Okay, so you're implying that the way to control this to have hotels or other gun-free zones search all bags before entry. Since everything else was legal up until that moment, that's obviously where the changes need to occur. There is no other possible change that should be made, right?

I don't actually own one, but I've used a couple for work and they're badass.

Running your own mail server would leave a more permanent paper trail.

Bikeshedding is about the material, not about the colour. Just so long as the choice is not asbestos, you'll be fine.

I read roughly two meters worth of books per year, which comes down to six or so per month. Obviously it depends a lot on the books themselves: a 1500 page monster will take considerably longer than a pocket. And collections of short stories take forever, since I tend to stop after each story to ruminate on it.

This number is considerably higher than five years ago, because back then I was mostly reading magazines. I decided to give up on that particular hobby and start reading books again - in part because I had so many unread books lying around. At the current speed, it will take another four years or so to get through the backlog.

This month I read the Witcher saga. Of course I can't help comparing it to the games, which I also played. In the book Geralt bows to anyone and everyone (unlike the game, which informs you he has a reputation for never bowing to anyone), and is a hell of a lot more sexually repressed. His combat style, full of pirouettes, is easily recognizable, but he seems to completely forget about his ability to cast signs during the course of the story.

The first two books basically read like a collection of side quests from Witcher 3. The next five books are the main quest, which centers on the war with Nilfgaard, and focuses on Ciri more than on Geralt. I found I didn't really appreciate the writing style: too much of the story is told from the point of view of various future historians, there is too much attention to minor characters who usually die soon anyway, the story jumps haphazardly through time and space, and the author has an unpleasant knack for throwing in tiny details that have huge repercussions, winking to the reader to show how clever he is. These are not major irritants, and the whole saga is certainly worth a read, especially if you liked the games as well, but I think it would have been more enjoyable had it simply focused on Geralt and his adventures as a witcher.

When Apple decided to stop making their units maintainable then I had to move on.

Everyone's spam filter should reply to every spam email they get.

No, it shouldn't. The From: address is almost always taken at random from the same database where the To: address came from!

... for IoT botnet?

As for the rest... Respectable to whom? Who adjudicates "promiscuous" or not? Is it binary, or defined by degrees?

Further, if the woman I am/was with violated my trust, I dismiss her from my life. I expect her to do the same if I behave that way. That you see treating women as human beings who have the right to control the use of their own image as a problem indicates to me a great deal of insecurity. This takes me back to the trauma thought.

For reference, see Christmas, US.

I like reading non-fiction and historical fiction. I am a military history buff.

Dude, the sooner you stop getting butthurt over your fucking religion the happier you'll be.

Nope. There isn't enough energy in the Solar System from now until its heat death to brute-force a 128-bit key using theoretically ideal computers. It's possible that quantum computers could be used to halve the effective length of the key, which means that AES-256 cannot be brute-forced by a Kardashev Type II civilization. I consider such a key length adequate.

You're not going to break the cipher in a paltry few million years.

Impeachment requires a majority vote of the House. It's likely that the Democrats will take the house in 2018, so that's a possibility. It requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate to convict and remove from office, and that's exceedingly unlikely. If the Democrats sweep all Senate races in 2018, they will not control nearly two-thirds of the Senate. Removing Trump from office would require a lot of Republican cooperation.

The GOP has basically fallen in line behind Trump. There's a solid core of maybe a fourth or a third of the electorate that's behind him, and they will not be swayed by any rational means. They're not enough to get a candidate elected, except in particular spots, but they are enough to sway a Republican primary. Any Republican senator who votes to convict Trump is in great danger of losing the Republican nomination to a Trump-supporting Republican.

Therefore, impeachment and conviction is extremely unlikely to happen.

Trump could be temporarily removed by the Twenty-Fifth Amendment process, but that process says that, if the removed President claims to be fit for duty again, that person is reinstated unless two-thirds of both the House and the Senate disagree.

Unless President Trump dies or is legitimately incapacitated, or decides to resign, we're stuck with him until January 21, 2021.

As far as I can tell, nothing beats the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition for a small and powerful laptop with good Linux support.

Did you survive the ice age naked?

I know stepfathers who continue their relationship with their step children after divorces.

Heck, I even know one step father who got custody of the children over the biological father. The stepfather had been there for them since they were 2, had a good job, and stable living arrangements. The father was never there for them, was a drug user, had no stable employment or really living quarters.

So yea.. I lost track with your real father. Your stepfather loved you so we never told you different but now it's time you know.

Also divorced stepfathers rarely have any easily provable legal ties to ex wives unless there was alimony involved.

DevOps jobs usually involve scripting languages, Shell and Python, depending on the tools you use you could also stumble over Ruby.

If you have macro virii in TRUSTED network locations, you've already failed and not Words fault. By default, you can't run that shit.

Then you would pay more. Many items are deeply discounted on 11/11.

The other thing is - I suspect it's not so much cooperation as "uniting in the face of a common enemy", where that "enemy" is perceived bureaucratic nonsense.

Android is supporting Go since years.

1. I didn't think of it as bashing the US at all. After all, imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery.

2. We didn't invent protectionism, but the US has found more ways to implement it than the British we threw out in 1776.

If you're planning to shop on Ali, keep it mind that the vendors there often raise prices prior to 11/11 and the real savings are slim or nonexistent.

The election has been held, by electors selected according to the processes set by their state governments. The results have been accepted by Congress. It's legal. Any exposure of corruption in the process won't affect the constitutional reality.

There are no legal grounds to challenge the election now. There's grounds to complain about it, of course, and it's possible that people could be imprisoned for their activities during it, but that doesn't invalidate it.

"I believe that even if the USA adopted the exact same laws that Japan has, gun violence in the USA wouldn't change very much."

Then you are a fool. As a canadian, I've been in physical encounters with people where they have drawn weapons. If I or they had a gun instead of a knife, things would have ended much worse for someone.

It is nearly impossible to get a legal handgun in canada. Most guns used in crimes are smuggled from the USA at extreme risk. And if you carry it around and someone sees that, you are going to jail.

Like it or not, if you want to change the culture of gun violence in the USA, you have to start by restricting gun sales. That means depriving people of owning guns that are not meant for hunting. All automatic weapons, all hand guns, and probably more types too (i am not an expert on guns, nor would i care to be). It means getting people to give up the "personal self defence" aspect of gun ownership. I doubt anyone has guns for that purpose in canada, simply because they are so restricted with how you can transport them and use them, any situation where you would need to have the gun "at the ready" for defence, simply wouldn't be possible.

So i would argue that you have no idea about canadian gun laws and how they are influencing society. The laws shape the culture. I'm not sure how you could possibly miss that fundamental point. When americans say that the government can't take away their guns, that statement is clearly part law and part culture. Change the laws and you would change the culture, for sure.

All at once? Of course not. Over the span of several hundred years? Yes.

Over time, "Lake Okeechobee" would become MULTIPLE lakes... Okeechobee, defined by its current dike... a new freshwater lake comprising what's now the "everglades" portion of Broward & Palm Beach counties (let's tentatively call it "Lake Seminole") connected to the original lake via canals, a new brackish-water lake between Tamiami Trail and I-75 (let's tentatively call it "Lake Miccosukee"), Florida's new Caribbean Coast (so named to disambiguate it from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts) occupying western Dade, eastern Collier, and basically all of mainland Monroe county, and another new freshwater lake north of Lake Okeechobee (let's call it, "Lake Kissimmee", because it would occupy most of what's now the agricultural part of the Kissimmee Valley... and point out to non-Floridians that it's a "valley" only in the sense that Floridians call an area where the terrain is 10 feet higher than the surrounding area "a hill").

The four lakes would get most of their water from direct rainfall. None would be particularly deep, but they'd get plenty of water because they'd span a geographically HUGE area that gets massive amounts of rain. They'd just dump less of that rain into the Gulf & Atlantic than they do now.

Plus, rising sea levels will happen slowly enough that most urban areas will get raised by redevelopment long before it becomes an existential threat to the area.

I'd argue that higher water costs will perversely drive INCREASED development in Florida... as water becomes more expensive, agricultural users will start selling off their land to developers, who'll build new condos, neighborhoods, office parks, golf courses, and discount retail outlets... the new development will drive up land prices, and induce even more agribusiness owners to sell out to developers. To a residential customer, a $10/month difference in the water bill is gripe-worthy, but not the end of the world. To someone like ConAgra, a $20,000/month difference in the water bill could mean the difference between oranges and office parks.

It really CAN'T be any other way. Florida's biggest single industry is its own growth. It might not be "sustainable" in any way that respects the natural environment, but that doesn't mean it won't continue for centuries until the entire state of Florida consists of 3-6 megalopoli sitting on terrain that's about as "natural" as lower Manhattan (there's actually a swampy island buried underneath the concrete, though post-9/11 was just about the only time we actually got to SEE evidence of its existence).

When you think that is a "thing", you're going to write a language I neither understand nor find well-focused on my needs.

You'll really drive it home when you make the underscore character a keyword (or whatever it is).

Were you born clothed?

Wow, US labour laws are fucked. At first, I figured this was to prevent immigrant children from being forced to work the fields (that Kevin Costner high school running movie comes to mind), but now I just think of the Shawshank Redemption scene where the warden shakes down a local business to ensure cheaper labour doesn't take the private business' contracts.

Unless something has changed since gophercon when it was clearly stated that backwards compatibility was one of the requirements of Go 2, I think you have been misinformed.

Hey, I'll happily bash the US any hour of the day, but giving them the credit for protectionism is really short-sighted.