What, and stop using my favorite chemical ? The one that goes FOOF! if you look at it funny and that has no known method to extinguish ? The one that can set water or sand on fire on contact ? Just read its description, it's a riot...

And why is that ? Low center of gravity ? Torque ? 4WD ? I see them more and more in the mountains where I live and I know they are extremely popular in Norway (not the warmest climate...). I don't think having a huge acceleration is a good thing on snow !

Congratulation, you contradict yourself within the same sentence...

I've tried it on a rental, and it kept going into the red zone without slowing the car down noticeably. But maybe it was more due to diesel vs gas car.

Same. I live in the mountains, where there's snow half the year. When I go down the main road, I stick it in 3rd and don't touch the accelerator or brakes for 15 minutes. I don't care about vintage or 'sport' anything, it's just safe and convenient.
And same thing when going up on very slippery road, you don't want a sudden shift change that make you lose traction.
But yeah, EVs will get rid of that, oh well, I'll see when I get there.

I'm surprised that in Florida you don't feed garbage to the alligators or something...

OK, I'll bite. How is society actively encouraging crime in his case ?

This reminds me of the sentencing of the "January 6 insurrection" guilty pleas. As I (a non-lawyer) understand it...

Regardless of whether you consider it an insurrection or a protest march petitioning the government for redress of grievances...

In the wake of the events, the fed busted a bunch of the participants and left them rotting in prison for months (over a year), with no end in sight. In many cases this left families with no breadwinner, enormous legal costs, and expectations of losing all their property as part of some eventual conviction.

Then the prosecutors offered some of the defendants a plea deal; Plead guilty to a misdemeanor or short-sentence felony and we'll drop any other charges.

Rule of thumb: a misdemeanor generally is a crime with a max sentence of no more than a year in prison, a felony more than a year - which is why you see "year and a day" max sentences on some crimes. An accused person already in prison for over the max sentence would expect that accepting the deal would result in immediate release with "credit for time served" (and others near the max might expect release much sooner). So some of them went for it.

Came the sentencing some judges applied a two-year sentence enhancements for "substantial interference with the 'administration of justice.'" OOPS! No release for you.

I'd expect them to pull the same sort of thing on Assange if he were foolish enough to plead guilty to anything, no matter how minor.

(By the way: This particular form of the practice, as used on the Jan6 participants, was just recently struck down. But the decision was based on Congress' certification of the presidential election not qualifying as "administration of justice.'" So this wouldn't apply to whatever enhancement trick they might pull on Julian.

I don't know what you heard, but baby cells can only stay baby cells, they can't become mommy cells,

Sez who?

There's been evidence for some time that post-pregnancy mothers often have clones of stem cells derived from the previous foetus. Sure such a clone would likely start out with its epigenitc programming set for whatever function it had in the baby's development (unless, say, some error in its differentiation is what led to it migrating to the woman's body to set up shop). But once established on the mother's side of the placental barrier, and especially after the birth, the stem cell clone can be expected to continue to run its program under direction of the growth factors in the mother's blood.

That amounts to a transplant of younger stem cells which could be expected to produce differentiated cells for tissue growth and replacemtnt,, with the aging clock set farther back and with some genes from the father to provide "hybrid vigor", filling in for defective genes in the mother's genome or adding variant versions of molecular pathways.

This strikes me as a bit of a shakedown, settle with out patent claims or we'll screw up your IPO by creating a new potential liability.

Back in the early days of the personal computer explosion there was a patent for the "XOR cursor" which I hear was used as a trolling operation. Story goes that every time a new hi-tek company was in that sensitive period just as they're about to go public, they'd get a notice that they were believed to be violating that (even if whatever they were doing didn't even involve a display with a cursor, XOR or otherwise) and an offer to license the patent for something substantial but far lower than the cost and risks of fighting it. ($10,000?) So the companies generally paid up rather than derail their IPO.

It was jokingly referred to as a tax on incorporation. There are rumors of discussions of buying a hit on the trolls. Apparently this netted over $50,000,000 before the patent expired. (Also there was apparently prior art discovered - AFTER the expiration.)

I recall it's some kind of abbreviation, but I don't care enough to check for what.

And you live in your own imaginary made up world too ? Everything you say is false.

They've attacked hospitals that had to close for weeks, evacuating all patients. Yes, people died because of cyberattacks. How is that any different than, say, attacking a customs checkpoint ?

It's difficult to separate using mass spectrometry for 2 reasons: the separation is by AtomicMass/IonizationCharge so you get plenty of overlap of different atoms (I worked on that recently and it is nearly unsolvable); and it uses a HUGE amount of energy to ionize a large amount of matter. If fusion creates basically free energy it might work, but we are not there yet, that's for sure.

Indeed. Flower Moon is an interesting movie with lots of qualities, but the edit is pretty bad. There are multiple time jumps (of years) that take the viewer several minutes to figure out. And they happen just like the continuation of the previous scene. I found that confusing and annoying.
While I'm here I can also do a jab at Oppenheimer. The first half was excellent, yes, but after that it's just a long interrogation scene with self-doubts and nasty politics and is frankly boring.
Anatomie d'une chute was pretty good.