Yes, there is. But the problem is, you "got something" for your money, right straight across the counter. An income tax doesn't give anything in the way of warm fuzzies when you see your money go out the window. It's only later, when you see activies like this that you remember your wallet getting raped, and your teeth start grinding.
You're correct, they're actually aiming at Mail Armory, Span Assassin, etc. But this comes awful close to a tortious interference with a well accepted business mode. I predict that since they can't come up with a rational basis for this "law", it'll get shot down in court... no matter how high up it has to go before they accept the clue.
As noted err now, Texas has no state income tax. (One of only nine states in that category.) Ergo, Texas residents don't feel the immediate pinch in their wallets when money is frivously frittered away like this. I have a hunch that if they did feel it more keenly, the current crop of idiots would not be in power past the next election.
I look forward to the screeching as everyone in texas ...
Wrong party(ies). The screaming will be done by the legislators that vote Yea for this. You just know that furry porn wants to be free, right?
Or perhaps most of the legisators actually do want to see how to enlarge their dicks. Seems logical to me, given how penis-size correlates to mental agility.... at least when it comes to not wasting tax-payer's money.
I wish that platforms would offer users more of a direct say in content moderation decisions,
Platforms are not democracies. Whoever has the money (the owner(s)) makes the rules, and they aren't up for discussion.
... a better appeals process,
How do you appeal something you actually did, the proof being right out in the open for all to see? It comes down to a matter of interpretation. Need I remind you about "he who has the gold is the judge, jury and executioner"?
... and a way to contact someone for support/feedback.
That would be of help, I agree. To be kept in the dark about what you allegedly did wrong is impolite at the least, and more than a bit dishonest, IMO. But at scale.... refer to The Masnick Effect for elucidation.
Would that bit about "they agree with" be that the size of the agreement is roughly a 1:1 ratio when compared to the size of the corporation's campaign donations??
Oh Hail No! If I were Google, I'd add them them to the Lumen Database, with honors! We could all form a pool that guesses when the number of host entries will reach some particular milestone, like 1,000 or some such.
Sovereign immunity has been over-abused by various countries for far too long. Even the US has relied on it when convenient (ala Anne Sacoolas killing Harry Dunn two years ago in Great Britain). I can see minor infractions being forgiven, but anything that rates a felony charge, no immunity should be available, period.
We as a country (meaning both government and private corps) need to do only one thing. Let me repeat that:
ONLY ONE THING
Easy - disconfuckingnect the bleeping computer from the bleeping Internet!!!!!!!
"Oh, but then we can't access it!" Tough shit. Go sit at the console and do your job. There's no reason for you to log in remotely from the deck of your yacht. If you can do so, then so can Ivan, or Wei-fan, or Abdul, or.....
Like the old saying goes, there are three things available for your list:
a) ease-of-access
b) cost effectiveness
c) security
Because opposition against 230 is in fundamental and obvious conflict with free speech....
True, until you get to a certain class of people, many of whom are correctly reviled, and are giving a bad name to the remaining 5% of the class. I refer, of course, to lawyers and attorneys. For them, S230 represents a gargantuan loss of billable hours, and therefore it must be overturned.
Everyone in Europe is taught about what happened and the symbols used,,..
True, except in France. There, since the time of DeGalle, they've really gone out of their way to bury any possible of mention of what happened between 1938 and 1945 outside of school. Your premise is sound, but unless you've lived in their culture for a time, you can't understand why they are so overly sensitive. But in a pinch, I'll say only that they had hoped that if youth can't easily discover all the remnants of WWII, then they're much less likely to resurrect and restart the crap all over again. Fat lot of good that did for them, eh?
In the last line before the tl;dr, I meant to say "January 6th participants". Somehow (read that as: my touchpad is getting really to touchy these days), I inadvertently erased that month name.
Agreed, editing of the post to change the intent, done by the platform and not by the original poster, that'd be grounds for action. How far it would get, that's a gross uncertainty.
I thought I'd also seen that bit about "wholesale theft", but couldn't find it again. My points above stand, but in this particular detail, why in the world would they need to "unlock" at the checkout register, instead of doing it at the Incoming/Receiving dock?? The glass door cabinet (or perhaps steel mesh door) would work just about 100% of time against an individual in-store theft, I should think.
And this "unlock" action should be a single-use affair.... once the signal has been received to unlock, an internal fuse burns through and kills all possible power to the circuit, thus preventing any further signals from be obeyed.
Hey, relax guys, chill out for a moment, will ya....
HD certainly cannot do this on its own, the logistics would be horrendous. And hiring people to staff yet another stage in the delivery system would also drive up the final retail cost of the tool such that they'd never sell it in the first place.
Instead, HD has the clout (as noted above) to make a deal with most manufacturers - "Build us a tool that we can control at the checkout register, and price it so we can compete with other box stores, and we're all golden". Won't happen, at least not without hidden costs. The first such cost would be that the tool in question would have to be inferior in some way, in order maintain a final MSRP that competes with other box stores.
For starters, HD is asking for yet another SKU from the manufacturer. They'll do it, no problem. But now comes the rub.... Let's say a store offers a DeWalt tool for a "special sale" price of MSRP - 10%. Home depot says they'll match any other offer for the "same" tool. I'm sure you can guess what happens next, yes? HD doesn't have the exact same tool, the SKU numbers are different. Hence the offer is worthless, and HD's reputation is self-harmed, albeit in a small way. And as you may have guessed, the same plot device also works in the other direction. Phooey on that. Any good Marketing 101 professor can illustrate how often that idea fails.
Now, let's get down to the nitty gritty. Do you suppose that Amazon, or any other online retailer, is going to offer these pre-sabotaged tools? They can't, they don't have a check out counter to defuse the doo-hickey. Nor are they going to pay the extra nut for the added doo-hickey, either. Hence, HD is just itching to shoot itself in the foot. Once Lowes or Menards sees that Amazon's sales of the "unprotected versions of theft-proof" tools are going through the roof, do you suppose for a moment that they'll jump onboard with HD? I don't think so.
tl;dr:
HD is doing this for their benefit, not for the customer's benefit. Such ideas rarely pan out in the market place. Almighty few customers will be fooled by taglines like: "We're doing this to protect you from [fill in the blank here]".
Disclaimer: I have personally bought 4 of my last 6 DeWalt power tools from Amazon. They actually offer a better extended warranty for less money than Lowes or HD. I am not a professional that uses them on a daily basis, so I can afford to go without for a few days, if need be.
Errr, not successor, but predecessor. Tom Wheeler came before Ajit Pai.
Sadly, if Pai ever has to "face the music" for what he did to this country, he'll have qualified immunity. And here I though that the public had a right to seek redress from its government. Guess I was wrong about that one....
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Re: Re: Re:
Yes, there is. But the problem is, you "got something" for your money, right straight across the counter. An income tax doesn't give anything in the way of warm fuzzies when you see your money go out the window. It's only later, when you see activies like this that you remember your wallet getting raped, and your teeth start grinding.
On the post: Texas Legislature Has Another Ridiculous And Unconstitutional Content Moderation Bill; Say Goodbye To Email Filters
Re:
You're correct, they're actually aiming at Mail Armory, Span Assassin, etc. But this comes awful close to a tortious interference with a well accepted business mode. I predict that since they can't come up with a rational basis for this "law", it'll get shot down in court... no matter how high up it has to go before they accept the clue.
As noted err now, Texas has no state income tax. (One of only nine states in that category.) Ergo, Texas residents don't feel the immediate pinch in their wallets when money is frivously frittered away like this. I have a hunch that if they did feel it more keenly, the current crop of idiots would not be in power past the next election.
On the post: Texas Legislature Has Another Ridiculous And Unconstitutional Content Moderation Bill; Say Goodbye To Email Filters
Re: Oh this'll be good
Wrong party(ies). The screaming will be done by the legislators that vote Yea for this. You just know that furry porn wants to be free, right?
Or perhaps most of the legisators actually do want to see how to enlarge their dicks. Seems logical to me, given how penis-size correlates to mental agility.... at least when it comes to not wasting tax-payer's money.
On the post: Now It's Harvard Business Review Getting Section 230 Very, Very Wrong
"Amusingly, that argument applies to lots of OTHER LAWS as well."
T,FTFY
On the post: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Paying People $2,000 To Pretend Binding Arbitration Is Good
We're often told that these "arbiters" are retired judges and/or lawyers, but the few I've personally seen weren't fit to adjudicate a traffic ticket.
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Re:
Lemme help you out here, genny:
Platforms are not democracies. Whoever has the money (the owner(s)) makes the rules, and they aren't up for discussion.
How do you appeal something you actually did, the proof being right out in the open for all to see? It comes down to a matter of interpretation. Need I remind you about "he who has the gold is the judge, jury and executioner"?
That would be of help, I agree. To be kept in the dark about what you allegedly did wrong is impolite at the least, and more than a bit dishonest, IMO. But at scale.... refer to The Masnick Effect for elucidation.
On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About
Re: Re:
Would that bit about "they agree with" be that the size of the agreement is roughly a 1:1 ratio when compared to the size of the corporation's campaign donations??
On the post: It Happened Again: Antipiracy Outfit Asks Google To Delist 127.0.0.1 On Behalf Of Ukrainian TV Station
Re:
Oh Hail No! If I were Google, I'd add them them to the Lumen Database, with honors! We could all form a pool that guesses when the number of host entries will reach some particular milestone, like 1,000 or some such.
On the post: The End Of Ownership: How Big Companies Are Trying To Turn Everyone Into Renters
Re: Oxford dictionary has already gone there
Sure, sure, that's well and all peachy keen, but what I wanna know is, do they keep it in a hermetically sealed #2 mayonnaise jar on their back porch?
(reference Carnac The Magnificent)
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Re: Darwinism at its Finest...
^^^ Or possibly like: "Hey, I'm gonna get closer and get a shot of that mudslide. Here, hold my beer."
On the post: Appeals Court Says No Sovereign Immunity For Turkish Security Forces Who Attacked DC Protesters
Sovereign immunity has been over-abused by various countries for far too long. Even the US has relied on it when convenient (ala Anne Sacoolas killing Harry Dunn two years ago in Great Britain). I can see minor infractions being forgiven, but anything that rates a felony charge, no immunity should be available, period.
On the post: Report Again Finds US Government IT Security Sucks, Three Years After Saying The Same Thing
fr
We as a country (meaning both government and private corps) need to do only one thing. Let me repeat that:
ONLY ONE THING
Easy - disconfuckingnect the bleeping computer from the bleeping Internet!!!!!!!
"Oh, but then we can't access it!" Tough shit. Go sit at the console and do your job. There's no reason for you to log in remotely from the deck of your yacht. If you can do so, then so can Ivan, or Wei-fan, or Abdul, or.....
Like the old saying goes, there are three things available for your list:
a) ease-of-access
b) cost effectiveness
c) security
Pick two.
On the post: You Can't Be Tough On Big Tech While Killing Off Alternatives To It
Re: Written Law
Never trust politicians, even if they do put it in writing.
T,FTFY
I'd add, ...... especially when they do put it in writing.
On the post: Man Who Sued Apple For Failing To Save Him From Porn Now Suing US Attorney General To Strike Down Section 230
Re: Re:
True, until you get to a certain class of people, many of whom are correctly reviled, and are giving a bad name to the remaining 5% of the class. I refer, of course, to lawyers and attorneys. For them, S230 represents a gargantuan loss of billable hours, and therefore it must be overturned.
On the post: President Of France Sues Citizen Over Billboard Comparing Macron To Hitler
Re: Re: Re: So this means…,
True, except in France. There, since the time of DeGalle, they've really gone out of their way to bury any possible of mention of what happened between 1938 and 1945 outside of school. Your premise is sound, but unless you've lived in their culture for a time, you can't understand why they are so overly sensitive. But in a pinch, I'll say only that they had hoped that if youth can't easily discover all the remnants of WWII, then they're much less likely to resurrect and restart the crap all over again. Fat lot of good that did for them, eh?
On the post: Yes, Actually, The 1st Amendment Does Mean That Twitter Can Kick You Off Its Platform, Wall Street Journal
Re:
I just realized....
In the last line before the tl;dr, I meant to say "January 6th participants". Somehow (read that as: my touchpad is getting really to touchy these days), I inadvertently erased that month name.
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Re: Re:
Agreed, editing of the post to change the intent, done by the platform and not by the original poster, that'd be grounds for action. How far it would get, that's a gross uncertainty.
On the post: Home Depot Tech Will Brick Power Tools If They're Stolen. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Re: 'Annnd they broke it.'
I thought I'd also seen that bit about "wholesale theft", but couldn't find it again. My points above stand, but in this particular detail, why in the world would they need to "unlock" at the checkout register, instead of doing it at the Incoming/Receiving dock?? The glass door cabinet (or perhaps steel mesh door) would work just about 100% of time against an individual in-store theft, I should think.
And this "unlock" action should be a single-use affair.... once the signal has been received to unlock, an internal fuse burns through and kills all possible power to the circuit, thus preventing any further signals from be obeyed.
On the post: Home Depot Tech Will Brick Power Tools If They're Stolen. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Hey, relax guys, chill out for a moment, will ya....
HD certainly cannot do this on its own, the logistics would be horrendous. And hiring people to staff yet another stage in the delivery system would also drive up the final retail cost of the tool such that they'd never sell it in the first place.
Instead, HD has the clout (as noted above) to make a deal with most manufacturers - "Build us a tool that we can control at the checkout register, and price it so we can compete with other box stores, and we're all golden". Won't happen, at least not without hidden costs. The first such cost would be that the tool in question would have to be inferior in some way, in order maintain a final MSRP that competes with other box stores.
For starters, HD is asking for yet another SKU from the manufacturer. They'll do it, no problem. But now comes the rub.... Let's say a store offers a DeWalt tool for a "special sale" price of MSRP - 10%. Home depot says they'll match any other offer for the "same" tool. I'm sure you can guess what happens next, yes? HD doesn't have the exact same tool, the SKU numbers are different. Hence the offer is worthless, and HD's reputation is self-harmed, albeit in a small way. And as you may have guessed, the same plot device also works in the other direction. Phooey on that. Any good Marketing 101 professor can illustrate how often that idea fails.
Now, let's get down to the nitty gritty. Do you suppose that Amazon, or any other online retailer, is going to offer these pre-sabotaged tools? They can't, they don't have a check out counter to defuse the doo-hickey. Nor are they going to pay the extra nut for the added doo-hickey, either. Hence, HD is just itching to shoot itself in the foot. Once Lowes or Menards sees that Amazon's sales of the "unprotected versions of theft-proof" tools are going through the roof, do you suppose for a moment that they'll jump onboard with HD? I don't think so.
tl;dr:
HD is doing this for their benefit, not for the customer's benefit. Such ideas rarely pan out in the market place. Almighty few customers will be fooled by taglines like: "We're doing this to protect you from [fill in the blank here]".
Disclaimer: I have personally bought 4 of my last 6 DeWalt power tools from Amazon. They actually offer a better extended warranty for less money than Lowes or HD. I am not a professional that uses them on a daily basis, so I can afford to go without for a few days, if need be.
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Re: Re: Re: What? The FCC doing its job?
Errr, not successor, but predecessor. Tom Wheeler came before Ajit Pai.
Sadly, if Pai ever has to "face the music" for what he did to this country, he'll have qualified immunity. And here I though that the public had a right to seek redress from its government. Guess I was wrong about that one....
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