If the US doesn't respect international law and illegally seizes foreign vessels in international waters like the recent Venezuela oil tanker seizure why should US citizens respect US law?
The answer is simple: We shouldn't. Respect is something that is earned, not blindly given and the US hasn't earned that respect.
Under international law, the United States' unilateral seizure of foreign-flagged vessels in international waters—particularly for enforcing sanctions—is a clear violation of established international treaties and laws.
International law, including the 1958 Convention on the High Seas and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), prohibits states from boarding or seizing foreign vessels on the high seas except in specific, narrowly defined circumstances which include: Hot pursuit from a state’s territorial waters, piracy, slave trade, and disturbingly illegal broadcasting.
Under 16s banned from social media starting today in Australia.
When does state violence against minors justify violent rebellion? If not this act by the Australian government, then when?
We have become a society of docile creatures programmed to obey. When I was in school the school yard itself was far more dangerous than anything online ever could be. Sure, there are predators, but if you were in school prior to the past two decades school yard bullies probably did far more damage than the internet has done to youth today.
You can throw forth tons of sad stories with victims, but it hardly justifies the violence used by government to restrain companies and curtail the free speech rights of young people.
It's time to stop treating kids like they're owned no different from an animal or family pet. Kids should NOT be slaves of a sick twisted class of adult.
Kids should not be forced to swipe IDs to buy lunch, humans shouldn't be forced to swipe plastic to get into national parks, and those of us still alive need to take a stand and put some skin in the game in taking a stand against that which is the most violent to us all: Government, including government schooling.
Headline: AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire From US Lawmaker
"The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers. On Friday, Khanna tweeted: 'We need regulations that prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profits.'"
Hilarious post on Slashdot to this call of action:
"I have been complaining for 30 years that game companies have used AI to drive the decisions of dishonestly named "non-player characters" instead of employing real human beings to play against the people buying their games. Billions of jobs have been lost over the decades!"
He has a good point. I mean, I remember back in the day playing games 'against the machine', as opposed to an employee of the game company, and as a consequence that was one less person they had to keep on the payroll.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-use-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-draws-fire-from-us-lawmaker
I would say our free stater halloween party in Keene, New Hampshire brought back memories of Hallowkeene, but that was actually before my time in New Hampshire. However it certainly brought back memories of hearing about it and was a reminder of how awesome Keene and New Hampshire are thanks to the Free State Project and associated migration movement! And really the 10s of thousand of people who have moved here in the last 20 years that are working to make New Hampshire a last bastion of freedom or freedom friendly haven amongst the tyranny that's been since history's beginning.
A look back at our history in Keene to 2015 Halowkeene (I just barely missed this, slightly pre-dates my move for the Free State Project):
Re: Catherine Connolly Quitting Presidential Race
It seems seriously problematic to be censoring users even where such content is geared at misleading people in political races. The humorous thing about the recent video in the story below is it doesn't even sound real. If you see a video with a politician pulling out of a race don't you think you should think twice particularly when it's coming from social media sources that may be questionable?
"IPTV Pirates May Soon Be Named and Shamed, Italian Minister Says"
I just want everyone to know that if I were in Italy I'd be in the process of investigating how I too could become an IPTV pirate.
There is nothing shameful about "pirating" content. If you want to be ashamed of something be ashamed that your not contributing more (either via financing or exertion of effort of some kind presumably) to the production of creative and useful content and software you use and enjoy.
Just because copyright is immoral and is enforced through the use of violence that is the state doesn't mean you can't be a economic contributor to the creative and software ecosystems.
Whether it be through purchasing of t-shirts from your favorite bands, donations where such options exist, or other means. We get fan emails daily from customers purchasing our products and in doing so they too are contributing to the development of free software. It's not immoral to charge for free software. Free software is about the freedom the user gets from being able to make changes, fix bugs, and being able to redistribute said changes to others. Whether or not you can make money from it is another matter, but the reality is yes, you can. Numerous companies and thousands of individuals make fiscal contributions to free software developers and organizations every day. Much of the development is funded by companies and individuals out of self-interest. It's not even necessarily a charitable act.
https://torrentfreak.com/iptv-pirates-may-be-named-and-shamed-italian-minister-says-251020/
It was one windy day- but Free Staters from accross New Hampshire came out to Manchester on Tuesday none-the-less and protested Manchester's city ordinance that prohibits people from selling home made food without a permission slip. The gist of the story is a guy was targeted by state mafia, ie the health deaprtment in the City of Manchester for daring to give away canned pickles. Free Staters heard the story and turned it viral. Maybe 50-100 mostly free staters showed up outside an aldermine meeting to demand change and defy the governments draconian restrictions on the distribution of food by mere mortals. Check out the article and protest video here:
Love this video promoting the free state, other than the conservative stance on ID checks at the polls at least. Don't get pulled in by stupid republican politics. As a whole libertarians want freedom including open boarders, free trade, and if your physically here on voting day you should be able to vote. It doesn't matter if your 5 years old or 105, white, black, or mixed, gay, straight, bi, or something else entirely. My "legalize gay marijuana" t-shirt sums it up perfectly.
People in the UK really are nuts, then again I can think of some right-wing nutters around here who I've heard similar things from. No, being against the Online "Safety" Act doesn't make you a predator or supporter thereof. It makes a you rational person who can understand the futility, stupidity, and harm of a dumb law that doesn't even have the impact its supporters are imagining while simultaneously doing great damage to freedom and democracy. If your so concerned about the children, maybe you should be advocating for parents and guardians to take personal responsibility for their kids and buy devices with parental controls, not give their kids unfettered internet access, or simply use traditional medias instead like DVDs. My significant other's aunt has three kids and she's still throwing in VHS tapes. The kids have very little access if any to the internet (or they did) and are constantly supervised.