Re: This is how you get not just protests but riots
On July 10, 2017, Gabriel Anthony Olivas called 911 and reported that his father was threatening to kill himself and burn down their house. Corporal Ray, Sergeant Jefferson, and Officers Scott, Elliott, and Guadarrama of the Arlington Police Department responded.
He called 911, maybe thinking they'd link him to a suicide prevention hot-line or something similar. Instead, they sent the police. This is bad as it means that people will be discouraged from calling 911 for any emergency lest the police show up and make things worse.
That's bullshit as well. I come from a period where cops rarely drew their weapon, much less fired it at someone. Where they talked down threats like this instead of going in guns blazing. The problem today is in WHO gets hired and HOW they are trained. It's no longer the best getting the best training, it's bullies and psychos who get taught how to get away with literal murder.
The solution is easy - whatever the news companies say google owes them in link tax, google doubles it and sends it as a bill to those same companies for services rendered (directing web traffic). Google was doing it for free, now they can charge for those services.
I had a similar situation with MediaFire. After FileDen shut down, I switched to MediaFire as my primary cyberlocker for sharing (only files I can share... nothing illegal). MediaFire took down one of my files when they got a DMCA notice that was clearly just doing partial mapping to file names. I was sharing a PSP port of the open source emulator Basilisk, while the file was flagged as being the movie Basilisk. I changed the name of the file and reupped it. Lesson - give your files names that can't possibly match to anything commercial less the stupid bots used for sending DMCA notices take notice.
Spectrum has been busy raising prices on internet service the last several months. My bill has gone from $69.99 to $79.99 per month in less than six months. I'd love to see anything that got those prices back down.
"Sound moderation policy", yeah I want the company that has to put suicide prevention nets around its chinese factories to tell me what sound moderation policies are.
What does one have to do with the other? Nothing. You do know that suicide rates for those workers is lower than the general population, right? Also, most American skyscrapers have provisions to try to stop suicide attempts. That in itself means nothing more than the owners of the building are worried about liability lawsuits from relatives of people who try to commit suicide using the buildings. You also seem to think that those factories are owned and operated by Apple when Apple is merely a customer. A big customer, yes, but still just a customer.
If you want to complain about not taking Apple seriously about moderation advice, try pointing to their App store or something similar rather than oversea factories that supply them (and many other companies) some parts.
It's like you didn't read it. There's little the BSA can do to advertise to girls that the GSA doesn't seem to have an issue with. As the next replier mentions, anything that doesn't at least resemble ads the GSA might make will all come across as bizarre or clunky. The GSA has had decades to work out ads for getting girls to join, and those same methods would need to be used by the BSA to appeal to girls. Naturally, those ads will seem very similar and MUST to generate the same appeal.
Wait, women fought tooth and nail to get the BSA to allow girls, and now the GSA is upset because they now advertise the fact that they gave in and allow girls to join? Does the GSA actually want the BSA to go back to not allowing girls, or merely not advertise the fact that girls are now welcome to join?
Still waiting for the GSA to advertise that boys are welcome to join...
;)
I thought the usual "I feared for my life" response from a cop was "so I shot him six times."
That's for when they don't really fear for their lives. When they actually fear for their lives, they cower out of range while they wait for SWAT and the armored vehicles to come out so they can go all Rambo on the perp. At that point, buildings get destroyed, and perps may get shot a hundred times or more.
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Re: This is how you get not just protests but riots
He called 911, maybe thinking they'd link him to a suicide prevention hot-line or something similar. Instead, they sent the police. This is bad as it means that people will be discouraged from calling 911 for any emergency lest the police show up and make things worse.
On the post: Fifth Circuit Says Tasing A Person Soaked In Gasoline And Setting Them On Fire Isn't An Unreasonable Use Of Force
Re: Re:
That's bullshit as well. I come from a period where cops rarely drew their weapon, much less fired it at someone. Where they talked down threats like this instead of going in guns blazing. The problem today is in WHO gets hired and HOW they are trained. It's no longer the best getting the best training, it's bullies and psychos who get taught how to get away with literal murder.
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That bad
Knowing how BAD the USPTO is, I'd bet this is granted.
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Re:
If you require a chastity belt, there isn't any trust. Period. It's like the opposite of trust.
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Of course not! Laws are for the peons.
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Telling
It's extremely telling that even GOOGLE can't break the ISP monopolies. The major ISPs need to be broken up, badly.
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How clever
Seems the muggles finally figured out how to make something like our magical portraits. Such clever little beasts!
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Re: Re:
Nope. They're the double-down and dig-deeper kind.
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Solution
The solution is easy - whatever the news companies say google owes them in link tax, google doubles it and sends it as a bill to those same companies for services rendered (directing web traffic). Google was doing it for free, now they can charge for those services.
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Re: Could have saved Lincoln from shooting themselves in the hea
Needs more flash...
;)
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Similar situation
I had a similar situation with MediaFire. After FileDen shut down, I switched to MediaFire as my primary cyberlocker for sharing (only files I can share... nothing illegal). MediaFire took down one of my files when they got a DMCA notice that was clearly just doing partial mapping to file names. I was sharing a PSP port of the open source emulator Basilisk, while the file was flagged as being the movie Basilisk. I changed the name of the file and reupped it. Lesson - give your files names that can't possibly match to anything commercial less the stupid bots used for sending DMCA notices take notice.
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Spectrum has been busy raising prices on internet service the last several months. My bill has gone from $69.99 to $79.99 per month in less than six months. I'd love to see anything that got those prices back down.
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Re: Re: Meanwhile and relevantly,
What does one have to do with the other? Nothing. You do know that suicide rates for those workers is lower than the general population, right? Also, most American skyscrapers have provisions to try to stop suicide attempts. That in itself means nothing more than the owners of the building are worried about liability lawsuits from relatives of people who try to commit suicide using the buildings. You also seem to think that those factories are owned and operated by Apple when Apple is merely a customer. A big customer, yes, but still just a customer.
If you want to complain about not taking Apple seriously about moderation advice, try pointing to their App store or something similar rather than oversea factories that supply them (and many other companies) some parts.
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Re: Re: Re: Confused
Sorry, not the next replier, but an AC a couple down.
On the post: Girl Scouts Continuing To Fight Boy Scouts Of America Over Trademarks, Branding
Re: Re: Confused
It's like you didn't read it. There's little the BSA can do to advertise to girls that the GSA doesn't seem to have an issue with. As the next replier mentions, anything that doesn't at least resemble ads the GSA might make will all come across as bizarre or clunky. The GSA has had decades to work out ads for getting girls to join, and those same methods would need to be used by the BSA to appeal to girls. Naturally, those ads will seem very similar and MUST to generate the same appeal.
On the post: Girl Scouts Continuing To Fight Boy Scouts Of America Over Trademarks, Branding
Re: Re: Confused
You need to be a bit more expansive on the answers as the article directly contradicts both assertions.
On the post: Girl Scouts Continuing To Fight Boy Scouts Of America Over Trademarks, Branding
Confused
Wait, women fought tooth and nail to get the BSA to allow girls, and now the GSA is upset because they now advertise the fact that they gave in and allow girls to join? Does the GSA actually want the BSA to go back to not allowing girls, or merely not advertise the fact that girls are now welcome to join?
Still waiting for the GSA to advertise that boys are welcome to join...
;)
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Correction
You misspelled "corrupt".
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Most of Captain Planet's foes were corporate goons, so the only difference would be censoring his name. :)
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Re: Re: Scary!
That's for when they don't really fear for their lives. When they actually fear for their lives, they cower out of range while they wait for SWAT and the armored vehicles to come out so they can go all Rambo on the perp. At that point, buildings get destroyed, and perps may get shot a hundred times or more.
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