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I still don’t understand why they let budget bills get stuffed with unrelated laws. Seems like those should be separate bills, not hidden in must pass legislation.
From the actual bill:
HOWEVER, THAT IF THE WORKING GROUP DETERMINES THAT IT IS NOT TECHNOLOGICALLY FEASIBLE TO REQUIRE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS SOLD IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO INCLUDE BLOCKING TECHNOLOGY, THE WORKING GROUP SHALL SO REPORT, AND NO REGULATIONS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE WORKING GROUP DETER- MINES THAT IT IS TECHNOLOGICALLY FEASIBLE.
Considering the number of open source 3d printers, and mills, plus conversion packages for manual mills, It's ludicrous to assume it's feasible. And NY has nowhere near the manufacturing monopoly to force the rest of the country, let alone the world, to comply with a demand that all of them have blocking systems.
Even given the safety check of a working group, this same bill also makes a stick illegal. So it's more than likely to fail on a few challenges, assuming it even makes it to final vote in this form.
Explainaturd in the room... Toxic positive optimist. No one wants to talk about the yankkee cartel and the gun and drug running it does. Inch by inch... they never do anything for the good. Billionares can make it happen capitain... they don't run things the way they you think.. You have no leverage. As long as they winning they don't care if the shits on fire. The 10% is on the spreadsheet. You no longer matter. They can make this happen... at least in the USA. Anything is possible in gang banger USA. Imperial boomerang... They create the problem to solve the problem.
They start with closed source and will close the open source loop hole in a future bill. This is boiling frogs if anything.
It's even better than that - for them.
With this bill the legislation is effectively now on the books but in a dormant state where it can be selectively activated at any future time and with whatever scope the 'working group' decide.
Even if something like this were to actually come to fruition, I have to imagine that all it would really result in is kind of like when the EU used to have less strict guidelines on wireless technologies and in America you could just flash the European firmware to get longer range. Surely there will just be a New York specific firmware and then you can flash the firmware from somewhere else.
The state now controls the means of production?
Sounds dangerously Communist!
Socialism for the rich, unions for the dogs and scraps for the rest.
Unions are for everyone, what?
no I agree but if you take a look at the USA from afar then it appears this way. It is no me not wanting unions its the other way around.
How strong is your union compared to the police union?
My what an unrelated and strangely slightly off-topic question. Whatever are you getting at?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a native English speaker and not just sea lioning. Here is the break down for you:
Socialism for the rich = subsidized losses for the rich, see every bailout for the past forever
Unions for the dogs = police unions. Incredibly powerful unions that prevent cops from being held accountable in any way. They can kill a guy and the union will prevent them from being fired. All other unions are subject to union breaking efforts often by means of the police
Scraps for the rest = you get nothing, you own nothing, your unions will be attacked by all means available
Hell yeah I am a smart purson... They verbose yo
i’m a native speaker and didn’t know this either. thank you for explaining!
"Dogs" in "unions for the dogs" refers to cops. And police unions are stupidly powerful.
Pretty sure that’s not what they meant. No one calls cops “dogs”
Yes they do? They are the guard/attack dogs of the bourgeoisie that reigns in the cattle (the rest of us). That metaphor isn't exactly new.
Oooh, Louis Rossman is going to be PISSED * grabs popcorn *
He's now talking at Mach3.
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