Hell I'd settle for just having one FPU per core again and none of this "module" nonsense.
AMD jumped the shark for me in 2012 when they killed off their Phenom 2 line.

If this pans out perhaps we can get legal precedence against the horrible online ads that tell you there were 349856 problems detected with your computer.

How about anti-authoritarian, in all its forms?

IF a dude (or dudette) came in with a gunshot or knife would or something like that, I could understand. Pain, even that I could understand. But many of those were simply some vague illness.

But if this was an isolated case, then I would be in agreement. But it isn't. My wife/kids and mom were involved in a car accident, where my mom broke vertebra and ribs, and my wife and kids were in a great deal of pain. I watch a couple dozen people with "flu" like symptoms go in. A car accident verses the flu. You take the major injury car accident people first and you make sure they aren't suffering internal bleeding.

Free Market is realistic pricing. Single Payer has no such function. The assumption is that single payer is better that free market, isn't supported by anything. You take the US investment into health care, which the rest of the world enjoys, and you have crappy healthcare for everyone (like in France).

What I am getting from the videos is that this test was a success but that there was indeed an engine failure and the system recovered from it successfully by throttling off the opposing engine. There was less Delta-V than expected, max altitude was lower than expected, downrange was lower than expected, and that tumble after trunk jettison and during drogue deploy looked like it would have been uncomfortable for crew.

This is the second time that SpaceX has had an engine failure and recovered from it. They get points for not killing the theoretical crew either time. There will be work to do. It's to be expected, this is rocket science.

It sounds to me like the launch engineers were rattled by the short downrange and the launch director had to rein them in.

Blackmail and intimidate is hallmark of political correctness. For the latest example, look at the death threats against the Indiana Pizza place. Because obviously threatening with death is not as bad as not supporting gay marriage.

We elect people who are criminals, known criminals, current criminals ... all the time. They have been bought and paid for, usually by criminals.

I had been trying to afford a Unix installation at home as a CS student. All I knew was the Unix vendors. I was not aware of the social structure of the Unix world, various distributions, etc. I was crawling university surplus lots and calling Sun and DEC on the phone to try to find a complete package that I could afford (hardware + license and media). Nothing was affordable.

I was also a heavy BBS and UUCP user at the time over a dial-up line. One day, I found an upload from someone described as "free Unix." It was Linux.

I downloaded it, installed it on the 80386 hardware I was already using, and the rest is history. This was 1993.

So in my case at least, Linux became the OS of choice becuase it had traveled in ways that the other free Unices didn't. It was simply available somewhere where I was.

This isn't an explanation for why Linux ended up there instead of some other free *nix, of course, but by way of explaining the social diffusion of the actual files, I saw Linux distros as floppy disks around on BBSs and newsgroups for several years, with no hint of the others.

For someone with limited network access (by today's standards), this meant that Linux was the obvious choice.

As to why Linux was there and not the others—perhaps packaging and ease of installation had something to do with it? Without much effort, I recognized that the disks were floppy images and wrote out a floppy set. Booted from the first one, and followed my nose. There was no documentation required, and it Just Worked, at least as much as any bare-bones, home-grown CLI *nix clone could be said to Just Work.

I had supported hardware, as it turned out, but then Linux did tend to support the most common commodity hardware at the time.

My hunch is that Linux succeeded because it happened to have the right drivers (developed for what people had in their home PCs, rather than what a university lab might happen to have), and the right packaging (an end-user-oriented install that made it a simple, step-by-step, floppy-by-floppy process to get it up) while the other free *nix systems were less able to go from nothing to system without help and without additional hardware for most home and tiny lab users.

For comparison, I tried Minix around the same time (I can't remember if it was before or after) and struggled mightily just to get it installed, before questions of its capabilities were even at issue. I remember my first Linux install having taken an hour or two, and I was able to get X up and running the same day. It took me much longer to get the disks downloaded and written. Minix, by comparison, took about a week of evenings, and at the end, I was disappointed with the result.

There is already a fix for this. A cop that has a malfunctioning Video camera during an interaction with the public is put on unpaid leave until the investigation is over. And will be paid retroactively if it was actual equipment malfunction. This would require the officer to report malfunctioning equipment and get it replaced before the next interaction.

FTFY

Leftists are authoritarians who hate authority on themselves, but want it on everyone else. Just like Rightwingers.

You say that like being "Fed" means it isn't going to happen. But in reality, it is going to happen from higher levels than LOCAL. Locally bad police are isolated, federally bad police means you'll NEVER get fairness/justice if wronged. The problem with Leftwing view is that bigger is better, and I disagree with that premise from the start.

Assuming the Fed police isn't corruptible is the last thing I would do.

"Ah, the old "the system will never be perfect, so we might as well not try to improve it" argument."
Sure but this is not an improvement. I am all for increasing taxes for school and frankly even for more federal aid for areas that have low incomes but a centralized system for all funds will have a negative impact and is unworkable.

But for all practical purposes Tokyo is about 70 years old.