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It doesn't seem to me as though it would require a huge amount of extra training - they're just ordinary questions about where someone is going and the reason for the trip.

The questions are usually asked at the same time as passport checks are performed so I doubt it takes much longer at all.

Did they even ask the Discordians to turn up?

You shouldn't need a warrant to report a crime being committed, but you should need a warrant if you're specifically looking through a neighbour's window waiting for them to commit a crime.

I don't see how it can be a problem if a service has mandatory settings for soft and hard limits. Those who don't want to disrupt services just unset the hard limit. Those who complain after the fact can be pointed at their explicit choices and have them explained to them - the service provider can hardly be held liable for a customer choosing the wrong value when it's easy to set the right value.

This is not rocket salad to implement correctly.

I agree - it's not a perfect test, but it is easy to implement and costs nothing extra. I suppose it's more likely to catch those people who have been coerced into carrying something illicit rather than experienced smugglers who do it all the time.

It's not used to establish guilt, but to establish whether the person is worth further examination, so false positives (e.g. due to language difficulties) would just lead to either further interviewing or searching.

There's not really any good reason to not do it as the questions are not overly intrusive.

Not really as those aren't situational. If you start asking someone ordinary questions and they appear especially nervous then it's probably that they have something to hide and combined with other things (e.g. big heavy coat in hot weather) might tip off the security people.

Stoke-on-Trent

Depends on what aspect of authoritarianism that you're looking at. In the UK there's very little chance of getting shot by the police (especially as they don't routinely carry guns) and police shootings garner a lot of press coverage.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has gangs of armed ICE "agents" that can pretty much murder people at will without even getting arrested.

The questions are more a means of judging whether you're nervous or behaving suspiciously. The actual answers are irrelevant unless they're especially bizarre.

Most countries have your lifepath decided at birth by the wealth of your parents.

Why do tactics matter?

Pretty much everywhere that is civilised sets a minimum age for marriage which is often close to or the same as legal adulthood and I fail to see why the U.S. doesn't do this. Why would you consider someone capable of making a huge decision such as marriage and yet not be considered old enough to vote or drink alcohol?

I agree, but for me it's not anything to do with religion, but to do with the many failure modes of governments and justice systems.

I think you have that the wrong way round. The injection is far more likely to cause intense pain and suffering due to the lack of medical professionals being involved (it's not a medical procedure). The drugs are often obtained from "dodgy" sources and so the dosage can't be determined due to the variability of the drugs. The lack of medical professionals will often mean that the injections are poorly administered (e.g. missing a vein).

I was just reading a Reddit post from a veterinarian and the protocol for euthanising animals is far better than that used for lethal injections - notably pre-meds are used to sedate the patient and prevent breathing issues and panic.

A bullet or two to the head is far more effective and reliable. The only downside to lethal shooting is that it looks too barbaric to observers.

I much prefer the "dry-bag" style of backpacks that don't use zips (maybe for a small front pocket). I've previously cycled with many a brand of "waterproof" rucksacks and they always seemed to let in water through the zip in a heavy downpour. With my current rucksack, the top rolls down and then buckles together to form an airtight seal and that is absolutely waterproof and the contents would survive being thrown into a river. It's also extremely robust as there's nothing to go wrong apart from the material itself becoming worn through (not happened after years of heavy use).

Levi's had an advertising campaign in the UK a few decades ago that promoted their "new" button fly, so it's mainly a fashion/marketing thing. Jeans were around before zips were invented, so it's a callback to the original design.

I remember wearing them and certainly they were really stiff and awkward to use when new.

> They were in no way pirated, they were recorded under the UK's copyright exemption for this purpose.

That's a bit of a grey area as IIRC videotaping TV was allowed for "time-shifting", but not for keeping long term. Whether that counts as pirating is debatable.

> Also that is a vanishingly small amount of content

Yes, that was one instance that I was recalling, but I think there's been other examples of missing episodes such as Hancock's Half Hour. I just think it's a shame that productions of historical value are lost due to the legality of personal copying although that's more relevant to shows from the 80s/90s/2000s when copying technology was widely available.

Fair enough.

I can recommend the old BBC series as it's well produced and prioritises accuracy over dramatisation as far as I can tell. It's obviously a bit slower than a movie but well worth a watch if you're interested in the topic.

I watched it a few months before watching the Oppenheimer film and it did spoil the film a bit for me. I've got mixed feelings about Nolan films - I really like a lot of his work, but find that it can be a bit superficial at times. e.g. I enjoyed Interstellar but found the ending unsatisfying and a bit hand wavy. However, when I watched it, I wasn't aware of the all the Jesus links in the story, so I was approaching it as a hard scifi film.

I use it for work (and a homelab). For me, it's got more up-to-date versions of software than Debian and it's easy to search for solutions to issues as it's got a large user base.

I'm not a fan of the various redhat/centos distros as I've had issues in the past with RPM based distributions. It's possible to have problems with DEB based systems, but in my experience it's a lot easier to fix DEB systems than RPM ones.

Sounds like you want the old BBC TV series: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/8771-oppenheimer?language=en-U...

Meanwhile, there's examples of long lost footage being found again precisely because people were recording/copying/pirating for their own purposes. I'm thinking explicitly of Doctor Who footage that the BBC overwrote (tape was expensive), but years later was found on privately recorded video tapes left in someone's shed.

Personally, I enjoy pirating less well-known scifi/horror films and series. It's surprising how relatively recent productions can "disappear" when there's no streaming company interested in it. My usual example of disappearing TV is the third season of "Monkey Dust". The music rights weren't agreed, so the third season never made it to DVD and is impossible to watch legally, but hopefully people like me will keep it available nonetheless.

There's also companies that like to censor previous output, such as Disney and their pro-Nazi propaganda.

Attacking Russian supply lines and logistics capability seems to be far more effective in stopping the Russian ability to wage war. Attacking data centres is likely only going to marginally hurt their economy.

I'd recommend not having it so dependent on the hardware and choose an OS that is relatively hardware agnostic (e.g. Linux). Also, ensure that the software is open source and if compiled, has an open source toolchain to do so.

Though people often decry it (due to the many, many footguns), writing something in Shell/BASH will make it trivial to move to newer machines.

> So far when I research the alleged problems with the US prison system, I learn they are also generally present in other prison systems.

The difference is probably the degree of abuse and cruelty.

Also, the U.S. seems to claim to be a civilised society, so it would make sense to compare its facilities (including prisons) with those in other "civilised" societies. When you do that kind of comparison, you may be shocked to discover that U.S. prisons are amongst the worst.

Paying the WISeR contractors a percentage of denied claims is clearly going to lead to a lot of human suffering and earlier deaths. The AQS (Aggregate Quality Score) penalties are pretty much meaningless as they are just slightly reduce the poorly performing contractors' profits.

The U.S. prison system isn't immoral due to it not being one of the best in the world, but is immoral due to the way that it treats people as less than human.

I find it amusing that they go to those lengths rather than just using factories/employees that they can trust. I suppose you don't get loyalty if you treat people like crap.

That doesn't seem true to me.

Monopolies are the result of failure of competition. There's no "invitation" to compete, but a clear warning that a new entrant will have no chance.

This is why profit seeking organisations aim to become a monopoly as then they are guaranteed profits and can abuse customers as they wish.

Yet countries that have strong regulation of firearms have significantly less murders (and accidental shootings) than countries that don't regulate them.

That does suggest that along with murderers, the easy accessibility of firearms is a problem (assuming that the ratio of murderers in different populations is approximately the same).

Not necessarily as there are methods to redistribute wealth without the consumers having any choice.

Recently, there was the example of the SpaceX IPO listed on Nasdaq (after they changed the rules to allow it). Lots of people have pensions/investments in tracker funds and those funds are essentially forced to buy SpaceX shares.

Simple things like "quantitative easing" can result in higher inflation which essentially devalues people's money. The ultra wealthy will typically not have any meaningful percentage of their money in currency, but instead will be in various assets around the world which means that their wealth is not affected by the inflation.

There's plenty of other schemes such as the "too big to fail" method of securing handouts from the government.

Considering that we don't seem able to appropriately tax the biggest corporations, why do you think we'll suddenly be able to redistribute LLM gains?

Far more likely is that wealth and power will become even more concentrated into the hands of the few and the rest of humanity will become effective slaves.