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Comment Re: Deceptive headline (Score 1) 37

No upbraiding. I'm not trying to vilify or exalt Disney, Tesla, or Elon, nor do I expect anyone else to do so.

I'm just saying the article headline is deceptive, perhaps amusingly so. And I'm a bit surprised that the discussion appears to be mostly about the movie, with little about the Tesla display-mode.

But I am wondering whose idea this was: Disney's (for the product placement) or Tesla's (for appropriation of coolness)? I'm guessing the latter.

Comment Deceptive headline (Score 2) 37

It seems most people posting her are Tron fans talking about the movie.

I haven't seen anyone comment on the headline. No, Tron Ares Mode does not turn Teslas into glowing light-cycles. It changes the avatar for the vehicle displayed on the infotainment screen. At least TFS got that right.

Comment Re:Millionaires are leaving the UK in droves (Score 1) 73

We haven't been "at war" with anyone since WWII, although the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Somalia, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, etc. might disagree a little bit.

I was talking about a war declared by Congress. That's the only kind that matters when it comes to a charge of treason.

And yes, you're right, the last time that happened was World War II. Armed conflicts have occurred since then, but they're not the same.

The only current war we have is that of the current administration against the US Constitution.

FTFY.

Comment Re:Its not the conservatives ... (Score 1) 106

If they meant that they would have written it that way.

They did. Today some folks are trying to interpret the language differently than originally intended.

But that doesn't matter because the admin is doing it in bad faith.

What bad faith? That interpreting "subject to the jurisdiction of the US" (or whatever the actual language is, didn't look it up) is not referring to those in the US legally? That's not bad faith, that's an honest interpretation to be decided by the Supreme Court. It is arguably what the original authors meant, and how it was read in those days.

But basically your "Democrats racist because 1860s" is just deeply deeply unserious and should be ignored.

Wrong. 1860s. 1880s. 1900s. 1920s. 1940s. 1960s. And starting in the 1920s it the was the democrats nationally, not just in the south. The klan was national by that point, and its strong influence within the Democratic Party also national. The republican courting of southern democrats in the 1960s and 70s was law and order based, not klan belief system based. It was an era of violent protest, where marxist/maoist inspired radicals (its what they self identified as) fomented violence.

Comment Re:So panels in desert won't be low maintenance? (Score 1) 75

None of that proves or even remotely backs up your assertion, and if you don't know that Hollywood is in the middle of the desert, you're way too uninformed to be convincing about this line of FUD and lies.

My assertion that what, panels in the desert won't be as low maintenance as folks assumed? That the deserts people are building solar panel farms in aren't barren dunes?

Comment Re:Disallow commercial use (Score 1) 40

Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works and change it to do what you want. Access to the source code is a prerequisite for this freedom.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so that you can help others.
Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. This allows you to give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes.

The proposal for non commercial use, license otherwise violates all for freedoms.

Comment Re:Disallow commercial use (Score 1) 40

If you need a license to use it the way that you want it violates the principals of open source.

The concept is you should be able to receive the source code with the default license and use it as you wish. If you require extra licensing to use it as you wish it cannot be part of the ecosystem and is not open source.

Comment Re:Great job guys! (Score 2) 44

What kind of fucking wingnut believes in AGW and then lights a forest fire?

Someone who is even more mentally unhinged than someone who would start a forest fire deliberately in the first place.

Sorry to drag out a cliché, but "both sides" have 'em. It's up to the rest of us to have a rational conversation without them.

Comment Re:Millionaires are leaving the UK in droves (Score 1) 73

I think we agree that tax-dodgers should be punished. But I don't think that punishment should be revocation of citizenship.

As for treason, at least in the USA, it is defined clearly in the Constitution as waging war against the USA or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Not tax-dodging or leaving (even fleeing) the country.

I also agree that ill-gotten (i.e., illegal) gains should be "taxed" at 100%. There's a legal term for doing that. But again, it has nothing to do with treason or revocation of citizenship.

Comment Re:Millionaires are leaving the UK in droves (Score 2) 73

Make sure that they, and their families citizenship is revoked

Two things:

1. To have your citizenship revoked, you have to commit treason, obtain citizenship fraudulently, or commit some disqualifying crime within a certain period of obtaining conditional citizenship. Simply leaving the country doesn't qualify.

2. Back at least as far as biblical times, humanity has recognized the injustice of suffering the sins of the father on the son. So no, you can't revoke citizenships of families because of the acts of a single member.

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