She should be ejected from the chamber(s) for a while in my opinion, and forced to “telecommute” her votes and participation in, if they even choose to let her participate at all in the lawmaking, for the rest of her term.

There’s no reason that behavior should be excusable.

For the love of god; the media needs to start ignoring the orange idiot.

Report only on his court cases and their outcomes and nothing more. Give this fool no airtime.

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2014/sep/12/-sp-how-to-make-a-complaint-about-guardian-or-observer-content

Go complain at their Editor.

Yeah, whoever came up with that idea needs to be busted down to the rank of Buck Sargent for the rest of their career.

Nothing about this misinformation campaign actually defends America. In fact, arguably, it could even have harmed America significantly by persuading a population of the world to remain woefully unvaccinated and thus extending the worst of the Pandemic for the entire world.

This actually doesn’t surprise me. Valve is getting greedy.

But; to be clear; by using these tools, to unlock the DLC without paying for it, you are cheating in the game. That’s a mere fact; and not a moral judgement of anyone choosing to do so.

Personally, I don’t judge anyone for doing so; and would use these tools myself if I thought a DLC were too predatory, expensive or otherwise unfair to not have it available.

That’s not saying it’s fair or right for Valve to do so; nor is it saying the VAC bans or account suspensions are deserved. If you get hit by this; you absolutely should pirate every title you already own/purchased via Steam right away, and pirate anything else you want in the future.

The only way to make them regret doing things like this is voting with your wallet; and asking others to do the same. Stop spending money on Valve. Once their earnings fall they’ll be forced to hear people’s concerns.

Godspeed. May this measure succeed with all haste and become the new normal.

For once it overtakes one country; others can choose to follow suit as best as they can.

Amen.

These tools should be secured so that only a properly Appointed, Licensed and Barred Judge may use the facial recognition software. It’s clear that Officers shouldn’t be allowed…they misuse the tools too often.

It’s clear that they made an end run around the rules, laws and agreements they made.

I hope some judge throws the book in their face for it and forces them to pay out of their profits to the artists at the rate they agreed was fair before they began selling audiobooks.

Why Not Both?

This is why laws requiring excessive documentation should be considered Kafkaesque; and summarily rejected and ripped out of legislation. Someone like this should’ve been able to simply prove residence by simply gathering enough citizen signatures on an affadavit or something like that. Surely somebody can attest they remember him; and surely there’s some record of his house fire which by itself could prove he lived there in the late 90s.

It’s almost like they don’t want to help people prosper. That stance is going to cost them dearly at the polls most likely.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Texas turns inexplicably purple. :)

In most sharing channels you could possibly just report those to the channel ops (@/&/!/~) and get them kicked or devoiced (removing their (+ or %) state depending on the channel)

I don’t know any channel that would put up with people who wasted your time with DRM’ed files back in the day. It’s less problematic now yes; but still something they don’t want people doing…since you have to be signed in as the purchasing account to de-drm something.

What happens is what’s intended.

Everyone is going to do it; and it will cause companies, artists and creatives to step back and rethink a bit on how they monetize their creations responsibly. The ones that refuse to rethink and adapt will fail and flounder under the tiny handful of straw that Piracy adds to the load.

That’s a GOOD thing.

What’s unfortunate is that companies and people still think it’s productive to worry and handwring over piracy as if it’s killing someone; instead of being the thing you “don’t fly too close to, lest your wax wings get melted off and you plummet to the ground.”

You can automate this; but you have to make sure that the automation you create is going to respect the ratelimits. I’d recommend something simple like using a command alias or short script written for your specific IRC client.

It’s what I used to do with that sort of thing; and there are plenty of well known Open Source scripts in the wild as well

As an example; I would use mIRC with it’s scripting system and write my own event trigger scripts to automatically request, wait for and then accept the DCC chat requests and route them appropriately in the interface. There were also scripts that helped with getting the lists; unpacking them, and displaying those lists in my client…so I didn’t have to extract the text from the zip myself, and could select what I needed from the bot.

All of this was lightweight automation that was intended not to flood the bot with commands and fed into command queueing modules that let the bots have time to process.

Sometimes in those days you could get actually (+b)anned, Auto/KILL’ed or /(G/K):LINE’ed for causing a bot to crash…so you had to be careful and respectful with regard to scripts.

TL;DR; know your bot, source channel & network rules, and write your own scripts for safety or read any scripts you import in carefully and understand what they’re doing.

Your comment missed the mark entirely. Please don’t reply-guy me; I know what I’m talking about.

I, luckily, had a bulldog for a parent who took none of that kind of bullshit from my teachers. Not that I was ever particularly careless about taking things to school that I didn’t want to lose.

The few times I did get something confiscated; it was truly unfair and I had the item back within a day or two…nobody particularly cared to deal with my parents being angry, and the admins all knew they would descend upon them with the fury of a thousand suns if it had truly been something that was not me being stupid or childishly careless.

Is it still likely that there is at least one republican? I think it is possible.

All it would take is one allied republican on the jury to potentially leak juror identities.

Not specifically. But this assumes the chief is too dumb to know “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1” or understand that it’s the only IP address that means “it’s not somebody else, it’s someone here!”.

There really are people that dumb in Law Enforcement.

She likely knows because she either has the app installed; or listens and learns through her peers about the deals that might be ongoing.

So while that may make it look like you’re on the right track; it still requires that first, the company must offer a discount or “deal” to get people into the door. Many purchases still are made on the basis of prices learned during the last visit; and the price can leave a lingering impact on future visits.

When the ‘Main’ brings their family of 4 to McDonalds and finds out that the bill for that outing went up by 10% or even 15%, they still have the potential to be peeved about that; and will remember that. That may mean that later the family decides to go to McDonalds fewer times a week for a time. That’s when a company begins to feel a squeeze…a few quarters of that later.

So much for using airplane mode to conserve battery.

Your understanding is slightly off.

Airplane mode Does In Fact Turn off your CELLULAR Radio This radio is what powers your (2/3/4/5)G and LTE (This is 4G btw) connection to the cell towers.

Most international radio communications laws can prohibit the use of Cellular Radio in flight; however they often don’t prohibit the use of shorter range radio technologies such as WIFI or Bluetooth.

It’s all about ‘loudness’. Think about it. Your phone must ‘scream louder’ at a farther away cell tower than it would need to communicate with a nearby WiFi router or a Bluetooth headset.