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.
0.00000003% 3 Satoshis of a percent.
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.
I mostly agree here.
Although; I have a slightly different experience as well that makes me highly distrustful of people who tout being ‘sapphic’ as well; as I’ve seen quite a few people who identify with that label participating in the same kinds of toxic and exclusionary behavior that the self labeled ‘lesbians’ that are referenced in this article are participating in.
In general; excluding members of the rainbow who are less numerous than our identity group is; is in fact punching down on them and is not cool. If you bear any label in the whole spectrum; you should at least try to know better, and reject exclusionary behavior.
Of course people will be exclusionary to the extent they can get away with it. Don’t let them get away with it when you see it. Call it out and educate them kindly if possible; especially those who should know better.
As someone who is as deeply queer as she is transfeminine; I do experience some strange bouts of gatekeeping; especially around people who think I am inherently less feminine than they would prefer.
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.
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.
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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.
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No.