You're the one selling your own country's gold reserves, Putler. Talk about making incredibly stupid decisions to get yourself stuck in an incredibly stupid position.

Your country has been stuck on stupid throughout its entire history, and it shows. Just when we start to think you guys had finally gotten off the bottle, you go and do something stupid like invade Ukraine. Even after your Special Needs Military Operation falls apart, and you mysteriously fall out of a window during a drunken stupor, whoever comes after you is going to do more stupid things. That's just what you (gay) clowns are.

Without a doubt. Forget that he's even a cosmonaut: Nobody is going to be able to get anywhere near any of that equipment without it having been repeatedly made clear to them that they aren't to take any pictures. Full stop. He HAD to have known better. Occasionally you hear of people who think they can just do it anyway. Usually there's no ill intent, but there will still be some sort of consequence regardless, whether big or small (i.e. getting booted from the facility.) You'll end up on the wrong side of the law for sure if you e.g. take a picture your phone automatically uploads it to a cloud service without zero knowledge encryption, which is the default behavior of every smartphone currently made, and has been for years. Same with some professional cameras. So basically every entity in the defense industry is going to have a policy of no photography from a personal device, even forbidding their own employees from doing it. The only exception is if it's being done with some kind of device that has already been approved for that purpose.

Occasionally there are some items on display to the public after it has already been determined that it's not an export concern, or at the very least, no risk of anybody being able to do much of anything with it. For example, at the California science center, there are all kinds of rocketry items (including space shuttle engines) that comrade cosmonaut would have been allowed to take pictures of. There are other situations as well -- when I was in the Army, we were forbidden from taking any pictures while inside an M1 Abrams or an M2/M3 BFV, though the Army occasionally does controlled releases, e.g: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I also recall a few events we had where the public were allowed to come inside of an M1.

I didn't say it does.

Well, Putler, which LLM do you suppose wrote that back in 2017?

Probably. This is why encrypted messaging is banned:

https://mashable.com/article/r...

That's what indexing and string interning is for. You know, hashmaps and stuff.

That's nice and all, but where are the returns? If they don't start coming soon, the whole thing is going to run out of gas.

Pets.com was doing really well, lots of advertising too, until it became clear that nobody was buying anything from it. Building it doesn't necessarily mean they'll come, but the advertising industry made bank. Lots of economic activity around the gold rush too, problem is there wasn't any gold.

Construction companies and hardware vendors are doing well, but after a while people stop buying pickaxes and shovels. On the other hand, there might be a strong demand for torches and pitch forks after it's all over, problem with that is rsilvergun has no money, only a big mouth to better eat with.

Using a foregone conclusion to attempt to shift complicity away from the corrupt wealth of the Pelosis, Clintons, and Obidens, reeks of desperation and pure bullshit. To claim otherwise, is called lying.

Deflecting from accountability while ignoring reality, is what loses elections. President Trump proved that.

Twice.

>"You do realize whenever you do login, they connect the unknown user tracking to your login"

On this machine, my main home Linux desktop, I have never logged into to ANY Google service/site at any time, ever.

It's not even that so much as it is making change for the sake of change as opposed for the sake of improvement. Every company is guilty of this to some degree, but everyone can name a few that keep shuffling things around for no good reason. A lot of the time it's worse from a productivity perspective, but I guess that at least it looks flashier.

I'd respect the field more if they told management that the current design is good and that it can stay that way for the next five years while they work out something that might be better and go through the process to verify that. Too often it's them doing stupid shit that screams of them trying to justify their own job position or so that marketing has something to talk about for the next product release.

Are you implying that Subaru owners awesomely climb over more than curbs in parking lots?

Looking over at the $75K truck crowd who assumes dirt on the tires of their 4WD is grounds for taking the plastic off the seats and trading it in at a less-than-mint loss, I'm just a tad skeptical.

For seasonal flus you're better off taking a preventative approach than trying to treat it after the fact. By the time the symptoms are showing up there's not much that can be done, at least not in terms of hastening the recovery, beyond getting additional rest and letting your body fight the infection. I just supplement extra vitamin C and zinc during cold season and try to make sure that I don't get generally rundown from lack of sleep or stress and that's been enough to keep me from getting really sick. In the last 10 years I've only had one really bad cold during flu season. The worst cold I had was when I was doing a lot of international travel and sitting in a flying Petri dish for long stretches and having my sleep scheduled ruined on a weekly basis for a little less than a month. By the end of that I think I was so run down that it took almost a month to completely get over that cold.

Dammit, I wonder gave their target demographic away.

I mean sure, not every car comes with your choice of patchouli dispenser or roll-your-own tampon maker, but still..

What's wrong with that? When Apple bought Intel's modem team some years ago the designs they had weren't up to snuff so the iPhone kept using Qualcomm modems instead of being forced to use the inferior in-house solution. They only recently started selling some products with their own modems now that they're close to what competitors offer.

It's no different from you buying something for personal use but deciding to sell it to someone else who would offer you more money than what you paid for it instead of using it yourself. Similarly you may be intent on buying something from some particular company, but change to another that's offering something better for the same price or the same goods for a lower price.

Next week we'll hear about a "strategic partnership" between Bending Spoons and Ticketbastard while regulators pretend to be shocked, shocked I tell you about it.