I appreciate your application of ethics. One note however - the correct methods include evaluating the future deaths risked by each course. If you do not kill the terrorist at the cost of x others, will it allow the terrorist to kill x or more? This calculus is very easy regarding terrorist leaders and signs their death warrants. To be fair, if you kill the terrorist and x, you must also consider whether that increased the total deaths unnecessarily since their surrender would be a valid alternative. If they will continue to fight if left alive, they must be killed as quickly as possible given the x constraint and expected future deaths.

I think they are simply the useful idiots for a PR-aware terrorist group. Netanyahu is a soldier turned politician desperate to avoid jail for corruption during his previous terms. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization holding the entirely of Gaza hostage and deliberately killing as many Palestinians as Israelis. Israel has to impose operational security to protect its soldiers while Hamas controls the information given to the media. All of these things are true. Israel as a country deals with all of this and upholding the rules of war as they were designed through terms largely forgotten because of how professional armies operate and dominated in press coverage of previous armed conflicts. Israel has the added challenge of countering the Hamas PR propaganda and enforcing those rules to preserve them and reduce future deaths.

Israel must demonstrate that the terrorist tactic of building offensive military capabilities underneath nominally protected sites legally voids that very same protection and transforms them back into valid targets. Israel must demonstrate that the terrorist tactic of deliberately hiding offensive weapons underneath soft populations fails and results only in deaths for the subjugated soft populations - like the Palestinians that Hamas murders the same as their declared enemies. The alternative is that Hamas and every other terrorist group will always hide all of their weapons under soft populations and total deaths increase in every future conflict. Those that Hamas and other terrorists start included, giving them free reign to attack while their PR propaganda dominates. I hope that the protestors simply do not understand this.

The problem ia , the court has declared Escobar as a word thats forever associated with evil, and thats a real problem for anyone with that name.

Some surnames can probably never be rehabilitated. Theres a reason you wont find anyone with the last name "Hitler". But that was both a combination of Adolf Hitler being a genuine history-changing scumbag AND the fact that there where only a handful or so of people in the world with that name, and all of them changed their name post-war.

Pablo Escobar was also a history-changing scumbag. But the Escobar name is a very common one. A quick google search says its the 639th most common surname in the world. Not quite Jones, or even O'Neill (my surname) but still common enough that theres likely a million or so Escobars out there.

Must they all carry that albatross of shame around their necks, Surely there are *good* Escobars too. I dont think this is a very fair line of reasoning from the judges here.

Was there any agriculture in the Jurassic era? Were there any human civilizations, or even humans? Were there any mammals larger than shrews? These are rhetorical questions. Food doesn't just magically happen, it takes extensive planning and careful land management to keep fields productive. You lot should try not eating for a week and see what less food does to people. Now, imagine thousands and millions in that state ready to eat even if they have to take food from you.

Exactly, this is a basic point. Lost primary sector productivity from ecological damages, compounded throughout the rest of the economy as supplies are disrupted or simply not available (droughts have killed pepper crops, etc.), and as customers become rarer due to damaged transit systems and increased travel risks. The other three or so posts right now have missed that concept so much as to show themselves paid to ignore it. Paid through social psychology and tribal mentality benefit or financially - both give the same result here. That has to be fought against while words are enough.

Maybe Republicans really like dick picks

Thanks Yuri. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?

Maybe if Israel hadn't been politically and financially backing Hamas, it might have been different. But hey, all that counts is "Palestinians bad, Israelis good". Simple is so much easier to cope with than reality.

I dont mind the sponsor segments in videos so much as I know that revenue is going entirely to the guy. Fair enough, he deserves to get paid for his labor. I'll still skip it, but thats probably baked into the payment assumption anyway.

Liquid fuels will remain the best way to solve the remote and detached agricultural field problems in the near and intermediate terms. In the very short term, your farm vehicles using diesel might be retrofitted to use bio-diesel (basically plant oil mixed with diesel to improve emissions). Eventually long running distributed renewable energy powered hydrogen production and conversion into syngas (easier but at the cost of different kinds of emissions), and hydrogen for binding with with liquid organic carriers (LOHCs, these have no containment issues and are suitable for distribution through the existing fuel line infrastructure) which will make diesel entirely obsolete. Farther ahead, it is also likely that battery electric vehicles supported by capacity flexible fixed installation vanadium redox batteries charged by those means will also spread out to the supporting market towns that supply farmers like you.

The Linux Foundation has its own lawyers, and their whole reason for being is IP law. This isn't going to end up like Hashicorp thinks it will, Open source law at this point is well established and clarified in legal precedent, not to mention hundreds of years of contract law precedent. If, as it seems, this was all previously MPLed code, Hashicorp haven't got a leg to stand on.

And that might well make the bill impossible to comply with which would likely trigger a judge to knock the bill down as unworkable.

The retrospectiveness isn't ex-post-facto in the sense the law talks about.

It would be if they where fined for not providing that link in the past. providing that link in the future, for the previous data is whats at question

The article is light on details, and doing further research it *seems* to be , as best as I can tell that this has something to do with "software defined memory", ie defining how much memory a VM can alllocate. That seems to be the gist of Koves patents

I dont understand how this is parentable. "Let VMs have a specified amount of RAM" seems such an uninventable obvious thing. But if it that is what the patent in question is about, that seems to be something that threatens the whole of modern large scale computing.

I hope Amazon appeals this, not for amazons sake but for the whole damn industries sake, its potentially as big a threat as those stupid SCO lawsuits where, had they succeeded.

Yeah its a model from the old shareware days of the 90s that never really got updated to modern expectations.

This is a shame really. Younger coders really have no perspective on what us old greybeards worked with back in the day, and just how different, and frankly interesting, the old mainframes where compared to the current world of clustered microcomputers running either windows or some variant of unix thats almost always either Linux or BSD.

VMS was a very un-unix OS, under the hood closer to windows than windows to (*)nix and perhaps we are better off with it in the rear mirror, but it still has a few lessons to teach, particularly around security (VMS was almost cloyingly secure, but that made it extremely safe for critical infastructure [Banks loved these things])

Retrospectively the two languages I learned on VMS, Cobol and ADABAS Natural where absolutely horrible corporate hell languages, but my grandfathers memories of VMS where about freewheeling around in Fortran and VaxBasic (The virtues of which me and him disagreed on vehemently, the old boy was convinced 'structured programming' is a fad and the world would return to the promised land of BASIC and Assembly. I miss that old timer, RIP). It was a pretty diverse ecosystem for its era and status as an OS for million dollar big iron machines.