- "Sorry Sir. The electronic catapults stopped working this morning and we need to wait for the supplier's technician to come with his proprietary software to evaluate the problem and order the parts."
They interpreted that Fauci waived his Fifth Amendment right by delivering an opening statement. Also, a witness fully immune from federal prosecution (in this case by having a presidential pardon) cannot claim a risk of self-incrimination to avoid testifying.
Another piece that tries to promote the idea that "following your dreams is dangerous" and that success has to do with privilege and not really with hard work. Beware of all these political ideologues trying to convince you that you are a born loser and there's nothing you can do about it.
In the 2024 elections, I don't remember 5 or 6 swing states suspending the counting at 10:00 PM all at the same time and for no reason, expelling election observers from the building, patching glass windows of the counting areas with cardboard, countinuing counting behind closed doors all through the early morning, and suddenly finding hundreds of thousands of votes 99% all for Trump.
Over 1 million babies killed by abortion every year. Thousands of sexual mutilations on teens every year in "sex reassignment" surgeries. But the MAGAs are the death cult. Sure.
Incident Response is like Project Management: you have a long list of processes with acronyms and definitions that you are supposed to follow step by step if something happens. Oh, and the process can only be directed by someone certified to do it. You spend a lot of time and energy just to make sure you fill up all the blanks in the process —playing with the tool when you should be fixing the thing.
I once helped my math-hating niece with math. I was eager to go through her homework and show her how wonderful math is. Her homework: How do you call the curve that intersects this figure in this way? How do you call the angle that is shown in the other figure? ...etc. I said, "Is this a math class or an English class? Who gives a s*t about how a curve is named?" It turned out her math class was all like this. This is what she is being taught that mathematics is. I would hate it with a passion too if I had been taught that way.
Suppose you get a degree, say, in mechanical engineering. You later get paid for a job where you needed to apply lots of knowledge that you got from copyrighted textbooks. Is that copyright infringement?
"They would have had to have navigated at least through part of the night, which would have required knowledge of the stars..." No sh*t. These people slept every night of their lives on the open dirt with nothing else to do but to look up at the light-uncontaminated sky.
Why is the guide for "government workers" as in "federal government workers"? Why not just "a guide to use Signal"? Is this article intended to encourage federal government workers to use Signal to share official information related to their federal duties - where it would be untraceable and deletable? Because that would be...illegal.
Einstein was not talking about light in his SR and GR theories. He was talking about the "speed" of light. As simple as that is, took me a long time to get it.
Let's say you have these two options: buy a $4,000 fridge that can last 20 years or a $1,000 fridge that lasts 5 years. Think about it. With the $1,000/5 yrs option you'll get one new modern fridge every 5 years (add a bit more $ for inflation), or 4 brand-new in a 20 yrs period. If you go with the $4,000 option, you'll be stuck with the same equipment for 20 years.
The deterrent for such action is that government officials are under the obligation to disobey orders that are unconstitutional. But that loyalty to the constitution doesn't seem to be strong anymore. High positions in the US government are now occupied by the kind of people who would follow those orders without hesitation.
This isn't about public health or stopping violence. This is about disarming the people. Can't have full government control as long as the people are armed. Blame the gun, not the perpetrator.
Freedom of speech has never meant that you are not responsible for what you say. Bullying, death threats, slandering, etc. are not the same as expressing an opinion, an observation, or an idea. What these EU politicians want is to control the opinions an ideas that they don't approve; anything they see as a danger to their political agendas.
An EU politician wants to regulate freedom of speech, so you are free to say whatever you want as long as she is cool with it. Think about it - "regulated freedom of speech." That's an oxymoron. You either have freedom of speech or you don't.