I appear to have been partially quoted, thus leading to a diminuation of context. Care to try again without the cherry-picking?

I did not argue that TSA is (or should be) the ones to be vigilant. Quite the opposite. Every person subject to their actions are the ones who should be vigilant.

Abolish the TSA. That's the correct solution.

I 100% agree. It's going to be an uphill battle, but I agree, and will continue to do what I can to help make this happen.

In the mean time, those who want/need to fly have to deal with it. I encourage everyone to evaluate for themselves how best that's done. However that is, everyone should understand their rights, and stand up for themselves if those rights are being infringed upon.

Good on the Senator for sayin' no.

Obvious that "it will cause a significant delay" is a bullshit, scare tactic. Every time I've gone through the line, it takes on the close order of 10-15 seconds for the agent to scan my ID (they don't use the boarding passes anymore), and do a peek check (mask down for a moment, if wearing one).

So either TSA has to admint that the manual ID to face veritication is not effective, or they have to admint that the primary goal of facial recognition is NOT security.

Or they can continue to bullshit us. I'm betting on this one.

We all need to keep our bullshit smeller in peak condition, maintain it regularly. Otherwise we're doomed.

They want their headline back

To the legislator(s) complaining about the BLM decision, claiming that this is hyporticial of the current presidential administration and making other complaints, I ask: Produce your history of bills proposed and voted on that would have substative effect on curtailing global warming. As global warming is a global phenomenon, show us that you are a champion of the health and wellbeing of the global population, and not just your constituants who happen to include the businesses holding mineral rights in the area affected by the BLM decision.

Further, stop portraying every legislative and regulatory decision as if though there are only two mutually exclusive options, and if you're not supporting one option then you must absolutely be against it. NASA's research and earth observation efforts, which in part depend on calibration of the sattelites that perform those observations, is one facet of combatting climate change. Mining minerals useful for clean(er) energy techologies is another facet. No one facet is the silver bullet in this fight.

To the businesses holding mineral rights in the area affected by the BLM decision, I ask: Stop being so greedy. It's telling that they complain that the (according to the AP article) 30% of land withdrawn contains 60% of the value. And it's telling that they hadn't (according to the AP article) submitted any plans to actually mine this area when NASA made the decision - now all of a sudden they're concerned. Why don't then go mine the 60% of the land they still have access to, and make some money, as opposed to sitting around complaining about the decision and making no money.

According to the AP article, BLM concluded "No other location in the United States is suitable for this purpose". As there are likely other places to mine lithium (or for that matter other minerals that are or may be useful in implementing technologies that reduce or even turn back the effects of climate change) within the US, I agree that the uniqueness of this land for the purpose NASA uses it should be given priority over other uses.

To both legislator(s) and businesses opposing this move, I trot out one of my favorite quotes from a Heinlein work (The Past Through Tomorrow, 1967):

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit."

Even assuming that there were signs of trouble prior to the too-fast-to-perceive implosion, I can imagine that right up to the end the CEO was diluding himself into thinking it would all be OK and what they were experiencing were only minor technical problems.

The regretable thing here is he took an honor guard with him when he died. He got to take the easy way out. He doesn't have to continue living after the incident, dealing with the guilt, anxiety and any other emotions caused by knowing he was ultimately responsible for killing people.

The silver lining here is that the company will cease to do business, and hopefully others with an idea to operating in a similar fashion will be dissuaded from doing so, and so hopefully no more lives will be lost due to carelessness of this manner.

The Starliner does not use a pure (or even rich) oxygen atmosphere. It uses "cabin pressure of 96.5 kPa (14.0 psia) to 102.7 kPa (14.9 psia), ppO2 of 19.4 kPa (2.82 psia) to 22.7 kPa (3.30 psia), ppCO2 not to exceed 4 mmHg" in accordance with "ISS Crew Transportation and Services Requirements Document The ISS Crew Transportation and Services Requirements Document (CCT-REQ-1130)". CTS craft have fo conform to the ISS atmosphere composition, which is earth-normal (sea level) pressure and oxygen/nitrogen mix.

It doesn't always take gallons, even when heavy water is added to regular water you can end up exceeding your annual exposure limit and carry an increased risk of cancer for the remainder of your life.

https://apnews.com/article/e89...

di, did you get my order?

> and if you're a home user trying to extend the lifespan of your outdated PC, why not consider Linux instead?

If Linux is going to be used on computers that don't meet Windows 11 requirements (but still support Windows 10) then it's going to have to start supporting the hardware of that era. First and foremost, that means defaulting to MBR (or at least giving the option) when creating the installation media. Many distros I've looked at can't even do that!

Don't forget the IR signature of the dish. They have heating elements to prevent snow/ice buildup.

In other words, "cloud" company uses another "cloud" company to host its code and between the two of 'em couldn't keep the data out of unauthorized hands.

Gee, if only the "cloud" security company had setup an internal/self-hosted/on-prem code versioning repository and protected access to it with their own products/services (which they claim are super secure and the bees-knees), instead of hosting it with another "cloud" company...

Yeeeeah... no sympathy here.

Let me offer you my own take on this: I've been trying DuckDuck Go and Bing as options to Google, but I still (generally) get better result with Google, so it's been hard to switch.

That said, the thing about google is that you have to craft your search with very specific terms, and then on the results you must skip the first five or so "adds disguised as results", and then either you have what you're looking for in the first few "real" search results, or it won't be there at all and you have to modify your search.

I have NEVER found anything relevant in the next few pages, so I don't even bother clicking "next"

(only exception to that is perhaps image search, but even with that, next pages are more of a curiosity than useful content)