I'm currently sitting in a wealthy neighborhood north of Ft. Meyers. T-Mobile says two bars of 5G. Here are my stats: 170ms, 26.9 down and 0.53(!) up. Transformative my ass. I'd settle for adequate.
$17 a round? What the hell are they shooting? 20mm canons? Oh, wait. I think I know why. I'm sure some of their retired buddies are ammo dealers so they're letting them get away with 1000%+ markups. I'm sure I could find them ammo at less than $2/rd even for the most expensive sniper cartridges. Waste, fraud, abuse, repeat.
Thanks. Now I have even more evidence to show all my friends who called me a "bad person" because I didn't sign up for all these "totally secure, totally anonymous" Covid tracing apps. My position has always been that they're probably not anonymous, definitely not "secure", and that much of their data will wind up in the sadistic hands of law-infliction. The last point hasn't been proven yet, but if my distrust were a stock, I'd suggest buying (don't get greedy and forget to place a trailing stop).
The Op-Ed buried the lede. The scandal is not that a company's business was shut down by ransomeware whose bounty was paid in cryptocurrency. The scandal is that we allow private entities to control vital national infrastructure with minimal oversight. The trillion dollars plus that we spend on the DoD and "Intelligence Agencies" might even be justified if they were tasked with preventing cyber threats instead of dropping bombs on poor people. It shouldn't be a stretch to demand that those massively profiting by providing critical services should meet stringent (and expensive, profit-lowering) security standards.
A serious attack on, say, the electric power grid in January, would make the number killed on 9/11 look like a rounding error, and we wasted trillions of dollars and killed an unimaginable number of people in our ineffectual response to that attack.
I'm as wary of invasive, over-reaching government power as one can be, but we're not talking about social media here, something which has both the left and right wasting a lot of time finding problems for their regulatory solutions.
But of course The Journal published this garbage because it has no problem with the status quo but big problem with anything that disrupts it and doesn't benefit the incumbents. And cryptocurrency must be stopped because the incumbents don't get a slice of every transaction.
Everything Mosby complains about in WBFF's coverage are techniques that police and prosecutors use all the time. Every day those agents put out statements which can be described by any of the adjectives she uses, and knowingly advanced even when demonstrably false. Think of all the law enforcement narratives which blow up when video shows no one could honestly give those narratives. Of course, the local news always parrots the authorities without question and I don't hear Mosby complaining about that.
Re: Screw civil court, what about a murder charge?
What about perjury, making false statements or obstruction of justice? These are all things prosecutors love to threaten us little people with if they even think we're lying, but never the cops even when there's video evidence.
Correct me if I'm wrong, which I probably am, but didn't the MyPillow account on Twitter get shut down because Lindell was posting the same B.S. about Dominion that got his personal account but down?
I absolutely trust the FBI and/or any other government agency to break into systems for our own protection, even though they've shown no proof that everything they broke into were unpatched servers. They can't won't because that would expose "sources and "methods". This is just getting us used to more pervasive and invasive surveillance.
Please don't forget the culpability of certain members general public who are empaneled as jurors in cases where cops are defendants. One of the Big Myths we're taught about this country is that those who work in law infliction are above reproach without overwhelming evidence to the contrary -- they are really the only ones accorded the assumptions of innocence and honesty. When cops are actually charged with a crime, there's always a "person of faith" on the jury whose faith in the cops puts them above reproach, lest the cognitive dissonance become too great.
Having read Thomas' opinions over the decades and noted his increasingly bizarre "reasoning", that in my non-medical opinion the Justice is suffering from late stage syphilis.
This is obviously a bug which became a feature for Arizona "law enforcement". How many times do we have to be reminded that the purpose of policing in this country is to inflict maximum brutality and terror on the marginalized for no other reason than to have favored population feel "safe", and to keep the money flowing for cops. The affluent and otherwise powerful don't see this as a problem, because their fate will never depend on this system because they'll never see the inside of a cell.
On the post: Superbowl Ads Try To Make 5G Sexy, But Consumers Still Aren't Buying The Hype
I'm currently sitting in a wealthy neighborhood north of Ft. Meyers. T-Mobile says two bars of 5G. Here are my stats: 170ms, 26.9 down and 0.53(!) up. Transformative my ass. I'd settle for adequate.
On the post: Hershey Goes On A Threat Blitz Against A Bunch Of Independent Breweries
It's not that there are too many lawyers, it's that too many of them do the wrong things.
On the post: Court Tells Arkansas Troopers That Muting Anti-Cop Terms On Its Facebook Page Violates The 1st Amendment
They forgot to add "gangbanger" and "terrorist".
On the post: LAPD Sees Your Reform Efforts, Raises You $20 Million In Bullets, Snacks, And Surveillance
$17 a round? What the hell are they shooting? 20mm canons? Oh, wait. I think I know why. I'm sure some of their retired buddies are ammo dealers so they're letting them get away with 1000%+ markups. I'm sure I could find them ammo at less than $2/rd even for the most expensive sniper cartridges. Waste, fraud, abuse, repeat.
On the post: Massachusetts District Attorney Delays Forfeiture Proceedings For Years, Some Involving As Little As $10
Is there a distinction between "cops"and"actual criminals"?
On the post: Ohio Files Bizarre And Nonsensical Lawsuit Against Google, Claiming It's A Common Carrier; But What Does That Even Mean?
Re:
Brain dead in O-hio.
On the post: Citizen Continues Its Push To Become Cops-For-Hire By Leaking Sensitive Data... Twice
Thanks. Now I have even more evidence to show all my friends who called me a "bad person" because I didn't sign up for all these "totally secure, totally anonymous" Covid tracing apps. My position has always been that they're probably not anonymous, definitely not "secure", and that much of their data will wind up in the sadistic hands of law-infliction. The last point hasn't been proven yet, but if my distrust were a stock, I'd suggest buying (don't get greedy and forget to place a trailing stop).
On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware
The Op-Ed buried the lede. The scandal is not that a company's business was shut down by ransomeware whose bounty was paid in cryptocurrency. The scandal is that we allow private entities to control vital national infrastructure with minimal oversight. The trillion dollars plus that we spend on the DoD and "Intelligence Agencies" might even be justified if they were tasked with preventing cyber threats instead of dropping bombs on poor people. It shouldn't be a stretch to demand that those massively profiting by providing critical services should meet stringent (and expensive, profit-lowering) security standards.
A serious attack on, say, the electric power grid in January, would make the number killed on 9/11 look like a rounding error, and we wasted trillions of dollars and killed an unimaginable number of people in our ineffectual response to that attack.
I'm as wary of invasive, over-reaching government power as one can be, but we're not talking about social media here, something which has both the left and right wasting a lot of time finding problems for their regulatory solutions.
But of course The Journal published this garbage because it has no problem with the status quo but big problem with anything that disrupts it and doesn't benefit the incumbents. And cryptocurrency must be stopped because the incumbents don't get a slice of every transaction.
On the post: Baltimore Prosecutor Asks FCC To Go After Local News Broadcasters She Doesn't Like
Everything Mosby complains about in WBFF's coverage are techniques that police and prosecutors use all the time. Every day those agents put out statements which can be described by any of the adjectives she uses, and knowingly advanced even when demonstrably false. Think of all the law enforcement narratives which blow up when video shows no one could honestly give those narratives. Of course, the local news always parrots the authorities without question and I don't hear Mosby complaining about that.
On the post: Fifth Circuit Strips Immunity From Cops Who Ended A Mental Health Crisis By Restraining A Man To Death
Re: Screw civil court, what about a murder charge?
What about perjury, making false statements or obstruction of justice? These are all things prosecutors love to threaten us little people with if they even think we're lying, but never the cops even when there's video evidence.
On the post: MyPillow CEO Sues Dominion For Violating His Company's Right To Say The Things About Election Fraud It Definitely Isn't Saying
Correct me if I'm wrong, which I probably am, but didn't the MyPillow account on Twitter get shut down because Lindell was posting the same B.S. about Dominion that got his personal account but down?
On the post: FBI Flexes Rule 41 Powers, Uses Remote Access Technique To Neutralize Compromised Software All Over The US
I absolutely trust the FBI and/or any other government agency to break into systems for our own protection, even though they've shown no proof that everything they broke into were unpatched servers. They can't won't because that would expose "sources and "methods". This is just getting us used to more pervasive and invasive surveillance.
On the post: Striking Cable Techs Build Their Own ISP In NYC
I'm so pissed that my Covid-25 pounds have cause me to outgrow my IBEW t-shirt. I just ordered another one. Union Yes.
On the post: Lying NYPD Narcotics Detective Just Cost Prosecutors Nearly 100 Convictions
Please don't forget the culpability of certain members general public who are empaneled as jurors in cases where cops are defendants. One of the Big Myths we're taught about this country is that those who work in law infliction are above reproach without overwhelming evidence to the contrary -- they are really the only ones accorded the assumptions of innocence and honesty. When cops are actually charged with a crime, there's always a "person of faith" on the jury whose faith in the cops puts them above reproach, lest the cognitive dissonance become too great.
On the post: Justice Thomas Goes Weird Again; Suggests Twitter Can't Moderate & Section 230 Violates 1st Amendment
Having read Thomas' opinions over the decades and noted his increasingly bizarre "reasoning", that in my non-medical opinion the Justice is suffering from late stage syphilis.
On the post: Appeals Court Judge Attacks Fundamental Principle Of 1st Amendment Law, Because He Thinks The Media Likes Democrats Too Much
It's my opinion that there's a rampant, undisclosed epidemic of late-stage syphillis raging in our judiciary.
On the post: Arizona's $24-Million Prison Management Software Is Keeping People Locked Up Past The End Of Their Sentences
This is obviously a bug which became a feature for Arizona "law enforcement". How many times do we have to be reminded that the purpose of policing in this country is to inflict maximum brutality and terror on the marginalized for no other reason than to have favored population feel "safe", and to keep the money flowing for cops. The affluent and otherwise powerful don't see this as a problem, because their fate will never depend on this system because they'll never see the inside of a cell.
On the post: A Teenaged Tech CEO Tries To Sneak In After Curfew And Finds His Mom Waited Up For Him
Thank you. THANK YOU!! I haven't laughed this hard in a year, and I have solid, industry supported data to support that position.
On the post: Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward
The "Texas Miracle" indeed.
On the post: Without Twitter, Trump Is Left To Write Tweets He Would Have Said On Paper
I wonder which color crayons he's using on the Mar a Lago tablecloths
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