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Yeah these numbers are going to nose dive real quick once the negative consequences start happening and some of those are just days away.

What the rank and file gun owners want seems kind of irrelevant,

That an interesting viewpoint given the decades those rank and file gun owners have spent fighting an uphill battle to forestall new gun control measures while getting old ones rolled back. They’ve done a phenomenal job of forcing lawmakers to bend to their will.

It’s sort of the point of my NRA history lesson. When gun owners decided they wouldn’t tolerate any more shenanigans in their name they literally overthrew the most powerful pro gun lobby in existence and then used it to bludgeon law makers into doing what they wanted. That’s about as much political power as any group of regular people can ever hope to have.

I doubt the majority of that group is going to allow themselves to be silenced over a few CEOs getting popped.

Smells like B.S. Got any proof?

So, is your stance that a leftwing armed resistance movement shooting CEOs wouldn’t cause the right-wing gun lobby to support gun control like they used to?

No group is a monolith, especially groups numbering in the tens of millions, so of course some number of right-wing gun owners would suddenly swing to supporting gun control however those folks would be in the minority. I simply can’t foresee the majority of right-wing gun owners suddenly regaining their appetite for gun control in anything less than literal decades.

With that answered what about the left-wing anti-gun lobby? Since essentially every politician to the the left of US Representative Brian Fitzpatrick has been on a decades long crusade for ever increasing gun control how would they react to more CEO shootings?

I would think that they could be liable in the same way pharmacists were for the opioid epidemic.

In the opioid epidemic the Pharmacists got into trouble because they had relationships with the manufacturers, the Doctors, and the Patients. So in this instance the best fit for your analogy is the Firearms Dealers as they are the ones who have relationships with the Manufacturers, BATFE, and the buyers.

If they can prove the manufacturers were supplying a ‘suspicious’ number of firearms to a couple of dealers…

It doesn’t work like that. The sale of firearms from the Manufacturer to the Wholesaler is regulated by the Federal Government because they set the rules. In many cases the Manufacturer doesn’t even know what dealer is going to end up with how many firearms or of what type. Some of them certainly do but Interstate Arms nor Smith & Wesson are not special in that regard.

Modern gun control laws started in response to black people arming themselves.

Using the word “modern” lessens the message. Gun Control has always always always been about keeping minorities from arming themselves and the racist trash are still at it today.

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The NRA was suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers started patrolling with guns.

I despise the NRA but this kind of revisionist history needs to be called out.

First off prior to 1977 the NRA had an established history of supporting Gun Control. It didn’t suddenly pop into being because of the Black Panthers.

Second when the Mulford Act was passed in 1967 it started a sea change at the NRA that culminated with the “Revolt at Cincinnati” in 1977. The NRA as an organization supported Mulford, like it had other Gun Control legislation for at least 50 years, but it’s very clear that their membership did NOT and they took over the organization to keep it from continuing.

Today’s NRA is a completely different beast than the one that existed in 1967. It’s primary faults are that it got corrupt as fuck and that it’s entirely silent whenever there’s a conflict between lawful gun owners and law enforcement.

Regardless, the point stands. The NRA wasn’t “suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers”, it already had multi-decade history of supporting Gun Control.

In the United States the sale of Firearms is regulated by the Federal Government and / or and individual State itself. All NEW firearm sales must go through an FFL. In many places that is also true for used firearms but even where it isn’t its STILL one person selling a firearm to someone else.

To make it absolutely clear at no point in any firearms transaction is any normal person purchasing firearms directly from a firearms manufacturer.

In the case of entities, such as a Gun Store / FFL, who can purchase new firearms directly from a manufacturer there’s still no direct sales happening and the sale of those firearms is controlled by Federal Law.

So HOW is it the fault of US Firearm Manufacturers when people purchase firearms and traffic them across the southern border?

It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery.

Yet. I lived through the first browser war (Netscape Navigator vs Internet Explorer) and I’d estimate we’re right about the year 2000 ish. At that time both browsers were still active and reasonably well supported but it was clear that IE was going to win and somewhere in the IE6 / IE7 (2004 / 2006) time frame is when the real fuckery started. Since Edge started using Chromium in 2018(ish) we’re basically following the same schedule from two decades ago.

Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

Sadly this is the same thing we said back then too and we (IT & the tech community) pushed hard to get people to leave IE and adopt Chrome.

90% of people and corporations are either using Edge or Chrome and since there’s essentially no difference between the two they are equally bad. We’re back to a browser mono-culture, just like in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.

Couldn’t possibly be all the federal workers getting laid off.

They are certainly part of it but there’s a very long chain of organizations, many of which aren’t obvious to most people, supported by the US Federal Government. Those organizations are swiftly going into preservation mode and seeking to spend as little money as possible by laying off staff and downsizing or cancelling projects. Every one of those layoffs and project changes has negative effects downstream on other businesses, contractors, and services.

The idiots who voted for the current administration have no idea what’s coming and how badly its going to hurt them.

GibberLink could obviously go faster. It’s certainly being slowed down so that the people watching could understand what was going on.

The way I read it was she was in the hospital when the murder went down

This article was very poorly written so I can see how you ended up with that idea. The first few pages of the NM Supreme Court filing, which you can read here, clear that right up. This woman and her husband independently admitted to murdering and dismembering the guy.

This woman isn’t walking free because she’s innocent because by her own admission she’s not. She’s walking free, literally getting away with murder, because the prosecutor in her case fucked up so bad.

In the 1970s, one income was enough to support an entire family. Then came the Arab Oil boycott.

The Arab Oil boycott happened in 1973. Your timeline doesn’t work.

You don’t need some complicated conspiracy theory here anyway.

The economic conditions that allowed America’s Golden Age were a direct result of WWII. The rest of the industrialized nations were bombed out wrecks that were missing literally millions, if not tens of millions, of working age young people. So the rebuilding of the worlds industrial base was done by the one advanced economy and industrial base that was still healthy. America’s.

The post WWII boom ended about 25 years after the war. The nations of Europe had substantially rebuilt their industrial base and equally as important their populations had recovered. They now had enough 18-24 year olds to get lots of work done and America had competition again.

These days, the wife and kids all have jobs, so Dad is just another cog in the machine, not the great master.

Which is pretty much how it was before WWI / WWII began. Yes men had some additional legal rights / privileges if they were wealthy and and had the correct skin color but everyone else was pretty much back to being plebs.

Banning TP-Link routers isn’t going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of insecure routers, SOHO or otherwise. Too many people and companies set shit up and then ignore it until it breaks and under these conditions routers are always going to become insecure given a long enough timeline.

Fire up Shodan and see how many discontinued Cisco ASAs are out there. Hell you can probably still find some Cisco PIX boxes even though they went away nearly twenty years ago! Those aren’t people doing that, those are COMPANIES.

The problem here isn’t the brand or even the silicon that brand uses. It’s with the utter lack of management (including EoL replacement) by the people using the damn things.

I’m curious how that funding worked.

In Texas in order to work government event security and do fill-in work you need to be a sworn Peace Officer in the state but in order to be a sworn officer you need to be employed by a recognized Law Enforcement Agency in the State.

So most of those Officers were only minimally present on the Duty Roster, primarily only working when another agency put out a call for Officers.

That much I know from researching it back when it was a current event. I suspect that this was primarily funded by the Officers involved paying into the scheme as they got work. As an example Officer Humpty would work an event in Dallas and the Coffee City P.D. would get paid $3,000 (pick a number) for borrowing that Officer. Coffee City would then pay Officer Humpty $2,000 (pick a number) for his work.

You could easily keep 200+ Officers busy doing events and fill-in work in Texas.

You should also know that the Coffee City, P.D. was a refuge for troubled Peace Officers, a sort of “Last Chance University” for Texas Cops. They’d get in trouble somewhere else then go to Coffee City and work there to prove that they were fine and then transfer back to a regular Police Department somewhere else.

They’d put up with the bullshit so that they could hold onto their career in Law Enforcement.

I thought the binary blob thing was explained?

Basically UEFI booting requires shims and those need to be signed so the Ventoy author is re-using the ones from Fedora and OpenSUSE. This can be verified by comparing hashes, which the author of that comment shows how to do.

This whole thing seems to come down to people freaking the F out because they don’t understand how the software works and the Author of the software is currently PO’d off at the community and stopped answering questions.

That fucking loony isn’t going to get anywhere in Canada.

That fucking loony is ALREADY in your Government.

Shit like this is actually getting passed in the US.

No, it’s not. There is literally nowhere in the United States that has passed or even nearly passed legislation requiring the registration of pregnancies.

Today Trump moved to fire all Biden era prosecutors.

Which has nothing to do with what we’re talking about.

You have your own stupid politicians. Every Nation does. We happen to have a really stupid one in charge of our Federal Government right now but that’s a separate matter than some idiot in Missouri.

So one idiot in one state proposes a bill that has no co-signors and no hearing date and that somehow represents not only the other 49 states but also the other 340,000,000 people living here?

You are coming from a .ca instance so I presume you live in Canada…where you have politicians looking to Ban Abortion and make Gay Marriage illegal.

What in the actual fuck is happening in Canada? Jesus Christ what a shit show Canada has become.

Still the contract should be void, when the legal entity ceases to exist.

How do you know that Nuvia no longer exists as a legal entity? A company can be acquired without it being dissolved (ceasing to exist).