So much arguing about a book of fairy tales.

You want actual scholarship about this nonsense, check out Richard Carrier. Or don't bother, because all you really need to know is that god is a human invention, invisible sky wizards aren't real.

Iran had to respond after Israel attacked a consulate.

Their response was intentionally designed to send a message, not to do real damage. They know what can be shot down, they know what it takes to overwhelm the "iron dome", they have the capability to do it. It would behoove Israel to STFU, take the L, and keep their hands in their pockets.

Gagauzia? Are we just making up places now? What are you gonna do next, try to tell me Kalamazoo exists?

#8

64MB of RAM on an 8-bit CPU in the late '70s? HOW?

(Assuming you mistyped KB. It's easy to do these days, the memory we had back in the early '80s seems unfathomably small now.)

Karen Lake, being a MAGAt, is of course going to lie and say anything she thinks will work.

Narrator: It won't work.

#23

You don't even have to completely disassemble the gun. Just empty the magazine, inspect the loads, check the chamber is clear, check the barrel is clear.

And then don't take eyes off the gun before the scene. Whoever is holding it should know where it's been at all times, the armorer should know where it's been at all times.

Do that, and people don't end up dead.

It's time for the film industry to stop playing around.

Actors who handle guns on set should be trained in gun safety. NO EXCEPTIONS.

I don't care how famous the actor is. I don't care that the actor is a complete idiot. Gun safety should NOT be a transferable responsibility. If something goes wrong, it's not only the armorer's fault, it's also the actor's fault.

Would I give this actor a pass this time? Fine. But NEVER AGAIN. The armorer should be responsible for knowing how the gun is loaded and what it's loaded with. The actor holding the gun should be responsible for knowing how the gun is loaded and what it's loaded with. "It costs too much to train the actor" is NOT AN EXCUSE. If the actor is too stupid to learn gun safety, hire smarter actors or give the actor a toy gun, not a real one. Non-firing replicas exist, there's no reason an actor too stupid to handle a real gun can't be given one. Take out the orange tip in post, no reason you can't chroma-key on orange near the actor.

I've got a degree in tech theatre. I know how stupid actors can be. I've also been there when there's been a gun on stage, I've seen guns modified to be unable to fire anything but blanks. Magazines can be blocked, chambers can be modified to not accept anything but blanks, do that and the breech won't even close on a live round, a revolver can't even be loaded if you do it right. Sure, a blank can still kill when the actor is stupid enough, but only at near-zero distance (ie Jon-Erik Hexum) but you'll never see an AD dead from a blank fired across the set.

So, train the actors, and hold them responsible for pointing guns at people and pulling the trigger.

#3

There's zero chance he'll succeed. He's not even going to get to keep any part of Ukraine.

#2

It's broken. It needs to be fixed.

ISPs should be common carriers.

It's good to see the decline in the mental illness of religion.

And it IS a mental illness, a form of mass delusion. Adults should know that their invisible sky wizard isn't real.

Absolutely disgusting. Not even Texass does this. As far as I understand it, Texass will actually give you credit toward fines for time spent in jail, it appears the current rate is $150/day.

#4

First, most of us dumped the TV part of cable years if not decades ago.

Second, even if you didn't, you can watch it on the cable company web site. That's been a thing for years.

If you've got a computer connected to the TV...

But this is NOT about that. It's about TV sets that monitor the HDMI input and dump ads at you any time you pause the video. This is new and infuriating. And the only way to deal with it is to rip out the TV's ability to connect to ANY network.

So are they still going to give free food to the IOF?

#14

No, it's a significant message change. We'll see if actual policy follows.

I'm somewhat hopeful, but we need to see actual action, not just words. And this should have been the message on October 8, not now, over 30,000 civilians dead in this Israeli genocide.

No, I'm not under any disillusion that the orange dirtbag wouldn't be worse, of course he would. But that doesn't mean Biden doesn't have the stench of genocide supporter on him now.

Just call it Xitter.

Meh. So you drive a stick. Good for you. I bet you think vinyl sounds 'warmer' too.

I can drive a stick. I just see no reason whatsoever to do so unless I absolutely have to. It's not pleasant, it's not fun, it's just extra unnecessary drudgery added to the drudgery of driving.

If I want fun on the road, I've got a motorcycle.

#13

I hate Google so much.

I've got it mostly working for now.

They don't tell you what they really want - which seems to be SPF, DMARC, and DKIM - but it'll work most of the time with just SPF and DMARC. Most recent fail message I saw claimed SPF wasn't there, which it was. Fine, I'll set up DMARC and just /dev/null the DMARC messages, because I don't care enough to read them, and nobody else does either. I really miss the old days where you could tell somebody "Sorry, the problem is on the recipient end, tell them to get their mail admin to fix their filters, you're sending fully compliant SMTP."

But Google and Microsloth are so big you just have to keep tweaking to get past their mess.

(I miss the really old days even more. Somebody sent a spam, you email their admin, they got yelled at and told never to do that again. But then AOL happened.)

#3 "Also needs to be 20% greater then cost of living, otherwise how are they going to get off of UBI?"

NOBODY gets off of UBI. That's the U - UNIVERSAL basic income. It's NOT means tested.

Weren't federal plant closing laws written specifically to prevent this kind of crap, from exactly this kind of company?

Those laws need to be significantly strengthened, and they need to come with real penalties for companies.

Squatters' rights are an ANCIENT part of common law. And they exist for a VERY good reason.

If you've abandoned a property, it's not contributing to the community, to the economy, to society. "Your" property is in fact a detriment to all of the above.

It takes YEARS, and in many cases DECADES for a squatter to get ownership of a property. That's far more than enough safeguard from arbitrary taking, the reality is that we should be taxing vacant properties at FAR higher rates than occupied properties, and we should be shortening the time for squatters to take possession.

Now, I'm not talking about your cabin in the woods, but even that should require you occupy it for at least one day a year to not be taxed as unoccupied property. But in a city? Property left vacant for more than 3 months should be subject to 10x to 100x taxation, depending on housing affordability in that community. And squatters rights should be five years residence or less to obtain ownership.

Oh, you can't find a renter for the rate you want? Cut the rate, or pay the unoccupied tax. Oh, you only visit your vacation home for one month a year? Then 9 months a year pay the unoccupied tax. Didn't bother checking on your vacation house for 5 years and somebody squatted in it? Not yours any more.

I'm just not seeing Arizona electing that Lake idiot after the stunt she pulled last time.

#6 "2. A wheel fell off the landiing gear whila a plane was taking off and damaged several cars. This would make it extremely hard to land a plane without causing an accident. 3. An engine burst into flames while flying."

2. You're blaming Boeing for an improperly reinstalled wheel on a plane that was a decade old and had been touched by United maintenance. That's not Boeing's fault.

3. You know Boeing doesn't make engines, right?

And this is why we need socialism.

Prices are what it costs to produce an item, including paying a fair wage to the workers who control the means of production.

Pop-up barriers are the answer. The good ones will stop a semi going 90.

Just set a height detector, something overheight triggers it and pop! they stop. It's what they use at the national labs.

And since truck drivers tend to be Republicans, nothing of value will be lost most of the time.

Or, you know, just set up a steel beam about 50 feet in front of the bridge at bridge clearance height. Cheaper and less deadly, and if they keep going they won't hurt the bridge.

#5

Ain't gonna happen.

Best he's gonna get is a few random acts of terrorism.