Some 25 years ago when the RIAA was going apeshit over online sharing of music they were happily suing people left and right.

At some point they argued that no computer should ever make a copy of music without a license. The opposition proceeded to demonstrate how computers work. They make many copies of data files while processing them in the CPU, RAM, cache, omin temp files, etc. The judge did temporarily order that only one canopy could be made, but after the education, said fine: if the RIAA wants to let it stand, then they can’t distribute via any computer systems anywhere by their own rules.

In the end, the case was dropped and computers got to keep processing data as per normal.

I try other options now and again. When something is better I use it. Until then, I have things to do with what works.

People continue to innvote, test, and develop new options. Someday one will eventually work out a superior approach that takes off among the general userbase.

Only transactional relations are conceivable by this administration. If you still think they care about anyone or anything other than themselves you’re one of the biggest idiots to ever exist.

How are Americans this dumb? Seriously seriously dumb.

As to the stone thing: most of the houses and apartments in Germany are mainly stone walls. Somehow we manage it here.

Benefits include: massive soundproofing. Heat and cold envelope. Stability of buildings in tighter blocks. Build once, use forever.

Store is just fine, and yes we have an impact drill. It cost 30 Euro and does all of the light duty stuff we need.

Renovations are tougher, but also rarer.

Awesome. That’s the Geek Way.

Shadowrun shouldn’t be a documentary, but here we go.

Also: << the nerds aren’t going to do any of this shit, so… let’s look like the good guys by exempting them so we don’t look terrible when the nerds show how obviously this is all security theater >>

Exactly the problem: bandwidth and latency.

The radio frequencies these run at and the power they’re allowed to use limits them to very very low bandwidth for data transfer. They can’t even do a low bitrate audio stream.

What they can do is messaging without 3rd party oversight and with adhoc data links. They’re very very cool for offline networks, especially in places without extant infrastructure for transmissions.

This is the “ignore the problem I created and it’ll go away” stage of problem solving by a serial bankrupter.

Very fun. We should make a debian package to install the manpage via apt.