Kimmel had people thinking Pluto was blocking the sun to do the eclipse... I have zero faith in humanity.

Not entirely a bad defense for either side - both are shit (and yeah, I for the most part work for an Israeli company and have a lot of Muslim friends, so...yeah)

The real problem is neither Israel or any militant faction of Palestine will give up any control of the old city. 100% or you die. That is the terms. Put 2 year old kids in a room with chainsaws, grenade launchers, machine guns and laser swords and their favorite toy in the middle and say "share fairly" and see what happens.

If you have a solution, please propose.

Sadly, I GET Netanyahu's stance. Hamas's purpose, first and foremost, is to destroy Israel by any means possible. That is apparently following Islam, at least certain Imams to the letter. You want peace, Israelis? Kill yourself. That is the only option. Hamas is playing the "we are oppressed" bullshit card, and they are the ones stealing food from the oppressed.

The whole settlement thing is so biased - the Israelis think they own it, the war the Palestinians lost to take all control says they don't, international law says it is Palestinian... I honestly say share the damned land, have a neutral broker. I'm not a fan of "occupied territories" after 50+ years either, especially with long term peace.

VirtualBox itself is GPL 2, so in general, you can use it without issues, even in a commercial setting. Where you get in trouble is when you need any of the proprietary extensions, and those are where Oracle wants you to give up your firstborn, your soul, and all the cash you can potentially invest into the Larry Ellison giant yacht collection. I usually just install the basic server and launch an xterm somewhere else when I use it, but I'm also mainly using Linux on it and setting up test servers.

Unfortunately, the best truly free option is probably QEMU, and using that is kind of like trying to sled downhill on a slalom course without steering if you've never used an emulator, at least from the command line. Qtgui was an OK front end for it, but it was incomplete and died around the mid-2000s. Apparently there are forks since that (got some hits searching/trying to remember it was called Qtgui).

By the culinary definition, fruits are also spices. They could market pureed tomatoes as "spice sauce" and be culinarily correct. I VERY SPECIFICALLY used that as my example, because another plant in the same family (solanaceae, more commonly known as nightshade) often are sold as spicy hot sauces - hot pepper sauces. The seeds of fruits are also classified as spices, but the flowers themselves are herbs, as are leaves.

Incidentally, tobacco is also in the nightshade family and the herb (leaf) is smoked.

In a totally random and intentionally confusing connection with your post, strawberries are in fact in the rose family, as are apples. Sliced potatoes that are fried are called pomme frites in Europe (sometimes shortened to frites, the US calls them French fries), which literally means apple fries, and a pome is the type of fruit produced by plants in the rose family.

But 130 years for wire fraud for downloading the archives?

It boils down to "These activities cost money, and we charge fees to cover these costs." - JSTOR

Wire Fraud, you say? Read the provision of the Computer Fraud and Abuse act written entirely for ATMs. Oh, and guess what - I committed a felony under it by replying to this message, since I'm not using my real name here and am on a secure site! You could probably hit me up for a financial transaction too, since the site has advertising. The wording of that law is VERY liberal in the sense that it can be applied to almost anything.

To add more, the reason they were even prosecuting him under the CFAA for PUBLIC DOMAIN document sharing was because under the CFAA, he was committing an economic crime. Why? Because to get those documents outside of MIT, you had to pay some minimum wage intern to photocopy them for you, and therefore it was an economic crime under the CFAA under a subdivision created ENTIRELY FOR ATM TRANSACTIONS when it was created between 1984 and 1986 as a knee jerk reaction to the movie War Games (fully enacted in 1986, I believe). The most serious charge was wire fraud under a clause meant to stop someone from impersonating a bank customer at an ATM and stealing their money.

Copying free information to make it available to the public vs stealing money via wire transfers is a stretch and a half for a law, but if you model your law after other bad legislation (in this case, the Espionage Act of 1917), you are bound to suck in pretty much anything as treason. I could argue e-shopping is a felony until you sign up for the website with personally identifying information under that same law.

I would argue Korea and Vietnam were far more socio than economical. Both countries were backwater 3rd world nations at the time. Korea was arguably more driven by the Second Red Scare than anything. Vietnam was labeled a police action, but was also as much about curbing Russian expansionism and influence.

Tell me one thing Korea or Vietnam exported before the war. Both GDPs were stagnant. In fact, both countries (or parts of countries in Korea) opening up economically after their wars sent their GDPs soaring, no matter who was in power. North Korea chose a closed economy and tight totalitarian rule in the image of Stalin and has stagnated.

That's pretty cruel, Windows 95 was way more stable than Windows 98. It was also the first Windows I preferred over GEM, as well. I was a HUGE mac fan and hated Windows, so that is high praise (I used DR-DOS and GEM on PCs). I worked Windows support around then and got thousands more calls about shitty Windows 3.11 vs 95.

Python is a good scripting language, despite me hating a few aspects of it (many the same ones I hate about Makefiles - spaces and tabs are significant). The attempt to make it into a full programming language has had some huge hiccups. The way people code to it is more how Perl programmers attack problems, and Perl never should've been a programming language. COBOL was actually meant to be a programming language at least, but requires programmers to enter words business user understand as text, like TRANSFER ALLYOURMONEY TO OURBUSINESSACCOUNT #221. That account is your private Cayman Islands account. I haven't written a lick of COBOL since like 1991, so totally making up syntax, don't take that as code, it is just how code is written in COBOL.

My main problem with Python, though, and I expect its been addressed by now, is it had horrible dependency support. Horrid support for linked libraries, probably the worst I've ever seen for a programming language, and version differences were a total nightmare. Again, that was transition years from it being a scripting language to it being a so-called programming language, but businesses were making web sites with that horrid mess and learning their lessons. Some sites made it work, but never in a million years would I write a web site entirely in Perl, and I imagine Python is like trying to fix a heart defect with a band-aid. It stops the bleeding, at least?

Yeah, but this just dates the reactor technology to the 1960s/early 1970s, even though it was built in 1984. US law has required reactors like this to have generators to be flood/earthquake proof since the 1990s, if not earlier. Basically, Fukushima would've been shut down for 20 years if it had to follow US NRC rules. Having issues with the backup generators is a huge issue, but is as much a design flaw as anything. Any reactor built with a negative coefficient will shut down on its own, and that is generally G3 or later (except CANDU).

Hoping it sees me online in, say 2 minutes instead of 45 or more... For f**k's sake, taking a bathroom break shouldn't leave me "offline" for 2 f**king hours. Yes, that was in a performance review, and 100% Teams fault, and I now click on Teams every time I go away for 2 minutes because it doesn't see me online if I don't. With Jabber I could come back after 2 minutes and I was seen as online. Teams? Nope, gotta f**cking click on the app.

Have no idea if that is a Teams issue or some weird network issue, but I never had any issues with Jabber.

Regulating stupid is not something the government does well. Understanding the technology is something they get an F- at. In the 1980s, the Secret Service raided a pirate I knew. He undocked his Corvus hard drive as they came in, and they proceeded in jiggling it all around as they packed it in boxes. Needless to say, there was zero evidence left as the drive was completely erased by their bungling. They couldn't even try him because they'd destroyed all the evidence against him (unlike me, he didn't have hundreds of floppy disks). a few months later they had to return all his property and drop charges.

In any case, AI's been used for 30+ years now. General AI, maybe not so much. Chatbots fool idiots, but I will happily beat them in conversations about my day trip to, say, Mars. So far, they tend to be liars and bad ones at that. Beat the Turing test? Against what, drunken, mentally challenged 5 year olds? Please don't comment on that, it was rhetorical and meant to piss off AIs. Waiting for a smart AI response... or am I baiting you, Mr/Mrs AI?

Seriously, I was taught a nuclear reactor was basically a nuclear bomb that was a controlled reaction to produce energy slower so it didn't blow up the reactor. Sorry, public education in the US, MASSIVE FUCKING FAIL. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if fossil fuels was behind it, but even nuclear got presidents behind it, Nixon killed Alvin Weinberg's molten salt reactors to preserve building something like 106 conventional reactors in California. Economy uber alles?

True, and long before the game Postal, there were postal workers going "postal" to murder coworkers. I've been playing Murder Macron in His Place of Work and having extremely dark thoughts, maybe I'll car bomb his house.

And damn, if you don't get sarcasm, please, please take 5 minutes to look up the word. Up until a minute ago, I wasn't sure if Macron ran France or Canada. Sorry, I forgot, you are that important.

The likenesses stuff is trivial, EA sports reaps more money than Games does even before the reorg, and that is after paying for likenesses and such. I very briefly worked on FIFA, and that game alone is taking in billions now (it was millions when I worked there, circa FIFA 4). They did stuff fine before loot boxes, don't see why they won't succeed without. I mean, you pull away one revenue stream, but oh, so sad, investors earn $200 a share instead of $202. Better go sell now (and speaking of f**king loot boxes...).