So ACLU won't grind our axe/bang our drum and there oughta be a Law forcing them to treat every idea I like as if it were the best idea ever?
So, if Facebook/Twitter/ACLU are to be forced to support every white supremacist ideal...why shouldn't I expect, say, American Family Association to present every pro-choice argument I might want to make?
If your answer is, "Organizations must only be forced to support ideas I like...," then you are don't really support free speech, your argument is bankrupt.
...or you could admit that PRIVATE persons and organizations should be entitled to walk away from ideas they don't support. In which case, Facebook, Twitter and ACLU are merely exercising their rights.
A pattern and practice of assault, battery, racism, falsification of evidence, false arrest, perjury, obstruction of justice and insubordination. Probably murder, since they don't seem to have met a line they won't cross.
Collusion to avoid prosecution and refusal to be accountable. Breach of trust and breach of oath.
How do you even start to fix this?
Is it any wonder that some people want to burn it all down and start over?
An inaccuracy of 94%? I could do better with a Ouija Board. I could do better throwing darts at a Michigan map blindfolded.
Let's say that what he means is that 94% of matches generated prove to be false. Now I'm sure that's not what the sales pitch said, but who trusts those? If I had a piece of software that failed 94% of the time, I would ashcan it and a lawsuit against the vendor would follow. Not the police department, no siree. It must be meeting some need of theirs.
What could that be? In this case, it probably produced seventeen "wild geese." Which brings us to the problem of picking out the Robert Williams, the goose. I wasn't there, but I'm betting it went something like this, as they looked through the seventeen candidates: "Too rich. Too sympathetic. Too professional. Too connected. Wait...here's a one that's poor...don't you think he looks right?"
Which brings us to the eyewitness. Of course, the police probably helpted that along as well... "Which one of these six men is the shoplifter? Not sure? Which one looks most like him? Still not sure? Well did you look at #4?" [wink, wink, nudge, nudge]
So now they have a candidate, and credit for the collar...and who cares about the goose's -- Robert William's rights? They probably figured he did something even if he was innocent. They certainly didn't expect him to bond out, and probably expected him to plead guilty to avoid a trial.
Who wants to waste time finding real criminals when convicting an innocent is so easily?
The point of all of this is...the bad guys here are the police. Yes the software is crap, but it probably wouldn't exist if if the police everywhere weren't so gung ho about it. It wouldn't still be installed in Detroit and being used, if police there didn't regard it as good enough. It comes down to the same old story: Police violating civil rights wholesale, and looking to expand the franchise -- with just a pinch of facial recognition companies to help them out.
However, as if they were expecting the bogus claims of anti-conservative bias to show up in response, Reddit also shut down r/ChapoTrapHouse, which might be considered the flip side to The_Donald subreddit, but from the left end of the traditional political spectrum.
If this was to show balance, it was a waste of time. Being rational does not serve the accusers' aims.
The accusers do not want a rational discussion. They want absolutely unfettered access to minds they can pollute with their irrational nonsense.
It is going to take an act of Congress -- SCOTUS is not going to overrule this on its own.
The problem is, one award for a true accident, and a cop is financially ruined. I don't care about bad apples being ruined -- they asked for it -- but it seems a shame to crush a good apple to applesauce because of something non culpable.
The revision I suggest is mandatory award sharing. Officers should have to pay somewhere beteen 1% and 5% of any award. For a $1 million award, that amounts to $10,000 to $50,000 (no insurance/union contribution allowed). I.e., hurts like hell, but doesn't ruin.
Since we cannot have a world without surveillance, I think parity is the answer: You get to watch us, we get to watch you. Surveillance should benefit the public as well as the government.
I think we could even let the government use encryption on the camera feeds...right after they give the public the backdoor key.
The reason latency has been so high on satellite traditionally is because the satellite has traditionally been in geosynchronoous orbit. A full round trip (up+down out plus up+down back) is about 89,000 miles, which does add up to about 480 milliseconds.
But Musk's satellites are in low Earth orbit. If we allow 500 miles one way, a full round trip is around 2,000 miles, about 11 milliseconds. That leaves a lot of margin for routing and still meet that 100 millisecond promise.
I think Pai is just protecting the incumbents. Again.
On the post: Bizarre Court Ruling Helps Cable Broadband Monopoly Charter Tap Dance Around Merger Conditions
Empty-headed rulings
Only the DC court could hear "having to offer lower-cost broadband plans [to consumers]" and conclude that is bad for consumers.
Upcoming ruling from the court: The prohibition on converting consumers to Soylent Green is bad for consumers.
On the post: California Fusion Center Tracked Anti-Police Protests, Sent Info To 14,000 Police Officers
Wondering
If it was police protesting, I wonder if NCRIC would send out a daily list of those protests?
On the post: Tone Deaf Facebook To Cripple VR Headsets Unless You Link It To Your Facebook Account
Upcoming FB Buyouts
Maytag. ("Now you have to sign in to FB to refrogerate your food or to wash dishes or clothes.)
McDonald.s ("Sign into FB to get a Big Mac.")
etc.
The next wave of monopolizaton. Forced membership.
On the post: FBI Lawyer Criminally Charged For Lying To The FISA Court
Not about the lie
It wasn't the lie that got him punished. If FBI lies were all punished, there would be no one left to turn out the lights.
This is a political persecution, pure and simple.
On the post: San Diego Police Officers Are Using An Old Sedition Law To Punish People For Swearing Around Cops
Re: Make it happen, it will be fun to watch
So ACLU won't grind our axe/bang our drum and there oughta be a Law forcing them to treat every idea I like as if it were the best idea ever?
So, if Facebook/Twitter/ACLU are to be forced to support every white supremacist ideal...why shouldn't I expect, say, American Family Association to present every pro-choice argument I might want to make?
If your answer is, "Organizations must only be forced to support ideas I like...," then you are don't really support free speech, your argument is bankrupt.
...or you could admit that PRIVATE persons and organizations should be entitled to walk away from ideas they don't support. In which case, Facebook, Twitter and ACLU are merely exercising their rights.
On the post: Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pet Just Applied For Trademark On Jingle For Some R-R-R-Reason
Re:
Nah, not into oblivion. Just for a nice, lucrative 25% of their profits.
On the post: Rich Dude Goes Back On His Promise About Forcing California Into A Dreadfully Bad Privacy Law, Brings A Worse Version Back
Wishing
I wish I had a bazillion dollars to waste pushing my ideology on courts and voters.
On the post: Why Is The Boys And Girls Club Trying To Kill A Cable Monopoly's Merger Conditions?
How cheap?
I wonder if they'd write a letter for me, for $500? $50? $5? We already know they are for sale cheap, I'm just wondering how low they'll go?
On the post: Tech Policy In The Time Of Trump: Mid-2020 Edition
Re: Re: Re: My Two Cents
Perhaps if we tried net neutrality or capitalism in our markets, we would get better results.
On the post: DOJ Says Massachusetts Drug Unit Routinely Engaged In And Lied About Excessive Force Deployment
How to fix this?
A pattern and practice of assault, battery, racism, falsification of evidence, false arrest, perjury, obstruction of justice and insubordination. Probably murder, since they don't seem to have met a line they won't cross.
Collusion to avoid prosecution and refusal to be accountable. Breach of trust and breach of oath.
How do you even start to fix this?
Is it any wonder that some people want to burn it all down and start over?
On the post: Documents Show SFPD Ignored The Press Pass The Department Had Issued To Brian Carmody In Order To Place Him Under Surveillance
A rule of thumb
The quicker the capitulation, the quicker the settlement offer, the more likely worse wrongdoing is yet to be discovered.
Follows the principle of "pleading to a lesser crime."
On the post: Estate Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alleges Copyright Infringement Over Sherlock's Emotional Awakening
Under that theory...
...Shakespeare Estate owns 87% of everything copyrightable, and Aeosop Estate owns the rest.
On the post: Detroit Police Chief Says Facial Recognition Software Involved In Bogus Arrest Is Wrong '96 Percent Of The Time'
Police are the bad guys
An inaccuracy of 94%? I could do better with a Ouija Board. I could do better throwing darts at a Michigan map blindfolded.
Let's say that what he means is that 94% of matches generated prove to be false. Now I'm sure that's not what the sales pitch said, but who trusts those? If I had a piece of software that failed 94% of the time, I would ashcan it and a lawsuit against the vendor would follow. Not the police department, no siree. It must be meeting some need of theirs.
What could that be? In this case, it probably produced seventeen "wild geese." Which brings us to the problem of picking out the Robert Williams, the goose. I wasn't there, but I'm betting it went something like this, as they looked through the seventeen candidates: "Too rich. Too sympathetic. Too professional. Too connected. Wait...here's a one that's poor...don't you think he looks right?"
Which brings us to the eyewitness. Of course, the police probably helpted that along as well... "Which one of these six men is the shoplifter? Not sure? Which one looks most like him? Still not sure? Well did you look at #4?" [wink, wink, nudge, nudge]
So now they have a candidate, and credit for the collar...and who cares about the goose's -- Robert William's rights? They probably figured he did something even if he was innocent. They certainly didn't expect him to bond out, and probably expected him to plead guilty to avoid a trial.
Who wants to waste time finding real criminals when convicting an innocent is so easily?
The point of all of this is...the bad guys here are the police. Yes the software is crap, but it probably wouldn't exist if if the police everywhere weren't so gung ho about it. It wouldn't still be installed in Detroit and being used, if police there didn't regard it as good enough. It comes down to the same old story: Police violating civil rights wholesale, and looking to expand the franchise -- with just a pinch of facial recognition companies to help them out.
On the post: Twitch And Reddit Ramp Up Their Enforcement Against 'Hateful' Content
Assuming rationality fails
If this was to show balance, it was a waste of time. Being rational does not serve the accusers' aims.
The accusers do not want a rational discussion. They want absolutely unfettered access to minds they can pollute with their irrational nonsense.
On the post: Appeals Court Strips Immunity From Abusive Cops Who Assaulted A Compliant Black Man... And The City That Allowed This To Happen
Maybe...?
I suppose, "Officer in fear of his life defends self from pleading inferior," wouldn't fly.
On the post: NYPD, Health Department Decide Public Shouldn't Know How Many New Yorkers Are Killed By Cops Every Year
Re: Re:
The only reasonable conclusion is that it wasn't really fake. Believe me, if it were fake, they would have blared it everywhere.
On the post: Appeals Court Judge: Supreme Court Needs To Unfuck The Public By Rolling Back The Qualified Immunity Doctrine
Mandatory award sharing
It is going to take an act of Congress -- SCOTUS is not going to overrule this on its own.
The problem is, one award for a true accident, and a cop is financially ruined. I don't care about bad apples being ruined -- they asked for it -- but it seems a shame to crush a good apple to applesauce because of something non culpable.
The revision I suggest is mandatory award sharing. Officers should have to pay somewhere beteen 1% and 5% of any award. For a $1 million award, that amounts to $10,000 to $50,000 (no insurance/union contribution allowed). I.e., hurts like hell, but doesn't ruin.
On the post: New York City Residents Turn City's Traffic Cameras Into Cop-Watching Tools
Parity
Since we cannot have a world without surveillance, I think parity is the answer: You get to watch us, we get to watch you. Surveillance should benefit the public as well as the government.
I think we could even let the government use encryption on the camera feeds...right after they give the public the backdoor key.
On the post: FCC Skeptical About Space X Satellite Broadband Claims
Seems reasonable on the face
The reason latency has been so high on satellite traditionally is because the satellite has traditionally been in geosynchronoous orbit. A full round trip (up+down out plus up+down back) is about 89,000 miles, which does add up to about 480 milliseconds.
But Musk's satellites are in low Earth orbit. If we allow 500 miles one way, a full round trip is around 2,000 miles, about 11 milliseconds. That leaves a lot of margin for routing and still meet that 100 millisecond promise.
I think Pai is just protecting the incumbents. Again.
On the post: Federal Court Says ICE Can No Longer Enter New York Courthouses Just To Arrest Alleged Undocumented Immigrants
Nice little loophole he left there
But he left them a loophole, and a nasty one at that. Now they just have to wait on the steps until their target comes out.
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