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For every single-family home a hedge fund owns over a certain limit each year, it would be subject to a tax penalty, the revenues from which would be used for down payment assistance programs for those seeking to buy their first home from a hedge fund.
Sounds like even if this gets passed, whatever penalties get assessed are just going right back to the hedge funds anyway? And it’s a 10-year plan… Kinda sounds like a whole lotta nothing. Disappointing.
Why are you calling other people in this thread dumb for not reading the article when you haven’t done the most basic amount of looking into it yourself?
Here is the sentencing memorandum from June (a few weeks prior to his sovcit outburst mentioned in the article, if I’m reading correctly) where the 21 day sentence was initially requested. It’s reachable in two clicks from the article, and it describes in excruciating detail all of his participation in Jan 6, as well as the broader context around his social media posts.
He pleaded guilty to one of the four counts he was originally charged with, and the AP notes that over 400 Jan 6th defendants have done the same. It’s unclear from the filing whether a plea agreement was offered; I would guess that it was, and that this is probably an effort to reduce the overall burden on the court system, because a) there are over 1200 individuals charges with crimes in connection with the events of Jan 6, and b) there is plenty of damning video evidence of most of it.
He’s still getting less than four months. It should be a lot worse to reflect the severity of what he did.
If a malicious actor has physical access to your machine, you have already lost. Been that way since the dawn of computing. Full-disk encryption can potentially protect your data from unauthorized access, but it can’t really stop a thief from wiping the laptop and making it their own. And if you get it back you probably want to wipe it anyway.
According to your link, hosting an exit node was not a crime by itself, this person pretty much encouraged the illegal activity
The Austrian Court found that this activity may lead to criminal liability for aiding and abetting of a crime of distribution of child pornography when coupled with other circumstances. Of course, mere provision of Tor Nodes would not be enough to establish at least indirect intent (bedingte Vorsatz), which such aiding and abetting under criminal laws usually requires (§ 5 StGB).
In order to find such circumstances, according to PCWorld, the court cited transcripts of chat sessions uncovered during the investigation in which the Weber told an unidentified correspondent “You can host 20TB child porn with us on some encrypted hdds”, “You can host child porn on our servers” and “If you want to host child porn … I would use Tor.” Weber defended himself against this on his blog saying: “Yes, this logs existed – Yes, i recommended Tor to host anything anonymously, including child pornography – Yes, this is of course taken out of context.”
“This cyberattack on a hospital not only could have had disastrous consequences, but patient’s personal information was also compromised,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.
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I am hopeful that with things like unionization movements gaining steam, and the ease of communication of social media, that some capable young people will be spurred into running for office this decade. It really needs to be a grassroots movement IMO.
I don’t think most of the establishment actually believes that, is the problem.
And probably contracted out to a company, so they can say it was outside their knowledge/responsibility/control when evil shit inevitably happens
I think their broader point is still valid, which is that clickbaity “blasts” is fucking annoying regardless
I mean… yeah. A real telco. I figure it has to be one of a few things:
a) The profit margins baked into existing SMS services are razor-thin and there’s no room for a startup to undercut that (unlikely);
b) The monopoly of the existing telcos is thorough enough that they can shut out newcomers;
c) The initial costs of any potential newcomers are great enough that nobody can secure funding;
d) Nobody both wealthy and moral enough has had this idea yet
Right, the reason why SMS is used was explained in the excerpt, I’m not asking about that. I guess what I’m curious about is how badly the telecom firms they’re purchasing SMS services from are price gouging, and if they are, why there hasn’t been a startup in this space
Now I want to know more about that $6 million annually spent on SMS messages… That seems like a ridiculously unnecessary cost, wonder if some startup can wedge into the market and undercut the competition.
That might be one of the least flattering pictures ever taken of President Biden lol
A really powerful statement, and I completely understand their decision.
While I appreciate the nitpick, I think it’s likely the case that “kills a bunch of people” is also something we want to avoid…