Yup this is creepy as shit....

Makes me happy, however, that I've never been on social media nor had SM accounts.

The importance of "not being seen" .

Hey...it could have been worse had the cackling creepy Harris had somehow won....

Can you name one republican that could win a debate with Pete Buttigieg ?

Vance would wipe the stage with Gov. Pete.

I'd like to see Byron Donalds out of FL to be VP for the Republicans besides Vance as POTUS candidate.

I don't think the Dems have anyone that could touch either of those folks in any sort of debate.

It is probably safe to assume the next Republican ticket to have Vance as POTUS and Rubio as VPOTUS

I think the 2028 dream ticket would be Vance and Byron Donalds out of FL....

That guy is just as cool and a great speaker publically as Vance is...

I don't think the Dems could put up anyone that could touch them in debates, etc.

They both handle the press like champs....

And it wouldn't hurt the minority vote the Reps need either....

Wow....you guys have really gone off the deep end....

And the data that makes this a "fact" and not your opinion is.... where?

Currently have a project going using Python scripting in Blender using scipy.optimize.differential_evolution and Cycles rendering to optimize the shape of a reflector to match a desired light distribution pattern. It's not a perfect tool for the job, but it seems to be pretty accurate.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

Which part of people flying FPV (first person video) drones into the enemy wasn't clear? They're not delivering to a GPS coordinate. They're being flown.

During WW II, Superman stayed neutral for the most part in the comics and funny papers. His explanation was that this was one problem it was up to mankind to solve for itself, one way or the other. The big exception was in the cartoons, that had him fighting in both main theaters as well as dealing with spies back home. Possibly the best of them, or at least the most dramatic, was Eleventh Hour,with Superman sabotaging Japanese warships and almost causing Lois to be executed.

I eagerly await the follow up articles on the whereabouts of DB Cooper and the identity of Jack the Ripper.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Back in the day, card images were files consisting of a set of records of 80 characters or less. These could be used as input to a program that had been designed to work on punched cards or created as the output from such a program. The idea was that as long as you restricted yourself this way you didn't have to take the time tore-write working programs instead of expanding your system with new code.

My software development experience spans more than a half century. We have come a long way from the time when I was punching out FORTRAN and assembly language job decks on Hollerith cards.

You and I are probably roughly the same age as that's how I started off too, in my case an IBM 1620 with 20,000 digits of core memory. It could be expanded to twice or three times the memory, but was otherwise thoroughly obsolete. Just out of curiosity, do you still enough about card images to explain why they were once important, without looking the term up.