Facts are a variable to some. These types are always trying to bend things around and back peddling when they encounter a situation that they can't lie their way out of. Fact checking is to them unfair since their made up facts/lies should be okay as far as they are concerned.

You should probably read that wikipedia link. I built some of the blockers or stabilizers as Wikipedia article describes them. You could see the pulses described in the output of a scope that messed up the AGC in the VCR. All the blocker did was blank out the pulses and that was enough to prevent macrovision from working on the VCR when making a copy.

Jumps out the window.

I came here to banish reddit but this thing wont leave my feed. I guess I'm going to have to take the time to filter the word.

Its the flushing toilets that are most prized.

Not likely. Far too few there have the mindset to think that it could work. Putin is just one small leap in the collective imagination away from destruction but it doesn't look like the populace will ever cross that gap.

My windows 10 installation hasn't been booted this year. I've considered just getting rid of it. Right now its storing game backups that I don't currently play.

All US made VCR's had a circuit in them called macrovision. Its what caused the distortion in the copies when the tape was recorded with it. The German units did not have this. He purchased them through friends who were in the military. They bought them from the base exchange or px I don't remember which. As far as PAL and NTSC I'm pretty sure he had something to deal what that as well. The guy bought the second VCR in the state right behind some super rich guy. He still had it in the 90's and it took up most of a fairly large table.

Up until he died he made copies of everything he could get his hands on. He lived right on a county line and arranged it with his neighbor across the road in the other county to drop his netflix DVD's in his mail box for pickup. He would get his DVD's in the morning rip them and then put them in the neighbors mailbox before noon. It would be picked up that day and he would repeat the process. When he died I ended up with a huge amount of ripped DVD's that I eventually gave to someone just to get them out of my way. I kinda regret that sometimes.

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

I had a friend with a huge copied VHS library. He ordered his equipment from Germany. No macrovision on equipment there so his copies were very good.

What do they expect? That their tyranny and outright terrorism go unanswered. I guess they really think they are doing the right thing but I no longer care about isreal at all. What I don't like seeing is violence against Jews in other parts of the world as well as violence against Palestinians anywhere in world.

Pseudo news is what I call them. Fake news or entertainment news is another. Nothing trustworthy without separate reliable sources. This one Unfortuanably has many other sources and you can bet that missing footage was erased to protect some predators.