If it's a lawsuit instead of a criminal trial, it can't be disrupted by prosecutor corruption or pardoned away. It also can't result in jail time though. That will only be possible once Trump's goons are no longer running the Dept of Justice.

Not surprisingly, people who couldn't admit when they were wrong didn't come into this thread and admit that they have been wrong.

Like RGB lighting in general, those are things I only enjoy putting in other people's computers.

Yes, there is precedent. Some random Catholic who wasn't even a priest got selected after a conclave had been stuck in political deadlock for literal years. He couldn't actually take the job till he was ordained, which he did. He immediately instituted a bunch of rules including locking them away together with no luxuries until a decision was made to make sure that problem didn't happen again. (It happened again multiple times anyway.)

Right, but Qatar committed to treating those tourists as guests, and as far as I know, did exactly that, even easing some of their morality laws for the visitors. Attending the Qatar World Cup was unethical, but not stupidly self-endangering. Attending the World Cup in the US under the current situation is stupidly self-endangering, especially if you aren't "white", but also sometimes even then.

That's never stopped them before.

I've occasionally seen it activate itself on computers with only a local account, though I've so far only seen it when upgrading in place to 11 with secure boot enabled in the BIOS, and not every time. Fortunately the one time it locked me out was on a freshly cloned drive, so it only cost me redoing the work.

Also, the number of people who I've seen lose all their data because they don't even know they created an MS account during OOBE, and later had a boot or BIOS hiccup, is too damn high!

Big if true.

I mean I doubt it is, but the idea is hilarious and who knows anymore?

(I may mis-recall all the details because this was some years back.) There was girl who took a Danny Devito cutout as her "date" to highschool prom and posted the professional prom photo online, and the story got big enough that he heard about it. He was so amused by it that he brought a custom made cardboard cutout of her from the prom picture to the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set to take a photo with.

A plausible guess, but the article says he's on the website's board of directors.

Their statement on being a press conference venue for the Trump administration was that their business was not supporting anyone in particular, but was thrilled to be part of the democratic process. The tone this statement was said in led me to believe that they were also thrilled to facilitate Trump's goons making a hilarious fuck-up.

An impressively complete and comprehensive list. I don't think they missed a single reason. Bravo.

I assume the term is referring to the person knowing only the vibes of the program they want to code rather than comprehending the details of what it needs to do.

We changed the recipe since then, adding sugar and spices to make them actually taste good, so we can't expect it to still work. Not that it ever worked in the first place.

I agree, it's insane that customs ever accepted a fictional port on uninhabited islands as a point of origin in the first place. That's the loophole they should close. It does appear that that's a thing that did actually happen though, so it's not a complete fabrication. I'd say customs should have been authorized to confiscate any such good until a non-fictional provinence was proven.

If the government can disappear one person without due process, then they can disappear any person without due process.

Yeah, I assume the now-former employee acted with full expectation of losing her job over this. She succeeded at bringing attention to something many people (myself included) hadn't heard about before, so she at least accomplished that much.

You're right, that does sound particularly like something an autistic person would say. It's also something I'd be perfectly happy to hear and engage with.

"New toilet paper, same shit" is how an old boss of mine used to say it. Good for if you want to go clever yet crude.

Well, I'm doing my part against them by refusing to click on any bait headlines, but I fear it's a lost cause anyway.