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• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Punish Hackers For Accessing Vaccine Research We Should Be Sharing With The World?

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2020 @ 09:07am

  As ever, my complaint is with the press.

  I get that it's still driven by the silly belief that everything related to drug discovery must be "owned" and "patented"

  A belief that ~100% of news orgs thoughtlessly pass on w/o any analysis or even consideration.

  Leadership is about doing the right thing even if it makes you look bad.

  Our press corp does not (with any meaningful consistency) perform nuanced (or otherwise) reporting on pols doing the right/wrong thing.
  eg: 500 indistinguishable stories on one misdeed while countless other misdeeds go unreported.

  (disclaimer: I believe it is useless & counterproductive to calculate bias, w/o first addressing competency in reporting. The bias equation is skewed & unsolvable, while inept journalism is the norm.)

• On the post: Verizon Has To Walk Back Bogus 5G Coverage Claims

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2020 @ 09:23am

  5G, while certainly fast, pales in comparison to overseas networks -- in large part because we've failed to make mid-band spectrum (much of it held by the government) available for widespread public use.

  This would seem to be the 5G story of the decade.

• On the post: Understanding The 'Splinternet'

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2020 @ 10:54am

  Upgrading to IPv6 requires private- and, in some cases, public-sector investment so this divided access to the internet will break along lines of wealth.

  Frontier Communications has received public & private investment, yet most of it's footprint lacks IPv6.

  Perhaps what is required is a will to deploy IPv6 and a method to isolate CapEx from shareholder meddling.

• On the post: T-Mobile Merger 'Synergies' Culminate In Massive 12 Hour Nationwide Outage

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2020 @ 08:56am

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  It might be alright if copyright locked that away. I'm thinking his post might be due to that awkweird period between police refusing to help the mentally ill and mental health services stepping in. On the positive side, Navy text-yelling seems to be making a comeback.

• On the post: House Democrats Have The Power To Protect Our Web Surfing From Warrantless FBI Searching; Instead, They're Pointing Fingers

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 23 May, 2020 @ 08:14am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Sincere apologies. It's become weirdly busy (and hs graduation, etc).
  I worked on it for a while but I need a lot of rewrites to output stuff that isn't terrible. I will write this out eventually, tho. Both the topic & the audience are important to me.

• On the post: House Democrats Have The Power To Protect Our Web Surfing From Warrantless FBI Searching; Instead, They're Pointing Fingers

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 21 May, 2020 @ 02:47pm

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  Sure. I'll post it eventually.

• On the post: House Democrats Have The Power To Protect Our Web Surfing From Warrantless FBI Searching; Instead, They're Pointing Fingers

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 21 May, 2020 @ 01:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Say what now? Thought the GOP fancied itself the 'party of personal responsibility', the idea that the way to fix them is to go after the other party seems like a shifting of responsibilities.

  PrepStep1: Ignore party talking points. I mean really ignore them. Yes, even if it means letting go an opportunity to attack.

• On the post: House Democrats Have The Power To Protect Our Web Surfing From Warrantless FBI Searching; Instead, They're Pointing Fingers

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 21 May, 2020 @ 01:07pm

  Re: Re:

  The GOP, as it exists right now, is just so much worse.

  PSA: The path to a better GOP lies thru de-corrupting the DNC.

• On the post: House Democrats Have The Power To Protect Our Web Surfing From Warrantless FBI Searching; Instead, They're Pointing Fingers

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 21 May, 2020 @ 01:05pm

  Re: You Might Think

  A lot of people think that their side is better than the other, when the reality is that both sides of the political spectrum have career politicians who represent The Swamp, and not their constituents.

  BURN THE BOTHSIDERISM WITCH!!! Because the left & right both finally agree on something - nuance is for traitors. Or maybe only weak people examine problems common to both parties - while one party is more egregious. Or it could be that putting ethics over party victories means evil wins because of you. Or ... well, heck. What are the assumed rules again?

• On the post: As Some Are Requiring People To Give Up Their Info To Dine, Stories Of Creeps Abusing That Info Come Out

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 17 May, 2020 @ 10:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: use phony personal info

  You don't 'register' the sale of a car.

  We're required to title a car & pay the sales tax w/i 30 days of purchase. I bought an antique a year ago & haven't titled it yet. I'll have a small fine to pay when I do.

• On the post: Uh Oh: FBI Serves Search Warrant On Senator Richard Burr, Seizes His Phone

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 14 May, 2020 @ 01:16pm

  Re: Re: Annnnnnd, he's gone!

  resigning makes breaking the law all better?

  The guy who performed no meaningful oversight of the FBI, resigned his position of overseeing the FBI. We can rest assured someone else will take his place and shill hard for the agency.

• On the post: Uh Oh: FBI Serves Search Warrant On Senator Richard Burr, Seizes His Phone

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 14 May, 2020 @ 01:11pm

  Re: Re:

  You're saying he's a senator in something other than US Congress. I guess that's an opinion you can have.

• On the post: US Press Continues To Help Prop Up Bullshit 5G Conspiracy Theories

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 13 May, 2020 @ 12:08pm

  Re: Just to mention.

  Can we find people who understand High Freq radio waves..Like those Old MW towers used in the past, that would warm your body in winter, as it Slowly Cooked your insides

  A millimeter wave, directed microwave energy weapon causes pain by heating the water in a human target's skin - which is as far as it can penetrate.

• On the post: US Press Continues To Help Prop Up Bullshit 5G Conspiracy Theories

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 13 May, 2020 @ 11:50am

  Re:

  I hate sunlight. And now I hate the thunkskulls that vindicate my sunlight hatred.

• On the post: US Press Continues To Help Prop Up Bullshit 5G Conspiracy Theories

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 13 May, 2020 @ 11:48am

  Re:

  WiFi was a conspiracy proxy for 4G

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 May, 2020 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re:

  (appending the last paragraph from outrage to *seeking outrage)

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 May, 2020 @ 09:53am

  Re: Re:

  I've a secondary point. It's somewhat less precise but I arrived at it thru decades of honesty-driven analysis. The most productive path to fixing the other team's bad behavior lies thru fixing the instances of that bad behavior in one's own team. Conversely, when someone isn't holding their own team accountable, in a way that consistently effects observable change, they are enabling, emboldening, condoning, instructing, guaranteeing (how many more participles do I need here?) the other team's bad behavior. The phrase "Clean Your Own House" is most frequently used as a bludgeon, usually as response to someone else's bad choices. This accomplishes nothing because the phrase is only powerful as a self-applied principle. It's the actual cleaning of one's own house that effects change. If we truly want an effective society, all of us need to become better, more mature, more considering individuals. We'll know we got there when we've stopped demonizing people we don't like and discarded the harmful things-we-hold-dear (like outrage or winning an argument). Seriously, we all need to grow up.

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 May, 2020 @ 08:41am

  Re:

  The discussed corruption regularly happens in right wing circles - only - or it doesn't. If non-right instances of corruption aren't of any meaningful amount than yes - injecting them into the conversation is a counterproductive distraction. Otherwise, the point that this corruption not limited to one party is valid. Is saying that corruption is endemic to both parties a worthwhile point to make? I think that depends on what you want to eliminate.

• On the post: New AT&T CEO Says You're A Moron If You Don't Use AT&T Streaming Services

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 07 May, 2020 @ 12:26pm

  Re: Re:

  Oh just say it already, "Cream of the Crap".

• On the post: AT&T Keeps On Firing Employees Despite Claims The Trump Tax Cut Would Boost Job Growth

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2020 @ 07:27am

  Re:

  I didn't feel anything. Maybe you have a grammar sensitivity?

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