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Comment Re:False police report (Score 1) 253

I'm not supporting Flock (at all), I just that accusing the technician is the wrong approach. If Flock corporate is training technicians top make police reports whenever pictured, and suggesting wording like "harassment" that will trigger police dispatch, then maybe there is an angle of attack against Flock corporate, for wasting time of police officers.

Comment Re:False police report (Score 2) 253

"False report" would be to report a fire when there isn't one. But he reported "I'm getting followed — harassed, pretty much. Taking videos and pictures!" which for most ("followed", "videos", "pictures") were factual and correct. Nothing false here. "Harassed" is a matter of interpretation and the officers went there to assess that part.

Comment Re:Hardly Re:"rocket ambition dept"? (Score 2) 95

For now, The Exploration Company developed a reusable space capsule (not a launcher). Their demo was launched by Falcon-9 mission Transporter-14 (June 2025) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spacevoyaging.com%2F... . It did survive atmospheric reentry, but parachutes failed to deploy.

Note that the parent poster could be confused with German space company Andoya Space, which successfully launched their rocket Spectrum from Norway last week.

Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 274

The UN is nothing more than the set of the governments of this world. To understand better how it works, replace "The UN" by "The USA". The UN enforcing peace peace involves the USA sending their o soldiers in UN-lettering blue helmets catch bullets in Ukraine. It's not "The UN" that isn't motivated. "The UN" want peace, but can't find member countries to sending to an interposition force.

Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 274

I don't mind the UN picking a different projection as "standard" but it seems way down on the list of priorities.

I think the UN did not recommend anything in particular but for information France announced their choice as Eckert IV https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 274

Fortunately today almost everyone uses electronics maps that let you rotate and zoom a globe, so it really doesn't matter anymore

The resolution is about encouraging "governments and education [and tech companies]". Governments publish PDF reports and schools post paper maps on the wall; plus the vast majority of the schools in the world use paper books (even if alongside electronic options in a few of them).

Comment Re:A giant step forward for mankind (Score 3, Informative) 274

You misunderstand how it works. The UN is a platform for diplomacy. A country or a group of countries call a topic for discussion to the General Assembly. It is then discussed until possibly a vote on a resolution can be held. The UN provides the infrastructure for the discussions to happen, not a Great Leader that chooses which topics can be discussed or not.

Also, topics do not need to be top agenda. Taking care only of top agenda item is a very fuced up way to handle an agenda, or workload, or business. You have to be able to handle multiple things at a time.

Comment Re: Different worlds (Score 1) 504

I'm not entering argument about your whole point, just for fun, but there are in total 17 countries without military https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... (mostly small islands: Palau, Vanuatu, Tuvalu...), plus 4 who formally abolished their army plus keep a police force that has limited military-like power: Costa Rica, Mauritius, Monaco, Panama

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