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This is why people fucking hate lawyers

Jan 1, 2023 J. Kb 7 comments

I will give Andrew Branca credit where it’s due for what he’s done in the legal defense world for gun ownership.

We owe him a great deal for that.

Outside of that narrow field of expertise, fuck him 100%.

Whenever I (or Miguel or any other gun blogger who isn’t a lawyer) write about gun related legal issues, we always preface it with IANAL (I am not a lawyer).

I have never seen a lawyer ever preface an opinion with IANA[X], where X is whatever the expert is on the topic on which they are opining.

Take this thread from his Twitter:

 

And that is only part of it..

NASA other nations’ space agencies, and a number of private space companies are throwing an army of engineers and scientists at this nut to try and crack it.

I know, I was one of them.

I was working on thermal spray of boron and boric acid for radiation shielding.  Boron and hydrogen are some of the best shielding elements against cosmic radiation.

But some lawyer sarcastically explains on Twitter why it will never work so we should all just quit, pack up, and not bother with deep space exploration.

And the fact that I was applying my materials engineering PhD to this is no different than some 30-something woman looking at her douche bag boyfriend saying “I can fix him.”

I know enough to know that my amateur opinion on a topic of just that, an amateur opinion.

Lawyer, especially this lawyer, need to learn that same fucking lesson.

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New York ringing in the new year with its brand

Jan 1, 2023 J. Kb 3 comments

 

Multiple NYPD officers stabbed with machete near Times Square

Multiple New York City Police officers were stabbed by a suspect wielding a machete just blocks away from the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square.

The incident occurred around 10 p.m. at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue on Saturday, a source from the New York Fire Department confirmed to FOX News.

At least two officers were stabbed in the incident, including a rookie cop on his first day on the job.

And this is why I avoid crowds and stay the fuck home for new years.

 

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What is the future of Section 230

Jan 1, 2023 awa 2 comments

Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act is the part where it says “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

This is a goodness when used correctly.  This means that if one of our readers posts something that is actionable as a comment, defamation or such, we as the owners of the blog are not responsible.

This is what allowed Facebook and every forum, BBS, Usenet, and blog to exist in this age of the Internet.

It is what protects our cloud provider and CDNs from being held responsible for every bit of traffic that passes through their servers or is hosted on a piece of their hardware.  In addition, it means that your service provider, Comcast, Verizon, RoadRunner, and all the other ISPs are not responsible for what passes across their networks.

A HUGE goodness.

Unfortunately it is also being misused.

The gist is that as long as you, as a provider, do no editorial actions then you are not responsible. If you are controlling the content then you are now a publisher and not a common carrier.

Consider the NYT. Every single word that the publish is vetted and approved as a publisher, legally speaking. They have the final word on any opinion published, on any advertisement that runs, any news article that they publish they are responsible for.

When a company or group takes on the role of editor/publisher they also accept that legal responsibility in a legal sense.

So what happens if a company decides that they will not publish an article?

When Twitter decided to suppress all references to the Hunter Biden story in 2020 did they become a publisher?

When Facebook or YouTube shadow bans a user or group, are the acting as editors?

At what point do they loose their Section 230 protections as a “provider”?

If the owner of a blog allows open commenting but deletes any post where the commenter refuses to identify themselves, have they become a publisher?

On Dec 19th, 2022 the Supreme court scheduled arguments for Reynaldo Gonzalez, et al., Petitioners v. Google LLC for Feb 21, 2023.

The question the petitioners ask is:

Does section 230(c)(1) immunize interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information content provider, or only limit the liability of interactive computer services when they engage in traditional editorial functions (such as deciding whether to display or withdraw) with regard to such information?

The question the defendants ask is:

Whether a claim seeks to treat an interactive computer service provider as a “publisher,” and is thus barred by section 230, when the claim targets the provider’s display of third-party content of potential interest to individual users.

This may get very interesting for Facebook, Google, YouTube and a few other players that have been using shadow bans and the ban hammer to push their point of view or to suppress the speech of those they disagree with.

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Merry New Year!

Jan 1, 2023 Miguel.GFZ 3 comments

May your ammo stock increase tenfold and your wallet does not get massacred. May your guns mysteriously multiply in your safe. May you have the time of getting both together in the range and have fun.

And on a serious note, start taking steps to keep yourself healthy. It is not death I fear but being half assed crippled by some sickness and depending on others that scares the crap out of me.

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When the Title Is Good but Misleading

Jan 1, 2023 awa 1 comment
Rittenhouse sentenced on child exploitation charges - Alachua Chronicle
Kyle Allen Rittenhouse, 25, was sentenced today to 5 years in state prison, followed by 5 years of sexual offender probation, after pleading nolo contendere to three felonies

 

So I’m scrolling through my feeds when this pops up.  Now I read before I look at images and even so I’m not willing to leap to conclusions based on my memory and pictures.

This guy doesn’t seem to be Kyle Rittenhouse but maybe?  Last I saw he was a bit heavier than this, still carrying childhood weight.

Did the Hero of Kenosha fall from grace?

Nope, different person.  Just a heads up as I would not be surprised to start seeing reports about Kyle being sentenced for kiddy diddling or something like that.

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R92 v. Critter, real world test

Dec 31, 2022 awa 1 comment

B.L.U.F.: .357 is a good critter round, w/ NSFW pictures

One of the reasons we had a racoon problem earlier this year was because one of our chickens was badly injured in some sort of attack. As my lady described it, she was “gloved”.

At first we thought the rooster had done it. Then we thought that maybe a hawk had down it as there are a number of hawks around here. Some animal had ripped the top of the chickens head off. It blinded her completely for a couple of weeks but she seems to have one poorly working eye at this point.

She is currently kept in a pen near the other chickens and the rooster but away separate from them. At the time of the racoon incursion she was being kept safe in a big plastic tub on the porch.

The racoons were attracted to her scent and sounds and found chicken food to eat instead.

This lead to the deployment of a Winchester ’94 in 30-30 on racoon one. Overkill.
Savage Mark II in .22LR which was not enough against racoon two.
Winchester ’94 in 30-30 on racoon three, still overkill but more ethical than the .22.
And the same Winchester ’94 in 30-30 on racoon four.

This was driving the need for something between .22 and 30-30. I could have used the PC-9 but it really didn’t feel like the right choice.

In the end I found my Rossi R92 in 38 Special, .357 Magnum.

I’ve done a little bit of smithing on it. It needs more. It shoots exactly where I want it and is reliable after the first round chambers.

I had finished emptying almost all of my .357 magnum as I wanted to load them with 2400 instead of Titegroup. So it was sitting empty waiting for me to get more rounds loaded.

Last night my daughter heard her rooster give the alarm. She grabbed an ax and headed for the hen house. I figured that I should be the good father and head out to support her.

I quickly ejected my last 7 rounds of .357 form the Ruger GP100 grabbed the R92 and my light, started loading and heading out the door.

When I get out there daughter is pointing out the footprints. I tell her to search for more footprints leading away as it must have hauled ass when it heard my daughter head out.

We don’t see anything so daughter goes to check her chickens. The head count isn’t right so she goes to the back of the hen house and opens the door and a possum comes scurrying out between her legs heading across the snow.

I track the possum as it moves away. Bring the rifle to my shoulder, thumbing the hammer back as I do. Trigger finger is still on the receiver, outside of the trigger guard.

Rifle is lined up, good shoot. Bad back drop. Move to get a better backdrop as the possum moves to give me a better backdrop.

Line up, verify backdrop, press the trigger and there is a sharp bang. Nowhere near as loud as the 30-30.

The possum isn’t even twitching. I move up and verify. It is dead, really. No doubt about.

Since this is around 2300 wife is in bed asleep already. She woke up and immediately texts us for a report. We head in and give her the report.

After reporting in daughter goes out to get pictures so that she can brag to her friends that we have another dead animal. The skeleton will be processed but we aren’t interested in eating this animal.

The .357 magnum was not loaded to full power. It was still bottom end of my .357 loads. But the bullet I used did the trick.

115gr Cast Lead HP

The results of hitting a possum with this round are after the cut. They are graphic:
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