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  • On the post: What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2023 @ 12:15pm

    Don’t know. But you don’t see a mass exodus over this either. I disagree with forced targeting. It should always be a choice. But I prefer targeted advertising. I’m more likely to click through and buy something that way.

  • On the post: Depressing: Ed Sheeran Films Songwriting Sessions Due To All The Copyright Suits

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 07:35pm

    No, you were attacked for claiming he didn't count for anything because you hadn't personally heard of him
    Let’s see, I started with Ed who? And nothing more. And the reply was “I” should be discounted from any discussion of the modern music industry, as I don’t know what’s happening” Despite “pop” being only one sales track in music.
    4 years before TikTok was launched
    9 years after Facebook 7 years after X, as Twitter 10 years after MySpace What’s the point? Ah, Spotify. You do realise that the vast majority of Spotify users are outside the US, and that they are a distant (though growing) number two in this country. No, I didn’t look at the time of the initial “who”. It’s a name I had absolutely never heard. But I’m not some 20-some looking at social media and swapping playlists. Nor do I watch any of the band-at-the-end shows on TV, or broadcast or cable at all. Maybe, you should figure out that just because something is important to you, and some percentage of the 27% of US residents monthly accessing Spotify, doesn’t immediately mean the general public as a whole has any idea what your talking about. The idea has less value with the new Indiana film out, but I’d still say, ask the next 20 random people on the street… how many give you a blank stare. So he’s some popular pop singer. You didn’t need to jump to an immediate assault over your preferred artist. A simple link or reply of description would have worked. But you felt the need for an aggressive assault to protect, why so defensive?

  • On the post: Court Shoots Down Cop’s Attempt To Instruct Jury That He’s Innocent Just Because He Wasn’t The FIRST Violator Of Rights

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 02:18pm

    Yes, that is typical practice. Once the suspect is apprehended they place handcuffs on.

  • On the post: It’s Beyond Stupid That Robocallers And Lobbyists Have Made Our Voice Networks Almost Unusable

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 05:06am

    What to do?

    Highjacking a number is trivial. Spoofing a number is trivial. I’m not sure what you expect anyone to do. The spam and fake calls operate outside of the legal system. You’re as likely to make progress on them as you are on piracy. It’s a damned mega hydra.

  • On the post: Can Google Be Held Liable For Man Who Died Following Google Maps Over A Collapsed Bridge?

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 01:31am

    My question here

    Private (damaged) bridge on private property. If it was indeed private and not open to public access, then there is no liability for the owners either. His transit to the bridge being trespass. As far as I’m aware, the SCotUS has never upheld protective rights for trespass. .

  • On the post: Federal Judge Says Fuck The 1st Amendment While Upholding Public University’s Drag Show Ban

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 01:24am

    Does not the school have the ultimate decision on what is and is not officially sanctioned by the institution? Was that not the basis for banning a conservative speaker from a California university? Appears to me that the ultimate choice is completely within the school administration. They are free to use a private venue for their shows, still. There is no ban on other locale, or advertising of such a new location and time. Maybe I’m missing something here?

  • On the post: Court Shoots Down Cop’s Attempt To Instruct Jury That He’s Innocent Just Because He Wasn’t The FIRST Violator Of Rights

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 01:13am

    This whole case

    Should probably have been tossed in the first place. “Lopez’s widow sued the two officers. The cops’ lawyers argued (among other things) that Lopez had no constitutional rights because he was not a legal resident of the United States.” That’s established fact despite recent activist judgments. One need only look at the status of Guam and American Samoa. The argument is quite clear, non-citizens are only protected by the minimum of international standards. The legal party to the situation is held to the constitution, however the non-citizen has no such protections. Author also focus on the uncontested fact that the suspect was handcuffed . That is common practice. after shooting the suspect, they are handcuffed.

  • On the post: 10th Circuit Reminds Cop That A Driver Doing Nothing Suspicious Is Not Reasonable Suspicion To Extend A Stop

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2023 @ 10:41am

    And I reiterate; there was cause for the stop. The fact that he was a long distance from his former or future residence… just to find out if some function was going on somewhere? Wow, if that doesn’t strike you as off… personally his response pattern would have me checking on his mental well being, or intoxication levels. The good. Res, the meth is off the street, even if the criminal walks.

  • On the post: 10th Circuit Reminds Cop That A Driver Doing Nothing Suspicious Is Not Reasonable Suspicion To Extend A Stop

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2023 @ 02:12am

    Driving the speed limit in the left lane is, in most states, also illegal if you are doing so slower than other traffic It’s called disrupting the flow of traffic.

  • On the post: 10th Circuit Reminds Cop That A Driver Doing Nothing Suspicious Is Not Reasonable Suspicion To Extend A Stop

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2023 @ 02:08am

    Another judge ignoring the law

    People hassled for no reason
    I guess breaking the law is “no reason”.
    The registration was expired
    More breaking the law
    …see if there was
    Extremely suspicious, you drive out of state to “see” if there is a mythology convention?
    “Bullshit, says the Tenth Circuit”
    Guess the 10th doesn’t like constitutional laws.
    Hopefully, the lessons learned
    Yes, we can hope the criminal rightful arrested and set free by a sanctimonious judge with no care for law and reality was enough to deter his future criminal activities.

  • On the post: Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2023 @ 04:16pm

    Than the western countries in your list. Many of which are considerably smaller in size than the US. Canada is your outlier but, much of the country is unpopulated; and north of the southern areas travel by road isn’t measured the same as what the list implies. I know people in Canada that live in the northern reaches and nearly everyone up there depends on snow mobile. Rarely using paved roads. China is almost on par with the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1266966/china-average-annual-mileage-of-vehicles-in-use/ Australia steps ahead of the US when you consider that about half of private use ownership is heavy private trucks and SUVs, “rigid” in the report. https://www.solaronev.com/post/average-daily-driving-distance-for-passenger-vehicles The US use may be higher than much of Europe, but it is on par for other continents. The Philippines and Singapore have far more registered driver percentage (even if actual vehicle counts are inconsistent) than most countries in Europe and maintain lower fatality levels than the US. Australia has one of the lowest fatality rates despite more miles traveled per driver. And Australia is probably, like China, a better comparison. Large population cities, sprawling semi-urban areas around them. And wide open space between. So how do those two countries with much denser population centres and more non-commercial travel have lower fatality rates? training, and mentality.

  • On the post: Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2023 @ 09:47pm

    I’ll know my bias out of the way, I prefer the extensive level of instruction some countries offer. In the US you can walk in to a DMV, read a book while you wait that has all the answers in it, then take a paper test and get your license. A few states had rarely implemented road testing and post covid that number has grown substantially. I’ve driven, legally, on 5 continents. What is seen by many travellers from North America and Europe as chaos is often lack of enforcement due to superior (in my opinion) driving skills. There are more motorised vehicles on the roads of Beijing, Manila, Hong Kong, than the top 4 population cities of the US. combined. But the per-driver rates of fatalities is considerably lower: despite the massive volume of open air vehicles. I won’t say training is the only factor, common sense and respect appear to be big contributors as well. I’ll mention that your list of fuel costs is entirely western (Japan being debatable). I’ve been to countries where the cost of gas was under $1 per gallon and over $10. Cost may reduce travel in some cases, but it doesn’t change the driver’s actions. This country is seriously lacking in proper automotive training. Fix the training and there’s no issue in size.

  • On the post: Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2023 @ 02:12pm

    https://cids.up.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-State-of-Road-Safety-in-the-Philippines-vol.4-no.2-July-Dec-2000-5.pdf https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2015/TableA2.pdf Having taken driving instruction outside of the US in the years (some countries require it even for short term tourism) I can say without any doubt in my mind our programs suck. In most cases you don’t even need class level learning here. Read the free book and fill in the questions.

  • On the post: Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 10:05pm

    Personal responsibility

    In reality the vehicles are not the problem. A large number of Americans are very poor drivers. That’s how countries with similar populations and rather consistent numbers of drivers have lower fatality rates despite less law and regulation on driving.

  • On the post: Leaker Of Those FTC Microsoft Documents Revealed: It Was Microsoft Doing An Oopsie

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 10:01pm

    What exclusives?

    but that’s all there seems to be these days at Microsoft
    Where? So far I see two and three platform roadmaps. And the fact is today’s current M Macs and the platform compatibility and partial-virtualisation programs mean most if not all current PC games run fine on Mac. We get it. You don’t like the mass exodus of development on the Censorstation. That happened all before Microsoft was involved. Bethesda is stuck by contract. I’ll place good money that even if the deal falls apart big B is walking away from the platform at the earliest chance.

  • On the post: A Small Percentage Of Skyrim’s Sales Were On Non-Microsoft Platforms; Its Sequel Will Be Microsoft Exclusive

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 05:22pm

    We get it. Author owns a PlayStation. you forget that Microsoft has been working directly with both Corel and codeweavers on compatibility for MacOS and Linux. So you have PC and Xbox officially, and Linux and MacOS indirectly. And BSD for those that want to. Hardly exclusive on four different platforms. You also ignore that a large part of PS sales in the last 2 years are USED systems. Official and partner “refurbished” units. The platform is bleeding developers. And dedicated users left in droves.

  • On the post: Intelligence Community Feels It Might Be Time To Start Stuffing Surveillance Gear Into People’s Pants

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 05:09pm

    Wow…

    DARPA Gave us the internet, networking, stability in rocket engineering. LED lighting, microchip processing. There are civilian uses to this stuff: even ePants. I can think of two big ideas right off— tracking your kids at an amusement park, and monitoring for the elderly.

  • On the post: Police Union VP Says Woman Killed By Cop Is Only Worth $11,000

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 04:56pm

    Distance distain

  • On the post: Police Union VP Says Woman Killed By Cop Is Only Worth $11,000

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 04:55pm

    All the issues

    There’s three separate issues here, and Tim ignores 2 The obvious is the distance for life from law enforcement. However, unless she was blind, she is at fault for failure to yield to an emergency response vehicle. His lights were on. That’s the key thing here. Finally, you would expect (in this country) that an emergency response would require higher rate of speed. It is authorised by law.

  • On the post: Depressing: Ed Sheeran Films Songwriting Sessions Due To All The Copyright Suits

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2023 @ 02:15am

    You missed my point entirely! I was attacked out of the gate for not knowing a foreign pop star. Key word: pop. I actually, after seeing him in the new Indiana film I went looking. He’s not my style, per se, but not bad. As I said, works well with AW! I didn’t initially put him down. I said whatever, after a string of attacks And here we are: I admit he must have a decent following to show up in a major corporate movie. But he’s still limited. I can’t speak to social crapia as I don’t use it, but that must be where he makes his name. Maybe he’s big in tick X book. I wouldn’t know. He’s not on standard broadcast rotation here. He’s not on DR. He’s not in the regional top 30 of any country I have listings for in Apple Music. All I can guess is he made some waves on social crapia or maybe some garbage show like late tonight later show or Saturday night boring.

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