Yes, if you commit cross-border crime, you very much are subject to the laws of the state in which the crime occurred, regardless of whether you were physically there at the time.

Now, whether you'll actually get extradited is a much more complicated question.

Yes, that's what extradition law is about. This isn't surrender as per a EAW. Extradition requires principles such as dual criminality, where what they're charged with has to be a crime in both the sending and receiving state, and speciality, where the subject can only be charged with the pre-agreed-upon list of charges. Extradition involves a high degree of sovereignty of the sending state, vs. EAW which is more like handing off a criminal in the US who fled across state lines.

I have a Windforce 4060 16GB and the fans don't run most of the time, even for light gaming. It's not until I run something graphically intensive that they turn on at all, and they're still quieter than my system fan (stock cooler, system not overclocked) because of the blade design and the counterrotating fan not fighting its neighbor. I'm told that if you underclock and undervolt you still get decent performance and the fans only run slightly on very heavy loads.

You can replace pulseaudio (and JACK!) with pipewire and wireplumber. It also supports ALSA clients. Just install pipewire and wireplumber, chmod -x pulseaudio, and reboot. This is effective on probably any Linux system; I do it on Devuan. You need to keep pulseaudio installed for the client libraries. You can control system and application volume using the pulseaudio interface, so all of your normal desktop environment volume controls will work with it.

I agree that pulseaudio is crap, but you CAN replace it, even if you can't remove it fully from your system. It's not very big, so it's not a big problem to have it lurking.

Yes, they wanted to connect to the kernel in ways they weren't allowed to. Changes were made in Linux that forced them to comply. Nvidia made the necessary changes on their end in relatively short order, so short in fact that by the time I actually got a distro with an affected kernel the driver had already been updated, so there was zero impact to me — an Nvidia user. No question that it was sleazy, though.

I used to be an Nvidia user because I dual-booted, and AMD drivers for Windows are hot garbage (and before AMD, the ATI drivers for Windows were the same.) Now I am an Nvidia user even though I don't dual boot, because CUDA is required for some of my use cases, and ROCm only supports a small subset of cards. The AMD drivers for Windows are still trash, but the OSS AMD graphics driver for Linux is great so the only thing that needs to happen is that my use cases need to be less CUDA-dependent or AMD needs to get serious about supporting ROCm across all of their GPUs, and then I will start thinking about buying AMD GPUs which I have regretted every single time I have ever done it in the past. I have seen crappy drivers cause crashes with "their" (ATI's and then AMD's) hardware since Windows 3.1 and the Mach32.

Nvidia can't release GEforce drivers as OSS because they contain Microsoft code. This was part of the deal for getting their chip into the original Xbox. As you yourself state, they have released drivers for their ARM-coupled GPUs. You may not be happy with the way they released the sources, but they did release them and they are usable. Don't unpack them over the top of the prior release and you won't confuse yourself. If AMD were competent at software, then Nvidia would be far less popular. They aren't. That's why their Windows drivers still cause crashes. If you have a simple use case and only want to run Linux, AMD GPUs are totally viable and probably even your best bet. If you want broad application support for GPU acceleration, or if you want to dual boot, Nvidia is still the best choice by far. I use AMD CPUs exclusively, but I also use Nvidia GPUs exclusively. These days (and for some years now) the Linux driver keeps up with the version of the Windows driver. The only missing feature is interleaved SLI, which I no longer want to use anyway, so it's not bothering me.

I got a debt collection letter for a whole ass [used] car once. The perpetrator had a driver's license with my name on it, because it was their name too. My FULL name is approximately the 400th most common FULL name in THIS country, middle name included. But that is not sufficient proof of identity to establish a debt. What the court in Nevada City, CA decided WAS sufficient proof was a check cashing card with my SSN written on it in pen.

Who knows which of the many identity breaches I've been "involved" with ("victimized in" is a more accurate description) or whether it was from Yuba College, which was transmitting student SSNs in cleartext over the internet until I implemented encryption for remote sites for them as a contract job, but they got it somehow and the court accepted it as proof of identity. This is, of course, a spectacular fuckup which destroyed my credit rating — I wasn't even aware of it for years. ANY state database system connected to the SSA would have revealed that the other party's DOB didn't match my SSN, but there were NO SUCH CHECKS.

The SSN was only ever supposed to be used for social security and tax purposes (which are intimately involved) and its use has grown out of all sense. The credit score system is fundamentally no different from China's "social credit score" in that if your credit score is low, it affects employability and access to housing directly, both rentals and purchases, plus has secondary effects on these as well since it affects your access to effective transportation (buying a car, that is, in a country with very few reasonably functional public transport systems) which in turn affects your employability again. The system is rotten from stem to stern and someone having an ID with your name on it is only a severe problem because of general government malaise and incompetence.

I have an employee benefit that lets me rent at approximately half price from Hertz. So I can choose between an affordable rental (with the benefit, the rental car allowance from my insurance comes within a couple of dollars of actually covering the rental car completely like they never do) or a potentially competent rental company.

Please explain how this is not a first amendment issue when the information was only sought so that it could be disseminated in a way that informed and educated. Use words small enough that we can believe that you understand them.

We tried that, it was called not allowing anonymous comments. But without the trolls, the engagement actually went down, so they brought you back because the only thing the owners care about is ad impressions.

Teslas are not aluminum monocoque. Thanks for playing.

Like all cars, they're made from a mix of metals. I can only assume that you're thinking of the gigacastings, which are deep interior components, and if you're damaging one beyond usage, you've utterly obliterated your car already. They're not crush structures; the crush structures are mounted to them. They're also not the only main structural elements. The pillars for example are UHSS (ultra-high strength steel). But you're generally not going to be replacing or welding UHSS either. Once again, Tesla is not at all unique in this regard.

And technically you could fix mangled gigacastings, with body pulling. But body pulling isn't recommended on any monocoque car, only body-on-frame, as force transfer in monocoques is unpredictable.

As for "impinging on battery components", again, the battery is nestled between the gigacastings, making it even more internal. If you're penetrating that deep into the car, you're already talking about a writeoff.

People seem to have these weird images in their head of cars that are utterly mangled just being fixed for a practical price. That doesn't happen. Cars have outer panels and crush structures that are designed to be repaired / replaced. If you're penetrating deeper than that into primary structural members, the insurance is just going to write the car off.

Lastly: I have a Tesla. There is no "high cost of insurance". It's perfectly reasonably priced for a car of its price.

Meanwhile the entire Model 3 rear drive unit and suspension can be removed with just four bolts and a couple connectors, but you tell yourself whatever you want. And there were parts shortages in the first like 6-12 months as production ramped, but haven't been in a long time. The only thing you might have a shortage on is something new like the Cybertruck.

Batteries are not consumables. They're designed to last similar lifespans to engines + transmissions. They're warrantied for 8 years / 200k km, and you don't warranty something that you expect to die the day after warranty, or half the failures will be under the warranty period. And if you replaced an engine and a transmission, at a dealership, with a brand new one, that wouldn't exactly be cheap either. You get a better deal with third parties and salvage parts, and the same applies to EVs.

The main source of depreciation of EVs is simply how much better EVs keep getting and how quickly it's happening.

Insurance companies do not "insist that even a small ding in battery cover should lead to a total battery replacement". This is entirely made up. Nor are EV premiums "insane levels".

Just utter tripe.

It's not just a knowledge and effort thing. New Shepard is 20,6t dry mass. Falcon 9 is 22,2t dry mass and could lift an entire New Shepard to LEO using 5 times the delta-V. It's such a different difficulty level that they're not even playing the same game; New Shepard is just a carnival ride.

I would imagine there was something wrong with that specific vehicle, but also, Teslas just aren't made that well. Nobody expects them to last. But then, nobody gets to expect any EVs will last yet, because so many of them don't and none of them are all that old.

not to worry.

I've developed a robot-cat to mock and distract them; the dogs will have no choice but to chase them endlessly!

And if that fails, each has four launchable tennis balls!

Meaningful things in space are not like this, they're like this. Getting "to space" is the easy part - the X15 got "to space" just by going fast and then steering up. It's orbital velocity and the energies involved that are the hard part.