So what that he encouraged or developed something, he is not the person who had actual access to this information, he never worked for any agency in USA where he would have to promise not to disclose information, to him (or anyone who doesn't work for such agencies) status of any 'secret' information is completely irrelevant, as it should be.

For example, if I egged on some general to disclose top secret information about some project and then he did disclose it, it would be on the general, not on me or anyone who encouraged him. HE IS THE ONE WHO PROMISED NOT TO DISCLOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT, not me, not anyone else.

I am not a 'right wing', I am not a 'left wing', I am a libertarian, anarcho capitalist, it puts me completely outside of what is considered to be normal politics in the USA by the way and I say that Assange has done nothing wrong at all and he is being terrorized because he embarrassed people who have power.

*this* is what "proves" it? Not the kidnappings, the torture, the murders? )

Yeah, you don't understand what will actually happen. What will actually happen is just more terrorism by the government that is already terrorist in nature. Kadyrov is a murderer, torturer, terrorist, his fame to claim was that he murdered his first russian at the age of 16. Today he routinely murders anyone who opposes his rule in any way, real or imaginary. His son kidnaps and beats a kid who posts something online that Kadyrov finds offensive. People routinely disappear, never to be seen again. People get tortured for anything that Kadyrov doesn't like.

At the same time Chechnia's economy only exists because putin provides Chechnia with billions of dollars every year from the russian budget.

You don't understand what is actually happening there. They don't care about law or whatever, if they hear something they don't like, you'll disappear and be raped and tortured and killed and that's about it. This entire thing about the music is really nothing at all, it just means that if someone *hears* music that is not Chechen they will report you and you will be gone.

OpenAI already has licenses available wherein they do not use your prompts for training purposes. If you’re working at an institution, they should already be using the appropriate license.

For once we’re talking about Canadians, not Americans!

Also, both plaster and concrete construction are perfectly normal in various parts of the US. Plaster has been steadily falling out of favor, however, at least from what I understand.

You are correct. What Canada needs is a 3d printed AI government, which would be a vast improvement over Trudeau.

It only needs to last long enough for a single successful rip to my media streaming server. After that, the disc only exists to satisfy my moral and ethical obligations, so I really don't care whether the disc works, so long as it remains in my possession. Library copies are great for that reason: dirt cheap and only need to work once.

Once they're ripped, the discs go in sleeves that live in a storage box in a closet (to minimize space used while keeping the discs intact for as long as possible just in case we need to re-rip), the DVD/blu-ray boxes go in a storage bag that lives in the attic (they can dry rot for all I care), and any digital codes get redeemed so that we have digital access via as many avenues as possible. The ripped copy is backed up both locally and in the cloud.

For valuable goods I've started filming myself opening boxes so that I have proof for law enforcement, credit card companies, or the vendor if I need to demonstrate that I did not receive what I ordered. Someone may try to contest it, but at least it gives me something.

I ordered two HDMI cables recently that were fulfilled by Amazon. In the Amazon-branded box that arrived were 16 clear bags, each of which contained a 10-pack of 6" ethernet cables. Being that 160x 6" ethernet cables was not what I ordered, I initiated a return, Amazon immediately shipped the HDMI cables, and all seemed well. It didn't appear to be fraud, just a case of Amazon slapping the wrong label on someone else's box or packing mine with the wrong items.

Then a few weeks later I was charged again for the price of another HDMI cable on the grounds that I only returned one. I didn't even know what to do with that idea, and for the $8 it cost me I couldn't be bothered to get on the line with their customer support in an effort to explain the non-existence of a cable they expected me to return.

Exactly right. A friend of mine is a plant pathologist who heads a research lab at Texas A&M, and he has all sorts of interesting stories (he likes to joke that by the time he gets called in, it's already too late).

For instance, many fruit trees require a certain number of chilling hours to produce their maximum yield. A few years back, some "clever" peach farmers* thought they could increase production by enclosing their trees to protect them from the cold (other varieties of peach require more protection from the cold, so their confusion was understandable), only to find that their yields dropped by as much as 90% in some cases. They were fine again by the next year once they took my friend's advice to open the enclosures for a sufficient amount of time during cold nights.

Unfortunately, this foreshadows the bigger issue that people are failing to grok: the business of farming can be more fragile than the plants themselves. A plant may still be perfectly capable of producing fruit in a given area, but farming that plant will become financially unsustainable as yields drop. Just as those "clever" farmers would've gone out of business if they hadn't corrected the behavior that resulted in a 90% decline, so too will farmers be out of business or forced to move north in a few years if their yields drop as temperatures continue to climb.

* Quick aside: Texas peaches are obviously not as well known as Georgia peaches, but can oftentimes be quite a bit tastier than Georgia's. Depends on the crop. We've gotten some good steering from our local farmer's market.

How is it being used? I can't seem to find numbers that break it down, at least not in a quick search. Obviously construction, but what sort? Because you're exactly right, but how we cut use will depend on where and how it's being used.

I hear a lot of hand-wringing about concrete use in single family slab-on-grade foundations and people suggesting replacements such as ground screws, but when you get down to it, a slab foundation is only a few car lengths long, a few street lanes wide, and will last decades longer than a road, so I doubt they're a large contributor (though every bit helps, of course). If I had to guess, I'd guess that most concrete is going to infrastructure, rather than residential or commercial construction. Infrastructure projects like dams, highway overpasses, and even just basic concrete roads are—I would assume—some of the largest consumers of concrete, and I'm not sure how you get around that.

I suspect there won't be any single solution to the issue. The closest thing to a magic bullet will be any change to the production process itself that can reduce emissions, such as eliminating or reducing the use of the materials (e.g. clinker) that contribute most significantly to emissions. That's already something that the industry has committed to do globally. Another part of it will come down to finding alternatives on a case-by-case basis (e.g. ground screws in place of slabs, asphalt/tarmac in places and situations where it can be used instead of concrete). Part of it will involve clever solutions that reduce the usage within existing solutions (e.g. overpasses that need less concrete). And part of it could also come down to formulating mixes that include carbon capturing materials, which is an area that has seen some advances in the last few years.

Even so, it'd be great if there was a magic bullet here.

Sure, with caveats. From the AAS: https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-sa...

1st of April was 2 days ago, was there an editing delay? In any case, there is only 1 Matrix movie, it was released in 1999 and I went to watch it in the theater 7 times. I have heard rumors about sequels but only that, they don't exist, whatever exists is not the Matrix, to make a movie like that one needs balls...

Yeah, because it is. You don’t need to take my word on it. You can verify this yourself. If you’re unable to decrypt any packets using the technique I laid out, you”ll know it didn’t accept a different CA. But it does, hence why the contents of those packets have been disclosed.

Your username may be "ACForever", but you must be new here if you aren't yet aware that there are pedants on this site.

I refuted an objectively incorrect claim. Nothing more said, nothing more intended, so for you to label me as "stupid and gullible" in response to me providing a factually accurate correction to an objectively false claim made by the previous poster, the only conclusion I can reach is that you either suffer from poor reading comprehension or you are so steeped in your tribalistic thinking that you projected it onto a post that deliberately didn't take a side in your petty fight.

Anyone who wrongly mistakes a pedantic post for someone taking a side is saying more about their own tribalism than the point they were hoping to make.