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Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by FartinMowler »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #149
chabska wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would think that the right to bear arms would extend to Iran developing a nuclear warhead though.

Natural rights belong to individuals, not states. Iran is a government; governments hold powers, not inalienable rights. The analogy collapses before reaching the question of nuclear weapons.

Interesting interpretation given the the 2nd Amendment gives the right to "a well regulated militia" and not to individuals including crazed yahoos and criminals. Sadly for millions of butchered Americans, US courts have agreed with your interpretation.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by MasanskY01 »

initramfs wrote: post #49

I've only read the first few paragraphs but I've noticed a narrative issue. I might be the only person to have this peeve, but when introducing a story to non technical and even technical readers, it's always clearer to introduce which website is not theirs and which website is theirs. It's written in a 3rd person perspective that doesn't take ownership of the websites. "Only Melbourne and Adelaide radiosondes (the t…

Unfortunately I’m in the same boat with you. I’m not a native English speaker myself and had real issues understanding parts of this in itself funny narrative. I could not follow much of the logic and the multitude of missing words or otherwise incomplete sentences didn't help either.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by theodric »

FartinMowler wrote: post #161
MacsHeadroom wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Natural rights belong to individuals, not states. Iran is a government; governments hold powers, not inalienable rights. The analogy collapses before reaching the question of nuclear weapons.

Interesting interpretation given the the 2nd Amendment gives the right to "a well regulated militia" and not to individuals including crazed yahoos and criminals. Sadly for millions of butchered Americans, US courts have agreed with your interpretation.

No, it does not. What it states is: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,"

(thus shedding light on the government's interest in the matter, since anything not illegal is legal by default)

"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"

(thus confirming the right of people - which includes crazed yahoos, and excludes some but not all criminals - not the government, to have weapons)

This is the current understanding within American jurisprudence. People are of course free to disagree with it, but when it comes to laws, the government's understanding of what the law means takes precedence both de jure and de facto.

The Bill of Rights does not enumerate what a citizen is and is not allowed to do, but rather lays out a number of cases in a non-exhaustive manner in which it restricts the government from infringing on liberties that are understood to have pre-existed it.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by waste_monk »

kridsdale1 wrote: post #81
ButlerianJihad wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices

They just have access to classified physics and definitions of energy most people don’t have.

Turns out the weather balloons are powered by swamp gas.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by ifwinterco »

Onavo wrote: post #69
monitron wrote: post #50

This was fascinating, thank you. I expected to read about legal threats against the folks collecting this data and am glad that those didn't materialize. Also I only realized after finishing the article what a breath of fresh air it was to read something that came straight from another human's brain without LLM intermediation. Thank you to the author for that too.

> I expected to read about legal threats against the folks collecting this data and am glad that those didn't materialize. That's because the author folded over and played nice. Imagine if he exercised his first amendment rights.

There are no rights, there are only privileges (that can be revoked at any time), regardless of which country you live in.

That is the brutal truth

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by Rovanion »

walrus01 wrote: post #152
ikidd wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, it wasn't unreasonable. If the guy caused the damage while picking up a sonde, to know who's sonde it was would help identify the culprit.

Responding to an email like that has basically no possible benefits for the person running the balloon tracking website, but it does introduce the possibility of some fool paying their lawyer to add you as a respondent in a lawsuit. Costing you many thousands of dollars at minimum in legal fees and travel even if you get the court to remove you from the case. Never respond to something like that unless your lawyer, w…

This is such an USA-citizen thing to write. Doing the right thing is never even considered.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by zigman1 »

Firefishy wrote: post #45

I am part of the team which runs the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure, we also get a lot of weird and wonderful requests / emails. .mil, .gov, .edu and GeoTLD variants. I should really do a write-up sometime.

Can i already subscribe? I hope you decide to do it!

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by roenxi »

100721 wrote: post #39
vlyan wrote: post #34

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What makes you think they are being absolutist when saying fuck Russia? You can disapprove of an unprovoked invasion from many, many ethical perspectives without going near absolutism.

Well, yes. But the US launches fairly regular unprovoked invasions. We might be watching them ramping up to one in Iran even as we type, it is quite a delicate situation. So the author clearly isn't worried about Russia just because they launched an unprovoked invasion or they wouldn't be willing to deal with the US. She must have other reasons.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by walrus01 »

Rovanion wrote: post #167
walrus01 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Responding to an email like that has basically no possible benefits for the person running the balloon tracking website, but it does introduce the possibility of some fool paying their lawyer to add you as a respondent in a lawsuit. Costing you many thousands of dollars at minimum in legal fees and travel even if you get the court to remove you from the case. Never respond to something like that unless your lawyer, w…

This is such an USA-citizen thing to write. Doing the right thing is never even considered.

It's all fun and games until you've seen very real concrete examples of people who've spent from $5000 to $100,000 defending themselves from frivolous lawsuits. Never doubt for a moment the absurd nature of US vehicle crash related and insurance industry adjacent litigators.
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