aboardRat4 (u/aboardRat4)

aboardRat4 commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

saubeidl · 5 days ago

Going from the capitalism of small business owners to the market socialism of coops is a small step ;)

aboardRat4 · 5 days ago

Well, none of the implementations of Marxism in the XX century worked like this, so I dare to disagree.

Of course, you can always say that America is exceptional, and she will have "Marxism with American characteristics", just like China switched from true socialism to "socialism with Chinese characteristics", but would still recommend avoiding the word which associates with GULAG and mass starvation.

aboardRat4 commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

adastra22 · 6 days ago

IDs are a state-level concern in the US federal system. California IDs are issued by California. It’s like going into a Spanish government building to get your Belgian passport replaced. They will have no records of you, and nothing to do.

aboardRat4 · 5 days ago

>It’s like going into a Spanish government building to get your Belgian passport replaced.

The police are not expected to replace the ID. They are expected to give you a proof that you have indeed lost one. In fact Russian embassy won't give you a "returnee permit" unless you go to a Spanish police station and declare your loss of a document.

Even foreign police cannot be expected to just generate documents on a whim.

In the US states don't have embassies, but surely a police station in New York can ask the registration office in California to send them your picture by WhatsApp and have at least a vague kind of proof that you are who you claim to be.

aboardRat4 commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2

SpicyLemonZest · 6 days ago

Perhaps you don't think legalistic bureaucracy should matter, but the voters' representatives in Congress don't agree. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, government agencies must produce legalistic bureaucratic reasons for their actions; they may not act capriciously to suit the whims of political leaders or transient desires for a change.

Congress certainly has the power to change this if they want to. But without something like the APA, private businesses exposed to federal regulation would struggle to make any plans beyond the current US Presidential term. So they do not want to.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

>Under the Administrative Procedure Act, government agencies must produce legalistic bureaucratic reasons for their actions; they may not act capriciously to suit the whims of political leaders or transient desires for a change.

Well, this is sort of against the spirit of the US constitution, at least as explained in the Federalist. I might even call it an abuse of the Legislative system.

I'm not speaking very confidently here, but by the spirit of it, the Congress should not do this much of micro-management of the Executive.

Surely the Congress should pass the laws which _prevent_ the Executive from doing stupid things, in particular collecting too much taxes, but it shouldn't really tell the Executive "do this, in this particular way".

To be honest, I suspect that the actual _reason_ every administration tries to undo as much of the actions of the previous administration as they can is because due to the amount of limits imposed on them by the Congress they they cannot do much else. Fighting the Congress is much harder than fighting the previous administration.

I seriously suspect that if the amount of regulation is decreased, it will actually be beneficial to long-term policy stability, because instead of fighting the decisions of the previous administration the current one would be busy with it's own projects.

aboardRat4 commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2

bojan · 6 days ago

Labour laws, for starters.

The conditions the average Chinese works in are abysmal, even from the American point of view.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

Well, then you basically know what to do. Rescind those laws and become competitive again.

aboardRat4 commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

saubeidl · 6 days ago

GPL is much more than that. It is distributing the means of production to the tech workers.

rms is the Marx of the 20th Century. GPL is freedom from corporate oppression.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

No it's not. GPL is quite the opposite. GPL means that "you own what you buy", which is the foundation of capitalism. You own what you buy, including programs, which you can buy, replicate, modify, and sell.

Due to the nature of software, especially in the 80s, it existed in both text and binary form, which made it easy to perverse the nature of selling software from selling code to selling binaries, and big companies went even further in their collusion with the government socialists by making even re-selling even your own binaries illegal.

GPL is just trying to fight this madness with its own weapon. The GPL is an attempt to go back to capitalism of small business owners and individual service providers.

aboardRat4 commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

adastra22 · 7 days ago

...how? California doesn't have an embassy in New York.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

Surely New York has enough police stations to visit and declare a loss of ID.

aboardRat4 commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2

SpicyLemonZest · 7 days ago

I'm not sure I follow the questions. The success of a long-term project can be ensured through the procedures described in the source article: you set up a durable judicial system, and invest them with the power to require that the country uphold its end of the bargain, no matter how much its current political leaders might want to change course.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

>success of a long-term project can be ensured through the procedures described in the source article: you set up a durable judicial system, and invest them with the power to require that the country uphold its end of the bargain, no matter how much its current political leaders might want to change course.

That's an abuse of the judicial system. Politicians are elected exactly because the voters perceive a need to change the execution of government's functions.

The thing is, you cannot beat human moral qualities with formalist means. People who come to power by raising hatred towards their political opponents will always find a way to subvert policies even if not cancel them.

Long-term policies should be established through consensus among all parties, not though legalistic bureaucracy.

aboardRat4 commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2

Sharlin · 7 days ago

"Long term" means decades when it comes to energy strategy, major infrastructure initiatives, and decarbonization. Four years is woefully inadequate for strategic planning, you’re operating on a tactical level at best.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

There is no reason to do long term projects with public funds. Private companies are not subject to the vagaries of democracy and can plan as long-term as they want.

aboardRat4 commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2

monting · 6 days ago

They "eliminated" extreme poverty caused by communist control in the first place, by going to a capitalist system.

There were tons of economic low-hanging fruits by building out large infrastructure projects, which corruption happily siphoned off of.

The ROI of these infra projects have been gone for a while, yet they continued. Also it's been stealing intellectual property, trade dumping, exporting deflation. Soaking up the manufacturing oxygen of everyone else through subsidies, elite capture, then using the leverage gained and veiled threats against others to force them to yield resources, market access and political control.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

Emm... and what prevents the USA from doing all the same things?

aboardRat4 commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

JuniperMesos · 7 days ago

Copyright law is hundreds of years old and originally was intended to prevent owner-operators of mechanical printing presses from printing and selling copies of some author's books without paying them or getting permission.

aboardRat4 · 6 days ago

It was created when there was a scarcity of content, so state violence was used to encourage production of content.

But now we don't live in the age of scarcity of content. On the contrary, content creators are competing for a possibility to get into consumers' attention span and push their agenda (ads). Everything has changed.

Removing all copyright restriction will not decrease the amount of content available for a person through their lifetime even a few percent.