civilians vs persons enlisted as government forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia

US from your link

> The Militia Act of 1903 divided what had been the militia into what it termed the "organized" militia, created from portions of the former state guards to become state National Guard units

yes, the present national guard is very much a government entity, and held to the same training standards as federal armed forces. they regularily hold joint training.

the people at large however are not prevented from forming a militia or a posse, or volunteering to be deputized by a local police force.

the common element is that they are responding to a domestic threat originated from government activities.

the original conception of american government insists that the government exist at the consent of the governed, in service of the governed, and this consent is revoked when that government fails to colour inside the lines when interpreting the constitution of the USA

Many US states also have a state guard that is under the sole control of the state government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force

These forces are distinct from the state's National Guard and cannot be federalized.

regulation of a militia. the apocrypha is that "the people" have uninfringed rights to arms, as a counter to a militia that is conveying tyranny.

i have read, in various places, that the last straw initiating foment of open revolution was when the kings militia began "taking liberties" with the wives and daughters of the colonists. piecemeal resistance, consolidated to a social movement, and the "shot heard around the world" was loosed.

1] delete data.

2] remove hard drive & replace.

3] hand off old hard drive and a thumb drive holding undelete, and man pages.

4] profit

we already have:

https://news.ycombinator.com/launches

i thought it might have been a "piston head" article, perhaps exhaust tuning howtos.

we love discoverability, and have socially established methods. within the halls of HN, we walk a different path.

i believe that would qualify as "hanging a lantern"

http://bekindrewrite.com/2011/02/04/what-does-hang-a-lantern...

when done artfully it works well, rather than insulting intelligences, or seeming intentionally dumbed down.

Reminds me of the gift shop sketch from Mitchell & Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc

It’s so painful that I can’t even watch.

pep talk takeaway.

ok guys, this is a free for all session, lets just see what we can come up with, it doesnt count unless we see something really good, but right now we just need to find out how far and how often we can just spread our wings.

any word on GOG offering links to upgrade to linux, i think it would speed things up, right now we are almost at the part where the mortally wounded leviathan trashes everything about in its final death throes.

it really would be nice for early emancipators to have a comfortable landing, and avoid being subject to collateral damage.

I suspect they would put out a GOG Galaxy that works on Linux well before promoting it on their web site that aggressively.

im thinking a GOG box distro [like a KODI box] so there would be less compromise in order to be an OS, and focus on a more console-like UX.

im thinking it doesnt have to work "on linux" it has to allow gaming on a linux kernal.

I'm not familiar enough beyond casual use of Steam on Linux and a few one-offs to know the current state of gaming... but can only posit that a GoG installer/launcher for Linux that uses Proton (like Steam) wouldn't hurt.

This is pretty much what Lutris does. I'm using it with already downloaded GOG installers, and Lutris' crowd-sourced install scripts. It looks like they do account integration, so it might be possible to directly download and install games.

It can run things with regular wine or proton installed by steam. There is a lot of complexity compared to Steam or the GOG client.

There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with the Epic Games Store.

To me GOG needs a big picture mode like Steam. I want my PC to act like a console and that would help a lot

Why not just add the GOG games to Steam as non Steam games? Isnt that better anyway than having to launch GOG from the Steam BPM just to launch a game from their BPM?

Why would i want to launch a seperate launcher to launch my games?

just say no thank you, i will manage like everyone else has for decades.

else you and your money go elsewhere.