Due process always has exceptions. Prosecutorial discretion being a relevant one in this context.

If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.

Relatable… I had an apartment in Studio City right on the LA River. It wasn’t even the cool part of the river you see in movies. I used to jokingly call it my waterfront property.

For sure, but my point was that t hey know that outright banning guns is nearly impossible, so they’ve done essentially what the republicans have done on abortion. They’ve attacked it on every other conceivable angle: they’ve made it hard to buy guns, hard to use them, hard to run any business that sells them, hard to buy ammo, hard to stay in legal compliance with constantly changing laws and case law.

The state’s strategy has essentially morphed to enacting every law and policy that makes it harder to buy, own, and use guns, knowing that most of them are not legal, but get them tied up in courts indefinitely. It’s a scummy strategy, but it’s been fairly effective.

It’s moronic. We demand lower noise in most products, but demand higher noise in guns because we can’t distinguish Hollywood bullshit from reality. I think most CA Dems would accept the premise that reducing injurious noise levels while participating in a legal activity is a good idea, but institutionally they’d never give an inch on gun laws.

Because we don’t really care about protecting kids.

lol… that’s a perfect, concise description of transit in the bay area. Slow, expensive, and still requires a lot of driving to get where you want to go.

Of course, but the Superbowl media circus does go to the city, and it’s pretty obvious from the article that’s where they were talking about.

Absent a warrant, probable cause, or some exigent circumstance, isn’t “likely to escape” just a charged way of saying innocent person going about their business?

Harris did pretty bad during the Primary back in 2020

Harris actually dropped out months before the primaries in 2020. She was something like 16th most popular candidate at the time she withdrew. She was a pretty unpopular AG in California at the time and likely would not have even won her own state primary.

Agreed. Wrong word choice. And its an important, major correction. Not a small one. :-)

I don’t know about intentionally designing that. It would violate contracts and have to be a hidden, but broadly conspiratorial activity. I have some professional experience in consumer electronics, and I remember when TPMs started becoming a required component for CE. It took several years to become commonplace; a slow transition from security by obscurity to sensible practices when devices started to be internet connected.

Nevertheless, from my experience, I’d say the TPMs aren’t there for user security, they are there to keep Hollywood movies safe.

+100. People forget, or chose not to pay attention to the fact that Google sensor vault data was key evidence in convicting the January 6 insurrectionists (who were exonerated to become ICE). Surveillance capitalism doesn’t care which side you are on.

Just to clarify… my question wasn’t “do sleepers exist” it was should we continue to call them sleepers when they have broad access to the administrative branch of the US government.

And then, unless you jumped through hoops to disable it, your PC sends the key to Microsoft so they can just keep it linked to your account.

You’d probably also have to jump through the hoops to disable windows recall too.

Are they really sleepers any more?

Gonna need you to open the YouTube app on the iPad you left at your mom’s house a few weeks ago and tap “Yes, its me.”

We track it’s location, so we know it’s at your mom’s place a few states away, and yeah, we could send the notification to the phone that’s sitting right next to you (we track its location too) but that would be a little too easy on you. And lets face it, if we wanted this to be easy, we’d just let you use the Google Authenticator 2FA we had you set up a few years ago and skip all this nonsense. But that’s not how we roll.

Hugs n kisses, Google

Fully agree that the DE doesn’t matter much. I’ve used KDE and XFCE the most over the years, and cinnamon, gnome, and even enlightenment a bit over the years. I was never a big fan of gnome, however I recently got a 2in1 laptop, and after a few days of tinkering… I think gnome is a bit better for that kind of interaction than than the others.

There are things to like and dislike with all of them I’d say.