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Comment Re: I guess it takes a college degree (Score 1) 404

Yep. People get drunk and screw *all the time*, so "If two people are really wasted and have sex, was there a rape?" is a perfectly valid question.
IANAL.
The naive understanding is that when drunk or high there is no consent and sex without consent is rape. Seems pretty straightforward.
Note some jurisdictions require people to say "yes" for sex to not be rape; others require them to say "no" for it to be rape.

The resolution to the scenario involves some rules that most people are not willing to say out loud.
I'm not saying this is how things should be--only that in most conversations with people I have found this is how a lot of people think:
1. If person "a" did *exactly* the same thing they are accusing person "b" of doing, then person "a" guilt cancels person "b" guilt.
2. Men are villains.
3. Women are victims.

Comment Re: I guess it takes a college degree (Score 1) 404

Many years ago when I attended college somebody put up wanted style posters with photographs of arbitrary male-presenting students and a caption that read "potential rapist".

Which was technically true, so not libelous. The basis was that the law at the time defined rape as penile penetration of a non-consenting victim. Therefore all people with penises and only people with penises could potentially commit the crime.

Note at that time the general view was that males are the ones with penises.

The posters were taken down after a day or so, never to reappear.

Comment Aaand...it's gone (Score 1) 61

I grabbed a few videos off of it to watch later with 3DYD; some star treks and SCTVs. But it would have been nice to just enjoy the old shows here and there.

It's clear the people doing this are doing it out of love for the nostalgia and just sharing what they have found with everyone.

The quality of the videos is nothing that someone would pay money for. It's not as though it would compete with any commercial offering for the same thing.

Just sony shouting mine! mine! mine!

Comment Re:obv troll, 2/10 (Score 1) 283

"What is best" isn't even a valid question. Best for what purpose?

In my house (including my work laptop) there's Windows 10, kubuntu 22.04, freebsd 13, and OpenWRT 22.03 running on hardware. Plus VMs for Windows XP, 7, and 10. There's an ancient DOS VM floating around, too, but I don't get too much call for that one these days. Each fulfills the role they best fulfill.

If you're curious, the MS stuff hosts some specialized industrial software and one Customers' VPN client that explicitly requires it. Some of it is veeery old.

Comment obv troll, 2/10 (Score 1) 283

I'm sure plenty of /. readers have going into news groups back in the day pretending to be a noob and asked "what's the best distro?". There was always some sucker that would get all wound up answering that question but even then most people know it was a troll.

I won't even call it clickbait because this exact same troll has been going on long before the clicking started

The article even primes the reader for an enraged response by saying things like "cover your ears (or your eyes)...the open-source community hasn't exactly met this idea with open arms"

Comment This is not the way to replace gasoline (Score 1) 613

The right answer is standardized quick-swap battery packs and infrastructure to support it than range.
You buy pay for the vehicle and swap out the battery packs just like the propane tanks in front of the hardware store.

Maybe the battery packs turn to crap after so many uses, but that's part of the cost of the swap.
If you want $100K for a vehicle, then it better run for many years. Which it can, if the battery is a wear item like a set of tires.

I do a ton of field service and startup work. Drive anywhere from 200-500 miles to the hotel, then hotel with 10-20 mile daily commutes to site.
A few years ago I was travelling up to 1100 miles to site, and staying for a month or two.

If they're promising 700 miles, the reailty is probably 500 *max*.

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