Comment Re: Lenovo would be my last choice (Score 1) 100
And you can bullseye womp rats with em, back home.
And you can bullseye womp rats with em, back home.
Good old Goodhart's Law
Managers who get bonuses out of proportion to the base salary will do everything to game the system to get those bonuses, often attached to short term goals, but damaging a company in the long run.
Basically a corollary to Goodhart's Law.
He's probably referring to the E. Jean Carroll case, but that's a civil suit not a criminal proceeding.
I'm still fine with either C or K for scientific applications, they're the same scale just the line is translated by a constant for absolute 0 vs freezing point of water.
Fahrenheit is still based on freezing and boiling points of water but with 180 degrees of separation instead of 100 and with 0 defined by the freezing point of an ammonium chloride solution for whatever dang reason.
As a Canadian who lived a bit in the states I'm all kinds of messed up where I think of cold temperatures in C, higher weather temperatures in F, and cooking temperatures or higher in C. For some reason the upper range of weather temperatures just make more sense to me in F now heh.
Property rights? In America? That's been dead since the 80s when the Comprehensive Crime Control Act passed and strengthened the existing concepts of civil asset forfeiture to not require any kind of due process whatsoever.
Hell, just last year the FBI seized upwards of 86 million dollars in cash, jewelry, and other goods from people at one bank because they felt that any safety deposit box containing cash or goods valued in excess of 5000$ total must have been involved in crime. No charges, no evidence, just the stipulation that they felt it must be related to unknown crime. A California judge dismissed a class action case against the FBI effectively endorsing their tactics.
And no, no one can get all RABBLERABBLERABBLE-YOUR-TEAM-NO-YOUR-TEAM about it. That act had passed with massive bipartisan support at the time. The 4th amendment bit about seizure has long since been rendered moot. Seizing domains is pretty tame compared to what happens on the regular in the past 40 years.
I find it unlikely that they're lying unless they are very very very certain that no one can prove it.
Netflix is publicly traded, and publicly misrepresenting subscriber figures is primo shareholder lawsuit material.
This is exactly correct if I remember how it works in the US, in a slander/libel/defamation case you have to be able to prove actual pecuniary damages except for a short list of per se situations where the alleged conduct is already illegal for other reasons.
IANAL though, and not even American heh.
Yes, I said that.
That would definitely be cool to see, a lot of technical challenges in ensuring a correct approach vector to not end up stuck in an orbit around the assist body or flung off in the wrong direction but then they have done that a ton of times using propellant based propulsion so it wouldn't be entirely new.
Maybe solar sail for primary propulsion with secondary propellant based system for correction? Wouldn't have to be as heavy as a primarily propellant based setup.
They use classic Star Trek space magic to explain it:
When the ship flies into a "tachyon eddy", it is accelerated to warp speeds
Some suggest that tacking is possible to push an objected into a closer orbit with the sun but it is still unproven with no certainty whether it would work while already in orbit around other bodies where gravitational forces become significant enough to be another vector.
Yep, and it doesn't even have to be a great big grabber, a light duty wrecker with a stinger could do exactly that just like they do for at-risk repo. A skilled operator can literally handle that in seconds, although it gets more complicated if it's an AWD/4WD vehicle.
They kinda tried but we all know how well that went. And for the same reasons that AI regulation won't work globally.
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