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Brillant! Just think of all the crimes we could have stopped if only a court had told criminals that it was illegal to break the law.
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@boomzilla We have those kind of people here.
We have some of the most severe restrictions to own firearms.
So when there is street gang shooting, those people demand more restirictions.
Of course, the gang members are always using illegally acquired firearms, but somehow they think adding more restrictions would fix the problem
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While the injunction is against the Conti Ransomware gang and delivered to them via the negotiation chat on their Tor site, Irish Times Security & Crime Editor Conor Lally explains that the injunction is not intended to prevent the threat actors from leaking the data.
Instead it was issued to prevent the press, or anyone else, from publishing the contents of stolen data if it is leaked by the ransomware gang.
It's not even meant to stop the original criminals but third party criminals?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Any alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds
However, complete abstinence from alcohol does not assure mental health, either. And it's not just ; I was like this when I was younger.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla We have those kind of people here.
We have some of the most severe restrictions to own firearms.
So when there is street gang shooting, those people demand more restirictions.
Of course, the gang members are always using illegally acquired firearms, but somehow they think adding more restrictions would fix the problem
Well, adding more restrictions will make it slightly harder to get illegal firearms, since illegally-acquired firearms sometimes are stolen from the lawful owner. Fewer lawful owners = fewer stolen firearms.
But it takes a hell of a long time for that effect to be significant, and by the time it's a significant effect, it just means that arms-smuggling will increase. So you could try increasing the anti-smuggling enforcement. And then, maybe, the effect will be big enough that gangs have fewer firearms and/or less ammo.
And then you can start working on knife laws some more.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
since illegally-acquired firearms sometimes are stolen from the lawful owner.
You really have no idea how hard it is to legally obtain a handgun in Canada.
And then, maybe, the effect will be big enough that gangs have fewer firearms and/or less ammo.
Canada is right above the USA with basically an unprotected border. Where do you think those illegal firearms are coming from?
Until the USA makes strick rules against owning firearms, it will always be an issue.
Good luck with that
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
since illegally-acquired firearms sometimes are stolen from the lawful owner.
You really have no idea how hard it is to legally obtain a handgun in Canada.
And then, maybe, the effect will be big enough that gangs have fewer firearms and/or less ammo.
Canada is right above the USA with basically an unprotected border. Where do you think those illegal firearms are coming from?
Until the USA makes strick rules against owning firearms, it will always be an issue.
Good luck with that
I did mention smuggling. Keeping firearms out of Canada at this point would require the RCMP to get seriously beefed up.
So... it's just not happening until USA tightens up its gun laws, and some more time passes, so that firearms become more scarce. If it's going to happen at all, it's going to be a very long-term project, due to how many guns are in America. So yeah, "Good luck with that" is the right response.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Keeping firearms out of Canada at this point would require the RCMP to get seriously beefed up.
There is an indian reserve (Akwesasne) that is in Ontario, Québec and New York at the same time. There is no border control there. Indians can come in from New York and come out in Ontario or Quebec. They also have the right to cross the border without any control.
Basically, there is nothing that can be done.
Anyway, we don't really have to do anything, since there is no gun violence issue in Canada.
There must be about the same amount of gun-related violence in Canada in a year that there is in Texas in 2 days.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
here must be about the same amount of gun-related violence in Canada in a year that there is in Texas in 2 days.
Or in 5 minutes on a weekend in Chicago.
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There are no seasons anymore...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I used to cross the border in that picture every few weeks! I lived in Vancouver, my then-girlfriend was just across the border... good times.
And then there were the times I didn't renew my student visa enough in advance, and while I was waiting for the paperwork to get processed for renewal, I'd park on the Canada side and walk across the border. Because visiting my girl was more important than not being deported. (Or, to be a bit more realistic: the odds of getting caught were really low.)
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
since there is no gun violence issue in Canada.
Because it's too cold for people to leave their houses?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because it's too cold for people to leave their houses?
When you're enraged enough at someone to want to shoot him, just setting foot outside tends to cool things off
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because it's too cold for people to leave their houses?
When you're enraged enough at someone to want to shoot him, just setting foot outside tends to cool things off
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
since illegally-acquired firearms sometimes are stolen from the lawful owner.
You really have no idea how hard it is to legally obtain a handgun in Canada.
And then, maybe, the effect will be big enough that gangs have fewer firearms and/or less ammo.
Canada is right above the USA with basically an unprotected border. Where do you think those illegal firearms are coming from?
Until the USA makes strick rules against owning firearms, it will always be an issue.
Good luck with that
I did mention smuggling. Keeping firearms out of Canada at this point would require the RCMP to get seriously beefed up.
So... it's just not happening until USA tightens up its gun laws, and some more time passes, so that firearms become more scarce. If it's going to happen at all, it's going to be a very long-term project, due to how many guns are in America. So yeah, "Good luck with that" is the right response.
Sweden and it's neighbors have had strict gun laws for a long time. There are still machine guns, grenades and rocket launchers being used by gangs. Gun control only keeps guns away from law abiding citizens.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
This explains a lot about some members of this forum
I'd rather be happy than read good.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Brillant! Just think of all the crimes we could have stopped if only a court had told criminals that it was illegal to break the law.
Sounds about right.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
That could go very wrong…
It's as they say - with great numbers of arms comes great responsibility. Clearly Doctor Octopus went too far and couldn't handle it.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
This explains a lot about some members of this forum
I'd rather be happy than read good.
I don't think we can really blame alcohol for this. I don't drink at all, and I'm still having a hell of a time holding it together.
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Kohout found the apartment online and moved into it days later before she saw it in person.
"When I went out to my car, I started meeting some of my neighbors. To my surprise, they were all over the age of 65," she said.
"A week later, I saw the sign reading 'Senior Citizen Apartments.' I realized I accidentally moved into a retirement village," Kohout said.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Amazon has a goal to get rid of a certain percentage of employees every year, and three managers told Insider they felt so much pressure to meet the goal that they hired people to fire them.
When you thought Amazon couldn't get any more dystopian...
There's a reason I don't do business with Amazon. Not only is it a place I don't want to work, but I don't buy anything from them, either.
Yeah stick with Wal-Mart
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Kohout found the apartment online and moved into it days later before she saw it in person.
"When I went out to my car, I started meeting some of my neighbors. To my surprise, they were all over the age of 65," she said.
"A week later, I saw the sign reading 'Senior Citizen Apartments.' I realized I accidentally moved into a retirement village," Kohout said.
Ageism is the major remaining legal -ism that you can enforce with an HOA. (Well, that and fascism, but that's more of an emergent behavior.) You can set up HOA covenants to require everyone be 55 years or older. I guess that means this apartment block isn't set up with an HOA like that.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
here must be about the same amount of gun-related violence in Canada in a year that there is in Texas in 2 days.
Or in 5 minutes on a weekend in Chicago.
The worst part of the commute was always getting shot.
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@cabrito "European tour dates". Yeah. 2 dates in Dublin and the rest in the UK.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@cabrito "European tour dates". Yeah. 2 dates in Dublin and the rest in the UK.
Another win for the Brexit!
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@Kamil-Podlesak That's totally unacceptable!!! We demand a British tour for British people!
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@cabrito "European tour dates". Yeah. 2 dates in Dublin and the rest in the UK.
Another win for the Brexit!
Seems like a win for the rest of Europe.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla No earlier than Jan 2022? You mean there's still time to go ahead and beat them to the title? :trolleyrocket:
In other news a week ago:
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I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this...
Police determined that the drugs had been dumped there a day earlier by subcontractors who gave no thought to the “foreign objects” they found wrapped in tape inside the banana crates before discarding them.
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@Rhywden Then they wouldn't have thrown it in the thrash...
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LEGO reveals the set with the most pieces to date:
It's not so much the structure as in all the dots you can place on the canvas.
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@JBert Somehow, I'm not sure if that should be eligible.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Someone call @blakeyrat!
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Another reason to glass this continent.
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In two minds about this. On one hand it probably won't survive its first and. On the other hand it could probably replace a couple members of my team.
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@DogsB just imagine being tasked to debug this garbage when some predecessor decided they could code and now the business processes depend on this.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB just imagine being tasked to debug this garbage when some predecessor decided they could code and now the business processes depend on this.
I don't have to imagine it. I'm watching it in real time now.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
This explains a lot about some members of this forum
I'd rather be happy than read good.
Something we agree on!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
21 year old bug gets fixed!
Props to (looks through the list) Markus Stange for dealing with it instead of doing the modern way (“oh, this is older than the current sprint so we're closing it automatically lol”).
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
21 year old bug gets fixed!
Props to (looks through the list) Markus Stange for dealing with it instead of doing the modern way (“oh, this is older than the current sprint so we're closing it automatically lol”).
It's good they're finally fixing this but honestly I can't say the context menu looks much different from a native one. The hamburger menu looks completely different, of course.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The hamburger menu looks completely different, of course.
That does its own weird things that the native ones don't support. Myself? I'd take that as a sign that those things should not be done but some people don't seem to think like that, and the person working on the menus didn't feel able to win that fight. Which I do get; pick your battles carefully, after all.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
21 year old bug gets fixed!
Someone call @blakeyrat!
is that the bug was reported on completely different operating system (the original report predates OS X by a full year).
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@Kamil-Podlesak From their point of view it isn't completely different. The UI library is still approximately the same.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'd take that as a sign that those things should not be done but some people don't seem to think like that, and the person working on the menus didn't feel able to win that fight.
While I agree wholeheartedly, this fight is long lost.
Random
conspiracy theorythought of the day: maybe MS made Windows 10 look likeshitWindows 3.1 intentionally so that all correctly themed desktop apps using the standard controls would look outdated, and now all the web shit applications that look alien to the system are perceived as modern and native. After all, even MS distributes its stuff based on node now.