As some of you may be aware, the Monero Policy Working Group (MPWG) is a loose quorum of individuals attempting to engage in regulatory and policy conversations regarding cryptocurrency, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.
Previously the MPWG had submitted a number of responses to public consultations, a full list of which may be found in the MPWG documents repository.
As detailed previously on Reddit, the MPWG is currently responding to the proposed revised EC AML/CFT legislative package.
We recently submitted our second response to this suite of legislative changes, this time focused on the EC’s Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing.
Our response may be found here and here
In summary the key points of our response were:
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We stated clearly that the Impact Assessment conducted prior to the proposed legislative package was deficient, primarily as there were no direct or indirect costs identified for the consumer/citizen.
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Further to the above, we questioned whether the correct legislative process had been followed.
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We supported elements of the recently published European Data Protection Supervisor’s response, especially those that urged the Commission to clearly define what data points would be used for AML/CFT purposes, and what categories (and sub-categories) of data should be pursuant to appropriate due diligence efforts.
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We agreed that appropriate protections should be put into place to ensure that the Financial Investigative Units (FIUs) have ‘investigatory’ powers, and not ‘intelligence-based’ powers - as the latter (as communicated by the EDPS) is akin to persistent surveillance.
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We questioned the opaqueness of Articles that concerned crowd-funding services, as this may affect certain blockchain and DLT-based a
Prospective geology undergrad here that also loves space science.
Are the rover teams incredibly competitive? Are there jobs in industry involving Planetary geology, or would I pretty much have to be in academia? Pros/Cons of academia?
Thanks!
Once you have multiple stations up, is there anyway to check what all items you've set to supply on the whole network? Like a list somewhere of what is there?
Or do you have to remember and/or just go check each tower to see if X item is being supplied from somewhere?
So let's have a chat about our file systems / nomenclature and backup systems?
What does everyone's systems look like?
Here is my system, that obviously I think is pretty decent, any thoughts, what do you do, should I do anything differently?
Working Copy - a copy of your raw images on a fast SSD, this is where you import your photos to as soon as you plug your SD card into the computer. You move the photos off this drive after a period of time or when you are running low on storage space (I aim for like once a month to once a quarter but obviously it'll depend on your volume of photos and the size of your SSD). (I also have a copy I store on an enterprise grade drive, ideally this would be on a NAS device but in my instance it's just internally on my editing PC but it's a project I want to tackle at some point.)
Local Copy - ideally this would be on some kind of NAS but in my case it's locally on my editing PC, but the point is this is semi-permanent storage of all your photos until the once a year / once every few years / I'm low on storage archiving session, this is a long term copy of my photos. This is where things go after they come off my working drive, and where they stay for at least a year. I do purge things off this drive after I've put things into cold storage. If you use Lightroom etc install it here and keep the catalogue here (but backup your catalogue I like to make a new catalogue every year to keep it somewhat lean brining in whatever I liked from the previous year).
Cold Storage - I have any photos that are imported on my computer also backed up to an external 'archive drive', these files are basically never touched they don't get any side-car files this is literally just a massive dump (using my file structure) of all my raw photos, until it's full then I write down the period for those photos on the drive and archive the drive (make sure to plug it in once a year or so). Additionally, I also have copies of all the JPEG's I deliver go here too. These files are or hope to be write once, read never, obviously if after I've deleted the photos off my online delivery system and out of my local copy etc and client comes back to me and says 'oh I need my photos' then obviously I've gotta read the data on these drives, but ideally these never get used (except once a year when I do an audit and plug the drives in to ensure they are still spinning a-okay). ^(Note, nothing ever gets deleted off this drive nor edited,
... keep reading on reddit ➡The core idea that I've built campaign this around is that planets are sentient beings, worshiped as gods by many races across various galaxies, and that they serve as sentient starships with which those various races traverse the universe. As gods, these planets grant various magical abilities to various champions that are either denizens of the planet or off-worlders that have made a pact with that God, so while some races seek conquest of other planets in order to harness these magical abilities, others seek only to protect their sacred homes. Stars are similar in that they are gods who choose their own champions, known as psions, throughout their cluster. In most galaxies, psions are shunned while others look upon them with adoration and wonder.
The tech level varies from cluster to cluster and from galaxy to galaxy. Some are hyper-advanced with blaster rifles and advanced lasers, some capable of cold fusion and harnessing stars as weapons while others (including humans) use black powder weapons and have ships/cruisers/etc that are not capable of FTL travel without the aid of magic. Because of the varying tech level, I am looking for a system that allows me to somewhat balance primitive melee weapons, iron-age weapons, black powder weapons, blaster/laser weapons and magic/psionics while still taking into the account the clear advantages of higher tech-level weapons. I've considered the Fading Suns second edition system as it includes a system that accounts for all of these fairly, but doesn't have as developed of a magic/psionics system. I've considered savage worlds or GURPS as well as they are both pretty open-ended and can fit most systems, but I'm open to suggestions!
edit: the other thing that sort of limits system viability is the nature of wars in this campaign. Often multiple planets surrounded by fleets of ships are involved, with planets playing an active role in combat as spellcasters or as living weapons.
I'm looking to run this as a sandbox-style campaign where the players choose most of what they'd like to do. They'll likely spend a fair amount of time on multiple planets, interacting with the population and attempting to learn the magics of these various planets. They may also find themselves on various space stations, raiding ships, possibly even forming a type of pirate crew and joining in the illegal planet trade. I am looking to keep it as open as possible to account for options like this.
