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There’s a big difference between a handle or button attached to a bell in the lobby, and an actual building wide fire alarm system.
And one of my fav theatres has 2 bells. One in the lobby and one in the kitchen.
As proof it’s not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theatre that’s exactly what staff would do at such a location.
I’ve wondered about laws that allow that. And I’ve seen some hilarious plumbing retrofitting over the years to qualify with local laws.
It’s only an aside. It’s possible to cause a panic.
Granted, 5 people watching a German of French film from 1970 or some experimental film from 2020 aren’t really going to stampede. We’ll get up and walk out.
I will say one thing without getting on anyone’s side.
The premise that you can do this in your garage no longer is applicable.
These “garage” moments happen rarely.
And CIS happened so close together as a rarity.
This isn’t the mid-70s where rules were inconsistent and enforcement was lax.
And it’s not the mid-to-late-90s where anyone with a pitch gets tons of investment money.
Google didn’t survive because they had a good product or because the public supported them. They survived because they had investors who didn’t flinch when the bubble burst.
There were stronger search products (Altavista, Northern Lights, SpotLight, and Beacon) with far more coverage of the internet.
Google still hasn’t reached the level of source networks Beacon had. Crawling across usenet, ftp, alpha, Archie, gopher, etc.
and it lives in as part of the crawling package used by the Internet Archive, and the code under multi function crawlers like SiteSucker and Vac.
As for FB, who did they knock over?!
No one. Facebook snagged the general public with a then-easy-to-use layout, early mobile apps, and infinity scroll.
MySpace still has Millions of users. And it did nothing to UseNet “2.0”.
Twitter
Aim lives on with hundreds of thousands of daily users.
ICQ, CIS, Sparq, multiple extensions of usnet systems.
What these big companies did was tap the opening for the general public.
The fact that they haven’t been toppled isn’t innovation: it’s audience.
Look how long black and white TV held on. How long radio survived. We still buy DVDs.
Once the general public becomes engaged it’s beyond hard to move them.
It’s sales 101.
I will say one thing without getting back on anyone’s side.
The premise that you can do this in your garage no longer is applicable.
These “garage” moments happen rarely.
And CIS happened so close together as a rarity.
This isn’t the mid-70s where rules were inconsistent and enforcement was lax.
And it’s not the mid-to-late-90s where anyone with a pitch gets tons of investment money.
Google didn’t survive because they had a good product or because the public supported them. They survived because they had investors who didn’t flinch when the bubble burst.
There were stronger search products (Altavista, Northern Lights, SpotLight, and Beacon) with far more coverage of the internet.
Google still hasn’t reached the level of source networks Beacon had. Crawling across usenet, ftp, alpha, Archie, gopher, etc.
and it lives in as part of the crawling package used by the Internet Archive, and the code under multi function crawlers like SiteSucker and Vac.
As for FB, who did they knock over?!
No one. Facebook snagged the general public with a then-easy-to-use layout, early mobile apps, and infinity scroll.
MySpace still has Millions of users. And it did nothing to UseNet “2.0”.
Twitter
Aim lives on with hundreds of thousands of daily users.
ICQ, CIS, Sparq, multiple extensions of usnet systems.
What these big companies did was tap the opening for the general public.
The fact that they haven’t been toppled isn’t innovation: it’s audience.
Look how long black and white TV held on. How long radio survived. We still buy DVDs.
Once the general public becomes engaged it’s beyond hard to move them.
It’s sales 101.
If you shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre here's what will happen; People will turn their heads. They will look at you. They'll sniff the air to see if there's smoke. They will not, like lemmings, stampede all over one another to escape - because they know that fire alarms are a thing.
No, today they’re more likely do just what you say in most theatres.
Mind you though… not all theatres have fire alarms. I’m a huge fan of independent film. And most of that stuff runs in off mainstreet or out-of-mall locations.
Many of these old historical film houses are grandfathered and have no fire protection or detection.
So that’s only partly accurate.
And when have sanctions ever done anything other than hurt the people who live in the country being sanctioned?
Russia encroaching on Ukraine during his time in office?
You mean Russia coming to the aid of the Dvol and Rus who live there?
I’m glad trump didn’t intervene there. Those people deserve freedom. Not ethnic based targeting.
See my previous paragraph, but substitute the particulars for your question above where necessary.
Oh, so the whole trump-China situation didn’t happen?
closer attention to what she said
Tell that to the non-Republicans who aren’t vaxed.
So as I’ve said, I’ve always supported you he right to yell fire in a crowded theatre.
Even in the actual case where the term comes from where the false claim lead to injuries and death.
The ability to speak should or be hindered.
And one must take responsibility for that speech.
If I were to falsely yell fire I. A crowded theatre, I would be responsible for all that followed that. From loss of revenue to potential deaths.
So again, 50/50.
Apx 50% of the unvaxed are republicans. Not the majority. The largest self-identifying party. But not the majority of people.
Just about every survey positions republicans between 39% and 49%.
Nearly always shy of 50%.
Given there are very few voters of a class that goes further right than the most-right-wing republicans, the idea that the majority is on the right is flat out incorrect.
The only way you get a republican number above 60% is in small rural Republican hot zones. And that is categorically Inappropriate for a national view.
He’s a goddamned dictator who didn’t deserve to be treated as a credible world leader by a global superpower.
And yet we have regular interaction with states like Iran, China, Venezuela, … they are also dictatorships.
I get it, you’d wait till they finally managed to strike the US with a rocket and then kill millions of innocents in a retaliatory strike.
You forget, or ignore, your history.
Talks with the USSR kept everyone alive.
You imagine Hillary would’ve been a genocidal fascist?
No, I KNOW she’s a genocidal maniac. Her ignoring the problems of ethnic Rus and Dvol in southern Ukraine while members of her family and her associates profiting from contracts in the country, many of them government-associated level, proves that.
Her willingness to support China while they massacre Turk, Mongol, and Uyghur populations?
Sorry, you comments on the Koreas is without meaning.
You and I will never agree on this obvious.
You talk of support and recognition.
Regardless of you sole opinion, he’s the leader of an independent state.
I will always choose diplomacy over conflict.
And will always support those who make such a logical rational choice.
Feel free to keep posting McConspiracy’s list.
In-line Irene’s that for you. Go back and read. I agreed with Apx a third as accurate, acknowledging a potential viewpoint-based, and pushed off a their as fake, factually incorrect, or outright nonsense.
I likely would’ve disagreed with a fair amount of what she would’ve done.
And I likely would have agreed with less than 10 percent of that genocidal faux queen’s choices.
led to the widespread adoption of anti-vaxxer talking points among conservatives.
If the unvax crowd, it remains nearly evenly split between dems and Republicans
Too many zombies followed the words of the VP you chose. NEVER.
Over on the right you have a large majority that is against all vaccines for mythological reasons. A lost cause.
And a lesser group against it because of stem cells. Also a lost cause.
Remove those two and you get what, a few dozens?
A few hundreds?
Every report or study or survey of any worth comes to the same results. It’s (Apx */- 10%) 50/50 on political choice in the unvaxed. And the largest of the ‘left’s’ unvaxed are urban, blacks.
Trump had very little effect in anti-vax. I’m still waiting for you to ACKNOWLEDGE the VP’s statement let alone condemn it.
They all lie.
Well, Fox and CNN tend to be to be half-truthful sort of methodology. As long as you jettisoned the prime time shows you’d at least walk away with mostly accurate info.
Where OAN has no care what they run if it brings viewers.
And MSNBC is nothing more than a few letters in DNC PR people.
Here’s where things are interesting though: broadcast news. And I’m not talking about the national news shows. But the pre and post local news.
ABC is fully nationalised for primary new and is undeniably, self-admittedly pro Democrats.
NBC is regionalised. And you get a very different headlines depending on the region.
Fox broadcasting is 100% independent. An no two stations cover the same topics the same way.
For those in areas with overlapping coverage of broadcast, catching NBC from different regions is interesting. But fox can be down right jarring in how different the slant is.
But there’s no real news left in America on television. Everything has a slant. Some are better dressed up than others but the slant is there.
There may have been something to this 6 or 7 months ago. CNN would be dead now if not for cable bundles.
Fox has issues. No doubt. But the ‘left’ looks solely at a few hours of prime time political commentary and entertainment and ignores the whole.
Generally most of the majority remaining coverage is more typical the NYT style of slightly partisan “this happened”.
But their business brand is some of the most respected financial and investment coverage in the world.
Their streaming service is highly rated across political factions. The majority of which is non-political American history documentaries.
They won’t do it, but if fox were to walk into Amazon and offer their streaming service for Prime re-trans they’d be picked up in a heartbeat. FBC daytime numbers match the soaps. Fox nation has more subscribers than Great Courses with sole carrier access.
Here’s the thing though.
Many broadcasters (I use the term loosely for stations) are against debundling. The average top cable package exceeds 400 actual visual channels. Many operating at cost.
The problem isn’t the cable companies who likely wouldn’t see much change in ala carte if they still offered bundles.
They’re still going to survive. The volume of current users who would debundle is over rated. Just look at the move to streaming bundles and how they outsell individual stations.
Most who want to cut the cord have done so or will if affordable internet is offered.
And they go to, gasp, another bundle.
Hulu, sling, YouTube… etc.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for debundling.
But it’s not going to kill any of the targets.
What it will do is
A) kill liberal media (cnn)
B) kill niche media. Ion, rainbow… won’t survive on Amazon alone.
C) Transfer the money from big cable to big tech.
Think about who offers tv now that is non cable.
Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Samsung, roku, lg, Asus, Apple…
So debundling must consist of allowing bundles. Otherwise all you do is kill off the independents.
Lol.
Honestly though.
All I’m saying is that we now have a whole massive set of partly compatible licenses out there.
Some of them get quite bizarre. Like the research licensing.
And seriously: how many versions of the gpl exist? We have V 1,2,3, and lgol and agpl and lol suw, gl.
For those of us who actually try to abide by the ‘rules’ of all these differences it’s quite confusing.
I know it was a joke but a free survival horror game was released a while back under the lycan licence requiring changes only be submitted on full moons.
But something struck me with it (I can’t remember the name but it was a free giveawayoftheday and on torrent sites, something something moon)
We had reached the point of open licensing where we could poke fun at the volume of options.
That someone to the a few minutes to make a standalone survival-horror doom mod and release it under a joke license: maybe it’s time for consolidation?
Regardless of your thoughts on the leadership, DPRK IS a governmental actor.
What trump did was open dialogue. Absolutely, he should have pursued it further than he did. But then the pandemic came along.
Putin? What about him? Russia wasn’t threatening to bomb us almost daily.
Neither was Turkey.
North Korea was a real and direct threat to us. Still are.
To slightly modify your own statement above:
Whatever you think he might’ve done continuing as POTUS… is imagined.
does that ring a bell?
I directly commented on that.
Again, I take responsibility as a person who voted, for that vote contributing to mishandling of the pandemic.
A non-existent pandemic at the time of my 16 vote was not on my list of concerns.
At the end of his term, his administration had overseen a record production of a vaccination for the pandemic. Not just one but 3. 3 that are helping hundreds of millions.
With the pandemic looking to be handled, finally, it lowered down my list of concerns again.
fuck all the way off to Gab or Parler or Truth Social
I can stomach that about as well as Fox News at prime time. All of about 1 minute.
Well Parler. I’ve never used gab and we know nothing but our own opinions of what truth social may or may not be.
But i don’t use facecrap or the like either.
You at least have a brain behind your commentary.
I use Reddit. But that’s not Web 2.0. Much closer to this site in interaction.
Social media platforms as a whole tend to bring in brain dead copy-paste morons who’s reply to why is pure and simple “{name} said so!” And that’s not my thing.
Couple that with endless stupid pictures of bagels and people typing over pop culture and making stupid memes? No thanks.
Say the dems pass a bill 51:50 adding a one cent per mile driven tax on petrol cars.
Or
Republicans pass a heartbeat act. 51:50
And the president signs it.
Now what?!!?
They’re out there examples. But not so out there that they haven’t been dreampt about.
As I said, I’d look at modification.
The way the house had use of unlimited debate always appeared to me to be the correct method. But we need a return to actual speaking, not breaks and pauses and recess and holds. Nancy proved the master at over 8hours.
But multi-person speeches could go longer.
And I’m Ohkay with that. I don’t care if you use the classic 1832 method of taking turns reading an encyclopaedia! Just keep talking.
Eventually you’ll get a 51 vote call to move on to a vote on the bill.
Or to pull it.
I also want a return to 100% coverage on the CSPAN services. (As an aside I’d like all three channels to be mandatory carry and broadcast nation wide as well).
Such a system would put the focus on the person speaking. Be it discussion of the bill’s text or stalling.
That’s exactly what it does. It creates an entire list of federal regulations for elections.
And hey: the vast majority of it is very good and exactly what I would require in legislation.
Let’s start with the bad:
Presidential Tax Transparency
A no go. Taxes are private personal information.
It’s one thing to request them. Another entirely to demand it.
And the voting machine regulation is far too lenient.
By not later than the date of the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office occurring in November 2024
No. This means no time for setup and testing. This should be on passage and not extending. By January of 2024.
Findings Relating to District of Columbia Statehood
Though it mentions the previous endeavour, which I fully supported, it does not mandate it.
The only way to do this is to either create a new state separate from DC of the populated area OR to jettison the land occupied by the public into surrounding states. Which I consider the better choice.
I’m also concerned with just how lax the identification requirements are.
The plan otherwise is very very good.
The single largest flaw is the DC section. Which is too open in it’s clause to be specific in action.
But let’s not pretend this isn’t federal control.
Own it. Stand by it.
I do.
The president can refuse to sign a bill. When he issues a proclamation that he will not sign any bill (pocket veto) until something else reaches his desk, it becomes a mandate.
it's a local process managed by states and counties
Yes. And dems are looking to federalise it completely.
I would have sought a temporary federalisation with a sunset.
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There’s a big difference between a handle or button attached to a bell in the lobby, and an actual building wide fire alarm system.
And one of my fav theatres has 2 bells. One in the lobby and one in the kitchen.
As proof it’s not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theatre that’s exactly what staff would do at such a location.
I’ve wondered about laws that allow that. And I’ve seen some hilarious plumbing retrofitting over the years to qualify with local laws.
It’s only an aside. It’s possible to cause a panic.
Granted, 5 people watching a German of French film from 1970 or some experimental film from 2020 aren’t really going to stampede. We’ll get up and walk out.
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I will say one thing without getting on anyone’s side.
The premise that you can do this in your garage no longer is applicable.
These “garage” moments happen rarely.
And CIS happened so close together as a rarity.
This isn’t the mid-70s where rules were inconsistent and enforcement was lax.
And it’s not the mid-to-late-90s where anyone with a pitch gets tons of investment money.
Google didn’t survive because they had a good product or because the public supported them. They survived because they had investors who didn’t flinch when the bubble burst.
There were stronger search products (Altavista, Northern Lights, SpotLight, and Beacon) with far more coverage of the internet.
Google still hasn’t reached the level of source networks Beacon had. Crawling across usenet, ftp, alpha, Archie, gopher, etc.
and it lives in as part of the crawling package used by the Internet Archive, and the code under multi function crawlers like SiteSucker and Vac.
As for FB, who did they knock over?!
No one. Facebook snagged the general public with a then-easy-to-use layout, early mobile apps, and infinity scroll.
MySpace still has Millions of users. And it did nothing to UseNet “2.0”.
Twitter
Aim lives on with hundreds of thousands of daily users.
ICQ, CIS, Sparq, multiple extensions of usnet systems.
What these big companies did was tap the opening for the general public.
The fact that they haven’t been toppled isn’t innovation: it’s audience.
Look how long black and white TV held on. How long radio survived. We still buy DVDs.
Once the general public becomes engaged it’s beyond hard to move them.
It’s sales 101.
Windows? Anyone?
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I will say one thing without getting back on anyone’s side.
The premise that you can do this in your garage no longer is applicable.
These “garage” moments happen rarely.
And CIS happened so close together as a rarity.
This isn’t the mid-70s where rules were inconsistent and enforcement was lax.
And it’s not the mid-to-late-90s where anyone with a pitch gets tons of investment money.
Google didn’t survive because they had a good product or because the public supported them. They survived because they had investors who didn’t flinch when the bubble burst.
There were stronger search products (Altavista, Northern Lights, SpotLight, and Beacon) with far more coverage of the internet.
Google still hasn’t reached the level of source networks Beacon had. Crawling across usenet, ftp, alpha, Archie, gopher, etc.
and it lives in as part of the crawling package used by the Internet Archive, and the code under multi function crawlers like SiteSucker and Vac.
As for FB, who did they knock over?!
No one. Facebook snagged the general public with a then-easy-to-use layout, early mobile apps, and infinity scroll.
MySpace still has Millions of users. And it did nothing to UseNet “2.0”.
Twitter
Aim lives on with hundreds of thousands of daily users.
ICQ, CIS, Sparq, multiple extensions of usnet systems.
What these big companies did was tap the opening for the general public.
The fact that they haven’t been toppled isn’t innovation: it’s audience.
Look how long black and white TV held on. How long radio survived. We still buy DVDs.
Once the general public becomes engaged it’s beyond hard to move them.
It’s sales 101.
Windows? Anyone?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
No, today they’re more likely do just what you say in most theatres.
Mind you though… not all theatres have fire alarms. I’m a huge fan of independent film. And most of that stuff runs in off mainstreet or out-of-mall locations.
Many of these old historical film houses are grandfathered and have no fire protection or detection.
So that’s only partly accurate.
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I never have. I disagree, deeply, passionately, with their chosen method of moderation.
But the base action is necessary.
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And when have sanctions ever done anything other than hurt the people who live in the country being sanctioned?
You mean Russia coming to the aid of the Dvol and Rus who live there?
I’m glad trump didn’t intervene there. Those people deserve freedom. Not ethnic based targeting.
Oh, so the whole trump-China situation didn’t happen?
Tell that to the non-Republicans who aren’t vaxed.
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When you speak you are responsible for said speech. How a locale deals with that is up to them.
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Vindicated?
So as I’ve said, I’ve always supported you he right to yell fire in a crowded theatre.
Even in the actual case where the term comes from where the false claim lead to injuries and death.
The ability to speak should or be hindered.
And one must take responsibility for that speech.
If I were to falsely yell fire I. A crowded theatre, I would be responsible for all that followed that. From loss of revenue to potential deaths.
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And here’s another:
Nearly half of unvaccinated respondents were Republicans (49% versus 29% Democrats)
https://hotair.com/headlines/2021/06/13/poll-the-biggest-unvaccinated-groups-n396366
So again, 50/50.
Apx 50% of the unvaxed are republicans. Not the majority. The largest self-identifying party. But not the majority of people.
Just about every survey positions republicans between 39% and 49%.
Nearly always shy of 50%.
Given there are very few voters of a class that goes further right than the most-right-wing republicans, the idea that the majority is on the right is flat out incorrect.
The only way you get a republican number above 60% is in small rural Republican hot zones. And that is categorically Inappropriate for a national view.
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And yet we have regular interaction with states like Iran, China, Venezuela, … they are also dictatorships.
I get it, you’d wait till they finally managed to strike the US with a rocket and then kill millions of innocents in a retaliatory strike.
You forget, or ignore, your history.
Talks with the USSR kept everyone alive.
No, I KNOW she’s a genocidal maniac. Her ignoring the problems of ethnic Rus and Dvol in southern Ukraine while members of her family and her associates profiting from contracts in the country, many of them government-associated level, proves that.
Her willingness to support China while they massacre Turk, Mongol, and Uyghur populations?
Sorry, you comments on the Koreas is without meaning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0
And numerous times before and after.
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You and I will never agree on this obvious.
You talk of support and recognition.
Regardless of you sole opinion, he’s the leader of an independent state.
I will always choose diplomacy over conflict.
And will always support those who make such a logical rational choice.
Feel free to keep posting McConspiracy’s list.
In-line Irene’s that for you. Go back and read. I agreed with Apx a third as accurate, acknowledging a potential viewpoint-based, and pushed off a their as fake, factually incorrect, or outright nonsense.
And I likely would have agreed with less than 10 percent of that genocidal faux queen’s choices.
If the unvax crowd, it remains nearly evenly split between dems and Republicans
Too many zombies followed the words of the VP you chose. NEVER.
Over on the right you have a large majority that is against all vaccines for mythological reasons. A lost cause.
And a lesser group against it because of stem cells. Also a lost cause.
Remove those two and you get what, a few dozens?
A few hundreds?
Every report or study or survey of any worth comes to the same results. It’s (Apx */- 10%) 50/50 on political choice in the unvaxed. And the largest of the ‘left’s’ unvaxed are urban, blacks.
Trump had very little effect in anti-vax. I’m still waiting for you to ACKNOWLEDGE the VP’s statement let alone condemn it.
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They all lie.
Well, Fox and CNN tend to be to be half-truthful sort of methodology. As long as you jettisoned the prime time shows you’d at least walk away with mostly accurate info.
Where OAN has no care what they run if it brings viewers.
And MSNBC is nothing more than a few letters in DNC PR people.
Here’s where things are interesting though: broadcast news. And I’m not talking about the national news shows. But the pre and post local news.
ABC is fully nationalised for primary new and is undeniably, self-admittedly pro Democrats.
NBC is regionalised. And you get a very different headlines depending on the region.
Fox broadcasting is 100% independent. An no two stations cover the same topics the same way.
For those in areas with overlapping coverage of broadcast, catching NBC from different regions is interesting. But fox can be down right jarring in how different the slant is.
But there’s no real news left in America on television. Everything has a slant. Some are better dressed up than others but the slant is there.
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I’ve updated this here:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210427/10480346689/thanks-to-crappy-cable-channel-bundles- non-watchers-hugely-subsidize-tucker-carlson-fox-news.shtml?threaded=true#c591
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There may have been something to this 6 or 7 months ago. CNN would be dead now if not for cable bundles.
Fox has issues. No doubt. But the ‘left’ looks solely at a few hours of prime time political commentary and entertainment and ignores the whole.
Generally most of the majority remaining coverage is more typical the NYT style of slightly partisan “this happened”.
But their business brand is some of the most respected financial and investment coverage in the world.
Their streaming service is highly rated across political factions. The majority of which is non-political American history documentaries.
They won’t do it, but if fox were to walk into Amazon and offer their streaming service for Prime re-trans they’d be picked up in a heartbeat. FBC daytime numbers match the soaps. Fox nation has more subscribers than Great Courses with sole carrier access.
Here’s the thing though.
Many broadcasters (I use the term loosely for stations) are against debundling. The average top cable package exceeds 400 actual visual channels. Many operating at cost.
The problem isn’t the cable companies who likely wouldn’t see much change in ala carte if they still offered bundles.
They’re still going to survive. The volume of current users who would debundle is over rated. Just look at the move to streaming bundles and how they outsell individual stations.
Most who want to cut the cord have done so or will if affordable internet is offered.
And they go to, gasp, another bundle.
Hulu, sling, YouTube… etc.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for debundling.
But it’s not going to kill any of the targets.
What it will do is
A) kill liberal media (cnn)
B) kill niche media. Ion, rainbow… won’t survive on Amazon alone.
C) Transfer the money from big cable to big tech.
Think about who offers tv now that is non cable.
Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Samsung, roku, lg, Asus, Apple…
So debundling must consist of allowing bundles. Otherwise all you do is kill off the independents.
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Rpeopleofwalmart
Rwalmartwatching
Rgirlsofwalmart
Rwalmartboys
Rwalmartgonewild
Lol.
Honestly though.
All I’m saying is that we now have a whole massive set of partly compatible licenses out there.
Some of them get quite bizarre. Like the research licensing.
And seriously: how many versions of the gpl exist? We have V 1,2,3, and lgol and agpl and lol suw, gl.
For those of us who actually try to abide by the ‘rules’ of all these differences it’s quite confusing.
I know it was a joke but a free survival horror game was released a while back under the lycan licence requiring changes only be submitted on full moons.
But something struck me with it (I can’t remember the name but it was a free giveawayoftheday and on torrent sites, something something moon)
We had reached the point of open licensing where we could poke fun at the volume of options.
That someone to the a few minutes to make a standalone survival-horror doom mod and release it under a joke license: maybe it’s time for consolidation?
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Regardless of your thoughts on the leadership, DPRK IS a governmental actor.
What trump did was open dialogue. Absolutely, he should have pursued it further than he did. But then the pandemic came along.
Putin? What about him? Russia wasn’t threatening to bomb us almost daily.
Neither was Turkey.
North Korea was a real and direct threat to us. Still are.
To slightly modify your own statement above:
Whatever you think he might’ve done continuing as POTUS… is imagined.
I directly commented on that.
Again, I take responsibility as a person who voted, for that vote contributing to mishandling of the pandemic.
A non-existent pandemic at the time of my 16 vote was not on my list of concerns.
At the end of his term, his administration had overseen a record production of a vaccination for the pandemic. Not just one but 3. 3 that are helping hundreds of millions.
With the pandemic looking to be handled, finally, it lowered down my list of concerns again.
I can stomach that about as well as Fox News at prime time. All of about 1 minute.
Well Parler. I’ve never used gab and we know nothing but our own opinions of what truth social may or may not be.
But i don’t use facecrap or the like either.
You at least have a brain behind your commentary.
I use Reddit. But that’s not Web 2.0. Much closer to this site in interaction.
Social media platforms as a whole tend to bring in brain dead copy-paste morons who’s reply to why is pure and simple “{name} said so!” And that’s not my thing.
Couple that with endless stupid pictures of bagels and people typing over pop culture and making stupid memes? No thanks.
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In the flip side:
Say the dems pass a bill 51:50 adding a one cent per mile driven tax on petrol cars.
Or
Republicans pass a heartbeat act. 51:50
And the president signs it.
Now what?!!?
They’re out there examples. But not so out there that they haven’t been dreampt about.
As I said, I’d look at modification.
The way the house had use of unlimited debate always appeared to me to be the correct method. But we need a return to actual speaking, not breaks and pauses and recess and holds. Nancy proved the master at over 8hours.
But multi-person speeches could go longer.
And I’m Ohkay with that. I don’t care if you use the classic 1832 method of taking turns reading an encyclopaedia! Just keep talking.
Eventually you’ll get a 51 vote call to move on to a vote on the bill.
Or to pull it.
I also want a return to 100% coverage on the CSPAN services. (As an aside I’d like all three channels to be mandatory carry and broadcast nation wide as well).
Such a system would put the focus on the person speaking. Be it discussion of the bill’s text or stalling.
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We have a different use for the term then.
I look at any federal control being added as federalisation.
And not in a bad way at all.
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Have you read the ‘ For the People Act of 2021’?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr1/text
I have.
That’s exactly what it does. It creates an entire list of federal regulations for elections.
And hey: the vast majority of it is very good and exactly what I would require in legislation.
Let’s start with the bad:
Presidential Tax Transparency
A no go. Taxes are private personal information.
It’s one thing to request them. Another entirely to demand it.
And the voting machine regulation is far too lenient.
No. This means no time for setup and testing. This should be on passage and not extending. By January of 2024.
Findings Relating to District of Columbia Statehood
Though it mentions the previous endeavour, which I fully supported, it does not mandate it.
The only way to do this is to either create a new state separate from DC of the populated area OR to jettison the land occupied by the public into surrounding states. Which I consider the better choice.
I’m also concerned with just how lax the identification requirements are.
The plan otherwise is very very good.
The single largest flaw is the DC section. Which is too open in it’s clause to be specific in action.
But let’s not pretend this isn’t federal control.
Own it. Stand by it.
I do.
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The president can refuse to sign a bill. When he issues a proclamation that he will not sign any bill (pocket veto) until something else reaches his desk, it becomes a mandate.
Yes. And dems are looking to federalise it completely.
I would have sought a temporary federalisation with a sunset.
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