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> I still doubt they're gonna face any serious penalties

Having to fix all P320 fire control units they've sold so far will put them out of business. You don't even need any additional penalties on top of that. I just hope they can spin off Optics division before that happens.


And that's why it won't happen. One of the reasons huge companies don't get punished in full is that destroying them could be destabilizing to the economy and therefore hurt's the ability of the people with power to get reelected.


Wouldn't someone buy their capital equipment and IP for pennies on the dollar if they went bankrupt though? So I don't know how much it would destabilize the economy, it would just shift around who runs the company. 'Sig' would cease to exist but 'this mass of capital that makes guns' and possibly even the employees, would still be around.


In theory, yes. My guess is they would be bought by an already huge corporation, leading to even bigger monopolies.

Does anybody here have an example of this happening? "Nobody knows" is kind of an indication how often this happens.

My preferred alternative would be forced conversion to worker owned cooperative BTW.


And it still does not help, because the safety only blocks the trigger but not the striker from firing, thus the Air Force incident that started, this topic, became possible.


It feels like you are pressing on a tennis ball, zero real feedback whatsoever. Acura MDX has had the brake-by-wire system fo a while now in the latest generation.


It does require a digital to analog converter, though.


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

this isn't quite a gotcha, really, 1 bit DAC are innately simple!


With a golden parachute nonetheless.


> What we need is much better whistleblower programs.

Unfortunately, not many organizations will have the aligned incentives. If businesses that conduct potentially dangerous operations, were required to get an insurance, then insurance companies would have incentive to pay money to the whistleblower vs paying out a much larger claim down the line.


What AWS/GCP/Azure provide with managed Redis is much much more than just a UI. There are a lot of technical issues that come with running Redis reliably in the cloud. I’d say UI work is probably 5% of that at most.


And thus we usually do not have patents for songs, only copyright protections.


Recipes are not copyrightable either.


I would think if you embedded a recipe for sugar cookies in a convoluted story about how you tried different kinds and amounts of butter, sugar, leavening, and flour that you could probably copyright the story and leave derivation of the recipe as an exercise for the reader.


Are we sure that he actually died in that accident and not chilling somewhere in Florida under a different name? Cause it can be a good cover story do disappear your agent that successfully fulfilled his mission.


> Are we sure that he's ... not chilling somewhere in Florida under a different name?

I don't see how punishing him further accomplishes anything.

source:Floridian


Alaska temporary switched to the flexible travel policy because of this incident, so you should be able to change your ticket fairly easily.


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