Disagree. The motions it is capable of making are precisely the kind of unnatural motions you see as the core subject of horror movies. I saw the video and as it stood up it sent a chill down my spine.

It is a nightmare to me. It invoked memories of horror movies. You're just desensitized to it.

Terrorism is a name assigned to those whom you disagree with in order to build support for a fight against them. The thing about terrorists is they have actual support from others. So before you give people the choice or killing a terrorist you need to ask them in their opinion if they are a terrorist or not.

Hamas was an instigator in this war. But in terms of "terror" inflicted on a civilisation, who is the actual terrorist? The guys who killed several hundred, or the guys who killed 10s of thousands. Both sides are using violence against people they disagree with. It makes just as much sense to call them all terrorists as it does to call neither.

No one cares. History is history. I don't complain about Trump being in court in "New Amsterdam" either. What Romans did is something for history buffs and has no bearing on what we call Palestinians today. Israelites are not Palestinians by any sensical understanding of how these labels work. There are Palestinians living in Israel, and they make up a minority of the country.

Personally I stand by the principles of not working or supporting companies which do things I disagree with. They are stupid because they are part of the problem while also being against it.

Internal protest against a company you voluntarily support is stupid. You said it yourself. There's no reason to do this other than greed. The stupidity is supporting the greed by working for the greedy company.

You got the causality wrong. Civil unions are becoming less common because gay marriage is now a thing in Australia. Most people don't give a shit about the religious aspect and if you go to a government register rather than a church service to get "married" there's virtually no religious implications making civil unions pointless. In Australia civil unions and marriage have been treated to the same rights for a long time, the whole gay marriage part was really the only difference.

I'm much the same, but you do need to consider your long term implications or potential life changes as well. The biggest difference in Australia between civil unions and defacto relationships is that the former is registered, the latter is justified, and that justification varies between states. In some states living together is enough, in other states you need to prove long term financial co-dependence.

I would still recommend getting a civil union, you don't know where your life can lead you. Such as my life which very suddenly opened up an interesting opportunity to relocate to Europe. And that kicked off a shitstorm of what to do with my partner. Defacto in Australia but now we're following the laws of another country. If we were in a civil union it would have been okay, however since we were just de facto we were limited into countries which we can move to. Additionally the bar for proving a de facto relationship to get a partner visa was quite high, along with quite ludicrous trips to the embassy because we needed to get proof that we weren't married or in a civil union in Australia (a letter of no-objection to marriage) to say we could be de facto somewhere and didn't have marriage interests elsewhere. The ludicrous part here is that every Australian state has its own register of relationships so we had to get TWELVE official documents issued to prove to the country we moved to that we could be considered for a defacto relationship.

It would have been easier to hand over one cert of civil union ;-)

Incidentally this is the same thing as people who insist being permanent residents means they don't need to get citizenship because the rights are 99.9% the same. Well it's that 0.1% that gets you in the news such as "X has been deported to a country he's never lived in" kind of situation.

Do yourself a favour, do not leave your life to the whims of government assumptions. Documentation is actually important in life.

Nope. People latch on to "woke" when they can't describe what makes something "bad". Hollywood has always been woke and always tackled fringe issues. The thing is, when a story is well written then people don't give a flying fuck about wokeness, but when something is bad they latch on to the only low IQ thing they can figure out "eerrmageeerrrd the mermaid has a tan!" - the low IQ critique for what was actually a really shit movie for a myriad of other reasons.

I won't return in coin by calling you an idiot, because I don't think you are one. What I think you are is too *ignorant* to realize you're talking about evolution. "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer in 1864 to refer to natural selection, a concept that's in the actual *title* of Darwin's book.

It's not that simple. Port is just one part of a network. Protocols matter and can be determined. Traffic matters and can be determined unless it is protected. In practice most games would not be able to look like normal SSL internet traffic, they typically use the UDP protocol (to allow packets to be dropped and ensure minimum latency) and would not run in an encrypted tunnel (due to the added latency required).

So no, games would not switch to port 443. Also ... "open source" games? Talk about a niche of a niche that affects virtually no one.

Not true. The USA is loaded with literally countless examples of "marriage" in its legal texts. For what the GP says to apply, all legal references to marriage need to be changed to "civil union". Until then you can't separate the terms and cordon off the word marriage for religion.

No they did not. To be clear what you describe does exist, but that is in the form of tiny (even by chip standards) serials or notes etched which look like something but are electrically inert. These are often virtually invisible on initial inspection.

By comparison, these things here are big-arse clearly visible doodles often taking up all empty space on the silicon, and any company making a copy of this mask would easily see it and trivially remove it. Sometimes they are nonsensical. Sometimes inside jokes. Don't read into it more than what is in there. Engineers hide shit like this in their designs all the time.

Not sure when you last used a non-framework computer, but that hasn't been the case for quite a while now. My Dell laptop seems to roll out GPU drivers only a week or two after Intel releases them. I get regular BIOS updates. Gigabyte published a BIOS update probably 2-3 weeks after an AGESA update for my motherboard last time I checked (which admittedly was a while ago). Windows Update will often hold back drivers which are part of vendor packages so that doesn't save you here either, you're still reliant on the laptop vendor to release the driver for you.

"Fine" is a word used by people without ambition. 11th gen thunderbolt works in the sense that many things will work when plugged in. Not that it works in the sense of meets all the advertised performance criteria. There's no justified reason to put "certified" in quotes, all you've done is demonstrate you don't understand why framework failed the certification process (which is entirely performance based). I don't want my things to work fine. I want them to work perfectly as advertised, that is my minimum criteria and that is why the certification is significant.

Yeah I'm a non-native speaker. ... And thanks for not pointing out the additional grammatical mistake I made. XD

Shame. Shame is stopping me from saying K'nights :-)

Do you actually? Or does the cell report that it is at 100%? Varying battery management practices are key to understanding why people have varying results with how they like to keep their batteries charged.

We do not have a battery chemistry that isn't based on volume of liquid (like flow redux batteries) that doesn't degrade when fully charged. This chemical limitation is tied closely to the physical aspect of their varying voltage (the initial voltage dropp when dropping off 100% charge), that extra voltages causes problems for the cells.

How full is 100%? It is impossible to tell, you need to give the numbers in terms for individual cell voltage, and you may quickly find that this 100% number you see on your display is not actually 100% - precisely because the idea that cells degrade when left fully charged is quite well understood in the battery world. That includes LiFePo4 batteries which are not immune from this.

Sure, but only do that once your career is already in the shitter. Don't pretend after protesting the direction of a company (who employs you to do as your told, if they employed you to set the direction you'd have a different job) that you have a loving and fruitful future career at the company.

I don't understand this idea that you would want to work for a company whose management direction you so disagree with that you would stage a protest. These's aren't family members, despite what the CEO tells you. You can choose where to work, and you can choose to work for someone who better aligns with your world view.