FBI routinely hires people convicted of computer crimes and places them under extreme guidance.

As this is government work, I could see them wanting to hire someone that has proven hacking skills. But not as a subcontractor.

For what you ask?

For Christmas Presents to staff in my building, postman, etc.

All I need is their name. I can write it out ahead of time, put it in an envelope, write their name on the envelope and hand it to them in person. No one needs to know how much till they open the envelope. I can give out multiple ones to multiple people all privately.

But that is it. That is the only thing I do it for.

If my building were to set up a website to let me do this, I would probably stop writing checks. Give the postman cash.

They did ragebait on purpose. It worked on you. You engaged with it and got angry enough to leave a comment. That boosts posts.

It's literally what ragebait is meant to do.

Someone smarter than me can tell us if this is true literary irony or not. I never got the concept very well.

Censorship is the GOVERNMENT preventing information from being published.

Citizens cannot engage in censorship. Corporations cannot engage in censorship - but they can request the government do so (i.e. sue you for saying something and try to get the courts to censor you).

When people refuse to support your beliefs, that is their legal right to do and not censorship. When people call you out for lying, that is not censorship.

Not explicitly, but crash survivability regulations make Kei cars illegal in the USA.

Unless Trump pulls the US out of the treaty that he signed (USMCA), any small cars will be built in Mexico. If Trump pulls the US out of that treaty, many other prices will go up.

But this is really just another brain fart from Trump. It won't happen.

AOL was in a bubble. AOL stock would have been close to worthless as the Internet bubble crashed. Instead, AOL stockholders got something with real value for their shares.

And some of them make a habit of it.

What do you mean? That acquisition was great -- for AOL stockholders and insiders.

The real question is "Will they re-release the roadrunner cartoons?".

Do you really think fiction is a reasonable source of facts?

What possible reason could you have for hiring contractors that have a record of hacking your organization?

I could see hiring people that hacked somebody else.

I could see hiring hackers as direct employees so you can keep a close watch on them.

But hiring a hacking organization as contract employees?

That person was either a) Bribed or b) a Moron.

They need to be fired to prevent them from hiring the same people tomorrow.

Remember that models used from a decade or more ago always make simplifying assumptions, and that those tend to be unquestioned until data shows that they must be. Even now climate models can't handle all the variables known to be needed. Turbulence is *extremely* difficult to handle. And there probably is some "butterfly effect". The way that's normally handled it to run an ensemble of models with slightly different conditions, but they may all make some of the same simplifying assumptions.

Well, panspermia is possible, but not extremely likely. OTOH, if life started on Mars, it could well have spread to Earth on impact debris. The further away, the less likely. But remember that yeast have survived in space conditions for months, perhaps years...and that wasn't in extreme cold (though it was in inactive form).

OTOH, years is different from centuries. And for interstellar trips in a comet, centuries wouldn't be enough.

Those are descendants of LUCA. A better question would be viruses, because in that case we don't really know. (There aren't any ribosomes. [OTOH, if there are descendants of another origin, they've massively adapted.])

OTOH, we haven't checked all life on earth. So assertions about universals should be viewed with that in mind.