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double2helix | 2 years ago | on: Rarbg Is No More

For those questioning how websites can still illegally operate torrenting movies, the answer is very simple. It costs a lot of money and resources for the FBI and/or other federal agency to prosecute someone, let alone post adjudication costs ie: probation officers. The feds just don't care to waste time with search warrants over a menial crime. They tried a few years back just simply mailing fines to people. But quickly realized they couldn't prove guilt without spending more money than it's worth.

Also movie makers don't care to push the issue with law enforcement anymore. They (unfortunately for law abiding folks) just inflate the price to make up for lost, just like stores do to combat shoplifting.

double2helix | 3 years ago | on: The Camera-Shy Hoodie

All digital cameras are in "ir mode" point your TV remote at your cell phone camera and press a button on your remote it will light up on your screen.

double2helix | 3 years ago | on: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

I'm a gay man and I think we are going to far with this PC nonsense. I had a hard time growing up in the 90s knowing I was different and being tormented by my peers, so I'm happy to see gay "normalized" in current pop culture more because I think it teaches the younger generation to accept themselves and others. However I feel that it's going to far, for example I started reading a novel the other day but gave up a third of the way through because every character was some form of LGBT or interracial or something. It made the story seem fake and unrealistic. I think editing classic books is wrong even if it is covering up something like hate or bigotry. History forgotten is history bound to repeat itself.

double2helix | 3 years ago | on: Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

It's 1984 for real. I read Edward Snowdens biography a couple weeks ago and one thing that floors me is people's lackadaisical response to the gross violation of laws our government was violating.

I think people are afraid to stand up for there right to privacy, because they feel unpatriotic or that it may make them look like a criminal with something to hide.

I do belive with proper due process and warranting the government should be able to carry out covert surveillance of those suspected of MAJOR terrorism only. But who draws that line? And how do you trust them?

double2helix | 3 years ago | on: NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions

I was locked up in the feds, and the last two years I was there they went to this policy. Let me assure you if did absolutely nothing to stymie the flow of drugs. There are a hundred different ways people get stuff on the inside, and even if those hundred different ways were stopped there would be a new hundred in no time. The quality of the mail scans were terrible. Problems like missing portions of letters and B&W scans of greetings cards (which BTW is against copyright laws). I can't speak for the state level, but as far as the federal level the prison system is 0% rehabilitation. It is a profit mongering machine if you follow the money. For example the judge that sentenced me has a stake in the unicor federal prison industries factory I worked at, as well as the halfway house I was required to stay at when I got out even though I had a job and home immediately upon release.

double2helix | 3 years ago | on: The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight

It was very recent actually, around 2018 is about the time we were getting in the Russian stuff. I saw alot of very interesting antique items from various government agencies in the three years I was there, plus all the brand new and still usable equipment the government throws away due to the "use it or lose it" budget policy. Lots of waste.

double2helix | 3 years ago | on: The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight

When I was locked up in the feds I worked at an electronics recycling facility in the prison and we would get old Russian space program stuff like this all the time from NASA to tear down and recycle. The coolest thing was something the tag from NASA said was a "Russian Piano Console" not sure exactly what it was and can't find any info on the net today about it.
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