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  • Look to other countries. Japan has a very sensible system, for example:

    1. You must complete a licensing course to be able to own a rifle for hunting or target shooting. You must keep this license renewed.

    2. You must arrange a police inspection of your storage annually, which requires the rifle and ammunition be in two separate lockers.

    3. Handguns and semi-automatics are strictly prohibited. So much as possessing one carries a prison sentence. Obviously attempting to use one to kill people would be life imprisonment (or capital punishment, since they unfortunately still practice that).

    We need similar laws, and strict penalties for arms manufacturers, smugglers and people who deal in them under the table. The first step is patching the hole in the boat before you start trying to pump the water out.

    The only public shooting in recent memory was the assassination of a former Prime Minister with a “gun” made from a pipe, battery and fire crackers.



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    1 year ago

    All of the money from subscriptions and advertisements is put into a big pool (minus a cut for Spotify), and every month it is divided up between each rightsholder based on the proportion of plays. So if you have a big chunk of track plays that are just generated noise playing over and over for hours, that’s a big chunk of that pool going to unoriginal/easily reproducible uploads instead of actual musicians. It’s basically a scam gaming the way the system works.

    It’s also costly for Spotify. Even if the streams were in the form of, say, podcasts that were not allowed any sort of monetization, it’s still hours upon hours (per user) of data that has to be streamed…and it doesn’t compress efficiently. Compression algorithms seek to avoid noise, and deliberately generated noise will not compress well. So the amount of data being streamed is much higher per second than with music or speech.

    Meanwhile, you can make an app that plays white/pink/whatever noise trivially. No waste of resources necessary.