Realistically laws take time to enact, and even longer to be applied consistently everywhere they are supposed to cover, if they ever do, so it's the notion that things magically change, instantly, everywhere, as soon as they are announced that is the misconception. Nevertheless, if the PDB isn't scrapped soon then I would start asking questions.
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Though this doesn't feel a matter of law.
There was a law change to allow the PDB to spy on Federal citizens in the way it does, and at some point the Liberals in Congress might push for its repeal - or more likely, will keep it around to use in a lower-profile fashion when convenient. But instructing the FIA not to use its powers under that law and to restructure its operations so that the PDB doesn't exist as a single unit built around that power should be a perfectly straightforward executive action and not take two months to implement.
Yes it was set up after the Domestic Counter-Terrorism Act passed in Congress.
Should be possible to ditch it without repealing the act, but who knows with the feds? For months we had the ridiculous situation where Winters had no power because she hadn't had an inauguration ceremony, despite it having nothing to do with the transfer of power.
Probably to dismantle the PDB you need it signed in blood by a majority of the Senate and witnessed by the ghosts of 3 dead Presidents.
I watched a little of @CMDR Mechan livestream last night.
It looked great fun with many, many CMDR's in many instances. (I estimated over 20 in the ones he joined near the end of the stream)
I think they abandoned the idea of 1000 players in the one PG earlier in the session and so players had to join a 'Wing Leader' by invitation so that the instance didn't break
All I think in PG's and winged up shooting the entire CZ up to and including Hydra's.
Note you need AGF engineering on Guardian weapons, but you can go in with normal AXMR/Beams etc.
He didn't appear concerned by keeping cold as so many targets for the poor old Interceptor in the instance, so go with any ship for great fun.
Also, no Gankers, so must have been in PG.
It looked great fun with many, many CMDR's in many instances. (I estimated over 20 in the ones he joined near the end of the stream)
I think they abandoned the idea of 1000 players in the one PG earlier in the session and so players had to join a 'Wing Leader' by invitation so that the instance didn't break
All I think in PG's and winged up shooting the entire CZ up to and including Hydra's.
Note you need AGF engineering on Guardian weapons, but you can go in with normal AXMR/Beams etc.
He didn't appear concerned by keeping cold as so many targets for the poor old Interceptor in the instance, so go with any ship for great fun.
Also, no Gankers, so must have been in PG.
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Before this week I would have agreed with the statement above but after watching an obviously major organized push by my fellow Mahonites to fortify yet another system near the Mahon-Archer border - let's just see what the next two weeks will bring.
I never said they were friends. Just not as antagonistic as Empire and/or Grom are towards the Federation and vice versa.
Also, I can't find a Forum Thread for this 'event' so maybe it is only on Discord, FBook, etc. (AXI?)
I don't believe a forum thread was made, but Mechan did announce it on his YouTube channel (and, I presume, it was also mentioned on other social media as well as discord).
It was also in Galnet. https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/677eb2c6205f99a10e09bdc4
Most things aren't, but what more can you ask for than an official in- and out-of-game announcement?
Most things aren't, but what more can you ask for than an official in- and out-of-game announcement?
I sincerely hope they have a pre-recorded one in January, then, just like December.
I would also like (prefer) if they got anything for this month, because - correct if required - I recall some mentions that we’d get news for what’s to come this year in Elite (for at least hints) at the end of January/this month.
Maybe I should give them easy writing material by briefly dropping a note that I booted Sirius Atmospherics out of the Coalsack nebula in the passed October and November.
Is the expectation for something to come out of it that isn't a note in galnet reporting on events transpired?
Maybe people just think something could well come of it because Thargoids [are probably not done yet], and the significance of the Proteus Wave site/system. It’d be… interesting, but not entirely unlikely, if they only did it to advertise the event a little in-game.
I might keep an eye out for anything tomorrow morning, but don’t actually expect whatever Frontier might be cooking up is quite ready to be tossed at us yet. And colonizing might (might) just come first to give it a good shake in the live environment, without other environmental factors affecting it (though I doubt that, if anything were to break it, it would be the Thargoids).
I just presumed it would be another cone sector megaship esque thing.
I saw one person suggest the Eternal Vigilance might show up.
Though I suspect that statement was made jokingly because they are a dedicated Azimuth roleplayer (all in good faith) and have been asking where that thing has been for... I think it's been over two years now since it was mentioned in a GalNet article. Supposed to be in T Tauri at that time, but it never showed up. I still think "Salvatron", or whatever the numerous nicknames for Nemesis are, is hidden on that ship. Or the processor(s) housing it, anyway.
the what?