Drug sales are still illegal... but a necessary component of drug use. Therefor, someone's selling illegally. And that black market drives brutal, unrelenting violence.
You're saying in places where drugs have been decriminalized but still carry a civil penalty (so it's like a traffic ticket) there is a brutal violent drug black market? Where?
Re: Re: Re: Thanks for not being the Gestapo, I guess?
This is a really minor point but the "turning the frogs gay" thing was actually real.
I doubt that. "Perhaps Jones was referring to a study from the University of California, Berkeley, which suggested that exposure to atrazine, a widely used pesticide, may cause gender-switching among frogs. But then he would be misinterpreting the results of that study. Gender switching is not the same as sexual preference. "
So unless you can find any evidence of frogs switching their sexual preference due to chemical contamination, I'm going with no on that one.
Second, I believe he claimed "the government" was putting these chemicals in the water, which as far as I know is not true, it would be farmers doing that. Third, this was a part of his larger point that government was conducting chemical warfare on the US public, and that the existence of gay people is because of a secret government plot to put estrogen mimickers into drinking water to make people gay.
I would not bother defending the guy if I were you, even if he almost managed to accidentally get near a truthful statement this one time.
And with Google you can't even wait and see. You might think give it 2 or 3 years and if it's still going then it's probably going to continue, but Google routinely kills stuff after 5+ years.
Re: App Stores should be regulated like the monopolie that they
App stores, as distributors, are natural monopolies
How is the Play Store a natural monopoly when I have two different app stores on my phone that I actually use, another that I could install if I felt like it, and probably a fourth one that Samsung stuck on there that I ignore? And that's just the ones I know about off the top of my head.
Re: Repeat after me: 'Companies are not your friend'
anyone who bought the 'we pinky promise that we'll give you the tools to do your own repairs, no need to pass those silly laws' thing was just fooling themselves.
If they were actually planning to comply with the principles of right to repair, they wouldn't have objected to the laws.
No one should be able to trademark simple generic words like spinning trekking etc
It's fine to trademark simple words, the problem is trying to enforce the trademark against people using them in the generic way. No problem for Trek bicycles to have that trademark, and stop anyone else from making bikes called Trek. Big problem if they try to stop people going for a backcountry hike referring to it as a trek.
So, what would happen if instead of paying lawyers and lobbyists to stop community broadband, they spent the same money servicing the communities that want it?
Not much. Lobbying is way cheaper than laying fiber, so that money wouldn't go very far.
The key is "designated digital platform service". There's some minister or someone responsible for designating services, and apparently the plan is to designate Google and Facebook.
It takes a certain kind of simpleton mind to seriously believe that if you write for an outlet financed by a government (e.g., US, UK, Russia, etc.), that that government controls your writing.
Or perhaps it takes a simpleton to fail to understand the difference between opinion and fact. That is the basis on which the lawsuit was dismissed - it is not possible to be liable for defamation because of an opinion.
"Because there is no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow’s statement, the complaint is dismissed with prejudice."
The real solution to the problems in the US is to create regulatory bodies that are free from direct political interference
I would say the real solution is publicly owned infrastructure with private companies competing to provide service on it. But I don't see that happening in my hypothetical grandchildrens' lifetime.
Also, any competition that occurs until a monopoly reforms will be welcome.
If you're breaking it up into regional companies like before, there would still be no additional competition. Instead of one big monopoly, you would get a bunch of little ones. I'm not sure how else you envision breaking it up that would solve the problem.
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Re: Re:
You're saying in places where drugs have been decriminalized but still carry a civil penalty (so it's like a traffic ticket) there is a brutal violent drug black market? Where?
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Re: Popehat's parody page
Laughed out loud.
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Re: Re:
Yes, but how close is it to Illionois?
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Kind of dark, but I see what you did there.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Scary!
Pretty much a pipe dream in the US at this point, but that would sure be nice.
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Re: Re: Re: Thanks for not being the Gestapo, I guess?
I doubt that. "Perhaps Jones was referring to a study from the University of California, Berkeley, which suggested that exposure to atrazine, a widely used pesticide, may cause gender-switching among frogs. But then he would be misinterpreting the results of that study. Gender switching is not the same as sexual preference. "
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/08/16/alex-jones-top-10-health-claims-and-why-they -are-wrong/?sh=60f965183e7f
So unless you can find any evidence of frogs switching their sexual preference due to chemical contamination, I'm going with no on that one.
Second, I believe he claimed "the government" was putting these chemicals in the water, which as far as I know is not true, it would be farmers doing that. Third, this was a part of his larger point that government was conducting chemical warfare on the US public, and that the existence of gay people is because of a secret government plot to put estrogen mimickers into drinking water to make people gay.
I would not bother defending the guy if I were you, even if he almost managed to accidentally get near a truthful statement this one time.
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It also means you have a better than 50% chance of seeing at least one penis after 23 sessions.
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And with Google you can't even wait and see. You might think give it 2 or 3 years and if it's still going then it's probably going to continue, but Google routinely kills stuff after 5+ years.
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Re: App Stores should be regulated like the monopolie that they
How is the Play Store a natural monopoly when I have two different app stores on my phone that I actually use, another that I could install if I felt like it, and probably a fourth one that Samsung stuck on there that I ignore? And that's just the ones I know about off the top of my head.
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Re: Repeat after me: 'Companies are not your friend'
If they were actually planning to comply with the principles of right to repair, they wouldn't have objected to the laws.
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It's fine to trademark simple words, the problem is trying to enforce the trademark against people using them in the generic way. No problem for Trek bicycles to have that trademark, and stop anyone else from making bikes called Trek. Big problem if they try to stop people going for a backcountry hike referring to it as a trek.
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Re: Re:
Try gaming late at night when the 13-year-olds' mommies have made most of them go to bed.
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Not much. Lobbying is way cheaper than laying fiber, so that money wouldn't go very far.
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Re: Re: The letter of the law
The key is "designated digital platform service". There's some minister or someone responsible for designating services, and apparently the plan is to designate Google and Facebook.
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Arbitration for what? For how much Google and Facebook must pay for news links. Thus, a link tax.
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Thanks, didn't see the alternate spellings. I've always seen it "tchotchke".
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Re: The Kremlin Blues
Or perhaps it takes a simpleton to fail to understand the difference between opinion and fact. That is the basis on which the lawsuit was dismissed - it is not possible to be liable for defamation because of an opinion.
"Because there is no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow’s statement, the complaint is dismissed with prejudice."
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Re: Re: Scary!
I would say the real solution is publicly owned infrastructure with private companies competing to provide service on it. But I don't see that happening in my hypothetical grandchildrens' lifetime.
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Re: Re: Re: Scary!
If you're breaking it up into regional companies like before, there would still be no additional competition. Instead of one big monopoly, you would get a bunch of little ones. I'm not sure how else you envision breaking it up that would solve the problem.
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Tchotchkes.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tchotchke
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