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sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Public property requires permissions for you to act upon. Do you, or the person in question have those permissions?

No.

Can I go and randomly fix potholes on public roads? Also, no. For anything public you also require permissions.Two wrongs dont make a right. Please, inform your self before these comments. Thank you.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
The authorities dont take a lot of cases. Once again, why are you the arbiter of right and wrong?

Go to the authorities. Thats why they are there. If you dont like it, take it up with them.

What is socially acceptable is not what is morally right, or wrong. Hundreds of years ago we tried witches based on assumptions.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Yes? It's likely no longer in the spot is was meant to. 2' to the right could mean it's in the way of cars, customers, etc.
sorwin··on Digital books wear out faster than physical books
No, you don't lol. You do realize both the algorithm to decompress the media, and the media as well can be stored alongside, right? Including. any instructions to actually use that media.
sorwin··on Digital books wear out faster than physical books
Assuming the book is kept under good conditions, in a humid controller room, with nobody touching it?

Your point is moot. there's a reason we moved to digital media, and why nobody keeps paper copies of everything, aside for last-resort scenarios (which once again includes physical media that nobody ever touches)

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Right thing to do according to who, you?

Why do you get to decide what is right and wrong without a court of law? I thought we outlawed that ages ago.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Nor does it mean otherwise, what's your point?

That's damage, regardless. If I go around and draw a very nice stick figure on a painting, versus throwing paint on it, are both not damaging?

Not his property, not his right.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Let me go throw paint on paintings to show my act of civil disobedience against oil companies.
sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Cool, hold up, I dont like that Biden/Trump flag on your property because I believe he hasnt upheld his promises, and he's a shit president. He did do and so.

I'm going to rip it off, doing my civil duty, right? Not like there are any laws preventing me from doing it it.

Get off your high horse.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
No, it is not. This is the purpose of a government. If you dont like it, vote it away.

Don't go around breaking other people's property because you don't like what they have. It's illegal.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
It's not an act of civil service. Nobody asked you for help. You put it upon your self to impart judgement on others with no authority.

Did they ask for help? No. Are you damaging the car? Yes. Are you intruding on others rights? Also yes.

Stop being so self-righteous.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
I don't understand how people don't understand that it's not their job to police others.

You aren't an authority, nor has anyone asked you to be. This is no different than MOB mentality whre you think you have some kind of authority.

We have a government for a reason, to handle this kind of stuff. These people want more oversight, but at the same time, they don't want it???

sorwin··on Digital books wear out faster than physical books
Terrible example, digital media can last far longer, under the same circumstances.

Have a USB drive Hard Drive, or USB? Plug them in 10 to 15 years later, chances are, they will have far less damage than a book in all those years.

It's an unfair comparison.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Even if it is, it's not his responsibility, not his right?1

If I see someone speeding, should I jump in the road and tell them to slow down? If I see someone parked illegally, should I slash their tires? It makes no sense.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
Why is this someone else's problem, other than the owner, or authorities in charge of this?

If there is a tree fallen on my property, are you going to come and remove it, or do you expect me to do it?

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
No, it's the opposite. What leads to a "Russian" driving culture is people taking matters into their own hands.

I've lived in Europe. People love to be up and all about it, thinking they have the authority to do anything they want. We're in a civilized society here where we let the proper authorities take care of issues.

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
It says he pulled it off, not unscrewed it. Literally in the article.

What right did he have to do that? Not his car or property, nor his job.

If I don't agree with the ruling of some judgement around banks, I don't go around breaking their windows and ATMs, right?

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
It doesn't matter. You're not the police, or anyone in charge of those matters.

What gives you the right to touch their car?

sorwin··on NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
I don't agree with the license plate being covered, but that also doesn't give you the right to go and around rippingt hings off of people's cars.

It's not his property, leave it alone. This isn't any different than someone damaging your car because they disagree with something being displayed on it, or lack there of.

sorwin··on I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
How would this work with other voices, like a coffee shop, would it hear those simultaneously, and interupt a command?

Also, how do you handle using OpenAi whisper, seems like they do 30 second intervals - would that be an issue if your command is cut off mid word?

sorwin··on PayPal inactivity fee
This seems like a way to almost force user retention, or increase profits. I'm guessing they must not be doing as well financially anymore
sorwin··on TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone
The problem is not the application, it's the people. We've gotten to the point where people are willing to spend endless hours for entertainment (long, or short content).

Social (and non-social) media is able to capture peoples' attentions for far too long. Instead of being bored, and having their minds wonder and attempt other tasks, they are endlessly entertained.

People no longer have time to try other things, or explore their own creativity and curiosity. They instead turn to media to satisfy that curiosity, and that's the issue. As much as it sounds like a conspiracy theory, we're heading deep down a hive-mind rabbit hole of propaganda. I don't follow tiktok, but I'm influenced by it every day due to my friends who try or follow new trends based on what they see.

The point of a government is to protect it's citizens, and it's failing terribly. Even going on Reddit, I only see negative posts about the United States, and people arguing how bad it is to live here. Yet, while traveling outside the US, I barely see 5-10% of those posts, but no other posts about how bad it is to live in those countries (granted the US has a far higher population). It just seems like people on social media are shitting on the US these days for reasons that they dont even understand, or know how to compare to anywhere else.

sorwin··on Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
Excuse me? I know tons of very skilled programmers who use it, simply because of the time it saves.

I use it regularly in C#, JS, CSS, and hell, C++ ocassionately.

It's not about using other people's code, it's about it saving time by generating pretty much the code I was already going to write (with pretty good accuracy too). Once you have enough knowledge, I see no difference in the code Copilot generates (at least, not any better quality/perf) than I would have written.

So yes, I cheer it on, and I love it. It has made my development life easier. 17+ years of coding, and this has been a big impact for me.

sorwin··on Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update
This is the only major issue holding me back from upgrading. When you run 3-5 visual studios, couple of RDP connections, etc, having those windows in the taskbar is a big productivity booster.

I had to rollback simply because after a while, it felt slow and hard to manage multiple windows...

Who knew people like to run the same app more than once :|

sorwin··on TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
How are the videos and information surrounding all these mental disorders on TikTok not in the same category as COVID-19 misinformation?
sorwin··on Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP – Thurrott.com
What are you specifically referring to? .NET core has pretty much everything and more than .NET Framework did.

In my personal experience, and that of colleagues, it was a pretty smooth experience. We mostly had issues due to some API changes here and there, and of course ASP.NET

sorwin··on US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate degrees
The most obvious and direct reason for this is corona - what's the point of attending college if you don't get the full experience? I imagine despite your political affiliation, you want your kids to actually experience college for all it is and not just attend a bunch of self-help courses where you're responsible for teaching your self.
sorwin··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
Any TV, as long as you don't connect it to wifi/ethernet. I've been using Roku throughout my house with a home DNS server set to block all roku analytics/log servers. No interface/app issues thus far (about a year now on 4 TVs)

edit: Also, aside from netflix, a local plex server with rtorrent/irssi to auto-download tv series I followl

sorwin··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
Why are actual privacy issues like this not covered by any media outlets? I'm tired of hearing about Trump all day.
sorwin··on The Fourth of July
This has also been a constant topic amongst my family, extended family and many friends (mostly european).

My entire family (including me) and extended family immigrated here within the last 10-30 years, yet we all love living here, and have the same sentiment around people who have been born here. They were given such a great opportunity (that we all had to work for), yet most of them throw it away and have little love for the country and what it offers.

I even have family and friends on H1B/student visas who despite all thesese issues, are supporting a lot of these right-wing issues after these protests, which was a bit surprising (considering the ban on the visas)

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