Does this mean they really are the Chosen Few? My brain is about to explode! Wait!
God protects children, drunks, and fools.
Oh, thank God. My brain almost decided to leave for Mars. So which of the above are the Florida politicians... definitely not children, so what does that leave... ;)
We're about due for the Franchise Wars predicted in Demolition Man. Some company is going to decide that hiring mercenaries is cheaper than hiring lawyers, and we're off!
but unfortunately that website seems to think that disallowing any copy/paste of its text is somehow the same as enforcing copyright. When attempting to do so, you get a copyright warning.
Get the add-on "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy" - it gets rid of that kind of nonsense. I tried the site you mention (may it forever not get traffic), and it works like a charm.
but it appears to still be an active lawsuit against the Twitter users @DevinCow and @DevinNunesMom. Shortly thereafter, Twitter received the Subpoena. Public Tweets posted by the Account indicate that it may be operated by the same user as @DevinNunesMom.
Did they just call Devin Nunes' mom a COW? Hmm... yes, I believe they did. Maybe Devin should be suing THEM for defamation. ;)
I've known quite a few people like that. One gentleman I knew years back owned six computer stores, so (in his opinion) that made him a computer expert (he barely knew how to turn on a computer).
The primary problem with using IR as a surveillance camera is that it also sees through many types of clothes, making them a privacy nightmare for surveillance companies. And you thought there was a fit thrown over millimeter radar in airports...
People really need to check out Thunderf00t's channel on youtube where he applies simple physics to many of Musk's claims... let's say that physics wins 10 times out of 10. :)
If you're poor and someone robs your apartment, they could very well wipe out everything you own.
If you're poor and someone robs your apartment, odds are highly likely that even if the cops respond, they'll never catch whomever did it. That's always been the case. The best you could ever hope was that a fence got busted and happened to have some of your stuff, assuming you had the serial numbers and they hadn't removed the serial numbers from the items. Cops only respond quick enough to possibly catch burglars if the place in question belongs to someone rich or connected.
There is also some truth to the part where Amazon isn't at fault - it IS hard to find a public bathroom these days. As a Walmart employee, I see (and direct) many delivery people to the bathrooms because we're one of the few places where bathrooms are open to the general public. Amazon can't put bathrooms in delivery trucks... I don't think there's anything beyond long-haul buses/trains/planes that have bathrooms. If a delivery driver suddenly NEEDS to go and is not close to something like a Walmart, there's not much Amazon can do about it. Saying Amazon should be punished because of that is stupid.
We see this in patents as well. Patents are supposed to cover inventions, not ideas, but you'll see law firms that specialize in patents advertising that they can get your "idea" patented... and they're usually right. The USPTO rubber-stamps just about anything these days, including "inventions" that don't include any kind of real device solving a real problem.
In that film, our hero was framed for massacring innocent people from his helicopter, who were rioting for food. The method used? Well, essentially a deep fake although the way it's presented could just be tricky editing.
It was just splicing. They cut sections of his dialogue, and spliced in a fake voice on the other end of the radio. The deep fake was later when they faked his death so they could hunt him down off-screen.
Actually, they only have a few hundred unique keys, so it's worse than that. That was one of the weird cases that occurred in Houston while I was going to college there. Someone dropped dead at the park from heart problems or some such, and only had his keys on him. They went back to his vehicle to get his ID and called his family to tell them the bad news, only it was the wrong vehicle. Someone else had the same make/model and just happened to use the same key. The person they thought was dead had come back, gotten in the wrong vehicle and driven off, leaving his own vehicle to be identified as the dead man's.
It can be even worse than that in some cases. Back in the 90s, a Mazda blank could open the doors and trunk of ANY model/year Mazda, and could start half of them. We had a Mazda 323, and a locksmith showed us - he took a blank and opened the doors and trunk, but couldn't start the car. We were "lucky". We got rid of that car quickly.
Except the response isn't to close the barn door, it's to burn down the barn and salt the earth for miles around it. That's always the issue with minor problems - the hand-wringers always go to the nuclear option first.
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Where did they go? Depends on what kind of criminal they were (and still are):
conmen -> politicians
grifters -> bankers/financial advisers
thugs/muggers -> police
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More fitting name
Given cases like this, maybe it should be called ShitSpotter.
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Does this mean they really are the Chosen Few? My brain is about to explode! Wait!
Oh, thank God. My brain almost decided to leave for Mars. So which of the above are the Florida politicians... definitely not children, so what does that leave... ;)
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Re: Perhaps One Too Many Barristers
We're about due for the Franchise Wars predicted in Demolition Man. Some company is going to decide that hiring mercenaries is cheaper than hiring lawyers, and we're off!
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Cut-n-Paste
Get the add-on "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy" - it gets rid of that kind of nonsense. I tried the site you mention (may it forever not get traffic), and it works like a charm.
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Two laws
He was a cop? Sorry, but this doesn't help the average person. This is an exception for our masters.
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Re: You are being watched...
My dad loved that show... and a host of others similar to it... and just about anything crime related.
On the post: Milwaukee Sewerage District Threatens Menards Over Fertilizer Sales
Yet again, with more feeling
Almost certainly just contracted lawyers trying to generate billable hours to justify their salary. It normally is in cases like this.
On the post: DOJ Sent A Grand Jury Subpoena To Twitter Demanding The Unmasking Of A Twitter User Being Sued By Devin Nunes
DId they just?
Did they just call Devin Nunes' mom a COW? Hmm... yes, I believe they did. Maybe Devin should be suing THEM for defamation. ;)
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I've known quite a few people like that. One gentleman I knew years back owned six computer stores, so (in his opinion) that made him a computer expert (he barely knew how to turn on a computer).
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Re: Re: Elon Musk vs Physics
Oh? So you're claiming Musk wins over physics? Please provide details...
On the post: Detroit PD Detective Sued For His (Second) Bogus Arrest Predicated On Questionable Facial Recognition Searches
Re: Anyone?
The primary problem with using IR as a surveillance camera is that it also sees through many types of clothes, making them a privacy nightmare for surveillance companies. And you thought there was a fit thrown over millimeter radar in airports...
On the post: From Jurassic Park To Telepathic Monkeys, Elon Musk Press Hype Is Getting A Bit Thick
Elon Musk vs Physics
People really need to check out Thunderf00t's channel on youtube where he applies simple physics to many of Musk's claims... let's say that physics wins 10 times out of 10. :)
On the post: Crime Rates Drop After The City Of Baltimore Decides It's Not Going To Waste Resources Prosecuting Minor Offenses
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If you're poor and someone robs your apartment, odds are highly likely that even if the cops respond, they'll never catch whomever did it. That's always been the case. The best you could ever hope was that a fence got busted and happened to have some of your stuff, assuming you had the serial numbers and they hadn't removed the serial numbers from the items. Cops only respond quick enough to possibly catch burglars if the place in question belongs to someone rich or connected.
On the post: Senator Elizabeth Warren Goes Over The Line; Threatens To Punish Amazon For 'Snotty Tweets'
Re: Not a threat
Oh? So you missed this line completely?
She clearly threatened to break up companies that back-talk to politicians. If you don't see the threat, you're part of the problem.
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There is also some truth to the part where Amazon isn't at fault - it IS hard to find a public bathroom these days. As a Walmart employee, I see (and direct) many delivery people to the bathrooms because we're one of the few places where bathrooms are open to the general public. Amazon can't put bathrooms in delivery trucks... I don't think there's anything beyond long-haul buses/trains/planes that have bathrooms. If a delivery driver suddenly NEEDS to go and is not close to something like a Walmart, there's not much Amazon can do about it. Saying Amazon should be punished because of that is stupid.
On the post: Apple Sued Over 'Diverse' Emojis Which Is All Idea and No Specific Expression
Not just copyright
We see this in patents as well. Patents are supposed to cover inventions, not ideas, but you'll see law firms that specialize in patents advertising that they can get your "idea" patented... and they're usually right. The USPTO rubber-stamps just about anything these days, including "inventions" that don't include any kind of real device solving a real problem.
On the post: Deepfake Of Tom Cruise Has Everyone Freaking Out Prematurely
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It was just splicing. They cut sections of his dialogue, and spliced in a fake voice on the other end of the radio. The deep fake was later when they faked his death so they could hunt him down off-screen.
On the post: What Stevie Ray Vaughan Can Teach Us About Security Design
Re: No SRV and no maps
Actually, they only have a few hundred unique keys, so it's worse than that. That was one of the weird cases that occurred in Houston while I was going to college there. Someone dropped dead at the park from heart problems or some such, and only had his keys on him. They went back to his vehicle to get his ID and called his family to tell them the bad news, only it was the wrong vehicle. Someone else had the same make/model and just happened to use the same key. The person they thought was dead had come back, gotten in the wrong vehicle and driven off, leaving his own vehicle to be identified as the dead man's.
It can be even worse than that in some cases. Back in the 90s, a Mazda blank could open the doors and trunk of ANY model/year Mazda, and could start half of them. We had a Mazda 323, and a locksmith showed us - he took a blank and opened the doors and trunk, but couldn't start the car. We were "lucky". We got rid of that car quickly.
On the post: Deepfake Of Tom Cruise Has Everyone Freaking Out Prematurely
Re:
Except the response isn't to close the barn door, it's to burn down the barn and salt the earth for miles around it. That's always the issue with minor problems - the hand-wringers always go to the nuclear option first.
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