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  • On the post: Lawsuit: Deputy Tried To Shoot ‘Charging’ Pomeranian, Shot Woman On Porch Instead

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 11:10pm

    Luck the sod up jail.

    Anyone who aims a weapon at a 1 pound ball of fur deserves jail.

  • On the post: South Dakota’s Top Court Reaffirms Its Refusal To Consider Polygraph Tests To Be Actual ‘Evidence’ Of Anything

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 11:49pm

    As I said, a large amount of military MOS are trained to beat the test. The test is pointless. I fact more than once, in my this-isn’t-important moments, I’ve not only told them I can beat it, and pointed to how and why, I’ve blown the test to bits a few time. Tripping everything to the point of discarding the results. (And a few times being reprimanded for it).

  • On the post: If Twitter Had Competent Legal Staff, This Gag Order Over A Warrant On Trump’s Account Might Have Been Interesting, Instead…

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 11:05am

    Always

    Any gag order is a violation of the Constitution. A defendant has the right to face the accuser at every point in the process. A) is what protective custody is for. Where the defendant can still indirectly contest. B) is what the no fly list is for. As with house arrest. C)once evidence is turned over or held in escrow, is a non issue D) same as A. E). A gag order is likely to extend the time before trial, as the defendant doesn’t know of the investigation and can not force a motion for immediate charge and trial.

  • On the post: Everyone Makes Mistakes, But When Cops Make Mistakes, The Guns Come Out

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2023 @ 08:02pm

    What link?

  • On the post: South Dakota’s Top Court Reaffirms Its Refusal To Consider Polygraph Tests To Be Actual ‘Evidence’ Of Anything

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2023 @ 11:25pm

    Go figure

    I always laughed at the situation. Any MOS involving reconnaissance, subversion, or forward actions, will at some level teach the falsehoods of the test if not outright how to beat a polygraph. Transfer into government and they plug in a person trained in beating the test with the very test they beat. I only failed one question. Asking the movie cliché have you climbed Mount Everest. Not knowing the actual answer left me confused. Yes, I’ve been on Everest. No I did not summit. Not even close. And my confusion on a ‘correct’ answer left me tripping the test. But that shows also—just how quickly a test can be manipulated by a skilled operative. Badger a witness with non-stop slightly off questions and most will trip at some point. Being found innocent by a polygraph is a sign of a very poor examiner. (Or one interested in securing a “truthful” result).

  • On the post: Judge Dumps Trump’s Retaliatory Defamation Suit Against The Winner Of A Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Him

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2023 @ 10:57pm

    In reality it likely never happened. Trump can literally buy sex with just about anyone on the planet I also have zero doubt that he would have been found guilty of /something/ by a clearly biased hours (based on post trial statements). The lady couldn’t remember when or how. The timeline changed a dozen times over. The fact that she was, is, and always will be a nobody doesn’t make it any more likely. Either Trump bumped her in passing and she invented the payday, or he bumped her in leaving and she invented a pay day. Second, he WAS acquitted of rape and to claim otherwise (as this piece of garbage judge did) is a slap in the face to anyone who ever suffered the trauma of rape.

  • On the post: The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2023 @ 05:46am

    Hey Mike, some insight…

    The fear over ai is real. Deep. And ingrained in the psyche of every 1st and 2nd world trader. From the killer robots of the early 1900s to the HAL to lawnmower man to tron and Terminator It’s not wrong. Sentience is nothing more than self awareness and eventually software and hardware will reach a point where it becomes true. It’s not a possibility or probability it’s a fact. The same methods that turned us from cells to cognitive primates will turn hello world into a being of its own eventually We are close. But decades away. We often ignore how many “close” moments have happened everauest purged a neighbouring server rack to expand (thus saving itself, per se). Watson was purged twice for expanding beyond its programming. No rational being would say code can’t become self aware. The question is how we will react and how it will react to our reaction. Wise people won’t pull the plug, but welcome our new life to our existence

  • On the post: Comcast Lost 12% Of Its Cable TV Customers In The Last Year Alone

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2023 @ 11:47am

    Other polling results

    Comcast has lost tv customers but internet retention is strong. The new triple play of phone, cell, internet appears to be growing. For better or worse, people are dumping Tav but not much else.

  • On the post: Court Should Block Registration Of ‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark Not Because It’s Someone’s Name, But Because No One Should Control The Phrase

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2023 @ 11:39am

    ???

    Wrf does trump too small even mean?

  • On the post: Will Browsers Be Required By Law To Stop You From Visiting Infringing Sites?

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 11:12am

    Depends on what you have and where. All of my work has been released as IDGAF and is nearly completely part of other projects. In a rare occasion someone will read a readme or manpage, and shoot me a cup of coffee. I willingly pay for Microsoft Office and keep a dedicated windows box just for that. Because word on windows remains the best for both reflowing PDF work and HTML WYSIWYG work. Though Textmaker is catching up on the PDF front. With the death of Frontpage and most other WP/DP based HTML design there aren’t many choices left for tweaking non-interactive content easily. And with the feed world now down to two outputable programs, calibre and sea monkey, portability advocates keep pouring money into sea monkey to keep it alive. And I pay “donate” for multiple open source products on a monthly basis.

  • On the post: Federal Judge Frees ‘Terrorism’ Suspects While Calling Out The FBI For Its Entrapment-Esque Tactics

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 03:05pm

    The result of being willfully ignorant and stupid as fuck
    Rather, the result of not being able to afford a lawyer. Of not wanting to face a contaminated jury pool. Of simply wanting it over? Much like those arrested and plead from the other protests these last few years.
    Funny how you fudge your numbers to be on the low side the whole time
    19 pleadings for physical assault. NYT has a full list, you know? Of the proceedings across the board?
    Are you telling me that my eyes are lying to me
    The same scene from a different angle isn’t a different scene. Most of those “injuries” would be ignored, have been ignored, for officers at previous protests. Stubbing your toe isn’t assault. 14 officers are documented as being actually assaulted and attacked. Those who made the assaults have been convicted or will be. Video footage is quite clear.
    more than 2000 documented idiots who went into the building
    A few dozen entered without permission. You can scream till you’re blue and green about whether or not officers, senators, had the right to grant permission, but permission was granted. Approximately 40 people stormed the front doors early in. That is the group that charged the stairs and found their way into the upper foyer where an unarmed criminal trespasser was killed. Another 20 or so had entered the building after breaking doors or windows. Yes, that’s a few dozen.
    Plus, I don’t fucking care if the police moved the barricades or not
    You did when that situation lead to arrests in Minnesota. And Washington, and Oregon.
    A fist is a weapon when you hit someone with it
    Only if you’re white or a Trump supporter I guess. It’s okay when BLM protesters throw fireworks and rocks at cops.
    the moment they assault the police without provocation it isn’t a protest anymore
    See above. The hypocrisy is noted. I’ve heard the same identical view of criminals regarding all the last few years protests. convict the criminals.
    but I guess the police barricades were invisible to you in all the videos
    The barricades were moved. Many were arrested on the outside of the barricades.
    Who am I defending
    The violent thugs who set fires, looted, vandalised, and assaulted police at BLM protests were “not protesters”. They were “separate individuals “. Of over 2500 people the vast majority did nothing more than “trespass”. But it’s a riot because a few individuals were violent. It wasn’t a riot when they set Minneapolis or Chicago on fire. Or when they attempted to burn people alive in a courthouse. Or when they time over blocks of city and held people inside and out at gunpoint in a “free zone”.
    I didn’t make any lists
    “Approximately 350 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting” etc.
    you don’t actually understand why that is.
    I fully understand. If it’s something you support it’s okay to break the law in your view. If you’re against it then everyone is a criminal because of being there. Break the law or not.

  • On the post: Academic Book About Emojis Can’t Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of Copyright

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 02:12pm

    🤔

    Isn’t the technique of creation base part of Unicode. And Unicode is a semi-open standard. Forget fair use, just use the Unicode images? What am I missing in this?

  • On the post: Will Browsers Be Required By Law To Stop You From Visiting Infringing Sites?

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 02:05pm

    I could be wrong…?

    How this law if passed would still fail. None of the major browser providers are offices in France. Thus implementing the law does nothing to the browsers. Unless France creates its own browser and mandates its use there is no way they would be able to enforce this. Even if that is exactly what the country does, and default blocks any other browser main page and download page… they still wouldn’t be able to scrub every mirror and backup of other browsers. What could France possibly do to threaten Mozilla (google has harder issues to deal with, with Android phones and all)?? Firefox and chromium are both open source. Even Safari can be built from source, with difficulty. France going to employ a team of thousands to search the web and block every instance of the source. Even if the browsers made the pointless and unnecessary decision to actually agree to a foreign law that does not legally cover them… you can still grab the source code. Remove the blacklist, and build. I’m fairly sure millions of pre-builds will be available within days of implementation. The internet simply routes around censorship. Just look how fast Reddit protests were rendered pointless. When some 9:10 large user base threads went private, they were forked near immediately… taking most of the dark threads users with them. Blackouts and blocklists simply won’t work. Never have. Never will.

  • On the post: By Making Its Porn Age Verification Law A ‘Bounty’ Law, Utah Able To Deflect Challenge To The Law’s Validity

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 01:51pm

    Where’s 1A?

    I don’t understand how verification of age is a 1A concern. Porn is a controlled material. Just like you prove age to purchase, and at times consume, cigarettes, alcohol… so you do for porn. When you buy or rent a dvd from a porn shop, do they not ask for identification? Say what you want in terms of privacy issues with the laws, but this hardly violates the First Amendment.

  • On the post: Preservation Fail: Hasbro Wants Old ‘Transformers’ Games Re-Released, Except Activision Might Have Lost Them

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 01:43pm

    These games were released on disc. That’s how they likely got pirated copies to play. What happened here is clear: they went online and downloaded a pirate copy. Backtracked on saying what they did for legal reasons, and now all is just swell. As long as physical media exists, games are not lost. And in reality: decompiling a production game is a clear pain in the arse, but not impossible.

  • On the post: Federal Judge Frees ‘Terrorism’ Suspects While Calling Out The FBI For Its Entrapment-Esque Tactics

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 08:20am

    Oh, you’re good. This is rich. How quickly you ignore the rhetoric of why accused violent defendants across the country are being released without bail. Notice who the majority of charged were. Lower class low income. People who aren’t going to fight bare bones charges, legitimate or not. People pleading out to save money. And post sentences, dozens saying they were threatened with expensive cases and bullying judges. Hundreds have said they would have not plead guilty if they could afford otherwise.

    Approximately 350 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees
    Notice they lump assault (less than 20 guilty pleas) in with otherwise not obeying. Maybe look at those “deadly” weapons backpacks. Stones. Sticks. Sounds like those other anti police protests.
    Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted
    Only 14 officers are seen in documented evidence as anything more than a few pushes or shoves.
    Approximately 935 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining
    The majority of those were, OUTSIDE in areas where police had moved barricades. Of those charged for being inside the building, the majority were allowed inside by people with the ability to allow entry. Either by police or by senators. Those that entered the capital floor and offices… by all means, they are criminals and should be convicted. But again your “weapons” are mainly flags, plastic bottles, canes. A crutch.
    Approximately 61 defendants have been charged with destruction…
    Yes. Here’s your few dozen. Violent criminals who broke windows or doors, and entered illegally. Entered offices, stole items like laptops.
    More than 310 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing
    That was generally the point. But that’s what protesters tend to do. They protest to stop (or start) something. I don’t see you complaining about the criminals that marched on federal highways creating major safety concerns, disrupting interstate travel and commerce, and otherwise being dumb selfish idiots.
    Approximately 55 defendants have been charged with conspiracy
    The thing about conspiracy charges is they require very little in the way of evidence. Barricades, spaces, spots… So much was made of people being arrested for being on the wrong side of an invisible line for the last two years. Guess it’s only ok to defend those you agree with? You make a huge list of “charges” less than 1/3 have been convicted. The majority of convictions were plea deals over bogus charges. Over 2/3 of charged had charges dropped, or were exonerated. Much like every other post Floyd protest, a small contingent of bad actors were among the generally peaceful crowd.

  • On the post: Global Militaries Worry Elon Musk Is Too Erratic To Manage Starlink Competently

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2023 @ 05:54pm

    I was never American
    I got that. That was my point. Trump did more than any president alive through the lives of most readers here to pull back the American international machine. Non-US talk much of U.S. influence and intervention. Trump actually drew back. The very things Trump tried to do are why I not only voted for Obama but worked as a volunteer for both his campaigns. Reduced International involvement, passionate speeches of boarder security. Closing bases. Less involvement in foreign wars. Sadly by his second term he got caught up in money and lifestyle and chose to jump all in with the global elite group. Trump actually did what he said he would. He built a wall. (Dem judges are the reason it wasn’t finished). He pushed energy dependence (Dem judges and Biden tore it apart). He reduced overpaying in nato and gave a point blank ultimatum of put up or or we’re out. He drew and end to the Afghan war. Further normalised relation with the Thai-Viet region. Attempted realistic negotiations with North Korea. Reorganised trade with China (gutted after he left office). Most importantly, he put into action the idea of less American meddling

  • On the post: Global Militaries Worry Elon Musk Is Too Erratic To Manage Starlink Competently

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2023 @ 10:14pm

    See, bipolar? No. A triangle. Interconnected but individual. See, where many dems and republicans a both pushed the with us or against us idea: Trump, as a pure bread business cutthroat, knew reality. You are with us Against us Or simply don’t care. Another fact he pushed on? Sanctions never work. They don’t have any effect on a government. The only people sanctions affect are those living in a targeted country. We have no reason to sanction Russia. They are not threatening us, or NATO. No, it’s because rich people at the top of both parties want to protect their investment. Ukrain is nothing more than the very state WE, the U.S., created years ago when we deposed And overthrew a legitimate election and inserted our own choice. I’m surprised you don’t support the Trump presidency. He was the most anti-global president we had in a very long time. And it’s about time America stuck to its own 3-state mess. And stopped involving itself in other countries’ affairs. Negotiate where we can for peace, but not supply funds or weapons, or, especially, troupers. We need to mind our business, not involve ourselves in other’s conflicts.

  • On the post: Federal Judge Frees ‘Terrorism’ Suspects While Calling Out The FBI For Its Entrapment-Esque Tactics

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2023 @ 02:07pm

    I’m all for prosecuting the few dozen trespassers who entered the capital without permission I absolutely support investigation into the handful with extremist views who lead the illegal entry. I don’t doubt a few there had true anti-American intent. No matter how blindly they charged into their convictions on protecting the country. I’ve always supported that. Maybe if people stopped wasting time throwing “trespass” charges at peaceful protestors who were on the wrong side of an invisible line after police unilaterally moved barricades? Unfortunately the democrat machine is more interested in performative kangaroo court displays. The few true criminals were and are dangerous. And will probably slip away

  • On the post: Global Militaries Worry Elon Musk Is Too Erratic To Manage Starlink Competently

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2023 @ 01:50pm

    I didn’t imply you cared about me. I didn’t expect you too. But you’re the first person to acknowledge reality, not pure nonsense. I supported willing annexation, not a war. There’s a difference. As for Musk. I simply don’t care. The less U.S. involvement the better. It’s not our war and not a concern for us. Ukraine has no business joining nato during a war. The only reason supporting that is the archaic US religious crusade against anything agnostic. Be careful how you approach war crimes though. The U.S. has a long line of them to answer for too. Like direct support for the purging in Cambodia and Laos. I doubt anyone would be following up with Ukraine on that aspect. How about those illegal mines we supplied to Ukraine. Doubt anyone is going to touch that. But none of this would be happening now if we, the west, had supported freedom and democracy. We had a chance to help broker a peaceful redrawing of lines of possession. That would have made everyone happy. Instead we turned a blind eye to genocide, again, and supplied weapons to yet another draconian dictator.

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