Similar to how you USED to be able to pick up their conversations on police scanners. Now more and more departments are going encrypted.

All currency, fiat or not, runs on faith and magical thinking. It's the basic nature of the invented concept of money.

Gold has value because people have collectively decided it has value just as the US dollar has value because people have collectively decided it does. If you don't think gold-backed currency isn't susceptible to a loss of "confidence" exposing the magical thinking that it has inherent value, I refer you to California in 1848-55, Alaska and the Yukon in 1896-1899, the state of Georgia in 1828-1840, etc.

Except what Apple's doing isn't necessarily an antitrust violation. Anti-competitive? Sure.

Ok, sure, in the plain-English meaning of the term, they have a monopoly on installing software to an iOS device. But is that a monopoly within the legal framework of antitrust statutes and case law?

For Facebook (or Epic in their lawsuit) to win, they have to get the courts to agree that "iOS applications" is the market in question and not "phone/tablet applications" where Apple does not have a monopoly. What the market is is going to be the first key question in this lawsuit and others like it. If it's "phone/tablet applications" then, as I understand it, for the most part the other arguments go out the window; you have to have a monopoly to abuse one.

...when my state was at 21 confirmed cases. The company is not a WFH-friendly org, overall, but we were able to transition pretty quickly.

...and they heard Microsoft crashes more? Badabump.

...for government work.

Or, to make a computer analogy about a car thing (quite the reversal of the usual state), it's like the Slashdot crowd being surprised when computer benchmarks don't match real world performance.

"In the end, the Internet would only be as free as the world's least free place."

Less free. The internet would only be as free as the union of of the most restrictive policies across jurisdictions. This would be at least as restrictive as the most restrictive individual jurisdiction, probably more.

The problem with reworking keyboard layouts is the current layouts are good enough. Good enough, in that most people have learned to type with them and are familiar with the layouts. Muck about with the layout much at all and there's a significant cost involved in adopting the new layout as these people's productivity decreases as their typing speeds decrease while adjusting to the new layout.

I don't think there's another keyboard layout out there (currently designed or possible) sufficiently better, objectively, to over come this.

The UCMJ does still have the death penalty for 14 crimes such a mutiny, espionage, murder, rape and desertion (during war). However, it's been over 60 years since they've performed an execution; the last was in 1961. I think there are 6 people on the military's death row.

Blue and orangish brown. That's what I see.

Of course, Sanderson only did books 12, 13 and 14.

A gun like this, triple barreled with shotgun and rifle barrels is called a drilling. Most typically they have two shotgun barrels and a rifle barrel, but other combinations are possible, e.g. one shotgun barrel, one larger caliber (e.g. .30-06) rifle barrel, and a small caliber rifle (e.g. .22lr) barrel.

Well, mainstreamed, anyway. The more-or-less new vehicle which came about then was the mini-van. SUVs had been around for quite a while at that point with things like the International Harvester Travelall (1953) and Scout (1960), Ford Bronco (1966), etc. becoming available on the US market well before mileage standards.

To be clear, there are some varying definitions out there from anything other than hydrogen to anything other than hydrogen, helium, or lithium. Other than hydrogen and helium is the definition I've run across most often.