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Yeah, and I bet not a single admin has ever used this feature. It’s obscure, barely works, arguably causes more problems than it solves, and there are many other tools that fulfill the same use case, better.
This is one of those things I learned about because it wss in a textbook then never used again. The two or three times I asked about using as part of a solution at work, I got either a confused look or a “good joke” reaction.
That was close to ten years ago. This is the first I’m hearing about them since then.
I think this is the result of a culture in which they’re looking for ways to do more
All gun control is about controlling the actions of citizens who already abide by the law.
Poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, mental health, and income inequality are the causes of gun violence. Treat those root causes, and it doesn’t matter how many guns there are.
If gun ownership directly translated to gun violence, Finland and Switzerland would have many times the rates of gun violence as the US. In those countries, the total number of guns owned might be smaller, but the overall percentage of people who own guns is nearly 100%. Those countries don’t have the same problems with gun violence because they address the real root causes of gun violence.
The real problem was always the grip being the serialized part of a firearm…
Not the grip, the receiver. Serializing the grip wouldn’t make any sense. Sometimes the receiver includes the grip, sometimes it doesn’t, it depends on the firearm.
Either way, it’s basically the “frame” or “chassis” of the firearm. It doesn’t make sense to serialize any other portion because you could just swap that part out and have an ostensibly different firearm.
A “formal education” mostly involves reading a book. These books can be identified, purchaed, and read without enrolling in any course.
I have a whole shelf full of text books for IT degrees and certifications. Despite never enrolling in any classes, amazingly, the books still allowed me to read them.
That’s how the grift economy works; you take something illegal, give it a different name, and pretend it’s something new and unregulated. The trick is to undercut all competitors with investor capital and put them out of business as quickly as possible. That way, by the time regulators try to pass laws against you, argue that you’re “essential to the economy” now that you’re the only one who operates in that sector.
Uber - No, we’re not an illegal cab company, we’re a “ride share service”
Air B&B - No, we’re not an illegal hotel chain, we’re landlords who sign one-day leases.
Kashi - No, we’re not an illegal casino, this is a “prediction market”
Earn In - No, we’re not an illegal lender, we’re letting you access your future wages, today
Klarna - No, we’re not an illegal credit card company, we just let you pay in four installments
It’s AU. They say “yes daddy” to every authoritarian, then act holier than thou and call other places a “shithole country” when they won’t lick the boots too.
Even if ALL creators band together, IMO there’s basically nothing the creators can do.
Accurate. Even if everyone started uploading to a different platform tomorrow, the catalog of videos already on YT is enough to sustain them for a while
If the officers “turned it into” a tool for stalking, that means officers were stalking people with it. Stalking people is a crime. If these are truly “rogue” officers, that means they weren’t supposed to be stalking people, so they should be charged with the crime of stalking.
But they weren’t. And they won’t be.
This is exactly what the cameras are for, this is exactly what all cops are doing with them, and they will continue to be allowed to do it.
As if the nationwide camera network wasn’t purpose-built exactly for this.
“Gosh, someone came in here and turned our perfectly innocent, nationwide array of facial and vehicle recognition cameras that we programmed to recognize and log everything and turned it into something nefarious while we weren’t looking! Imagine that! It’s those damn dirty no-good rogue officers that are the problem, not our panopticon no one asked for.”
Yeah, and I bet not a single admin has ever used this feature. It’s obscure, barely works, arguably causes more problems than it solves, and there are many other tools that fulfill the same use case, better.
This is one of those things I learned about because it wss in a textbook then never used again. The two or three times I asked about using as part of a solution at work, I got either a confused look or a “good joke” reaction.
That was close to ten years ago. This is the first I’m hearing about them since then.