Is Lockdown 2.0 really about oil? ⛽🛑
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCMpF8AMFXo
The International Energy Agency has dropped a paper titled 'Sheltering from Oil Shocks,' and the implications are striking.
Someone is exploiting old people and making them believe crypto is the devil and in so doing trying to get Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies effectively banned in New Hampshire through absurd regulation. The senate hearing was packed with old people from AARP and passed the senate disturbingly!
Help save cryptocurrency in New Hampshire!
The address for the house version of the bill is Tuesday April 7th at: 1 Granite Place, Concord, NH 03301.
The hearing is on house bill SB482. "Granite Place" Room 159.
This bill will mandate full KYC for cryptocurrency vending machines, put a $2000 per day limit on purchases, put a 14 day hold on your funds, and make vending operators liable for 3rd party scams if users send their crypto to scammers. It will also mandate chainalysis.
This effectively this bans the sale of cryptocurrency through vending machines as it's economically infeasible to ensure little old ladies buying crypto don't send their crypto off to scammers after acquisition. If even a small percentage of users did so it would completely eliminate the margins on selling and therefore WILL put every vending machine operator out of business in New Hampshire.
The scary thing is this already passed the senate.
It's extraordinarily important that everyone who cares about financial freedom show up to the hearing and testify against this bill. Testifying against the bill is easy. You just sign up and tell the reps why you think this bill should not be passed.
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Big tech is trying to stop 'right to repair' in Colorado, but it's a terrible solution to lock downs and making things unrepairable or unrepairable by 3rd parties.
I'd normally prefer to let the end-user decide and vote with their dollars, but there is something to be said about intellectual property preventing the free market from functioning properly. As a consequence more often than not we end up with no good options or sometimes few good options.
Unfortunately the best solution I think we could push is getting rid of intellectual property with the exception of trademarks. Trademarks when used appropriately are geared at protecting the consumer from fraud. Intellectual property is utilized to ensure monopolies and duopolies and prevent solid competition from forming. The same thing can be said of regulations.
People often think companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, etc don't want regulation, but this is not true. Often they don't want it initially, but do want it later. Once a market has been established it's in those whom have built that market's interest to stop smaller competitors from entering. Barriers to competition in the market place are then pushed, ie regulation. Often it's claimed to be justified by "safety". It's really just fear mongering pushed by folks with an interest in minimizing competition.
One example is the number video rental stores in the 90s compared to today. That is to say I'd expect brick and mortar video rental stores to have declined and been replaced with thousands of online stores. This didn't happen because intellectual property is legally different from physical property. Anyone can start a brick and mortar rental business, but only those with billions can start an online one.
At least one court clearly doesn't understand how DNS works. A DNS provider can't block anything... only an ISP can:
"This argument failed to convince the court, which found that the 'neutral and passive' nature of the DNS resolvers is simply irrelevant to Article L. 333-10. The law isn’t about liability at all. What matters is whether a service can help to block access to pirate sites, which DNS resolvers clearly can."
This is obviously completely wrong. Lets completely eliminate DNS be it from the ISP or a third party for the sake of explaining why. So one can add an IP to ones host file and the domain will resolve/function/work. It doesn't matter whether a DNS resolver stops resolving the domain. The user will still be able to access the site.
If you wanted to stop someone from coming in your house you wouldn't demand your address be removed from the phone book. You'd get a lock for your door. A lock will block an intruder from entering, but removing the address from the phone book will not. At best they can't look up your address via one particular means of obtaining it. There are other sources for obtaining the address of a home owner besides a phone book. Most cities / regions have websites that let users lookup the ownership of properties and this can also be used to locate a persons address independent of a phone book.
Removing an address from a phone book does NOT block someone from entering that address.
Thus there is a very distinct difference between an ISP and a DNS provider even though ISPs typically also provide DNS too.
"French law doesn’t require blocking measures to be perfect, as long as they stop a subset of the visitors to pirate sites"
But does this even actually stop anyone?
https://torrentfreak.com/google-cloudflare-cisco-lose-pirate-site-dns-blocking-appeal-in-france/
So I was looking for flash carts for this thing and remembered that FlashMasta made them, but they don't work with SD cards and only support holding 2 ROMs at a time.
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https://www.flashmasta.com/product/neo-pocket-flash-masta-usb-32mbit/
So I do have one game with this thing: Sonic Pocket Adventure, and after messing around with it, I do have to say that I'm not a fan of the analog stick. Sure it was ahead of it's time, but the clicking is way too noisy for me and I don't thing an analog stick should be used for 2D games.
I still feel like the WonderSwan is the superior system. Not only does it have more games, despite being Japan-only, but it has a lot more personality to it, while the NGPC feels like something only for SNK fans which isn't bad, but that company is talked about even less than Capcom, Namco, or Konami and those companies exclusively make software.