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  • On the post: New York PD Is Training Officers That Someone Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is Just ‘Excited Delirium’

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2024 @ 03:56am

    This one's an easy no-brainer

    It's basic physics. Ever gone swimming? Ever dived down under the water? No matter how deep you go, you can always blow out air. Now take a tube/hosepipe, and go underwater. you can breathe in using it (aka a snorkel) fine just under the surface, but the deeper you go, the harder it is, until about 5ft down, almost everyone struggles to draw in a breath. Its basic physics. you breathe out by squeezing the chest, raising the pressure, half the size it doubles, etc. Your exhilation is controlled by the pressure exerted by your muscles Breathing in, your chest cavity expands, creating a low pressure area that draws in air and inflates things. But with external pressures on a body (be it 5ft deep water or a cop sitting on you) the area desn't inflate. And the pressure difference when exhaling can be 4-5 atmospheres different, while the most it could possibly be is about 0.75 atmospheres difference (because it'd only be 1 if you made a complete vaccume) TLDR it's far easier to exhale than inhale, and you do so under muscle power, rather than by creating a cavity and hoping air fills it.

  • On the post: Sixth Circuit Blocks Popular Net Neutrality Rules From Taking Effect

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2024 @ 06:21am

    There's another way to look at it. The whole BrandX thing, allowing the FCC to reclassify internet as Title1 from Title2, is based on Chevron. Net neutrality rules preceeded Chevron, so it's possible that they could win in the whole Chevron thing, and lose because then it's ruled to be title2 regardless, and the last 20 years of changing titles would be out the window.

  • On the post: Minnesota Law Says Cops Can’t Ask Drivers Why They’ve Been Pulled Over, But Ensures Cops Can Totally Do That Very Thing All The Time

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2024 @ 05:20am

    There's a reason for this. It's not related to this, it's because it's a common part of the SovCit spiel. Their view is that 'Driving is a commercial activity' (according to the 4th Ed of Blacks Dictionary, back in the 1920s) and so if you're not engaged in commerce, you're not driving, you're thus just "travelling" which is a protected activity under the constitution and which you don't need a license for. And they'll refuse to identify, will have fake plates, won't recognise the cops authority, claim they're foreign nationals (and thus not subject to us laws etc) and come under their own distinct jurisdiction, or only recognise 'common law' not 'codes or statutes', all while demanding supervisors, and claiming that a crime has to have an injured party. And THAT is why the cop gave that 'oh no, not this' look. Because its someone with even worse understanding of the laws than the cops 9and thats saying something!)

  • On the post: Paramount Axes Decades Of Comedy Central History In Latest Round Of Brunchlord Dysfunction

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2024 @ 11:17am

    nothing new

    Its always been that way about the CC website. Back in November 2000 I was on the front page with a writeup, when I was working on their number2 show, BattleBots; was me "robo-rat-boy", and Jay Leno. A year or two later, I asked if I could have a copy of the site, or a screenshot, or something, and was told 'nope', because they didn't keep/archive anything like that. So its nothing new. And a few years ago, when CBS went into the fold ,I asked my BinL about it (he was one of their storage experts) and he said they weren't archiving anything then.

  • On the post: Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2023 @ 09:24am

    On the other hand, he’s been a lot more successful at business than Trump has.
    20-30 years ago, you'd say trump was an extremely successful businesman. he was referenced in movies for it (home alone 2, 2 weeks notice), he had 3 casinos in Atlantic city etc. It was a house of cards, businesses propping up each other. Much like how a lot of Musk's companies are.
    I don’t have a lot of love for Tesla or SpaceX but both of them made significant changes to their respective industries.
    Did they though, I mean, REALLY? I know my electric cars and control systems. Musk jumped in on Tesla, who were starting right as a whole new technology became available to the market - high capacity+discharge lithium batteries. All the companies that had been doing the innovation and research funding for motors and controllers etc. then had to do a major pivot, and abandon a lot of their established work/internal infrastructure to make that switch, which takes a while. Especially while trying to keep existing product lines going and keep profitability. As for SpaceX, most of their stuff was off-the-shelf, developed by taxpayers. but again, because it was a small, unaccuountable company, they didn't have shareholders who needed the constant profitability. As one NASA project manager said, the main difference is SpaceX could blow up 3 rockets on the pad no problem, if NASA blew up one that's a 2 year hold on anything and everything for public enquiries. Their only real innovation was 'be new, so you don't have inertia, and don't give a shit about anyone else'. actual innovation, actual changes, they've made very little, except to push things to a race to the bottom.

  • On the post: BestNetTech Podcast Episode 374: Content Moderation Games

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2023 @ 01:51pm

    Hey, I had a blast, thank you both for coming on to talk about things.

  • On the post: Republicans Are Mad The FCC Rejected Elon Musk’s Attempt To Get A Billion Dollars In Subsidies To Deliver Pricey Satellite Broadband To Some Traffic Medians

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 05:16pm

    }}}:-)> (happy klingon)

  • On the post: Republicans Are Mad The FCC Rejected Elon Musk’s Attempt To Get A Billion Dollars In Subsidies To Deliver Pricey Satellite Broadband To Some Traffic Medians

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 06:43am

    Over and over, Carr has shown not just that he doesn't have the basic competency for his job, but that he doesn't even know what the agency he works for does. i'm pretty sure at least half of his official statements are about him whining that the FCC should be doing something the FCC has no jurisdiction over. Yet this anthropamorphic slurry-spreader was nodded through, while someone who knows what they're doing let alone what the agency can do, was roadblocked to the point they withdrew. Until we start fixing the problem of having 'politically reliable, but utterly incompetent industry glovepuppets' in regulatory positions, things are always going to be terrible.

  • On the post: Another State Lawmaker Wants To Criminalize Porn Through Age Verification

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2023 @ 06:01pm

    Will she be handing herself in? Keeping herself away from minors? After all, bills like this are porn for fascists.

  • On the post: Florida Supreme Court: Victims’ Rights Law Can’t Be Used To Block Reporting On Police Misconduct

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2023 @ 03:24pm

    No one’s more willing to abuse a law than a cop.
    Lets be honest, no-one's more willing to abuse ANYTHING, than a cop.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Says Only Those Who Pay Him Deserve Free Speech

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2023 @ 10:34am

    He saw the puppet sex and it blew his mind, all he can remember is the "emergency signal" (flail like a fool), the bock-o-five line, and that he wants to be the dick fucking the asshole, but everything else he didn't bother with. Which is all very 'Bon', everything is 'Bon' according to Team Elon, World FreeSpeecher [Fuck him]

  • On the post: Groq Sends Elon’s ‘Grok’ A Cease & Desist, Though A Funny One

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2023 @ 10:30am

    well he is the kind of person you'd forbid your daughter from marrying, and does put out some of the worst drivel in the universe, and is attempting to destroy the earth for some hyperspace/hyperloop bypass. Does seem to have big wowbagger energy though.

  • On the post: Elon, After Personally Driving Away Advertisers, Tells Them To Go Fuck Themselves (Repeatedly), And Says ‘Earth’ Will ‘Judge’ Them For Killing ExTwitter

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2023 @ 11:42pm

    I was going to improve twitter but then I got high oooh ooh I was going to be the coolest tweeter but then i got hight Now I'm retweeting Nazi, do you know why? (why why?) because I got high, because I got high, because I got hiigh. bada-dap-dap...

  • On the post: Groq Sends Elon’s ‘Grok’ A Cease & Desist, Though A Funny One

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2023 @ 10:24pm

    Lets be honest, we're talking about Musk here, so Slartibartfast is the wrong name. It's clearly got to be Vroomfondle, a self-important philosopher that usually gets things wrong, and dislikes other thinking machines, barges his way into places demanding things then goes away when he thinks he can make some money. Plus the name itself is made up of two things Musk likes.

  • On the post: Let’s Not Flip Sides On IP Maximalism Because Of AI

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2023 @ 02:12pm

    The other thing about AI, especially when it comes to copyright is that none of the arguments are all that new. In fact, most of them were done in some variation about 150 years ago when photography came along.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit Says Siccing A Police Dog On A Suicidal Person Is Excessive Force, Still Grants Immunity To Officer

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 01:54pm

    The fact remains: police were called about a possible suicide victim. Law enforcement took bold action to preserve life and suicide was averted. Success! Yet here’s Tech Dirt moaning about how bad it is that a tragic suicide was prevented…
    You forgot to mention that they also prevented 3 bank robberies, 11 counts of passing counterfeit money, 192 counts of graffiti, and a count of bear-baiting. Sounds a lot more impressive when you add in more things that might have happened but hadn't that an unwarranted attack prevented from occuring. See, now they've prevented over 200 crimes, and clearly deserve a medal as well!

  • On the post: Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2023 @ 09:32pm

    There is a tort of “False Light”, which does not require saying anything false but for example “lies by omission”, which I think is appropriate given that they omitted their process of intentionally trying to create the harm they sought to publicize.
    Bit of a problem there, captain Galaxy Brain. Texas doesn't recognize "tort of false light" Cain v. Hearst Corp., 878 S.W.2d 577, 580-81 (Tex. 1994) ooh, fuck, maybe you should have actually looked into it beyond the name?
    Lookup the Texas long arm jurisdictional statue and lookup the “Calder Effects Test”, all that needs to be pled is that the defendant intended Texans to stop doing business with Twitter, so I don’t really see a problem with that either, though media matters can claim forum non conveniens the Texas state laws can still be applied.
    yes, please do look up the Calder Effects test. Here let me do it for you a defendant must (1) commit an intentional act (2) that is expressly aimed at the forum state and (3) causes actual harm that the defendant knows is likely to be suffered in the forum state. See that number 2 - they must have expressly aimed it at stopping texas doing business with Xitter. They don't mention Texas once, so its hardly targeted just there. And the 'texas long arm jurisdictional statute', that applies to Texas state courts as its a state law, not Federal courts, which are a whole different legal system. Your level of legal knowledge is right on the 'driving is a commercial activity and you only need a license if you're operating in commerce' level of competence.

  • On the post: Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2023 @ 04:46pm

    The intent was to have Media Matters flattened like an autopilot'd Tesla flattens pedestrians. Instead it's performing as well as Musk's submarine did at rescuing the Thai football team from the cave, and for the same reasons.

  • On the post: Twenty Five Years Of The DMCA: Some Good, But Mostly Bad

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2023 @ 07:45pm

    Mike is an expert in this. I've been accepted as an expert in online copyright infringement by the US Federal courts, and I consider Mike to be someone that very much understands the law here. You, I'm not really seeing anything you understand too much, except "acting petulant" and maybe "looking the fool"...

  • On the post: Court Tells Cops That A Driver Not Laughing At An Officer’s Terrible Joke Is Not Reasonable Suspicion

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2023 @ 03:54pm

    Are John Smart and Danielle Foreman going to arrest everyone that doesn't openly laugh in their faces? I mean if not laughing at a drunken description of a joke is arrestable, not laughing at the two biggest jokes in Philly means you've been up to some major crimes!

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