justices, there not to interpret the law as written, but as they want it to be, and they've been influenced to make it. The Thomas' and Scalia's, who create new concepts by fabricating a historical basis for it.
Re: Liberals try to create milieu in which gun = guilt on sight.
The idea that the 9th circuit is 'liberal' is a myth.
Also London is WELL below New York for murder rate.
And yes, one of the hallmarks of oppressive regimes is the abundance of firearms, because they're great in offense, terrible in defense, so if they want you dead, you're dead, your gun ain't going to do anything to save you, except maybe also get your family shot too. The Khmer Rouge showed this to perfection, when they took power and then consolidated it by going to every gunowners home, pointing 20 weapons at the house, and said 'hand over your guns, or your family gets it'. People handed them over, because the alternative was that sure you shoot one of the guys, or hell, 5-6 of the guys. There's still 15 more, and they shoot you, and your family, and THEN take your gun. A fairly small number disarmed the much larger armed populace in a week that way. Guns just plain suck as a defensive weapon.
10 years since i had my near-nervous breakdown, from trying to coordinate the Swedish and German EP campaigns, from the US. And ultimately 7.3%, 2 seats in Sweden, and a million votes in Germany.... Worth it!
We did indeed notice. The thing is, there's fuck all we can do about it. 'customer concerns' is rather far down the 'things politicians give a toss about' while 'campaign contributions from major companies' is much higher.
There was the 'great outage' of creative cloud in 2014. One of the conventions I work on uses InDesign for the signs. Since it's an event, and fluid, they leave printing to the last minute. Which is great, unless InDesign won't let you open it because of DRM. Much panicking ensued.
We had a similar issue the year before, when the hotel the signage department is based in (they print saturday signs on friday, sunday on sat, monday on sunday) had their entire internet go down on the thursday. The hotel was using its emergency dialup modem to update room bookings. Signage had to be put in a different hotel (that event spans 5 hotels) and instead of being in the central one, it was in an outlying room, in the outlying hotel (2 blocks from the 3 interconnected ones, and 2 blocks down a significant hill for the 5th. its main use is for registration and photoshoots) because that was the only spare space with net access, to keep adobe enabled.
As a popular costume at the event would say, "I hate them coconuts"
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: specific locality
If I was not able to even send it in the first place, how is that 'was read, but ignored'?
Literally, the system did not permit you even to have the ability to send, AT ALL.
It wasn't "I get to type and then it's sent elsewhere" - on the 'contact' link it said 'give your address, now heres your rep, this is the one you can contact, and not anyone else'.
You're reaching so far, you should look into being a goalkeeper.
On the post: Following Trump Ruling Against Twitter Blockade, AOC Sued For Her Blocks On Twitter
Re: Re: Re: Re: specific locality
no, it actually would not let you send him a message, you were blocked from sending a message to a congressmember that did not represent you, so it's NOT like the mute at all.
On the post: Following Trump Ruling Against Twitter Blockade, AOC Sued For Her Blocks On Twitter
Re: Re: Re: Re: specific locality
That's as may be, BUT norac was saying 'shes on committees, sure, but you don't go to one on the committee, you have something for them all, or at least the chair, not the freshman.
The business is with the committee, not one member. And so it again comes to the question of 'district'?
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Re: Re: specific locality
Many years ago, I went to engage with Lynn Westmoreland after his disastrous appearance on the Colbert Report (where he wanted a 10 commandments statue, but couldn't name but 3 commandments)
He refused to take my email back then, because I didn't reside in his district any more (I'd moved a few months earlier). I don't see this as being that different, and it was an activity on the house website.
And as for her committees, there are contact pages on both the oversight (https://oversight.house.gov/contact) and financial services (https://financialservices.house.gov/contact/) committees to contact those.
On the post: Following Trump Ruling Against Twitter Blockade, AOC Sued For Her Blocks On Twitter
specific locality
ok, the EDNY covers Richmond, kings, queens, Nassau and Suffolk. AOC's district covers part of Queens and the Bronx.
So, if this guy lives in the Queens part of her district, then he may have a case, depending on the specifics of his actions.
HOWEVER, if he's elsewhere in the EDNY, then he may be out of luck.
And indeed I read further on, and " Mr. Hikind lives in Kings County, New York", which is Brooklyn, and his assembly district (brooklyn 46) is the midwood and Borough Park areas, which are NOT in the 12th Congressional district, it's in the 10th.
So, AOC is not his representative, Jerry Nadler is. So, if he wants to address his member of Congress, He's who he should be communicating with, and he's the only member of the house that has any sort of responsbility to be open for address. I mean, I can't go to AOC and have her do things for me either, I have to go to deputy whip (and living photo-op, seriously he does nothing else) Drew Ferguson (who is more whipped than whip-er)
So, she may win, because it's not her job to listen and deal with nutjobs nationwide, only if they reside in the Bronx and bits of Queens.
On the post: YouTube Finally Demands Specificity From Copyright Claimants
wrong link
I assume the link you meant to put to the youtube blog on the new changes is https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/07/better-tools-to-resolve-manual-Content-ID-claims.htm l
not https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/04/addressing-creator-feedback-and-update.html
from back in april
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Re:
Uh geee...
Thanks?
On the post: Chinese Border Agents Now Installing Malware On Foreigners' Cellphones
potential for a Granny weatherwax
while they're sideloading, one does have to wonder what hte potential is for it to be turned back on them, either by
a) killing the program and running a fake version which says 'all clear" (possible)
b) expanding on the practice that you NEVER plug in random USB devices (there are USB killers, just put it in the port of a phone that you charge wirelessly)
c) Weatherwaxing them (taken from this bit of the Discworld novel 'Carpe Jugulum' - “You wanted to know where I’d put my self,” said Granny. “I didn’t go anywhere. I just put it in something alive, and you took it. You invited me in. I’m in every muscle in your body and I’m in your head, oh yes. I was in the blood, Count. In the blood. I ain’t been vampired. You’ve been Weatherwaxed. All of you. And you’ve always listened to your blood, haven’t you?”
Extremely hard to do, but possible and could really bite them on the backside. would require details of what they're using to sideload though.
On the post: Inside Story On The War On Backpage Raises All Sorts Of Legal Questions
Re: Re: Same can be said of the Dotcom fiasco
he may not have visited, but he did business there, because the servers were there.
On the post: State Judge Prefers Prior Restraint To The First Amendment, Orders Blogger To Delete Supposedly Defamatory Posts
Oh this pisses me off like you wouldn't believe
A really good and close friend of mine (of 20+ years) had a stroke just the other day (sunday night), while she was asleep (happy fucking birthday me!). she was rushed to the hospital, and tests were done IMMEDIATELY. - you know why, to find and correct the damage. Then straight into surgery to deal with the cause.
She's already home. That's what happens with Stroke cases, it has to be dealt with quick. Luckily it seems she got REAL lucky, just some weakness, no loss of control on her left side.
Now, I also happen to know how late night radiology goes. A good friend from school is a radiologist. He used to practice in London, but with Brexit, he moved to ireland. Every so often he's got to do 'on call' work, which means sitting at home, going through the scans that are sent to him, all night long. Since he's 5 hours off from me, he'll call me, and we'll chat, I'll keep him awake, so on. Sometimes he'll go quiet when he gets a rush job like... a stroke case.
Oh, this woman makes my blood boil so much, exploiting and trying to play this shit for money. ARGH!
On the post: Genius/Google Dispute Gets Even Dumber: Microsoft And Amazon Show Same 'Coded' Lyrics, But Genius Doesn't Care
Maybe a licensee
For all we know, Bing and Amazon are licensing from Genius, and the contract includes a non-disclosure agreement (or at least a 'clients choice to reveal, you don't advertise our contract' clause). Or it could be part of a settlement from another past issue, we just don't know.
I'd still keep the watermark, just to see if someone not a licensee is scraping them, even from those who are licensed.
All we have are a set of public facing circumstances that APPEAR the same, nothing more, and we won't know any more unless one of the parties involved tell us more; anything else is just blind speculation.
On the post: Appeals Court To Cops: There's Nothing Inherently Suspicious About Running From The Police
Re: Re: Re: Liberals try to create milieu in which gun = guilt o
"The reason we have the second Amendment is so we can guard our lives and our families and our personal property against those who would bring harm to them."
Nope, not even close. I literally just had to school my congressman on this as he was happily wishing the US Army its 244th birthday last week. The US Army was formed in 1792 (originally as the Legion of the US) and not 1775. The Continental Army was founded in 1775, but was disbanded in 1783.
The idea of the second amendment being about self defense is a creation of the last 30 years, nothing more. The reason we have the second amendment is because Hamilton hated the military, and Madison was such a loser, he felt the 9 months he was employed as his fathers XO (a position his dad bought so his son wouldn't see combat, but would instead spend doing paperwork) made him a military genius. None of them trusted the military, so they disbanded ALL of the military (except for a regiment to form a central cadre for northwest defense with militia around them, and an artiliary squad to guard the west point armory). Hamilton and Madison pushed for the citizen-soldiery idea, which was a fresh coat of paint on the feudal levy system used until the 1600s. After all, it'd won them the war of independence, right? 200k armed civilian-militiamen? (Well, that and the 50,000 professional troops from France and Spain, to face off against the 25k british troops, and the 20k german mercs, and the threatening noises france and spain were making in Europe which dissuaded the uk from sending more in case they restarted the semi-continuous state of warfare that had been going on between them for the previous 50 years)
Regardless, they pushed it though in 1791, and so it became. Then there was its first test. Battle of the Wabash. 1100 men under General St Clair, militia all, went off against Blue Jackets 1000 trained troops. The result was 30-30 - 30 or so of St Clair's men escaped, while Blue Jacket lost roughly 30 men. Biggest defeat in us history. Almost took down Washington's presidency. in response the Congress started its first ever investigation, which caused washington to call the first ever cabinet meeting, and then in the end create the concept of Executive Privilege to stop the investigation taking him down. Oh, and then he Created the Army (as the legion, as noted above), followed by the navy in 1794, and the marines on July 11 1798), and the militia concept kinda died, because htey had no way to rescind an amendment, and no political capital to do so, having spent it all to pass it a year earlier.
And thus led to a whole series of lawsuits over the 2nd amendment. Basically though, it wasn't about guns for self defense, it was only for legitimate guns useful in warfare, and for the purpose of bolstering the army if needed.
Thus things stayed until the rise of political Justices, there not to interpret the law as written, but as they want it to be, and they've been influenced to make it. The Thomas' and Scalia's, who create new concepts by fabricating a historical basis for it.
On the post: Appeals Court To Cops: There's Nothing Inherently Suspicious About Running From The Police
Re: Liberals try to create milieu in which gun = guilt on sight.
The idea that the 9th circuit is 'liberal' is a myth.
Also London is WELL below New York for murder rate.
And yes, one of the hallmarks of oppressive regimes is the abundance of firearms, because they're great in offense, terrible in defense, so if they want you dead, you're dead, your gun ain't going to do anything to save you, except maybe also get your family shot too. The Khmer Rouge showed this to perfection, when they took power and then consolidated it by going to every gunowners home, pointing 20 weapons at the house, and said 'hand over your guns, or your family gets it'. People handed them over, because the alternative was that sure you shoot one of the guys, or hell, 5-6 of the guys. There's still 15 more, and they shoot you, and your family, and THEN take your gun. A fairly small number disarmed the much larger armed populace in a week that way. Guns just plain suck as a defensive weapon.
You might want to try some new talking points.
On the post: Prenda Mastermind Gets 14 Years In Prison, Told To Pay Back Just $1.5 Million
Re: SO where's out_of_the_blue NOW?
it was a bluff.
He's in custody now, about to start a 14 year sentence....
On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: June 9th - 15th
10 years since i had my near-nervous breakdown, from trying to coordinate the Swedish and German EP campaigns, from the US. And ultimately 7.3%, 2 seats in Sweden, and a million votes in Germany.... Worth it!
On the post: US Telcos Are Giving Up On Residential Broadband And Nobody Seems To Have Noticed
We noticed
We did indeed notice. The thing is, there's fuck all we can do about it. 'customer concerns' is rather far down the 'things politicians give a toss about' while 'campaign contributions from major companies' is much higher.
On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email
Re: Re: This should be a book
Electronic Mail And the Invention Lie
On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email
I think you forgot the "mic drop" (or should that be 'Mike drop') at the end...
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Re: Re: Davinci Resolve
yeah, thats the one i'm trying. Trying to learn so I can teach it in a few months time, mainly to new people.
On the post: Adobe Warns Users Someone Else Might Sue Them For Using Old Versions Of Photoshop
Re:
Also, I'm reminded of something else by my wife.
There was the 'great outage' of creative cloud in 2014. One of the conventions I work on uses InDesign for the signs. Since it's an event, and fluid, they leave printing to the last minute. Which is great, unless InDesign won't let you open it because of DRM. Much panicking ensued.
We had a similar issue the year before, when the hotel the signage department is based in (they print saturday signs on friday, sunday on sat, monday on sunday) had their entire internet go down on the thursday. The hotel was using its emergency dialup modem to update room bookings. Signage had to be put in a different hotel (that event spans 5 hotels) and instead of being in the central one, it was in an outlying room, in the outlying hotel (2 blocks from the 3 interconnected ones, and 2 blocks down a significant hill for the 5th. its main use is for registration and photoshoots) because that was the only spare space with net access, to keep adobe enabled.
As a popular costume at the event would say, "I hate them coconuts"
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