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Remember all the handwringing over the fact that games like Pokemon go brought people into their own parks? We covered it just a few weeks ago. Seems a lot of Soylentils were very much in favor of requirements for demanding pre-approval and fees from any company that may someday make any future profit from any citizen who wandered into a city park.
Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality
Well it didn't take long for that to be slapped down by the courts.
A judge on Thursday declared as unconstitutional a local Wisconsin ordinance mandating that the makers of augmented reality games get special use permits if their mobile apps were to be played in county parks. The law—the nation's first of its kind—was challenged on First Amendment grounds amid concerns it amounted to a prior restraint of a game maker's speech. What's more, the law was seemingly impossible to comply with.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Friday July 21 2017, @09:54PM (9 children)
Politicians are truly a disgusting breed of Human. They are easily responsible for 90% of our misery.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 21 2017, @10:25PM (8 children)
Technically, by holding the People's power by delegation, they are actually responsible for 100% of the literal misery.
Metaphorical misery has very diverse stakeholders.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:30PM (7 children)
Politicians aren't responsible for the misery we inflict upon each other directly, like when your neighbor robs your house. But when an H1B takes your job, that's a policy issue and you can thank politicians for your misery.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday July 21 2017, @10:52PM (6 children)
Why did the neighbor rob your house, rather than acquire the desired object(s) with her own resources?
Who's gonna catch and properly punish the neighbor for robbing your house?
100%, if you look at it right. Any crime is the result of failing to lead a society where each citizen is gainfully occupied, appropriately compensated, and safely entertained.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:00PM
https://www.americangauntlet.com/single-post/2017/01/05/SwitchboardOperator [americangauntlet.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 21 2017, @11:19PM (2 children)
"Looking at it right" is really terrible criteria. Anything can be "looked at right". Anything. It's all the fault of the Moon Nazis and their monopoly on green cheese, 100% totally, if you look at it right.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 21 2017, @11:30PM (1 child)
Pardon me for trying to set a high expectations bar for our democratic representatives
(grin, as he says)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 21 2017, @11:44PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:39AM (1 child)
If you look at it perversely enough, any crime is the result of failing to lead a society where each citizen is gainfully occupied, appropriately compensated, and safely entertained is indeed "the fault" of politicians failing to live up to rainbows and unicorns fantasies.
Looking at it another way, without politicians - let's just call that anarchy, crime is a simple fact of life - something that exists because nobody is standing up to do anything about it.
Sure, politicians are miserable inept self-serving douche bags, but they're better than no organized government at all.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:02AM
No, some people are just evil. That is, some get off on the misery of others, yet others get some mind of power trip from stealing from others, yet others do it for the thrill of not getting caught.