There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

Re: Turn off Fox and read legal book

Minor correction: read a legal book. [or more]

Re: " This is because civil charges have a lower threshold of evidence."

as compared to a felony, which often involves jail time. Civil charges generally only require monetary compensation.

Also, the (paywalled) NYT article appears to be an opinion piece. Different legal analysts say different things. Do you have a reason to trust ONLY legal analysts who say the DOJ is doing fishy things? Otherwise it looks like you are cherry-picking pundit opinions to fit your preconceived partisan notions.

FuKKK off, bigot

> Are you saying he's so fucking stupid he "got confused" as an intelligent adult raised in a modern society and didn't know he was pulling a fire alarm at a key moment during a legislative session?

No! I'm only saying one cannot rule out an accident "beyond a reasonable doubt". I 100% agree it looks suspicious, but not "beyond a reasonable doubt" of an accident. I've made really dumb mistakes myself when in a hurry. You didn't answer my request for BRD justification. Why is that? Are you in a hurry?

Turn off Fox and read legal book, especially the chapter on "reasonable doubt". Then you can reply like "an intelligent adult raised in a modern society" (your own words).

The civil case against Bowman may go further, possibly charging him with the cost of wages spent on dealing with the alarm. This is because civil charges have a lower threshold of evidence. (I don't know the status of the civil case.)

As far as some of the Jan-sixers being overturned, it happens all the time. Judges are called "judges" for a reason, and different judges make different judgements. A somewhat small percent being overturned is thus NOT evidence of a partisan conspiracy. Stop foil-hatting everything you don't like; bad habit.

NYTimes is paywalled.

The fire alarm accusation is pure mind-reading speculation. People make mistakes with alarms near other levers when in a hurry, and mistake cannot be ruled out. Felonies require "beyond reasonable doubt" and I've seen nothing that strong against Bowman. If you have a BRD argument, bringItOn!...

The report suggests the contracting arrangement was several steps removed from the major producers.

Established companies outsourcing staffing to fly-by-night companies is how many of the H1B visa program abuses came about that I've personally witnessed. The big-name company can often simply blame the obscure outsourcing firm if caught.

Having corrupt turtles all the way down is a recipe for mutant ninja crime.

Wining and dining with vendors should be prohibited unless you pay for your own meal.

I've used CP/M, and indeed there are a lot of similarities to DOS.

Gary could have been as big as Gates if he didn't make a few missteps.

I don't think the problem was that it "finally crashed". It had a few rough landings (IINM), and more likely the accumulative shocks eventually damaged the propeller too much to fly.

By then an AI bot will figure the connection out in no-time, after munching on a few astronauts for fuel.

wait 'til after the election to say such. MS has deep pockets, can easily influence election by lubricating politicians with "campaign donations" and lobbying.

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

> First off no actual scientist thought it was even a constant for decades at least.

The working assumption was that it was constant because all the other known forces are constant. It had been "constant unless proven otherwise".

It's premature to conclude such, but the lumpiness fits the "budding universe" theory whereby some portions of our universe will eventually collapse back on self and re-explode into a new universe in another dimension (string?) with slightly different "parameters". Universes may be life-forms, or at least life-like.

Some regional collapses may have already happened, but how to detect such is still a mystery. They may leave no obvious trace.

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

Clarification: between 2004 and 2007, the general economy was improving, improving general IT employment. Then mortgage slump hit at about the same time the smart-phone boom hit, cancelling each other out from an IT employment perspective.